Origin
Japan
Kabae is an office worker and character in the Netflix Original series Aggretsuko. Kabae's appearance is based on a Hippopotamus Kabae is renowned for her ability to quickly spread rumors in the office and even gloats that she is so proficient at it. She has a very bubbly personality, she loves to talk about her family, and is quick to spread rumors. Despite Kabae's tendency to leave a path of destruction with her rumor spreading, she is a genuinely good person who even went as far as going to Retsuko's house to care for her while she had a cold.
Aggretsuko
Some offices have stereotypical dynamics: the chauvinistic pig of a boss who never does any real work; the employees whose goal is to suck up to the boss; the ones whose lives seem perfect; and the individuals who have all the actual work pushed onto them. Retsuko the red panda is in the last group, as she stays late most nights to make up the work her coworkers are too lazy to do themselves. Her relief from the stress of her everyday life comes in the form of singing death metal at a local karaoke club. Night after night, Retsuko channels her grief into a microphone and considers the place to be her own personal sanctuary. But as she moves further away from her comfort zone and the ideas people have of her, she discovers that letting others into her world of death metal may not be such a bad thing.
