Servant x Service (2013)
Imagine if three people suddenly found themselves as civil servants of the city Mitsuba. What sort of personalities and drives would they have to push them to seek out such careers? Lucy Yamagami, a serious young woman assigned to the Welfare Administrative Section, intends to use the job as a means of settling a vendetta against another civil servant. Yutaka Hasebe, a flirtatious young man assigned to the First Section of the Welfare Department, intends to slack off whenever he can and have a good time. And Saya Miyoshi, a college graduate assigned to the Second Section of the Welfare Department, intends to simply get through the first job she's had in her life as best she can. Servant x Service follows these three newcomers starting their jobs as government employees under their supervisor, Taishi Ichimiya, who is utterly clueless about how to direct them—despite having worked there for the last eight years. Nevertheless, he welcomes them as fellow civil servants and encourages them to work themselves like dogs for the sake of the citizens. We follow their day-to-day lives as they experience the rigors of government employment, including dealing with regulations, office romances, paperwork, and being the nearest punching bags when citizens need something to complain about.
Country: JP
Language: Ja
Runtime: 24
Season 1:
Yamagami Lucy sought employment as a government worker for revenge. After she was born, her parents couldn’t decide on a name, but finally chose the name “Lucy”. She wants revenge on the civil servant who approved the official papers.
Toko, Taishi’s younger sister, is a high school girl that comes by the office to make sure everyone is doing their job, and that they are well-educated civil servants. Megumi tries to guess Lucy’s cup size and she reveals her obsession with cosplay.
Ichimiya’s confidence as a senpai has not grown much since supervising the 3 newcomers. His chance to prove himself arrives with Lucy needing help with a “sensitive” subject.
Chihaya announces to Hasebe that she’s his rival with regards to Lucy. With the group gathered around the Section Manager desk, an incredible thing happens.
Lucy gets drunk at the company party and was taken home by Hasebe. The morning after, she finds a strange woman lying next to her when she woke up. Because of this, she finds out the other side of Hasebe.
As the Section Manager is watching over the three new employees, he feels like there is an invisible wall between the three of them and himself and tries to find out what he’s lacking. Then suddenly, another high school girl shows up to the ward office…
Chihaya drops by Toko’s apartment unannounced to spend time together when a surprised Ichimiya returns home to see his girlfriend and sister playing games.
Lucy has the deal with the problem of her name and the trouble of Hasebe continuing to ask her out. The rivalry between Tanaka and Hasebe grows and Hasebe takes on an even more relaxed nature.
Chihaya goes berserk as she starts to think about Ichimiya, Toko and a lot of other things in her life. Meanwhile, Lucy and Miyoshi go out to dinner with Kaoru, who tells them about Hasebe and Jyoji when they were kids.
Chihaya has finally decided to tell Toko that she’s going out with Ichimiya but apparently that doesn’t go as planned. The next day, Miyoshi tells Chihaya to make sure she doesn’t regret anything, but then Miyoshi is faced with a bunch of regrets…
Lately, Lucy hasn’t been able to talk to Hasebe outside of work. While looking for where he might be, somehow the section manager gets kidnapped?!
Megumi took three days off to finish all of her costume projects, including the dress Lucy is to wear during her date with Yutaka. Megumi warned Taishi not to text her, call her, or come to her apartment, but…
We finally find out who approved Lucy’s name, but Hasebe is too scared to tell Lucy, fearing that she will hate him. Meanwhile, Lucy is concerned about the fact that Hasebe seems distant ever since their date.
