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Hataraki Man (TV)

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© 2006 Moyoco Anno, Kodansha/Hatarakiman Committee


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: 259 ratings have been given [details]
 Masterpiece: 9 votes (sub:9)
 Excellent: 27 votes (sub:25, dub:1, others:1
1 Italian subtitled
)
 Very good: 87 votes (sub:84, ?:1, others:2
1 Russian subtitled
1 Spanish subtitled
)
 Good: 69 votes (sub:64, raw:2, dub:1, others:2
1 Russian subtitled
1 Spanish subtitled
)
 Decent: 35 votes (sub:35)
 So-so: 17 votes (sub:15, dub:1, ?:1)
 Not really good: 3 votes (sub:3)
 Weak: 8 votes (sub:8)
 Bad: 4 votes (sub:4)
 Awful: -
 Worst ever: -
Seen in part or in whole by 517 users, rank: #2070 (of 9535)
Median rating: Good
Arithmetic mean: 7.147 (Good), std. dev.: 1.5577, rank: #3100 (of 9642)
Weighted mean: 7.123 (Good), rank: #3006 (of 9642) (seen all: 7.38 / seen some: 6.44 / won't finish: 5.10)
Bayesian estimate: 7.141 (Good), rank: #2739 (of 7243)
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
Press Release:
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Blu-ray (Region A)
    Hataraki Man - Complete Collection (Sub.Blu-ray) 2019-01-22 (from $14.94)

Japanese staff
Japanese cast
Director: Katsumi Ono
Series Composition: Satomi Ooshima
Script:
Mitsutaka Hirota (eps 3, 5, 7-8)
Toshimitsu Takeuchi (eps 2, 6, 9)
Yuka Yamada (eps 1, 4, 10-11)
Storyboard:
Hiromichi Matano (eps 2, 9)
Hirotoshi Rissen (ep 4)
Katsumi Ono (eps 1, 3, 7, 11)
Kazuyoshi Yokota (ep 8)
Tarou Iwasaki (ep 5)
Yoshio Mukainakano (eps 6, 10)
Episode Director:
Hiromichi Matano (eps 2, 9)
Hirotoshi Rissen (eps 4, 7)
Katsumi Ono (eps 1, 11)
Kazuyoshi Yokota (eps 3, 8)
Masahiko Watanabe (eps 6, 10)
Tarou Iwasaki (ep 5)
Music: Yūgo Kanno
Original creator: Moyoco Anno
Character Design: Hisashi Kagawa
Art Director: Hiroshi Katō
Animation Director:
Akiko Kawashima (ep 3)
Atsuko Sasaki (ep 5)
Junichirō Taniguchi (ep 5)
Katsunobu Ito (ep 11)
Kazuyuki Ikai (ep 8)
Kazuyuki Kobayashi (ep 11)
Noriyoshi Yamazaki (eps 4, 9)
Tomohiro Koyama (eps 2, 7, 9)
Tomoyuki Matsumoto (eps 6, 10)
Tōru Īno (ep 8)
Yoshimitsu Yamashita (ep 1)
Sound Director: Hideyuki Tanaka
Director of Photography: Hisao Kazamura
Producer:
Kōji Yamamoto (Fuji TV)
Yōko Matsuzaki (Fuji TV)
Yukihiro Ito (Fuji TV)

Advertising: Megumi Endō (Fuji TV)
Animation producer: Takahiko Tsuchiya
Assistant producer: Kumiko Nakano (Fuji TV)
Color design: Ayami Minowa
Logo Design: Yoichi Yamakami
Music producer: Hiroaki Sano
Planning: Koji Kaneda (Fuji TV)
Production Desk: Mika Nagata
Publicity: Nami Sekiya (KPlus)
Sound Effects: Kentarō Washio
Special Effects: Naomasa Fukuda
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
Yūji 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)
Masahito Yabe as Editor C
Masako Katsuki as Utako Sekiguchi
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)
Ryōko 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)
Shōzō 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
Tesshō 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
English staff
English cast
Translation: Ian Fagen
Executive producer:
Matt Greenfield
Toru Iwakami

Art Manager: Larry Koteff
Blu-Ray Authoring: Joel McCray
Blu-Ray Menu Design: Sarah Cain
Packaging Design: Sarah Cain
Production Coordination: Janice Williams
Production manager: Son Phan Le
QC Manager: Crystal Ruiz
Subtitling: Robert Cardenas
Technical Assistant: Michael Olesch
(none)
English companies
Internet Streaming:
HIDIVE
Viewster (AT,BE,DK,FR,DE,IE,NL,NO,ES,SE,CH,UK)
Licensed by: Maiden Japan
Korean cast
Korean staff
(none)
Myeong-Seon Lee as Hiroko Matsukata

Dong-Gi Yun as Shinji Yamashiro
Gwak Yunsang as Fumiya Sugawara
Ha Seongyong as Kunio Tanaka
Hyeon-Wu Byeon as Akihisa Kobayashi
Ji-Yeon Seo as Yumi Nogawa
Lee Mihyang as Maiko Kaji
Min-Jeong Yeo as Mayu Nagisa
Seung-Pyo Hong as Tatsuhiko Umemiya
Song Junseok as Kimio Narita

In-Sil O as Masami Asaki
Korean companies
(none)
Chinese (Taiwan) staff
Chinese (Taiwan) companies
(none)
Chinese (Taiwan) cast
(none)

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