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!!Kenichi Nakajima
->Voiced by: Creator/TakuyaEguchi
A 29-year-old salaryman from Episode 1A, "Daydream".
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!!Kenichi Nakajima
->Voiced by: Creator/TakuyaEguchi
A 29-year-old salaryman from Episode 1A, "Daydream".
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!!Kenichi Nakajima
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A 29-year-old salaryman from Episode 1A, "Daydream".
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* TookALevelInKindness: Nakajima's friend, Sakamaki. In the original, when he discovers that Nakajima is visiting a club during the day, he blackmails into paying for both of them. Here, he is the one to show Daydream to Nakajima , and he even advises him to go straight home after work instead of visiting Daydream again that night.
!!Mitsuko Takashima
->Voiced by: Creator/KanaAsumi
A 31-year-old office lady from Episode 1B, "Make a Budget and Stick to It".
!!Mitsuko Takashima
->Voiced by: Creator/KanaAsumi
A 31-year-old office lady from Episode 1B, "Make a Budget and Stick to It".
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* TookALevelInKindness: Nakajima's friend, Sakamaki. In the original, when AuthorAvatar: From what we see of his manga, he discovers that Nakajima is visiting writes about a club during the day, he blackmails into paying for both of them. Here, young man who's similarly hapless as he is but just a bit more competent and charming with the ladies.
* SceneryPorn: His story takes place on the expansive and lovingly detailed slopes of a ski resort.
* TooDumbToLive: Devastated by Yuko and Atsuko's prank, Kokeru hikes through an active snowstorm - one that Moguro had warned him about - toshow Daydream return to Nakajima , the lodge. The severe cold and he even advises lack of visibility causes him to go straight home after work instead of visiting Daydream again [[spoiler:fall off a cliff.]]
* TooGoodToBeTrue: Moguro gives him the equipment and willpower to impress his fellow ski students, but he expresses skepticism thatnight.
!!Mitsuko Takashima
->Voiced by: Creator/KanaAsumi
the beautiful Yuko would want to invite him to her cabin for a night of passion just for that display. Desperate for a girlfriend, Mijime ignores him. [[spoiler:She was actually luring him there to take an embarrassing video of his heartbroken face.]]
!!Ochikubo Rei
A31-year-old office lady 46-year old salaryman from Episode 1B, "Make a Budget and Stick to It".SP 6, "Hot Spring Requiem".
* SceneryPorn: His story takes place on the expansive and lovingly detailed slopes of a ski resort.
* TooDumbToLive: Devastated by Yuko and Atsuko's prank, Kokeru hikes through an active snowstorm - one that Moguro had warned him about - to
* TooGoodToBeTrue: Moguro gives him the equipment and willpower to impress his fellow ski students, but he expresses skepticism that
!!Mitsuko Takashima
->Voiced by: Creator/KanaAsumi
!!Ochikubo Rei
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* TheBusCameBack: Besides Yuko and Atsuko who return from the previous special episode, Hanae Fuyuki, Tanomo Yuusuke, Tanami Kazuhito, Kako Shinobu, Kaeri Takunai, Hanahata Komatta, Mushimi Ichirou, Tanami Kazuhito and Higama Hoshiya do so as well.
* DecoyProtagonist: While SP 6 is technically his story, more than half of it is a ClipShow devoted to Moguro's former clients.
* EveryoneWentToHighSchoolTogether: Well, not everyone, but a lot of Moguro's clients (and supporting characters from others) from past episodes seemingly did.
* FailOSuckyname: The characters that make up his name can be read as "left behind".
* PoorCommunicationKills: While they allude to their individual encounters with Moguro (cutting out some of the more absurd details like organ orchids and burglary), none of Ochikubo's classmates actually mention the man they encountered by name, allowing the salesman to approach him with ease.
* ProperlyParanoid: Ochikubo's classmates do consider him a "failure" like he suspects. Moguro helps him to learn how not to care about that sentiment so much, and that just because they look down on him, that doesn't mean they can't be civil and have a good time together.
