Otaku Theme Titles

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Otaku Theme: (Story/Location) Titles in which one or more principal characters are rabid fans of anime or are employed in the anime/manga/video game industries. In other words, shows which would appeal to otaku since they give a glimpse of people like themselves and/or the industries that fascinate them.

Title Rating Synopsis
F
For the Glory Rent See Quan Zhi Gao Shou Movie: For the Glory
G

Gaikotsu Shotenin Honda-san
Unevaluated At a certain bookstore which specializes in manga, customers are so fanatical about tracking down their must-have latest issues that they don't seem to notice something unusual about clerk Honda who serves them.

Gamers!
Watch Keita Amano is a lonely young man who loves video games; Karen Tendō is the beautiful president of the video game club; Chiaki Hoshinomori constantly fights with Keita; and Tasuku Uehara puts on a facade of being satisfied with his life in the real world, but he in truth loves video games.

gdgd men's party
Rent Video gaming friends Light and Yomi find themselves transported to an alternate, video game-like reality where their android guide, Alpha, leads them on a quest to rescue Princess Harmony.

Genshiken
Rent Kanji Sasahara is a first year college student. He watches a lot of Anime and reads Manga. He was thinking of joining the Manga club when another student Makoto Kohsaka strikes up a conversation with them about joining. Kanji is embarrassed and leaves. Later he visits the Society for the Study of Modern Visual Culture (Aka a bunch of Otaku's). While alone in the club room, he looks up the skirt of a Haruka doll (KGNE), and is caught red handed flipping through their porn collection. He is so mortified, but finds out it was a form of Hazing and the other guys were just waiting nearby for the president to catch him in the 'act'!. "Now that we know we're the same kind" Genshiken member Madarame says, "how about you join us?"

Genshiken 2
Rent The continuing adventures of the university club known as "Genshiken" as older members graduate and leadership changes. What other changes are in store for this group of otaku friends?

Genshiken Nidaime
Watch With the older Genshiken members having graduated, Chika Ogiue is now in charge of the club's activities, gaining new members such as another of Ohno's otaku friends Susanna Hopkins, the cross-dressing Kenjirou Hato and the stocky fujoshi Mirei Yajima.

Genshiken OVA
Buy A new school term has started and all of the university clubs are out to recruit new members. Genshiken is no exception to needing new members, should the anti-otaku Saki-san allow it. Genshiken gets two new members, both rejects from other clubs. Kuchiki, having been rejected by Saki-san the previous year, returns after leaving the anime club and everyone is stunned when Saki-san lets him in. The manga club then pawns off one of its troublesome female members, Ogiue-san. She states she hates otaku, especially female otaku with their "homo" obsession for yaoi and shounen ai materials. Despite this, she's there to join their club. Will Genshiken survive its two newest and strangest members?
Genshiken Second Season Watch See Genshiken Nidaime
gi(a)rlish number Rent See Girlish Number

Girlish Number
Rent Chitose Karasuma has been in the voice actress business for about a year, and has become thoroughly disillusioned with it. She gets little work and little respect, and is convinced that there's something fundamentally wrong with the VA trade. Until, that is, by a fantastic stroke of luck (or is it negligence?) she is suddenly given the primary role in a new anime.
Girls aim for the Wilderness: Girls beyond the youth KOYA Watch See Shoujo-tachi wa Kouya o Mezasu
Girls Beyond the Wasteland Watch See Shoujo-tachi wa Kouya o Mezasu
Girls beyond the youth KOYA Watch See Shoujo-tachi wa Kouya o Mezasu
H

Handa-kun
Watch Everybody at school considers Sei Handa to be a very cool guy, but he is completely oblivious to this admiration. He is thoroughly convinced that everybody is out to get him.
Genre
Action(9) Action Comedy(7) Adventure(6) Comedy(64)
Comedy Fantasy(1) Drama(16) Horror(1) Mystery(1)
Parody(9) Romance(23) Romantic Comedy(15) Suspense(1)
Setting
Fantasy(7) Modern(66) Sci-Fi(5)
Demographic
Josei(1) Seinen(9) Shounen(6)
Style
Acquired Taste(2) Artistic(1) Classic(1) Dark(2)
Moe(3) Silly-funny(4) Surreal(1) Weird(3)
Characters and Their Abilities
Artificial Girls(2) Bishoujo(2) Deities(2) Mahou Shoujo(1)
Story Elements and Location
College(3) Coming of Age(1) Competition(2) Depression(1)
Friendship(1) Harem(6) High School(13) Isekai (Other World)(5)
Magic(3) Middle School(3) Occult(2) School Comedy(2)
Shoujo Ai(1) Slice of Life(24) Supernatural(4) Swordplay(2)
Time Travel(1)
Keywords
Prequel(1) Sequel(11) Spinoff(1) Spinoff-Sequel(1)
Video-game inspired(8) Virtual Reality(8)
Potentially Objectionable
Ecchi(3) Erotic Comedy(1) Fan Service(21) Pantsu(3)
Pervert(2) Violent(1) Vulgar(1)
Type
Movie(2) Omake(1) ONA(3) OVA(8)
Short(9) TV(65)
Release Year
2023(3) 2022(2) 2021(2) 2020(3) 2019(3) 2018(10) 2017(8) 2016(8)
2015(3) 2014(6) 2013(7) 2012(3) 2011(3) 2010(2) 2009(3) 2008(2)
2007(5) 2006(4) 2005(2) 2004(2) 2002(1) 2001(2) 1991(1)
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