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Super Salaryman Mr. Saenai

2017 · 1 season

A silly, warm workplace-family sitcom where mundane midlife problems collide with low-stakes superhero antics.

Created by
Yuichi Fukuda
Genres
Comedy
Overview
52-year-old Saenai is an ordinary middle management salaryman. One day, he is forcibly handed a super suit by a strange old man and reluctantly takes over as superman. With a wife from hell Enko and two adolescents, Saenai is stuck between world peace and domestic problems. Life does not go well just by becoming superman. What is justice, peace and happiness?
How it feels
Absurd, light, warm and satirical. Brisk and easy to follow.
About
Family, identity, work, parenthood
Content
Mild violence, sexual content and language. No gore.
Note
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Created by
Yuichi Fukuda
Genres
Comedy
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How it feels

Written by AI. It can be wrong.

Full breakdown
Tone
  • absurdstrength 3 of 3
  • lightstrength 2 of 3
  • warmstrength 2 of 3
  • satiricalstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
brisk, 3 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
easy-watch, 2 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • family
  • identity
  • work
  • parenthood
  • justice
Places
  • big city
  • workplace
  • home
Era
contemporary
Audience
teen
Form
  • serialised
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action4
Horror0
Humour8
Realism4
Romance2
Tension3
Darkness3
Complexity3
Emotional weight4

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Details

Genres
comedy
Created by
Yuichi Fukuda
Written by
Yuichi Fukuda
Starring
Shinichi Tsutsumi, Haruka Shimazaki, Kyoko Koizumi, Minase Yashiro, Mei Nagano
Length
1 seasons, 10 episodes, 45 min each
Network
Nippon TV
Country
Japan
Languages
Japanese

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