* ThrowTheDogABone: While they decide to prank him ''again'' after he falls unconscious during their drinking party, Yuko and Atsuko make sure to leave behind the embarrassing photo they took of him. He also had a lot of fun, which his classmates actually envy.
* UnluckilyLucky: Unlike many of his classmates who encountered Moguro, Ochikubo comes out of his misadventure largely unscathed, with his sanity intact and a fun evening with two gorgeous young women to groggily remember. He arguably has an even better position than Komatta, another client who Moguro didn't actually punish, as he doesn't have to deal with a jealous wife or have to divorce one.
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!!Kenichi Nakajima
->Voiced by: Creator/TakuyaEguchi
A 29-year-old salaryman from Episode 1A, "Daydream".
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* TookALevelInKindness: Nakajima's friend, Sakamaki. In the original, when he discovers that Nakajima is visiting a club during the day, he blackmails into paying for both of them. Here, he is the one to show Daydream to Nakajima , and he even advises him to go straight home after work instead of visiting Daydream again that night.
!!Mitsuko Takashima
->Voiced by: Creator/KanaAsumi
A 31-year-old office lady from Episode 1B, "Make a Budget and Stick to It".
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* DecoyProtagonist: While SP 6 is technically his story, more than half of it is a ClipShow devoted to Moguro's former clients.
* EveryoneWentToHighSchoolTogether: Well, not everyone, but a lot of Moguro's clients (and supporting characters from others) from past episodes seemingly did.
* FailOSuckyname: The characters that make up his name can be read as "left behind".
* PoorCommunicationKills: While they allude to their individual encounters with Moguro (cutting out some of the more absurd details like organ orchids and burglary), none of Ochikubo's classmates actually mention the man they encountered by name, allowing the salesman to approach him with ease.
* ProperlyParanoid: Ochikubo's classmates do consider him a "failure" like he suspects. Moguro helps him to learn how not to care about that sentiment so much, and that just because they look down on him, that doesn't mean they can't be civil and have a good time together.
* ThrowTheDogABone: While they decide to prank him ''again'' after he falls unconscious during their drinking party, Yuko and Atsuko make sure to leave behind the embarrassing photo they took of him. He also had a lot of fun, which his classmates actually envy.
* UnluckilyLucky: Unlike many of his classmates who encountered Moguro, Ochikubo comes out of his misadventure largely unscathed, with his sanity intact and a fun evening with two gorgeous young women to groggily remember. He arguably has an even better position than Komatta, another client who Moguro didn't actually punish, as he doesn't have to deal with a jealous wife or have to divorce one.
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[[folder: Clients from ''NEW'']]
!!Kenichi Nakajima
->Voiced by: Creator/TakuyaEguchi
A 29-year-old salaryman from Episode 1A, "Daydream".
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* TookALevelInKindness: Nakajima's friend, Sakamaki. In the original, when he discovers that Nakajima is visiting a club during the day, he blackmails into paying for both of them. Here, he is the one to show Daydream to Nakajima , and he even advises him to go straight home after work instead of visiting Daydream again that night.
!!Mitsuko Takashima
->Voiced by: Creator/KanaAsumi
A 31-year-old office lady from Episode 1B, "Make a Budget and Stick to It".
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** When he's seen again during a high school reunion in "Hot Spring Requiem", he's [[spoiler:back as Himaga again]] with some dialogue about losing his executive station indicating that he faced severe penalties for what happened to [[spoiler:Madobe.]] Presumably, he couldn't keep the act going indefinitely.
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* SurprisinglyHappyEnding: The episode ends with Kako actually enjoying his flashback to the days when he had a happy life with his family, with no implication of any bad consequences for him later on.
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on. He's even allowed to come and go from the old house when he likes as shown in "Hot Spring Requiem".
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* UnexplainedRecovery: He's shown to be totally fine in "Hot Spring Requiem" despite having had an [[spoiler:orchid grown]] out of his intestines.
