Toshio Okada
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Toshio Okada (岡田斗司夫 Okada Toshio?, born July 1, 1958) is an anime producer, author, and lecturer. He is a co-founder and former president of the production company Gainax.
Okada was born in Osaka and attended Osaka University of Arts. He has written several Japanese-language books on otaku culture, and lectured on the topic as an adjunct instructor at Tokyo University from 1992 to 1997.[1] He is considered the foremost authority on otaku and in addition, in a tribute to his own otaku-ness[2] has been crowned "OtaKing" amongst his colleagues and fellow otaku.
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[edit] Works
[edit] Anime
- Daicon IV Opening Film (1983)
- Royal Space Force: The Wings of Honneamise (1987)
- Gunbuster (1988)
- Otaku no Video (1992)
[edit] Books
- Our Brainwashed Society (ぼくたちの洗脳社会 Bokutachi No Sennou Shakai) (1995) ISBN 4022612444
- Introduction to Otakuology (オタク学入門 Otaku-gaku Nyumon) (1996) ISBN 4102900195
[edit] External links
- (Japanese) Otaking Space Port: Toshio Okada On The Web
- Toshio Okada at the Internet Movie Database
[edit] References
- ^ Takeda 2002.
- '^ "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
- Takeda, Yasuhiro; Yu Sugitani, Yasuhiro Kamimura, Takayoshi Miwa; translated by Javier Lopez, Jack Wiedrick, Brendan Frayne, Kay Bertrand, Gina Koerner, Hiroaki Fukuda, and Sheridan Jacobs (2002, 2005). The Notenki memoirs: studio Gainax and the men who created Evangelion. ADV Manga, 190. ISBN 1-4139-0234-0.
