Ryman's Club (Salaryman's Club)

The world of corporate badminton is not as easy as it seems. Although considered a former child prodigy, Mikoto Shiratori has not been living up to his potential as a badminton player for Mitsuhoshi Bank. Due to a past incident, Mikoto tries to transition from playing doubles to singles; nevertheless, he fails to produce positive results, much to his employer's dismay.

After being fired from the bank, Mikoto is recruited by the Sunlight Beverage corporate badminton team. Surprisingly, not only do practices start in the evening, but he also has to work in the sales department of the company by day. While this is not a novel arrangement, Mikoto had thought he was invited solely to play sports. To make matters worse, he is forced to compete in doubles despite his reluctance.

Struggling to adjust to his new professional life, Mikoto begins to doubt his decision to join the company. However, as he learns more about his latest teammates, he might just find the strength necessary to advance his badminton career.

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Ryman's Club was released on Blu-ray in four volumes from April 27, 2022 to July 27, 2022.

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Furukawa, Makoto
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Matsui, Yuuko

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Sotokawa, Akihiro

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Ozawa, Fumihiro

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Satomi, Tetsurou

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"The Warrior" by Novelbright

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"Nisen Gohyaku-man Bun no Ichi (二千五百万分の一)" by Mafumafu

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Jan 5, 2024

RudolfTostarrica

Recommended

I have no interest in badminton nor in sales, and I still watched this and enjoyed it.

This show was an interesting watch because it has both the spokkon characteristics, surrounding the badminton team and competitions, but also the more slice of life, adults at work kind of stuff.

There is nothing very surprising here, but it’s an easy watch with some uncommon touches here and there. Both the company stuff and the sport and personal trauma of the characters are enjoyable.

The “action” is good enough, with very decent animation and art. The characters have distinct personalities. A nice watch overall.

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Nov 26, 2023

Antara666

Mixed Feelings

I watched the series without much high expectations. I am not a huge fan of the sport Badminton but I do know the basic amateur knowledge. SO this review POV is from an amateur without much technical knowledge on the sport. If you are the same, then please read ahead...

In a nutshell, if you want to learn about the sport and it's technicalities, this is not the right anime for you. However, if you want to pass some leisure time, like sports in general and are a office worker, then I would suggest to try it out for the sake of it.

Overall, it's a one-time ... watch anime, so I would probably not think about this anime again in future. Which also means that the impact of this anime is not that huge.

Art- The art style was average for me. The strangest part for me was that they failed to make the lead team members distinct in their physical characteristics. Quite a few characters have the same hairstyle, same facial features with a slight difference in hair tones. Honestly, in initial episodes, you might feel confused about which character is which if you are not paying enough attention. But you can tell, that the production team tried (in vain) to make as many characters pretty and flashy as possible.

Story & characters- Overall, they did attempt to bring the story and plot together. However, when you mix two major professions, sports and office worker in an anime, it's important to keep the right balance of each aspect. One would think, how a salesperson who has one of the most tedious job that impacts your physical stamina would keep up in a continued basketball practice, especially when you are ageing. Well the anime does show the age aspect in certain characters. However, except a few of the main characters with just a slight glimpse in their past, the character development is extremely subtle, if any at all. The past is what makes a person into a sport that they could care about. For that, you will need to show the viewers enough to understand each character's personality and why they play the sport. It's crazy how one of the ML almost does not even get their past featured enough. This flaw in itself makes you fail to connect to the characters as you should be able to. The story itself is pretty rushed. Has quite a few obvious loopholes (that no one bothered to do anything about). Personally, it felt that enough thought or efforts was not put into the sport itself as it should deserve. We know barely anything about the rivals in the matches except for their relationship with the MLs and yet they failed to justify that relationship enough. [Personally, this fact itself made it a little frustrating and didn't grab my attention in any of the matches except the final game]. The series DOES NOT do justice to Badminton, DOES NOT show the intricacies of the sport and neither does it show enough of the matches that lead to the ultimate game. It's almost before you know it that the team reaches their last game.

