Tawawa on Monday Specials

月曜日のたわわ特典 (Getsuyoubi no Tawawa Specials)

6.6(24,436)

MAL Score

Ranked #7588

Popularity #3781

Ecchi
Slice of Life
Workplace

Episodes: 2
Duration: 5 min per ep
Aired: Dec 29, 2016
Status: Finished Airing

Synopsis

*Tawawa on Monday Specials* collects two bonus episodes of *Getsuyoubi no Tawawa* that were bundled with the Blu-ray release. Staying true to the franchise’s slice-of-life tone with a touch of ecchi flair, the specials offer short, character-focused vignettes.

The included episodes are: “Ukkarimono daga Aisare Jouzu no Kawaii Kouhai” and “Ai-chan to Private Film.”

Otaku Consensus

Tawawa on Monday Specials lands as a modest but efficient Blu-ray extra: PINE JAM preserves the parent series' short-form pacing, POV intimacy, and character-first adaptation of Kiseki Himura's Twitter-born concept without pretending these vignettes are full episodes. Fan reception sits in the middle range, with MAL's 6.56 from 24,423 votes and AniList's 63/100 matching the web consensus that it works as light Monday-blues comfort. The recurring objection is not production quality but framing: viewers resistant to contemporary, mundane ecchi often read its sexualized everyday scenarios as uncomfortable rather than cute.

Why You Should Watch

Watch these specials if you want the concentrated version of Tawawa on Monday's appeal: tiny, low-friction character moments built around teasing, workplace-adjacent mood, and direct viewer proximity, without a larger romance plot demanding investment. They are best approached after the main shorts, as Blu-ray side material that gives Ai-chan and Kouhai-chan dedicated space rather than expanding the franchise's world. If Teasing Master Takagi-san scratches your itch for repeated flirtation but you want something older-skewing and more ecchi-coded, or if you like Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid's domestic downtime more than its fantasy spectacle, these extras fit the same snack-sized viewing slot. Viewers who dislike POV male-gaze comedy or age-gap tension should treat the content advisory for sexualized imagery as a real warning.

Key Characters

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Ai-chan(VA: Sayaka Harada)
Ai-chan is the franchise's most recognizable emotional anchor, built around direct-address warmth that turns the short format into a deliberately intimate fan-service device.
K
Kouhai-chan(VA: Ai Kayano)
Kouhai-chan gives the specials their clearest workplace-flirtation flavor, with her appeal tied to the junior-colleague dynamic flagged by the episode title itself.
O
Oniisan(VA: Junji Majima)
Oniisan functions less like a conventional lead and more like the viewer's POV proxy, which explains why the series' male-protagonist presence is felt even in very brief scenes.

What Makes It Stand Out

1
PINE JAM produced the specials in the same short-form language as the main anime, aligning with AniList's high Episodic tag at 80% rather than reshaping the material into standard-length side stories.
2
The two extras are unusually targeted by title: Ukkarimono daga Aisare Jouzu no Kawaii Kouhai centers Kouhai-chan, while Ai-chan to Private Film signals a more direct Ai-chan-focused piece.
3
The franchise's viewing grammar is openly POV-coded; AniList marks POV at 33% and Male Protagonist at 30%, which is central to why the experience feels more like a viewer-facing vignette than ensemble comedy.
4
Its genre texture is more adult-skewing than typical school slice-of-life: AniList tags include Seinen at 79%, Primarily Adult Cast at 66%, Office Lady at 60%, and Age Gap at 60%.
5
The specials occupy a narrow release footprint: only 2 episodes, finished airing on December 29, 2016, and tied to the Blu-ray release rather than a separate TV broadcast run.

Fun Facts & Trivia

Fun fact 1: Kiseki Himura is credited as the original creator, and web promotional copy traces the anime back to the Twitter Monday-morning illustration series Tawawa on Monday.
Fun fact 2: The specials' audience metrics are more substantial than their runtime suggests: MAL lists 24,423 votes for a 6.56 score, while AniList records a 63/100 score and 117 favourites.
Fun fact 3: The broader Tawawa on Monday streaming listing emphasized accessibility with subtitles in English, German, Latin American Spanish, European Spanish, French, Italian, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, and Arabic.
Fun fact 4: The credited main Japanese cast for these specials includes Sayaka Harada as Ai-chan, Ai Kayano as Kouhai-chan, and Junji Majima as Oniisan.
Fun fact 5: Web reactions frame the franchise in two sharply different ways: recommendation posts sell it as relaxing, feel-good Monday relief, while dissenting discussion calls its contemporary mundanity part of what makes the ecchi framing unsettling.