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Always Smiling
80%
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AI Analysis
Always Smiling (2003) — AI TV series analysis
WatchMind AI generated this AI analysis of Always Smiling (2003) — a TV series tagged as Drama and Comedy with funny moods and steady pacing.
Story & themes: Yumi, a 23-year-old office worker, is fired from her job out of the blue. A few days later, coming from a friend's wedding and having no time to change out of her kimono, she is rushing to an interview for a job at a publishing company. Yumi stumbles into the room, looking for somewhere to change out of her kimono, … Our models also surface themes such as ai from synopsis and genre signals.
Watch context: Best suited for date night and casual background watching. Expect steady storytelling across 1 season.
Community signal: TMDb members rate Always Smiling 80% (1 votes) — strong audience scores for this TV series.
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Synopsis
Yumi, a 23-year-old office worker, is fired from her job out of the blue. A few days later, coming from a friend's wedding and having no time to change out of her kimono, she is rushing to an interview for a job at a publishing company. Yumi stumbles into the room, looking for somewhere to change out of her kimono, and finds popular comic book writer Reijiro Sakurai is having an editorial meeting with some staff. He is planning to lock himself away at a hot spring for the next three months to concentrate on his next project. Sakurai comments that if Yumi were to join him he wouldn't mind being away for so long..., and so their adventure begins.
Quick facts
- Type
- Series
- Status
- Ended
- Release date
- 2003-04-13
- Seasons
- 1
- Episodes
- 11
- TMDB rating
- 8.0
- TMDB ID
- 84082
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What is Always Smiling about?
Yumi, a 23-year-old office worker, is fired from her job out of the blue. A few days later, coming from a friend's wedding and having no time to change out of her kimono, she is rushing to an inter... This is the official synopsis available via TMDb community metadata.
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How many seasons of Always Smiling are there?
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