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==Details==
 
==Details==
 
*'''Title:''' ショムニ
 
*'''Title:''' ショムニ
 
*'''Title (romaji):''' Shomuni
 
*'''Title (romaji):''' Shomuni
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*'''Title (English):''' Power office ladies 1
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*'''Title (English):''' Power Office Girls
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*'''Episodes:''' 12 & 2 Specials
 
 
*'''Genre:''' Comedy
 
*'''Genre:''' Comedy
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*'''Viewership:''' 21.8%
 
 
*'''Broadcast network:''' Fuji TV
 
*'''Broadcast network:''' Fuji TV
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*'''Broadcast period:''' 1998-04-15 to 1998-07-01
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*'''Air time:''' Wednesday 21:00
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*'''Theme Song:''' Sugao na Mama De by Izam with Astral Love
 
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*'''Related Drama:''' [[Shomuni 2]], [[Shomuni Final]]
 
  
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==Synopsis==
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==User/Viewer Ratings==
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Shomuni (ショムニ) is a comedic TV drama serial based on the Japanese manga of the same name by Gumi Yasuda (安田弘之 Yasuda Gumi).
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The stories revolve around the Office Ladies of General Affairs department 2 (Shomu ni, or GA-2) in a large multinational company called Manpan Corporation.
 
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GA-2 is called "the graveyard for female office ladies", simply because it is the place where female employees are dumped should they mess up big time elsewhere. Jobs include replacing used toilet rolls, changing light-bulbs, organizing company outings among other menial stuff. As an added incentive, their department is located in the nether regions of the company - in the basement, and is in fact a disused store room.
 
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This is done in the hope these errant - or simply useless - employees will quit (and typically people last three days at most) due to the monotonous and meaningless nature of the job tasks, just so that the company, headed by sex-crazed executives and a Personnel Department willing to stoop to any means, will save on the costs of firing them.
 
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As the drama serial progresses, it is evident that these seemingly lowly employees have their own pride despite them being the most despised of female employees, and in every episode, they end up saving the company from a potential catastrophe, inadvertently or otherwise, and usually to back up their own selfish agenda.
 
  
 
==Cast==
 
==Cast==
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*[[Takahashi Yumiko]] as Himukai Rie
 
*[[Takahashi Yumiko]] as Himukai Rie
 
*[[Toda Keiko]] as Tokunaga Azusa
 
*[[Toda Keiko]] as Tokunaga Azusa
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*[[Ishiguro Ken]] Ukyo Tomohiro
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*[[Ishiguro Ken]] as Ukyo Tomohiro
 
*[[Morimoto Leo]] as Inoue Koji
 
*[[Morimoto Leo]] as Inoue Koji
 
*[[Takahashi Katsumi]] as Terasaki Torao
 
*[[Takahashi Katsumi]] as Terasaki Torao
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*[[Ito Toshihito]] as Nonomura
 
 
*[[Aijima Kazuyuki]]
 
