History Characters / ServantXService

* {{Expy}}: Of Popura Taneshima from ''Working!!'' Unusual first name? Check. GagBoobs? Check. Vertically challenged? Check. Innocent and easily fooled? Check. And so many more...

* ItsNotYouItsMe: The reason why she rejected Hasebe's offer to start dating. Initially Hasebe did not know this, and upon discovering it was quite happy: it means there's still a chance he can change her mind.

* ObliviousToLove: Played with frequently. Yutaka is attracted to Lucy, and has tried various methods to date her, but she doesn't believe his feelings are geniune. She sometimes even thinks he's just teasing her.

* OverlyLongName: Her given name is so long it is often abbreviated to just simply "Lucy". The full extent of her whole name is unclear, and the longest she can remember reads "'''Lucy Kimiko Akie Airi Shiori Rinne Yoshiho Chihoko Ayano Tomika Chitose Sanae Mikiko Ichika Yukino Rena Eri Ai Tamiko Chiaki Emilia Juria Shizue Erina Kazusa Yumeka Natsuki Rara Rieko Setsuri Chikako Azumi'''". This becomes a perennial [[BerserkButton sore point]] for her, even claiming to have joined civil service to find and get back at that sloppy bureaucrat who approved that name, daisy-chained by her parents because they can't decide over the options given by their friends.

Miyoshi is the third newcomer in the Mitsuba Ward Office. A generally shy person, her attempts to work properly have a tendency to be interrupted by external circumstances, mostly notably being caught up in the rambling monologues of Mrs. Tanaka, an old lady who frequents the office. Funnily, whenever she does gets an opportunity to speak out, her brutal honesty would have devastating effects on her listeners incongruent with her personality.

* InnocentlyInsensitive: Tends to speak her mind out without even considering the potential consequences. Particularly evident in Episode 6, where she unwittingly sent the normally carefree Yutaka into a CornerOfWoe by passively saying that he's beneath her, and a flashback reveals that she rejected a boy's confession by saying he should've looked himself in a mirror and think again. Eventually Chihaya had to warn her against rejecting Mrs. Tanaka's marriage offer so as not to cause ''heart attacks''.

* RunningGag: Getting caught in [[RamblingOldManMonologue Rambling Old Lady Monologues]]

* UrbanLegendLoveLife: Is apparently very popular amongst the townsfolk, and Yutaka claims he receives many marriage proposals whenever they went around the town providing community service.

* DudeWheresMyRespect: Probably because he appears as a stuffed toy, no staff gives him the respect appropriate for his position.

* CryCute: Wails like a child at Episode 2 twice after her own brother tells her she's being an annoyance at the workplace, and after Saya unwittingly talks her down by frankly saying that her brother will never truly understand her feelings with that kind of attitude she has.

* ParentalAbandonment: She and Ichimiya only have their mother, and even then she had to work for long hours, thus the reason she looks up to Ichimiya.

Kenzou's daughter as well as Touko's schoolmate and friend. Unlike her father, Kanon has no problems interacting with people normally. She does not seem to mind her father's appearance and would in fact actively provide maintenance to his stuffed bunny stand-in.

* [[RamblingOldManMonologue Rambling Old Lady Monologue]]: Tends to break out on this, usually regarding her daughter-in-law.

* UnknownRival: To Hasebe. {{Downplayed|trope}} as while Hasebe recognized that fact, he treated Jouji's challenges as ''annoyance'', so annoyed that Hasebe is ''allergic'' to Tanaka.

* GagBoobs: Not an episode passes without someone making a reference to her large breasts.

* SmarterThanYouLook: Her cute looks belie a smart, perceptive mind, having instantly deduced from Touko's statements that [[spoiler:her brother and Chihaya are dating]].

* CosplayOtakuGirl: Seen cosplaying as Gerbera Pink, the lead character of her favorite series, ''[[ShowWithinAShow Magical Flowers]]'', in Episode 2. In fact her job choice has to do with this trope: she's legally a part-timer, so she is not obligated to work every day, though being paid on a daily basis provides her an incentive to go to office regularly.

