Warau Salesman

I've kept Laughing Salesman (1989) with me for over a year now, because I'm really bad at finishing longer series. But also because I didn't want to give it up. I knew nothing about laughing salesman until 2017 when the Laughing Salesman 2017 short series came out. I loved the concept of exchanging one's desires to a geniee who would give you what you desired but at a price.

He never harms children and I've noticed throughout this series he rarely harms women. Its mostly men he targets. I don't know if that has any real relevance in anything but I thought it was pretty ... interesting.

This series reminds me of Jigoku Shouji in that these people are contracted to give up parts of themselves (aka souls) in order to recieve what they like. Mind you, they're not ushered to hell but time after time the punishment for their wish is much harsher than hell themself.

The Laughing Salesman is not an evil man. He is just doing exactly has it describes. He sales you whatever you want and laughs at your expense.

I truly love this series for its dark humor and still very relevant pokes at life. (Gay marriage, stresses on teen's testing, sexism, etc). And if anyone needs me to add more on why I'd recommend this to them I am always up for the challenge. I love this series, and if your looking for anything a bit dark this is for you. <3

Warau Salesman is not only one of those "one of a kind anime" but is also heavily underrated and missunderstood.
First of all, Warau Salesman is a Horror-Comedy with pretty heavy social commentary. I don't know why people always deem it as something else. But lets start at the beginning.

The show is about a mysterious salesman, Moguro Fukuzou, who deals in human souls (the literal japanese translation is "kokorou" which means heart, but its symbolic for souls). He offers people a splendid deal that fits their deepest desires perfectly and that they won't possibly refuse. All free of charge of course. However, Moguro has always one ... condition that he makes clear to his clients. If the client breaks that condition, the whole deal is void and Moguro can collect his soul (visualized by basically fucking up his former clients life). Now here is where the whole horror and also social commentary comes in. Moguro himself is of course not a normal salesman yet alone a normal human being. His true origins are never made really clear throughout the whole series, but its safe to say that he is some sort of a devils advocat if not the devil himself. He always hangs in a bar called "Demon Nest" so that basically covers that. And just like some demons Moguro, in some way, has to be invited by the people. If the client is on the hook and agrees to Mogurus terms, from that point on Moguru is in his life for good watching him at all times without being noticed (except if he wants to be noticed). Now why would anybody break a good deal that last forever as long as one tiny condition won't get violated? Because human beings are selfish, ignorant and greedy scum who always want more! You give them the little pinky and they take the whole hand! And that is the premise of this show and Moguros transactions. He knows of that selfish nature and feasts upon it. He knows eventually every last one of his human clients will turn into a greedy and dishonest pig, so he can collect his souls in peace.

While the first episodes are very tame in regards of violence, some of the later episodes turn out to be quite gorey. But despite all the gore and deep commentary, Warau Salesman is still a funny comedy show with some great humor in it. Not least due to Moguros crazy monologues and self awareness. The events in each episode make up for great situation comedy as well.

If you want sophisticated and social critical, yet dark, crazy and unpredictable comedy this is the show for you. I definitely recommand it!

Story: 6

warou salesman is about Fukuzou Moguro who is a salesman who tries to give people they want for free (without money) because he has good motives as he cares about wanting to give them what they want as he thinks he is doing something good.
Usually, he stretches the situations so much he really ends up hurting the majority of his clients even though some episodes those clients deserved this but most of the times they didn't.

Each episode is a different story featuring different involving people.He either finds by a coincidence the people he decides he wants to help or by picking them ... up.

My main problem is that after some point the cases and the messages are a bit similar
so it becomes a bit repetitive after some point which it makes sense because for how long are they gonna keep writing something that had entirely new different messages to give to the watchers of the anime and to be honest it's a quite predictable once you get to know what is going on you know that the client of this guy is gonna get either in some jail or hospital or get divorced.


Art 3

The art style is quite different from the standard approaching the faces are looking a bit goofy though even for the 89 era





Sound: 3

Well nothing special

Character: 2

Well we only know his motives but other than that from the 10 episodes i saw nothing else it has known because each episode is different and the focus is more on the clients he decides to take care of the episodes are focusing more on the clients than himself so i am gonna give him a 3

Enjoyment 4

Well the humour is like black comedy if you like black comedy and psychology well you may like it and it focus is morals, desires

Overall 4 and this is not a random score but based on the multiplication from all of the categories with the exception of the overall category and then division by 5 that are the main categories and while the score went 3.6 since it's above 3.5 i gave it a 0,5 bonus to get to 4 since it's above 3,5 you know right?

Well if you are the type of guy who will see behind the 1rst picture then it's a not half bad anime i would say at least it tries to give hidden messages to those who watch it and the messages are different since each episode is an entirely different story and it is not around a story pattern that the story progresses around it like most stories.