10 Anime About Business Life

10 anime about different business lives, from writing letters to working in a restaurant, from running an amusement park to making anime. 

Violet Evergarden

Studio: Kyoto Animation

Genres: Drama, Fantasy, Slices of Life

Number of Episodes: 14

Year of Publication: 2018

Source: Light Novel

Violet Evergarden follows Violet's adventure of learning human emotions, who was raised to be a war machine all her life after the end of a great war. Violet, who wants to learn the meaning of the last words of her commander, whom she lost towards the end of the war, and who takes a job in a company where her employees write letters on behalf of others, is forced to lack common sense and empathy at first, but she soon realizes what she needs to do and starts to get job offers from many different people. Throughout the show, Violet goes to different clients on these job offers in each episode and puts into words the feelings they want to convey to the person they are going to send the letter to. Violet Evergarden, who touches on different themes with each different client and connects viewers with extremely dramatic stories; With Kyoto Animation's outstanding animations, great color palette and Evan Call's penetrating music, it's a drama-driven show with high production quality.

SHIROBAKO

Studio: P.A. Works

Genres: Drama, Comedy, Fragments of Life

Number of Episodes: 24

Release Year: 2014-15

Source: Original

When it comes to anime, Shirobako holds a very special place. Although there are other jobs that focus on anime production, there is no other job that I know of that offers such a deep insight into anime production from within the anime industry. Shirobako tells his story through the eyes of Aoi Miyamori, who got a job as a production assistant at a small-scale animation studio. Throughout the series, we watch the challenges of making an anime, how the inner face of the anime industry works, and what situations employees face. Shirobako, which is presented to us with the quality animations of P.A. Works and contains many beautiful references about the sector, is one of the shows that anime lovers should definitely not miss.

Working!!

Studio: A-1 Pictures

Genres: Comedy, Romance, Fragments of Life

Number of Episodes: 40

Release Year: 2010-15

Source: Manga

Working!!, is a beautiful show for three seasons about the daily life of 8 characters working in one of the branches of a restaurant chain called Wagnaria. The script is reminiscent of western sitcoms in terms of structure, but in terms of comedy, it aims not to let the smile fall off the face instead of trying to make the audience laugh. Also, unlike many comedy animes, he doesn't create his character type in the style of "We wrote it like this to be funny, don't think about it too much", but he has very well-written background stories for each of his characters about how they developed the personalities they have now. On top of that, it has a trait that very few comedy anime has: a neat finale in which each main character's story draws to a conclusion. And he doesn't do it because, like other sitcoms, he's hollow, stuffed with unnecessary story material written just to steal more of the viewer's time, and after tens of hundreds of episodes, he has to make the series finale because the popularity of the series is dead. After explaining his problem in 30-35 episodes and ensuring that the audience has a good time, he puts a very good end to the stories of his characters with the last sections. When all this is combined with A-1 Pictures' fluid character animations and the presence of many experienced and talented voice actors such as Jun Fukuyama, Daisuke Ono, Hiroshi Kamiya and Ryou Hirohashi in the project, the result is a very good job both technically and in terms of writing quality. But does this series have no major problems at all? Of course there is, and this is a problem that prevents it from being remembered with great praise even after 6-7 years have passed since the end of the series. Working!!' s biggest problem is that he doesn't really know what he wants to be. In some parts, he acts like a comedy and offers different quality jokes to the audience, while in some parts he acts like an iyashikei and uses his jokes to create a comfort zone rather than making the audience laugh. And when it's like that, it's working!!' When we consider it as a comedy anime, we are faced with an unbalanced production that repeats the same jokes in places that does a very high quality work in places; On the other hand, when we consider this as an iyashikei anime, we have a job that offers a very high quality healing atmosphere in front of us and exaggerates the dosage of it and leads to the deterioration of the quality atmosphere in the hands. In short, Working!! Although it is a quality production, if you are thinking of watching, watch it with the awareness that you are facing a job that tries to accommodate two different genres at the same time.

Hanasaku Iroha

Studio: P.A. Works

Genres: Drama, Comedy, Fragments of Life

Number of Episodes: 24

Release Year: 2011

Source: Original

Hanasaku Iroha is about Ohana Matsumae, a young man who lives with his mother in Tokyo, and after a series of events, moves to a traditional Japanese inn run by his grandmother in a rural area and starts working there. When Ohana's already turbulent life is added to her efforts to get used to her new surroundings and learn her new job, things become inextricable for Ohana. Throughout the series, while learning what it is like to work in a traditional Japanese inn, we also watch the characters try to cope with many different problems, such as trying to overcome their future worries and solving the problems in front of them by working together. Although Hanasaku Iroha is not a mind-blowing show of vivid portrayals, P.A. Works' great visuals and consistent writing quality make it one of the best choices for those looking for sections of double cour life.

