Retsuko (烈子, lit. meaning fierce child) is a 25-year-old metal head office worker and the protagonist of the Aggretsuko series.
She is 25 years old, her zodiac sign is Scorpio and her blood type is A. Working at her company, Retsuko works in the accounting department. Hating the way she is treated at work by coworkers, she sings death metal to release rage at night.
Retsuko was first introduced to Manaka when she became part of the OTMGirls. She was extremely impudent and demanding toward Retsuko, but she gradually grew appreciative of Retsuko, and they became friends.
An accountant alongside Retsuko, Fenneko is cunning and intuitive, able to deduce much about her coworkers' lives through social media, and expressed extreme suspicion of Retsuko when Tsunoda posted a selfie of them both. Nonetheless, Fenneko cares for and is protective over Retsuko (as shown when she attended the single's mixer as Retsuko's "bodyguard"). However, Retsuko tends to withhold private matters from Fenneko and Haida, which Fenneko becomes increasingly aware of.
Internally, however, Retsuko has a vicious temper, which she curbs by renting a karaoke room and screaming her lungs out to death metal. She's a very talented singer in this respect, usually venting about her work, social, or romantic life. She's timid in showing others this side of her but gives in to Gori and Washimi when they beg her, and she later shows Resasuke and Tadano when she decides to tell them about her true feelings.
Este es definitivamente el más obvio en Aggretsuko – Fenneko es un zorro fennec. Además de las típicas orejas que se encuentran en estos lindos zorros, Fenneko también tipifica algunas características del animal de la vida real. Los zorros Fennec se han adaptado a su entorno en el desierto y pueden prosperar fácilmente, como Fenneko se ha adaptado al trabajo de las redes sociales y lo ha utilizado para su ventaja absoluta. Ella es una acosadora profesional en las redes sociales y siempre tiene la razón. Junto con su increíble audición, Fenneko es un zorro que se puede escuchar desde una milla de distancia, real o virtualmente.
Tsunoda, una de las compañeras de trabajo más animadas de Retsuko en Aggretsuko, es una gacela de Thomson. De la misma manera que las gacelas suelen priorizar la supervivencia a través de la velocidad, Tsunoda sobrevive en su propio entorno lo mejor que puede. Ella es conocida por ser un fanático de los directores y altos mandos para que pueda salirse con la suya con menos trabajo, mientras permanece en su lado bueno. Trabajos como el de ellos pueden ser despiadados, especialmente en un entorno empresarial, y Tsunoda está haciendo todo lo que tiene que hacer para sobrevivir en el lugar de trabajo.
Like his animal counterpart, Haida is a team player through and through. Spotted Hyenas live in large packs and work well together out of a need to survive. They’re also very smart, and a study published in the late 2000s showed that they outperform chimpanzees at cooperative problem-solving tasks.
The trio started hanging out beyond yoga classes, going to bars and karaoke clubs. There, Retsuko opened up about her death metal singing, and they responded well to it, encouraging her to continue and even asked her to show them how to sing death metal. Gori and Washimi helped Retsuko come out of her shell a bit as a person, continually offering advice, support, and friendship.
He, however, showed unintentionally controlling tendencies towards Retsuko and manipulated her insecurities which led her to be isolated from her friends, family, and workplace environment. They broke up after he expressed to Retsuko that he had no interest in settling down, marrying her, or having children. He also believed such arbitrary norms to be small-minded desires and sought a life partner without any legal bindings or obligations, which was against Retsuko's wish.
Season 5 was announced with a post-credits image at the end of "Rendezvous", the final episode of season 4 and premiered on February 16, 2023.
Retsuko briefly dated Tadano, a tech AI genius, during Season 2. They met in driving school where Retsuko was unaware of Tadano's career.
De Netflix Aggretsuko está repleto de personajes que van desde extravagantes hasta absolutamente extra. Pero además de la variedad de personalidades del anime, también incluye una amplia gama de criaturas del Reino Animal. Cada personaje en Aggretsuko es un animal diferente, y tampoco los típicos. Aquí hay una guía útil para cada uno de los personajes principales de Aggretsuko y su tipo animal.
The primary antagonist throughout the show is the sexist pig, and Retsuko’s boss, Director Ton. Pigs are a wildcard in how they’re represented in media (there’s a wide range even in cartoons); however, the creators made this one around the pejorative. His misogyny is overt and not at all veiled in a way both jarring and perfect for a cartoon villain. He would be too “on the nose” if it weren’t for the other office dynamics that cause Retsuko equal stress.
In her daily life, Retsuko is a timid, softly-spoken, and polite young woman who works diligently, often being the only person to work overtime - usually because her bosses drop their work on her desk to leave on time. She is kind and slightly rigid, although, when drunk, she loses all mental filters and speaks her mind.
Retsuko's grandma only appears in the shorts and doesn't make an appearance in the Netflix series. She looks and acts exactly like her grandma, sweet on the outside but has a ferocious attitude on the inside, an attitude that even scared Retsuko.
Lo crea o no, Washimi es una verdadera secretaria. Esta especie de ave es conocida por estar de pie todo el día, lo cual se ve en la increíble ética de trabajo de Washimi en Aggretsuko. También es un juego de palabras realmente fácil de hacer en una historia centrada en la empresa. El pájaro secretario es la secretaria definitiva, sin importar quién sea el jefe. De la misma manera que Washimi siempre está al lado del jefe, o con su amiga Gori, las aves secretarias tienden a permanecer cerca de su rebaño y casi siempre cerca de su pareja.
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Retsuko briefly dated Resasuke during Season 1. Resasuke was absentminded and not very attentive but supportive of Retsuko, especially after discovering her true colors as a death metal singer. However, his response was underwhelming and clearly not appreciative of the meaning behind Retsuko's words, and while he was kind, she realized that she couldn't continue the relationship with him.
Retsuko's appearance is based on the Red Panda. She has light orange fur on her face, black eyes, white ears, brown legs and arms, and a brown and light orange striped tail. Retsuko is seen in many outfits throughout the series, but her typical clothing consists of a peach sweater with jewels around the collar and a plaid skirt with black shoes. Her other set of casual clothing consists of red sweater with white undershirt, grey skirt and leggings and brown boots. During the winter, Retsuko is usually seen wearing a navy blue pea coat, a black skirt, tights and boots, and a peach scarf. Her work apparel is the typical female office uniform: blue vest and skirt, white dress shirt, and brown dress shoes.
Retsuko’s work friend is (even more than Haida, at the beginning) Fenneko. Modeled after the tiny fennec foxes of North Africa, Fenneko is almost as adorably animated and styled as Retsuko. The main difference comes down to Fenneko’s cool personality and sometimes boundary-crossing determination.
After five years of being a corporate slave, she forms an unlikely friendship with the CEO's secretary and the company marketing director. Will this be the break she needs to finally better her work life?