I've always thought that workplace animation is one of the biggest things in all animation genres.
Speaking of other worlds, we think of swords and magic, beautiful and upside-down various sub-human or human beautiful girls; when it comes to science fiction, we think of Gundam, AI (beautiful girls), and routes across the stars.
Most of the animations of other themes have such a stereotypical "business card" that makes everyone happy to see.
Speaking of the workplace, even the most naïve college students will not have any romantic fantasies about it this year.
As for my elderly ape, who has entered the workplace, seeing these two words is even more blood pressure soaring.
I still remember last season's "Seniors Are Annoying Enough", writing workplace animation, reading as another-world animation, because such a workplace could not exist in the real world.
However, in this year's January new fan, rare species such as workplace animation actually appeared in pairs.
Moreover, none of them are "fake" workplace animations like "The Elders Are Annoying Enough".
Even if there are virtual elements such as "close-up heroes" and "strange people" in one of them, it is "no fiction, all are real in the world".
These two animations, one is "Secret Insider: The Policewoman's Counterattack" (hereinafter referred to as "Policewoman"), this is an old face, mentioned in the previous January new review.
The other is "Miss Kuroi Tsu of the Strange Man Development Department" (hereinafter referred to as "Strange Man"), the heroine Miss Kuroi Tsu is responsible for the development of the strange man in the company with the evil man (laughs).
Even better, these two animations focus on two types of dilemmas faced by professionals.
Let's start with the animation itself.
The protagonist of "Policewoman" is an ordinary traffic policeman, who mistakenly hit and bumped into a policeman because of unrealistic fantasies about the nature of the work of grass-roots civil servants.
Every day, she was overwhelmed by the trivial work of daily affairs, doing pure thankless things, and often wondering what the meaning of her work really was.
The protagonist of "Strange Man" is a staff member of the Strange Man Development Department, whose job is to design and develop strange people who fight with close-up heroes.
She struggles with the head of the department with severe procrastination on the dead line, and also has to deal with the finger-pointing of the leaders of various departments of the company for the development of strange people.
A strange person development plan, after the company's various departments will sign for advice and walk around, it will be unrecognizable, and a sentence from the big leader will make her and her supervisor stay up late and work overtime again.
These two protagonists, one in the real face as a policeman, to maintain world peace; the other in the set of the villain with the villain, specially designed enemies for superheroes.
The circumstances of the two of them are strikingly similar, experiencing the human reality that every worker will experience.
However, in the eyes of the animals, the problems faced by the female police and the staff of the Development Department are actually two different problems that the animals will always encounter.
The main challenge faced by female police officers is the wear and tear of enthusiasm from trivial daily work.
Some daily tasks are really unfulfilling, just like the work done by robots, and what is more fatal is that these tasks may be thankless.
Well done, no one will thank you; if you do not do a good job, someone will jump out and scold you.
The clerk's job is not a trivial matter, but a concrete project, and the project has a clear meaning: to produce powerful freaks and destroy the evil Kamen Rider (laughs).
However, this kind of "big work" will torture you in another way, the first thing you need to fight against is your own inertia, the planning of social animals, the big homework of the student party, always making people lose their hair before the dead line.
Doing this kind of big job, the dead line is often the first productivity, and before the deadline, you would rather fish all day long and return from the Air Force than be happy to look at the project.
In addition, because this kind of big work usually lasts for a long time, from one season to several years (don't ask me how I know).
As the saying goes, the night is long and dreamy, and in this process, the big leaders, all departments, and all brotherly units may come up on a whim to point fingers.
The plan that you started with was like a plasticine that could be kneaded, and in the end it turned out to be something you wouldn't recognize.
To sum up, the reason for the daily increase in blood pressure of social animals is nothing more than two: small work is boring, and big work is difficult to do.
Small jobs are like slow knives cutting flesh to consume people's will, and big jobs continue to exert heavy pressure on people like Tarzan.
"Policewoman" focuses on the former, while "Strange Man" focuses on the latter, and the animation responds differently to these two different challenges.
The first episode of "Policewoman" ends with a case statement:
The heroine's father was once punished by the traffic police, and he was still on the way out to play with the whole family, which originally left a strong psychological shadow on the heroine.
Even when she herself became a traffic police officer to post tickets to others, she would feel guilty about it.
However, his father, who was drunk and told her that he had always attached great importance to the ticket and gave it up.
Because, this ticket always reminds him that he can't violate traffic rules and drive safely, and this lesson has also allowed their family to spend so many years in peace.
