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Office Lady
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A Gratuitous English Japanese term — often abbreviated to "OL" — for a low-level female employee in a corporate setting. Although she may have higher aspirations, the usual Japanese corporate sexism frequently keeps her fetching coffee, fending off sexual harassment, and forever clinging to the bottom rung of the office ladder. The Western equivalent would be the "glass ceiling". Traditionally, the "office flower" was selected for being beautiful, elegant and gracious to clients and expected to work for only a few years (just long enough to meet a nice young executive to marry), so it was not considered a "real" career. Some companies have OLs on separate career tracks to their "real employees" (who would generally be expected to stay with the company for their entire working life, and progress up the corporate ladder accordingly) — and give female hires a choice of which track they want to be on. Generally treated as the expected employment path for a respectable young woman, Office Ladies are often used as shorthand for an employed, responsible adult woman (in contrast to the teenagers who populate most manga). In works for teenagers, the Cool Big Sis or the one taking care of her younger siblings is likely to be an OL, while in josei (women's manga), it's a likely career for The Protagonist. In seinen (men's manga) there is also often a titillating aspect to OL characters, since OLs are traditionally supposed to be good-looking, attentive to men and unmarried, so it's a likely choice for Ms. Fanservice or the Love Interest. She will also likely worry about trying to find a husband and having children. Office Lady characters played straight are a bit more common in dorama (Japanese "soap operas") than they are in anime, although Punch Clock Villains and female Mooks are sometimes depicted this way. In Speculative Fiction Series, OL characters are frequently employed as Bridge Bunnies. If OLs are in a particularly violent anime or manga series, regardless of their allegiance, don't expect them to live long. Compare Girl Friday, High-Powered Career Woman, Plucky Office Girl, Sassy Secretary and Sexy Secretary. |
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In Midori Days, Seiji's sister Rin dresses like an Office Lady, although she leads a biker gang. God help the poor fool who tries to pinch her butt! | |
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Emilia Justina in The Devil is a Part-Timer! turned from The Hero in Ente Isla to a contract worker named Yusa Emi working in a call center upon her arrival on Earth. She still has yet to give up on her quest to defeat the demon lord, who is actually living poorer than her. | |
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In Tokyo Ghoul, the Commission of Counter-Ghoul employees quite a few of these to handle interaction with the public. When Kaneki and Touka go to the headquarters to give false information, they are greeted by a cheerful and attractive young woman. She spends time fawning over the Tall, Dark, and Handsome Fair Cop that just transferred to their branch, establishing her firmly as one of these. In the sequel, Sasaki is introduced being fawned over by another such standard cute Office Lady. | |
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Gaia Online's Meredith, a cute, young, redheaded bank teller who in the old days taught new users how to set up trades and transactions. RIG character OL-runa is Alruna the succubus as an office lady. RIG prize Gaia-sama is Gaia-tan as an office lady. Gaia Online loves this trope, apparently. |
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It's also Yumeria's day job in Hikonin Sentai Akibaranger. | |
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The 100 Girlfriends Who Really, Really, Really, Really, Really Love You: Tama used to work as one, but she regarded the job (and working in general) as a Fate Worse than Death and decided to quit and live the life of a cat. | |
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Ebichu's owner ('the Mistress') in Oruchuban Ebichu is unnamed, but otherwise referred to as O.L. in the source material. She's also her "boyfriend"'s Chew Toy. | |
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In Liar Game, one of the players who makes it to the fourth round is Mika Mikamoto, who goes by the nickname of "Office Lady". She's a follower of Harimoto's cult and thus one of his loyal minions. | |
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Kaoru from I Can't Understand What My Husband Is Saying works at some unnamed company. To her annoyance, she makes less money than her husband (he does web design). | |
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The titular Hotaru from Hotaru's Way is one. She's content to remain single until she finds herself involved with a younger man. | |
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An interesting subversion/aversion in Ghost in the Shell: Section 9 employs an army of identical androids in the guise of attractive young women who do everything from answering the phones to flying the helicopters. Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex reveals that other government services have similar groups of assistants, with different designs (e.g. Section 9's wear red suits and have brown ponytails, while the mundane military's come with glasses and wear military fatigues). | |
