Town Workers

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Alternative Titles

Japanese: タウンワーカーズ
English: TOWN WORKERS
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Type: ONA
Episodes: 3
Status: Finished Airing
Aired: Sep 18, 2014
Producers: None found, add some
Licensors: None found, add some
Studios: Rockwell Eyes
Source: Original
Genre: Slice of LifeSlice of Life
Duration: 6 min. per ep.
Rating: PG-13 - Teens 13 or older

Statistics

Score: 5.941 (scored by 264264 users)
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Ranked: #102012
2 based on the top anime page. Please note that 'Not yet aired' and 'R18+' titles are excluded.
Popularity: #14672
Members: 905
Favorites: 0

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Synopsis

An omnibus work portraying the lives of youth who have just started to work.

(Source: Rockwell Eyes)

Background

Town Workers was produced using rotoscoping, an animation technique which traces live-action performances. It was created in collaboration with Town Work, a part-time job magazine.

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Staff

Iwai, Shunji
Director, Script, Theme Song Lyrics
Kuwabara, Mako
Theme Song Composition
Shiina, Kotone
Theme Song Performance


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Ending Theme

"Bokura (ぼくら)" by Kotone Shiina (eps 2-3)




Reviews

Jan 15, 2024
This was a fun little series of videos. They were directed by Shunji Iwai, a very famous Japanese film director who has under his belt "All About Lily Chou Chou", "Undo", "Fireworks", among other famous reputed movies.

Town Workers is a series of 3 5-minute lenght short movies that follows young adults getting their first part-time jobs, showing them struggling, enjoying, and interacting with their fellow "town workers". At the end of the day, they get home. Tired, but with a sense of realization. Tired, but proud—It's what I felt.

The animation is good. The use of rotoscopy served well the show, making it feel realistic, ...
Sep 1, 2024
Three rotoscoped short animations taking a look at mundane work days.
Slice-of-life done right. Stories that feel real, with real people in the real world. Something very missing in the genre.

There is nothing much else to say here, but as MAL requires us to be prolix on reviews, making walls of text in an exercise of futility for those who can't be concise, or just like way too much reading themselves, here I go trying to reach the minimum 500 characters... not quite yet... wait for it... done!

Wait, I was wrong, it's not 500, I hope it's not 1000. This is going to take awhile, are ...

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