Otaku no Video

About 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.

Otaku no Video (1991) is an animation comedy film directed by Shoichi Masuo and Takeshi Mori. It runs 97 minutes and was released in September 1991.

Koji Tsujitani stars as Ken Kubo (voice), Toshiharu Sakurai as Sueo Tanaka (voice), Kikuko Inoue as Misty May (voice), and Yuko Kobayashi as Misuzu Fukuhara (voice). The screenplay is by Hiroyuki Yamaga and Toshio Okada. Produced by GAINAX. It streams on ARROW, Eternal Family, and Night Flight Plus in the United States.