Review of “Anime Tencho” (2002)
Anno Hideaki (director).
Seen in 2019.
The young badass hero honours the man’s dying wish by becoming store manager at an Animate.
Advertisement. In The End of Evangelion (1997), one of the subliminally flashing images is of an injection-moulded figurine of Katsuragi Misato, precisely the sort of pre-painted mass-produced crap you’d get at Animate. After all the trouble Anno went through making His and Her Circumstances (1998), I’m surprised he took the job of advertising for a company that ultimately uderpins one of the most crassly commercial and superficial aspects of the TV anime industry.