Animation Store Manager (2002)

Animation Store Manager

2002

Animation

Synopsis

This is the Animation Store Manager!! Anime Tenchou is a CM character for Animate, one of Japan's biggest retailer of anime, games, and manga. The character series was created by Shimamoto Kazuhiko for publicity purposes. Later adapted into a manga, a weekly radio drama and this OVA animated by GAINAX and directed by Anno Hideaki. Anizawa Meito is the blazing store manager. He is a fireball who loves animation merchandise at heart. He takes over the dying wish of the former store manager, though still alive, who was attacked by the rival store and becomes a “store manager” of newly opened animation goods specialty store, Animate. The scarlet, “store manager visor” is his trademark.

Credits

Director

Hideaki Anno

Hiroyuki Imaishi

Cast

Akira Ishida as Wataru (voice)

Hiro Yuuki as Hikaru (voice)

Hiroaki Hirata as Mel Rose (voice)

Jurota Kosugi as President Takahashi (voice)

Kazuhiko Shimamoto as Narrator

Miki Nagasawa as Lamica Hoshii (voice)

Shin-ichiro Miki as Guy Denki (voice)