Animation Store Manager (2002)

Director: Hiroyuki Imaishi

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.

Cast

Akira Ishida

Wataru (voice)

Hiro Yuuki

Hikaru (voice)

Hiroaki Hirata

Mel Rose (voice)

Jurota Kosugi

President Takahashi (voice)

Kazuhiko Shimamoto

Narrator

Miki Nagasawa

Lamica Hoshii (voice)

Shin-ichiro Miki

Guy Denki (voice)

Soichiro Hoshi

Yuzuru (voice)

Takehito Koyasu

Touya Dougenzaka (voice)

Tomokazu Seki

Meito Anizawa (voice)