*[[Aijima Kazuyuki]]
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*[[Ito Toshihito]] as Nonomura (season 1-2)
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*[[Musaka Naomasa]] (S1)
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*[[Hashizume Koichi]] (S1-2)
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*[[Yajima Kenichi]] (S1)
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*[[Kubo Akira]] (S1-3
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*[[Sawamura Ikki]] (S2-3)
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*[[Numata Baku]] (S2)
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*[[Okayama Hajime]] (S2)
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*[[Masana Bokuzo]]
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*[[Fukikoshi Mitsuru]] (S1)
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==Season 1==
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*'''Episodes:''' 12 + 2 Specials
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*'''Viewership ratings:''' 21.8
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*'''Broadcast period:''' 1998-Apr-15 to 1998-Jul-01
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*'''Theme song:''' ''Sugao na Mama De'' by Izam with Astral Love
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===Synopsis===
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{{nosynopsis}}
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===Production Credits===
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*'''Screenwriter:''' [[Takahashi Rumi]], [[Hashimoto Hiroshi]]
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*'''Producer:''' [[Takiyama Madoka]], [[Funatsu Koichi]]
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*'''Director:''' [[Suzuki Masayuki (director)|Suzuki Masayuki]]
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===Episode Information===
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{| class="ratingtable"
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! Episode !! Broadcast Date !! Ratings
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| 1 || 1998-Apr-15 || 18.8
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| 2 || 1998-Apr-22 || 19.4
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| 3 || 1998-Apr-29 || 21.4
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| 4 || 1998-May-6 || 18.8
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| 5 || 1998-May-13 || 19.1
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| 6 || 1998-May-20 || 19.1
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| 7 || 1998-May-27 || 24.0
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| 8 || 1998-Jun-3 || 18.4
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| 9 || 1998-Jun-10 || 23.2
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| 10 || 1998-Jun-17 || 23.0
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| 11 || 1998-Jun-24 || 24.7
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| 12 || 1998-Jul-1 || 16.2
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|}
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==Season 2==
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[[File:B0016178 23144924.jpg|thumb|300px|Shomuni 2]]
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*'''Episodes:''' 12
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*'''Viewership ratings:''' 20.3
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*'''Broadcast period:''' 2000-Apr-12 to 2000-Jun-28
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*'''Theme Song:''' ''ONE WAY DRIVE'' by [[Esumi Makiko]]
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===Synopsis===
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{{nosynopsis}}
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===Production Credits===
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*'''Screenwriter:''' [[Takahashi Rumi]], [[Hashimoto Hiroshi]]
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*'''Producer:''' [[Funatsu Koichi]]
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*'''Music:''' [[Oshima Michiru]]
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==Season 3==
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*'''Also known as:''' Power Office Girls 3 - The Final Chapter
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*'''Episodes:''' 12
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*'''Viewership ratings:''' Average 16.3, with a maximum of 23.1.
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*'''Broadcast period:''' 2002-Jul-03 to 2002-Sep-18
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*'''Ending song:''' ''Taiyou wa Shizumanai'' by The Alfee
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===Synopsis===
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{{nosynopsis}}
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===Production Credits===
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*'''Screenwriter:''' [[Hashimoto Hiroshi]]
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*'''Producer:''' [[Funatsu Koichi]]
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*'''Director:''' [[Suzuki Masayuki (director)|Suzuki Masayuki]]
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===Review===
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The format of the story has hardly changed:
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1. Shomuni employees do something for their own interests
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2. Company runs into trouble
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3. Shomuni employees save the company inadvertently
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4. Shomuni employees find out that they did not get what they originally set out to do.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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%.
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==Season 4==
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[[File:Shomuni_2003.jpg|thumb|150px|Shomuni 2]]
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*'''Also known as:''' Shomuni 2013
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*'''Episodes:''' 10
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*'''Viewership ratings:''' 11.14%
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*'''Broadcast period:''' 2013-Jul-10 to 2013-Sep-18
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*'''Theme Song:''' ''Pink no Dangan'' by Serena
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===Cast===
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[[File:Shomuni_2003-chart.jpg|thumb|150px|Correlation chart]]
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*[[Esumi Makiko]] as Tsuboi Chinatsu
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*[[Becky]] as Minami Madoka
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*[[Honda Tsubasa]] as Maruyama Shiori
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*[[Ando Sakura]] as Abe Reiko
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*[[Moriya Kanna|Mori Kanna]] as Kojima Misuzu
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*[[Horiuchi Keiko]] as Fukuda Masuyo
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*[[Miura Shohei]] as Samon Daisuke
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*[[Katase Nana]] as Danjo Miki
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*[[Masu Takeshi]] as Maekawa Susumu
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*[[Suzuki Kosuke]] as Shimoochiai Koichi
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*[[Yasuda Ken]] as Hoshino Kenji
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*[[Kudo Asuka]] as Hayami
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*[[Kawanami Junichi]] as intern (ep7)
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===Synopsis===
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{{nosynopsis}}
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===Episode Ratings===
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{| class="ratingtable"
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! Episode
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! width=200 | Episode title
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! Ratings<br>(Kanto)
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| 01 || || 18.3%
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| 02 || || 13.8%
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| 03 || || 9.9%
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| 04 || || 11.7%
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| 05 || || 9.3%
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| 06 || || 11.3%
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| 07 || || 8.8%
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| 08 || || 8.7%
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| 09 || || 8.9%
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| 10 || || 7.8%
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! colspan=2 | Average || 11.14%
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|}
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Source: [http://www.videor.co.jp Video Research, Ltd.]
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===Production Credits===
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*'''Original writing:''' Yasuda Hiroyuki (安田弘之)
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*'''Screenwriter:''' [[Ushio Kentaro]]
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*'''Producer:''' [[Iwata Yuji]]
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*'''Director''' [[Suzuki Masayuki (director)]], [[Kobayashi Yoshinori]]
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*'''Music:''' [[Oshima Michiru]]
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==External Links==
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*[http://jdorama.com/drama.380.htm Season 1 JDorama.com]
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*[http://jdorama.com/drama.381.htm Season 2 JDorama.com]
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*[http://jdorama.com/drama.615.htm Season 3 JDorama.com]
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*[[Wikipedia:Shomuni|English Wikipedia]]
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*[http://www.fujitv.co.jp/shomu2/index.html Official website Season 4]
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*[http://www.fujicreative.co.jp/for_buyers/more_info/tabid/106/pdid/173/Default.aspx Official English website]
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*[[Wikipedia:ja:ショムニ_(テレビドラマ)|Japanese Wikipedia]]
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{{SeasonRing|Fuji TV|Wednesday 22:00|Spring 2013|[[Kazoku Game]]|Autumn 2013|TBA}}
  
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==Other Resources==
 
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*[http://jdorama.com/drama.380.htm JDorama.com]
 
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*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shomuni wikipedia]
 
 
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[[Category:JDrama2000]]
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[[Category:JDrama2013]]
 
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Latest revision as of 11:25, 30 May 2023

Shomuni
Contents:  Season 1 • Season 2 • Season 3 • Season 4

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

User/Viewer Ratings

0.00
(0 votes)

Cast

Season 1

  • 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

Synopsis

This article contains no synopsis. You can help DramaWiki by writing one.

Production Credits

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

Synopsis

This article contains no synopsis. You can help DramaWiki by writing one.

Production Credits

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

Synopsis

This article contains no synopsis. You can help DramaWiki by writing one.

Production Credits

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

This article contains no synopsis. You can help DramaWiki by writing one.

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.

Production Credits

External Links



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