Audience reviews
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MeriMemes
Aggretsuko is good for hanging out
My only problem with this anime is probably its boring but necessary first season
The plot is slow and even becomes annoying because it is obvious what the end of the first season will be, even so things are clear from the beginning, Showing the romantic interest of haida, the relationship that Fenneko and Retsuko have, and what Retsuko is like (basically meeting the protagonist).
I hate the first season of this anime for being so slow but what's done is done and it became very addictive at the time, being one of my favorite animes
ESP: Aggretsuko es bueno para pasar el rato
Mi unico problema con este anime es probablemente la primera temporada, la cual es aburrida pero necesaria
La trama es lenta y se vuelve incluso molesta debido a que es obvio cu…
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This will cover all 5 seasons without spoilers. A sweet, extremely relatable dramedy about office drama and common social issues with endearing characters.
Each character reflects a common coworker personality almost everyone has and puts them into zany yet grounded life office issues. The main draw is how close to home the scenarios these characters are in, and how it looks at the situations under an optimistic and realistic lens. You will feel all the emotions the characters are feeling: stress, despair, hopeful, confident, etc.
The show does its best to keep things fresh and moving to avoid being boring and repetitive. The show is constantly introducing new characters and developing the preexisting characters by giving them new dynamics to the main character. The show balances between…
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*Spoiler Free*
Amidst all of the the monotony of our daily lives what is it that pushes us forward towards the new day?
Is it worth to smile and express joy despite everything life throws at us?
Aggressive Retsuko does a stellar job of answering the above questons. Retsuko, as in the description, is about a red panda
who goes about her daily life with friends and deals with various hardships by coping with them in her own unique way.
This series will put you in a spin of joy, tears, and cheer as you root for this protagonist who displays her emotions vividly in the way
she lives (although not all the time) and how she grows her relationships with others. With her friends Haida and Fenneko and various others, she goes on to progress through her difficult work life and growing social life a…
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Introduction: Like Retsuko, I too was exhausted. Irritation dragged my fingers across the keyboard; hunched over, hard at work, as I was another spoke on a wheel stuck in a dead-end job. I was just out of college and already I felt like I was lost. I had a nine-to-five office job that operated 1-9 --- during 2nd shift. I was left to my own devices and expected many days to show up around 12 at the latest and encouraged to stay later till 10. Almost always however did I have to stay much, much later. This was my experience and it only makes up a minuscule scratch mark on the hubcap that is the office lifestyle.
What got me through some of this was watching Aggretuko on Netflix. I was originally sold on the death metal loving Retsuko but fell in love with her drive to do so. On top of that…
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How can you not love this anime!
The story was very entertaining. Seeing how Retsuko looks in front of her coworkers to when she's behind closed doors was very enjoyable to watch. Not many non-fantasy anime's I know of have to do with jobs.
I do wonder if it really is anime however since the art style is so unique to other animes. The style was really cute though! Most of the characters looked super adorable!
Retsuko's voice actor in specific was very good, at least when she wasn't like normal. (I won't say what that means cuz spoilers ;P) The other voice actors were pretty good in general as well.
There was a good variety of characters and a good balance between those characters you hate and the ones you want to stay on screen forever. I found it super easy to relate to Retsuko. I'd s…
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This anime contains various scenes that will induce seizures! If you have epilepsy there is a lot of flashing imagery that will trigger seizures!
When it comes to Netflix's original content, it can be a real hit or miss situation (Though it can often land deep into the miss category and more often that not it does). I avoided Aggretsuko thinking, their hit was Violet Evergarden, there's no way this won't suck. Then when browsing late earlier this evening with a cup of tea, bored out of my mind, Aggretsuko appeared. "Well, I'm bored and if it's trash I'll have some wine and read some manga," I thought to myself, clicking on the anime.
What proceeded was a binge session I enjoyed every moment of. I know many people will find Aggretsuko as their first foray into the world of anime. That's gr…
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Out of 100 Nobles watching...
97 were impressed!
3 loved the sound design but not the repetition.
Aggressive Retsuko or Aggretsuko is a 10 episode net animated series mostly adapted from the 100 episode short series both of which were written and directed by Rarecho and produced by Fanworks. The story is centered around a red panda named Retsuko 烈子 (which hilariously means "angry kid") and her stressful daily life as a Japanese office worker.
