LINE OFFLINE Salaryman: What is the appeal of this comedy anime that depicts realistic everyday life?

LINE OFFLINE Salaryman - LINE OFFLINE Salaryman

■ Public Media

TV anime series

■ Original Media

others

■ Broadcast period

January 7, 2013 to September 30, 2013 Every Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, 1:30 to 1:35 a.m.

■Broadcasting station

TV Tokyo

■Frequencies

5 mins

■ Number of Episodes

Episode 114

■ Director

Kiminori Tagami

■ Production

Animation Production: Shogakukan Music & Digital Entertainment Production: LINE OFFLINE

■Works

©LINE
©LINE FRIENDS/TV TOKYO

■ Story

Section Chief Moon is good at his job but has a few quirks. Section Chief Brown is quiet but kindhearted. Section Chief James is the narcissistic son of the company president, and Connie keeps losing weight and then regaining it. Today, LINE Corporation is staffed with unique colleagues.

Today we will make you laugh with common occurrences in everyday life and at work, as well as unexpected incidents!

■Cast

・Chief Moon/Tomoyuki Morikawa ・Connie/Aki Kaneda ・Chief/Nobuo Tobita ・Section Chief James/Yuto Kazama ・Jessica/Yuki Kunitachi

■ Main staff

Director: Kiminori Tagami Planning: Atsushi Masuda, Susumu Anzai Original concept cooperation: Dae Seok Kim, Keisuke Kaneho Character designer: Groove Mogi
・Sound Director: Jun Watanabe

■ Main Characters

・Senior Moon: He's good at his job, but he's also absent-minded. He loves drinking with his colleagues on weekends and karaoke, and he can get quite drunk. He has 108 techniques for dozing off!

・Chief Brown (32 years old)
He does his job quietly and steadily, and is not just a man of his word, but a man of infinite stability. He is quiet and unsociable, but he is kind and considerate of his friends. He sometimes feels stressed because his particularities are not understood by those around him.

・Section Chief James: The son of the company president, he is a skilled negotiator. He is a soft-spoken manager who brings together large projects. He is an admired senior for the younger employees, but his narcissism is his only flaw...

・Connie is an office lady who struggles with dieting and rebound weight gain. She loves makeup, beauty treatments, and fortune telling. She works hard at her job so she can enjoy her private life.

・Jessica is a friend of Connie's and a colleague. They are close enough to hang out together in private. She doesn't put on weight, so she doesn't have to diet.

Sally is a skilled secretary to the company president who always thinks ahead and never forgets anyone she meets. She seems to have a diverse career, but she is a mysterious and talented woman. She has just returned from an overseas posting.

・Is it because he doesn't notice that his manager Moon is dozing off, or because he rarely gets angry when employees make mistakes, that he is easygoing, or does he just not notice? A manager who is strict when it's necessary.

