Genres: comedy, romance, slice of life Themes: café, Moe, workplace Objectionable content: Mild Running time: half hour per episode Number of episodes: 13 Vintage: 2010-04-04 Opening Theme: “SOMEONE ELSE” by Kana Asumi, Saki Fujita and Eri Kitamura Ending Theme: 1. “SOMEONE ELSE” by Kana Asumi, Saki Fujita, and Eri Kitamura 2. “Heart no Edge ni Idomu Mō Go to Heart Edge” (Go to Heart Edge) by Jun Fukuyama, Daisuke Ono, and Hiroshi Kamiya 3. “Golden Day” by Saki Fujita
Plot Summary: 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 older than Sōta—is easily mistaken for a elementary/middle schooler, and Kyoko Shirafuji, the 28-year-old store manager who does not bother to do any work at all. (from ANN)
Genres: comedy, romance, slice of life Themes: café, workplace Objectionable content: Mild Running time: half hour per episode Number of episodes: 13 Vintage: 2011-10-01 Opening Theme: “COOLISH WALK” by Kana Asumi, Eri Kitamura and Saki Fujita Ending Theme: “Itsumo you ni LOVE & PEACE!!” (LOVE＆PEACE!!) by Jun Fukuyama, Daisuke Ono and Hiroshi Kamiya
Plot Summary: Life goes on at the Wagnaria family restaurant as its peculiar employees try to provide good service despite their individual eccentricities. (from ANN)
Genres: comedy, romance, slice of life Themes: café, workplace Objectionable content: Mild Running time: 24 minutes per episode Number of episodes: 14 Vintage: 2015-07-04 Opening Theme: “NOW!!!GAMBLE” by Kana Asumi, Saki Fujita, & Eri Kitamura Ending Theme: “Matsuge ni Lock” (LOCK) by Jun Fukuyama, Daisuke Ono, & Hiroshi Kamiya
Plot Summary: The gang from the Wagnaria restaurant are back for another season, and they are offering up a main course of wacky comedy with a side dish of blossoming romances. (from ANN)
Genres: comedy Objectionable content: None Running time: half hour per episode Number of episodes: 13 Vintage: 2016-10-01 Opening Theme: “Eyecatch! Too much!” by Haruka Tomatsu, Yoko Hikasa, & Sora Amamiya Ending Theme: “Mujuryoku Fever” (Zero Gravity Fever) by Kensho Ono, Kouki Uchiyama, & Yuichi Nakamura
Plot Summary: Daisuke Higashida starts working part-time at a family restaurant due to financial difficulties at home. However, between a shift manager who is hopeless when it comes to cooking, and the wait staff’s reliance on the power of money, it seems this restaurant doesn’t have a single normal person working there! (from Crunchyroll)
WAGNARIA is back for the third season! The eccentric emplpoyees of everybody’s favorite family restaurant will be going wild once again! Watch the third season starting this July on the Aniplex Channel, Hulu, Crunchyoll, DAISUKI and Viewster.
[details=Spoiler]Mom isn’t a very popular character with this family and if the dreams are anything like the truth, I can see why. In fact, everyone except Nazuna falls into a funk and dresses in black on the day she is supposed to come home. But no time was given and the later it gets, it seems she isn’t coming after all and didn’t even have the courtesy to call. And of course once everyone goes to bed and falls asleep, mom finally does comes home………
Shizuka has been described as “an audacious, somehow witch-like woman who seems to be able to talk to the dead” on TV, but she really doesn’t seem all that scary. She greets her children by name except for Kozue, the forgotten middle child. And once she starts talking – yup – she is pretty scary!
Shizuka came home because she sensed “love” in the air as she looks pointedly at Souta. He says Kozue is the one in love, but Shizuka is still ignoring that middle daughter’s existence. Mom needs to find the right life partners for her darling children even if she has to “employ various methods like drugs, magic, and weapons”. Souta believes that these very “methods” may have caused his father to die young.
Time to interrogate Souta about his “girlfriend” and perhaps even meet the girl herself. Souta gets the feeling that Inami might be in immediate danger! He finally returns to work and, seeing how down he is, Inami tries to encourage him. He is falling in love with her, but he can’t so as to protect her from his mother. But instead of pushing her away, Souta tries to bring her closer, admitting to himself that he really does love her. But how is he going to protect her from Shizuka?[/details]
