Always Smiling (2003)
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.
Always Smiling: Season 1 - 11 Episode s
1x1 - Episode 1
April 13, 2003
1x2 - Episode 2
April 20, 2003
1x3 - Episode 3
April 27, 2003
1x4 - Episode 4
May 4, 2003
1x5 - Episode 5
May 11, 2003
1x6 - Episode 6
May 18, 2003
1x7 - Episode 7
May 25, 2003
1x8 - Episode 8
June 1, 2003
1x9 - Episode 9
June 8, 2003
1x10 - Episode 10
June 15, 2003
1x11 - Episode 11
June 22, 2003