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I finally managed to get some time to watch the last season of Aggretsuko. It's sad that it's the last season because this means we'll never get a Fenneko arc. It was also a strange season. It didn't feel like it's supposed to be the last one. At the same time, it feels like there was a season missing between this and the last one because the characters feel different from the last one, as if there was development we didn't see.

It was strange that they tackled this season mostly from Haida's perspective. All of a sudden, he's the main protagonist. They used him to tackle Japan's "Lost Generation" social issue after the economic bubble burst back in the late 90s. Instead of Retsuko being the one looking for a job and having trouble, it was Haida because of the events that happened in Season 4. They even made fun of the shark jumping. The show jumped the shark since Retsuko got into underground idol girls.

Some things to take note of:

Juzo and Ton are from the same generation, but Ton respects the ideals of the new generation while Juzo rejects it. Jiro is also from the same generation as Haida, so he wanted as much change as Haida.

Ever since alternative sources of income existed, people like Shikabane existed. Freelance work online or even just being a content creator on YouTube lets people make money without holding down a traditional 9-5 job. My sister herself made money translating manga to English online. Traditional Japanese look down on these jobs because, to them, you should be reporting for work in an office or something. I experienced this firsthand from my father. He just couldn't get it.

Shikabane is homeless by choice, but she's not "poor." The cost of living in Japan is stupidly expensive. What she has is an alternative lifestyle. After all, wealth isn't measured by how much you make at the end of the day. It's how much you keep at the end of the day.

They kind of underplayed Haida's construction job. He made 10k yen in one day. ONE DAY. That's nuts because, if you compare it to his Family Mart job, he made 70k yen in one month. Store clerk job's easier, but the average rent in Japan is more than half that. Two or three people need to be sharing the apartment to make that work. Dirty jobs like construction or engineering in Japan typically pay a lot more money compared to clean air-conditioned office jobs. But not everyone is willing to do it because you put your body on the line.

Haida writes his name funny. ハイ田. "Hai" is written in katakana, but "Da" is written in kanji? Shikabane writes her name in katakana. シカバネ. But you'd think if "Shika" was in kanji, 鹿, she would be a deer, not a skunk. I thought that's interesing.

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I finally managed to get some time to watch the last season of Aggretsuko. It's sad that it's the last season because this means we'll never get a Fenneko arc. It was also a strange season. It didn't feel like it's supposed to be the last one. At the same time, it feels like there was a season missing between this and the last one because the characters feel different from the last one, as if there was development we didn't see.

It was strange that they tackled this season mostly from Haida's perspective. All of a sudden, he's the main protagonist. They used him to tackle Japan's "Lost Generation" social issue after the economic bubble burst back in the late 90s. Instead of Retsuko being the one looking for a job and having trouble, it was Haida because of the events that happened in Season 4. They even made fun of the shark jumping. The show jumped the shark since Retsuko got into underground idol girls.

Some things to take note of:

Juzo and Ton are from the same generation, but Ton respects the ideals of the new generation while Juzo rejects it. Jiro is also from the same generation as Haida, so he wanted as much change as Haida.

Ever since alternative sources of income existed, people like Shikabane existed. Freelance work online or even just being a content creator on YouTube lets people make money without holding down a traditional 9-5 job. My sister herself made money translating manga to English online. Traditional Japanese look down on these jobs because, to them, you should be reporting for work in an office or something. I experienced this firsthand from my father. He just couldn't get it.

Shikabane is homeless by choice, but she's not "poor." The cost of living in Japan is stupidly expensive. What she has is an alternative lifestyle. After all, wealth isn't measured by how much you make at the end of the day. It's how much you keep at the end of the day.

They kind of underplayed Haida's construction job. He made 10k yen in one day. ONE DAY. That's nuts because, if you compare it to his Family Mart job, he made 70k yen in one month. Store clerk job's easier, but the average rent in Japan is more than half that. Two or three people need to be sharing the apartment to make that work. Dirty jobs like construction or engineering in Japan typically pay a lot more money compared to clean air-conditioned office jobs. But not everyone is willing to do it because you put your body on the line.

Haida writes his name funny. ハイ田. "Hai" is written in katakana, but "Da" is written in kanji? Shikabane writes her name in katakana. シカバネ. But you'd think if "Shika" was in kanji, 鹿, she would be a deer, not a skunk. I thought that's interesing.