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Hataraki Man (TV)

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© 2006 Moyoco Anno, Kodansha/Hatarakiman Committee


[ adapted from Hataraki Man (manga) ]

Alternative title:
働きマン (Japanese)
工作狂人 (Chinese (Taiwan))
Genres: slice of life
Plot Summary: Hiroko Matsukata is a woman who works for a magazine company. She puts all she has into her work, and is known as a strong, straight-forward working girl, who can at will turn herself into Hataraki man (working man) mode. Despite Hiroko's success at work, her life lacks romance. Even though a hard worker, she'd leave early anytime to go on a date. Too bad her boyfriend is even bigger a workaholic than Hiroko.
User Ratings: 189 ratings have been given [details]
 Masterpiece: 6 votes (sub:6)
 Excellent: 21 votes (sub:19, dub:1, Ita.sub:1)
 Very good: 69 votes (sub:67, Rus.sub:1, Spa.sub:1)
 Good: 45 votes (sub:43, Spa.sub:1, dub:1)
 Decent: 24 votes (sub:24)
 So-so: 13 votes (sub:13)
 Not really good: 2 votes (sub:2)
 Weak: 6 votes (sub:6)
 Bad: 3 votes (sub:3)
 Awful: -
 Worst ever: -
Seen in part or in whole by 384 users, rank: #1278
Median rating: Good
Arithmetic mean: 7.180 (Good+.17), std. dev.: 1.57, rank: #1357
Weighted mean: 7.137 (Good+.13), rank: #1282 (seen all: 7.43 / seen some: 6.73 / won't finish: 4.97)
Bayesian estimate: 7.155 (Good+.15), rank: #1075
Running time: 23 minutes per episode
Number of episodes: 11
Episode titles: We have 11
Vintage: 2006-10-12 to 2006-12-21
Opening Theme:
"Hataraku Otoko" by PUFFY
Ending Theme:
"Shangri-La" by chatmonchy
Official website:
工作狂人*首頁 (Chinese (Taiwan))
Links: We have 1
Trivia: We have 5
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Japanese staff 
Japanese cast 

Director: Katsumi Ono

Series Composition: Satomi Ooshima

Script: Yuka Yamada

Storyboard: Katsumi Ono

Episode Director: Katsumi Ono

Music: Yuugo Kanno

Original creator: Moyoco Anno

Character Design: Hisashi Kagawa

Art director: Hiroshi Kato

Sound director: Hideyuki Tanaka

Director of Photography: Hisao Kazamura

Producer:
Kouji Yamamoto (Fuji TV)
Yoko Matsusaki (Fuji TV)
Yukihiro Ito (Fuji TV)

Advertising: Megumi Endou (Fuji TV)

Animation producer: Takahiko Tsuchiya

Assistant producer: Kumiko Nakano (Fuji TV)

Background Art:
Kazuhiko Matsumoto
Mieko Sakurai
Mitsuko Katou
Shunichiro Yoshihara
Tomoyuki Takae
Yumi Kawamori
Yumiko Narita

Colour Design: Ayami Minowa

Corporate Production:
Akio Wakana
Kouichi Uchida (Fuji TV)
Masarou Toyoshima
Masayuki Haryu
Naoki Kitagawa
Naoki Sasada
Norihiro Hayashida

Digital Paint:
Hitomi Watabe
Mariko Suzuki
Mika Kozawa

Key Animation:
Kazuyuki Kobayashi
Makoto Sawazaki
Mieko Seki

Music producer: Hiroaki Sano

Photography:
Hiroaki Harada
Hiroshi Nakatomi
Kenji Akazawa
Koji Ikeda
Satoshi Arakawa

Planning: Koji Kaneda (Fuji TV)

Production manager:
Masaaki Yukawa
Shinobu Satou
Tetsuji Tsubomi
Tooko Takase (Fuji TV)

Publicity: Nami Sekiya (KPlus)

Theme Song Lyrics: Kumiko Takahashi (ED)

