Working!!
| Working!! | |
Cover of volume 1 of Working!!, published by Square Enix, featuring Popura Taneshima (center)
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| Genre | Comedy, Slice of life, Romance |
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| Manga | |
| Written by | Karino Takatsu |
| Published by | Square Enix |
| Demographic | Seinen |
| Magazine | Young Gangan |
| Original run | January 2005 – November 2014 |
| Volumes | 13 |
| Anime television series | |
| Directed by | Yoshimasa Hiraike |
| Produced by | Hiroyuki Shimizu Shunsuke Saito Tomoyuki Saito |
| Written by | Yoshimasa Hiraike |
| Music by | Monaca |
| Studio | A-1 Pictures |
| Licensed by | |
| Original network | Tokyo MX, Yomiuri TV |
| Original run | April 4, 2010 – June 26, 2010 |
| Episodes | 13 |
| Anime television series | |
| Working'!! | |
| Directed by | Atsushi Ootsuki |
| Produced by | Hiroaki Tsunoda (Yomiuri TV) Hiroyuki Shimizu (Aniplex) Shunsuke Saito (Aniplex) Tomoyuki Saito (Yomiuri TV) |
| Written by | Takao Yoshioka |
| Music by | Monaca |
| Studio | A-1 Pictures |
| Licensed by | |
| Original network | Tokyo MX, Yomiuri TV |
| Original run | October 1, 2011 – December 24, 2011 |
| Episodes | 13 |
| Anime television series | |
| Working!!! | |
| Directed by | Yumi Kamakura |
| Written by | Takao Yoshioka |
| Music by | Monaca |
| Studio | A-1 Pictures |
| Licensed by | |
| Original network | Tokyo MX, Yomiuri TV |
| English network | Aniplex Channel |
| Original run | July 4, 2015 – December 26, 2015 |
| Episodes | 14 |
| Manga | |
| Web-ban Working!! | |
| Written by | Karino Takatsu |
| Published by | Square Enix |
| Demographic | Seinen |
| Original run | July 25, 2015 – present |
| Volumes | 4 |
| Anime television series | |
| WWW.Working!! | |
| Directed by | Yumi Kamakura |
| Written by | Takao Yoshioka |
| Music by | Masaru Yokoyama |
| Studio | A-1 Pictures |
| Licensed by | |
| Original network | Tokyo MX |
| English network | |
| Original run | October 1, 2016 – December 24, 2016 |
| Episodes | 13 |
Working!!, released in English territories as Wagnaria!!, is a Japanese four-panel comic strip manga series written and illustrated by Karino Takatsu, which follows the activities of the unusual employees at one of the units of the Wagnaria family restaurant chain. The series was serialized in Square Enix's Young Gangan seinen manga magazine between January 2005 and November 2014. Square Enix released three drama CDs between 2007 and 2009 with scripts written by Shōgo Mukai. An anime television series was produced by A-1 Pictures and directed by Yoshimasa Hiraike, airing in three seasons in 2010, 2011, and 2015, respectively. In North America, the first two anime seasons are licensed by NIS America while the third is licensed by Aniplex of America.
The series is a spin-off of an earlier webcomic also titled Working!!, and later published in print form as Web-ban Working!!, set in another Wagnaria restaurant and following a different group of characters. It was adapted into an anime series titled WWW.Working!! in 2016. It is licensed by Aniplex of America.
Working!! had its origins in a web comic written and illustrated by Karino Takatsu also called Working!!, which she published in irregular intervals on her personal website since 2002. This web comic started being published in print in 2015, under the title Web-ban Working!!. The web comic's setting and characters are different from the later four-panel comic strip manga, which began serialization in the January 2005 issue of Square Enix's Young Gangan manga magazine. While the restaurant in the web comic and manga are both called Wagnaria, they are different branch stores, so the world is the same. For example, Kenichirō Sakaki (榊 研一郎 Sakaki Kenichrō?), the web comic's store manager, is an old friend of Kyōko Shirafuji and Masahiro Adachi (足立 正広 Adachi Masahiro?) from the web comic is a band mate of Jun Satō from the Young Gangan version. The author called the web comic version Cat Group (猫組 Neko-gumi?) and the serialized manga version Dog Group (犬組 Inu-gumi?). Square Enix published 13 tankōbon volumes between November 25, 2005 and December 25, 2014. Ten additional chapters have been released via mobile phones. The manga has been licensed for release in Chinese in Taiwan by Tong Li Publishing. Takatsu launched a biweekly web version of Working!! on October 16, 2009 to commemorate the anime series and posts the manga on the anime's official website.
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