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.
Unfortunately the movie Animation Store Manager is not yet available on HBO Max.
| Directing | Hiroyuki Imaishi | Director |
| Directing | Hideaki Anno | Director |
| Visual Effects | Hiroyuki Imaishi | Character Designer |
| Writing | Hiroyuki Imaishi | Screenplay |
| Crew | Kazuhiko Shimamoto | Creator |
| Visual Effects | Kazuhiko Shimamoto | Character Designer |
| Art | Hiroyuki Imaishi | Art Direction |
| Visual Effects | Yoh Yoshinari | Key Animation |
| Writing | Kazuhiko Shimamoto | Original Story |
