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Somewhat based on the real story of how Gainax was founded, Otaku no Video addresses all aspects of an otaku lifestyle. Ken Kubo is a young man living an average life until he is dragged into a group of otaku. Slowly, he becomes more like them until he decides to abandon his former life to become king of otaku —the otaking! Mixed in are live-action interviews with real otaku, addressing every aspect of hardcore otaku life. Not only are anime and manga fans included, but also sci-fi fans, military fans, and other groups of Japanese geeks.
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Takeshi MoriDirector
Kenichi SonodaCharacter Design
Hitoshi NagaoArt Director
Tomohisa IizukaColor Design
Sadafumi SanoDirector of Photography
Fusanobu FujiyamaSound DirectorJunichi SasakiSound Effects
Kouhei TanakaMusic
Shouji MurahamaAnimation Producer
Toshio OkadaScript
Shouichi MasuoEpisode Director
Hidenori MatsubaraAnimation Director
KitajimaWataru Takagi
MiyoshiMasami Kikuchi
KandaAkio Ootsuka
MurataKiyoyuki Yanada
YamaguchiNobuo Tobita
Misuzu FukuharaYuuko Kobayashi
Misty MayKikuko Inoue
Yoshiko UenoKikuko InoueExternal reviews from AniList users — not Anime Guider reviews.
For many people, anime was this super secret niche thing that nobody knew about, and you had to jump through hoops in order to find it, or go out of your way to some really obscure places to find it. I grew up during the 2000s, so this wasn't the experience I had with anime, but anime only started c…
Read full review on AniList →Ken Kubo was just your ordinary Japanese college student. He had a beautiful girlfriend, a passion for a sport he was genuinely talented at, and a satisfying life with little to no problems to worry about. Everything was going just fine for young Ken, when he ran into an old friend from high school…
Read full review on AniList →Sinopsis En Otaku no Video 1982, Kubo, un chico normal que practica deporte y tiene novia, se encuentra un día con Tanaka, un amigo de instituto. Éste y sus amigos acaban introduciéndole en la cultura otaku. Debido a su nueva afición, Kubo pasa cada vez menos tiempo con su novia, hasta que ésta le…
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