Animation Store Manager(2002)

Name: Animation Store Manager
Director: Hiroyuki Imaishi
Genre: Animation
Released: 2002-01-01
Duration: 3 min
Cast: Akira Ishida, Hiro Yuuki, Hiroaki Hirata, Jurota Kosugi, Kazuhiko Shimamoto

Akira Ishida Hiro Yuuki Hiroaki Hirata Jurota Kosugi Kazuhiko Shimamoto

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.