What do you call occurrence whereas every single one of your side characters is more interesting than your main girl? It's called having shit taste so kill her off and focus on more interesting stuff you wanker.
That about sums up my initial thoughts after finishing Working!!. And now, let's go in deep, because stating the obvious is never enough.
This anime is 100% episodic without any underlying plot whatsoever - unless you mean to tell me that their "attempts" to "cure" Inami's "illness" can be considered underlying plot - meaning that there is no story. Every episode deals with different issues or whatever, some introducing new characters, butchering existing ones and so on. So I won't rant about the story mainly because there's literally nothing to rant about. Meh.
Art and sound were fair - not exceptional, just fair. There are some animation issues here and there but for the most part it was consistent in being above average. One that really stuck with me though happens in the last episode, near the beginning, when Inami is preparing for a "date". The mirror shot of her is so godawful I have a feeling 13y old intern animated it.
Sound is a tad bit worse than art overall, but it wasn't half-bad. Music is meh, opening and ending weren't particularly catching either, but voice actors held up their part so it's all fine and good.
Now that we moved from the shit I don't really care about, let's talk some characters. Mmm. Tasty.
First off we have Inami. I'm not one of the people who find abusive comedy funny, or abusive characters funny or interesting, so you can already tell this bitch didn't really sit well with me. I figured she would be the first girl to receive and arc, it would take like 3 episodes or something to resolve her issues, but god fucking no it had to take up the entire god fucking season. I mean, holy crap what the flying fuck? Her character is flat out not interesting, nor are her problems. First off, they're not represented in a serious matter so that you are given a chance to actually explore mentality of people with this illness, and when it comes to comedy it's just the same fucking joke over and over and over again. How many times can you find a guy getting punched in the face funny? Just how many fucking times?
She's literally my primary reason for disliking this show. Strip away her fucking illness and she's your everyday fucking wall. Instead of having thrown her into the background after resolving her "issues" within first 4 episodes, we're strung along for 13 episodes of this mayhem-bringing bitch that most people actually find TOLERABLE, FUNNY and INTERESTING. Why? Because she supposedly likes our MC or because she can't help but hit guys? What kind of a shitty ass excuse is that? I literally put more effort into my high school math than she did into "curing" her "illness". For 13 whole fucking episodes there is NO progress. No. Fucking. Progress. Watching her punch our MC, either due to her "illness" or "shyness" over and over again isn't fucking funny. It's just annoying, unnecessary and irrelevant. Instead of focusing onto the far superior side characters, who are better in virtually every aspect you can think of, this bitch takes so much screen time you begin to realize that there's no way that the writer isn't a heavy M. Take any, and I mean ANY side character who's gotten more than 30 seconds of screen time, and there would have been far more interesting to explore. Starting with other employees to MC's fucking sisters. Fuck. This. Type. Of. A. Character.
If you're gonna pretend like her problems are fucking serious, don't use her problems as fucking comedic relief moments in your shitty excuse of a story. And no, 9th episode did abso-fucking-loutely nothing for me. Yes, her father was a cunt, so what? In any sane world she wouldn't be working part-time in a fucking FAMILY restaurant - she'd be locked up in a fucking asylum because that's where she fucking belongs.
Now, most people will obviously rant about the side characters. Why? Because they're underdeveloped. And why are they underdeveloped? Because that bitch takes about every inch of screen time she can fucking take. Every single side characters they introduced fell right with me and, episode after fucking episode, I kept hoping they'd expand more on them, but why the fuck would they do that when they can focus their attention to the psychotic excuse of a fucking character.
As much as I ranted on about the show, I actually had a fun time with Working!!. As I said, my primary source of disdain is the main girl and each time when the show would focus on the interactions of side characters I had a blast. The reason, though, that I was never really able to get into them is because they virtually get 0 development and focus. The most you'll find here is a dude confessing to girl, which is then completely, and I mean COMPLETELY disregarded as the focus moves back onto our favorite psychotic failed-abortion.
If you love shows with abusive MC, kind of like Louise in ZnT, you'll have cum stains all over your monitor after you've finished watching this. If, on other hand, you'd at least want some kind of fucking development and seriousness regarding the "issue", you'll have lost all your hope halfway through.
ktxbai.
