Cheap Otaku No Video (DVD) (Takeshi Mori) Price

Related Products

Customer Reviews of Otaku No Video

Otaku no Video is excellent!
Excellent anime video! Otaku no video is a production which gives a background into the anime world and those who are obsessed with it (known as Otaku) The video has both interviews with anime fans and an anime storyline going on at the same time. Very original writing and production and well worth watching. <
>This video originally released on video tape is available on DVD now and complements the book "Anime Essentials" which has a similar cover. <
>I highly recomend picking both the video and book up if you are interested in the world of Japanese anime and manga.

---

the culture of anime
For any nominally serious fan looking to know more about the culture behind classic anime, for die-hard Gainax fans or for psych/sociology majors researching the escapist motivations evinced by inhabitants of Sci-Fi fandom, this is absolutely required material. It's also one of my favorite discs.
A fictionalized account of how the key individuals at animation studio Gainax (Neon Genesis, FLCL) got into the business, Otaku No Video (graffiti of otaku generation) is one of a kind. Originally released in two parts in 1982 and 1985, this OVA follows "city boy" Kubo in his trek from tennis-playing college kid to becoming a revered cult figure in the world of Japanese animation. Leaving a college drinking spree early one evening (I've got a match in the morning) Kubo runs into old high school pal Tanaka and his posse of anime-manga-sci-fi junkies. Nerdsville incarnate. Kubo is quickly drawn into their world of geek fandom, losing his cute upper middle class girlfriend Ueno and abandoning college to begin marketing garage kits with Tanaka. Their upstart business brings them to the brink of garage kit kingdom , only to suffer a hostile takeover by a heartless corporate parasite and his vengeful new wife, Kubo's old flame Ueno!
Tanaka is sacked and Kubo loses position as president of the company, demoted to a remote outpost as a shamed middle-manager. But Fate strikes again. He runs into the shamed Tanaka on the street one day and they once again launch into a start-up, this time Garage Animes, rising to claim the throne of OtaKings!
The film is interspersed with several live-action, mockumentary-style "interviews" with various types of popular media fans, such as, a former cos-player, an anime collector,a cel thief and a garage kit builder. Through these "interviews", we see the culture of fans who attend Comic Market, produce their own fanzines, or live in the childish world of cartoon computer porn and paintball combat. They reminisce and rationalize, to great effect.
Otaku No Video is loaded with insider cultural references. AnimEigo includes in the disc liner notes that explain all the references, a BIG help to those looking to piece together Japanese subculture.
This is a fun, informative, sometimes even moving film that true fans of anime culture will watch repeatedly. You'll never look at anime the same way again after this.

---

To dream the impossible dream! To become the Ota-King!
"Otaku" in Japanese means "honorable house," and is used as a derogatory slang term for anyone so into their hobby that they never leave their house. Devout hobbyist that the Japanese are, you will find many otakus, laden with cameras and photo gear, or comic books and anime cels.

"Otaku no Video" (Otaku's Video) is a mockumentary showing the slow descent into otaku-hood of Kubo, a young college student with a girlfriend and a scant interest in anime/manga. Through the bad influence of an old friend, Tanaka, his interest gains control of his life, and he is soon a full-blown otaku, indulging in CosPlay and abandoned by girlfriend and society. Finding himself on rock-bottom, he vows to become the Ota-king, and create a theme park where all otakus can find respect pursuing their anime interests.

Interspersed with this animated storyline are live action interviews with "real" otakus, showing their dismal lives and asking questions like "So, did you ever think about having sex with a real girl?" This may hit a little too close to home for some otakus!

The DVD is a hilarious self-parody of anime otakus by anime otakus, and includes a thinly disguised history of animation studio Gainax. The in-jokes come fast and furious, and you would need to be a true otaku to catch them all.

"Otaku no Video" is quite dated, and many of the references will be lost on newer anime/manga fans. However, it makes for good viewing and both the animated storyline and the interviews are hilarious. A must see.