* CryCute: Wails like a child at Episode 2 twice after her own brother and then Saya told her she's being an annoyance at the workplace.

* DCupDistress: Zig-zagged -- while she's not bothered by it, at one point she's relieved when Chihaya guessed her chest puppies' size to be ''merely'' F-Cup (in the Japan systems; its American equivalent is E-Cup), and later, while in Hasebe's apartment in Episode 5, she picked up a copy of ''VideoGame/{{Senran Kagu|ra}}[[BlandNameProduct ya]]'' from his video game collection and asked for his assurance that women with [[WorldOfBuxom breasts as huge as those of the characters in that game]] actually existed in RealLife.

* GagBoobs: Ridiculously large for Japanese standards, as Chihaya notes.

* OverlyLongName: Her given name is so long it is often abbreviated to just simply "Lucy". The full extent of her whole name is unclear, and one variant she can remember reads "'''Lucy Kimiko Akie Airi Shiori Rinne Yoshiho Chihoko Ayano Tomika Chitose Sanae Mikiko Ichika Yukino Rena Eri Ai Tamiko Chiaki Emilia Juria Shizue Erina Kazusa Yumeka Natsuki Rara Rieko Setsuri Chikako Azumi'''". This becomes a perennial [[BerserkButton sore point]] for her, even claiming to have joined civil service in the first place to find and get back at that sloppy bureaucrat who approved that name (actually daisy-chained by her parents due to indecision over the options given by their friends).

* BrilliantButLazy: He is actually really intelligent though he prefers to slack.
** ItRunsInTheFamily: His sister describes him as the ''normal'' one.

* InnocentlyInsensitive: Tends to speak her mind out without even considering the potential consequences. Particularly evident in episode 6:
** Putting the carefree, happy-go-lucky Hasebe into a CornerOfWoe by saying, by passing, he's beneath her.
** Rejecting a boy by saying he should have looked himself in a mirror and think again.
** Eventually Chihaya warned Miyoshi to be careful about rejecting Ms Tanaka's marriage offer so as not to cause ''heart attacks''.

* CosplayOtakuGirl: Often takes leaves to spend time cosplaying characters from her favourite series ''[[ShowWithinAShow Magical Flowers]]''. In fact her job choice has to do with this trope; she's legally a temp so she is not compelled to work every day like permanent staff-- temporary staff are paid by the day.

* NiceGuy: The reason why [[spoiler:Chihaya]] likes him and ''dislikes'' him.

* SelfDeprecation: Has a very poor opinion on his abilities, and by Episode 3 he actually views Lucy and Yutaka -- both newcomers, even -- as superior to himself.

* CryCute

Hasebe's older sister and herself a civil servant (though at a different office). While she genuinely cares for her younger brother, she also enjoys teasing him such that he appears much more serious as opposed to his carefree persona in the ward office whenever he interacts with her.

* BrilliantButLazy: As she said, ItRunsInTheFamily.

* AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents: Downplayed; she doesn't mind her father's avatar too much. She won't however acknowledge him around her friends.

An elderly woman who frequents the Mitsuba Ward Office.

Mrs. Tanaka's 22-year-old grandson, banker, and still single. Jouji turns out to be a childhood friend(?) of Hasebe, who actually fears him due to his unrelenting persistence in competing with him since young, despite him losing to Hasebe all the time.

* {{Bookworm}}: Episode 6 put that into full view. Her mother warned her about neglecting daily life in favor of books, and a later conversation with Saya revealed that she pursued a 2-year college term so she can immediately find work and earn money to ''buy more books''.

* DCupDistress: Zig-zagged -- while she's not bothered by it, at one point she's relieved when Chihaya guessed her chest puppies' size to be ''merely'' F-Cup (in the Japan systems; its American equivalent is E-Cup), and later, while in Yutaka's apartment in Episode 5, she picked up a copy of ''VideoGame/{{Senran Kagu|ra}}[[BlandNameProduct ya]]'' from his video game collection and asked for his assurance that women with [[WorldOfBuxom breasts as huge as those of the characters in that game]] actually existed in RealLife.

