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==Details==
 
==Details==
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*'''Title:''' Shomuni / ショムニ
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*'''Title:''' ショムニ
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*'''Also Known As:''' Power office ladies 1
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*'''Title (romaji):''' Shomuni
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*'''Episodes:''' 12
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*'''Title (English):''' Power Office Girls
 
*'''Genre:''' Comedy
 
*'''Genre:''' Comedy
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*'''Air time:'''
 
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*'''Viewership:'''
 
 
*'''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:'''
 
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*'''Related Drama:''' [[Shomuni 2]], [[Shomuni Final]]
 
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==Cast & Credits==
 
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===Producer===
 
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===Director===
 
  
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===Screenwriter===
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==User/Viewer Ratings==
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===Music by===
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==Cast==
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===Cast===
 
 
*[[Esumi Makiko]] as Tsuboi Chinatsu
 
*[[Esumi Makiko]] as Tsuboi Chinatsu
 
*[[Kyono Kotomi]] as Tsukuhara Sawako
 
*[[Kyono Kotomi]] as Tsukuhara Sawako
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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
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*[[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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===Synopsis===
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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 Yasuda Gumi (安田弘之). Released in 1998, Shomuni was a surprise winner of the ratings war for drama serials aired in Japan between April to June, despite being projected to finish a lowly thirteenth in a survey conducted by a major TV station[1].
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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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===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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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. Rarely is anyone ever allowed to leave for other more purposeful departments. 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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===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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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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==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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Unfortunately, though, the employees posted to GA-2 exhibit, to the chagrin of the Personnel Department Chief Terasako Torao (寺崎寅男) and his assistant Nonomura (野々?), the people at Shomuni are far too happy with their menial jobs, as this gives them more than enough time to pursue their other interests during office hours.
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===Synopsis===
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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.
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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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Aside from the friendly and affable GA-2 Section Chief Inoue Koji (井上洸二), whose role can at best be described as nominal. Save for caring for a female tabby cat, he is an old man who appears to be only interested in waiting for his retirement age while idling in the GA-2 office.
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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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GA-2 comprised of four women from the start of the first episode, and is seen first from the eyes of Tsukahara Sawako (塚原?和? - the fifth woman to join GA-2).
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===Synopsis===
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1. Tsuboi Chinatsu (?井??) is the tallest person in GA-2. She is responsible for carrying the ladder which is used for fixing light-bulbs. Before she entered Manpan Corporation, she used to work as a nightclub hostess (episode 1). The de jure leader of GA-2.
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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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2. Miyashita Kana (宮下佳奈) has a past which few people know about. She is often not seen having lunch with her fellow GA-2 colleagues in the company canteen, for she spends lunch hour with different male high-ranking executives of the company on most occasions.
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===Review===
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The format of the story has hardly changed:
  
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3. Tokunaga Azusa (徳永???) is the second oldest employee in GA-2, after Section Chief Inoue. Nobody in GA-2 seems to remember how she ended up in GA-2 - even Inoue. She is usually responsible for making announcements as well as drawing up the daily company routines of GA-2. Highly interested in stock investments.
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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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4. Himukai Rie (日?リエ) is the quirkiest of the GA-2 members. Her mother sells antiques and her father has a photocopy store. She has a night job as a fortune teller at night after work at GA-2 - and her predictions are never wrong.
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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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5. Tsukahara Sawako is the youngest (at age 21) employee in GA-2, and is very incompetent at getting the job done correctly. After knocking down the president of Manpan Corporation fortuitously at a lift lobby (as the result of a fight between her and a woman in a lift) in full view of many company employees, she was posted to GA-2.
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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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At the end of the third episode, a sixth member called Maruhashi Ume (丸橋梅) was posted (that's putting it kindly) to GA-2, and she used to know Tsuboi Chinatsu - the two have gone to the same school before. Highly ambitious, she is learning Arabic and aims to leave GA-2 as soon as she can.
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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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Each of the twelve episodes usually focuses on the developments of one character of Shomuni. Each episode is independent of another.
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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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Two sequels to Shomuni were made, as well as three Special movie editions. Shomuni was followed up by two movies: Shomuni Special 1 (aired on 7th October 1998), Shomuni Special 2 (aired on 2nd January 2000), and two sequel drama serials: Shomuni 2 (aired from 12th April 2000 to 28th June 2000) and the other was Shomuni Final (3rd July 2002 - 18th September 2002). A third movie, Shomuni Forever, was aired on January 1st, 2003 to round off the drama series.[2]
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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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1. http://web-japan.org/trends98/honbun/ntj980911.html
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===Synopsis===
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{{nosynopsis}}
  
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2. http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B7%E3%83%A7%E3%83%A0%E3%83%8B
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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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| 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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Source: [http://www.videor.co.jp Video Research, Ltd.]
  
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==Other Resources==
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===Production Credits===
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*[http://jdorama.com/drama.380.htm JDorama.com]
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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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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

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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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