From Web Novel to TV Screen
The full Japanese title is lengthy: E, Shanai System Subete Wanope Shiteiru Watashi o Kaiko Desu ka? (え、社内システム全てワンオペしている私を解雇ですか？), roughly "Wait, You're Firing Me, the Person Running All the Company Systems Alone?" Fans commonly shorten it to Wanope Kaiko (ワンオペ解雇, literally "solo-op firing"). Anime Hack reported that the series has been greenlit for a TV anime, though no production details have been announced.
The story centers on Ai Satō (佐藤愛), a systems engineer who built and single-handedly maintains every internal system at her company. After a change in leadership, she receives a termination notice. Unemployed and spiraling, Ai runs into childhood friend Kenta Suzuki (鈴木健太) at a family restaurant. Kenta is launching a startup called Shin no Purogurama Juku (True Programmer Academy), and he recruits Ai to teach there. Her passionate, sometimes reckless lectures gradually help the students start looking forward again.
The source material bills itself as "a story that makes tomorrow just a little brighter for people working hard in a stressful society."
A Real Engineer Behind the Fiction
Author Yuki Kashirome (下城米雪) brings firsthand experience to the premise. She works full-time as a systems engineer at SoftBank, managing communication equipment configuration systems, and writes fiction through the company's side-employment program.
Kashirome originally posted the story on Shōsetsuka ni Narō, Japan's largest user-generated fiction platform, where it hit No. 1 in the Human Drama genre's annual ranking. It also reached the top of Amazon Kindle's light novel chart. Publisher Shufu to Seikatsu Sha picked up the series for its PASH! Books imprint in 2021, and a manga adaptation illustrated by Iō (伊於) with character designs by icchi launched on the publisher's Comic PASH! neo platform. The fifth manga volume went on sale June 5, 2026.
Looking Ahead
The anime is in its earliest public stage. No animation studio, director, voice cast, or premiere window has been announced, and no promotional video exists yet.
For a light novel with this chart history, a staff reveal typically follows within a few months. No streaming or distribution partner has been confirmed outside Japan, and the source manga has not been licensed for English publication. The original web novel remains available in Japanese on both Shōsetsuka ni Narō and Kakuyomu.