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Otaku no Video

Otaku no Video

1991•1h 37m•5.5/10
AnimationComedyDrama

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5.5/10(18)

A hilarious mockumentary featuring an animated tale of an average person who slowly becomes an otaku (obsessive fanatic) and eventually becomes the "Otaking"! Between story segments, live action interviews with fictional die-hard otakus take place.

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Production

GAINAX, Studio Fantasia

Language

JA

Status

Released

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Cast

Koji Tsujitani

Koji Tsujitani

Ken Kubo (voice)

Toshiharu Sakurai

Toshiharu Sakurai

Sueo Tanaka (voice)

Kikuko Inoue

Kikuko Inoue

Misty May (voice) / Yoshiko Ueno (voice)

Yuko Kobayashi

Yuko Kobayashi

Misuzu Fukuhara (voice)

Yuri Amano

Yuri Amano

Yuri Sato (voice)

Akio Otsuka

Akio Otsuka

Banker Kanda (voice) / Narrator

Shigeru Nakahara

Shigeru Nakahara

Hino (voice)

Toshiyuki Morikawa

Toshiyuki Morikawa

Iiyama (voice)

Wataru Takagi

Wataru Takagi

Kitajima (voice)

Masami Kikuchi

Masami Kikuchi

Miyoshi (voice)

Kiyoyuki Yanada

Kiyoyuki Yanada

Murata (voice)

Rena Yukie

Youko Nakamaru (voice)

Nobuo Tobita

Nobuo Tobita

Yamaguchi (voice)

Hideyuki Umezu

Hideyuki Umezu

Yoshida (voice) / Shao Bai Lung (voice)

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