Otaku no Video (お た く の ビ デ オ, Otaku no Bideo) - anime telling about the life of Japanese otaku (anime culture fans). In the OVA inserted a small interview with Otaku, closing the time intervals in the plot.
| Otaku no Video | |
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 Cover of the North American DVD edition of Otaku no Video . | |
| た く の ビ デ オ (Otaku Video: Otakus Generation Story) | |
| Genre / Subject | comedy , parody , otaku |
| Ova | |
| Producer | Takeshi Mori |
| Studio | Gainax |
| Date of issue | September 27, 1991 |
| Series | 2 |
Content
Story
The protagonist, the average Japanese, Ken Kubo, lives with his girlfriend, Yoshiko. One day, he accidentally meets his old school friend, Tanaka, who introduces Ken to his otaku friends (an artist, a collector of weapon models, a science fiction fan, a martial arts fan). Having become friends with them, Kubo plunges into the seething vortex of otaku life, which is why the girl throws him. Seeing the negative attitude towards his new hobby, Kubo decides to become an otaku from otaku and, as the pinnacle of his dream, to build an Otaku Grad. At the end of the OVA, Kubo, who achieved fame and made his dream come true, regains his youth and flies off to look for the Planet Otak in the robot that Otaku Grad turns into.
Otaku Portrait
OVA has small interviews with Otaku. They are small documentaries called The Otaku Portrait. This interview with different people who were, or still consider themselves otaku. Their faces are covered with mosaics, and the voices were computerized so that no one could recognize them. In contrast to the plot of OVA, praising the image of otaku, "Portrait of Otaku", on the contrary, puts them in black light. At the end of the second OVA, after several weeks of investigations, the film crew managed to find a real otaku (they didn’t call others), but failed to interview him - he beat the film crew and disappeared in an unknown direction to the police at high speed.
Characters
Ken Kubo ( Jap. 久保 健 Kubo Ken ) - The main character.
- Sayyu : Koji Tsujtani
Tanaka ( jap. 田中 )
- Sayu : Toshiharu Sakurai
Hino ( jap. 日 野 )
- Sayu : Sigeru Nakahara
Mizudzu Fujihara ( Jap. 美 原 美 鈴 Fujihara Mizudzu )
- Sayyu : Yuko Kobayashi
Yoshiko Ueno ( jap. 上 野 美 子 Ueno Yoshiko )
- Sayyu : Kikuko Inoue
Yuri Sato ( Jap. 佐藤 由 梨 Sato: Yuri )
- Sayu : Yuri Amano
Miyoshi ( jap. 三 善 )
- Sayyu : Masami Kikuchi
Yiyama ( Jap. 飯 山 )
- Sayyu : Toshiyuki Morikawa
Yamaguchi ( jap. 山口 )
- Sayyu : Nobuo Tobita
Kitajima ( jap. 北島 )
- Sayu : Wataru Takagi
Yoshida ( jap. 吉田 )
- Sayyu : Hideyuki Umezu
Inoue ( Jap. 井上 )
- Sayyu : Junichi Kanemaru
Murata ( jap. 村田 )
- Sayyu : Kiyoyuki Yanada
Yoko Nakamaru ( Jap. 中 丸 陽 子 Nakamaru Yo: ko )
- Sayyu : Ren Kurihara
Ryu Kohaku ( Jap. 小白 龍 Kohaku Ryu :)
- Sayyu : Hideyuki Umezu
Benkman Kanda ( Jap. Bankuman Kanda ク ン ク マ ン 神 田 )
- Sayyu : Akio Otsuka
Narrator ( Jap. ナ レ ー シ ョ ン Nare: Seung )
- Sayyu : Akio Otsuka
Series List
- 1982 Otaku no Video
- 1985 More Otaku no Video
See also
- Genshiken
- Comic party
- Cosplay Complex
Links
- Official site (jap.)
- Anime "Otaku no Video" (English) in the encyclopedia site Anime News Network
- Anime "Otaku no Video" (English) in the AniDB database