FINISHED
Wagnaria!!
13 Episodes
24 min each
SPRING 2010
Synopsis
Set in a family restaurant in Hokkaido, the northern prefecture of Japan, 16-year-old high school student Souta Takanashi works part-time along with his strange co-workers: Popura Taneshima, a high school girl who's a year older than Souta, yet easily mistaken for an elementary/middle schooler, and Kyoko Shirafuji, the 28-year-old store manager who doesn't bother to do any work at all.
Comedy
Slice of Life
Format
Unknown
Episodes
13
Per Episode
24 min
Source
Unknown
Episodes
13 / 13 Episodes
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Episode 1
Welcome to Wagnaria: Takanashi Works.
A high school boy that loves small, cute things starts working at the family restaurant, Wagnaria, a nest of abnormal fruitcakes. Just as he is acclimating to his new environment, he meets a young woman who will alter his fate for good.
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Episode 2
Inami, Androphobia. That's Because I'm Scared...
Souta meets Mahiru, who suffers from Androphobia, the fear of men. The rest of the staff sets them up to share shifts in a suicidal, for Souta at least, attempt to cure Mahiru.
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Episode 3
Yachiyo, Kyouko, Satou... And the Returning Otoo-san
Yachiyo, the samurai sword-carrying waitress, reveals that she started carrying it to ward off bullies back in elementary school. At this time she encounters Kyoko who agrees to act as a bodyguard in exchange for Yachiyo's lunch. Otou Hyougo, the true restaurant manager, returns to the store after another unsuccessful search for his lost wife; his wife, who has the world's worst sense of direction, got lost years ago while out shopping.
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Episode 4
Souma, a Fresh... Too Fresh, Youth
Takanashi is visited at work by one his 4 sisters. Hiroomi the assistant cook attempts to blackmail the staff of Wagnaria so that he won't have to work. At the same time it becomes apparent that Satou the head cook has a thing for Yachiyo the head waitress.
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Episode 5
On a Certain Sick Day, It's a Different Wagnaria
Takanashi takes the day off work to take care of his sick sister. The staff attempts to function without them and deal with Mahiru's fear of men with no male server to deal with the male customers.
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Episode 6
Souta's Melancholy, The Women of the Takanashi Family
Takanashi spends some quality time with his four quirky sisters; the boss, the drunk, the writer and the manipulative. Each in their own way is reliant on Takanashi to keep their family in order. White Day has arrived and Takanashi gifts Mahiru a bag of hair pins. This is the first White Day gift she has ever received. Later he runs into her on the street worried that she might attack some random male while walking around he escorts her home. On the way they run into his eldest sister Kazue. Mahiru get flustered and admits to "assaulting" Takanashi on a regular basis.
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Episode 7
Long Time, No See, Otoo, New Part Timer Is Yamada (!?)
Otoo returns to Wagnaria once again this time bringing with him a new waitress, Yamada Aoi. Aoi tells a "tragic tale of woe" to which Takanashi responds that she is a liar. Reluctantly he ends up training Aoi in how to be a waitress. As the day progress she tries to assign the various staff members into a fake family structure.
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Episode 8
First Time, Inami? Going Out!
The girls decided to take a trip to the hot springs which will be the first time for Mahiru. Takanashi concerned about the fate of the male guests at the hot springs goes as well. In the end the entire staff ends up going only to be so late that the hot spring is closed by the time they arrive.
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Episode 9
Enter Kotori-chan!!
The source of Mahiru's fear of men is revealed to be a plan concocted by her father. Mahiru's father finds out that Takanashi gave her a gift for White Day and visits the restaurant to meet him. Mahiru, afraid that he has come to make her quit working there, asks Takanashi to pretend to be a girl. Takanashi mans up and wears a skirt.
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Episode 10
The Suspicious Truth..., Nazuna Works.
Kyouko is gone for a week on company business and in her absence Yachiyo attempts to "serve" Jun, which results in his heart being crushed even more. Later Nazuna sees Takanashi and Mahiru walking home together and bribes Kyouko to let her work at the restaurant for the day to spy on Mahiru. Mahiru eventually admits that she likes Takanashi, though Nazuna misinterprets this thinking that she was confirming that Takanashi was a masochist.
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Episode 11
The Two of Them Back Then, Yachiyo and Satou. And, Welcome To The Takanashi Family
Yamada tells a scary ghost story at the end of work and Mahiru is to scared to go home where she would be by herself. Takanashi invites her over to spend the night at his house, Yamada follows them there, claiming to be too scared even though she was the one who told the story in the first place.
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Episode 12
Why!? The Night Before the Decisive Battle. Taneshima's Returned Favour
Pupura finds out about Takanashis tall sisters and is upset with him for keeping these ideal women from her. As punishment she sets him up to go on a date with Mahiru. An experiment to see how much more man acclimated Mahiru has become concludes that if she can't punch Takanashi she'll kick him in the nuts.
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Episode 13
Final Battle: Namely the Date, How Things Turned Out for Takanashi and Inami...
Takanashi and Mahiru go on their "date". The staff of the restaurant fearing for Takanashi safety concoct an elaborate plan to have him cross dress so that Mahiru would think of him as a girl and not hit him. As the date comes to a close Takanashi comes to realize his true feelings for Mahiru and Mahiru receives the compliment of her life.
Characters
Voice Actors
Kana Asumi (japanese)
Popura Taneshima
Main
Voice Actors
Jun Fukuyama (japanese)
Souta Takanashi
Main
Voice Actors
Saki Fujita (japanese)
Mahiru Inami
Main
Voice Actors
Kumiko Watanabe (japanese)
Kyouko Shirafuji
Main
Voice Actors
Daisuke Ono (japanese)
Jun Satou
Main
Voice Actors
Hiroshi Kamiya (japanese)
Hiroomi Souma
Main
Staff
Karino Takatsu
Original Creator
Yoshimasa Hiraike
Director
Yoshimasa Hiraike
Series Composition
Shingo Adachi
Character Design
Kenichi Tajiri
Art Director
Youta Tsuruoka
Sound Director
Comments
Information
Aired
Apr 03, 2010
to Jun 26, 2010
Season
SPRING 2010
Source
Unknown
Format
Unknown
Studios
A-1 Pictures
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