History Manga / Working

** Curiously, [[LastEpisodeNewCharacter she gets a speaking part in the last episode]].

* GirlsLoveStuffedAnimals: At one point, [[spoiler:Satou]] buys Aoi a teddy bear. She names it "Daisy" and treasures it immensely.

* AbuseIsOkayWhenItIsFemaleOnMale: Averted. It is most certainly ''not'' okay that Inami keeps hitting every guy who gets within a few feet of her.
** [[BrokenAesop But it is still regularly]] PlayedForLaughs. Still treated more realistically than most examples of the trope, though.
** Souta takes it all relatively well, considering his sisters treated him fairly similarly when he was younger.

* {{Earworm}}: The OP.

**** It was brought back in the second season's openining.

* EyesAlwaysShut: Yachiyo, Hiroomi and Otoo.

** Subverted with Hiroomi.

** Aoi is dodgy about giving up her age in the anime (when Souta tells her he's 16, she responds that she's 16 as well). She appears to have a 16-year-old brother who refers to her as his younger sister, so might actually be even ''younger'' than that.

** [[spoiler:Yamada is in her twenties]]

** Aoi is dodgy about giving up her age in the anime (when Souta tells her he's 16, she responds that she's 16 as well) but in the manga she is [[spoiler:apparently revealed to be in her early 20s]].

* HotMom: Mahiru's mother is very pretty, with her fetching long ponytail and all.

* TheCameo: The cellphone lady and her co-worker are actually characters from ''CU no Oneesan'', one of Karino Takatsu's older web comics (found here: [[http://gahako.com/rakusere/cu1.html]]).

A second season was announced, but not before an April Fools' prank making it look like a spinoff show called ''WORKING!'', based on mangaka Kanori Takatsu's web version of the manga with a different cast, was getting animated and released on VHS.

* JapaneseDelinquents: Kyouko used to be one and, judging by the phone calls she makes, she still commands some.

** In Yachiyo's case, her eyes open once in Episode 7.

* EvolvingCredits: When Aoi Yamada joins the cast, the OP and ED are changed to include her.

* {{Expy}}: So we got a cool, smoking cook whose blond hair constantly covers his left eye. [[OnePiece Where did I see that before, hmmm....]]? Not mentions AllLoveIsUnrequited
** Not personality wise, but several characters look very similar to characters from other popular series--Souma looks quite like [[ToraDora Ryuuji]] and Yamada looks a bit like [[{{K-On}} Mio]], for example. This series started publication before either of those, however...
*** It ''did'' start after the anime from which [[LoveHina Kyouko]] takes her Expy-hood.

*** You are forgetting [[{{Durarara}}the brown-haired guy with glasses and a strange taste in women]]... And the three men have the same voice actors, too!
** To a lesser extent, Souta's oldest sister Kazue looks, sounds, and kind of acts like [[PantyAndStockingWithGarterbelt Kneesocks.]]

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[[caption-width:424:Clockwise from left: [[LesYay Yachiyo]], [[JapaneseDelinquents Kyouko]], [[YouGottaHaveBlueHair Hiroo]][[ManipulativeBastard mi]], [[AloofBigBrother Jun]], [[TeamDad Otoo-san]], [[CutenessProximity Souta]], [[SpellMyNameWithAnS Popura/Poplar]], [[DoesNotLikeMen Mahiru]] and [[TheKlutz Aoi]] (Not Pictured: [[LivingProp Maya]])]]

* KickTheSonOfABitch: her ''brutal'' assault on the [[ManipulativeBastard manipulative Souma]] feels less cruel.

* KickTheSonOfABitch: While YourMileageMayVary about Inami's constant pummeling of Souta, her ''brutal'' assault on the [[ManipulativeBastard manipulative Souma]] feels less cruel.

* {{Moe}}: Popura. Also can apply to an embarrassed Inami.

* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Poplar versus Popura. She's supposed to be named after [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poplar the tree]] for irony's sake, but her name is not written the way the word "poplar" is written in Japanese.

** Aoi is dodgy about giving up her age in the anime (when Souta tells her he's 16, she responds that she's 16 as well) but in the manga she is apparently revealed to be in her early 20s.

* IfYouKnowWhatIMean: Happily subverted. In episode 11, Kozue forces Inami into Satou's room. She then hears them saying things like "Are you sure? It's my first time doing this..." Yamada is curious as to what they might be doing, and Kozue tells her they're "doing what guys and girls do behind closed doors."
--> '''Yamada''': "Playing card games?"
** And wouldn't you know it, ''[[spoiler:[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin they were playing card games.]]]]''