Top 20 Fantastic Anime About Working and Jobs

Hanasaku Iroha

Running an inn is hard work, or so we guess from watching Hanasaku Iroha. While it occasionally trails off into the adorable main character’s love troubles, mostly the show is about her and her co-workers running an inn that is just bordering on failure. Cleaning, cooking, customer service – the whole spiel.

Tiger and Bunny

When you live in a world of super powers, having a career as a super hero is an acceptable vocation. Tiger and Bunny follows a pair of super heroes in one such world where they depend on popularity and sponsorship in order to survive. It is a unique idea and they pulled it off wonderfully.

Yakitate! Japan

There are a lot of cooking type anime series that can easily fit on this list, but we just picked this one. (Sorry. D: ) Yakitate! Japan follows a bread maker with warm hands perfect for making bread. It is about his journey to make the perfect bread in Japan and follows his quest for knowledge in order to do that.

Tamako Market

Work life anime ala Working and other series are often made great because it focuses on a group of different and often eccentric people all put together in a realistic circumstance. Tamako Market is like that, but with the dial turned up a touch. This series focuses on an entire market filled with weirdos and their various businesses. That premise alone combined with the beautiful clean and fluid animation make this series a thrill.

Salaryman Kintaro

This series is half-joke, half-serious recommendation. Basically, Salaryman Kintraro is the Great Teacher Onizuka of the work life genre. Although, GTO would probably fit in here, too. Anyway, the series follows the former fierce leader of a biker gang that decides to straighten out to care for his wife and son. So naturally, he joins Japan’s large army of paper pushers to varying effect.

There are a lot anime series about work life out there, but if you have a favorite series that you would recommend, leave it in the comments section below.