Season 1 Plot
After applying to 50 companies, Hibiki Michihito (Shiono Akihisa) meets Takano Tsumeko (Nanao) at the interview venue of the IT consulting company TALON, where he will later work. The following year, Hibiki successfully joins TALON and is assigned to the same sales department as Takano, whom he admired at the interview. The ultimate team of a seemingly "competent" woman and a seemingly "incompetent" man creates a miracle!? A super chill work comedy that will not only make you relax, but will bring you to your knees!
Talentless TAKANO Season 1 aired on October 11th, 2024.
Season 1 Episodes
1. Episode 1
While waiting to be interviewed for a job at an IT consulting company, Michito Hiwada encounters a woman who exudes an overwhelming air of confidence.
2. Episode 2
Hatoyama tries teaching Takano how to do data entry, but her lack of comprehension tests his patience. Later, he begins to feel unwell.
3. Episode 3
Ukai (Sato Honami), nicknamed the "internal CIA," suspects Takano's true identity and starts an "emergency interrogation room." Recently, she has been seen leaving work early for "love," participating in soup kitchens, and raising funds. Does she have a boyfriend? Is she fulfilling herself outside of work? The mystery only deepens.
4. Episode 4
Today, she is in charge of writing on the whiteboard, but before she knows it, it has become an incomprehensible mural. Takano is staring at Kijiya (Kudo Asuka), who is lazily printing out documents on a printer and stapling them.
5. Episode 5
New employee Takano Tsumeko is carefully reading the personal journal that Hibiki (Shiono Akihisa) has been quietly updating for some reason. Meanwhile, Hatoyama (Iura Arata) is sweating and working hard to fix the frozen computer of the aging department manager Suzaku (Takahashi Katsumi), who is unable to say "thank you" or "sorry".
6. Episode 6
While Takano's colleague Hibari (Shiono Akihisa) is in a flurry of activity after being entrusted with a big project for the first time, Takano is busy preparing materials, watching cat videos and eating snacks as usual next to him... Meanwhile, development department head Shigiishi (Ando Tamae) comes to the sales department.
7. Episode 7
Today, Takano was yelled at by her manager Suzaku (Takahashi Katsumi), and although she apologizes, she doesn't really know why she was being scolded... In the TALON sales department, Hatoyama (Iura Arata), Kijiya (Kudo Asuka), and Ukai (Sato Honami) all have some kind of "hmm" look on their faces... Hatoyama suspects his wife Misa (Matobu Sei) is cheating, Kijiya is in despair after his crazy girlfriend "Mamitan" books a wedding venue without his permission, and Ukai has his fortune told about his marriage luck with his secret office romance partner, Kagu (Miyao Shuntaro)...
8. Episode 8
In this final episode, a year since new employee Takano joined the company. Then, one day, Takano and Hibikida (Akihisa Shiono) get lost at a client's office, unable to find the meeting place. Takano, left alone, enters the wrong conference room, but for some reason, a misunderstanding leads to another misunderstanding, and the robotics researcher Rokkaku (Shin'ya Hamada) and others gathered in the room end up presenting the ultimate innovative and breakthrough robot. Meanwhile, at TALON's sales department, the manager Suzaku (Katsumi Takahashi) announces a shocking truth.