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The Best Episodes of WORKING!! Season 1

Every episode of WORKING!! Season 1 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of WORKING!! Season 1!

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Set in a family restaurant in Hokkaido, the northern prefecture of Japan, 16-year-old high school student Sōta Takanashi works part-time along with his strange co-workers: Popura Taneshima, a high school girl who—despite being a year

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    WORKING!! Season 1 Episode 3 - Yachiyo, Kyouko, Satou... and the Returning Mr. Otou
    7.2/10(23 votes)

    S1:E3

    Yachiyo the samurai sword carrying waitress reveals that she started carrying it to ward off bullies back in elementary school. At this time she encounters Kyoko who agrees to act as a body guard in exchange for Yachiyo's lunch. Otou Hyougo, the true restaurant manager, returns to the store after another unsuccessful search for his lost wife. His wife who has the worlds worst sense of direction got lost years ago while out shopping.

    Director:Takahiro Natori
    Writer:Rika Takasugi

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  2. WORKING!! Season 1 Episode 4 - Souma, the Overly Invigorating Young Man
    7.2/10(24 votes)

    S1:E4

    Takanashi is visited at work by one his 4 sisters. Hiroomi the assistant cook attempts to blackmail the staff of Wagnaria so that he won't have to work. At the same time it becomes apparent that Satou the head cook has a thing for Yachiyo the head waitress.

    Director:Kiyoshi Matsuda
    Writer:Noboru Kimura

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  3. WORKING!! Season 1 Episode 6 - The Melancholy of Souta, the Women of the Takanashi Family
    7.2/10(23 votes)

    S1:E6

    Takanashi spends some quality time with his four quirky sisters; the boss, the drunk, the writer and the manipulative. Each in their own way is reliant on Takanashi to keep their family in order. White Day has arrived and Takanashi gifts Mahiru a bag of hair pins. This is the first White Day gift she has ever received. Later he runs into her on the street worried that she might attack some random male while walking around he escorts her home. On the way they run into his eldest sister Kazue. Mahiru get flustered and admits to "assaulting" Takanashi on a regular basis.

    Director:Yumi Kamakura
    Writer:Kazuho Hyoudou

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  4. WORKING!! Season 1 Episode 7 - A Well-Missed Otou, and the New Part-timer = Yamada (!?)
    7.2/10(23 votes)

    S1:E7

    Otoo returns to Wagnaria once again this time bringing with him a new waitress, Yamada Aoi. Aoi tells a "tragic tale of woe" to which Takanashi responds that she is a liar. Reluctantly he ends up training Aoi in how to be a waitress. As the day progress she tries to assign the various staff members into a fake family structure.

    Director:Nobuharu Kamanaka
    Writer:Rika Takasugi

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  5. WORKING!! Season 1 Episode 8 - Inami's First? Outing!
    7.2/10(22 votes)

    S1:E8

    The girls decided to take a trip to the hot springs which will be the first time for Mahiru. Takanashi concerned about the fate of the male guests at the hot springs goes as well. In the end the entire staff ends up going only to be so late that the hot spring is closed by the time they arrive.

    Director:Yoshinobu Tokumoto
    Writer:Rika Takasugi

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  6. WORKING!! Season 1 Episode 12 - Why!? The Night Before the Climactic Battle: Taneshima's Returned Favor
    7.2/10(22 votes)

    S1:E12

    Pupura finds out about Takanashis tall sisters and is upset with him for keeping these ideal women from her. As punishment she sets him up to go on a date with Mahiru. An experiment to see how much more man acclimated Mahiru has become concludes that if she can't punch Takanashi she'll kick him in the nuts.

    Director:Yoshinobu Tokumoto
    Writer:Noboru Kimura

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  7. WORKING!! Season 1 Episode 1 - Welcome to Wagnaria: Takanashi Works
    7.1/10(31 votes)

    S1:E1

    Takanashi Souta, lover of all things small, is recruited by his tiny sempai Taneshima Popura to work at the family style restaurant Wagnaria. There he meets his new co-workers and begins to learn about their many quirks.

    Director:Mitsuhiro Karato
    Writer:Yoshimasa Hiraike

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  8. WORKING!! Season 1 Episode 9 - Kotori-chan Appears!!
    7.1/10(23 votes)

    S1:E9

    The source of Mahiru's fear of men is revealed to be a plan concocted her father. Mahiru's father finds out that Takanashi gave her a gift for White Day and visits the restaurant to meet him. Mahiru, afraid that he has come to make her quit working there ask Takanashi to pretend to be a girl. Takanashi mans up and wears a skirt.

    Director:Kenichiro Watanabe
    Writer:Kazuho Hyoudou

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  9. WORKING!! Season 1 Episode 13 - Takanashi and Inami in the So-Called “Decisive Battle” of a Date…
    7.1/10(25 votes)

    S1:E13

    Takanashi and Mahiru go on their "date". The staff of the restaurant fearing for Takanashi safety concoct an elaborate plan to have him cross dress so that Mahiru would think of him as a girl and not hit him. As the date comes to a close Takanashi comes to realize his true feelings for Mahiru and Mahiru receives the compliment of her life.

    Director:Kenichiro Watanabe
    Writer:Kazuho Hyoudou

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  10. WORKING!! Season 1 Episode 2 - Inami, Androphobe. But You're the Scary One
    7.0/10(25 votes)

    S1:E2

    Souta meets Mahiru, who suffers from Androphobia, the fear of men. The rest of the staff sets them up to share shifts in a suicidal, for Souta at least, attempt to cure Mahiru.

    Director:Daisuke Takashima
    Writer:Yoshimasa Hiraike

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  11. WORKING!! Season 1 Episode 5 - A Certain Day of Flu... A Wagnaria That Is Different From Usual
    6.9/10(22 votes)

    S1:E5

    Takanashi takes the day off work to take care of his sick sister. The staff attempts to function without them and deal with Mahiru's fear of men with no male server to deal with the male customers.

    Director:Susumu Endo
    Writer:Noboru Kimura

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  12. WORKING!! Season 1 Episode 10 - The Truth to the Suspicion... Nazuna Works
    6.9/10(22 votes)

    S1:E10

    Kyouko is gone for a week on company business and in her absence Yachiyo attempts to "serve" Jun, which results in his heart being crushed even more. Later Nazuna sees Takanashi and Mahiru walking home together and bribes Kyouko to let her work at the restaurant for the day to spy on Mahiru. Mahiru eventually admits that she likes Takanashi, though Nazuna misinterprets this thinking that she was confirming that Takanashi was a masochist.

    Director:Daisuke Takashima
    Writer:Kazuho Hyoudou

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  13. WORKING!! Season 1 Episode 11 - The Two of Them Back Then, Yachiyo and Satou. Also, Welcome to the Takanashi Family
    6.9/10(22 votes)

    S1:E11

    Yamada tells a scary ghost story at the end of work and Mahiru is to scared to go home where she would be by herself. Takanashi invites her over to spend the night at his house, Yamada follows them there, claiming to be too scared even though she was the one who told the story in the first place.

    Director:Kiyoshi Matsuda
    Writer:Noboru Kimura

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Season 1 Ratings Summary

"Yachiyo, Kyouko, Satou... and the Returning Mr. Otou" is the best rated episode of "WORKING!!" season 1. It scored 7.2/10 based on 23 votes. Directed by Takahiro Natori and written by Rika Takasugi, it aired on 4/18/2010. This episode is rated 0.0 points higher than the second-best, "Souma, the Overly Invigorating Young Man".