- Toshio Okada
is an
anime producer, author, and lecturer. He is a co-founder and former president of the production companyGainax .Okada was born in
Osaka and attendedOsaka University of Arts . He has written several Japanese-language books onotaku culture, and lectured on the topic as an adjunct instructor atTokyo University from1992 to1997 . [Takeda 2002.] He is considered the foremost authority onotaku and in addition, in a tribute to his own otaku-ness ["In those days, we didn't have the word "otaku" yet, but my first impression of Okada was, "Here's a geek if I've ever seen one."' With his girly long hair and his freakishly excited way of speaking, all I could think was, "This guy is exactly like me?" pg 31, Takeda 2005] has been crowned "OtaKing" amongst his colleagues and fellow otaku.Works
Anime
* Daicon IV Opening Film (
1983 )
* (1987 )
*Gunbuster (1988 )
*Otaku no Video (1992 )Books
External links
*jp icon [http://www.netcity.or.jp/OTAKU/okada/index.html Otaking Space Port: Toshio Okada On The Web]
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* [http://altjapan.typepad.com/my_weblog/2008/07/already-dead.html A Review of "You Otaku Are Already Dead"]References
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