The old man in the story is Manager of Video Shop Gokuraku, Japan Branch. His real name is unknown. Despite the term &#039;Manager&#039;, he belongs to the lower echelon of the Gokuraku and basically manages the &#039;rental system&#039; in the video shop. He has some specialized knowledge in the field of Video Girl Engineering and helps him employer, Rolex, in development and maintenance of equipment. In the series, he is the only &#039;normal human&#039; employee working for Gokuraku.

High-school student Yota Moteuchi is so unpopular that his classmates have given him the nickname "Dateless." So it's no surprise when the love of his life, Moemi, is not interested in Yota but instead is in love with Yota's best friend, Takashi. Yota turns to a video rental shop for comfort, but little did he suspect that the shop was magical and that the cute girl on his rented tape would pop out of the television and try to fix his ruined love life!
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(Source: Viz Media)

When Yohta is told by the girl he likes, Moemi, that she likes someone else, he rents a video girl tape from a strange video rental shop. When he plays the tape at home, Video Girl Ai emerges from the screen to help him win Moemi's love. But Yohta's VCR had been malfunctioning and now Ai's personality isn't quite what it was designed to be. <br><br>
(Source: AniDB)


__Non-Anime Roles:__
~!- Aku Aku in "Crash Bandicoot series" (VG) (Japanese) 
- Azaka in "Tenchi Muyo! Game-Hen" (VG) (Japanese) 
- Brain in "Animaniacs" (animated TV series) (Japanese) 
- Professor Jordan Perry in "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze" (live action movie) (Japanese) 
- Television in "The Brave Little Toaster" (Japanese) 
- Van Pelt in "Jumanji" (live-action movie) (Japanese)!~

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Richard Newman is a voice actor with numerous voice roles in Transformers cartoons. Newman started his career in voice acting in Beast Wars voicing Rhinox and the Vok. Born Chicago, Illinois USA  Newman has also had roles in Dragon Ball Z, RoboCop Alpha Commando, and Beast Machines: Transformers as well as MegaMan NT Warrior, and Bucky O'Hare and the Toad Wars.  He also provided archvillain Phaeton's voice in the animated television series Exosquad.

Date of birth: 1927-07-31
Hometown: Roma, Lazio, Italy
Date of death: 2010-04-10

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