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* DidNotSeeThatComing: Claims that he didn't expect the kleptomaniac high school girl he was helping in "Pitfalls of Blackmail" to be an [[spoiler:extortionist gang leader]], though his tone as he says such has a tinge of sarcasm in it.
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* TooDumbToLive: Doles out his own blackmail payoff in one of his personal stationery envelopes, allowing his would-be victim [[spoiler:and her gang]] to track him down easily.
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* AssholeVictim: Notably, he never actually breaks any of Moguro's conditions and got exactly what he wanted from their deal. It's just Tsutomu wound up being such a rotten guy that Moguro went out of his way to thwart his attempts to blackmail a high schooler into having sex with him.
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* BaitAndSwitch: The special opens with it looking like Moguro's client for it will be a high school girl whose handkerchief he picked up, or at least someone affiliated with the high school since he was walking in its direction. Then after the credits play, Moguro walks his way through the snowy city to accost Tsutomu, a grown man working in a corporate office.
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* BaitAndSwitch: The special opens with it looking like Moguro's client for it will be a high school girl whose handkerchief he picked up, or at least someone affiliated with the high school since he was walking in its direction. Then after the credits play, Moguro walks his way through the snowy city to accost Tsutomu, a grown man working in a corporate office. [[spoiler:She does wind up coming back into the picture later though.]]
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* ADayInTheLimelight: While he's still not their outright protagonist, the double-length SP episodes have more time to dip into how he gets around, scouts clients, and performs the actions needed to make their desires come true (a lot of it involves mundane coercion rather than pointing his finger).
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* ADayInTheLimelight: While he's still not their outright protagonist, the double-length SP episodes have more time to dip into how he gets around, scouts clients, and performs the actions needed to make their desires come true (a lot of it involves mundane negotiations or coercion rather than pointing his finger).
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* ADayInTheLimelight: While he's still not their outright protagonist, the double-length SP episodes have more time to dip into how he gets around, scouts clients, and performs the actions needed to make their desires come true (a lot of it involves mundane coercion rather than pointing his finger).
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* NoSocialSkills: Ill-equipped for the wheeling and dealing that comes with corporate life, a culture where "hard workers lose while players win".
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* GreenEyedMonster: A deeply jealous man.
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!!Erito Tsutomu
A 28-year old elite company man from SP 1, "Pitfalls of Blackmail".
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* BaitAndSwitch: The special opens with it looking like Moguro's client for it will be a high school girl whose handkerchief he picked up, or at least someone affiliated with the high school since he was walking in its direction. Then after the credits play, Moguro walks his way through the snowy city to accost Tsutomu, a grown man working in a corporate office.
A 28-year old elite company man from SP 1, "Pitfalls of Blackmail".
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* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: Believing that his wife would be better off with Shinako and without him, and still broken from how his golf club obsession led him to attempted burglary, Ichirou writes Chokou a DearJohnLetter and leaves home while she's out.
* LaserGuidedKarma: Torn between Moguro's two seemingly contradictory conditions, Chokou chooses to honor her word according to the "gentleman's code", and goes on a golf date with her instructor rather than take care of a bedridden Ichirou. Her guilt (and perhaps some supernatural conditioning on Moguro's part) makes her unable to play properly, alienating her from Shinako who is so turned off by her performance that she cuts all ties with Chokou.
* LaserGuidedKarma: Torn between Moguro's two seemingly contradictory conditions, Chokou chooses to honor her word according to the "gentleman's code", and goes on a golf date with her instructor rather than take care of a bedridden Ichirou. Her guilt (and perhaps some supernatural conditioning on Moguro's part) makes her unable to play properly, alienating her from Shinako who is so turned off by her performance that she cuts all ties with Chokou.
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* WhatBeautifulEyes: Hiyodori Shinako, Chokou's golf instructor, has a very dazzling pair.
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* CrackIsCheaper: Ichirou squanders most of his savings on accumulating as many vintage golf clubs as he can.
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* CrackIsCheaper: Ichirou squanders most of his savings on accumulating as many vintage golf clubs as he can. In the end, he's forced to sell it all away.
