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WhiteHairGirls
 Posts: 4713 Location: New York City |
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Servant x Service
Plot Summary:Anime about the staff of the health and welfare section of the ward office of a certain city. Newcomers Hasebe Yutaka, Yamagami, Miyoshi Saya, and their supervisor Ichimiya Taishi go through the everyday quirks of working at their office. 13 Episodes Genres: Comedy, Slice of Life EP 1 That was a fun first episode. This was made by the same creators of Working! So this should have the same humor, although it looks like there won't be any loli characters  .
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Beltane70
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It's pretty rare that an anime has an adult cast of characters and is set in a comedy setting.
I was really looking forward to seeing this series and the first episode definitely delivered. |
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Stark700
 Posts: 11762 Location: Earth |
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Ya, I got the Working! vibes too. Also, dat OP SONG.
I'll keep watching this for fun because it sure was amusing for the very first episode. |
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walw6pK4Alo
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Not really, Joshiraku did, since 4/5ths of them were adults. Gintama is mostly adults aside from Kagura and Shinpachi. |
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WhiteHairGirls
Posts: 4713 Location: New York City |
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That is weird, I thought Joshiraku was about a group of middle school friends hanging out. How old are they? |
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walw6pK4Alo
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Kigu is 16 or so, the rest are in their 20s. Rakugo is their profession, not a school club, and they're often seen drinking alcohol. Guess that's the magic of anime art, unless you draw "old lady age lines" to reinforce that they're not teenagers, like Only Yesterday, you can pretty much swing their age from 15 to 30 as you see fit. |
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Blood-
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Loo-she (abbr.) Yummygami - she of the short hair blunt cut, glasses and great knockers ... I'm in love.
Yes, very nice to have an all-adult cast in a work environment. Seems like this will be a'ight. |
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Megiddo
 Posts: 8360 Location: IL |
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Comedy didn't work for me much at all. I'll give it 2 more episodes since maybe they couldn't handle good humor along with introducing all of the main cast.
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egoist
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Servant and service only brings one thing to mind.
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Agent355
 Posts: 5113 Location: Crackberry in hand, thumbs at the ready... |
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spoiler["I Love Lucy [abbreviated]"]
First episode impressions: Kind of cute, kind of boring, Hasebe is the character with the most comedic potential. Most of what I know about Japanese social services is from manga and anime, but I understood enough to get most of the jokes (spoiler[names being approved by government offices, signature stamps]) and some were just universal to any kind of customer service type job, spoiler[like being yelled at and criticized by strangers and hearing people's personal life problems unbidden.] It actually made me a bit nostalgic for my jobs in customer service. One thought that stood out: if this were an American show about a Social Services offices, it would be a *very* different show. A drama or a very dark comedy, possibly. Unless it took place in the offices of Parks & Recreation... |
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Brent Allison
 Posts: 2444 Location: Athens-Clarke County, GA, USA |
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For the quiz question at the end, I went to the website to find which kind of certificate - marriage, divorce, or birth - was the "most prevalent". And the answer is spoiler[a silly homonym joke of the word "重い", or "omoi". The translators for the sub I watched translated it as "most prevalent", which can be one meaning, but they went with the "omoi" in the literal sense of "heavy". Since the divorce certificate literally weighs more by a hundredth of a gram or so than the other two certificates, it's the winner.] Ba-da-chaaaa.
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DuskyPredator
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Episode 1
A-1 Pictures doing an anime about people working, of course this will bring to mind Working!!, although Hasabe's insistence on calling her Lucy reminded me of another character from an A-1 Anime. I laughed quite often in this one, I was finding it very humorous, and very refreshing to have a comedy with adults doing adult things. This a comedy that I will have to follow. |
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yoshiyukiblade
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I actually totally forgot about Servant x Service at first, despite the fact that I marathon'ed all of Working!! solely because people in the news forum anticipated that it'll be great since its spiritual predecessor was great too.
Anyway, this show has a pretty modest start overall, which I don't mind. It has less style than Working!!, but still some funny quirks in the story (Lucy's full name, etc.). |
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ookamigirl
 Posts: 2274 Location: Croatia |
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Wow, it was actually kinda interesting watching spoiler[Yamagami freak out about every little thing.]
spoiler[Hasebe] is a total slacker and player while spoiler[Miyoshi] is totally clueless and lost. spoiler[Yama] was the only one of them giving it her best. Wow, she certainly went far to get spoiler[her revenge]. This anime is kinda interesting, but I'm indecisive about watching it or not. I might give this one a chance if nothing better comes along.. |
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casualfan
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Considering the premise, the show does an excellent job in making it interesting. The characters are likable and the jokes are funny. Hopefully it doesn't get too repetitive with the future episodes.
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