Anime like Africa no Salaryman (TV)

Aggressive Retsuko

Also known as Aggretsuko.

Studio: Fanworks , Sanrio , Netflix
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Music , Slice of Life

Some offices have stereotypical dynamics: the chauvinistic pig of a boss who never does any real work; the employees whose goal is to suck up to the boss; the ones whose lives seem perfect; and the individuals who have all the actual work pushed onto them. Retsuko the red panda is in the last group, as she stays late most nights to make up the work her coworkers are too lazy to do themselves.

Her relief from the stress of her everyday life comes in the form of singing death metal at a local karaoke club. Night after night, Retsuko channels her grief into a microphone and considers the place to be her own personal sanctuary. But as she moves further away from her comfort zone and the ideas people have of her, she discovers that letting others into her world of death metal may not be such a bad thing.

Tags: Work , Office Lady , Anthropomorphism , Primarily Adult Cast , Urban , Female Protagonist , Animals , Office , Metal Music , Chibi , Primarily Animal Cast , Unrequited Love , Flash , Rock Music

Gaikotsu Shotenin Honda-san

Also known as Skull-face Bookseller Honda-san.

Studio: DLE
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Slice of Life

Honda-san is at war - with business, with out-of-print books, and with people who love manga! Who knew there were so many laughs to be found at the manga counter of a bookstore?! These are the day-to-day happenings that take place at a certain bookstore where the love of manga is abundant.



Tags: Work , Otaku Culture , Slapstick , Skeleton , Urban , Episodic , Autobiographical , Surreal Comedy , Primarily Adult Cast , Educational , Male Protagonist , Language Barrier , Shoujo

Aggressive Retsuko Season 2

Also known as Aggretsuko: Season 2.

Studio: Fanworks , Netflix
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Music , Slice of Life

Red panda Retsuko continues to work at her cyclic office job, with the occasional stress-venting via death metal karaoke on the side. With the company of her newfound friends Gori and Washimi, life is more enjoyable than ever before. But some new shake-ups to her status quo threaten to add more stress to her life. At the office, new employee Anai seems like a fine addition to the company. Yet when Retsuko is placed in charge of his training, she finds that beneath his steadfast dedication, he may pose a threat to the stability of the workplace. Meanwhile, at home, Retsuko's mother pays an abrupt visit, fully intent on having her daughter finally settle down and find a man. With this in mind, she sets Retsuko up for various marriage appointments, much to her chagrin.

Now, Retsuko finds all the more reasons to head to the karaoke bar and unleash her furious diatribes. However, knowing that this will not truly solve her problems, she decides to make a more spontaneous choice to avoid her issues. And so, Retsuko finds herself set upon another self-reflecting journey, coming to learn more about herself and love, with the ever cathartic support of death metal karaoke.

Tags: Work , Female Protagonist , Anthropomorphism , Animals , Primarily Adult Cast , Urban , Metal Music , Chibi , Office Lady , Office , Coming of Age , Musical Theater , Love Triangle , Primarily Animal Cast , Unrequited Love , Heterosexual , Flash

Aggressive Retsuko

Studio: Sanrio , Fanworks
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Music , Slice of Life

The show centers on Retsuko, a 25-year old red panda who works in her dream company's accounting department. But it turns out that she is forced to keep doing more and more impossible tasks by her superiors and co-workers. She doesn't talk back to them, but she still has to let off steam, so she ends up going to karaoke by herself and singing death metal.



Tags: Episodic , Work , Office Lady , Primarily Adult Cast , Animals , Chibi , Female Protagonist , Metal Music , Satire , Anthropomorphism , Primarily Animal Cast , Office , Urban , Flash

Business Fish

Studio: TIA , Toho
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy

Tags: Work , Full CGI

Aggressive Retsuko Season 3

Also known as Aggretsuko: Season 3.

Studio: Fanworks , Netflix
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Music , Slice of Life

Retsuko’s rage rises another octave when she finds herself moonlighting with an underground idol group to pay off her debts.



Tags: Anthropomorphism , Female Protagonist , Work , Primarily Adult Cast , Metal Music , Animals , Urban , Idol , Office Lady , Chibi , Primarily Animal Cast , Unrequited Love , Gyaru , Heterosexual , Love Triangle , Flash

Poputepipikku

Also known as Pop Team Epic.

Studio: Kamikaze Douga , King Records , Glovision , Sentai Filmworks , Funimation
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy

Poputepipikku turns absurdist comedy up to eleven with its pop culture references and surreal hilarity. With two bonafide high school girl protagonists—the short and exceptionally quick to anger Popuko, and the tall and unshakably calm Pipimi—they throw genres against the wall and don't wait to see what sticks. Parody is interlaced with drama, action, crudeness, and the show's overarching goal—to become a real anime.


Tags: Surreal Comedy , Episodic , Parody , Meta , Satire , Female Protagonist , Seinen , Musical Theater

Hataraku Onii-san!

Also known as Working Buddies!.

Studio: Tomovies , Lantis , Good Smile Company
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Slice of Life

The story centers around the cheerful calico Tapio Chatorazawa and the pessimistic Russian blue Kuehiko Roshihara. The two study in the same college, and also work together on various odd jobs.



Tags: Primarily Animal Cast , Work , Animals , Iyashikei , Ensemble Cast , Episodic , Primarily Adult Cast , Anthropomorphism , Video Games

Tenchi Souzou Design-bu

Also known as Heaven’s Design Team.

Studio: Asahi Production
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Fantasy , Slice of Life

I made the light, the water, and the earth below. Now it's time to make the life that dwells upon it. Actually... that sounds like a giant headache, so I'll contract it out! Heaven's Design Team is an agency that creates made-to-order life forms for their client, God. Why does this life form look like that? Why does this life form live this way? Watch the trials and successes of the designers and engineers forced to breathe life into God's absurd requests!



Tags: Educational , Animals , Episodic , Ensemble Cast , Work , Satire , Seinen , Drawing , Gods , Chibi , Angels , Transgender , Dinosaurs

Odd Taxi

Also known as ODDTAXI.

Studio: OLM , P.I.C.S. , Pony Canyon , Pony Canyon Enterprise , TV Tokyo , Crunchyroll , Yoshimoto Kogyo , AT-X , Dentsu
Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Mystery , Psychological , Thriller

The taxi driver Odokawa lives a very mundane life. He has no family, doesn't really hang out with others, and he's an oddball who is narrow-minded and doesn't talk much. The only people he can call his friends are his doctor, Gouriki and his classmate from high school, Kakihana.

All of his patrons seem to be slightly odd themselves. The college student who wants the world to notice him online, Kabasawa. A nurse with secrets named Shirakawa. A comedy duo that just can't catch a break named the Homosapiens. A local hoodlum named Dobu. An idol group that's just starting out named Mystery Kiss... All these mundane conversations somehow eventually lead to a girl who's gone missing.



Tags: Anthropomorphism , Crime , Urban , Animals , Ensemble Cast , Male Protagonist , Primarily Adult Cast , Work , Revenge , Noir , Satire , Gangs , Yakuza , Mafia , Fugitive , Primarily Animal Cast , Amnesia , Cars , Police , Idol , Tragedy , Philosophy , Bullying , Adoption , Twins , Anti-Hero , Suicide , Hip-hop Music , Video Games , Martial Arts , Age Gap , Heterosexual , Bar