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The duties of Mai from Ghost Hunt when Naru doesn't have a case are similar to that of an office lady. She even comments that her pay is roughly equivalent to what an office lady makes - which is really generous for an after-school part-time job. | |
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In You're My Pet, career woman Sumire is envied by her OL coworkers. | |
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In Apricot Cookie(s)!, Magical Girls who do it with a guy become an OL when they transform and lose their powers, as Moonlight Spritzer unfortunately finds out. | |
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Linna Yamazaki in Bubblegum Crisis Tokyo 2040 (not to be confused with the OVA version of her character, who was an aerobics instructor and later a stockbroker.) | |
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Moriko Morioka quits her job at the start of Recovery of an MMO Junkie, deciding she'd rather be a NEET than being overworked. | |
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The very unusual Gundam spinoff manga Gunnota no Onna combines this with Gender Flip, starring a female Char named Gunnota who tries to hide her Otaku tendencies while being in a Love Triangle with Fem!M'Quve and Man!Kycilia. | |
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Appears as a trainer class in Pokémon Black and White. | |
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One level in Osu! Tatakae! Ouendan has Sachiko, the overworked secretary. She is forever being bullied by a group of three other office ladies. The cheerleaders help to get her work done so she can go to the company's anniversary dance and win over the company president's son. | |
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Kamen Rider 555 features the creepy Smart Lady, representative of the Smart Brain company run by the villains. She never has a name beyond that, and her role seems to be to cheerfully welcome guests and cheerfully threaten Orphenochs who turn down the Monster of the Week gig. | |
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I May Be a Guild Receptionist, But I'll Solo Any Boss to Clock Out on Time: Being a guild receptionist, main protagonist Alina Clover is essentially a fantasy version of of this trope. She deals with much of the same trials and tribulations of a typical office lady, including extended work hours and huge loads of paperwork. She prefers to stay working as one, since she has a stable income and less risks of being fired. | |
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Wendy in the Read or Die OVA seems to be an OL, although this changes when she appears in the Read or Dream TV. | |
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Yoko Yagami/Pink Racer of Gekisou Sentai Carranger is one of these. | |
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Kaya in Midnight Secretary, who takes her secretarial duties extremely seriously, and her employers acknowledge and appreciate her hard work. | |
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Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid: Played with for Elma, whose job mainly consists of serving everyone tea, but that's only because she got a job as a programmer without even knowing what a computer was. She gets elevated to Salarywoman once she learns how to code. Kobayashi is also referred to as an office lady in the anime's trailer, but she's more of a female Salaryman in terms of position (she's a senior programmer described as the pillar for the entire department) and dress. |
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Super Sentai: Yoko Yagami/Pink Racer of Gekisou Sentai Carranger is one of these. It's also Yumeria's day job in Hikonin Sentai Akibaranger. |
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Kaneru from Doujin Work is a rather bored office lady who only finds joy in making doujinshi, even though she claims to be the owner of a tea salon. | |
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Parodied once in City Hunter (from the same author as Cat's Eye above): during one arc Kaori was to bodyguard a woman, actually her long lost older sister, who, being the director of a newspaper and wishing her sister to abandon her rather dangerous life, asked her to take the role, justifying it as a cover. Kaori's attempt at using a photocopier (who hadn't the plug in place) ended with her smashing it with a giant hammer, and it was only the beginning. | |
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She Becomes a Tree stars Chishiro and Kisaki, two office ladies. Kisaki is extremely good at her job because her ability to sprout tree limbs from her body allows her to multitask, but most of her coworkers shun her. | |
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My Senpai Is Annoying: Igarashi works in an office, but due to her stature isn't really seen as an adult by her coworkers (though they at least treat her seriously). | |
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