* IdiotHair: She was actually born with one. Yutaka loves grabbing it.

Yutaka is one of the three newcomers to the Mitsuba Ward Office. Unlike Lucy, however, he is determined to slack as much as possible, although he is perfectly capable of doing his job as competently as needed. He also enjoys flirting with ladies in and out of his workplace. As a result, he has a rather contentious relationship with his colleagues, though it is mostly played for laughs.

* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: To Jouji, which fuels [[UnknownRival his one-sided rivalry with the guy]].

* ChildhoodFriends: With Jouji.

** For most of Episode 1 he was shown as a slacking, womanizing self-claimed [[TheAce ace]]. At the end of the episode, he fended off two troublesome customers for his workmates -- Lucy from a guy trying to force through paperwork without a personal seal[[note]]Tantamount to forcing it without a signature in the Western world[[/note]], and Saya from a nagging woman by tricking her into saying what she ''actually'' came for.

-->'''Yutaka''': I have a question for you.\\
'''Taishi''': What is it?\\
'''Yutaka''': I excelled in everything since I was a child, and there isn't anything I'm not good at. What do you suggest I do?\\
'''Taishi''': How about some common courtesy for your elders?\\
'''Yutaka''': Oh, ''that'' I'm not good at!

Saya is the third newcomer in the Mitsuba Ward Office. A generally shy person, her attempts to work properly have a tendency to be interrupted by external circumstances, mostly notably being caught up in the rambling monologues of Mrs. Tanaka, an old lady who frequents the office. Funnily, whenever she does gets an opportunity to speak out, her brutal honesty would have devastating effects on her listeners incongruent with her personality.

** Putting the carefree, happy-go-lucky Yutaka into a CornerOfWoe by saying, by passing, he's beneath her.

** Eventually Chihaya warned Saya to be careful about rejecting Ms Tanaka's marriage offer so as not to cause ''heart attacks''.

* ShrinkingViolet: Saya gets flustered rather easily, despite being the oldest of the three newcomers. It seems to make her a favorite among the elderly though.

Megumi is a part-time employee at the Mitsuba Ward Office who, despite her competence at that job, refuses to go full-time, preferring instead to take advantage of her status to take frequent leaves and indulge in her cosplaying hobby.

* [[spoiler:OfficialCouple: Is dating Taishi.]]

The section manager of the Welfare Division, Kenzou is the direct superior of the protagonists in the series. Due to his self-proclaimed extreme shyness, he only appears in the form of a remote-controlled stuffed bunny. Although he makes the point of learning about his subordinates and is concerned with their wellbeing, he cannot understand why they do not seem to offer him proper respect.

Taishi's younger sister and a high school student who's extremely well-versed in the rules and regulations of her brother's workplace, which enables her to strike terror even amongst its most seasoned veteran with her nagging -- all because she wants to stay around with her brother despite her overt persistence to the contrary.

* AnnoyingYoungerSibling: How Taishi views her.
* BigBrotherWorship: Frequents the offices because she wants to spend time with Taishi, although he's rather clueless about it (it also doesn't help that she's very {{tsundere}} about it).

* ParentalAbandonment: She and Taishi only have their mother, and even then she had to work for long hours, thus the reason she looks up to Taishi.

Yutaka's older sister and herself a civil servant (though at a different office). While she genuinely cares for her younger brother, she also enjoys teasing him such that he appears much more serious as opposed to his carefree persona in the ward office whenever he interacts with her.

* TheGadfly: She doesn't only deliberately irritate Lucy (into thinking Yutaka is indeed female), but also Yutaka as well.
* ShipperOnDeck: Supports Lucy/Yutaka, to the point that she sets up a gambit to make her brother's one-sided crush on Lucy a mutual one.
* StrongFamilyResemblance: Looks exactly the same as Yutaka.

