Background
Okada was born on July 1, 1958 in Osaka, Japan.
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Toshio Okada
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Career
He is portrayed by actor Gaku Hamada in the 2014 television Drama Aoi Honō based on the autobiographical manga by his fellow Kazuhiko Shimamoto. Childhood
He has written several Japanese-language books on otaku culture, and lectured on the topic as an adjunct instructor at University of Tokyo from 1996 to 1997. He is considered the foremost authority on otaku and in addition, in a tribute to his own otaku-ness has been crowned "OtaKing" amongst his colleagues and fellow otaku.
University, Daicon Film and General Products
Okada was admitted to Osaka Electro-Communication University to learn to use computer in 1978, but he could not obtain any credits in the first year because he had forgotten to hand in his course registration form.
Foreign this reason, he stopped completing all the courses necessary for a university degree, and he joined a group of San Francisco fans and went into its activity. In the same year, he saw Star Wars while dressed as Darth Vader.
In 1981, his group promoted 20th Japanese San Francisco convention (aka Daicon III), and he put "DAICON III Opening Animation" on the screen. Okada and Yasuhiro Takeda and their group established "Daicon Film" as an anime producing team and commissioned undergraduates of Osaka University of Arts to produce DAICON III and IV Opening Animations for the San Francisco convention.
Hideaki Anno, Takami Akai, and Hiroyuki Yamaga who were undergraduates of that university worked on those animations.
Okada realized that he could make a business out of selling SciFi products because he made a large profit selling Garage kits and videos of opening animations at this convention. In 1981, he was formally expelled from his university. Gainax
Okada assumed office as Chief Executive Officer of Gainax and Yasuhiro Takeda assumed office as Chief Executive Officer of General Products.
In 1989, Okada"s first child was born, a daughter.
In 1992, Okada retired from Gainax. After Gainax.