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!!Mushimi Ichirou & Chokou
A middle-aged couple, consisting of 41-year old company worker and a 36-year old housewife from SP 2, "Out of Bounds Spouses".
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* CrackIsCheaper: Ichirou squanders most of his savings on accumulating as many vintage golf clubs as he can.
* ExcaliburInTheRust: Moguro gives Ichirou his Tommy Armor 945, an incredibly rare "classic club", to inspire him to take up golf. Even dirty and dinged up, an instructor is able to see how valuable it is, and it's prestige awakens a hitherto gluttonous part of his personality.
* MellowFellow: Ichirou is so unmotivated that Moguro barging into his home uninvited doesn't elicit much of a reaction out of him. However, his newfound obsession with classic clubs turns him covetous and confrontational.
* {{Otaku}}: Ichirou does find a hobby in golf. That is, collecting rare clubs.
A middle-aged couple, consisting of 41-year old company worker and a 36-year old housewife from SP 2, "Out of Bounds Spouses".
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* CrackIsCheaper: Ichirou squanders most of his savings on accumulating as many vintage golf clubs as he can.
* ExcaliburInTheRust: Moguro gives Ichirou his Tommy Armor 945, an incredibly rare "classic club", to inspire him to take up golf. Even dirty and dinged up, an instructor is able to see how valuable it is, and it's prestige awakens a hitherto gluttonous part of his personality.
* MellowFellow: Ichirou is so unmotivated that Moguro barging into his home uninvited doesn't elicit much of a reaction out of him. However, his newfound obsession with classic clubs turns him covetous and confrontational.
* {{Otaku}}: Ichirou does find a hobby in golf. That is, collecting rare clubs.
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!!Tanomo
A boss from Episode 1, "A Face You Can Depend On".
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* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: The way his story is structured differs greatly from those in the other episodes as Moguro's much more direct, speaks in a softer tone, and another one of the salesman's deal plays out and concludes right in front of them.
* TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou: After Moguro fails to make a deal with him, he decides to turn around to go for the next best thing. The viewer.
* LoveEpiphany: As he's about to follow the executive through the door to another world, he realizes that the nagging wife and annoying daughter he was complaining about a moment before were his perfectly normal and loving family who he resented as an outlet for his workplace frustrations.
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* SurprisinglyHappyEnding: A retroactive example. Remembering how much he loves his family and how they love him in turn gives him the strength to turn down Moguro.
!!Tanomo
A boss from Episode 1, "A Face You Can Depend On".
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* TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou: After Moguro fails to make a deal with him, he decides to turn around to go for the next best thing. The viewer.
* LoveEpiphany: As he's about to follow the executive through the door to another world, he realizes that the nagging wife and annoying daughter he was complaining about a moment before were his perfectly normal and loving family who he resented as an outlet for his workplace frustrations.
* NoNameGiven
* SurprisinglyHappyEnding: A retroactive example. Remembering how much he loves his family and how they love him in turn gives him the strength to turn down Moguro.
!!Tanomo
A boss from Episode 1, "A Face You Can Depend On".
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!! Tamakoshi Norie
A 28-year old office worker from Episode 102, "Luck With Men".
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* AnimalMotif: Giraffes. In a rather terrible way.
* DarkerAndEdgier: She's the last [[spoiler:fatality]] shown in the original series, and her fate is depicted in excruciating detail.
* DisproportionateRetribution: Though the stipulations of her deal were incredibly easy to follow for what she was getting out of it, getting [[spoiler:strangled by an elevator closing around her diamond necklace]] just because she took off her scarf during a date is pretty harsh, even by the show's standards.
* PlagueOfGoodFortune: Norie goes from being desperately single to having ''three'' eligible bachelors who want her hand in marriage. She's so overwhelmed that she forgets to follow one simple condition.
* TheWoobie: Tamakoshi is a sweet woman who had a very hard life, and an even harder [[spoiler:death.]]
A 28-year old office worker from Episode 102, "Luck With Men".
