“Anime Tenchou: Animate's fiery mascot turned OVA hero, created by Shimamoto, animated by GAINAX/Anno.”
Animation Store Manager
アニメ店長
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Synopsis
Anime Tenchou: Animate's fiery mascot turned OVA hero, created by Shimamoto, animated by GAINAX/Anno.
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. (Source: AniDB)
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Derived from 4 sampled reviews
What 4 viewers settled on.
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σ 1.64 · some divergence
3.7 pts
Recommenders 7.7 · others 4.0
↓ 0.25
Running avg · Dec 2008 → Sep 2015
- 8 “Anime Tenchou, or Two Minutes of Mirth There's not a whole lot to say about a two minute commercial for a real life anime and manga store... except when it's animated by Gainax and Hiroyuki...”
- 7 “Anime Tenchou is undoubtedly one of the shortest OVAs I for one have ever seen. (2 minutes) Its actually pretty cool for its extremely short run. Story: 6/10 Well basically the main plot involves...”
- 8 “What do all good advertisements need? Do they need to be informative and relevant facts clearly and concisely? Do they need to be original and distinguish themselves from their competitors? Do they...”
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- Format 1 × 2′ eps × min
- Total runtime 0h 02m all episodes
- Aired Aug 2002 – ongoing
- Source Ova media type
- Rated G All Ages
- Ref. BS-2794 catalog
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