Mrs. Tanaka's 22-year-old grandson, banker, and still single. Jouji turns out to be a childhood friend(?) of Yutaka, who actually fears him due to his unrelenting persistence in competing with him since young, despite him losing to Yutaka all the time.

* ChildhoodFriends: With Yutaka.
* {{Determinator}}: Determined to win over Yutaka over ''something'', despite having failed in that for all their school years.
* HardWorkHardlyWorks: Despite his hard work he ''never'' won over BrilliantButLazy Yutaka.
* HypocriticalHeartwarming: Hates it whenever anybody complains about how Yutaka is not serious in his work.
* UnknownRival: To Yutaka. {{Downplayed|trope}} as while Yutaka recognized that fact, he treated Jouji's challenges as ''annoyance'', so annoyed that Yutaka is ''allegic'' to Jouji.

* InnocentlyInsensitive: Tends to speak her mind out without even considering the potential consequences.

* UnknownRival: To Yutaka.

* HardWorkHardlyWorks: Despite his hard work he ''never'' won over BrilliantButLazy Hasebe.

Mrs. Tanaka's 22-year-old grandson, banker, and still single. He turns out to be a childhood friend(?) of Yutaka, who actually fears him due to his unrelenting persistence in competing with him since young, despite him losing to Yutaka all the time.

* HardWorkHardlyWorks: Despite his hard work he ''never'' won over BrillantButLazy Hasebe.

Another senior member of the ward office, Ichimiya is assigned to guide the three newcomers at the beginning, and subsequently becomes their go-to person for any work-related issues even though he is, by his own admission, not the best person for his job. Nevertheless, he is generally well-respected by his peers.

* FriendVersusLover: He mentions that his girlfriends usually break up with him right before Christmas. Chihaya suggests that this might be because he celebrates Touko's birthday [[ChristmasInJapan rather than spending time with his girlfriend on Christmas Eve.]]

Mrs. Tanaka's 22-year-old grandson, banker, and still single.

* IWantGrandkids: The reason she frequents the offices in the first place is to find a wife for her grandson Jouji.

* [[RamblingOldManMonologue Rambling Old Lady Monologue]]: Tends to break out on this.

-->'''Chihaya:''' She's perfect for Hydrangea...Because hydrangea...its flower meaning is brutal.

** For most of Episode 1 he was shown as a slacking, womanizing self-claimed [[TheAce ace]]. At the end of the episode, he succeeded in fending off two troublesome customers for his workmates -- Lucy from a guy trying to force through paperwork without a personal seal[[note]]Tantamount to forcing it without a signature in the Western world[[/note]], and Saya from Mrs. Tanaka, by tricking her into saying what she ''actually'' came for.

* IWantGrandkids: The reason she frequents the offices in the first place.

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!!'''Lucy (abbrv.) Yamagami'''

!!'''Yutaka Hasebe'''

!!'''Saya Miyoshi'''

!!'''Megumi Chihaya'''

!!'''Taishi Ichimiya'''

!!'''Kenzou Momoi'''

!!'''Touko Ichimiya'''

A high school student and younger sister of Taishi, Touko is extremely well-versed with the rules and regulations of the ward office which enables her to strike terror even amongst the most seasoned civil servant in the ward office with her persistent questionings. In actuality, she is only interested in the ward office because her brother works there and that she is in deep denial about liking her brother and would like to just spend more time with him.

* BigBrotherWorship: The main reason why she's always hanging around at the ward office is because she wants to spend more time with her brother, Taishi, although he's rather clueless about it.

* ParentalAbandonment: The reason behind her BigBrotherWorship; Taishi is basically the person that takes care of her.
* {{Tsundere}}: Type A. The ward office employees call her [[JapaneseHonorifics Touko-sama]].
* UsedToBeASweetKid: Averted, she never changed.

!!'''Kaoru Hasebe'''

The older sister of Yutaka, Kaoru is also a civil servant just like the rest of her family, although she seems to be working at another location. While she cares about Yutaka, she also enjoys teasing him immensely, to the extent that he appears much more serious as opposed to his carefree persona in the ward office whenever he interacts with her.

