Origin
Japan
Tsubone is an office worker and a secondary antagonist of the Netflix Original series Aggretsuko. Her appearance is based on the Komodo Dragon. Tsubone makes Retsuko's work life a living hell by constantly piling her work onto her so she can leave on time, forcing Retsuko to work almost daily overtime. Tsubone is a sexist woman who treats her female co-workers poorly, often piling her own work onto them and talking down to them. On the other hand, she treats her male co-workers very well, blushing and sucking up to them when they talk to her, and sometimes even taking their work and passing it off to a female co-worker. This can notably be seen when Tsubone is talking to Ookami in the tea room at work and refusing to let Haida open her jar. Tsubone seems to particularly target Retsuko, telling her that she's lazy and does everything wrong. She will sometimes hide her true intentions behind faux sweetness, such as when she pretended to compliment Retsuko only to pile more paperwork on her already cluttered desk and then laughed maniacally.
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.
