Anime Spotlight - Genshiken Second Season
by Justin Sevakis,
Key Staff
- Director: Tsutomu Mizushima
- (Genshiken TV and OAV, XxxHOLiC)
- Series Composition: Michiko Yokote
- (Genshiken, Nabari no Ou, Air Master)
- Character Design: Junichiro Taniguchi
- (Natsuyuki Rendezvous, Madoka Magica movies)
- Animation Production
- Production I.G
Story
Shiiou University's Society for the Study of Modern Visual Culture, AKA Genshiken. The new president, Chika Ogiue, prepares to gather new members for their club after learning from the mistakes of last year's attempts.
While their former president, Ono Kanako, continues to cosplay for herself, Ogiue attempts to draw in new members by drawing a large illustration in public! Two girls, Rika Yoshitake and Mirei Yajima, respond to the illustration and join Genshiken. But birds of a feather flock together, and both of them are “fujoshi”.
Then another pure and beautiful person with chestnut hair shows up in the clubroom looking to join… But he's actually a wig-wearing girl-boy.
Now the activities of the second generation of Genshiken with these unique new members is about to begin!
Characters
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Chika Ogiue
VA: Nozomi Yamamoto President of Genshiken. She never has a day of rest with all the unique club members. She also has her work as a new manga author to manage. During their attempts to recruit new members, she drew a large illustration in public. Her boyfriend, former president Kanji Sasahara is working as an editor for a publisher.
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Rika Yoshitake
VA: Sumire Uesaka
A new member of Genshiken. She joined after seeing Ogiue's illustration. She's a very open woman, and makes it well known that's a fujoshi. She's active and not afraid to do things. Her favorite genre is warring states generals. She's very knowledgeable about history.
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Mirei Yajima
VA: Yumi Uchiyama A new member of Genshiken. She joined after seeing Ogiue's illustration.
Her behavior is a bit masculine, and she has a serious, stubborn personality. She seems calm, but she's a fujoshi too. She has a bit of a complex about her appearance.
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Kenjiro Hato
VA: Ai Kakuma/Kazutomi Yamamoto
A new member of Genshiken. She looks like a traditional beauty, but she's a girl-boy.
His love for BL grew until he started cross-dressing, and thanks to his efforts he has very smooth skin and the skill to switch between his male and female voice. He went through the door to Genshiken in hopes of finding fujoshi friends.
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Kanako Ohno
VA: Yukana
Former president of Genshiken. She's a cosplayer who's also spent time abroad. Her enormous breasts stand out. Her boyfriend is Soichiro Tanaka, an old member of Genshiken. She's doing her best to get the new members of Genshiken to cosplay. She likes bald, bearded, and older male characters.
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Manabu Kuchiki
VA: Jun Fukuyama
A member of Genshiken. His nickname is Kucchi.
His lack of communication skills often cause problems, but for some reason he's still in Genshiken.
His actions aren't easily stopped, so he's always worrying the others.
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Susanna Hopkins
VA: Naomi Ozora
One of Ohno's friends from her time in America. She took a liking to Genshiken when she came to visit Japan, and now she's finally studying abroad and joining as a member. Her nickname is “Sue” or “Susie”. She loves Japanese anime and manga, and often shouts lines from them. She's taken a liking to Ogiue ever since seeing her doujinshi.
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Cast
- Chika Ogiue
- Nozomi Yamamoto
- Rika Yoshitake
- Sumire Uesaka
- Mirei Yajima
- Yumi Uchiyama
- Kenjiro Hato
- Ai Kakuma
Kazutomi Yamamoto - Kanako Ohno
- Yukana
- Manabu Kuchiki
- Jun Fukuyama
- Susanna Hopkins
- Naomi Ozora
- Harunobu Madarame
- Kazuyuki Okitsu
- Kanji Sasahara
- Tatsuya Kobashi
- Makoto Kosaka
- Momoko Ohara
- Saki Kasukabe
- Rina Sato
- SoichiroTanaka
- Takayuki Kondo
- Mitsunori Kugayama
- Hiroki Yasumoto
- Angela Burton
- Misa Kobayashi
- Keiko Sasahara
- Ikumi Hayama
- Kumiko Yabusaki
- Madoka Yonezawa
- Naoko Asada (Nyako)
- Konomi Tada
- Kaminaga
- Mamiko Noto
Staff
- Original Creator
- Shimoku Kio
(Kodansha Afternoon Publishing) - Planning
- Atsushi Moriyama
Nobuyasu Suzuki - Production
- Go Nakanishi
Takuya Matsushita - Producer
- Haruki Hayashi
Junichiro Tsuchiya - Director
Sound Director - Tsutomu Mizushima
- Series Composition
- Michiko Yokote
- Character Design
- Junichiro Taniguchi
- Clothing Design
- Takayuki Uragami
- Prop Design
- Shingo Takenaka
- Chief Animation Director
- Junichiro Taniguchi
Toshihisa Kaiya - Art Director
- Ichiro Tatsuta
(Studio Fuga) - Art Design
- Katsufumi Hariu
(Studio Fuga) - Color Design
- Emiko Ueno
- Director of Photography
- Fumio Furukawa
- Editing
- Junichi Uematsu
- 3D CGI
- DandeLion
- Music
- Shuichiro Fukuhiro
- Music Production
- Starchild Records
- Sound Effects
- Yasumasa Koyama
- Sound Production
- Dream Force
- Recording Studio
- Seion Studio
- Animation Producer
- Keiko Matsushita
- Animation Production
- Production I.G.
- Production
- Genshiken Second Season Project
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