History Series / HanzawaNaoki

* AmbiguousDisorder: Due to incessant bullying from his supervisor, Kondo developed a form of extreme anxiety which greatly hampers his career as a banker.

* WhatTheHellIsThatAccent: Hanzawa's take on the KansaiRegionalDialect is ''not'' taken positively by Takeshita, his Osakan newfound ally.

* MeaningfulName: Hana means "flower", and she was a professional flower arranger before she married Hanzawa. She quit her job to become a housewife (despite his encouragement to continue working), but occasionally still does it part-time.

%% * MacGuffin: The 500 million yen in the Osaka arc.

%% * HappilyMarried: Naoki and Hana. Asano, despite being the BigBad, [[EvenEvilHasLovedOnes also loves his family very much]].

%% * HotBlooded: Hanzawa, which is more significant because he's a {{salaryman}}, who are stereotypically mild-mannered and obedient.

%% * IntrepidReporter: One of Hanzawa's allies (and a fan of Hanshin Tigers).

%% * SharpDressedMan: As can be expected from bankers.
%% * TragicKeepsake: Hanzawa carries around a screw from his parents' factory as reminder of his father's tragic death.
%% * UndyingLoyalty: Hana, Hanzawa's wife, and Tomari, his colleague who joined the bank in the same batch.

** [[spoiler:Owada]] deserves more than twofold payback; Hanzawa vows to give him ''hundredfold payback''.

* CorruptCorporateExecutive: All the BigBad are.
* CorruptPolitician: Season 2's Minister Shirai and Diet member Minobe. [[spoiler:The former is just the latter's puppet and later does a HeelFaceTurn]].

* HappilyMarried: Naoki and Hana. Asano, despite being the BigBad, [[EvenEvilHasLovedOnes also loves his family very much]].

* HotBlooded: Hanzawa, which is more significant because he's a {{salaryman}}, who are stereotypically mild-mannered and obedient.

* InterserviceRivalry: The Tokyo Chuo bank was the result of a merger between two banks, and the employees are still split into two factions which constantly try to one-up each other.
* IntrepidReporter: One of Hanzawa's allies (and a fan of Hanshin Tigers).

* LargeHam: Mainly Hanzawa, Owada, and Kurosaki, and the others also have their moments.

* MacGuffin: The 500 million yen in the Osaka arc.

* PoseOfSupplication: Hanzawa [[spoiler:has the image of [[FreudianExcuse his parents begging and scraping]] to the merciless loan officer to keep their factory afloat burned permanently into his memory and]] takes satisfaction in watching his vanquished enemies ''dogeza'' in defeat.

** Hanzawa also delivers these to the big bads of season 2.
* ReassignedToAntarctica: If a banker screws up big enough, he'll be loaned to one of the bank's client companies, usually a small business, and end up working there permanently with a much lower salary range than that of a banker. Happens to [[spoiler:Kondo, who is assigned to a small electric company]], and [[spoiler:Asano, who is shipped away to Manila after his corruption is exposed]].

* SharpDressedMan: As can be expected from bankers.
* TragicKeepsake: Hanzawa carries around a screw from his parents' factory as reminder of his father's tragic death.
* UndyingLoyalty: Hana, Hanzawa's wife, and Tomari, his colleague who joined the bank in the same batch.

'''''Hanzawa Naoki''''' (半沢直樹) is a 2013 Japanese television series, originally aired on TBS and based on the series of novels of the same name by Jun Ikeido (池井戸潤), himself a former banker in the 80s and 90s.

* YouKilledMyFather: Hanzawa became a banker at Tokyo Chuo [[spoiler:to eventually get to Owada, the current Executive Managing Director who 25 years ago withdrew the loan for his father's factory and [[DrivenToSuicide drove him to hang himself]]]].

* GreaterScopeVillain: In the second season, [[spoiler:Diet member Minobe attempts to influence the corporate restructuring of Teikoku Airlines to prevent his RealEstateScam in the past from being exposed]].

* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Delivered by Hanzawa to [[spoiler:Owada]] at the climax while forcing him to ''dogeza'', in front of the whole board of directors.