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5.88Community score
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アニメ店長

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. (Source: AniDB)

Names

Originalアニメ店長 (japanese)
RomajiAnime Tenchou
English
Chinese兄泽命斗 (simplified · via wikidata)
Also known asAnimation Store Manager

Facts

FormatOVA (home video) · 1 ep · 2 min · 0h total
Aired2002-08-19 (Summer 2002)
StatusFINISHED
StudioGainax
SourceOther
OriginJapan (Anime)
GenresAction
ThemesParodyAdvertisementMale ProtagonistOtaku Culture

Reception

Community score5.88 / 10
Bayesian score6.59 / 10
Composite39.8
On lists4,595
Favourited10 (0.2%)
Completion97.4%
Drop rate0.9%
In backlog20.9%
Score spread σ1.81

Score distribution

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Where it places

CohortValueTierRank
Broadcast seasonSummer 200224 of 24
StudioGainaxE34 of 37
Year2002E136 of 142
Source materialOtherE153 of 182
EraEarly 2000sE651 of 687
FormatOVA (home video)E869 of 944
LengthShort-formE1,012 of 1,250
Season (all years)SummerE1,481 of 1,662
GenreActionE2,488 of 2,765
OriginJapanE6,379 of 7,157

Key staff

DirectorHideaki Anno, Hiroyuki Imaishi
Series compositionHiroyuki Imaishi
Character designHiroyuki Imaishi
Original creatorKazuhiko Shimamoto

Related

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character2007Lucky☆Star
character2010Anime Tenchou x Touhou Project

AniList id 3080 · MAL id 3080 · record updated 2026-08-27