#Keep your hands off eizouken anime series
#Keep your hands off eizouken anime tv

#Keep your hands off eizouken anime series

I struggle to not recap the whole entire series but two standout arcs for me were Eizouken’s first client and their first outsourcing experience. Slamming into the real world, they run with creative energy but must confront all the difficulties (budgets, timelines, last minute changes, a leaky roof) of turning passion into a production. When trying to come up with an idea or fix a problem, the girls enter a sort of hand-drawn imagination group space where they riff on eachothers ideas small, disparate additions from each person combine to make something interesting.

In this self-referential anime, “play” describes the girls’ process as well. The play between reality and imagination is impeccably done. It’s a wonderful story about creating something with other people and the art-style is simple yet sophisticated as well. Together they set out to make a production studio to make anime. Kanamori is the stoic manager, dead set on making money and keeping the project on task and within budget (with a bit of over the top Yakuza-like leverage mixed in).Mizusaki is the animator, concerned with making every motion feel perfect.Asakusa is the concept artist in charge of all the settings and has a knack for story building.Over time, each character begins to find the role they best operate in: They find an aloof teacher to sponsor their group and create a new Eizouken (film studies) club. They girls don’t want to join the school’s existing anime club, Mizusaki’s parents forbid it, but there’s another catch the anime club is all about watching anime and the girls want to make anime. The story revolves around three central female characters Midori Asakusa, Sayaka Kanamori, and Tsubame Mizusaki set in the fictional waterside city of Shibahama.

By the end of the opening credits, they had me hooked for a whole season. At its core Eizouken is a shōjo (young girl) coming of age story, but it’s not about finding romance or interplanetary superpowers, it’s about a group of high school girls figuring out what they’re passionate about, what they’re good at, and where their skills can benefit the group. The artwork and animation is utterly gorgeous and it being based on the much-lauded manga series, wow, this one looks like it will be a ‘must watch’.Over the break I watched an anime series called Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken! (映像研には手を出すな) and was so impressed I feel compelled to share about it here. Keep Your Hands off Eizouken! is directed by Masaaki Yuasa (Devilman Crybaby), characters are designed by Naoyuki Assano and anime production has been done by Science SARU.Ĭheck out the very cool Keep Your Hands off Eizouken! key visual above, and watch the PV for the show in the video below. Girls who believe by starting an ‘Eizouken’ or ‘Motion Picture Research Club’, they can begin to work towards their anime dreams. The show itself tells the story of three high school girls and the challenges they face trying to create indie anime. The key visual for the show is wild, explosive and attention-grabbing, and amazingly detailed - a perfect fit for the visual’s tagline “The strongest world emerges explosively!”

#Keep your hands off eizouken anime tv

The TV anime adaptation of Sumito Oowara’s manga Keep Your Hands off Eizouken! (aka Eizouken niwa Te wo Dasuna!) will be airing on Japan’s NHK on January 25th, 2020. The new Keep Your Hands off Eizouken! key visual is here, and it’s fabulous!