Aggretsuko (アグレッシブ烈子)

Listen, missy!

I'm saying I can't trust your definition of "eating well!"

All that junk food you're eating

will come back to bite you when you're older.

Tell me again that you're eating well!

MOM

I'm eating well enough.

Now, hold on!

I can hear crunching!

Is that your idea of dinner?

I'm counting my calories.

That's not the problem!

For Pete's sake! Do you even cook?

Are you cleaning? Doing your laundry?

Shut up!

Did you call just to bother me?

If that's all, I'm hanging up. Is that all?

Ah, yes...

I found a cute dress online that's perfect for you.

No, thanks.

Hmm?

No, thank you! I'd never wear it!

It's perfect for you.

I say this as your mother and I'm never wrong.

Wait, stop.

Do not have that sent to me!

I've already sent it.

Package for you.

Who the hell will wear this?

RAGE

That's awful.

Nobody would want this.

It's not something you'd give your 25-year-old daughter.

It's practically cosplay.

My parents once sent me a weird suit with big shoulder pads.

-Shoulder pads? -They're relics!

I sold it immediately.

-That's mean. -That's mean.

It's better than tossing it out, right?

My mom asked me to try it on and send her a picture.

-Why? -So she can show it to my grandparents.

What are you, a first-grader?

It's good to be loved.

It's a nuisance!

Well, mothers are troublesome creatures.

No joke.

Retsuko!

Are you eating well?

I'm eating right now...

You can hardly call that eating well!

That junk food will come back to bite you when you're older!

...to bite you when you're older!

MOM

Oh, well...

I'm on a diet right now.

Have some fried veggies!

Think nothing of it.

I fried a whole wok of veggies this morning!

Oh dear. I'll gain weight again!

Please, help yourself!

Doesn't Kabae have, like, three kids?

She's a mother, too.

ACCOUNTING

Hey!

Short-timer!

Yes!

Haida! Fenneko!

-Yes? -Yes?

Come here.

Next month, Accounting will be getting a new employee.

A new graduate?

Yes.

Gomakawa's on her way out. She's getting married.

I'll need someone to take her place.

Listen up!

Graduates are just freeloaders with a bloated sense of pride.

Shove him off his pedestal and show him the truth about company life!

-As you wish, sir! -As you wish, sir!

As you wish, sir!

As for you, short-timer...

a company is not a clubhouse.

Be prepared to be hated by your subordinate.

OK.

So Gomakawa's marrying her way out...

She does have an aura of happiness around her.

Isn't she two years younger than us?

I see.

An early bloomer, huh?

Marriage...

I can't begin to imagine it.

It's nothing to aspire to. It's just an outdated system.

Cynical as always!

Your fantasies are showing again, Haida.

Huh? What do you mean? I'm as rational as you are!

Yeah?

Retsuko? Are you eating well?

I'm sleeping.

Hey! Why did you hang up?

Ugh, shut up!

Do you cook? Clean? Do laundry?

I'm going out today.

Got your hankie? Your purse?

I'm gonna hang up if you have nothing else to say!

Ah, yes...

I heard there was a robbery near your house.

A burglar forced his way into a girl's home. How terrible!

So you got worried and called?

Just tell me that you're locking up carefully!

Yeah, yeah, sure.

Hang some men's clothes to dry on your balcony, too.

It will help keep you safe.

I say this as your mother and I'm never wrong...

She's been getting worse.

The best bus tours have good food!

All-you-can-eat sushi. That's decided, then!

I want to relax in a hot spring.

How about a cherry-picking trip?

Oh, this is happening in July.

Miura seafood gourmet tour!

Kusatsu hot spring.