History Manga / AfricaSalaryman

** In one scene, Lion was trying to tell a joke about certain car models - he then posed sideways and roared, claiming to be a Puegeot logo.

** Lizard pulls out [[Anime/YuGiOh a Duel Monsters deck]] in the same scene.

* AfraidOfBlood: Lion claims to be this, but since he's not fazed by violent films, videogames or even the sight of Lizard's cut-off, twitching blood-spurting tail, which he claims is because he considers it to be Lizard's "default state", he's probably more accurately AfraidOfNeedles.

''Africa Salaryman'' (''Africa no Salaryman''; sometimes unofficially translated as ''African Office Worker'') is a slapstick workplace comedy set in the African Savannah of an alternate world of anthropomorphic animals. Each episode mainly revolves around the three main characters: Lion, the kindly lion; Lizard, the somewhat jaded and cynical lizard; and Toucan, a selfish womanizing jerk of a toucan.

* FurryConfusion: Most characters look like furries but a small number are talking animals. In one episode, when Toucan goes to a mixer he finds out at the end that the pig girl sitting across from him was actually a non-anthropomorphic animal the whole time and was really the pet of the girl who didn't show up.
* InsuranceFraud: When Honeyguide is desperate for money he goes to a shady loan company but they refuse to give him the money and instead instruct him to take out a life insurance policy on his hated boss and then kill him.

* OnlySaneMan: In the anime OP it's shown that Lizard is one of the only competent employees of the company, writing down notes while moving while Toucan, in contrast, falls over and drops all the papers he's carrying. He's also shown to have a relatively stable home life, since he talks about his wife several times. That said he's also NotSoAboveItAll and is just as likely to engage in the wackiness going on as the other two.

** The first episode's opening as well as the anime's opening theme show a place that looks suspiciously like [[Franchise/TheLionKing Pride Rock]].

** Lizard, in one episode, pulled out [[Anime/YuGiOh a Duel Monsters deck.]]

** The first episode's opening as well as the anime's opening theme show a place that looks suspiciously like [[WesternAnimation/TheLionKing Pride Rock]].

* TheyKilledKennyAgain: Honey Badger dies in several episodes as a result of his fearlessness and need to prove his strength only to later recover.

* CarnivoreConfusion: Smaller animals often get scared that lion will eat them.

* SeldomSeenSpecies: You have probably never heard of the honeyguide before.

OnlySaneMan: In the anime OP it's shown that Lizard is one of the only competent employees of the company, writing down notes while moving while Toucan, in contrast, falls over and drops all the papers he's carrying. He's also shown to have a relatively stable home life, since he talks about his wife several times. That said he's also NotSoAboveItAll and is just as likely to engage in the wackiness going on as the other two.

** Toucan. He's lazy, he's a womanizer, and he's greedy.

* DudeNotFunny: In the last episode, Toucan gets a phone call and then says that the client changed their mind and does not want to work with their company after all, but then says he was just kidding. Nobody finds this funny and he gets beat up by lizard for it.

* KillerRabbit: Lethal Hamster is a small hamster who is usually carrying around a pair of kitchen knives as big as he is. He never actually kills anybody in the show (although it was implied that he murdered a toucan offscreen in one episode) and mostly is their to be cute.
* SeldomSeenSpecies: You have probably never heard of the Honeyguide before.

* TheyKilledKennyAgain: Honey Badger dies in several episodes as a result of his fearlessness and need to prove his strength only later recover.

** Honey Badger frequently bullies the employee working under him.
** Honeyguide, the aforementioned employee, thinking that if he can't be happy then no one should be happy, frequently pulls mean pranks on his fellow office workers.

* JerkAss: Toucan. He's lazy, he's a womanizer, and he's greedy.

*** Honeyguide, the aforementioned employee, thinking that if he can't be happy then no one should be happy, frequently pulls mean pranks on his fellow office workers.