Moyoco Anno¡¯s manga ¡°Insufficient Direction¡± is the, perhaps, inevitable result of what happens when a legendary anime director marries a well-known manga artist.
Insufficient Direction, by Moyoco Anno.
Vertical, Manga.
Hideaki Anno is, as any otaku (geek) will know, the creator of the seminal anime series ¡°Neon Genesis Evangelion,¡± and his wife, Moyoco, is the author and artist of the highly acclaimed manga ¡°Sakuran.¡± Together they make up Japan¡¯s most famous otaku couple and their domestic life together is the source material for this highly amusing manga.
Rompers is married to Director-kun and has to come to terms with the fact that life with him means embracing a fully otaku lifestyle ¡ª complete with anime-song sing-a-longs, sentai (costumed superhero) TV-show binges and a constant stream of pop-cultural references that only a truly enlightened otaku would understand.
Anno helpfully supplies copious footnotes at the back of the manga for all the couple¡¯s geeky references, making the book a fun reference guide for readers making their own journey to otakudom. But as Rompers points out: ¡°Otaku is contagious ... Which means ... stupid might be contagious too.¡± To which Director-kun answers ¡± I don¡¯t think so. You are an otaku to begin with, just as you are stupid to begin with. Now sing!¡±
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