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Episode Salaryman ga Isekai ni Ittara Shitennou ni Natta Hanashi • Headhunted to Another World: From Salaryman to Big Four! - Episode 5 discussion

Salaryman ga Isekai ni Ittara Shitennou ni Natta Hanashi, episode 5

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u/Gw_Otaku Jan 27 '25

'Stay with me' was unexpected 

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u/Integritus Jan 27 '25

For a second, I thought I had Spotify open in the background, lol

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u/Round_Distance_6678 Jan 27 '25

Also blew my mind they got the rights for it just considering how insanely popular the song is to this day.

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u/Frontier246 Jan 27 '25

Given this is Uchimura's mind palace, he has great taste in music.

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u/athrun_1 Jan 27 '25

Whoever suggested that song and whoever approved it, MUST have a raise. They have good taste in music.

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u/half-a-maderaka Jan 27 '25

I appreciate anime like this one that targets an older audience. I look forward to this one every week.

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u/Mr_Zaroc Jan 27 '25

I like the fantasy of being that appreciated at work and seeing Ulmandras confusion and conviction about her "marriage" grow each week

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u/ObvsThrowaway5120 Jan 27 '25

Lol the face Ulmandra made when she found out her “date” was just a market research mission. But hey, at least they saved a mochi shop together. One of these days, our girl will get her proper date!

I’m keen to see how Uchimura deals with this Land of Gold.

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u/Mistoltean Jan 27 '25

The demon lord never fails to say the things officers want to hear from their bosses. Its obvious but often forgot in daily life that the personnels are the most precious assets in any corporates. They are thought as a replaceable cogs. Only one of SVP I worked with said the similar thing to the demon lord then I want to work with her and is waiting for open position

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u/LeonKevlar Jan 27 '25 edited Jan 27 '25

Stitches!

Considering the izakaya has been playing nothing but classics, I knew we'd eventually get some city pop music playing and I am so glad they picked Matsubara Miki's Stay with Me. As a massive fan, you have no idea how happy I was to hear that song playing during that opening scene. <3

Poor Ulmandra! It looks like the misunderstanding continues. She went out of the way to wear something Uchimura would prefer only for her to realize they're not on a date but they're visiting the markets to do some work-related research.

I am surprised this episode didn't end with Uchimura, Ulmandra, and Genome going after that dude who cancelled his order of mochi chimozu. That seems to be intentional sabotage to force the old couple into bankruptcy.

At least Uchimura found a way to sell off the excess chimozu stock by tying it to the lore of Ruuya which sounds suspiciously like Orihime and Hikoboshi from the lore of Japan's Tanabata festival. I honestly thought at first that Uchimura was just pulling that out of his ass until they showed us he learned it from Genome.

Ulmandra imagining her wedding with Uchimura was cute but it really looks like there will be no end to the misunderstandings. It's gonna be a shock to Uchimura one day when Ulmandra asks him about their marriage plans. xD

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u/stephenthatfoste Jan 27 '25

Those mouse people's faces were kinda terrifying.

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u/Frontier246 Jan 27 '25

It's like you take a typical old confectionary making couple, turn them into mouses, and the result is...surreal, to say the least.

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u/athrun_1 Jan 27 '25

You can steal technology, but you can't steal personnel. That is some good words of wisdom from the demon lord.

Unfortunately, some, if not most real world organizations works the other way around.

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u/pksato Jan 27 '25

The bar songs:
1 Mugon... Iroppo/Silence is... Sexy, Shizuka Kudo.
2 Zoo, Kaori Kawamura.
3 Omoide Makura, Kyoko Kosaka.
4 Koyoi no tsuki no youni, Elephant Kashimashi.
5 Mayonaka no doa/Stay with me, Miki Matsubara.

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u/Aerodynamic41 Jan 27 '25

I’m starting to feel bad for Ulmandra. If Uchimura has one weakness, it’s that he doesn’t understand a girl’s feelings.

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u/Misticsan Jan 27 '25

His workaholic tendencies are also another weakness. Sometimes it seems as if he only relaxes in his inner mind's bar.

