Smoking Behind the Supermarket with You has become the first anime on Crunchyroll to get a perfect five-star rating on the streamer.

The series, from Asahi Productions, dropped its first six episodes on Crunchyroll as 12 'mini-episodes' on June 3. It revolves around the quirky saga of downbeat worker Sasaki and his interactions with supermarket worker Yamada and her alter-ego Tayama, who shares cigarettes with Sasaki outside the building.

As you can imagine – especially whenever something reaches the height of its popularity – the five-star rating has fluctuated slightly. It dipped to a 4.9 rating at one point before reverting back to its initial score.

If you want to read ahead, the manga – by Jinushi – has been running since 2022 and currently consists of eight volumes.

Confusingly, the full anime hasn't premiered yet, with Smoking Behind the Supermarket with You airing new episodes in July. At least it's not as bad as the Steel Ball Run release schedule and its months-long gap between episodes.

The seinen kicks off an exciting period of new anime releases this summer. The traditionally low-key window includes The Ghost in the Shell, Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War: The Calamity, Black Torch, and Young Ladies Don't Play Fighting Games arriving this July.

Among those, The Ghost in the Shell – hewing closer to the original source material than previous adaptations – promised a "new era of cyberpunk action" in its first trailer earlier this year.

For more, check out the best anime shows to watch right now and our picks for the best anime on Crunchyroll.

Yellowjackets star Sophie Thatcher has revealed Ella Purnell's first Fallout experience before leading the Prime Video adaptation didn't exactly go as planned.

"I tried to create Ella on Fallout," Yellowjackets co-star Sophie Thatcher recalled on Happy Sad Confused. "That was her first introduction [to Fallout]. She was like, 'Turn it off! It's scary graphics.' That's fair… Specifically, Fallout: New Vegas has that [look] where it's uncanny."

Unfortunately for Thatcher, most of the gaming bonding time with her fellow actors similarly went down like a lead balloon.

"I had a night where I brought the Yellowjackets girls over and I was like, 'I'm going to create every one of you on The Sims'. It took hours and people got so bored," Thatcher joked.

Thatcher – a dyed-in-the-wool gaming fanatic with four generations of PlayStation consoles, three Oculus headsets, and a "broken" Xbox – showcased her gaming credentials earlier in the interview by revealing her reaction to meeting legendary video game developer Hideo Kojima.

"I had a talk with Hideo Kojima and doing a talk with him was just like, 'You're a god to us.' Anything I say, I'm scared," Thatcher, who has also appeared in The Book of Boba Fett, Companion, and Heretic, revealed.

Previously, Purnell revealed to PC Gamer that she had dabbled in Fallout 4 prior to the first season, describing it as a "fun and exciting experience."

Fallout season 3 has been announced, with the upcoming batch of episodes seemingly heading to the fresh locale of Colorado. The Fallout season 2 ending also set up war coming to the streets of New Vegas.

For more, check out the new TV shows coming your way very soon, plus our picks for the best Fallout games.