Aggressive Retsuko

Studio: Fanworks

Genres: Comedy, Music, Snippets of Life

Number of Episodes: 10

Year of Publication: 2018

Source: Original

Aggressive Retsuko follows a red panda named Retsuko who squanders his twenties with overtime and extra work and gets on his nerves by singing death metal songs in karaoke. Throughout the series, Aggressive Retsuko brings many different events that office workers can associate themselves with in front of the audience, combining the clichés of stressful office life with comedy and creating a job that shows the difficulty of office life in Japan on the one hand and makes you laugh on the other.

Amagi Brilliant Park

Studio: Kyoto Animation

Genres: Fantasy, Comedy

Number of Episodes: 13

Year of Publication: 2014

Source: Light Novel

Amagi Brilliant Park, which comes to us with the fluent animations we are used to by Kyoto Animation, begins with Seiya Kanie, who used to be a very popular actor but now only an ordinary high schooler, by a classmate politely asking him to become the manager of an amusement park called "Amagi Brilliant Park", where many of his employees are magical beings from another world, and to stop the bad trend in the park. Although Seiya initially refuses, she agrees to become the temporary director of the park for various reasons, and her painful days in this magical park begin. Although Amagi Brilliant Park touches on Seiya's dramatic past in places, it is a nice comedy anime about the daily lives of the employees at the amusement park, often with jokes flying in the air.

Konohana Kitan

Studio: Lerche

Genres: Supernatural, Sections of Life

Number of Episodes: 12

Year of Publication: 2017

Source: Manga

Set in a town between our world and the other world, Konohana Kitan follows a young fox named Yuzu who starts working in a famous spa inn and his adventures there. Konohana Kitan, where we witnessed different adventures with the stories told through all kinds of customers and employees who came to the inn throughout the series, is perfect for those who want to watch a short and calm show with its magical atmosphere and beautiful and beautiful art design.

Rokuhoudou Yotsuiro Biyori

Studio: ZEXCS

Genres: Comedy, Snippets of Life

Number of Episodes: 12

Year of Publication: 2018

Source: Manga

Rokuhoudou Yotsuiro Biyori, which is about the daily lives of four friends who run a café of their own kind, is a show that focuses on the life problems of customers who stop by the café and the food served in the café from place to place. Although it doesn't offer anything very special visually, it's a calm and pleasant show with its relaxing vibe and fun dialogues between its main characters.

Sakura Quest

Studio: P.A. Works

Genres: Comedy, Snippets of Life

Number of Episodes: 25

Year of Publication: 2017

Source: Original

Our third P.A. Works show, Sakura Quest, follows Yoshino Koharu, who applied for nearly thirty jobs in Tokyo but was not accepted into any of them, after a series of coincidences and misunderstandings played a key role in reviving the declining tourism of a small town called Manoyama. While Sakura Quest touches on a variety of themes with many different side characters, it's mostly about young adults finding out what they want to do in life and getting rid of their worries about the future, mostly through the co-workers Yoshino and Manoyama work with to fix their tourism.

Yomigaeru Sora: Rescue Wings

Studio: J.C. Staff

Genres: Drama

Number of Episodes: 13

Release Year: 2006

Source: Original

Yomigaeru Sora: Rescue Wings, the last and oldest name on our list, is about the difficult lives of pilots working in a rescue squadron. Our series, which contains a lot of realistic dramas, is not a show that I can recommend to everyone like the other shows on our list because it contains many heavy events from life. Because, Rescue Wings is a show that has the tone of documentaries broadcast on National Geographic, apart from the daily problems that our main character, who is a rookie, experiences in his life and the style elements of getting used to his new job. He never softens and presents the events he hosts and puts them in front of the audience in their purest possible form. Therefore, if you are someone who is easily affected by the shows they watch, even if they know that they are fiction, I recommend you to stay away from Rescue Wings. If you're like, "I'm not so simply influenced by this kind of content, come to me with one of the most realistic dramatic works possible," then this is the J.C. Staff anime from the mid-2000s with beautiful animations.