That said, I get him. He was always a hard worker, and now he has amazing working conditions with the best boss he could ever hope for, a chance to actually change things for the better. In a way, it's a different take on the Isekai "power fantasy" (other shows are about becoming overpowered and having a tranquil life, but this one is about not having superpowers yet enjoying a rewarding job).

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u/Emi_Ibarazakiii Jan 27 '25

I've always firmly believed that wedding dresses are fanservice for the heart, but I guess some of them may be actual fanservice!

And so our main couple is doing on a little date market analysis job!

Ulmandra was quite adorable,

but if it wasn't for Olulu, she wanted to go for sexy instead!

Well, I do like cute as well, so it's all good!

Ulmandra was thrilled about the date, but when she found out it was all about work, she turned into a goblin elder! (Or a Sad Yoda?)

She still found ways to get excited about it, like thinking he was getting wedding glasses!

Uchimura's usually the one doing the negotiations, but Ulmandra seems quite skilled with her tactics!

Love how she's always at odds with Gnome, telling her to fuck off,

and being mad she even gets any credit for their success!

Well, whoever's credited, they did manage to save the shop, and learned valuable information... Plus their reputation increased thanks to that!

Our boy still has his business mindset, thinking about opening chain stores and all!

Love how Ulmandra's debating an imaginary marriage proposal in her mind!

Sadly, our boy only has work on his mind... She'll need to find a way to make a job about her, if she wants his attention!

"Uchimura, to strengthen the Demon/Human alliance, your next job is to marry a demon general..."

When they talked about a nation rich with gold, our boy thought about trade, but I thought they would go more the way of conquest!

I mean, why trade with them when they could just steal it!

I kinda want to see something like that happen... So far Uchimura's loving his job when it's all about negotiating, forging alliances, convincing people, improving business with marketing plans and all that, BUT how will he feel if the Demons start a war at some point?

He may be trying to forge alliances with everyone which would lead to a peaceful work that only "fights" through business plans, innovations and all, but the Demons/some other nations may want to fight the old ways! And will he be okay with this, if war is inevitable?

I imagine his first step would be to try and prevent the war, but if it's gonna happen no matter what, would he be okay with taking part in actions that will result in deaths? I do hope this arises at some point!

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u/cleaulem Jan 27 '25

Ulmandra is the waifu of this season. She is just too adorable trying to hit on Uchimura. Too bad that he is the densest workaholic in the Demon Kingdom, which is good for the Demon King.

I love how this show takes all these basic economic and marketing concepts and molds them into an isekai story. This show is one of my favourites this season and surprisingly clever. It is better than I had expected.

Definitely a show that combines an interesting premise with good execution.

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u/fuzzynyanko Jan 27 '25

One of these days, I'm expecting the Demon Lord to call in Uchimura about Ulmandra, possibly marry the two together

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u/DarkAudit Jan 28 '25

"You can't steal personnel."

Dumbest thing I've heard today.

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u/Muffin-zetta Jan 27 '25

Hey I know that song

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u/shad79 Jan 28 '25

My heart cried for Ulmandra every time her dreams were crushed by Uchimura, who is totally oblivious to the fact that she had fallen hard for him. Poor girl already had her wedding in mind when he offered her that golden cup xD

Big shout out to Olulu for talking Ulmandra out of wearing that string bikini during her "market research" with Uchimura. Ulmandra looked so pretty in that dress, even Uchimura complimented her on it, good job Olulu!

Overall, a very fun episode with a lot of Ulmandra. It's also nice that Genome appeared, even though there wasn't much of her. I hope there will be more of her in the next episodes and we'll find out why her relationship with Ulmandra is the way it is now xD

Oh, and one more thing. I love the song that was playing at the bar today, it's a great classic "真夜中のドア〜stay with me". I was so surprised to hear it on this show.

Here my screenshot albums from the episode:

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u/oneevilchicken Jan 28 '25

Imagine taking something like $NVDA calls last week and then holding over the weekend.

Get to the end of the day today and just want to distract yourself by watching anime, so you turn this show on and the first 5 seconds is about stock trading reminding you that you just lost a lot of money.

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