Alternative TitlesJapanese: サラリーマン金太郎
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Type: TV
Episodes: 20
Status: Finished Airing
Aired: Feb 18, 2001 to Mar 18, 2001
Duration:
25 min. per episode Rating:
R+ - Mild Nudity
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StatisticsScore: 7.621 (scored by 797 users)
Ranked: #10622
Popularity: #3172
Members: 1,983
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SynopsisThe story follows Kintaro, former leader of a widely feared and respected biker gang, who decides that its time to 'straighten out' and become a 'salaryman' since his wife died and he has to take care of his young son.
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Related AnimeAdaptation: Salaryman Kintaro
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kentick
6 of 16 people found this review helpful
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20 of 20 episodes seen
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| Overall |
9 |
| Story |
9 |
| Animation |
7 |
| Sound |
8 |
| Character |
10 |
| Enjoyment |
9 |
Firstly, this anime is not for everybody, this is a Seinen,and a real one, this is not only about Blood and more blood, like everybody thinks a Seinen must have. This is the story of a simple man, an amazing man fighting for survive and for a better life to his family. It sounds kind of heroic, but it's exactly like that.
If you have watched GTO, and you've liked it, you'll love this one. I'll analyze some parts:
__________Story__________
The story is amazing, you'll like every single part of it, because you have a lot of stories in it. You only can watch the businessman story, the flashbacks, the romance story, the conspiracy...seriously, amazing. It's one of the best plot I've ever seen in an anime, why? Because it's realistic, there are no angels, demons, mages or wizards, there is just one thing which keeps the world moving: Money. And this single man, will fight with only his reputation and his hardworking.
___________Art_____________
This is not a new series, It has some bad feeling on the art. Furthermore, the way the characters are designed, is very interesting, they look like real japanese, I dont usually like the anime where there at least five blond guys who are "japanese"...
__________Sound_____________
Anything remarkable at it, not bad, not excellent. It wont disturb you.
___________Characters_____________
Here is the story relies it power. Like I said, THIS IS A SEINEN, we dont have a laim protagonist and pathetic who is a wimp, but we dont have either the perfect guy... We have one of the best main characters I've ever seen, it's almost at the level of Onizuka. Why? He keeps changing, improving or getting worse, he is wrong or right, he has his own moral but he also knows when to be quiet...He is a guy who despite losing his lover, follows liking women, and he treats them as a real man should not as a wimp. (In this, he wins over Onizuka). He has a patternal side also...Seriously, amazing.
On the other side, we have several badass, a manipulating "Oba sama", an amazing female lover (OH MY GOD, I felt in love with her when I see her), a boy who acts as a boy, a funny workmate, a lot of funny ex-riders...
For me the story is a 10 only because of its complex net of characters.
The enjoyment is something subjective as everything else, but what I can assure you is : This is not a waste of time, this is worthy.
And for me is:
An amazing Anime.
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acceleratum
5 of 26 people found this review helpful
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20 of 20 episodes seen
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| Overall |
6 |
| Story |
6 |
| Animation |
6 |
| Sound |
6 |
| Character |
7 |
| Enjoyment |
6 |
Salaryman Kintaro tells the story of a former bike gang leader entering society as a businessman, starting from bellow his charismatic personality quickly creates bonds of respect and admiration with co-workers and important figures in the bureaucratic world. Honest, straightforward and always true to his nature he dashes through his career raising fast and steady.
His personality clashes with several individuals and the few who don't sympathize with his nature in a corrupt bureaucratic world create many obstacles he needs to face.
The story is about morals and how a single man can raise through hard work in a field hes inexperienced, features some comic moments but is mostly serious, the dramatic scenes are abusively exaggerated ruining the involvement in the story, grown men crying like babies over small issues tries to display how deep their feelings are for each other, witch is impossible in such short time, leaving a phony feeling in those scenes.
The music doesn't help much, old japanese classic themed music doesn't create the intended effect feeling misplaced and badly chosen, at least for the ocidental viewer like myself, I suspect it was more appropriate for the japanese viewers.
Despite its shortcomings you still want to see what will happen ahead keeping you interested throughout the show.
Overall its an entertaining show with some nice happy scenes leaving that "feel good" sensation on the viewer, the development is quite fast and so isn't boring. The ending is slightly abrupt but leaves an idea of what happens next. Definitely not a must see but still interesting enough to avoid being forgotten. read more
Recommendations
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Both main characters (Kintaro and Onizuka) are former leaders of a widely feared and respected gang who are trying to become a part of society (in their own way :) ).
Both series are good comedy.
Mature Seinen with Adults. Of course, besides that Yajima and Eikichi share the same "badass motorist" past and the posterior "good boy but respected present", both of them are MasterPieces, in both of them the mature romance is well represented (in Salaryman Kintarou a little better)...And the life is not as sweet as other mangas neither as dark, They are realistic, and their main characters are two of the most charismatic and interesting characters ever done.
salaryman kintarou is very similar to GTO in the type of comedy that is present throughout. both are very funny, but have their serious moments. I will say that GTO was more focused on comedy throughout it all, while salaryman went for a more serious tone after a while.
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They are totally different in the atmosphere but they both are seinen, and they both share a Mature Romance plus the main character in both is an awesome businessman, who is an adult with his own moral for good.
If you like Arakawa, you may like Salaryman Kintarou.
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Opening Theme"Jikuu ~Toki no Sora~" by Yumi Matsuzawa
Ending Theme"Heaven ~Boku no Naka no Tengoku~" by Norishige Takahashi
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