* BrilliantButLazy: as she said, ItRunsInTheFamily.
* BrotherSisterIncest / ThreeWaySex: Though she was most likely joking, she mentions she wouldn't mind having a threesome with him and Yamagami.
* {{Expy}} / DistaffCounterpart: Is pretty much [[Manga/{{Working}} Souma]]'s clone.
* TheGadfly: She doesn't only deliberately irritates Yamagami (into thinking Yutaka is indeed female), but also Yutaka as well.

!!'''Kanon Momoi'''

The daughter of the section manager, Kanon is also a fellow schoolmate and friend of Touko. Unlike her father, Kanon has no problems interacting with people normally. She does not seem to mind her father's appearance and would in fact actively provide maintenance to his stuffed bunny stand-in.

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Saya is the third newcomers in the Mitsuba Ward Office. A generally shy person, her attempts to work properly have a tendency to be interrupted by external circumstances, mostly notably being caught up in the rambling monologues of Mrs. Tanaka, an old lady who frequents the office. Funnily, whenever she does gets an opportunity to speak out, her brutal honesty would have devastating effects on her listeners incongruent with her personality.

* {{Ronin}}: Spent a year for the modern definition of it, which makes her the oldest of the newcomers--she is 24 when the story begins.

* ShrinkingViolet: Miyoshi gets flustered rather easily, despite being the oldest of the three newcomers. It seems to make her a favorite among the elderly though.

One of the members of the ward office, Chihaya is actually a temporary employee and despite her competence she refused to become a regular civil servant, preferring instead to take advantage of her temporary status to take frequent leaves and indulge in her cosplaying hobby.

* ParentalAbandonment: He and Tōko are from a single-parent family, and their mother works for long hours. Taishi is basically the person that takes care of Tōko.
* PromotionToParent: To Tōko.
* SelfDeprecation: Has a very poor opinion on his abilities, and by episode 3 he actually views Yamagami and Hasebe as superior to himself.
* UrbanLegendLoveLife: Is apparently very popular amongst the townsfolk, and Hasebe claims that Ichimiya receives many marriage proposals whenever they went around the town providing community service.

A section manager in the ward office, Momoi is the direct superior of the protagonists in the series. Due to his self-proclaimed extreme shyness however, he only appears in the form of a remote-controlled stuffed bunny. Although he makes the point of learning about his subordinates and is concerned with their well-being, he cannot understand why they do not seem to offer him proper respect.

* DudeWheresMyRespect: Probably because he appears as a stuffed toy, no staff give him the respect appropriate for his position.

One of the protagonists of the series, Yamagami starts of as a newcomer to the ward office. Being one of the youngest civil servant in her office, Yamagami comes off as a diligent and fast-learning worker, albeit somewhat naive socially. Her main reason for becoming a civil servant however is to seek out the sloppy bureaucrat responsible for approving her ridiculously long name, which is her perennial sore point.

* BerserkButton: Mention, inquire about or address her by her first name, and you're likely to get a [[ThrowTheBookAtThem documents-laden folder flung straight at your face]]. Later on she mellows out with plain "Lucy," but stating that is an abbreviation is ''still'' a berserk button.
* [[DCupDistress Big Boobs Distress]]: Zig-zagged.
** While she's not really bothered it, she's actually relieved that Chihaya guessed her chest puppies' size to be ''[[UpToEleven merely]]'' F-Cup[[note]]In Continental-Japan systems. This is equivalent to the Anglo-American E-cup[[/note]]!
** While in Yutaka's apartment in episode 5, she picked up a copy of ''VideoGame/{{Senran Kagu|ra}}[[BlandNameProduct ya]]'' from his collection and asked for his assurance that women with [[WorldOfBuxom breast size that's common in that game]] actually existed in RealLife.
* {{Bookworm}}: Episode 6 put that into full view. Her mother warned her about neglecting daily life in favour of books, and a latter chat with Miyoshi revealed she pursued a 2-year college (despite 4-year college places are in oversupply in Japan) so that she can get to work early--to earn money to ''buy books''.
* ChasteHero: A RareFemaleExample, in which she's not at all tomboyish, but is naive enough to understand and sexual innuendo.
* CuteBookworm [=/=] HotLibrarian: Zigzags between these two tropes. She's too old and was hardly a ShrinkingViolet, but she is very naive, especially on sexual matters.

