This was my healing show when it aired in fall last year. Work was destroying me, and it was so nice to watch each episode as it came out. It’s so fluffy, and so cute, and so sweet, and so heartwarming.
Atarashii Joushi is about a salaryman who leaves his old position under an abusive boss in a toxic work environment. He’s found a new job, but it’s clear that his previous experience still weighs heavy on him. Thankfully, his new boss is FECKING AWESOME; he’s kind, he’s caring, he’s clever, he’s a team worker, and he knows how to bring out the best in his subordinates. And the reason he’s an awesome boss? Because his boss was fecking awesome too.
Why I like this ship:
Which brings me to Kinjou Aigo, who is not the main character but in similar fashion works under an abusive boss and quits, joining the main character at his new fluffy workplace. Haijima is his ex-boss, and we only get to see tiny snippets of him. In an anime full of BL teasing, they weren’t teased at all. Still, it took me all of two seconds to start shipping them. Just one. Single. Scene.
What I like most about Haijima is, in contrast to the main character’s ex-boss who is portrayed as a completely one-dimensional irredeemable asshole, his propensity to change. Haijima is a product of his own experiences, a breed of old-school bosses who believe in throwing chalkboard dusters at students because it instills discipline and builds character. I adored that flashback shown of him holding his cigarette, tip slowly turning to ash where he’d held it over the ashtray, completely still and completely silent in his spiffy pinstripe suit as Kinjou told him why he was quitting. We get a teeny, tiny crumb of his reflection on his previous behaviour, and a tiiiiiiiny (?) possibility that he and Kinjou may meet in person again somewhere down the line, as friends rather than as boss and subordinate. And by golly, I just want moaaaaarrr!!!
(If none of the above is enough to persuade you, Haijima is hot, and I think he and Kinjou look hot together.)
Haijima/Kinjou Aigo (Atarashii Joushi)
This was my healing show when it aired in fall last year. Work was destroying me, and it was so nice to watch each episode as it came out. It’s so fluffy, and so cute, and so sweet, and so heartwarming.
Atarashii Joushi is about a salaryman who leaves his old position under an abusive boss in a toxic work environment. He’s found a new job, but it’s clear that his previous experience still weighs heavy on him. Thankfully, his new boss is FECKING AWESOME; he’s kind, he’s caring, he’s clever, he’s a team worker, and he knows how to bring out the best in his subordinates. And the reason he’s an awesome boss? Because his boss was fecking awesome too.
Why I like this ship:
Which brings me to Kinjou Aigo, who is not the main character but in similar fashion works under an abusive boss and quits, joining the main character at his new fluffy workplace. Haijima is his ex-boss, and we only get to see tiny snippets of him. In an anime full of BL teasing, they weren’t teased at all. Still, it took me all of two seconds to start shipping them. Just one. Single. Scene.
What I like most about Haijima is, in contrast to the main character’s ex-boss who is portrayed as a completely one-dimensional irredeemable asshole, his propensity to change. Haijima is a product of his own experiences, a breed of old-school bosses who believe in throwing chalkboard dusters at students because it instills discipline and builds character. I adored that flashback shown of him holding his cigarette, tip slowly turning to ash where he’d held it over the ashtray, completely still and completely silent in his spiffy pinstripe suit as Kinjou told him why he was quitting. We get a teeny, tiny crumb of his reflection on his previous behaviour, and a tiiiiiiiny (?) possibility that he and Kinjou may meet in person again somewhere down the line, as friends rather than as boss and subordinate. And by golly, I just want moaaaaarrr!!!
(If none of the above is enough to persuade you, Haijima is hot, and I think he and Kinjou look hot together.)