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* AnimalMotif: Giraffes. In a rather terrible way.
* DarkerAndEdgier: She's the last [[spoiler:fatality]] shown in the original series, and her fate is depicted in excruciating detail.
* DisproportionateRetribution: Though the stipulations of her deal were incredibly easy to follow for what she was getting out of it, getting [[spoiler:strangled by an elevator closing around her diamond necklace]] just because she took off her scarf during a date is pretty harsh, even by the show's standards.
* PlagueOfGoodFortune: Norie goes from being desperately single to having ''three'' eligible bachelors who want her hand in marriage. She's so overwhelmed that she forgets to follow one simple condition.
* TheWoobie: Tamakoshi is a sweet woman who had a very hard life, and an even harder [[spoiler:death.]]
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* ShmuckBait: An alternate formula for an episode has Moguro just give his clients what they want with no conditions whatsoever. These storylines invariably wind up being more devious than his usual MO as while a customer could feasibly come out of a normal deal better than they had before, the ones stuck in these stories have no way out of whatever Moguro has in store for them.
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* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: [[spoiler:Transforming into a large, sessile, questionably-sapient mushroom man is the ''least'' bad thing you can expect if you start eating random mushrooms]].
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* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: [[spoiler:Transforming into [[spoiler:Dying near fungal spores can result in one's corpse becoming a large, sessile, questionably-sapient garden for mushrooms, although not to the extent that it happens to Kanzou]].
** Rather than receive some kind of horrible side effect for drinking the extract too quickly, Kanzou suffers no immediate pains and is simply warned from doing so again since it typically takes ingesting much more mushroomman is the ''least'' bad thing you can expect if you start eating random mushrooms]].extract than he did for those to appear.
** Rather than receive some kind of horrible side effect for drinking the extract too quickly, Kanzou suffers no immediate pains and is simply warned from doing so again since it typically takes ingesting much more mushroom
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** Kent himself is also this as he's used by Moguro to showcase the crude, contradictory, and even cruel nature of corporate Japan: Be servile to your superiors, badmouth your bosses with your peers, don't sing too well in karaoke lest you make others resentful, never walk away from a winning streak no matter what, and be sure to give your spouse the business if they give you lip about anything. Kent goes from an upstanding worker who adored his wife to the precise sort of loutish, vice-chasing salaryman jerk that Moguro usually preys upon.
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** Kent himself is also this as he's used by Moguro to showcase the crude, contradictory, and even cruel nature of corporate Japan: Be servile to your superiors, badmouth your bosses with your peers, don't sing too well in karaoke lest you make others resentful, never walk away from a winning streak no matter what, fool around with loose women, and be sure to give your spouse the business if they give you lip about anything. Kent goes from an upstanding worker who adored his wife to the precise sort of loutish, vice-chasing salaryman jerk that Moguro usually preys upon.
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!!Warui Kanzou
A 49-year-old salaryman from episode 93, "Stamina Mushroom"
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* AgeGapRomance: With the innkeeper, and unlike previous displays of such in the series, it's depicted as entirely wholesome.
* BittersweetEnding: Tomoo ultimately proves himself a decent man who cannot be truly corrupted, so much so that all of Moguro's typically duplicitous help arguably acts to his benefit, but [[spoiler:his wife falls prey to illness]] and he has to [[spoiler:end his sincere love affair with the innkeeper]] so he can [[spoiler:return home to take care of his daughter.]]
* ButtMonkey: Has the unfortunate distinction of having been hit by Moguro's "don" twice, although to [[spoiler:no outright negative effect.]]
* NiceGuy: Outside of going on the lam without telling his family, Tomoo is a genuinely kind, polite, and hardworking man struggling with middle-age ennui. The moment he hears that his estranged wife [[spoiler:is critically ill, threatening to leave their daughter all by her lonesome]], he braves a snowstorm to try and get a train back to Tokyo.
* NoAntagonist: Tomoo's story is a tender, tragic romance between him and a kindly innkeeper. Moguro himself doesn't antagonize him or try to ruin him outside of starting the plot.
