Esso Gas Station

The Esso Gas Station is a gas station in Shibukawa City, Gunma. It is owned by Yuichi Tachibana. From First Stage to Extra Stage it was referred to as "GS", and from Third Stage onwards it was parodied as "Essa". In the Live Action film it is a Eneos station.

It sits near a large apartment building/hotel and is next to a highway. The station features a total of six gas pumps. Inside the gas station is a desk, a small couch, and a TV. There are also several vending machines located on the premises. Adjacent to the main building is an attached service garage where cars are sometimes parked. The gas station also features a car wash in which the car is left stationary and the washing superstructure moves around it independently.

Esso employees wear a uniform that changes throughout the different stages of the show. Overall, it generally consists of a button shirt, a hat, khaki style pants, a bow tie, and black shoes.

Despite the series being set in Shibukawa, the gas station is modelled after a real life gas station in Nerima, Tokyo.

Employees

Anime/Manga

• Yuichi Tachibana (Owner)
• Takumi Fujiwara (Employee, formerly)
• Koichiro Iketani (Employee)
• Natsuki Mogi (Employee, formerly, exclusively in the manga)
• Itsuki Takeuchi (Employee)

2005 Movie

• Yuichi Tachibana (Owner)
• Takumi Fujiwara (Employee)
• Koichiro Iketani (Employee)
• Kenji (Employee)
• Miya (Employee)

Trivia

• In Fifth Stage and Final Stage, the logo that is seen on the gas pumps is a reference to SynergySP, the animation company behind Fifth and Final Stages.
• the name of the stand was "GS" until the Fourth Stage of the anime, but it changed to "ESSA" from the Fifth Stage, a play on "ESSO". In the new movie version, it is called "General Sekiyu", and in the pachinko version based on the new movie version, the costume remains the same, but the hat and sign are changed to "GS".

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