Animation Store Manager

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.

Director: Hiroyuki Imaishi

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)