Theme Song Performance:
chatmonchy (ED)
Puffy (OP)
Sambomaster (insert song)

 

Rie Tanaka as Hiroko Matsukata

Atsuko Tanaka as Maiko Kaji

Eiji Hanawa as Shinji Yamashiro

Kazuya Nakai as Fumiya Sugawara

Kenyuu Horiuchi as Kimio Narita

Makoto Yasumura as Kunio Tanaka

Misato Fukuen as Mayu Nagisa

Rumi Shishido as Yumi Nogawa

Tomomichi Nishimura as Tatsuhiko Umemiya

Yuji Ueda as Akihisa Kobayashi

Ai Nagano as
Hiroko's friend (ep 3)
Massage parlour employee (ep 7)

Airi Sakuno as
Hiroko's classmate (ep 5)
Kawamura's wife (ep 9)
Massage parlour employee (ep 7)
Weather forecaster (ep 4)

Ami Michizoe as Massage parlour employee (ep 5)

Ami Onuki as Massage parlour employee (ep 7)

Fumihiko Tachiki as Worker A (ep 4)

Hidetoshi Nakamura as Doujima (ep 6)

Hiroaki Miura as Secretary Sakamoto (ep 1)

Hiroki Yasumoto as Reporter B (ep 6)

Hisayoshi Suganuma as
Cameraman
Kitajima's secretary (ep 10)

Hitoshi Bifu as Salaryman (ep 5)

Jun Azumi as
Itou (ep 9)
Reporter A (ep 6)

Kanae Oki as Bookshop employee (ep 8)

Kazunari Kojima as Editor A

Keiichi Sonobe as Stake-out desk man (eps 2, 10)

Keikou Sakai as Worker C (ep 4)

Kouji Hiwatari as Trader (ep 11)

Maria Kawamura as Mimura's wife (ep 9)

Masako Katsuki as Utako Sekiguchi

Masashi Yabe as Editor C

Maya Okamoto as Masami

Mikako Fujita as Manager (ep 11)

Misa Watanabe as Midoriko Shirakawa

Motomu Kiyokawa as Sales Department's Kaneko (ep 8)

Naomi Kusumi as Eiichi Kitajima (ep 10)

Ryoko Ono as Editor (ep 8)

Satoshi Taki as Horii (ep 9)

Satoshi Tsuruoka as Health Land employee (ep 7)

Shigeru Ushiyama as Yasuyuki Mimura (ep 9)

Shozo Iizuka as Foreign Minister Hoshikawa (ep 1)

Susumu Chiba as Fujita (ep 8)

Takahiro Mizushima as Editor B

Takaya Hashi as Tooru Kanze (ep 10)

Takehiro Murozono as
Daiki (ep 7)
Editor D

Tesshô Genda as Moriyama (ep 11)

Tokuyoshi Kawashima as Furukawa (ep 8)

Tomoaki Ikeda as Salaryman (ep 5)

Tsuguo Mogami as Worker D (ep 4)

Yasunori Matsumoto as Shimura (ep 6)

Yoko Nishino as Woman (ep 2)

Yoshikazu Nagano as Worker E (ep 4)

Yoshinori Sonobe as Reporter C (ep 6)

Yumi Yoshimura as Massage parlour customer (ep 7)

Yutaka Aoyama as Worker B (ep 4)

Japanese companies 

Animation Production: GALLOP

Background Art: Studio Biho

Broadcaster:
Fuji TV
Kansai TV (2006-10)
Tokai TV (2006-10)

Digital Paint:
Cube Emotion
Frontline

In-Between Animation:
Cube Emotion
Frontline

Production:
Dentsu Inc.
Fuji TV
GALLOP
Hatarki Man Production Team
Kodansha
Sony Music Entertainment

Chinese (Taiwan) staff 
Chinese (Taiwan) companies 
(none)
 

Licensed by: Muse Communication Co., Ltd.

Chinese (Taiwan) cast 
(none)
 
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