Working !!

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Working !!
Original title WORKING !!
Working !! Logo.png
Logo of the anime
Manga
title Working !!
Working !! Re: Order
Original title WORKING !!
WORKING !! Re: オ ー ダ ー
country JapanJapan Japan
author Karino Takatsu
publishing company Square Enix
magazine Young Gangan
First publication December 2004 - June 5, 2015
expenditure 13 + 1
Anime television series
title Working !!
Working '!!
Working !!!
Country of production JapanJapan Japan
original language Japanese
Year (s) 2010-2015
Studio A-1 Pictures
length 25 minutes
Episodes 13 + 13 + 13 in 3 seasons
Director Yoshimasa Hiraike
music Monaca
First broadcast April 4, 2010 on Tokyo MX
Anime television series
title WWW.Working !!
Original title WWW.WORKING !!
Country of production JapanJapan Japan
original language Japanese
year 2016
Studio A-1 Pictures
length 25 minutes
Episodes 13
Director Yumi Kamakura
music Masaru Yokoyama
First broadcast October 1, 2016 on Tokyo MX
synchronization

Working !! is a manga series written and illustrated by Karino Takatsu . The series, published from 2005 to 2015, was adapted by several radio plays as well as by an anime television series animated by A-1 Pictures .

content

At the center of the action is the student Sōta, who is approached by Popura, who is a year older but very small, and asked whether he would like to work as a temporary worker in the family restaurant Wagnaria . Inspired by this and spurred on by his affection for “little things”, he is ready to work as a temporary worker. However, he is confronted with other employees in the restaurant, most of whom have a special personality. The manager Kyōko, who has numerous connections to the Mafia, doesn't care at all about the wishes of her guests and instead lets Yachiyo take care of her, who in turn has an extreme affection for Kyōko. Meanwhile, Mahiru cannot hold back from beating men because she is afraid of them. The two-headed kitchen staff, consisting of Jun and Hiroomi, is a bit more reserved, whereby Jun cannot stand Sōta from the start and treats him accordingly.

Having got into this situation, Sōta is confronted with everyday life in the restaurant, which is repeatedly characterized by special, self-imposed and sometimes absurd rules. At the same time, he tries to keep the business going, always serving as a scapegoat and regularly taking on the work of the other employees.

Characters

Sōta Takanashi ( 小鳥 遊 宗 太 , Takanashi Sōta )
He is the main character in the manga series and has a strong weakness for little things that he thinks are cute. So he has a very friendly relationship and a certain affection for Popura. Always worried by the absurdity of his employees, he tries to do his job as well as possible. He has three older sisters, one of whom regularly visits Wagnaria . They are also the reason why he has an aversion to larger and older women, since he always had to suffer from them.
Popura Taneshima ( 種 島 ぽ ぷ ら , Taneshima Popura )
Behind the protagonist she is the main female character of Working !! and long-term employee in the restaurant. The high school student is very small for her age - she is a year older than Sōta - and was ironically named after the tall plant genus of the poplar (Japanese ポ プ ラ , Populus ). Still, Popura is a busy employee, even if she is repeatedly handicapped by her weak physical stature. In addition, she makes mistakes from time to time and is unable to memorize the protagonist's family name, whom she keeps calling Katanashi instead of Takanashi, even if she has just been corrected.

Origin and publications

Web manga

Its beginnings found Working !! in a webcomic of the same name , which was also written by the later author Karino Takatsu . Individual strips were initially published on the website at irregular intervals from 2002 to 2013, but they differ both in the style of the plot and in the presentation from the manga series that resulted from it. Since July 25th, 2015 these web chapters are called Web-ban Working !! (WEB 版 WORKING !!) published in book form, of which five volumes have been published so far (as of February 2017).

Print manga

The series itself, which is written in the style of a Yonkoma , was published by Young Gangan magazine from December 2014 (issue 1/2015) to November 7 (issue 22/2016) . A first summary of the individual chapters as Tankōbon was published on December 25, 2005 by Square Enix , the publisher of the magazine. Ten further chapters have meanwhile been offered for download on mobile phones. In the run-up to the anime adaptation, individual chapters were also published on the anime's website every two weeks. The final chapter is to be published on November 7, 2014.

Outside of Japan, the manga was licensed for a Chinese translation in Taiwan by Tong Li Comics .

A sequel called Working !! Re: Order was published from January 5 (issue 2/2015) to June 5, 2015 (issue 12/2015) and was also summarized in an anthology.

Adaptations

Radio plays

Square Enix released the Young Gangan Book In CD Working !! ( ヤ ン グ ガ ン ガ ン ブ ッ ク ・ イ ン ・ CD WORKING !! ) three radio plays on the manga, the plot of which was written by Shōgo Mukai. The first CD was published on January 25, 2007 together with a 96-page booklet , which, in addition to a transcript of the story, also contained an extra chapter from the manga series. The second and third CD contained a similarly extensive booklet and were released on April 25, 2008 and March 25, 2009.

Anime

Working !!

An anime television series of the same name was produced in the animation studio A-1 Pictures under the direction of Yoshimasa Hiraike . The character design is based on that of the mango template and was adapted to the series by Shingo Adachi . The animation was directed by Shingo Adachi, while Kenichi Tajiri was the artistic director.