Retsuko spends her day dealing with busybody coworkers, unappreciative superiors, and struggling to pay the bills. When things build up too much she lets off steam by taking a trip to the local karaoke bar to revel in her true passion. Death Metal.
It's a silly show with a silly premise but the execution here absolutely blew me away. The show foll…
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Aggressive Retsuko is a very interesting anime that combines Sanrio's cute looking animal character designs with a more or less adult themed story about adulthood and corporate office working life.
The series is super short, but handles all aspects sufficiently in that span of time. I think the 15 minute format works so much better than the previous 3 minutes. It gives the show enough time to develop a consistent plotline per episode, but also prevents it from becoming too repetitive.
Aggressive Retsuko also manages to develop most of the characters, both main and secondary. This is a great accomplishment considering plenty of longer series fail at this.
Definitely recommended.
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Aggressive Retsuko is a Fanworks ONA, you may remember them from their work on Ankoku Cat, created as a Netflix original. Sort of like that really shit Godzilla film I reviewed. It's a slice of life comedy based off of Sanrio characters. I could review the hundred episode version, where each episode is around a minute long, but the ONA was specifically requested. So, let's take a look.
Story:
The titular Retsuko is a red panda who works in the accounting department of a large company. This results in her suffering in relative silence and her only reprieve is to privately belt out some death metal.
The biggest issue with this series is a fairly simple one. It's not particularly funny. Yes, it's a comedy that's not all that funny. It's not like some of the comedies I've reviewed where i…
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Story 8: Aggretsuko is a slice of life in the most literal and realistic sense, as it follows the day to day life of Retsuko, the depressed work exhausted red panda as she tries to find a way to escape her hellish workplace. The structure is quite simplistic, with each episode going over a different aspect of adult work/personal life and how our protagonist handles it, yet it is incredibly endearing and captivating. The 15 min episode cycle works like a charm to keep you fully engaged, as it gets straight to the point of its story without beating you over the head with it, leaving the message simply to the audience to sit and think over for a time. Honestly, the show reminds me of old children's educational programs, how each episode expresses a problem, the character deals with said probl…
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This is a great anime to watch if you don't wanna spend an assload of time watching anime, like if you want to get some anime in but you want to try to be productive as well. With its 10 fifteen minute episodes i feel it's fair to call this sort of a "snack anime", that's how i watched it anyway. Aside from it's refreshingly quick pace, it's just generally a funny, light hearted show with a cute artstyle, (thick lines and bright colors make me nut) and judging by my girlfriend's work rants, a pretty good representation of life as a young woman working a low position at a company.
(I rated the sound a 7 because while i had no complaints about the music or anything, and think it fit well with the show, i couldn't really think of any super iconic tracks or anything. I mean it's a comedy sho…
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**spoilers
I feel that because I watched the English translation and did not watch the original, which may have contained more memes and references to the stereotypical Japanese office life, I didn't get the full experience. The show is probably a notch or two better than I really think it is for Japanese people watching the Japanese version, so take this review with a grain of salt.
But anyway.
Aggretsuko is a series that manages to blend a few flavors of humor together into a great little office comedy. It's very light hearted, and doesn't really explore any dark themes, but that's okay. There are quite a few moments that show shockingly deep insight into the depressing reality that is the adult world, and I as fellow member of that same corporate lifestyle related to it A LOT. That i…
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The real world is a tumultuous place. The life of a worker can be rather stressful in the wrong situations. The people in your life can be unbearable little shitstains that make you wanna beat them until they beg for mercy. The days are long and arduous sometimes, and the work can just keep piling on until you back breaks. It becomes such a blessing we always have resources to help keep our sanity at bay. We all have hobbies; we all have friends. We all have a reason to keep going with the cycle of days that make up the majority of our lives.
Aggressive Retsuko is a commendable achievement. Its characters are so fully realized, fleshed out, and relatable that they are more human than most animated shows can even dream of. Their situations are as classic as they are comically relatable, an…
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Aggretsuko is a slice of life anime. It's following our main heroine Retsuko, an accountant for a large company. Retsuko is like many of us really. Going to a job she doesn't really like, over worked and under appreciated. She's the kinda of person who's so responsible she'll buy a pair of socks after browsing around in a store so that she doesn't feel bad. She's also very reliable, so much so that her workplace naturally puts a large work load on her desk. I've had a few people mention that this show is a bit too real at times.
