Animation Store Manager (2002)
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.
Directors:
Hiroyuki Imaishi, Hideaki Anno.
Writer:
Hiroyuki Imaishi
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Akira Ishida as Wataru (voice) |
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Hiro Yuuki as Hikaru (voice) |
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Hiroaki Hirata as Mel Rose (voice) |
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Jurota Kosugi as President Takahashi (voice) |
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Kazuhiko Shimamoto as Narrator |
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Miki Nagasawa as Lamica Hoshii (voice) |
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Shin-ichiro Miki as Guy Denki (voice) |
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Soichiro Hoshi as Yuzuru (voice) |
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Takehito Koyasu as Touya Dougenzaka (voice) |
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Tomokazu Seki as Meito Anizawa (voice) |
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Toshihiko Seki as Ryuu Raiba (voice) |
| Directing | Hiroyuki Imaishi | Director |
| Visual Effects | Hiroyuki Imaishi | Character Designer |
| Directing | Hideaki Anno | Director |
| Visual Effects | Kazuhiko Shimamoto | Character Designer |
| Art | Hiroyuki Imaishi | Art Direction |
| Visual Effects | Yoh Yoshinari | Key Animation |
| Writing | Hiroyuki Imaishi | Screenplay |
| Crew | Kazuhiko Shimamoto | Creator |
| Writing | Kazuhiko Shimamoto | Original Story |