At this time, the heroine's superior told her that the police work was indeed trivial and heavy, and there was no result in a short period of time, but they did make the city safer.
The main story of "Policewoman" is the process of the police flower boss, a senior with a strong sense of responsibility, leading the heroine, a little white, to find meaning in ordinary work.
While finding meaning doesn't make trivial work easy, working with meaning doesn't get caught up in self-doubt.
There are not so many grand causes in this world, and most people's growth begins with accepting their own ordinariness.
In the face of grinding big jobs, "Strange Man" offers a solution that is not a solution.
At the beginning, the heroine and the supervisor could not prepare the plan before the report because of procrastination, so she cheekily began to talk nonsense and open her mouth in front of all the executives.
In the end, she is forced to play the freak "Nice" herself, and the oppressive power of this freak makes the hero have no idea of shooting.
Later, she and her supervisor came up with a mature plan" "Wolf the Werewolf", they exploded liver design strange human body, and also let the strange person's personality train with the hero in virtual battles.
As a result, because of the words of the big leader, they had to change the strange body to a wolf sister beautiful girl, and the temporary debugging also called up a BUG: the skill that should have been armor enhancement became a burst suit!
Wolfe's soul had to succumb to the female body to fight the hero, and because of the debugging bug, he directly performed a blast on the hero.
Unexpectedly, the hero's body is a pure love virgin, seeing this stimulating picture, direct brain downtime, can not get up again.
The program you write has bugs, but this program can run, probably this is the feeling.
Their third project is a project that is "cooperated" by various departments within the company. In the process of soliciting opinions, their plans were changed beyond recognition.
They finally designed the strange man and delivered it to production, and everyone encouraged the strange man to do a good job at the celebration banquet and destroy the other hero.
Then, the strange man who looked very happy did not survive 5 seconds in front of the hero.
The hero said, why not bring a strange man who looks more fierce and can fight?
In a sense, the hero is the "customer" of their gang of weirdo developers, and he is the real "user" of the weirdo.
The customer's requirements are no different from their first version of the project.
This kind of playful treatment is actually a "rotten" attitude.
Anyway, the big work will definitely be lengthened, and the middle will definitely be put forward by various people, then we will put it up, what opinions you put forward, I will change according to the opinions, and the final results are not good, don't blame me.
From another point of view, this is also a kind of "pleasure in suffering" mentality, the final sense of achievement and acquisition of the big life is strong, the process is boring and laborious, so this optimistic mentality is needed to help people survive the sea of suffering.
This mentality is not unreasonable, when I was interning, my mentor taught me a mantra: "Hurry up and do it quickly, big work is slow." ”
The highest priority in the work is always the urgent part, and the lowest priority for the big project, because this thing has to be constantly changed.
It is true that sometimes "brainstorming" can be counterproductive, but this is not a reason to do big work without soliciting the opinions of others.
Because, when a big job finally lands, the impact is not only on the workers themselves or the department where the workers are located, but on the entire company and even the entire industry.
If you insist on implementing it with the heart of a single husband, it will only consume more communication costs afterwards.
The image of the "boss" in these two animations is also very popular with me.
The police flower senior turns her face faster than the book, and she will stink behind her back, but her business ability is first-class, her sense of responsibility is full, and she can give people a sense of security.
The "stinky men" in the criminal police team who slowly smell bad are also very reliable at key moments, and standing in front of the suspects has a feeling of not being angry and arrogant.
The think tanks of the Strange Man Development Company are strict with themselves, think clearly, and attach equal importance to their subordinates.
Moreover, he himself is more "rolled" than his subordinates, still working on the road to work, and told the heroine that don't look at him so busy now, in fact, he only uses a quarter of his brain power to work, and the other three-quarters is resting.
There was only one room left in the hotel, and he also gave that room to subordinates of the opposite sex, and he would spend the night at the group hostel.
Judging from my personal experience in the workplace, most of my bosses are like this.
They fight harder than their subordinates, and if you don't understand anything at work (this is really important) ask them for help, they will also give you a bottom line.
Most of the bosses are actually good bosses, the selection mechanism is placed here, and the scum in the upper position cannot be said to be non-existent, but the proportion is certainly not much.
Whether you have entered the workplace or not, I recommend these two workplace animations in January that can be called Wolong Phoenix.
If you are a social animal, then these two animations will definitely make you call the truth straight, laugh and watch, and recall the bittersweet and bittersweet in your work.
If you are a student, looking at these two animations can also give you a relatively correct understanding of the future workplace, which is not as beautiful as in "Seniors Are Annoying Enough", nor is it so terrible.