Working!!/Characters

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These are some of the characters from Working!! and tropes that are associated with them.

The Wagnaria Crew

Souta Takanashi

Voiced by Kenichi Suzumura (Drama CD), Jun Fukuyama (Anime)

The fourth child of the Takanashi family, and the only son. 16-year-old Souta never ever intended to work part-time, much less work in a family restaurant (his home life is busy enough). This all changed one winter day after he encountered a petite girl asking for part-timers on the street. Charmed into helping her out, Souta soon found himself in the middle of a workplace full of...colorful co-workers. Ironically, due to his own issues he fits right in.

Tropes exhibited by Takanashi include:

Popura Taneshima

Voiced by Mai Kadowaki (Drama CD), Kana Asumi (Anime)

Cute and extremely petite, 17-year-old Popura is Souta's sempai both at school and at work. Indeed, she's the main reason why Souta is even working at Wagnaria to begin with, having 'recruited' him off the street one day. Earnest and hardworking, Popura would like it better if some of her co-workers took her more seriously; unfortunately due to her cuteness and her diminuitive height, this won't happen any time soon.

Tropes exhibited by Popura include:

Mahiru Inami

Voiced by Mai Nakahara (Drama CD), Saki Fujita (Anime)

At first glance, Inami looks like a shy and somewhat attractive 17-year-old, the type that wouldn't hurt a soul. As Souta soon finds out, however, this is *not* the case; Inami is violently androphobic, and her first impulse when faced with someone of the opposite gender is to send the poor sod flying with one of her punches. Hard. Inami herself isn't happy about this, and wishes that she could talk to guys normally.

Tropes exhibited by Inami include:
  • A-Cup Angst: It certainly doesn't help that the 12-year old Nazuna is more well-endowed than her.
  • Ambiguous Disorder
  • Brick Joke: Souta constantly thinks of her as a dog and when Kozue gives them cosplay outfits guess what she gets.
  • Character Development: Relatively minor, given the genre the series is part of, but compared to how she was when she was first introduced Inami is a lot less violent when the second season rolls in. She still punches Souta on reflex when surprised, but these instances are getting increasingly uncommon, to the point where almost a month passed since she last decked him. She's really putting a lot of effort into changing, and it's showing results, thanks in part to Souta himself.
  • Charles Atlas Superpower: She can shatter concrete on touch, her punches crack plaster walls, and at one point she nearly broke an electric tower in two just by hugging it.
  • Does Not Like Men
  • Freudian Excuse: Her Super Strength and fear of men are all her father's fault.
  • Hair Decorations: Suffice to say that Inami has a lot of hairpins, and its common for her to cycle through a few during an episode. Amazingly none of them are ever re-used over the course of the series.
  • Heroic BSOD: After Souta touches her head and she wakes up.
  • Luminescent Blush: Almost all the time.
  • Megaton Punch
  • Shrinking Violet

Kyouko Shirafuji

Voiced by Junko Minagawa (Drama CD), Kumiko Watanabe (Anime)

Ostensibly the floor manager of Wagnaria, at first glance Kyouko doesn't seem to actually do much work. Indeed she is usually seen eating, either her usual parfaits (care of Yachiyo), or whatever food is in reach, much to Satou's annoyance. A deliquent in her youth, Kyouko can still call on members of her old crew whenever the restaurant is in need of extra help.

Tropes exhibited by Kyouko include:

Yachiyo Todoroki

Voiced by Shiho Kawaragi (Drama CD), Eri Kitamura (Anime)

The daughter of a family of knife-makers, Yachiyo is the senior waitress currently working at Wagnaria. Souta, Popura, and Inami all work under her, while Yachiyo in turn reports directly to Kyouko. Responsible and hardworking, Yachiyo absolutely dotes on Kyouko, and is always happy to prepare for her manager her favorite parfaits. Yachiyo's adoration of Kyouko annoys Satou to no end, partly because it eats through their supplies, and partly because of... other things.

Tropes exhibited by Yachiyo include:

Jun Satou

Voiced by Hirofumi Nojima (Drama CD), Daisuke Ono (Anime)

One of the two cooks usually on duty, chain-smoking Satou seems to be mostly unaffected by the eccentricities of his co-workers. Stress on mostly. He and Yachiyo started working at the restaurant at the same time, and as much as he hates to admit it, he's taken a shine to his katana-wielding peer. Unfortunately for him, she only has eyes for Kyouko, though if it's of any consolation Yachiyo does see him as a close confidant.

Tropes exhibited by Satou include:

Hiroomi Souma

Voiced by Yoshinori Fujita (Drama CD), Hiroshi Kamiya (Anime)

The other cook normally seen on duty, Souma's personal life is a mystery to his co-workers. Unfortunately the opposite could not be said for him, as he seems to have a very intimate knowledge of their backgrounds, a fact that he often uses to his advantage. He enjoys watching the weirdness that goes on between the folk in Wagnaria, though that's not to say he doesn't mind helping to get things moving—as long as it suits him, of course.

