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.
Not for scares or tears.
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Koji TsujitaniKen Kubo (voice)
Toshiharu SakuraiSueo Tanaka (voice)
Kikuko InoueMisty May (voice) / Yoshiko Ueno (voice)
Yuko KobayashiMisuzu Fukuhara (voice)
Yuri AmanoYuri Sato (voice)
Akio OtsukaBanker Kanda (voice) / Narrator
Shigeru NakaharaHino (voice)
Toshiyuki MorikawaIiyama (voice)
Wataru TakagiKitajima (voice)
Masami KikuchiMiyoshi (voice)
Kiyoyuki YanadaMurata (voice)
Nobuo TobitaYamaguchi (voice)
Hideyuki UmezuYoshida (voice) / Shao Bai Lung (voice)Pick a department, or search for a name or a job (“editor”, “stunt”).
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GoodWatch score 69September 27, 1991 · 1 h 37 min · Animation, Comedy, Drama
Victoria's Secret Compartment, Cosplay Otaku Girl, Satire +9
5 questions, like "Where can I stream Otaku no Video?"
Quick answers from GoodWatch data.
In the United States, Otaku no Video streams on Night Flight+, Retrocrush, Eternal Family, RetroCrush, and ARROW, and it is free with ads on Plex, Kanopy, Fawesome, and Cineverse. You can rent or buy it from Fandango At Home. It also streams in 74 other countries.
Mostly, it's well received, with a GoodWatch score of 73 (IMDb 7).
Yes: the humor is mostly satire (8 of 10) and situational comedy (7 of 10).
No, it was made in Japanese.
TV Tropes lists 22 tropes for it, including Victoria's Secret Compartment, Cosplay Otaku Girl, and Satire.
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