Office Lady - in Fiction

In Fiction

OL stock characters are frequently found in josei manga and anime, often portrayed as attractive, clever, and wistful individuals bored with their jobs, over-pressured by their families, and facing psychological issues.

  • The Shomuni franchise includes manga, television series and films about office ladies.
  • The manga and anime series Oruchuban Ebichu, for example, features an office lady character appropriately named OL.
  • The warrior characters Linna Yamazaki (Bubblegum Crisis Tokyo 2040) and Arisa and Kyouko (All Purpose Cultural Cat Girl Nuku Nuku) have day jobs as office ladies.
  • Most major characters in OL Shinkaron are office ladies.
  • In Re: Cutie Honey, the titular Honey uses her OL job as a way to disappear from work without being noticed.
  • Office Lady and Salaryman are Trainer classes in the original Japanese version of Pokémon Black and White, appearing in the commercial hub of Castelia City. They were renamed Clerk ♀ and Clerk ♂ (respectively) for the English versions of the game.

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