Tropes exhibited by Souma include:

Aoi Yamada

Voiced by Kana Ueda (Drama CD), Ryou Hirohashi (Anime)

A girl of indeterminate age that Otoo brought back with him one day, Aoi has been living in the restaurant's attic ever since. She works at the restaurant during the day as a 'trainee', though her contribution to the actual workload is dubious at best. Her main goal at the moment is to get Otoo to formally adopt her, something that Otoo seems to be set on delaying for as long as humanly possible.

Tropes exhibited by Yamada include:

Hyougo Otoo

Voiced by Daiki Nakamura (Drama CD), Joji Nakata (Anime)

The senior manager in charge of the Wagnaria branch everyone is working in, Otoo-san (as he is called by his employees) doesn't spend as much time at the restaurant as he should. This is because he spends his time looking for his wife, who wandered out of the house one day to buy milk and never returned. His searches lead him all over Japan, which means that he always brings some treats whenever he does drop by the restaurant.

Tropes exhibited by Otoo include:

The Takanashi Sisters

Kazue Takanashi

Voiced by Ryoko Shiraishi

The eldest child of the Takanashi family, as well as the eldest daughter, 31-year-old Kazue is a recently-returned divorcee taking up Law to supplement her income. Despite her stern demeanor, she often worries over her younger siblings, particularly her sister Izumi.

Tropes exhibited by Kazue include:

Izumi Takanashi

Voiced by Yoko Hikasa

The second child of the Takanashi family, 28-year-old Izumi is a romance novelist, though she is often struggling to meet her deadlines due to lack of inspiration. Gloomy and extremely physically weak, Izumi almost completely depends on Souta to even function at home. Except for one exception, her wardrobe seems to consist mostly of black gothic-style dresses.

Tropes exhibited by Izumi include:

Kozue Takanashi

Voiced by Shizuka Itou

The middle child of the Takanashi family, 26-year-old Kozue is a self-defense instructor for ladies, and a regular customer at Wagnaria, a fact Souta dislikes intensely. Despite being very attractive, she seems to have awful luck at keeping boyfriends, which leads to her drowning her sorrows through copious amounts of alcohol.

Tropes exhibited by Kozue include:

Nazuna Takanashi

Voiced by: Momoko Saito

The youngest child of the Takanashi family, 12-year-old Nazuna seems to be happiest helping out her older brother, and would do anything, up to and including manipulating her older sisters, just to help ease the pressure from Souta. She helps out at Wagnaria sometimes under the excuse of doing a school 'project'.

Tropes exhibited by Nazuna include:

Others

Maya Matsumoto

Voiced by Akiko Kawase

Another waitress sharing screentime with the floor crew, 18-year-old Maya deliberately avoids taking part in the day-to-day antics her co-workers keep getting involved in. A perfectly normal working girl in her mind, she wants to make sure it stays that way... but she's so fixated on being "normal" that it's abnormal.

Tropes exhibited by Maya include:

Youhei Mashiba

Voiced by Yuuichi Nakamura

One of Kyouko's old henchmen from her delinquent days, who became her follower after Kyouko beat him to a bloody pulp. These days Youhei is still ready and willing to rush to fulfill whatever request she might have. In fact the main reason he hasn't started looking for work of his own was so that he could be free whenever Kyouko needs him.

Tropes exhibited by Mashiba include:

Mizuki Mashiba

Voiced by Haruka Tomatsu

Youhei's fraternal twin sister, and Kyouko's other highschool hench(wo)man. Unlike Yohei, Mizuki became Kyouko's follower... because she just loved how Kyouko beat her brother to a bloody pulp. Nowadays she's a productive member of society, unlike her brother, and works as an insurance lady. This still doesn't stop her from running to Kyouko's side whenever the latter needs help with something.

Tropes exhibited by Mizuki include:

Haruna Otoo

Voiced by Junko Iwao

Otoo's long-lost wife, who he spends an inordinately large amount of his time trying to find. Ironically she has been spotted recently close to the Wagnaria branch he works in.

Tropes exhibited by Haruna include:

Ritsuko Kitahara

Voiced by Fumie Mizusawa

A friend and classmate of Mahiru, "Ricchan" worries about Mahiru's many personal issues. That said, she's not too bothered about putting Mahiru's androphobia to practical use.

Tropes exhibited by Ricchan include:

Momoka Suzutani

Voiced by Sayuri Yahagi

Another of Mahiru's friends at school, Momoka also worries about her friend's problems. However unlike Ritsuko, Momoka is perfectly content to leave things as they are... since it's more fun that way.

Tropes exhibited by Momoka include:

Kirio "Yamada"

Voiced by Satoshi Hino

A young man looking for his sister (two guesses who), Kirio's initial methodology in looking for her made everyone think that he was a molester, though an encounter with Inami cleared up that misunderstanding. A member of his school's karate club, Kirio is one of the few males capable of stopping Inami's concrete-destroying punches.

Tropes exhibited by "Yamada" include:
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