Origin
Japan
Manumaru is a sales office worker at the same company as Retsuko and is a support character of the of the Netflix Original series Aggretsuko. Manumaru coordinates Resasuke and Retsuko's dates. Manumaru's appearance is based off of a Pallas Cat. He is tall with a muscular build, light fawn fur, a white muzzle, brown stripes on his forehead, and white stripes on his cheeks. Manumaru is only seen wearing a white dress shirt with no tie, gray pants, and black shoes. Manumaru is flirtatious and very social, he was even able to get Fenneko to let loose from her typical demeanor. He feels responsible for Resasuke and tried hard to set him up with Retsuko. Manumaru would try to guide Resasuke via phone calls while on dates with Retsuko, but he could never convince Resasuke to actually care about dating.
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.
