Guild no Uketsukejou desu ga, Zangyou wa Iya nanode Boss wo Solo Toubatsu Shiyou to Omoimasu

Alina Clover becomes an adventurers' guild receptionist, believing that—unlike the adventurers who risk their lives every day to conquer dungeons—she will enjoy a safe and comfortable career with plenty of benefits. She hates overtime work more than anything, longing for the day when she can finally clock out on time. Sadly, that day has yet to come, as she must constantly trudge through piles upon piles of paperwork.

To make matters worse, when adventurers take too long to subjugate a dungeon boss, the backlog only grows, forcing Alina into even more overtime. Whenever her patience runs thin, she dons a disguise and takes care of the boss herself, soon gaining infamy as the enigmatic "Executioner." Alina has managed to keep this secret for two years—until she finishes off a boss assigned to the high-ranking party Silver Sword. Unfortunately for her, the party's eagle-eyed leader, Jade Scrade, deduces her identity, jeopardizing the receptionist's dream of a carefree life.

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Clover, Alina Main

Takahashi, Rie Japanese

Scrade, Jade Supporting

Kumagai, Kentarou Japanese

Ashford, Lululee Supporting

Koga, Aoi Japanese

Losblender, Lowe Supporting

Yasuda, Rikuya Japanese

Laila Supporting

Serizawa, Yuu Japanese

Fiena Supporting

Watada, Misaki Japanese

Heitz Supporting

Komada, Wataru Japanese

Viena Supporting

Naganawa, Maria Japanese

Jessica Supporting

Ohara, Sayaka Japanese

Rhuberry, Rosetta Supporting

Horikoshi, Mami Japanese

Oowada, Tomoyuki Producer

Sotokawa, Akihiro Producer

Itou, Yoshito Producer

Nara, Shunsuke Producer

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Mar 28, 2025

Stark700

Recommended

It's just as the guild receptionist Alina says, "workholics are scary".
Watching I May Be a Guild Receptionist, but I'll Solo Any Boss to Clock Out is essentially watching the life of a guild receptionist girl leading a double life. Meet Alina Clover, who became a guild receptionist with the assumption that the job would be easy, until she realizes the hidden rules. Yes, she dreads working overtime. And yes, she just wants to live an easy life. That's not happening when there's monsters roaming around, quests to authoritize, and to make matters worse, someone also finds out about her secret as the "Executioner".

Having ... a double life in a fantasy world isn't an entirely refreshing idea, but it adds many layers to the story. For Alina, she does her best to keep her alias a secret from others until the Silver Guild leader Jade discover it. To make problems more complicated for her, Jade had a growing interest in Alina and even develops affections for her. Obviously, this anime wasn't build to be a romance story but their relationship is among the most important in the series. Realistically, Alina just tries her best to live a carefree life despite the daily obstacles. It's a recurring gag when she breaks her usual character after being caught off guard, most noticably when dealing with overtime work and Jade himself.

The relationship dynamics between Alina and Jade also starts off rocky. It comes off as a one-sided hate directed by Alina towards Jade. Threatening to kill him, she barely manages to hold back while closely guards her secret. While this is somewhat played out comically, Alina truly does want to live a carefree life and if her real identity is discovered, it would cause immense problems for her. On the other hand, Jade develops feelings towards Alina and always urges her to join the Silver Guild. Despite drawing glances from the female population, the only eyes he has set on is Alina. Their relationship does slowly develop more as Alina drops her guard more often in later episodes. However, I suggest holding your horses because this really isn't built as a romance tale.

Alina's relationship with others in the show is respectable at best. She maintains an elegant lady image to hide her identity and always act polite in public. An exception is Laila, a fellow receptionist who has grown to her as a friend over time and one of the few she trusts in the show. It's an underrated relationship that shows the softer and more human side of Alina when they're together. Under her Executioner identity, she fights with aggression and takes on a brutal approach at dealing with monsters. Because of her unique skills and experience, she usually curb stomp her opponent with devastating results. Not every battle plays out in such ways but Alina does stand out as one of the most powerful characters in their world. It's through those battles that earned her a reputation after all.

What truly holds this anime together is the charming cast of characters. The story feels loose at times that bounces between slice-of-life type episodes and the action. However, Alina is written as a relatable protagonist. She represents how an individual wants to avoid work. Obviously, this is exaggerated to the extreme in this story but the anime gets the idea across. Jade himself is also presented as a mature young man despite breaking character when around Alina. He's tolerable and has charisma as a leader of his guild. Even Lululee gets her short yet meaningful character arc that amplifies her importance in the story. At the end of the day, its cast truly holds this show together.

Despite being set in the fantasy setting, it feels like the world is not as vibrant as I had hoped to see. The guilds and towns look old fashioned and lack uniqueness compared to most isekai adaptations these days. The unique idea of the 'relics' seems only fascinating on the surface but loses it appeal when we learn more about them. However, there's a case for this show to showoff what Alina can do when she wields that oversized hammer relic. The battle sequences in this show are fast, fluid, and very smooth to showcase Alina's talents. She turns into a completely different character compared to her receptionist self. It's a recipe for success when protraying a character leading a double life.

It's as the title says. Alina solo monsters and bosses so she can clock out on time. She hates overwork and sees workaholic as scary. It's relatable to any of us who dreads overwork in the real world. And that's what makes this anime worth watching with our eyeballs.

Reviewer’s Rating: 7

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Mar 28, 2025

KANLen09

Mixed Feelings

I May Be a Guild Receptionist, but I'll Solo Any Boss to Clock Out on Time — It's not just adventurers who need their rest time, but pay respect to the people working at the Adventurer's Guild too...they deserve all the breaks.

