General wisdom goes that you shouldn’t rely on anime to provide a picture of what life in Japan is really like. Yet that’s not always true, at least in the case of seeing a red panda death-scream her ...

Netflix’s cutest metalhead panda is back in the booth, trying to find love and train an insecure new employee. The second season of Aggretsuko can be divided roughly into two arcs. In the first, ...

The shows and characters of the Sanrio world tend to run on sweetness, mildness, and cuteness; Aggretsuko, on the other hand, cranks the angst up a few notches. As edgy as Kuromi tends to portray ...

Retsuko, from “Aggretsuko,” displays a realistic dichotomy of emotions, going from good-natured to rage-filled to process her emotions. (Photo courtesy of IMDB) The other day, I changed my Netflix ...

“Aggretsuko” has become Netflix’s latest animated sensation thanks to its adorable lead character and her habit of screaming death metal during karaoke to deal with her crappy boss. She’s the growling ...

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Netflix's new anime, Aggretsuko, is based on a series of minute-long web shorts from a few years ago. When I first discovered her in 2016, the star was still Aggressive Retsuko, the Hello Kitty ...

Over the 4th of July weekend, sometimes entertainment news can fall through the cracks. Everyone is outside, trying to remember what we did before wifi and central air conditioning. It’s exhausting ...

Aggretsuko is a creation of Sanrio, the company that perhaps is best known for bringing Hello Kitty and her friends to life, though the office working Retsuko is far different from her anthropomorphic ...

There’s a reason why corporate jobs are commonly described as “soul-sucking.” They suck. Aggretsuko knows the pain of corporate frustration well, but instead of just standing as an animated Office ...