Salaryman Kintarou

Christ man idk where to begin with this one... So me and my husband were looking for a seinen anime to watch, maybe something a bit older you know, because why not. I was scrolling through MAL and there it was... a comedy about a single father, ex biker gang leader and newly turned salaryman! I do love some yakuza related comedies and I don't mind what would probably be some crude humor but man.... MAN...

First of all, I'd like to start with the main character. Kintarou is a single father because his wife died, I can't remember if it was post birth or a little after, oh and also, she was blind (wait now I can't remember whether it was her that was blind or another woman that was charmed by him later OOPS). Really shows how Kintarou is just the ultimate kind soul, which btw anime does its darn best to portray him as such. He's literally perfect and incapable of making a mistake, all women fall for him, young or old, and his luck is insane. A true Gary Stu, to a ridiculous degree.

Remember how I said his wife died and all women fall for him? Well, for the first few episodes we seem to establish the pattern that Kintarou is still mourning for his wife and it's been a few years since she has died. To which I think, damn, that's pretty commendable! Nice! Until like episode 5 or 8, can't remember, when he meets a boss lady of a hostess club (btw - the only woman in the whole anime that has some kind of a legit job that isn't a housewife or a secretary lmao, even though she's essentially just a glorified pimp but ok), who's fairly older than him, and hooks up with her the day they met. She instantly falls for him of course and they begin dating. Well, how does the anime go about this - seeing how he was mourning for his wife and all? He had a dream that night after he had sex with the manager lady that his wife has forgave him, in fact, she's urging him to stop mourning her! What an angel of a wife! So from this point on, the manager lady is his gf. Oh and also she has a 14 year old daughter that absolutely wants to fuck him too and through the rest of the anime the mom and daughter thirst and even compete for him. Yea! Oh and did I mention the 14 year old wants to be an idol and she did a nude gravure shoot with multiple men fawning over how womanly she is? At 14? Yeah!

Next... as I said earlier, Kintarou is a single father. He has a young son and nobody to take care of him while he works... He IS a salaryman after all... Well, his boss's wife took care of his kid! And when he moved to a different location, his female COWORKER took care of his child! I mean these women, they seriously have nothing better to do anyways!

Other than that the anime had a lot of that typical yakuza machismo stuff which I can definitely find funny and silly sometimes - it didn't really hit as hard here. The main character was just too perfect, all the female characters were just there to thirst after him or had a random caretaker role which whatever... But the anime was so ridiculous I was scream laughing a few times. Oh and the animation was awful, truly truly awful at times. Why did I watch it? I honestly wanted to see what kind of bullshit awaits next. I think it had potential because it dealt with corrupt businesses, inner workings of companies, government involvment etc but none of it mattered when the main character will just automatically be super liked by everyone and nothing will go wrong. It was clearly some kind of an insane power fantasy which, eh. Not my thing.

Oh wait, I forgot the best part. So in one episode, a woman gets sexually harassed on the train. She was surrounded by 3 men, one of them being Kintarou, and she blamed him for molesting her. He deduces that it wasn't him, instead it was the third, older guy and the dude runs away. So he chases him across town to beat him up, well, pretty nice of him huh? He even gets the police involved (because they chase after him for stealing a bike or something idr anymore)! Well, the sexual predator manages to run home, when Kintarou and the victim arrive there they see his family! The predator has a wife and a child! Think of what would happen to them if he got the guy arrested! It would ruin his reputation and his family would starve! So in the end, he decides to let the man go :) How kind! Lesson learned - if you want to be a rapist, make sure you have a family that depends on you - it's a get out of jail free card!!!! Of course this man later returned the favor to Kintarou, and he has truly learned his lesson and changed! Wow! Really riveting storytelling. Reminds me of how a guy in my country recently got half of a minimum sentence for rape because he's a war veteran. Truly, we need to punish men less! Think of the children! Thank you Kintarou ♥