You Are Fired/Anime and Manga

Firings are among the few Western punishments in use worldwide, and Japan is no exception. Like US employees, salarymen are prone to getting fired at any time.

* *Aggretsuko* tends to avert this, despite Retsuko's tendencies to sing death metal whenever she's enraged. In fact, there hasn't been a single episode where a worker was fired in the show.
	+ Retsuko was so immune to this trope, she even managed to avoid being kicked out of OTMGirls despite some fans being angry at the new direction the group was taking. Only when she was almost killed for said new direction does she leave the group via quitting rather than being fired.
* In *Angel Beats!*, Yuri mentioned that Angel aka Kanade Tachibana was fired from being the Student Body President after they sabotaged her tests (in reality, she was forced to relinquish her position). It's noted that this was the only firing in the whole show (and wouldn't matter anyway since Kanade was in the afterlife and the fact that she got her position back later on).
* Nanamine fires his assistant Nakai after the former's manga team bailed out in *Bakuman*. Keep in mind, this is one of the few firings shown in *Weekly Shonen Jump*.
* The *Blue Dragon* anime has this line in the English version: "Soldier, you are fired!"
	+ In fact, even the fansubs of the original Japanese version imply that the soldier was fired.
* Defied in *Cells at Work!* and *especially* *Cells at Work! Code BLACK*. *Every* cell is vital and even *one* cell getting fired is grounds for a disaster. This is especially true in *Code BLACK*, where no cell wants to fire *any* red blood cell since doing so would reduce the amount of oxygen received in the body; remember, the first body at the start of *Code BLACK* was unhealthy enough as it is.
	+ In fact, in *Code BLACK*, at least, the work done by the cells is so *crucial* that only the body's demise will result in a firing or layoff of any kind.
	+ In *Cells NOT at Work!*, not wanting to move up to Red Blood Cell status would usually have an erythroblast terminated with prejudice *before he or she even starts working*.
* In an episode of *Doraemon*, Mr. Nobi was threatened with being fired due to one of Doraemon's inventions.
* This is Najimi Osana's (initial) reason why she got into creating doujin in *Doujin Work*- to make money after getting fired from her last job.
* Averted in *Fullmetal Alchemist* with Shou Tucker: he was expected to be fired from being a state alchemist and put on trial for what he did to Nina and her dog, but he was terminated a different way instead.
	+ However, the aversion only happened in the manga and the faithful *Brotherhood* anime adaptation; the looser 2003 anime adaptation played this straight.
* This is the reason why Taihei Doma of *Himouto! Umaru-chan* often leaves his otaku sister Umaru at home whenever she's sick, as he does not want to get fired.
* Surprisingly averted in *Jewelpet: Magical Change*, though it's for a reason: the Jewelpet doing the fireable offense (eating the stock at the sweets shop) happens to *own* the sweets shop. The most she got was a scolding from Ruby.
	+ Two examples from *Kira Deco*:
		- Coal is fired from the Decoranain, causing him to create his *Yami Quest* character Black Angel to escape from reality.
		- In one episode, it's revealed that Garnet had fired her former butler after she bailed Blue Knight Ozaki out of jail.
* In *Kaitou Joker*, Oniyama threatens the Wicked Foxes that he'd burn a scroll if they don't release his daughter. At least one other character points out he'd be fired if he did.
* Played with in *Kamisama Minarai: Himitsu no Cocotama*. On one hand, even if she does reveal her secret, a Cocotama Contractor is never officially fired from her status. On the other hand, she does invoke I Renounce My Position as the Cocotamas turn back into regular objects.
* In *Kill la Kill*, getting your Goku Uniform slashed means you're demoted to no-star (in other words, fired from the student council). But since the Elite Four are there to preserve order at Honnouji Academy on Satsuki Kiryuin's side, they *aren't* fired. Confused? Probably, given the studio who made the anime.
	+ Mako Mankanshoku found a workaround for this; disbanding the Fight Club means she demoted herself to no-star status.
* *The Laughing Salesman*: In the original anime, two men get fired due to drinking on the job. Though it was technically Moguro's fault they got fired in the first place, because he's in the business of ruining lives. In the episode's remake from the 2017 anime, this is implied rather than flat-out confirmed.
	+ Douki, the client from the episode "Class Reunion", gets fired (alongside all his friends except Nakada, who ends up out of a job through divorce anyway) before he even got DON'd. After he does, while the four have reconciled, they're still jobless and likely homeless.
	+ Some of Moguro's clients will sometimes fire him if their life goes wrong (provided they haven't already been DON'd first). That said, similar to Mirabelle below, the clients do *not* get away with this trope scot-free.
* Likely a dub-only example, but in one episode of *Mon Colle Knights*, Eccentro, after hearing people complain about the water not being hot enough (Eccentro was forced to heat up a hot spring after his failure that episode), fires everybody in it *except* the one person he can't fire: Tanaka.
* While not an official firing, in *My Hero Academia*, Izuku Midoriya is kicked off the dance team and told he was fired.
* Majorika (and by extension, the Witchlings she was training) temporarily gets kicked out of her magic shop in *Ojamajo Doremi*.
	+ In the 4Kids dub, Mirabelle says this to her dad in one episode. She then repeats it when he asks why she's packing. Of course, he counters with the fact that he'll always be her dad, leading to a rare trope for 4Kids in general- of course, it does not even stick given the original Japanese has him angrily agreeing with his daughter's decision to leave.
* Releasing a *Pokémon* can count as this if it's done angrily. Otherwise averted.
* In one episode of *Pop Team Epic*, PipiP (Pipimi) keeps firing Pop-chin's (Popuko's) assistants until she gets the idea to clone Pop-chin herself.
* In *Shugo Chara!*, Zero aka Takuya Nakagura gets fired from his job as a magician. It's worth noting this was the *only* firing in the entire series (at least in the anime version).
* In ADV Films' "Americanized" dub of *The Super Milk Chan Show*, Milk and Tetsuko both realize they're going to get fired when the counterfeit bills were scattered. That said, this is averted in the *straight* dub (also by ADV).
* In *Lyrical Nanoha* spin-off *ViVid Strike!*, Fuuka Reventon is fired from her shipping job after getting into a fight. Luckily, like Minare below, she was hired again elsewhere afterwards, in Fuuka's case, a gym- the same gym Vivio and co. were training at.
* In *Wave, Listen to Me!*, Minare Koda gets fired from her job at the restaurant Voyager due to a rant which was broadcast over the air. Thankfully, she was able to secure another job, albeit in radio, a completely-different industry.
* Ken Matsushiro of *Yakitate!! Japan* threatens to fire both Kawachi and Azuma if they don't make "good grazing" bread. Luckily for both of them, their jobs are saved- Kawachi's since he used oats, Azuma's because he took another option and used goat's milk.
* In the *Yu-Gi-Oh!* movie *The Dark Side of Dimensions*, Kaiba orders "whoever made that bottle" fired as "Kaibacorp products should not bend that easily".