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Region：Japan
Type：TV
English name：Genshiken
Official name：げんしけん
Chinese name：现视研
Other names：Genshiken: The Society for the Study of Modern Visual Culture / 现视研~现代视觉研究会~
Premiered：October 10, 2004
Status：Finished Airing
Tags：Funny / Campus / Youth / Daily / Source manga
Original author：木尾士目
Director：池端隆史
Scenario：横手美智子 / 小林靖子 / 平見瞠 / 花村こけし / 高橋ナツコ
Storyboard：佐藤卓哉 / 平向智子 / 植田秀仁 / 古川順康 / 池端隆史
Co-director：水島努 / 山田一夫 / 三原武憲 / 福本潔 / さんぺい聖
Studios：パルム
Producers：現視研研究会
Copyright：©2004 木尾士目・講談社 / 現視研研究会
Family：Genshiken
Official website：http://www.genshiken.info/
Rating：12+

Genshiken

The college freshman Sasahara Kanji dives face first into the Japanese otaku lifestyle of anime, manga, video games, pornographic doujinshi, and the like.

What better place to do so than by joining The Society for the Study of Modern Visual Culture club at his college.

Note: Kio Shimoku pokes fun at every element of the otaku world.

This is an anime for hardcore fans, with very complicated references that will test your knowledge of all things otaku.

— written by Pokute (edited)

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Oct 10, 2004

EP1 - Study of the Modern Visually-Oriented Culture

An introduction episode explaining how Kohsaka, Kasukabe and Sasahara got involved with Genshiken; after some uncertainty, Sasahara decides to fully participate in the club.
Oct 17, 2004

EP2 - Comparative Classification of the Modern Youth Through Consumption and Entert...

Genshiken takes Sasahara to Akihabara for dōjinshi shopping while Kohsaka and Kasukabe go to Harajuku for clothes; Kasukabe discovers Kohsaka's hentai collection and gets an introduction on the subject from the others.
Oct 24, 2004

EP3 - Problems and Merits of Local Culture Promotion

Genshiken goes on a club trip to Comifes, a large comic convention; Madarame seriously injures his hand, but pretends to be fine in the name of fandom until the pain becomes too great to bear.
Oct 31, 2004

EP4 - The Sublimating Effects of the Dissimilation Brought on Through Makeup and Co...

Ohno is introduced as she joins Genshiken, while Genshiken takes part in a university club fair and Kasukabe's ex-boyfriend pays her a visit.
Nov 7, 2004

EP5 - Limits of Rejection and Reception as Observed in Autonomous Behaviour

Due to Genshiken's lack of activities as defined by the school, the club is threatened with closure; salvation comes from an unlikely source as Kasukabe intervenes personally.
Nov 14, 2004

EP6 - Theory of the Individual Outside the Boundaries of the Subculture

Kasukabe tries to make herself more appealing to Kohsaka by taking an interest in his hobbies by trying to learn how to play Puyo Pop Fever. Sasahara's sister Keiko also makes an appearance and calls on her brother for help.
Nov 21, 2004

EP7 - Aspects of Behavioral Selection in Interpersonal Relationships

Two freshmen take an interest in Genshiken and join them for a night out on the town. Kasukabe, however, has no intention of making them feel welcome.
Nov 28, 2004

EP8 - Comparative Research in Production Models and Processes

Ohno and Sasahara start a plamo project and get the whole club involved, while Kasukabe learns an important lesson.
Dec 5, 2004

EP9 - Concerning the Existence of an Expository Requirement under Special Non-socia...

Madarame is stuck in the club room with Kasukabe and tries to strike up a conversation, running through different scenarios in his head which parody the visual novel format.
Dec 12, 2004

EP10 - Leisure Time Expenditures on Fetishism Considered as an Economic Result

The club, along with Keiko, pays a visit to the beach, much to the dismay of some of the members; Keiko decides to compete for Kohsaka's feelings and tries to become an otaku.
Dec 19, 2004

EP11 - The Theory of the Existence of Malice Within Urban Crimes

Kasukabe decides the club room needs a cleanup, but an accident causes Genshiken to be banned from the university fair. As an apology, Kasukabe takes Ohno's place in the fair's cosplay contest.
Dec 26, 2004

EP12 - The Countermeasures for the Issues that Occur during the Reorganization of a...

The club is depressed due to their punishment of community service. Sasahara becomes the new President and proposes that the society attend Comifes as a circle.