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Tsuboi Chinatsu, the most hated GA-2 by the Personnel Department, has resigned from Manpan Corporation. During the wedding reception, she asks four of the five female GA-2 employees (all of them except Tsukahara Sawako) whether they wished to have a little bet on whether Tsukahara Sawako would lose her virginity by the end of the month (30th of June). At the same time, Sawako is made the new "de facto" leader of GA-2, and she struggles to fill the boots left behind by Chinatsu.
 
  
 
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Revision as of 05:17, 29 October 2018

Details

  • Title: ショムニ
  • Title (romaji): Shomuni
  • Title (English): Power Office Girls
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Broadcast network: Fuji TV
  • Air time: Wednesday 21:00

Cast

Season 1

Shomuni
  • Episodes: 12 + 2 Specials
  • Viewership ratings: 21.8
  • Broadcast period: 1998-Apr-15 to 1998-Jul-01
  • Theme song: Sugao na Mama De by Izam with Astral Love

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Episode Information

Episode Broadcast Date Ratings
1 1998-Apr-15 18.8
2 1998-Apr-22 19.4
3 1998-Apr-29 21.4
4 1998-May-6 18.8
5 1998-May-13 19.1
6 1998-May-20 19.1
7 1998-May-27 24.0
8 1998-Jun-3 18.4
9 1998-Jun-10 23.2
10 1998-Jun-17 23.0
11 1998-Jun-24 24.7
12 1998-Jul-1 16.2

Season 2

Shomuni 2
  • Episodes: 11
  • Viewership ratings: 20.3
  • Broadcast period: 2000-Apr-12 to 2000-Jun-28
  • Theme Song: ONE WAY DRIVE by Esumi Makiko

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Season 3

  • Also known as: Power Office Girls 3 - The Final Chapter
  • Episodes: 12
  • Viewership ratings: Average 16.3, with a maximum of 23.1.
  • Broadcast period: 2002-Jul-03 to 2002-Sep-18
  • Ending song: Taiyou wa Shizumanai by The Alfee

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Review

The format of the story has hardly changed:

1. Shomuni employees do something for their own interests 2. Company runs into trouble 3. Shomuni employees save the company inadvertently 4. Shomuni employees find out that they did not get what they originally set out to do.

This time, though, the storylines have gotten tired, and Shomuni fans must have obtained a feeling that the entire ordeal of "Shomuni" should finally come to an end. There are recycled plotlines and too-similar plot-twists in two of the episodes, and one can almost guess the ending from the start of the show.

Worse, Himukai Rie, the part-time fortune teller, is given a very disappointingly peripheral role compared to the first two episodes, and it appears that the scriptwriters have run out of ideas.

One would miss Ito Toshihito's presence in Shomuni 1 and Shomuni 2, as the new person who replaces him, Okano, is not as charismatic or as good an actor as the former.

Thankfully though, the entire Shomuni saga ended with Shomuni Forever (telecast in 1 Janurary 2003). By that time, it had only generated 14.2% of the television ratings, compared to the average rating of 16.3% for this series with a peak of 23.1%.

Season 4

Shomuni 2
  • Also known as: Shomuni 2013
  • Episodes: 10
  • Viewership ratings: 11.14%
  • Broadcast period: 2013-Jul-10 to 2013-Sep-18
  • Theme Song: Pink no Dangan by Serena

Cast

Correlation chart

Synopsis

Shomuni 2013 sees a total change in the members of Shomuni, with the exception of Esumi Makiko who will reprise her role of the feisty Tsuboi Chinatsu. It has been 10 years since Shomuni had been dissolved in Manpan Corporation, and the department members have all gone on into retirement. Tsuboi Chinatsu's whereabouts is known to nobody.

Due to the long economic downturn suffered by Japanese companies, restructuring is a common occurrence nowadays. Manpan is no different from the rest. Maruyama Shiori is an Olympic gold-medal hopeful in the pole vault event. Manpan had recruited as part of their PR advertising, but due to severe costs-cutting measures, the track and field club in Manpan was dissolved, and Shiori is deemed to have no value to the company anymore. In order to make Shiori, who doesn't even have the skills to be a telephone operator, leave on her own accord, the company started tweeting bad things about her. Poor Shiori is now an outcast in the company and no one totally dares to be seen with her at all. No one, except for the team of OL, made up of Minami Madoka, Abe Reiko, Kojima Masuko and Fukuda Masuyo, who appear before her one by one.

One day, Shiori comes across a lady who seemed to be running away from someone. The next day, she sees the same lady again at the company. The lady is none other than the legendary Tsuboi Chinatsu! Has Chinatsu rejoined the company again? What is the objective of the company and also Chinatsu? -- by Fuji TV


Episode Ratings

Episode Episode title Ratings
(Kanto)
01 18.3%
02 13.8%
03 9.9%
04 11.7%
05 9.3%
06 11.3%
07 8.8%
08 8.7%
09 8.9%
10 7.8%
Average 11.14%

Source: Video Research, Ltd.

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External Links



Spring 2013
Fuji TV
Autumn 2013
Kazoku Game
Wednesday 22:00
TBA
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