# Animation Store Manager (2002)

Released 2002-08-19

Animation Store Manager is a 2002 film. Hiroaki Hirata appears in it.

Cast: Hiroaki Hirata as Mel Rose (voice)

## Storyline
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.

## Common questions

### When was Animation Store Manager released?
Animation Store Manager was released on 19 August 2002.

### Who stars in Animation Store Manager?
Hiroaki Hirata star in Animation Store Manager.

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