2007-02-09, 10:48 | Link #222 |
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Yet another wonderful episode.
I enjoyed that you needed to see the whole episode to understand Yumi's character, thats easily a big part of this series. I'm also happy that this episode focused more on Matsukata's 'angry' side. We've only seen parts of it in the past.. this time it was full on and beautiful.
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2007-02-09, 14:02 | Link #223 |
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Great episode, at first it seemed like a simplistic bashing of Yumi's approach to things and it turned out this wasn't the case. I can't say I liked Yumi's ways of dealing with problems but it was nice to see the two different perspectives without moralising messages about which one is superior. Why, oh why there are not many more series like this one? And why is it so short?
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2007-02-09, 17:49 | Link #224 | |
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I do have hopes that because of its great ratings, they might be able to come back for a second season sometime. I think that the ability to attract a more female and slightly older audience (with money) could be ringing bells in the production companies' marketing departments. The more episodes of this series I see again, the higher it climbs in my estimation.
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2007-02-09, 18:23 | Link #225 |
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Actually I'm quite happy that the series is so short. The majority of my favorite series are in the one season range. Most 24+ eps. episodic series' suffer under plot recycling. And when they have a continuous plot, they suffer under fillers.
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2007-02-09, 18:57 | Link #226 | |
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13 episodes covered about 2.5 volumes of manga, and I beleive the 4th volume is slated to be published around June of this year. Which means there'd be enough to support another 13 episodes only in about a year. Note that Moyoco Anno's one-volume work "Sakuran" is being made into a live action film, so perhaps they're busy with that lately. I could definitely see them making another season of Hataraki in the future, however.
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2007-02-09, 20:50 | Link #227 |
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Just another terrific episode thanks to our friends at Arienai!
Four years with Shinji, hm? I had a couple of relationships last longer than they should because we'd never confront whether to get married or not. I know they don't see each other all that much, but if it's lasted this long and isn't going forward, it's probably never going forward. At least they woke up in the same place at the beginning of this episode! Oh, and I didn't see Shinji at the wedding. Did I miss him or was he not in attendance? I thought this shot of Hiro with the bouquet is priceless! Definitely one of my favorites so far. Spoiler for size:
I also detected a hint of a smile near the beginning when she first heard that Yumi-chan was getting married. Looked like the biggest smile so far in the series. I'm still not certain what the "moral" of this episode is. Should we admire Yumi for exploiting her feminity in the workplace, or admire Hiro for her unwillingness to conform to the sexist culture in which she works? Perhaps we should admire them both for their self-conscious decisions about how to cope, even though the choices they made are so different? I really thought Yumi was going to marry the ballplayer.
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2007-02-10, 02:38 | Link #229 | |
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Feminism in Hataraki Man
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I've always enjoyed studying how gender roles are portrayed in anime. As a gaijin with little or no exposure to Japanese culture and mores before watching anime, I wasn't prepared for the frequent appearance of feminist themes in many series aimed at girls and women.* I thought of Japan as a place where traditional gender roles still held sway and expected to see girls and women portrayed more submissively than in American programming. I was thus surprised to see how feminist thinking pervades a lot of modern anime, especially shoujo and josei shows. While it's especially obvious in the work of artists like Miyazaki or the CLAMP collective, shows by many other artists also feature strong female protagonists. Obvious examples of what I sometimes call the "plucky girl" genre include Spirited Away, Angelic Layer, Noein, or Mahou Shoujo Tai Arusu. All of these depict preteen heroines who always do their best despite the difficulties they encounter and who succeed in the end. Older versions of these characters appear in shows like REC, Junni Kokki, or Saiunkoku Monogatari.** Even in historical dramas like Saiunkoku or Junni Kokki, the heroines have very modern sensibilities. They never worry that their gender will keep them from reaching their goals as long as they do their best. Hiro is, I think, much less sanguine about her future than these younger counterparts. And, to return to the initial discussion, episode 6 made me wonder if this show's creators also have a more jaded view of feminism than does, say, Miyazaki. When Spirited Away's Chihiro grows up will she be one of four women in an office of forty people,*** horribly overworked and overworking, and constantly struggling to get the respect she so clearly deserves? I think Hiro tries to do her best every day just as much as Angelic Layer's Misaki, but in the adult world just doing your best may not be enough. Sometimes you need put on that scent of freesia to become female Hataraki Man. Even though I can't imagine myself watching an office comedy on American network television, I'm strongly attached to this show. It combines laugh-out-loud humor with a depth of adult characterization that's rarely found in television programming of any sort. I happened to watch a bit of a network crime procedural (one of the CSI's) at a friend's house the other night and saw none of the humanity that's painted into every frame of Hataraki Man. __________ *I also wish there was more of it in the series targeted at boys and men, by the way. **Well, "older" in that they're 16-20. Anime has remarkably few heroines over the age of 20. Hiro, at 28, thus joins Balalaika as one of the oldest female principals that I've seen in an anime. ***What makes the 10% female statistic so remarkable to my eyes is that, in the United States, publishing has traditionally been an industry that was relatively open to women. By the way, women as a whole in Japan make up about 40% of the work force, though they're much less well-represented in professional and managerial positions like Hiro's. .
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2007-02-10, 23:54 | Link #231 |
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Hataraki-Man's Reign as Noitamina's Overall TV Ratings Champ
Television Audience Ratings - Kantou Region (Tokyo, Yokohama, Kawasaki, Saitama, Chiba, etc.)
If the current television audience ratings trend more or less continues till Nodame Cantabile ends its broadcast run, Hataraki-Man may very well remain the anime series with the highest television audience rating average (4.01%) to air in Fuji TV's late night animation Noitamina block. Episode 6 of Hataraki-Man received a television audience rating of 4.7%.
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2007-02-11, 00:23 | Link #232 | |
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Somehow I bet that all those depressed working women/working men staying up late to watch the show aren't going to be shelling out $45 a disc for the DVDs (unlike crazy Otaku).
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2007-02-11, 01:26 | Link #233 | |
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Sponsor is Thrilled with Success of Hataraki-Man Anime
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According to Mantan Web, DIP, a sponsor of the Hataraki-Man anime, is more than happy with its success; among other things, it has brought in a lot of new business for DIP. According to a post on a recent animation television audience ratings thread at 2ch, the Hataraki-Man commercial for DIP is still running in Japan. So, let's wait and see on a possible second anime series for Hataraki-Man.
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2007-02-11, 02:50 | Link #234 | |
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When I was in tokyo this winter I actually bought my map of Tokyo at a Tsutaya bookstore, so maybe it worked on me? (I still like kinokuniya the best 'cause they have a store in LA)
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2007-02-26, 04:04 | Link #236 |
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Sorry for not catching with all of you since now I just reached 4th episode. This show is really enjoyable. I always wait for Realistic anime and now I'm finding myself in Hataraki Man. Working pressure, exhaustion, depression, enthusiasm, etc... are a general description of every employee (or boss ^^). The harmonization of work and life is a big issue nowadays and many of us still try to find a way out. Some may not be interested in the whole atmosphere of this anime while I'm watching it with so much fun. A good "picture" of modern life in everywhere .
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2007-03-22, 17:04 | Link #239 | |
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Squeeeel!
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In commemoration of fansubs for episodes 7 & 8 being released, I decided to change my avatar. I really liked episode 8. I thought it was a sweet story. Spoiler for episode 8:
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