Age
25
Origin
Japan
Puko is a friend of Retsuko's from high school and a supporting character of the Netflix Original series Aggretsuko. Her appearance is based off of a Cougar. Puko is a very carefree spirit who travels the world until she runs out of money then comes home to Japan to work until she has enough money to travel again. Her life theory is that the world needs responsible (and miserable) people like Retsuko so that she can be free to live her life of fun without consequence. When Puko decides she wants to start her own foreign goods store, she tries to rope Retsuko into it as an accountant, but fails to mention to Retsuko that she can't afford to pay her a livable wage. In season 2 she does open a store, but only for a short span of time.
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.
