History Characters / TheLaughingSalesman

* ItsPersonal: Moguro seems to take particular issue with Sabo's extremely shoddy performance as a fellow salesman. That said, Sabo does get more or less what he wanted (to spend his time sleeping and letting other people take care of his needs) vs. Moguro's usual soul-crushing ironic fate. Moguro even donates the money he made selling Sabo's contracts to pay for his care.

* CareerEndingInjury: In trying to become a hero by stopping a purse snatcher he gets stabbed in the arm, and he'll never able to draw again.
* IJustWantToBeSpecial: He dreams of being a hero.

* LoveAtFirstSight: Falls in love with a woman he happens to see as he's using the binoculars on an observation deck.

* WantingIsBetterThanHaving: [[spoiler:Once he actually gets to meet the object of his affections, it turns out she's got a jealous Yakuza don for a boyfriend. As Moguro points out, he'd've been better off contenting himself with just being able to see her]].

* BecomingTheMask: [[spoiler:He apparently decides to do this after encountering his alter ego's family, though Moguro implies that he's going to get just as sick of ''this'' life and may go back to his old one eventually]].

* ClarkKenting: His disguise consists of a wig and hat, sunglasses, a mole on his face and a change of clothing. He also behaves differently, which helps. What helps more is that no one he encounters

* FreakOut: [[One day, everything hits him at once and he finally snaps, yells at his wife over the phone and at his co-workers, and while drinking after work loses it at an annoyingly clingy co-worker who made a joke about how he could take care of her...and then while he's wandering the streets drunk as a skunk and rambling about he wants to rely on someone for a change Moguro's card "coincidentally" shows up at his feet]].

* RayOfHopeEnding: [[spoiler:Moguro speculates at the end that seeing her husband in the state outlined in {{Manchild}} above might show Mrs. Tanomo that her husband needs her to pay attention to his need for someone to turn to...or she might end up holding a grudge and breaking the family apart]]. [[EvilLaugh ''Ho'' ho ho ho...]]

* {{Manchild}}: [[spoiler:After he snaps, Moguro brings him to a woman who holds him close while he suckles her breasts (Tanomo sees her in the form of a goddess) granting his wish of wanting be nurtured and supported, but also makes his wife shocked at what she sees]].

* NeverMyFault: [[spoiler:Even though he does have a point in that people shouldn't be relying on them for every little thing, it's also clear that he's never

* FreakOut: [[spoiler:He eventually has one]].

* {{Manchild}}: [[spoiler:After he snaps, Moguro brings him to a woman who holds him close while he suckles her breasts (Tanomo sees her in the form of a goddess) granting his wish of wanting be nurtured and supported, but also makes his wife shocked at what she sees.]]

* CannotSpitItOut: [[spoiler:He can't even tell his own wife that he's about to fall apart]].

* 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.

* TheWoobie: Tamakoshi is a sweet woman who had a very hard life, and an even harder [[spoiler:death.]]

* MeaningfulName: Her full names sounds like "she likes cleanliness".

* TerrifiedOfGerms: She really doesn’t like to touch anything with her bare hands and adheres very rigidly to her schedule. She doesn’t like germs to the point of never have kissed. Although after meeting a nice man, you can see getting better and overcome it to the point that she doesn’t care touching surfaces with her bare hands. [[spoiler: Of course, she rejecting the kiss of her new boyfriend, against Moguro advice, makes her fear turns up to eleven. Where she goes to work with a special containment suit as she claims she can’t even breathe the same air as her coworkers.]]

* ThePornomancer: Moguro's organizer is full of woman who are ready and willing as soon as they get the password--Memo takes advantage of this.
* ReallyGetsAround: He takes advantages of the information found within Moguro's organizer to sleep with women all over the city.
* RunningGag: Moguro switching places with a Takuni statue and confusing Matarou.
* StalkerWithACrush: Kind of a borderline case. He stored information about his future wife in his organizer when he was dating her. [[spoiler:Later this information disappears, along with the lady herself]].

* SmallNameBigEgo: A few karate lessons and an indirect compliment from the teacher leads the guy to take on a group of punks who'd troubled him earlier. What happens next doesn't really need spoilering.
* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: The karate classes that Moguro schedules for him actually boost his confidence and makes him feel better. Yet, just two classes of karate is not enough for him to defeat three guys, each twice his size.

