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Otaku no Video
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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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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Genre:Animation, Comedy, Drama
Written By:Hiroyuki Yamaga, Toshio Okada
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Runtime:97 minutes
Studio:GAINAX, Studio Fantasia
Cast
Takeshi Mori, Shoichi Masuo
Director
Koji Tsujitani
Ken Kubo (voice)
Toshiharu Sakurai
Sueo Tanaka (voice)
Kikuko Inoue
Misty May (voice) / Yoshiko Ueno (voice)
Yuko Kobayashi
Misuzu Fukuhara (voice)
Yuri Amano
Yuri Sato (voice)
Akio Otsuka
Banker Kanda (voice) / Narrator
Shigeru Nakahara
Hino (voice)
Toshiyuki Morikawa
Iiyama (voice)
Wataru Takagi
Kitajima (voice)
Masami Kikuchi
Miyoshi (voice)
Kiyoyuki Yanada
Murata (voice)
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