Egao no Taenai Shokuba desu. follows Nana Futami, a new shoujo manga artist trying to survive the pace of serialization with help from Kaede Satou, her older female editor, and Mizuki Hazama, her assistant. In their fast-moving workplace, deadlines, revisions, and the pressure to keep a series on track shape every day, leaving Nana mentally drained even when the job itself keeps moving forward.
Nana also has a habit of spiraling into vivid, self-aware daydreams about occupational illness, and that exaggerated inner life gives the comedy its offbeat edge. Set in the entertainment industry, the series plays as a working girls comedy built around the everyday realities of making shoujo manga: coordinating with an editor and assistant, handling creative stress, and finding enough support to keep working. From an author who always draws various girls, the story balances light workplace humor with the messy but encouraging rhythm of professional life, showing a studio that is busy, imperfect, and never short on smiles.