!!Kariya Asako

* IJustWantToHaveFriends: Takes up golf in order to try and befriend his co-workers, who treat him badly because he doesn't know anything about the game.
* YouWereTryingTooHard: Moguro explains to him that a golf ball is harder to hit than a baseball ''because'' its stationary--since the player isn't focusing on a ball that's coming at him, the only thing keeping him from hitting the ball are his own thoughts about ''how'' to hit it.

* {{Gonk}}: [[spoiler: Moguro punishes her by repossessing her beauty treatments, turning her into a fat, ugly old woman.]]

* MyCountryTisOfTheeISting: Moguro gets Kent to assimilate by showcasing 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.

** 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.

* NonstandardCharacterDesign: Even within the cartoonish art style, he still stands out among other characters, with his thin red lips, large head, pale skin, stout body, and his never-changing facial expression. This, of course, makes him even more unsettling.

* WantingIsBetterThanHaving: [[spoiler:Once he actually gets to meet the object of his affections, it turns out she's got a jealous Yakuza don for a boyfriend. As Meguro points out, he'd've been better off contenting himself with just being able to see her]].

* ItsPersonal: Moguro seems to take particular issue with Sabo's extremely shoddy performance as a fellow salesman. That said, Sabo does get more or less what he really wanted (to spend his time sleeping and letting other people take care of his needs) vs. Moguro's usual soul-crushing ironic fate. Moguro even donates the money he made selling Sabo's contracts to pay for his care.

* MutualEnvy: Himaga is jealous of a man at the next building who can sleep on the job while he has to kill himself working. When Moguro invites them to the bar, the man, named Madobe Ichirou, reveals he is actually jealous of Himaga, since he would like to work hard like anyone else, but no work comes his way since he is nearing retirement age.
* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: [[spoiler:Moguro suggested that he and Madobe '''occasionally''' switch positions. When the much-older Madobe has to sub for Higama for an extended amount of time, the stress gives him a fatal stroke]].

** His boss name is Oniyama, which references the Oni, a japanese demon, making reference to his bad temper.
* MyBelovedSmother: His {{Education Mama}}'s also running every other aspect of his life and expects him to become a highly successful businessman--whether he likes it or not. [[spoiler:Once she finds out about Katsuta's knitting hobby and that Oniyama's been encouraging him and helping him learn, she deliberately shows up at the company and reveals Oniyama's avocation at work in order to put him in a bad situation, forcing him to resign]].

* RealMenWearPink: Oniyama, the boss and a really manly looking guy, takes knitting as a hobby.

* MeaningfulName: His names sounds like "remembering the past".

* 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. He's even allowed to come and go from the old house when he likes as shown in "Hot Spring Requiem".

* BenevolentBoss: In a scene, Kichide's boss is lecturing him on being late to work, yet he aparently knows about his obsession with commemorative stamps and says he doens't mind that he buys them, but that he should call the office if he is coming late.
* CruelTwistEnding: Moguro helped Kichide to get rid of his addiction and gave him something to appease his collection fever, and he even does better at his job...then is revealed his mother made a bad investment and she lost her late husband's life savings (around the same amount as the stamp's price) so now Kichide has to sell the stamp, even knowing the warning that Moguro gave him, when he finally managed to reach the collector that gave him an initial offer, he went through a construction site and a is hit by an excavator. And to really push it, Moguro takes the stamp and reveals it was fake all along, saying he will return him his collection so he can pay part of the debt.

->Voiced by: TBA

->Voiced by: TBA

* UmpteenthCustomer: After using Moguro's decision stick, Mayoi immediatly orders ramen without thinking. He is the 10,000th bowl served and wins free ramen for a year.

* FailOSuckyname: The characters that make up his name can be read as "left behind".

* 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.

* EvilVersusEvil: Miterou ''is not'' a customer or Moguro's and performs his fiendishness all on his own or through lightly manipulating others. Moguro even saves one of his targets from starving to death underground.

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[[folder: Clients from ''NEW'']]
!!Kenichi Nakajima
->Voiced by: Creator/TakuyaEguchi

A 29-year-old salaryman from Episode 1A, "Daydream".

* 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.

* ThrowTheDogABone: [[TheFarmerAndTheViper 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.

* 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.