Mr. TONEGAWA Middle Management Blues
Mr. TONEGAWA Middle Management Blues
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Mr. TONEGAWA Middle Management Blues

6.9 / 10
2018
1 season
24 episodes
AnimationComedyDrama

Nobody knows what it's like to be the bad man… except the bad man's right-hand man, who has to take the boss' deranged ideas and turn them into functioning plans. So, when the sadistic president of the Teiai Group decides he's bored with the routine leg breaking and widow/orphan evicting, he assigns the task of coming up with something "special" to his ruthless Number Two, Yukio Tonegawa. But how do you amuse someone who destroys a dozen lives before breakfast? There's a huge pool of potential victims in the form of TFO's swollen roster of defaulting borrowers, but if Tonegawa and his team of nearly identical men in black look-alikes can't create a "game of death" that tickles the boss' demented funny bones, they may end up playing the game themselves!

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Cast

Seasons

  • Initiative

    1.Initiative

    04-07-201823m

    In Kaiji: Ultimate Survivor, he tormented the downtrodden and enticed them into playing games where their lives were wagered against incredible cash prizes. But even a cold blooded...

  • Conjecture

    2.Conjecture

    11-07-201823m

    The second meeting of the death game production team is held, and Tonegawa needs to make up for the bad first impression he gave his workers. But between the confusing names of his...

  • Surefire

    3.Surefire

    18-07-201823m

    After a vicious act of betrayal in the last meeting, Tonegawa arranges weekend trip to an all-expenses paid villa to repair the cracks in his relationship with the team... but will...

  • Adult

    4.Adult

    25-07-201823m

    After three unproductive meetings and a company trip, Tonegawa's team still has essentially nothing to show in terms of progress on their death game project. But after a bolt of in...

  • Soul-Searching

    5.Soul-Searching

    01-08-201823m

    With the proposal for Restricted Rock Paper Scissors finished, Tonegawa just needs to turn it in to President Hyoudou... The tyrannical, temperamental, explosively volatile Preside...

  • Self-Destruct

    6.Self-Destruct

    08-08-201823m

    As the deadline for the design of the Restricted Rock Paper Scissors cards approaches, Ebitani feels insecure because of Saemon's repeated successes. Tonegawa tries to mentor the w...

  • Proliferation

    7.Proliferation

    15-08-201823m

    As work begins to proceed on the first Restricted Rock Paper Scissors game, an unseen danger threatens to freeze the team's work to a standstill.

  • Shrimp

    8.Shrimp

    22-08-201823m

    After being fired from Teiai and causing Tonegawa's salary to be cut, Ebitani returns hoping to make amends.

  • Cutlets

    9.Cutlets

    29-08-201823m

    The annual round of hiring for Teiai has begun, with Tonegawa and Yamazaki interviewing potential new employees. Afterwards, Tonegawa goes out for lunch, but ends up getting a litt...

  • Rehearsal

    10.Rehearsal

    05-09-201823m

    It's finally time for the first rehearsal game of Restricted Rock Paper Scissors. But will difficulties with equipment and participants spell trouble for Tonegawa's big project?

  • Business Trip

    11.Business Trip

    12-09-201823m

    Tonegawa hits the road, with business to attend to outside of Tokyo, and hopes to find a chance for relaxation while away from home.

  • Fake

    12.Fake

    19-09-201823m

    When President Hyoudou decides that he wants a body double, Tonegawa and the men in black begin a search to find the perfect doppelganger for their boss.

  • Setting Sail

    13.Setting Sail

    03-10-201823m

    The day is finally here: Tonegawa and his team are going to host the first game of Restricted Rock Paper Scissors. It's all been leading up to this, but can they pull it off withou...

  • Excursion

    14.Excursion

    10-10-201823m

    We've seen that the Teiai Group runs a ruthless business. But what happens when people with debt stacked beyond the ceiling fail to show any signs of paying off their loans? Witnes...

  • Playing Hard

    15.Playing Hard

    17-10-201823m

    One of Ootsuki's regular excursions results in a clash of epic proportions, against an unexpected opponent...

  • Natural Enemies

    16.Natural Enemies

    24-10-201823m

    Tonegawa is Teiai's number two man, but his position isn't exactly uncontested. When his rival, Kurosawa, steps into the picture even the battle hardened middle manager finds himse...

  • Unofficial Announcement

    17.Unofficial Announcement

    31-10-201823m

    The time has come for personnel changes at Teiai. When everything is said and done, who will be left on Team Tonegawa?

  • Alignment

    18.Alignment

    07-11-201823m

    Tonegawa's annual check-up leads to some lifestyle changes that are accompanied by unwanted attention, while Ootsuki finds something he never expected to encounter on one of his ex...

  • Newcomers

    19.Newcomers

    14-11-201823m

    With the recent transfers leaving him short-manned, Tonegawa welcomes three new employees to his team, and doesn't take long for two of them to start making waves within the compan...

  • Entertaining

    20.Entertaining

    21-11-201823m

    The man-eating Bog is a pachinko machine that makes a ludicrous amount of money for one of Teiai's underground casinos. The time has come for Tonegawa to collect the winnings, whic...

  • Defamation

    21.Defamation

    28-11-201823m

    Overseeing the Teiai corporate Twitter exposes Tonegawa to an account that seems to exist solely to hate on his company, triggering the middle manager's combative instincts. Meanwh...

  • Conclusions

    22.Conclusions

    05-12-201823m

    Two stories come to a conclusion, as Ootsuki concocts a scheme to usurp Odagiri's movie business, and Tonegawa tracks down the social media troll that has been flaming Teiai.

  • Premonition

    23.Premonition

    12-12-201823m

    Tonegawa attends a class reunion where he hopes to see what's become of the classmates he always held in contempt. Meanwhile, Ootsuki's latest excursion is threatened when he gets...

  • End of the Line

    24.End of the Line

    26-12-201823m

    Hyoudou's latest craving for diabolical entertainment is so twisted, people are afraid to talk about it... even the narrator! And then, wedding bells begin to ring for one member o...

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