Series synopsis
Salaryman's Club, also known as リーマンズクラブ is a Japanese animation drama television series that premiered on tv asahi on January 30, 2022. It ended on April 17, 2022. It stars Junya Enoki, Shin-ichiro Miki, Kaito Ishikawa and Tetsuya Kakihara.
Shiratori Mikoto utilizes his keen observation skills as a badminton player. However, a traumatic incident at the Interhigh leaves him unable to play the way he wants. He's cut from Mitsuboshi Bank's powerhouse amateur team. In an attempt to make a comeback, he takes a job at Sunlight Beverages, where he finds waiting for him work with unfamiliar coworkers and a weak unaccomplished badminton team...
Premise
Shiratori Mikoto utilizes his keen observation skills as a badminton player. However, a traumatic incident at the Interhigh leaves him unable to play the way he wants. He's cut from Mitsuboshi Bank's powerhouse amateur team. In an attempt to make a comeback, he takes a job at Sunlight Beverages, where he finds waiting for him work with unfamiliar coworkers and a weak unaccomplished badminton team...
Cast and characters
Leading cast
- Junya Enoki as Mikoto Shiratori (voice)
- Shin-ichiro Miki as Tatsuru Miyazumi (voice)
- Kaito Ishikawa as Souta Saeki (voice)
- Tetsuya Kakihara as Kouki Takeda (voice)
- Ryota Osaka as Touya Saeki (voice)
- Jun Fukuyama as Hayato Kirishima (voice)
- Taku Yashiro as Azuma Tachibana (voice)
- Yuma Uchida as Takuma Kirishima (voice)
Supporting cast
- Yuki Ono as Daiki Oginome (voice)
- Ayumu Murase as Ayato Misora (voice)
- Haruki Ishiya as Jun Yagami (voice)
- Yukihiro Nozuyama as Ryo Natsuki (voice)
- Daisuke Namikawa as Masahiko Utsugi (voice)
- Daiki Hamano as Shiryu Tonozaki (voice)
- Shunichi Toki as Yuho Mashiba (voice)
- Nobuhiko Okamoto as Yukei Saruhashi (voice)
- Tomokazu Sugita as Kotetsu Gokura (voice)
- Atsushi Imaruoka as Kohji Matsushita (voice)
Episodes
This series spans 1 season with 12 episodes.
| Season | Episodes | First aired | Last aired |
|---|---|---|---|
| Season 1 | 12 | January 30, 2022 | April 17, 2022 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Assignment Badminton player Shiratori Mikoto is kicked off the powerful corporate team Mitsuhoshi Bank. He gets a job at Sunlight Beverage in order to make a comeback, but he finds waiting for him unfamiliar office work and a small weak team. On top of that, he's forced to play doubles with the boorish and over-familiar Miyazumi Tatsuru...?! |
January 30, 2022 |
| 2 |
Synergy Mikoto loses against Tatsuru and is forced to play doubles with him. However, due to their polar opposite personalities, they struggle to get along both at work and at practice. Meanwhile, Sunlight Beverage has a practice match against the powerful Unisics team. Mikoto and Tatsuru face off against Kirishima Hayato and Oginome Daiki, the world's second ranked men's doubles team. It's an intense battle against a superior team, but... |
February 6, 2022 |
| 3 |
Brainstorming The idea for green onion flavored ginger ale that Mikoto came up with on a whim is chosen as a potential candidate in the Sunlight Beverage new product planning contest. Since Mikoto is still unaccustomed to working at a company, the badminton team arranges a training camp so they can help him. Together they discuss the project as they write up a proposal. And finally, Mikoto opens up to Tatsuru about the traumatic incident he experienced in high school that caused the decline in his abilities. |
February 13, 2022 |
Production
Release
| Original network/platform | tv asahi |
|---|---|
| First aired | January 30, 2022 |
| Last aired | April 17, 2022 |
| Runtime | 23 minutes |
| Status | ended |
| Schedule | Saturday at 01:30:00 |