English Dub Review: Salaryman’s Club “Ride the Headwind”

Overview

The idea for green onion flavored ginger ale that Mikoto came up with on a whim is chosen as a potential candidate in the Sunlight Beverage new product planning contest. Since Mikoto is still unaccustomed to working at a company, the badminton team arranges a training camp so they can help him. Together they discuss the project as they write up a proposal. And finally, Mikoto opens up to Tatsuru about the traumatic incident he experienced in high school that caused the decline in his abilities…

Our Take

As another day of work comes with there’s freebies to be had if Sales are engaged in some form of contract or another, and that’s on Tatsuru the Badaryman to answer to the other departments like Toru Usuyama’s QA department. Also, there’s now a business trip that’s disguised as a training camp for the Sunlight Beverage badminton team, but Mikoto still has aways to go with his Sales planning since he isn’t at all adept on the business side just yet, as a proposal.

It can work under the right hands, even going as far as to brainstorm through a SWOT analysis to teach the newbie and put those ideas together to make a compelling product using Ramune bottles. Of course, Mikoto struggled badly with it. At this point, Mikoto felt like he had to release his past worries reluctantly to Tatsuru. But none is more important than celebrating Mikoto’s 20th birthday with company-centric craft beer which was Mikoto’s first experience with ingesting alcohol, in general, leading to a comical scene of sorts.

Overall, this is heading in a different direction than I thought it would, and I am not sure how I will feel about it. Their training camp is different to put it lightly. Seeing them work on the project proposal and Mikoto get drunk was solid enough. And on the subject of Mikoto, apparently, the drinking laws are different in Japan compared to America, as the legal age to drink is 20 years old which was something even I didn’t know about…