The Otachan Show is an animated web series created by Yuesf Iqbal aka Otaku-Vs
. Beginning as a Limited Animation in-character talkshow about anime topics before becoming a fully animated series produced by Studio Yuraki about creating an anime, it stars the titular Otachan (voiced by Frankie Lollia), a purple-haired anime girl whose cutesy façade belies her true alcoholic, drug-addicted, sarcastic, selfish, violent personality that frequently puts her staff through comedic abuse. Think Lucky Channel but even more child-unfriendly.
This web series provides examples of:
- Animation Bump: After shifting into a fully animated series.
- Ax-Crazy: Otachan shows shades of this, especially when it comes to her guns.
- The Alcoholic: Otachan loves getting drunk.
- Beleaguered Assistant: Assistant-kun, who suffers so much stress working under Otachan that his therapist tells him to project his frustrations at her onto a puppet of her. Cam is also implied to be this, though it's hard to tell given her lack of reaction to most things.
- Big Ball of Violence: One between Otachan and the IRS interrupts her Credits Running Sequence at the end of the first episode of the anime.
- Big Eater: Otachan manages to slurp away four bowls of ramen in episode 5.
- Bland-Name Product: Episode 2 "Otachan Gets Locked Down" starts with Otachan playing games on a Fony PlaceStation.
- Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Otachan tries to put up a cheerful persona for the camera, but her true nastiness often slips through easily.
- Book Ends: Episode 3 begins and ends with Otachan asking if Cam's looking at nudes on her phone.
- Camera Fiend: Cam, who has reportedly done photoshoots in several locations, including Afghanistan and North Korea.
- The Cameo: MasakoX as Gokū and Gohan in Driving Ball Z.
- Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: Assistant-kun is nowhere to be seen in the anime, and his role as Otachan's Beleaguered Assistant seems to be taken by Cam.
- Comically Small Bribe: When Otachan learns that she hasn't been paying her writing staff, she tries to pay them with a Papa John's coupon. They hang up on her.
- Credits Running Sequence: The first episode of the anime has a Otachan walking during the credits, while Cam takes pictures of her and eventually she gets into a Big Ball of Violence with the IRS.
- Curse Cut Short: Often cut off with a We Are Experiencing Technical Difficulties cut. One notable instance is when Otachan is cut off before she can finish the last word in her Kirito Rap.Otachan: ♪ Y'know why, boy? 'Cuz I'm a real nig—
Assistant-kun: You can't say that, we are SO fired!
Otachan: But you said he was the Black Swordsman! - Cute and Psycho: Otachan has some violent tendencies behind her sweet anime girl façade.
- The Fake Cutie: Otachan's cutesy behavior is nothing more than an act.
- Flipping the Bird: Otachan has been known to do this. Additionally, her phone's hold screen has a button labelled "Fuck Off" with a red middle finger symbol for declining to answer.
- Get-Rich-Quick Scheme: Otachan is fond of these. After falling into gacha hell, her next idea is pull other people into that same hell by making her own "gladiator gal" gacha game.
- Hates the Job, Loves the Limelight: She has no end of complaints about the responsibilities of hosting the show, but Otachan craves the attention nonetheless.
- Hookers and Blow: What Otachan ends up spending most of the anime's budget on.
- I Just Want to Be Normal: Otachan expresses this sentiment in episode 5, feeling she's not good at what she does and wishing to be a normie like Konchan.
- Insane Troll Logic: After falling into gacha hell, Otachan bursts into Cam’s bedroom to proclaim that she’s discovered the secret to the perfect roll, which consists of ludicrous steps made of nothing but this.
- Intimidating Revenue Service: They show up in the first episode of the anime "Otachan Commits Tax Fraud" to arrest Otachan for the obvious.
- Jerkass: Otachan, oh so much.
- Metaphorgotten: After falling into a gacha addiction in episode 3, Otachan decides to make her own gacha game for some easy cash. She tries to explain her plan to Cam with a There Are Two Kinds of People in the World metaphor involving hammers and nails… and then hammers some nails into a phone.
- Ms. Fanservice: The show has plenty of Otachan in risqué and steamy poses and outfits. She exploits her self-proclaimed waifu status to achieve this.
- Noodle Incident: The resumé Cam gives to Otachan states that she’s done location shots in Japan, China, South Sudan, Afghanistan and North Korea. Otachan laments that she always gets weirdos applying.
- Older Than They Look: Otachan appears to be a cute high-school girl. However, according to her driving license, she's 22. In "Why Youtube Hates This Waifu", she's 24.
- Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping: In the earliest videos, Otachan's voice sometimes slips into her voice actress' natural British accent, as she notes here. She later learned to articulate her words to affect an American accent.
- Rage Breaking Point: Otachan's questioning of the Magical Girl traditions drives Magical Girl Chan™ to snap at her.
- Sex Sells: Otachan is a firm believer in this. When trying to pitch her idea for a gacha game to investors, she caps off describing the girls in the game with, "And also, you can fuck 'em!" She blames Cam for them not picking it up.
- Shout-Out: Otachan watches First Blood in Episode 2.
- Sir Swears-a-Lot: Otachan curses like a sailor.
- Sore Loser: Otachan shoots Assistant-kun's new TV when he easily gets past a video game challenge she couldn't. The second episode of the anime has her smash her controller in half after losing in a fighting game.
- The Stoner: Otachan. When Magical Girl Chan™ asks her to try transforming, Otachan decides to pull out some "Magical Power Dust" (i.e., a bloodstained package of cocaine) to facilitate it.
- There Are Two Kinds of People in the World: Otachan makes a metaphor of this sort describing people as either hammers or nails, presumably to illustrate scammers and dupes in the predatory gacha game system. Then it turns into Metaphorgotten and she hammers some nails into a phone.
- The Voiceless: Cam never speaks. Her mouth is rarely even visible as she wears a face mask most of the time.
- We Are Experiencing Technical Difficulties: Frequently, due to Otachan's outbursts.
- Your Head Asplode: Otachan asks Magical Girl Chan™ if this will happen should she break her "no swearing" rule and she does eventually push her to that point.
