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A laundry slice of life anime? Well, I don’t know who could possibly be interested in such a premise but it sure is original. Made by the Sankarea author? Well, the man shows some variety at least.
Anyways, yeah, a woman runs a laundry shop, and as usual when slice of life shows are centered around a very specific topic, they can be quite educational about it, since it was never explored much or at all in fiction.
Besides that, more customers keep appearing throughout the show, both old and new for the main character, and she shows great concern for their clothes or other items, as they are important for the people and contain some memories in them.
Or at least that should be the case but honestly, I can remember like two cases where that was actually the case, while the rest of the episodes and segments do show the main character taking care of clothes, bags, dolls or whatever, but without any special personal story behind them.
But anyways, it’s a iyashikei/healing type of slice of life show you watch to see the protagonist do her mundane job but in a cute, light and relaxing way, and interact with her customers outside her shop in an equal manner, to release that pent up stress throughout the day, and there’s nothing extremely bad in it that would go against that feeling and intention.
It also helps that it is audiovisually pleasing with solid artwork and pretty backgrounds, as well as equally mostly pretty characters, outside of some old ones. I can’t say much for the visuals regarding the actual animation or special effects, but there are even decent visual distinctions between day and nighttime, rare to see in anime nowadays. The sound department is also fine, soothing sound effects and music, cute relaxing opening and ending songs, the voice acting can be a bit high pitched and tryhard cutesy for the intended feel of the show, but it’s tolerable.
With that said, even among slice of life shows, this one is quite shallow, as there is almost no character with some kind of personality that stands out or some kind of backdrop or personal drama to make them or their stories behind their clothes more memorable. I can’t say I will remember this anime in a week or so because of that.
I mean the series hints at some drama around the protagonist, but it is only mentioned a few times and never explored. Other slice of life shows have characters with practically no story behind them as well, but they are honest about that from the get go and don’t add an unnecessary element that won’t be looked into later on in any way. That’s not the case with Wash it All Away, which added an amnesiac protagonist to its writing for no reason. Just play it straight.
The other issue is the romantic tension in the show, which is just about some highschool boy slowly developing a crush on the main character. It never goes beyond that and some mild boob shots that are so tame that I don’t even count them as ecchi or fanservice, but why even include those problematic elements in the first place? Just remain pure and wholesome like it was intended to be.
I would also complain about the main character being such a clutz to the point of not knowing what social media is big 2026, and I don’t mean that for the year the anime came out, I mean that in-story the anime takes place even in our future. It feels like a bit of a forced way to make her seem cute and innocent.
The anime is based on a finished manga but I don’t know if this adaptation covered the whole of it or left some stuff to be adapted, but I don’t really see this one getting another season.
So anyways, if you don’t let those rather minor issues bother you, the series does its job as yet another relaxing show you watch to kill some time and calm down once a week just fine, before you move on to the next thing next season.
5/10
