The most obvi­ous ques­tion to ask about Work­ing!! is where it sits with regards its con­tem­por­ar­ies. The easi­est answer is: some­where between Azu­manga Daioh and Minami-ke. This puts it in an odd pos­i­tion where its inten­ded audi­ence is con­cerned for it’s not sur­real enough to garner a cult fol­low­ing and not accessible […]

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Organised with care and attention into:

• Anime,
• azumanga daioh,
• comedy,
• humour,
• inami,
• kyoko,
• maya,
• minami-ke,
• popura,
• restaurant,
• review,
• sato,
• soma,
• takanashi,
• taneshima,
• wagnaria,
• working!!,
• yachiyo,
• yamada

Join­ing the list of shows that con­sider a single exclam­a­tion point inad­equate to con­vey their deli­ri­ous enthu­si­asm, Work­ing!! is an unlikely com­edy set in a res­taur­ant staffed by an eclectic and off­beat selec­tion of char­ac­ters. Favour­ing wry humour over slap­stick, the first three epis­odes of the series have a wide stable of […]

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Organised with care and attention into:

• 3 episode taste test,
• androphillia,
• Anime,
• comedy,
• high school,
• inami,
• job,
• katanashi,
• manager,
• part-time,
• popura,
• restaurant,
• review,
• takanashi,
• working!!

Rap­idly run­ning out of things to do in Havana, we explored the Plaza Vieja before hit­ting the massive Cap­it­olio build­ing. In the even­ing we met up with the Brit­ish girls we had run into before and hit a bar before man­aging to catch an impromptu con­cert in a castle.

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Organised with care and attention into:

• balcony,
• capitolio,
• casa,
• castro,
• che guevara,
• concert,
• cuba,
• cuba2k7,
• exhibition,
• exploration,
• malecon,
• museum,
• party,
• photography,
• pizza,
• playing card,
• plaza,
• rave,
• restaurant,
• stage,
• taxi,
• vieja

The first full day in Cuba star­ted with a tour of a rum museum, fol­lowed by a wander around the city even­tu­ally end­ing in the Pala­cio — a massive and thor­oughly ran­dom museum. Run­ning into a couple a Brit­ish girls in the even­ing I adjourned early while the oth­ers hit the town.

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Organised with care and attention into:

• bay,
• bicycle,
• casa,
• cassilda,
• cathedral,
• cuba,
• cuba2k7,
• havana,
• italian,
• museum,
• palacio,
• plaza,
• restaurant,
• rum,
• tour

Mis­sion eleven: the Lee Hong Assas­sin­a­tion. The war with the Blue Lotus is now in full swing and Lee Hong has retreated into his heav­ily guarded res­taur­ant and attached man­sion. Guarded by a dili­gent sumo wrest­ler body-guard, Hong seems all but untouch­able until 47 pays a visit. Two cap­tives will be freed in exchange for Hong’s life and jade trinket.

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Organised with care and attention into:

• 47,
• blue lotus,
• contracts,
• hitman,
• jade figurine,
• laxative,
• lee hong,
• lee hong assassination,
• playthrough,
• red dragon,
• restaurant,
• runthrough,
• silent assassin,
• sumo,
• triad,
• zero bullet,
• zun