“Overworked red panda Retsuko vents office stress through secret death metal karaoke, finding unexpected connections.”
Aggretsuko (ONA)
アグレッシブ烈子
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Synopsis
Overworked red panda Retsuko vents office stress through secret death metal karaoke, finding unexpected connections.
Some offices have stereotypical dynamics: the chauvinistic pig of a boss who never does any real work; the employees whose goal is to suck up to the boss; the ones whose lives seem perfect; and the individuals who have all the actual work pushed onto them. Retsuko the red panda is in the last group, as she stays late most nights to make up the work her coworkers are too lazy to do themselves. Her relief from the stress of her everyday life comes in the form of singing death metal at a local karaoke club. Night after night, Retsuko channels her grief into a microphone and considers the place to be her own personal sanctuary. But as she moves further away from her comfort zone and the ideas people have of her, she discovers that letting others into her world of death metal may not be such a bad thing.
What people say
Community consensus
Derived from 49 sampled reviews
What 49 viewers settled on.
Mostly aligned
σ 1.12 · some divergence
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Not enough recommend signal yet
↑ 1.98
Running avg · Apr 2018 → Nov 2025
- 9 “It was very enjoyable I had fun it made me laugh it's kinda a cute comedy but with animals, the art was so adorable and the story was my favorite :))) Season one was funny but although it's a girl...”
- 7 “Aggretsuko was surprisingly good, completely subverting my expectation of being merely a simple office comedy with cute fuzzy animals by delivering a cutesy-looking show that depicts work stress,...”
- 7 “This anime is very very cute I highly recommend if you like to watching cute amines. The art work is simple but fit the anime perfectly. the story line is very addicting easy to relate to with work...”
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- Format 10 × 15′ eps × min
- Total runtime 2h 30m all episodes
- Aired Apr 2018 – ongoing
- Source Ona media type
- Rated PG 13 - Teens 13 or older
- Ref. BS-13531 catalog