Genshiken
げんしけん
TV · 2004 · 12 eps · Finished · Score 7.4
Genres: Comedy, Slice of Life
Themes: Otaku Culture, School Club, Parody, College, Cosplay, Ensemble Cast, Meta, Heterosexual, Primarily Adult Cast, Seinen, Male Protagonist
Studios: Palm Studio
Synopsis
Sasahara Kanji is a college freshman who decides to join a student society to share his hidden thoughts on manga, anime and gaming. When he first visited Genshiken, short for "Gendai Shikaku Bunka Kenkyuu Kai" (Society for the Study of Modern Visual Culture), his groundless pride was destroyed by the plotting of Madarame, a sophomore student in Genshiken, but he still couldn't admit that he is an otaku. However, as he participates in society activities such as visiting dojin (private publishing) shops and anime festivals, and hangs out with other society members Kosaka (a hardcore otaku despite his extreme eccentricities and good looks), Kosaka's girlfriend Kasuga Saki (who isn't really an otaku), Ohno (a cosplayer) and the others, he opens his mind and resolves that he will make his way into the otaku world. With their help, Sasahara slowly adjusts to otaku life in Genshiken. (Source: AnimeNfo)
Voice Actors
- Tomokazu Seki as Souichiro Tanaka
- Satsuki Yukino as Saki Kasukabe
- Mitsuki Saiga as Makoto Kousaka
- Ayako Kawasumi as Kanako Oono
- Nobuyuki Hiyama as Harunobu Madarame
- Kenji Nomura as Mitsunori Kugayama
- Takanori Ooyama as Kanji Sasahara
- Sanae Kobayashi as Yurie Kitagawa
- Akemi Kanda as Tokino Akiyama
- Kaori Shimizu as Keiko Sasahara
- Eiji Yanagisawa as Takayanagi
- Kentarou Itou as Sawazaki
- Akira Ishida as Manabu Kuchiki
- Kouji Ishii as Haraguchi
- Yuuji Ueda as Shodai Kaichou
- Daisuke Kirii as Kimura
- Junichi Endou as Tsutomu Mizudori