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Netflix Adds Live-Action Hataraki Man Series
posted on by Anita Tai
Netflix is now streaming the live-action adaptation of Moyoco Anno's Hataraki Man manga with Japanese audio and subtitles in English, among other languages.
The streamer describes the story:
A magazine editor works to keep her publication afloat, but wonders if there's more to life when the long hours strain her personal time.
Anno launched the Hataraki Man manga in 2004, but put it on hiatus in 2008. The fourth volume of the manga shipped in August 2007. The series received a fifth volume in June 2024 collecting chapters that had previously not been published in compiled volume format.
The 11-episode live-action adaptation debuted in October 2007.
The manga inspired an 11-episode television anime that premiered in October 2006. Maiden Japan released the anime on Blu-ray Disc in January 2019.
Viz Media published Anno's Flowers and Bees manga in North America, Del Rey published her Sugar Sugar Rune manga (Udon Entertainment later picked up the license), and Vertical published her Sakuran manga. Anno also designed characters for her husband Hideaki Anno's Cutie Honey live-action film adaptation, which Bandai Entertainment released on DVD. Azuki licensed Anno's Buffalo 5 Girls, Insufficient Direction, Memoirs of Amorous Gentlemen, and The Diary of Ochibi-san manga in July 2023.
