Otaku no Video

Otaku no Video (おたくのビデオ, Otaku no Bideo^?, The Otaku Video) is a 1991 animated film in the form of two OVAs (Original Video Animation) that talk about otaku culture, as well as the history of the Gainax studios, its creators. It includes a documentary style with real interviews^{[citation needed]} with different types of otaku.

Plot

The film consists of two parts.

• Otaku no Video 1982 (GENERATIVE ENTERPRISING)
• More Otaku no Video 1985 (brand ・ε MER)

In Otaku no Video 1982, Kubo, a normal high school boy who in 1982 plays sports and has a girlfriend, one day meets Tanaka, an old high school classmate. This and his friends end up introducing him to the fascinating and strange otaku culture. Due to his new hobby, Kubo spends less and less time with his girlfriend, until she leaves him 2 years later in 1984. It is then that he decides to no longer become a simple otaku, but the otaku of otakus, the Otaking ("otaku king", king of the otakus), rank that he will try to reach throughout More Otaku no Video 1985, which begins 3 years later in 1985 and continues through the 1990s.

Among the aspects that the film develops are cosplay, the creation of models, the creation of an animated series and even the creation of an amusement park for the use and enjoyment of otakus. Everything to become the otaking.

Finally, in 1999, a mature Kubo realizes his dream of creating a theme park for otakus, "Otakuland". However, many years later, Tokyo is attacked by a series of Tsunamis and is submerged in the ocean. Kubo and Tanaka, already being old, decide to return to the old Otakuland, now underwater, but something strange happens, memories mix with reality, and together with their old friends who betrayed them before, they will go in search of a new place. for them: The Planet of the Otakus.

Content

The main part of the plot is the fact that the central character loses the normal life he had, and plunges into the dark world of otakus. This is an important part of the film in which, by mixing it with a documentary part, we see how the otakus lose their sense of reality and focus only on the world of manga and anime. You can also see the great discrimination that these people suffer in the documentary and in the film. It is the moment in which the character says that if he cannot be accepted he will become the king of otakus (otaking). Kubo together with his friend Tanaka, decide to create a company. Although this fails, they try again, until they become the most famous Manga and Anime brand.

Because the anime is partially based on the lives of the creators of Gainax, who began their careers as otakus during the late 1970s and early 1980s, numerous anime from that period are shown on the OVA (in costumes, clothing, cosplay, posters, and other related materials). These include Space Battleship Yamato, Urusei Yatsura, Captain Harlock, Mobile Suit Gundam, Cobra (manga), Hi no Tori 2772: Ai no Cosmozone (Space Bird), Gigi's Adventures, The Super Dimension Fortress Macross, The Super Dimension Fortress Macross: Do You Remember Love?, The Wings of Honneamise, Top wo nerae! Gunbuster, Daicon III and IV Opening Animations, and Dr.Slump.

Technical data sheet

• Production: Kazuhiko Inomata and Yoshimi Kanda
• DirectionTakeshi Mori
• Character design: Kenichi Sonoda
• Booklet: Toshio Okada
• Director of animationTakeshi Honda
• Music: Kouhei Tanaka
• Voice actors: Kooshi Tsujiya (Kubo), Kikuko Inoue (Yoshiko Ueno), Yûko Kobayashi (Misuzu Fukuhara), Yuri Sato (Yuri Amano)

Songs

• Opening: "Tatakae! Otaking" (え wise! Lucy, otaking!)
• Ending: "Otaku no mayoimichi" (ANOVING) The lost path of the otaku)

Other versions

• "Luchare": Interpreted by the Spanish group Charm, is the Spanish version of Opening: "Tatakae! Otaking". He went on his first album, "Konnichiwa."