■Subtitle

・Stamp 1/Gaze (2013/01/07)
・Stamp 2/Dozing (2013/01/08)
・Stamp 3/Telephone (2013/01/09)
・Stamp 4/Protest (2013/01/14)
・Stamp 5/Presentation (2013/01/15)
・Stamp 6/Meeting (2013/01/16)
・Stamp 7/Gift (2013/01/21)
・Stamp 8/Dozing ② (2013/01/22)
・Stamp 9/Secret (2013/01/23)
・Stamp 10/Dozing③(2013/01/28)
・Stamp 11/Memory (2013/01/29)
・Stamp 12/Receipt (2013/01/30)
・Stamp 13/Sally (2013/02/04)
・Stamp 14/Stomachache (2013/02/05)
・Stamp 15/Mask (2013/02/06)
・Stamp 16/Overtime (2013/02/11)
・Stamp 17/Fortune Telling (2013/02/12)
・Stamp 18/Magic (2013/02/13)
・Stamp 19/Health Checkup (2013/02/18)
・Stamp 20/Pressure (2013/02/19)
・Stamp 21/Security (2013/02/20)
・Stamp 22/Diet (2013/02/25)
・Stamp 23/Security (2013/02/26)
・Stamp 24/Circle (2013/02/27)
・Stamp 25/Souvenir (2013/03/04)
・Stamp 26/Bento (2013/03/05)
・Stamp 27/Bag (2013/03/06)
・Stamp 28/Battery (2013/03/11)
・Stamp 29/Cookie (2013/03/12)
・Stamp 30/Meeting (2013/03/13)
・Stamp 31/Dream (2013/03/18)
・Stamp 32/Cold (2013/03/19)
・Stamp 33/Sticker (2013/03/20)
・Stamp 34/Special Skills (2013/03/25)
・Stamp 35/Ice (2013/03/26)
・Stamp 36/Office Love (2013/03/27)
・Stamp 37／Tea leaf(2013/／04/01)
・Stamp 38/Trash Can (2013/04/02)
・Stamp 39/Trash Can (2013/04/03)
・Stamp 40/Onigiri (2013/04/08)
・Stamp 41/Tie (2013/04/09)
・Stamp 42/Summoning (2013/04/10)
・Stamp 43/Glass Connie (2013/04/15)
・Stamp 44/Glass Moon (2013/04/16)
・Stamp 45/Glass Manager (2013/04/17)
・Stamp 46/Caster (2013/04/22)
・Stamp 47/Mirror (2013/04/23)
・Stamp 48/Drinking Party (2013/04/24)
・Stamp 49/Memory (2013/04/29)
・Stamp 50/Prank (2013/04/30)
・Stamp 51/Security (2013/05/01)
・Stamp 52/Fart (2013/05/06)
・Stamp 53/Overflow (2013/05/07)
・Stamp 54/Original (2013/05/08)
・Stamp 55/Presentation Winning Strategy (2013/05/13)
・Stamp 56/I don't remember (2013/05/14)
・Stamp 57/Fuku (2013/05/20)
・Stamp 58/Passionate! Haiku Club (2013/05/21)
・Stamp 59/The manager will do his best. (2013/05/22)
・Stamp 60/Moon's Dirty Room (2013/05/27)
・Stamp 61/Something that looks like jingle (2013/05/28)
・Stamp 62/Brown in the Toilet (2013/05/29)
・Stamp 63/Go Mission Impossible (2013/06/03)
・Stamp 64/Ponnus Ponnu? (2013/06/04)
・Stamp 65/Dogeza (2013/06/05)
・Stamp 66/G's Revenge (2013/06/10)
・Stamp 67/I like sewn-in books (2013/06/11)
・Stamp 68/You are Shangri-La (2013/06/12)
・Stamp 69／I love headgear♡／(2013/06/17)
・Stamp 70/Flight attendant and dating♡(2013/06/18)
・Stamp 71/Ponnus Ponnu♡(2013/06/19)
・Stamp 72/Goodbye James Part 1 (2013/06/24)
・Stamp 73/Goodbye James (2013/06/25)
・Stamp 74/Goodbye James Final Chapter (2013/06/26)
・Stamp 75/Sally & Dragon (2013/07/01)
・Stamp 76/Double Dragon (2013/07/02)
・Stamp 77/Outbreak (2013/07/03)
・Stamp 78/Unable to withdraw (2013/07/08)
・Stamp 79/Married couple quarrel (2013/07/09)
・Stamp 80/Welcome! Oil Tycoon (2013/07/10)
・Stamp 81/Sally's Psychological Test (2013/07/15)
・Stamp 82/Moon's Disappointment Party (2013/07/16)
・Stamp 83/Sally's Work (2013/07/17)
・Stamp 84/Kokeshi's Curse (2013/07/22)
・Stamp 85/Proverbs you'll want to use on Wednesdays (2013/07/23)
・Stamp 86/Everyone's Chinese Wok (2013/07/24)
・Stamp 87/Thoughtful Umbrella (2013/07/29)
・Stamp 88／Night I can't go home♡／(2013/07/30)
・Stamp 89／Perfectionist／(2013/07/31)
・Stamp 90/Revealed!! Moon's Secret! (2013/08/05)
・Stamp 91/Connie as she is (2013/08/06)
・Stamp 92/Itchy James (2013/08/07)
・Stamp 93/Boss! I can't stand it! (2013/08/12)
・Stamp 94/Popular skin! Summer makeup! (2013/08/13)
・Stamp 95/I enjoyed it afterwards (2013/08/14)
・Stamp 96/The manager is celebrated (2013/08/19)
・Stamp 97/Moon answers (2013/08/20)
・Stamp 98/Connie will do her best (2013/08/21)
・Stamp 99/Trip to Hawaii for 2 people (2013/08/26)
・Stamp 100/A good-looking guy who drips with water (2013/08/27)
・Stamp 101/Sally's Work 2 (2013/08/28)
・Stamp 102/Answer the quiz and get 10 million! (2013/09/02)
・Stamp 103/Let's go to Atami (2013/09/03)
・Stamp 104 / Scorching MTG / (2013/09/04)
・Stamp 105/Boss Bin Bin Story (2013/09/09)
・Stamp 106 / Sold out! Enchanting Pudding (2013/09/10)
・Stamp 107/The Private Life of a Capable Man (2013/09/11)
・Stamp 108/Back pain that actually hurts (2013/09/16)
・Stamp 109/The Truth About Scary Money Troubles (2013/09/17)
・Stamp 110 / The truth about the scary inequality society / (2013/09/18)
・Stamp 111/The Last Salaryman Part 1 (2013/09/23)
・Stamp 112/Last Salaryman Part 2 (2013/09/24)
・Stamp 113/Last Salaryman Final Chapter (2013/09/25)
・Stamp 114/Making of the Last Salaryman (2013/09/30)

■ Related works

・LINE TOWN

LINE OFFLINE Salaryman - LINE OFFLINE Salaryman Review and Recommendation

"LINE OFFLINE Salaryman" is a short anime series that aired on TV Tokyo in 2013. It is a comedy that depicts LINE characters working as office workers. This anime provides laughter to viewers by using LINE stamp characters to humorously depict everyday office life. Below, we will provide a detailed review and recommendation of this anime.