The first episode of the series, which was set to have 13 episodes, was broadcast on April 4, 2010 on the Japanese television station Tokyo MX . There the series ran until June 26, 2010. A few days to a few weeks later, the channels AT-X , Chūkyō TV , STV and Yomiuri TV also began broadcasting. In advance, the first episode was broadcast on March 6, 2010 by Tokyo MX as a kind of preview.

The series appeared in Japan on 7 DVDs released between April 21 and October 27, 2010. A collective edition on Blu-ray Discs will follow on August 24, 2011. NIS America licensed the series for the US market and released it under the name Wagnaria !! in March 2011.

After an April Fool's joke with characters from the original webcomic, a second season was announced on April 2, 2011 on the anime's homepage. Instead of Yoshimasa Hiraike, Atsushi Ōtsuki will direct and Takao Yoshioka will oversee the scripts. As in the first series, Shingo Adachi is responsible for character design and animation, and monaca is responsible for composing the music.

The second season called Working '!! (with apostrophe) was broadcast from October 1st to December 24th 2011 on Tokyo MX, Tochigi TV and Gunma TV and within a week on Sapporo TV, Yomiuri TV, Chūkyō TV. The third season, Working !!! , ran from July 5 to September 27, 2015 after midnight on the same channels.

WWW.Working !!

A-1 Pictures' web manga was also filmed as an anime in 2016. There is another figure ensemble in this series. This time it was directed by Yumi Kamakura, the character design and animation management is from Mayuko Nakano. The 13 episodes were broadcast from October 1 to December 24, 2016 on Tokyo MX , Tochigi TV , Gunma TV and BS11 , as well as on Yomiuri TV , TV Aichi , Sapporo TV and AT-X with an offset of up to a week .

music

For the opening credits from episode 2 of the series, the title SOMEONE ELSE was recorded, which was interpreted by Eri Kitamura, Kana Asumi and Saki Fujita. In the credits from episode 2, the title Heart no Edge ni Idomō Go to Heart Edge ( ハ ー ト の エ ッ ジ に 挑 も う Go to Heart Edge ) was played, which was sung by Jun Fukuyama, Daisuke Ono and Hiroshi Kamiya. The composition and the arrangement of both tracks come from Satoru Kōsaki . However, episode 9 used Golden Day ( ゴ ー ル デ ン ・ デ イ , Gōruden Dei ), sung by Saki Fujita , as the credits . The first episode used neither opening credits nor closing credits.

Both tracks were released together on April 21, 2010 on the single SOMEONE ELSE (ANZB-9651).

The second and third season used from episode 2 in the opening credits Coolish Walk and Now !!! Gamble , sung by Kana Asumi, Saki Fujita and Eri Kitamura, and itsumo no Yō Love & Peace !! ( い つ も の よ う に LOVE & PEACE !!) or Matsuge ni Lock ( ま つ 毛 に LOCK), sung by Jun Fukuyama, Daisuke Ono and Hiroshi Kamiya. The first episode did not use any opening credits and the opening credits of the later episodes were used in the credits.

The lyrics are from Kenzō Saeki .

The opening title of WWW.Working !! was an eyecatch! Too much! sung by Haruka Tomatsu, Yōko Hikasa and Sora Amamiya, the final title Mujūryoku Fever ( 無重力 フ ィ ー バ ー ) by Yūichi Nakamura , Kōki Uchiyama and Kenshō Ono , with the aforementioned voice actors also singing in episode 13.

synchronization

Working !! WWW.Working !!
role Japanese speaker ( seiyū ) role Japanese speaker
radio play Anime
Sōta Takanashi Ken'ichi Suzumura Jun Fukuyama Daisuke Higashida Yūichi Nakamura
Popura Taneshima May Kadowaki Kana Asumi Hana Miyakoshi Haruka Tomatsu
Mahiru Inami Mai Nakahara Saki Fujita Ken'ichirō Sakaki Kosuke Toriumi
Kyōko Shirafuji Junko Minagawa Kumiko Watanabe Sayuri Muranushi Yōko Hikasa
Yachiyo Todoroki Shiho Kawaragi Eri Kitamura Shiho Kamakura Sora Amamiya
Jun Sato Hirofumi Nojima Daisuke Ono Yūta Shindō Kensho Ono
Hiroomi Sōma Yoshinori Fujita Hiroshi Kamiya Kōki Saiki Yoshimasa Hosoya

reception

The fourth Tankōbon edition of Working !! was the 7th best-selling edition in Japan for the week of October 23-29, 2007. The sixth edition sold 73,000 times in the week from March 24th to 30th, 2009 and thus reached sixth place in the ranking published by Oricon .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Working !! / Wagnaria !! Manga to End on November 7. In: Anime News Network. October 15, 2014, accessed October 15, 2014 .
  2. ↑ a b Working !! / Wagnaria !! TV Anime Gets 2nd Season . Anime News Network, April 1, 2011, accessed April 1, 2011 .
  3. ↑ Japanese Comic Ranking, October 23-29. Anime News Network, October 31, 2007, accessed April 24, 2010 .
  4. ↑ Japanese Comic Ranking, March 24-30. Anime News Network, April 1, 2009, accessed April 24, 2010 .

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