It’s tough out there in the job market these days. Who among us hasn’t felt some sort of dissatisfaction with our careers at some point, by way of poor pay, bad benefits, unpleasant work environments, or all of the above? Wouldn’t it be great to be able to just quit and stumble into a brand-new career where you could actually enjoy utilizing your talents and feel appreciated for it? So goes the fantasy of Happy Kanako’s Killer Life, hyping itself up on its fairly incredible elevator pitch: What if an office worker quit her job and became a professional assassin instead?
As you might expect going into a series primarily presented as a sequence of four-panel gag comics, that core joke is the main source of the majority of the appeal here. And to its credit, it’s a very funny joke. The sheer speed at which Kanako gets swept up into the escalating antics of her new career makes for…