!!Warui Kanzou
A 49-year-old salaryman from episode 93, "Stamina Mushroom"
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* BittersweetEnding: Tomoo ultimately proves himself a decent man who cannot be truly corrupted, so much so that all of Moguro's typically duplicitous help arguably acts to his benefit, but [[spoiler:his wife falls prey to illness]] and he has to [[spoiler:end his sincere love affair with the innkeeper]] so he can [[spoiler:return home to take care of his daughter.]]
* ButtMonkey: Has the unfortunate distinction of having been hit by Moguro's "don" twice, although to [[spoiler:no outright negative effect.]]
* NiceGuy: Outside of going on the lam without telling his family, Tomoo is a genuinely kind, polite, and hardworking man struggling with middle-age ennui. The moment he hears that his estranged wife [[spoiler:is critically ill, threatening to leave their daughter all by her lonesome]], he braves a snowstorm to try and get a train back to Tokyo.
* NoAntagonist: Tomoo's story is a tender, tragic romance between him and a kindly innkeeper. Moguro himself doesn't antagonize him or try to ruin him outside of starting the plot.
!!Warui Kanzou
A 49-year-old salaryman from episode 93, "Stamina Mushroom"
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** Kent himself is also this as he's used by Moguro to showcase the crude, contradictory, and even cruel nature of corporate Japan: Be servile to your superiors, badmouth your bosses with your peers, don't sing too well in karaoke lest you make others resentful, never walk away from a winning streak no matter what, and be sure to give your spouse the business if they give you lip about anything. Kent goes from an upstanding worker who adored his wife to the precise sort of loutish, vice-chasing salaryman jerk that Moguro usually preys upon.
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!!Kent Pincarton
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* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Gets precisely what he wants. That is, the freedom to eat any store bought food he desires without his wife heckling him. However, it seemingly comes at the cost of his marriage and the access to Ayuko's home cooked meals.
* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodSandwich: Ayuko has a tendency to just throw away food that Yorimichi doesn't eat rather than save it in the fridge.
* WantingIsBetterThanHaving: Yorimichi learns too late that his obsession with department store meals lay in the thrill of snacking in secret. When Moguro separates the two, Yorimichi winds up picking up unhealthy eating habits now that the premium food floor goods have lost their luster.
* YourCheatingHeart: A metaphorical example as Yorimichi eating department store meals is framed as a betrayal to his wife Ayuko who works hard to make him delicious food.
!!Kent Pincarton
A 32-year-old trading firm worker from Episode 90, "Blue Eyed Japanese"
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* WantingIsBetterThanHaving: Yorimichi learns too late that his obsession with department store meals lay in the thrill of snacking in secret. When Moguro separates the two, Yorimichi winds up picking up unhealthy eating habits now that the premium food floor goods have lost their luster.
* YourCheatingHeart: A metaphorical example as Yorimichi eating department store meals is framed as a betrayal to his wife Ayuko who works hard to make him delicious food.
!!Kent Pincarton
A 32-year-old trading firm worker from Episode 90, "Blue Eyed Japanese"
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* {{Defictionalization}}: An actual manga with the title (and nothing else) "Last Utopia" did wind up being made in 2015 by Soto, who would go on to pen the manga adaptation of ''Literature/InAnotherWorldWithMySmartphone''.
* FreudianExcuse: Admits that he wanted to be a mangaka himself but lacked the talent for it. So he lives vicariously through the comics he reads and collects.
* {{Otaku}}: Of rare manga. His name also roughly translates to "middle-aged otaku".
* SecretTestOfCharacter: Subjected to one of the most famous ones in the series where he lies to Moguro about the value of the manga he asked him to appraise. The salesman reveals that he always knew what it was worth and would've let Takuji keep the book if he had told the truth. Instead, he punishes him by having his wife pulp his collection into something she sees as more practical: toilet paper.
