Director: André Téchiné
Momose braces for another power-tripping manager and instead lands the strangest boss of his career in this 2023 Japanese workplace comedy.
What is My New Boss Is Goofy about?
Momose is a 26-year-old office worker who switches jobs after his previous supervisor made his life miserable through petty harassment. Walking into his first day at the new company, his stomach is in knots, certain history is about to repeat itself. Then he meets Shirasaki, his new boss, and the dread evaporates almost immediately. Shirasaki turns out to be less an intimidating authority figure and more a good-natured, scatterbrained presence who stumbles through basic office tasks with total sincerity. Episode by episode, the show mines everyday workplace routines, filing, meetings, small talk, for gentle comedy built entirely around the gap between what Momose expects and what actually happens. It's a low-stakes, character-driven series about learning that not every new job has to be a battle.
Cast & crew
The Japanese voice cast includes Yuuichirou Umehara, Koutaro Nishiyama, Tomokazu Sugita, Jun Fukuyama, and Hiro Shimono, giving the office ensemble a lineup of well-known anime voice talent.
Context & significance
The series sits in the workplace-comedy corner of Japanese animation, a genre that trades big plot stakes for observational humor about office culture, hierarchy, and awkward first impressions. Its short, twenty-four-minute episode length keeps the pace brisk, and the premise, an anxious new hire paired with an unexpectedly harmless boss, plays as a deliberate subversion of harsher workplace-drama tropes common in the genre.
Where & how to watch
My New Boss Is Goofy is available on K-Time with Farsi dubbing and Farsi subtitles, so Persian-speaking viewers can watch it however they prefer. Reading this page requires nothing at all; streaming the show itself just needs a free K-Time account login, inside an interface designed with Farsi speakers and the Iranian diaspora in mind.