Every page is packed with little touches. He isn’t concerned with drawing beautiful, delicate girls, rather, he’s emphasizing their frantic energy, burgeoning talent and playful sense of humour. Sumito Ōwara’s art has a lively and loose feel (one may even say, easy breezy!). Ōwara isn’t just helping to oversee the anime adaption of his manga either, he’s credited with the ending’s key animation! This whole project must’ve been like a dream come true for him, not least of all because, if his writing is anything to go by, Ōwara loves anime and has always wanted to be an animator. To put this into perspective, Ōwara would’ve been just 17 years old when ( Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken! anime director) Masaaki Yuasa was directing The Tatami Galaxy, and yet, just 10 years later, he’s now working with Yuasa. The first episode of this series is exciting, vivid and ultimately, a huge love letter to anime itself.Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken! mangaka is Sumito Ōwara, who, at the time of writing, seems quite young for a mangaka at just 26 years old. It’s easy to see how Midori could have become inspired by the world she lives in to create her own within her drawings. The setting of this series is perhaps one of the most intriguing parts – it’s clearly set somewhat in the future and there’s just enough oddities to really make the city the characters they live in come across as something exciting in its own right. The fantasy element of having the three characters actually taking part in the adventures they’re creating really gets across the magic and how entranced they are with their story-telling and it sweeps the audience along with them. The voice acting in this series is also a particular highlight, particularly in the case of Midori’s actor (debut actress, Sairi Itou) whose description of the animation scenes throughout really adds a huge degree of personality to them. It really gets across the magic and joy of creation and the enthusiasm of the characters is infectious. Animation-wise the first episode showed a surprising amount of versatility from the subtly cool opening to the drawings of Midori which transform into a new world around the trio. They’re not traditionally attractive but again, this works well for the medium they sit in. The three girls are all unique and quirky in their own ways and the specific art style works well with this – they feel like real people, not tropes. The animation is incredibly distinctive, with character designs more reminiscent of older anime style which seems like a deliberate choice. Keep your hands of Eizouken! is one of the more unusual series of this current anime season – the premise sounds fairly average but it’s clear very early into this first episode that this anime is very different from the typical school slice-of-life shoe we commonly see. But can three girls alone really create an anime? Along with her money-hungry friend, Sayaka Kanamori, and semi-celebrity but budding animator Tsubame Mizusaki the dream might have a chance of succeeding. She spends most of her time drawing the convoluted and ridiculous architecture in the city she lives in, dreaming one day of creating an anime with it as a setting. Midori Asakusa fell in love with animation at an early age, after discovering anime, and now in school, this passion hasn’t diminished. Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken! Genre: Adventure, Comedy Studio: Science SARU Streaming: Crunchyroll
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