One difference about Retsuko though is how she lets off steam. She does it via death metal karaoke! The show will even have her sing out her frustrations while at work in private locations. Overall it's a fun show with a nice progression. We see her think about w…
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"Don't judge a book by it's cover"
I am actually shocked with how this show, with the most childish art and animation style, is one of the greatest anime I had seen which tackles mature and relatable to adult struggles and in an office in particular.
We see how the main character, Retsuko, a red panda who is frustrated with how her life turned out to be and how it is like in an office where she is fed up and looks for ways to avoid that alongside stereotypical office people you will end up meeting. I am shocked Sanrio approved this and it is probably their best move since Hello Kitty, I will explain why and as short as possible.
This wonderful anime has all characters which one can relate to, and we haven't seen an anime like this in a long time and its charm hooked viewers like me who…
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Aggretsuko is very much an anime that is far more than it seems. Its bright color, simple flash style animation and concept of its main character comedically transforming into a heavy metal singer every time she reaches her breaking all point towards it being a fairly simple and basic comedy used to sell Sanrio merchandising.
However while that is the premise the first episode teases, that is not what the show becomes. Its a rather thoughtful and relatable story about life that anyone can relate and appreciate. Its a series that deals with a whole range of heavy issues from work, life balance, friendships, terrible bosses, relationships and money all while never dipping into heavy territory and keeping the series light and fun.
It would have been easy for the series to keep its character…
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Despite the styling of the series, Aggrettsuko or Aggressive Retsuko, the Netflix series, is a serious workplace drama. After already having watched every show that I thought would impress me with a 10/10, I was very happy to find a new one that could convince me that there are more gems out there. This show is sneaky, in the sense that its style is that of a children's television show, but the subject matter is very mature and is not mindless in the slightest bit.
The thing I like the most about it is that the show is not stupid, and doesn't talk about anything stupid. Viewers should have some experience with being overworked or looked down upon in order to enjoy the show. Being a very passive person, I feel with Retsuko because she gives and gives to everybody and can't very well find i…
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On the surface, the Aggressive Retsuko/Aggretsuko franchise might seem like nothing more than a humorous extension of a marketing ploy. Sanrio's official website sells T-shirts, plushies, water bottles, notebooks, sticky notes, blankets, pen cases, coasters, tote bags, phone cases, and coin pouches of the adorable character and her friends. However, with the help of a solid production team, Netflix's Aggretsuko goes above and beyond, becoming my favorite anime that I've seen so far this year.
Let me start out by saying that I've never even worked in an office before, yet much like kids who somehow enjoy the American/UK live-action series "The Office", I understood the strong dynamics and relationships between these characters and the stereotypes some of them were meant to represent. There…
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Meeting deadlines and expectations, facing stress and anxiety, enduring unlikable coworkers and tedious tasks ... It's all part of being an adult and a member of society. But when too much has been piling up and you reach your boiling point, you got to know how to let some steam off.
This is the story of Retsuko. 25 years old, single, Scorpio, blood type A, just your average positive, kind and uncertain young female employee, who bears a forbidden passion alongside her heart-attack-inducing stressful daily routine.
What comes immediately to attention while watching Aggressive Retsuko (or Aggretsuko for the western audience) are the peculiar pacing and overall atmosphere of the show: it almost feels like we're watching the daily struggles of a dear friend we cheer for. The events of the s…
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Aggressive Retsuko is an anime about this chibi-styled red panda, whom I will refer to as raccoon because she is not nearly as cute as red pandas are. She lives the typical work-lady lifestyle, working from 9 to 5 like any other young-adult raccoon. From her personality, she seems to be the kind-hearted-friends-with-everyone type of girl. At night, however, she goes to karaoke and lets out the most grotesque and vulgar death metal beats known to raccoonkind, giving no mercy for her coworkers, work-life-slavery nor anything else for that matter.
The series is rather similar to Detroit Metal City. There a personality-lacking weakling who prefers tea ceremonies and Swedish slow-paced pop songs has a role in the world's most grotesque metal band. He is referred as the true King of Hell as he…
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