Working!!

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Synonyms: Working!!

Japanese: ワーキング!!

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Type: TV

Episodes: 13

Status: Finished Airing

Aired: Apr 4, 2010 to Jun 27, 2010

Premiered: Spring 2010

Broadcast: Unknown

Producers: Aniplex, Rakuonsha

Licensors: NIS America, Inc.

Studios: A-1 Pictures

Source: 4-koma manga

Genre: Comedy

Themes: Romantic Subtext, Workplace

Demographic: Seinen

Duration: 24 min. per ep.

Rating: PG-13 - Teens 13 or older

Statistics

Score: 7.64¹ (scored by 206,696 users)

¹ indicates a weighted score.

Ranked: #1393²

² based on the top anime page. Please note that 'Not yet aired' and 'R18+' titles are excluded.

Popularity: #522

Members: 433,500

Favorites: 2,510

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Synopsis

Due to his love for small, cute things, Souta Takanashi cannot turn childlike Popura Taneshima down when she recruits him to work for Wagnaria, a family restaurant located in Hokkaido. Takanashi takes particular joy in doting on the older Popura, which only fuels her complex over how young she looks. He also quickly learns he must stay on his toes once he meets the rest of his colleagues, including the katana-wielding floor chief Yachiyo Todoroki, the intimidating head chef Jun Satou, the dangerously well-informed and subtly sadistic sous chef Hiroomi Souma, the adamantly lazy manager Kyouko Shirafuji, and the waitress Mahiru Inami who has a "painful" fear of men.

Powered by an eccentric cast, Working!! is a unique workplace comedy that follows the never-dull happenings within the walls of Wagnaria as Takanashi and his co-workers' quirky personalities combine to create non-stop antics, shenanigans, and hilarity.

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Background

Episode 1 was pre-aired on March 6th. The normal airing started on April 4th.

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Adaptation:	Working!!
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Characters & Voice Actors

Inami, Mahiru

Main

Fujita, Saki
Japanese

Yamada, Aoi

Main

Hirohashi, Ryou
Japanese

Taneshima, Popura

Main

Asumi, Kana
Japanese

Satou, Jun

Main

Ono, Daisuke
Japanese

Souma, Hiroomi

Main

Kamiya, Hiroshi
Japanese

Todoroki, Yachiyo

Main

Kitamura, Eri
Japanese

Takanashi, Souta

Main

Fukuyama, Jun
Japanese

Shirafuji, Kyouko

Main

Watanabe, Kumiko
Japanese

Takanashi, Izumi

Supporting

Hikasa, Youko
Japanese

Takanashi, Nazuna

Supporting

Saitou, Momoko
Japanese

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Saitou, Shunsuke

Producer

Shimizu, Hiroyuki

Producer

Hiraike, Yoshimasa

Director, Series Composition

Tsuruoka, Youta

Sound Director

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Opening Theme

"SOMEONE ELSE" by Popura Taneshima, Mahiru Inami, and Yachiyo Todoroki (Kana Asumi, Saki Fujita and Eri Kitamura) (eps 1-12)

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Ending Theme

	1: "Heart no Edge ni Idomou Go to Heart Edge (ハートのエッジに挑もう　Go to Heart Edge)" by Souta Takanashi, Jun Satou, and Souma Hiroomi (Jun Fukuyama, Daisuke Ono and Hiroshi Kamiya) (eps 1-8, 10-12)
	2: "Golden Day (ゴールデン・デイ）" by Mahiru Inami (Saki Fujita) (eps 9)
	3: "SOMEONE ELSE" by Popura Taneshima, Mahiru Inami, and Yachiyo Todoroki (Kana Asumi, Saki Fujita and Eri Kitamura) (eps 13)

Reviews

Dec 13, 2023

LOS18

Recommended

I’m only giving this show a 10 because of a dumb joke I made about the Magic Hand bit. My favorite character was Janet (Maya). Being completely serious, this show was actually pretty solid. To quote myself, “Anime has a hard time being funny”, so it’s good to see that this comedy anime is actually kind of funny. The characters are interesting and are definitely the soul of the anime. I was surprised by the recurrence of bits from earlier in the show, which isn’t common with slice of life shows. The background music isn’t bad, despite the low track count, and the art is ...

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Sep 7, 2021

TheRunawaySavior

Mixed Feelings

This first season took me over a month to complete, not because it was especially bad or I didn't have the time... but because it was so... average. There were things that I truly enjoyed about 'Working!!', but each one was counterbalanced by a bad decision that left a disappointing taste in my mouth. This is the first time I've experienced the anime equivalent of an equally balanced scale, equally bad and great.

