Crossover With Non-anime Series Fan Fiction ❯ Terdwilicker's Anime Reviews ❯ NEET Kunoichi ( Chapter 62 )

Japanese people work too much. They work very long hours while accomplishing very little, because their economy is salary based, so overtime is unpaid, and the boss only starts working at 4 PM, and you have to stay until he is done at 6 PM, when you all leave for a mandatory company drinking party. They pay for the booze, but you have to drink it or you can forget about any hope of future raises or promotion. Sounds toxic right? Well, it is. Don't work in Japan. Its mostly about filling in forms and shuffling paperwork and wasting your life. That's also why Japan has the third highest suicide rate in the world.

This anime, NEET Kunoichi to Nazeka Dousei Hagimemashita is the story of an overworked pinkette ninja who spends her days gaming in the living room of her "master", who has bad juju that attracts various monsters. And Japan has lots of monsters, just like Celtic Ireland and Scotland and Wales, because their mythologies have the same origin, but that's another topic. Because he guy attracts monsters, the ninja has to kill them at night. She sleeps during most of the day, and when she's awake she's gaming because she can't cook or clean. She's good at monster killing so she does earn her keep, she just isn't a conventional woman.

Unfortunately, she's also the best ninja of her age in her Leafy Village, not to be confused with some similar named place, and the other ninja are wanting her to come back and resume running the place and training all the new ninjas that aren't as good as she is. And therein lies the reason I say this is really a metaphor about overwork. She's worked too hard, is burned out, and needs this break. Most people in her position would also prefer this to the overwork lifestyle. Gaming during the day with nightly slaughter missions on the hostiles creeping around preying on humans? Sure. And he cooks her meals and washes her clothes and picks her up when she gets tired from slaying monsters. Sounds kinda like Xander in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, come to think of it....