* GagBoobs

* OverlyLongName: Her first name is so long it is often abbreviated to just simply Lucy.[[note]]The full extent of her name is unclear and one variant has it as "Lucy Kimiko Akie Airi Shiori Rinne Yoshiho Chihoko Ayano Tomika Chitose Sanae Mikiko Ichika Yukino Rena Eri Ai Tamiko Chiaki Emilia Juria Shizue Erina Kazusa Yumeka Natsuki Rara Rieko Setsuri Chikako Azumi"[[/note]] This becomes a perennial [[BerserkButton sore point]] for her and she even claimed that she became a civil servant simply because she wished to exact revenge on the sloppy bureaucrat that approved her name! (Her parents were indecisive about the name options their friends gave them, so they daisy-chained them as her first name. The bureaucrat in question approved it without question.)

One of the protagonists of the series, Hasebe is another newcomer to the ward office like Yamagami. Unlike Yamagami however, he is determined to slack as much as possible although he is perfectly capable of doing his job well. He also enjoys flirting with the ladies in and out of his workplace. As a result, he has a rather contentious relationship with his colleagues, though it is mostly played for laughs.

** For most of episode 1 he was shown as a slacking, womanizing self-claimed [[TheAce ace]]. At the end of the episode, he succeeded in fending off one troublesome customer each for Yamagami and Saya--in the former case, a guy trying to force through paperwork without a personal seal[[note]]Tantamount to forcing it without the applicant's signature in the West.[[/note]], and for the latter, freeing Saya from a nagging customer by tricking the customer into saying what she ''actually'' came for.
** While in episode 2 he already said he plays a bit more VideoGames than average, in episode 5 we really get to know the extent--he has several bookshelves of video game titles lined up in his apartment, plus figurines of characters. This may be enough to call him a small-time {{otaku}}.
* InsufferableGenius: {{Downplayed|trope}} compared to most examples (as he is a bit less "genius"), but just consider this exchange in episode 1:
-->'''Yutaka''': I have a question for you.
-->'''Taishi''': What is it?
-->'''Yutaka''': I excelled in everything since I was a child, and there isn't anything I'm not good at. What do you suggest I do?
-->'''Taishi''': How about some common courtesy for your elders?
-->'''Yutaka''': Oh, ''that'' I'm not good at!
* {{Otaku}}: Subverted. He's addicted to video games and plays a lot of {{H-games}} as well. However he does not appear to be in any way obsessive (compare: Chihaya), nor does he have the stereotype of having NoSocialSkills.

* TheSlacker: So much so that the first questions he asked Ichimiya were details about break time and the whereabouts of places he could slack in.

* {{Ventriloquism}}: He uses this to entertain an irritated little girl in episode three.

One of the protagonists of the series, Miyoshi is the third of the trio of newcomers in the ward office. A generally shy person, Miyoshi's attempts to work properly have a tendency to be interrupted by external circumstances, mostly notably being caught up in the rambling monologues of Mrs. Tanaka, a local old lady who frequents the ward office. Funnily, whenever she does gets an opportunity to speak out, her brutal honesty would have devastating effects on her listeners incongruent with her personality.

* ShrinkingViolet: Miyoshi gets flustered rather easily, despite being the oldest of the three newcomers. It seems to make her a favourite among the elderly though.

The daughter of the section manager, Kanon is also a fellow schoolmate and friend of Touko. Unlike her father, Kanon has no problems interacting with people normally. She does not seem to mind her father's appearance and would in fact actively provide maintenance to his stuffed bunny.

* AmazinglyEmbarassingParents: Downplayed, she doesn't mind her father's avatar too much. She won't however acknowledge him around her friends.