* ShoutOut: The manga this episode centers around is a supposedly rare graphic novel called "Last Utopia", a clear {{Expy}} of ''Utopia: The Last World War'' another creation of ''The Laughing Salesman'''s authors Fujiko Fujio (Fujimoto Hiroshi and Motoo Abiko).
* TakeThatUs: Moguro and Chuunen both scoff at Ashizuka Mushio, the supposed writer of "Last Utopia", considering the name to in fact be a pseudonym by some rookie hoping to crib on Osamu Tezuka's style.
!!Ishii Hirowaka
A 38-year-old salaryman from Episode 80, "The Pinkie Ring"
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* FreudianExcuse: Admits that he wanted to be a mangaka himself but lacked the talent for it. So he lives vicariously through the comics he reads and collects.
* {{Otaku}}: Of rare manga. His name also roughly translates to "middle-aged otaku".
* SecretTestOfCharacter: Subjected to one of the most famous ones in the series where he lies to Moguro about the value of the manga he asked him to appraise. The salesman reveals that he always knew what it was worth and would've let Takuji keep the book if he had told the truth. Instead, he punishes him by having his wife pulp his collection into something she sees as more practical: toilet paper.
* ShoutOut: The manga this episode centers around is a supposedly rare graphic novel called "Last Utopia", a clear {{Expy}} of ''Utopia: The Last World War'' another creation of ''The Laughing Salesman'''s authors Fujiko Fujio (Fujimoto Hiroshi and Motoo Abiko).
* TakeThatUs: Moguro and Chuunen both scoff at Ashizuka Mushio, the supposed writer of "Last Utopia", considering the name to in fact be a pseudonym by some rookie hoping to crib on Osamu Tezuka's style.
!!Ishii Hirowaka
A 38-year-old salaryman from Episode 80, "The Pinkie Ring"
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* AcquiredSituationalNarcissism: A common malady that afflicts many of Moguro's clients, causing them to take their new boons for granted and the conditions associated with them.
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: There are a number of clues pertaining to Katte's [[spoiler:true identity]]. Mostly in Moguro's initial incredulity at his claims, admitting that he bears ''a bit'' of a resemblance to Tsukiboshi Hanpeita ([[spoiler:even making him younger in his mind doesn't make him match]]), the impostor looks more like Hanpeita than he does, and he never expresses any particular reason why he would bother [[spoiler:changing his name.]]
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* BlueAndOrangeMorality: [[AlternativeCharacterInterpretation Assuming Moguro isn't just plain evil]], [[AffablyEvil albeit a very friendly form]], he is most certainly operating by a different set of standards than most people.
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* BlueAndOrangeMorality: [[AlternativeCharacterInterpretation [[invoked]][[AlternativeCharacterInterpretation Assuming Moguro isn't just plain evil]], [[AffablyEvil albeit a very friendly form]], he is most certainly operating by a different set of standards than most people.
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* KickTheSonOfABitch: Arguably, some of Moguro's victims were just getting what was coming to them eventually.
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* KickTheSonOfABitch: Arguably, some of his victims were just getting what was coming to them eventually.
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* PayEvilUntoEvil: At the end of Episode 33 of the original, Moguro says "Do unto others as they do unto you", which was referring to his client's ironic punishment for disobeying the rule in exchange for his help.
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* PayEvilUntoEvil: At the end of Episode 33 of the original, Moguro says "Do unto others as they do unto you", which was referring to his client's ironic punishment for disobeying the rule in exchange for his help. Arguably, some of his victims just get what was coming to them eventually.
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* ColdTurkey: His original plan, after seeing the recordings Moguro's made of him. Moguro points out that doing so without another way to express his negative feelings wouldn't work out.
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* ColdTurkey: GoingColdTurkey: His original plan, after seeing the recordings Moguro's made of him. Moguro points out that doing so without another way to express his negative feelings wouldn't work out.
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* ADateWithRosiePalms: After Moguro needles him about not being able to get a date, he rents an adult video specifically geared toward single gentlemen.
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* MasturbationMeansSexualFrustration: After Moguro needles him about not being able to get a date, he rents an adult video specifically geared toward single gentlemen.
