Working!! #13 — Satou’s Got 99 Problems

June 27th, 2010

 

But bitches ain’t one of them.

Impressions:

Eh. It was an episode. It could have used more Yamada (what couldn’t?), fewer cliched bad gags (what couldn’t?), and more of Yamada rocking the pink sweater in stockings (what couldn’t?). Once the storm clouds rolled in after two simply awful hand-holdus interruptus moments, it was plain to see how this was going to end. Of course, we also got the montage of Inami’s best hits, pun unfortunately intended, but at least it was only maybe thirty seconds long. Still, I don’t like being forced to relive the worst parts of the show in its eleventh hour. Like usual, Yamada stole the show, although Satou and his mastery over his own harem came pretty close, even if Souma ended up in it somehow.

The only other real thing of note was the introduction of Matsumoto, who may as well be the reincarnation of Momose Kurumi or Nami Hito without Kurumi’s kicking curves. Those normality jokes, for and against, are so old hat to me at this point. Even Night Wizard did them better, but it did have skeletons and immortal little girls threatening normalcy. Then again, Yamada may very well be an Eternal herself. The point is that she wasn’t particularly amusing, and tossing her in during literally the last ten minutes of the show is bizarre at best.

Final thoughts below.

Final Thoughts:

Unlike a lot of shows this season, this got markedly better for awhile after a very rocky and poor start. I’m placing that firmly on the shoulders of Yamada though, who is a delightfully charming and fairly unique character that adds a dimension to this show that it sadly lacks otherwise, creativity. I’m perfectly fine with accepting that it’s possible that I’ve simply seen too many shows like this at this point, but Working abuses cliches like it has a bad crack habit and unlike, say, GA Art Design, doesn’t deliver the jokes at a fast enough pace to keep you distracted from the bad ones. 

A-1 did a solid job on the production at least. It was far from impressive, but I can’t recall any times where things got bad. Sufficiency is a perfectly acceptable bar to shoot for. The OP is a parasitic mind worm too, although the rest of the music is pretty forgettable. Basically all of the characters are just caricactures though that repeat the same few jokes ad nauseam. Demon King and Angel Beats tried to hide that by having enormous casts and it sort of worked. Here though, with a very small cast, there are more issues.

It’s not a bad show though. I wouldn’t call it highly recommendable, but you could do worse. If you haven’t seen these jokes before, then you’ll probably have a much higher opinion of the humor here than me. After awhile, it got more fun to write about the show than actually watch it, but that’s a very blogger/tainted perspective, so don’t put too much stock in it. Yamada alone makes me glad that I stuck with it past the awful opening episodes and weathered the bad Inami times. The Claw was just icing.

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13 Shouts From the Peanut Gallery

  • Haesslich says:

    Yamada in pink sweater. Show definitely needed more of that. Or her evil plotting to make everyone but Souta happy. Although Souta going moe moe over puppies as Kotori-chan was cuter than Inami constantly punching him out in the first half of the show… which leaves me a little conflicted as tis show does best when she’s part of the ensemble rather than having her and her androphobia carrying entire episodes as they did after her dad showed up.

    Why was Souta yelling at Inami in this episode?

    • Aroduc says:

      Towards the end? The self-deception of crossdressing ran out and she was about to hit him. He was trying to convince her that he had a vagina.

  • sage says:

    Here’s hoping for a Claw + Yamada spinoff. As LAPD. Fighting crime.

  • Kaisos says:

    I loved this show from start to finish.

    Bad, overused jokes aside, I LOVE slice-of-life. Makes me feel all tinnnnngly inside.

  • Chen says:

    “The OP is a parasitic mind worm too, although the rest of the music is pretty forgettable.”

    I dare say this opinion is wrong.

    I can get how one would not appreciate girl violence, it is an acquired taste, but the music? THE MUSIC. Best production of the year by far. It’s the little things that do it, like Yamada sporting a sweater or Souta looking criminally good in a dress. I mean, look at those hips! Not to mention the bazongas. It’s too bad Jun Fukuyama isn’t Kamiya Hiroshi or it would have been perfect.

  • Aex says:

    Well, it was enjoyable at least. Yamada should’ve shown up earlier, then it would’ve been twice as good.Really can’t understand finally introducing the last worker in the last episode, but it sucks cause she seems like she would’ve been funny playing off the others. I’ll probably watch this again at some point. Slice-of-life animes are always welcome.

  • […] Aroduc observes how “unlike a lot of shows this season, this got markedly better for awhile after a very rocky and poor start. I’m placing that firmly on the shoulders of Yamada though” – interesting how Aoi, despite not having much screen-time, managed to partially cancel out his dislike of the show (mainly centred on Mahiru). […]

  • zalkor says:

    at least this was funny http://blog.seiha.org/images2/working13/working13_78.jpg

    should have givven characters equal air time (too much Inami).

  • […] Aroduc observes how “unlike a lot of shows this season, this got markedly better for awhile after a very rocky and poor start. I’m placing that firmly on the shoulders of Yamada though” – interesting how Aoi, despite not having much screen-time, managed to partially cancel out his dislike of the show (mainly centred on Mahiru). […]

  • Celestial says:

    VERY FUNNIE AND INTERESTING

    COMEDIC GENIUS 10/10

    NEED SEASON 2