アグレッシブ烈子

AGGRESSIVE RETSUKO

ONA

STATUS
COMPLETE
EPISODES
10
RELEASE
April 20, 2018
LENGTH
15 min

DESCRIPTION

Some offices have stereotypical dynamics: the chauvinistic pig of a boss who never does any real work; the employees whose goal is to suck up to the boss; the ones whose lives seem perfect; and the individuals who have all the actual work pushed onto them. Retsuko the red panda is in the last group, as she stays late most nights to make up the work her coworkers are too lazy to do themselves.

Her relief from the stress of her everyday life comes in the form of singing death metal at a local karaoke club. Night after night, Retsuko channels her grief into a microphone and considers the place to be her own personal sanctuary. But as she moves further away from her comfort zone and the ideas people have of her, she discovers that letting others into her world of death metal may not be such a bad thing.

CAST

Retsuko
Rarecho
Haida
Shingo Katou
Fenneko
Rina Inoue
Washimi
Komegumi Koiwasaki
Gori
Maki Tsuruta
Tsunoda
Rina Inoue
Ton
Souta Arai
Kabae
Yuki Takahashi
Resasuke
Shingo Katou
Puko
Rina Inoue
Ookami
Komiya
Souta Arai
Shachou
Shingo Katou
Manumaru
Souta Arai
Yoga no Sensei
Souta Arai
Tsubone
Maki Tsuruta
Rinta

EPISODES

Dubbed

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Not available on crunchyroll

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REVIEWS

CodeBlazeFate
81/100
We watched The Simpsons and Transformers as children, so there is no excuse to not see this at any TV-consuming age.
The real world is a tumultuous place. The life of a worker can be rather stressful in the wrong situations. The people in your life can be unbearable little shitstains that make you wanna beat them until they beg for mercy. The days are long and arduous sometimes, and the work can just keep piling on until you back breaks. It becomes such a blessing we always have resources to help keep our sanity at bay. We all have hobbies; we all have friends. We all have a reason to keep going with the cycle of days that make up the majority of our lives.

Aggressive Retsuko is a commendable achievement. Its characters are so fully realized, fleshed out, and relatable that they are more human than most animated shows can even dream of. Their situations are as classic as they are comically relatable, and the way the show tells them is as genuine and endearing as it can get. Everyone except for that fucker Komiya gets some time to impress, even those whom we and Retsuko all saw as mind-numbing caricatures that embody everything we hate about peers and coworkers. Fenneko, Haida, Washimi, and so many others are a blast to watch, both in terms of seeing them interacting with each other and in witnessing their hobbies. Even if some moments are more out-there and convenient, what we are presented with is both entertaining, charming, and most of all, beneficial. Having such a fun cast to work with only seals the deal on making this uproarious piece of edutainment work.

More people need to see this show. As discouraging as it can be for someone to see what a pain the work life is, it's more than worth it for them to see what kind of wonderful environments, relationships, and hobbies await everyone. It also serves as surprising reassurance that everyone is just a person dealing with things their own way, and that we just have to find those who connect with us to make our daily lives worth it all. The best part is that the show does this without constantly spelling out what it’s teaching. Honestly, even with the coarse language and booze, this show should be fun for the whole family. The Sanryo merchandising and style that Fanworks worked with so expressively, adds a layer of accessibility to the show. The dub being a real treat extends that reach even further.

We watched The Simpsons and Transformers as children, so there is no excuse to not see this at any TV-consuming age.
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DYNASTIA
70/100
Strangely attractive, touching.
Honestly, I would have never taken the time to watch any kind of Netflix baloney of my own volition. I watched this out of pure recommendation, just because I heard it was about death metal, a genre of music that relaxes me, and frankly, I laughed. I found myself laughing, many times. And also headbanging, and dancing in my panties all over my room.

If I understand this well, it's created for the Japanese branch of Netflix, and I have no idea if it had any kind of occidental influence (or money), because the series really has a sort of Nintendo style to it. It looks like a long-lost rhythm game for the DS if anything. A time when videogames were art (pls dad my degree isn't useless, I'm an artist who plays very important and smart boy games, like FF7, which has a very deep story, so it is art, and videogames are art, Roger Ebert is an idioooot).

These critters are cute, the facial expressions they pull, even just how they move by going from the foreground to the back (reminding me of Paper Mario, at times). The soundtrack to this series is pure bliss to my ears, be it at the karaoke, when they yell a lot of METAL, or even just the ambient music that plays all throughout the show.

Not displeasing to my senses, at all. Even more, if one gets hooked to the esthetic of cuteness meeting its aggressive side.

Good thing that the episodes are really short and no plot really gets developed. This makes the show really easy to enjoy, never really a time where to get bored or fill the series up with filler and bad animation. One punchline follows another, and the whole thing is coherent. The Hippopotamus was a highlight, talking some fast bullshit and moving wildly. Also, they didn't spare themselves from screaming a lot of metal, so it's all good.

Honestly, I don't know if this could ever be displeasing, but even if the whole thing was one big publicity for some plushies, I enjoyed myself more than whatever latest DreamWorks piece of crap is out at the time you read this review.
It was all very stupid, but never really felt heavy.

This show isn't the brightest bulb, but there was some nice common sense in mockingly depicting the Japanese work culture ( the characters are very broad caricatures). So the whole thing doesn't feel like you're being taken for an idiot with a wallet. The whole show complimented its goal well and there wouldn't be anything more to add if the 2200 characters rule didn't force you to uselessly fill the quota (there isn't that much more to be said about this show, honestly now, let me post this).
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