Story and Characters

The story of "LINE OFFLINE Salaryman" is set in a fictional company called LINE Corporation, and revolves around the everyday happenings of its unique characters. The main characters are as follows:

Chief Moon : A character who is good at his job but has a bit of a gap in his personality. He loves drinking with his colleagues on weekends and karaoke, and is characterized by his humorous setting of having 108 techniques when he falls asleep. Toshiyuki Morikawa's voice acting makes the character of Chief Moon even more appealing.

Chief Brown : A quiet and unsociable character, but a kind and caring friend. He is 32 years old and is depicted as working silently. There are scenes where Chief Brown feels stressed because his particularities are not understood by those around him, which evokes sympathy from viewers.

Section Chief James : The son of the company president, he is a skilled negotiator. He is a soft-spoken manager who brings together large projects, but he also has a narcissistic side. Yuto Kazama's voice acting brings out the character of Section Chief James.

Connie : An office lady who struggles with dieting and rebound weight gain. She loves makeup, beauty treatments, and fortune telling, and is portrayed working hard at her job so she can enjoy her private life. Aki Kaneda's voice acting brings the character of Connie to life.

Jessica : Connie's friend and colleague. They are depicted as good friends who hang out together in private, and her lack of a strong constitution makes the contrast with Connie interesting. Yuki Kunishita's voice acting makes Jessica's character fascinating.

Sally : A skilled secretary to the company president who always thinks ahead and acts accordingly, and never forgets anyone she meets. She has a diverse career, but her mysterious and intelligent character is appealing. Her background as a woman returning from an overseas posting is also interesting.

The Manager : A generous character who doesn't notice Moon dozing off and rarely gets angry even when employees make mistakes. He is portrayed as a manager who is firm when it matters. Nobuo Tobita's voice acting brings the manager's character to life.

Anime production and staff

"LINE OFFLINE Salaryman" was animated by Shogakukan Music & Digital Entertainment and produced by LINE OFFLINE. The director is Kiminori Tagami, the planners are Jun Masuda and Susumu Anzai, the original concept is provided by Dae Seok Kim and Keisuke Kaneho, the character designer is Groove Mogi, and the sound director is Jun Watanabe. Together, these staff members have produced a comedy anime that will make viewers laugh in a short space of time.

Broadcast information

"LINE OFFLINE Salaryman" was broadcast on TV Tokyo from January 7 to September 30, 2013, every Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday from 1:30 to 1:35 a.m. This long-running series of 114 episodes provided viewers with laughs in their short five-minute episodes.

Subtitles and episodes

Each episode is broadcast in the form of a "stamp" and depicts everyday office life in a humorous way. For example, "Stamp 1/Gaze" shows a scene where Section Chief Moon is unaware of the gaze of his colleagues, while "Stamp 2/Napping" shows Section Chief Moon falling asleep. These episodes not only provide laughs for viewers, but also realistically depict everyday office life.

Related Titles

"LINE OFFLINE Salaryman" is related to "LINE TOWN" as it uses LINE characters. "LINE TOWN" is a comedy set in the town where LINE characters live, just like "LINE OFFLINE Salaryman".

Evaluation

"LINE OFFLINE Salaryman" is a comedy anime that uses LINE characters to provide laughs to viewers. Each episode is short and depicts everyday office life in a humorous way, resonating with viewers. The character settings and voice actors' performances are also appealing, drawing viewers in. However, it is difficult to develop a story in such a short time, and some viewers may find it lacking.

Recommendation

"LINE OFFLINE Salaryman" is recommended for those who like LINE characters and comedy anime. It is also recommended for those who want to enjoy a humorous depiction of everyday office life. Viewers will be able to laugh in the short time of each episode. In addition, you can enjoy the character settings and the voice actors' performances. However, it is important to note that those who value the story may find it lacking.

Above, we have reviewed and recommended "LINE OFFLINE Salaryman." This is a comedy anime that uses LINE characters to provide laughter to viewers. Viewers will be able to enjoy the humorous depiction of everyday office life in the short time of each episode.