In the fast-moving pace of reality, you'd be hard-pressed to find anyone that tries to say that "I need to work overtime just to finish the never-ending work that's on my desk!", because let's face it: overtime is a bitch, and it'll control your working career until you choose to either ignore it or face the scythe of death a.k.a death stares from superiors ... that you've been slacking on the pile of work that needs to be done. This is pretty much the case for novelist Mato Kousaka and her lone work of Guild no Uketsukejou desu ga, Zangyou wa Iya nanode Boss wo Solo Toubatsu Shiyou to Omoimasu a.k.a I May Be a Guild Receptionist, But I'll Solo Any Boss to Clock Out on Time, which dare I say that while this is not the first time that anime has featured the notorious Black Company standards of overtime, it is the first to put it front and center of its plot, enclosed in a fantasy comedy adventure.

What do you do when you get someone doing administrative work who's on the cusp of being operated in the assembly line for peanuts so much that he/she becomes the victim of money slavery and yet wants to do the ONE thing that will circumvent everything in its place to enable avoiding that one prominent feature plaguing him/her? You'd get Alina Clover, a receptionist at the Iffole town's Adventurer's Guild, who's stuck with the lies of having an easy and secure but vexing job that requires her to deal with narcissist adventurers not understanding that if they've done their due diligence clearing dungeon boss quests correctly, she would not have suffered having to do overtime...but then again, also being screwed over by the same agency that employs her because all the unfinished work is being dumped on her for reasons they spell "shortage of manpower and funds." All of this, plus the unknown power that she can manifest divine skills for some reason, with power barring that of gods, that allows her to basically one-shot all dungeon bosses (which aren't on par with her god-level powers) for the basis of turning in as early as possible. Alina's got the looks and sex appeal, the sugar, spice, and everything nice...if you can read her and manage to do things her way. Try anything else, and you'll face her overtime wrath indefinitely.

Ironically enough, the Iffole town that the show takes place in, for whatever reason, feels like one overcrowded town of dungeons next to it, and with the sheer number of adventurers ratioed to the number of receptionists being so disproportionate and with salaries paid lower than a dog's, counting overtime is nothing but a fraction that's worth more time off than actual pay. Normally in every fantasy setting, you'd have the group of heroes who are praised for their efforts in making peace throughout the city/town they live in, but for the members of the adventurer party Silver Sword, it feels as if they operate based on KPIs that the town executives demand them to achieve; fail that and they'll be replaced with immediate effect. The strongest group that's currently led by shield/tank Jade Scrade alongside his two potential members of the rear-guard mage Lowe Losblender and healer Lululee Ashford, the party of 3, was not like the party that current guildmaster Glen Garia was in his predecessor group. the one who maintained peace within Iffole...but with a sinister past that involves the manipulation of people and the inclusion of dark gods (which Alina is the only one who can combat these humanoid beings).

But back to the current state of Silver Sword. Whenever Alina needs to take matters into her own hands (since the typical adventurers aren't doing a good job at that), her famous pseudonym of the Executioner is the talk of the town as the ruthless one-shot monster killer with no reservations, leaving everyone enamoured of figuring out her identity. That is, until Jade discovers Alina by mere accident and attempts to recruit her into Silver Sword, barring that if she does so, her job as a receptionist is over. So, this well-kept secret remains much of the relationship between the two, though for some weird reason it gives him the chance to woo her after falling in love at first sight, though Alina clearly doesn't give him the day of her life with her constant avoiding and yet too much jealousy when he sees Alina being chased by other men. This secret is also soon known by the few who witnessed her courage to help restore Iffole out from danger, though her privacy is rather well-kept and out of interference.

Still, with this much infodump, there's reason to care enough for Alina and the Silver Sword members, each with their genuine struggles, either coming from past adventurer parties or just not being strong enough to protect loved ones...even the shipping of Alina and Jade as they come to respect and even help out each other (though it's Jade helping out with the receptionist's work as always). The villains are a bit of a joke, though the dark gods are not ones to be trifled with, with their god-level powers trumping just about anyone.

I don't know about you, but I just don't feel that GiriMasu is CloverWorks at its best, being mostly an outsourced project work that was initially scheduled to be released last year, but got delayed to this Winter season. Yes, there is Aniplex at the heart of the problem, and the animation here is not as clean as, say, the studio's usual styling. I'm going to assume that the priority landed somewhere else.

The music feels decent at best, though it really didn't inspire much confidence. 310's OP in movie cinematic quality is fine and all, but at least Akari Nanawo's ED has quite a fun put into it with DDR-esque dance and rhythm.

To become an adventurer or suffer through endless piles of paperwork, that is the question. To see GiriMasu embrace workplace exploitation in a fantasy world that's just as realistic as it gets for cutting costs and manpower, it takes a delicate balance to know if the show is any good or not. Likewise, the anime has its clear issues (like stereotypical villains) and reeks of bad writing, but this is a show that you have to put on a weighing scale to see if the good outweighs the bad (and vice versa).

Relatable, but to a degree that smokes fiction from reality.

Reviewer’s Rating: 7

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Mar 28, 2025

AboAhmed130

Not Recommended

I'll be direct with my review, this anime is **extremely boring**. The same joke is repeated over and over: a girl complaining about overtime like an employee who's been working for 59 years with two days left until retirement.

She has an **absurdly overpowered** ability, making everything feel pointless. The side characters? I have no idea why they even exist. The attempt at fan service? Completely unsuccessful.

The scenes feel **dragged out**, and I had to watch at **2x speed** just to get through it.

If I had to mention a single positive, it would be that the **opening and ending themes ... are catchy**—that’s it.

Reviewer’s Rating: 5

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