Music- Decent overall, but not particularly catchy.

The whole anime overall just felt extremely rushed and half-assed efforts at presenting the sport and story. There might have been a budget issue, I don't know. But I can tell this much, the anime had potential if done right.

Hence, I was simply glad the show ended without making me feel sorry that it did end. It failed to grab my attention and made me click next episode just to make it end. Nonetheless, the anime has it's comedic moments throughout, makes you like only 1-2 characters (for me Miyazumi), but it's not enough to make you last.

So I will suggest that you watch this if you have enough time to spare. Or else, please do go for all the other amazing sports animes out there if you wanna watch something worth your while.

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Apr 16, 2022

bulkyhog

Not Recommended

I love badminton. I played it at a highly competitive level for almost 7 years of my life, commuting an hour to my club 5 times a week where I dedicated buckets of sweat and even more hours to a sport I loved. Unfortunately, many people frown upon badminton. It’s a tricky sport to play, which makes it trickier to understand and appreciate. So it doesn’t come as a surprise that of all the sports out there that anime could cover, badminton is one of the most underrepresented. That’s why I’m grateful for shows that push badminton into the spotlight, because it’s truly one of ... the best sports out there.

But that’s also why I’m very disappointed with Ryman. Just like Hanebado, there was a lot of potential it could live up to. But unlike Hanebado, it fell flat on its face much more quickly and much more heavily in a way that makes the show extremely tough to watch, not only as a badminton fan, but also as an anime fan.

I think a basic requirement for sports anime is serviceable (get it) animation. Haikyuu is a perfect example. Its first few seasons? Great animation which elevated everything else. The last 2 seasons? Piss-poor animation which drags everything down. Even Hanebado, which had such boring attempts at melodrama, horribly faked conflicts, and lacklustre characters, was still an enjoyable watch thanks to its amazingly accurate (within sports anime ofc) portrayal of the sport and the stellar animation.

Is Ryman’s animation any good? No. It’s horrible. You rarely see any rallies aside from the final few episodes. Instead, they’re cleverly cut to make you think shits going on but really its just lack of animation/budget/effort. And even when they do animate “epic” jump smashes, diving saves, or clever net play, the animation is so fucking stiff, I don’t even know if it’s handanimated or done with CGI. Ruins the immersion in the sport when you see janky limbs making janky shots.

And without good animation to prop it up, Ryman just becomes a hard-to-believe, angsty story. I’m not even gonna touch on the attempts at a “story” because it’s just quite sad.

Don’t get me started on the inconsistencies either. There’s supposed to be “powers” like foresight, but only MC has it. We’re also supposed to believe the power structure they have set up: an Olympic/top BWF calibre player can be bested by 2 bums? Very nice. Instead of tapping entirely into super fantasy like Kuroko or plausible realism like Hanebado, Ryman tries to have its cake and eat it too. Ultimately, it ends up falling short here as well, just like everywhere else in the series.

But I think Ryman’s biggest fault is its refusal to properly elaborate on the complex strategies that are actually behind the sport. Shot selection, location, angle, speed, footwork, pace of play, and coordination with your partner. Just applying these to singles alone is complex enough, but it gets even crazier in doubles. Because Ryman chooses to dumb the narration/discussion down, what you’re watching is just a watered-down, unexciting version of badminton. Sure shots are going here and there, but why? How, why, and when do players change their tactics and strategies? Instead the explanation you get is “How about I attack you instead!” or “He’s using that devil drop, killer!” I get that you’re trying to make it cool and all, but really it just sounds lame because people who don’t play badminton won’t have a clue what’s going on and people who actually know enough about badminton will be even more confused as to what the fuck is going on.

3/10 for being a bad anime overall. +5 for showcasing badminton, my favourite sport. -5 for ruining badminton, my favourite sport.

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