Anime Tenchou

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.

Meiko Anizawa is in a bind. He’s just been asked, as a ‘dying wish’, to take over the role of the Animate anime store’s manager. With determination and fury, Meiko magically transforms into the best anime store manager around and races his way towards his duty…