Genre: Fiction
Alternative title: My Otaku Girlfriend
Year: 2023
Duration: 1h 59m
Director: Edio Raven
Cast: Miguelangel Hidalgo, Karla Vieira, Frank Coello, Kelliens Subotic
Country: Venezuela
Producers: Anderson Acosta, Edio Raven
Screenwriter: Edio Raven
Synopsis:
In 2022, Caracas Venezuela, Manuel Cavalier is pressured by Marta Marquez, his perfectionist mother, to prepare for an MBA in Oxford University. One day, in a Coffe shop, he’s discovered by the beautiful blonde anime lover, Eugenia Rangel, who happens to be a fan of one unfinished work he published online as an independent and anonymous manga illustrator: Fire King. Although Manuel loved his craft, he stopped creating manga due to her mother’s influence, she regarded his art as something that would bring him no opportunities in life. Regardless, from the moment he met Eugenia, she sets herself the goal of collaborating with Manuel (she’s a graphic designer) and persuading him to finish Fire King by offering him to pay for his plane tickets to Oxford once the story’s finished. Manuel decides to complete the manga, Eugenia visits him every day to help him with the illustrations, they get pretty intimate in the process. Along the way, egocentric Alejandro Magno (Manuel’s cousin) starts visiting them and tries to seduce Eugenia. To make matters worse, our hero faces chronic guilt and shame due to the fact that he’s devoting time to his craft and not to the needed preparation for the graduate program, his mother’s dream for him. Because of the influence of his mother’s ghost and one final a decisive verbal and physical attack by Alejandro that makes him doubt about Eugenia’s authentic interest in him, he decides to severe his relationship with her. In a moment of fear, Manuel tells Eugenia that he won’t finish the manga and that he will go to London to study his MBA. She then revels that she was offered a six month modeling job in Mexico City and that, although she was planning to stay because of their plan to finish the manga, she would now take it and leave Caracas. Feeling full of regret for letting go of the things that made him so happy, Manuel decides to confront his mother’s ghost and give up on his graduate studies abroad so he can dedicate himself on finishing Fire King. He also apologizes sincerely to Eugenia and manages to make her stay with him. Forward six months, Manuel’s manga is published online and it becomes widely popular. He receives an invitation to travel to Tokyo to work with the famous studio A-0 Pictures on animating his story. Manuel asks Eugenia to marry him and they both travel to Japan to start their new life. The story ends with both of them deeply in love having a great time getting around Tokyo. Español En 2022, Caracas Venezuela, Manuel Cavalier es presionado por Marta Márquez, su madre perfeccionista, para prepararse para un MBA en la Universidad de Oxford. Un día, en una cafetería, es descubierto por la hermosa rubia amante del anime Eugenia Rangel, quien resulta ser fanática de un trabajo inacabado que publicó en línea como ilustrador de manga independiente y anónimo: Fire King. Eugenia se fija el objetivo de colaborar con Manuel (es diseñadora gráfica) y persuadirlo para que termine Fire King ofreciéndole pagar sus boletos de avión a Oxford una vez que termine la historia para ella. Manuel acepta, Eugenia lo visita todos los días y se hacen bastante íntimos en el proceso. En el camino, el egocéntrico Alejandro Magno (primo de Manuel) comienza a visitarlos e intenta seducir a Eugenia. Para empeorar las cosas, nuestro héroe se enfrenta al fantasma de su madre, quien lo culpa por crear el manga y no estarse preparando para el programa. Tras un decisivo ataque de Alejandro que le hace dudar sobre el auténtico interés de Eugenia por él, decide romper su relación con ella. Manuel le dice a Eugenia que no terminará el manga y que buscará los medios para ir a Londres a estudiar su MBA de inmediato. Ella le revela que le ofrecieron un trabajo de modelaje en el extranjero y que ahora lo tomaría y también se iría de Caracas. Sintiéndose arrepentido por dejar atrás lo que lo hacía tan feliz, Manuel decide enfrentarse al fantasma de su madre y renunciar al MBA para poder dedicarse a terminar Fire King. También se disculpa con Eugenia y logra que se quede con él. Seis meses después, el manga de Manuel se vuelve muy popular. En consecuencia, recibe una invitación para viajar a Tokio para trabajar con el famoso estudio A-0 Pictures en la animación de su historia. Manuel le pide matrimonio a Eugenia y ambos viajan a Japón para comenzar su nueva vida. Profundamente enamorados, se divierten mucho conociendo Tokyo. El fin.
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