Editing Otaku no Video (section)

==Plot==
The story begins in ''Otaku no Video 1982'', where the main character is an [[everyman]] character,<ref>{{Cite web |last=Sevakis |first=Justin |date=November 15, 2007 |title=Buried Treasure – In Praise of Nerdiness |url=https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/buried-treasure/2007-11-15 |access-date=June 8, 2024 |website=Anime News Network |language=en |archive-date=July 29, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130729055645/http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/buried-treasure/2007-11-15 |url-status=live }}</ref> Ken Kubo, living with his girlfriend Yoshiko and as a member of his college's [[Tennis terminology|tennis team]], until introduced by his former friend Tanaka to a club of enthusiasts: a female illustrator, an information [[geek]], a martial artist, and a weapons collector. Kubo soon joins them; and when Yoshiko, who hates otaku, abandons him, makes the wish to become the supreme enthusiast, under the name of ''Otaking''.

Kubo's quest continues in ''More Otaku no Video 1985'', set three years later, in which he creates his model kits, opens shops, and builds a factory in China. Later, he loses his fortune when one of his rivals (now married to Yoshiko) takes control of his enterprise; but Kubo and Tanaka, with hard-working artist Misuzu, gradually take over the anime industry with a 'magical girl' show, "Misty May". At the peak of their ambitions, Ken and Tanaka create Otakuland in 1999: the equivalent of [[Disneyland]] for otaku (the story suggests Otakuland to be located in the same city of [[Urayasu]], [[Chiba Prefecture]], as the original [[Tokyo Disneyland]].)<ref>"Urayasu City is where Tokyo Disneyland is located." http://www.animeigo.com/liner/anime/otaku-no-video {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101030091922/http://animeigo.com/liner/anime/otaku-no-video |date=October 30, 2010 }}</ref>

Many years later, Ken and Tanaka return to Otakuland in a post-apocalyptic submerged Japan and find its central structure, a giant robot, converted into a functional spaceship piloted by their old friends. Miraculously rejuvenated, they fly into space in search of "The Planet of Otaku".

Part of ''Otaku no Video'' was the inclusion of live-action documentary excerpts, titled "A Portrait of an Otaku". In these segments, the documentary crew would interview an anonymous otaku, typically ashamed at being a fan and whose face are censored with a [[Pixelization|mosaic]] and have their voices digitally masked. The mock documentary segments serve as a counterpoint to the anime: while the anime emphasizes the camaraderie, creativity, and dreams of mainstream acceptance of otaku, the mock interviews exaggerate its negative qualities. The subjects run the gamut of the otaku subculture: the interviews cover a [[cosplay]]er who now works as a computer programmer and outright denies his cosplay days, even when presented with photographic evidence, but keeps his [[Char Aznable]] helmet in his desk drawer, an [[airsoft]] otaku, a [[garage kit]] otaku, and a shut-in who video-records television programs for trade, but has not actually watched anything that he recorded. The interviews also contain fans who engage in a range of illicit or unsavory activities, such as [[cel]] thieves, a pornography fan attempting to manufacture glasses to defeat the mosaic censorship common in Japanese porn videos and who is shown [[masturbate|masturbating]] during the interview, and a computer gamer obsessed with a character in a [[hentai]] computer game (Kimiko from ''[[Gunbuster]]'' who makes a cameo in Gainax's own hentai game, ''Cybernetic High School'').