The story is your run-of-the-mill slice of life, which to give it credit, was what I was looking for, and what I got. After several heavier series I watched this year such as ... Steins; Gate among others, I just wanted something with a bit of charm and took things nice and easy. The overall cast, while varying in my affections, had some real standouts in both characters and voice performances that kept me coming back, and will most likely keep me going to the rest of the anime to find out how their stories conclude.

Speaking of the cast, my personal favorites were Satou and Todoroki, both with simple personalities that get fleshed out and have a lot of interesting scenes as the series progresses. Sadly though... they aren't the main coupling this series has to offer, with that esteemed title going to Takanashi and Fujita. Takanashi has an absolutely god-awful design, with these glasses and greasy, parted hair that makes him look more like an alien than a male protagonist. Fujita, on the other hand, had such a frustrating personality that I guessed her quirk right from the introduction: that she impulsively hit guys, and that it was supposed to be some kind of gag.

While I could see a world where a character like Fujita is done correctly, the lack of explanations as to why she acts the way she does, and the ridiculousness of the situation that she's in, combines into me having absolutely no sympathy for her, and respecting the main character's position that she's more like a one-trick dog than a romantic interest, a position I'm positive I wasn't supposed to take based on how the show's produced.

But what's good about this slice-of-life style is that the cycle of characters is always revolving, and even if I don't like what is happening in one scene, I have the next one to look forward to for a new surprise. It's as simple as anime comes, but the comfy nature of the 'Wagnaria Family Restaurant' and the familial staff working together to deal with their own problems and insecurities is as endearing as it could be for not being ambitious in the slightest.

My props do go to some cuts of animation, and the opening and ending themes. While the songs are both cast sing-a-longs, the voices aren't too bad and feel like the characters have gathered together for karaoke more than anything. And the animation is better than I was expecting, with scenes going out of there way to showcase characters in fun poses or faces.

Overall it didn't have me on the edge of my seat like some of the best comedies I've watched, or tearfully-engaged like some of the best slice-of-life shows I've watched, but it wasn't poorly-produced or lacked any heart in production. It just lacked ambition, and with so many adaptations coming out these days, I couldn't really blame it for not comparing to some of the greats when it wasn't trying to be. Right in the middle of the road is the rating I'd give it, but that doesn't mean it isn't worth a watch: just know what you're getting into if you've watched some more mature or fleshed-out anime.

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May 1, 2022

Userman

Not Recommended

Sigh, i thought this was about a hard woking MC that has to work hard to improve and get what he wants, not about a MC that is beaten constantly and doesn't do anything about it because the explanation is that he is trying to ' heal ' a girl with a male phobia. This girl in question has been hitting males for over 10 years with no improvment but we are expect to believe that hitting the MC will improve her (it doesn't).

Episode 9 was the hit on the nail, shows how the author of this work really hates the male population in ... general ( perhaps she has the phobia ) and have no clue about human behaviours. Not only the MC gets constanstly bullied and doesn't do shit about it, as usual, but he even enables this girl's lies by putting up a facade and gives up his self pride by dressing up as a female ( he vowed to never do it after this traumatic childhood ) to present himself as herself to the father of this girl, a father that, not only is shitty, but hasn't been there for 10 years, so why does the girl care about him at all? We discover at the end of the episode that she doesn't and, not only this, but the author also mocks the viewer by actually making a character say another logical solution to what they should have done instead of making the MC dress up. It was potrayed as a gag, but there is nothing to laugh about abusive manipulation. There is being gentle and there is being submissive... The MC in question is submissive.

There is no story to this work, at first i thought it was going to about the MC helping these girls on their anti-social problem and improving the restaurant, but nope, it is a repetitive anime that works on this formula again and again and again... And how the restaurant actually manages to go on is a mystery.

Here is the same formula repeated:

- MC is hit for 1/6 of the anime by the girl that has no improvement whatsoever in these 13 episodes
- MC is bashed for 1/6 of the other anime/forced to do something he doesn't want
- Staff is a willing slave to the restaurant director (who does no work and only eats)
- The cook that likes the previous point girl is annoyed whenever she is serving the director and takes it out with the short girl of the staff
- random deus ex machina girl (yamada) has everything that is needed to make fun of the MC

What i get from this anime is that the author might have been rejected from someone like the MC of this anime and is taking revenge in fiction.

I reviewed this when i watched only 11 episodes, i am at 13 and it only got worse.

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