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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. (Source: NIS America)
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Dec 17, 2004 to Nov 7, 2014
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Mahiru Inami902 fan favoritesExternal profileHeight: 166 cm Weight: 52 kg Inami is a timid, 17-year-old girl who joins the rest of the employees at Wagnaria. She has androphobia and is thus terrified of men; she punches any male that comes near her. This violent behavior arises from her belief that every man is ready to attack her, but instead she is prone to violently attacking men at a moment's notice due to this fear. This androphobia was caused by her father who did not want her to eventually wed due to jealousy and thus told her that males would attack her, which ended in her fearing men since then. As she and Souta usually share shifts, he takes the brunt of her attacks. However, she makes considerable progress with her fear of men by taking it out on Souta; she states that she is able to be about two meters close to guys without having the urge to hit them. Though this extends to only having fairly civil conversations (often ruined by Souta's rudeness) or if Inami launches an attack on him. (Source: Wikipedia)
Aoi Yamada862 fan favoritesExternal profileAoi is a mysterious, self-proclaimed 16-year-old girl who Otoo meets on his travels to find his missing wife. He brings her back to Wagnaria where she starts working as a waitress and living in Wagnaria's attic. While she has great confidence in herself, during work she is an unhelpful troublemaker who gets yelled at by other staff members, especially Souta. Since she is in training, her position among the staff is low, which she complains about. She is bad with dealing with Souta's constant complaints about her, but she does write down some of his suggestions (along with idle complaints). She yearns for the idea of having a family, especially towards Otoo whom she sees as an ideal father figure, and goes as far as to apply to be adopted by him. Her favorite food is natto.
Popura Taneshima770 fan favoritesExternal profilePopura is a short 17-year-old high school student who works at Wagnaria. Ironically, she was named after the poplar tree so that she would grow tall. She is a hard worker, but she sometimes makes clumsy mistakes in her job. She is very sensitive about her small appearance; many customers usually mistake her to be younger than she really is. She often fails to gain respect from Souta, who is one year younger than her, as he usually regards her as an elementary school student. She is also unable to properly call him by his surname, saying "Katanashi" rather than "Takanashi," even when corrected. Note: Her official name is . Please do not change it.
Jun Satou556 fan favoritesExternal profileAge: 20 Satou is a chef and is considered a helpful but intimidating individual. He is in love with Yachiyo, but has problems expressing it. Of course, because she is so devoted to Kyouko, she fails to recognize any hints he attempts to make. He likes to take out his anger on Popura by messing with her or bending the truth, to which Popura naively believes. When Souma tries to help with Satou's development with Yachiyo, Satou unrelentingly hits him with a pan, showing that he is sensitive about his feelings for Yachiyo. A bass guitar is seen in the background during a scene from his apartment, presumably a hobby of his.
Hiroomi Souma266 fan favoritesExternal profileAnother chef who works in the kitchen, Souma is a young man with an easygoing attitude. He often blackmails other workers to do his job for him and pass it off as a form of modesty from the other employees. He can blackmail anyone except Inami, who punches him even before he manages to talk to her. He is terrified of Inami's urges and is thankful for Souta's existence in the restaurant since Inami is taking out her urges all on Souta and not him. Souma does not like revealing his personal information to his co-workers and would immediately dodge questions relating to the matter. However, based on how he refers to Satou (Satou-kun), it possibly implies that he is over 20 years old. (Source: Wikipedia)
Souta Takanashi149 fan favoritesExternal profileHeight: 172 cm Souta is a 16-year-old high school student recruited by Popura to become a new employee at the family restaurant Wagnaria. He is enamored by cute things and thus favors Poplar over the other employees due to her cute appearance. He voices his thoughts out loud and occasionally offends his co-workers, often resulting in him getting punished by them. He usually finds his co-workers and the rules of the restaurant to be strange, but he still has an attachment to his job. He is able to adapt quickly to his job at the restaurant. He has three older sisters and it is because of them that caused his dislike for older women as he had been tormented by them all his life. He received hand-me-downs from his sisters when he was young, giving him the appearance of a little girl. He also has a younger sister in elementary school who is almost as tall as he is. Despite his problems, Inami asks Souta to cross-dress, using the name Kotori, when her father comes to visit her at work.
Yachiyo Todoroki148 fan favoritesExternal profileBirthday: June 21 Yachiyo is another employee at the restaurant and is 20 years old. She usually carries around a katana which, according to her, was made by her parents who used to be blacksmiths. Yachiyo is unaware that some of the customers, and even Souta, are intimidated by her blade. She admires Kyouko considerably. She gets angry if anyone offers Kyouko food or tries to take her away, although is willing to allow Satou to feed her because she considers him trustworthy, much to his chagrin.
Kyouko Shirafuji55 fan favoritesExternal profileKyouko is the manager of Wagnaria. She usually maintains a rather apathetic attitude about how the restaurant is run and almost never bothers to do any work herself. She is not beyond using violence to deal with unruly customers and firmly believes that employees come before the customers, as the employees are the ones doing all the work. She is 28 years old, but she becomes despondent whenever her age is mentioned. Kyouko saved Yachiyo as a little girl from bullies, which is how they met. (Source: Wikipedia)
