Audience reviews
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joemaamah
When I originally watched it as it came out, I ended up grading this an A- at 90/100. I recently rewatched it, and caught so much I missed in the original viewing, I had to bump that way up.
I always loved the artwork here. Nothing edgy or avant garde but there's a wonderful creativity and professionalism that is apparent behind every scene. The second time through, I caught so much in the animation that I had missed initially. There is no detail too small not to be fussed over. It is not shonenesque by any means, but it's near perfect for every scene presented.
Originally I thought our trio of heroines were a very odd fit, and I was sometimes a bit quizzical about how they interacted. The second go around, it dawned on me this anime is a love lettter to the industry. These three individ…
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Often enough, what hooks you into an anime is ultimately how it makes you feel.
I don't know if i'm in a soft spot now but, it did made me feel like i understood the love and passion for animation, for the process, for how each and every author makes everything feel unique by leaving imprints; How who we are, how we feel, where we go, impacts the art that is made.
This is what i felt watching it, passion and love.
It helps having a honestly refreshing character design, cool animation, humour and a care-free plot. I'm not giving it a 10 because i think it's perfect, it absolutely is not even close, but what i felt is what counts, and i loved feeling it.
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Eizouken. This was a pretty good show.
Eizouken is about a group of girls who wanted to do animation movies/videos as a club in their school—Kanamori, Asazuka, and Mizusaki aka the famous girl.
Oh boy, do I have a lot to say?
First off, the first thing I notice is the opening. Holy crap is the opening good. Seriously good opening. The music in general in Eizouken is super good! I am not going to notice it haha. Second of all, the animation is amazing. The animation is super smooth, and it is amazing how they bridge the gap between reality and imagination. Midori's imagination is always overflowing with so many things so it is great that this anime can visualize it so clearly. I love it!
The actual story. Look, I love creation animes. For example, Bakuman is one of my favorite animes!…
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I love anime. You love anime. We all love anime.
Eizouken: Hands off the Motion Pictures Club is about people who love anime. They love it so much. They spend the entire show making anime, talking about anime, and thinking about anime. The intricacies of storyboarding, animation, sound design, voice acting, and management get illustrated in detail. I learned a great deal about anime production by watching this.
Eizouken wanted to capture the magic of creativity and artists’ extraordinary minds, and maybe it did for a few moments. The rest is an unfulfilled promise that left me feeling robbed.
It introduces three likable comrades who are passionate about anime; Midori and Mizusaki are the two artists, and Kanamori, their business-focused manager. They have good chemistry with each other;…
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This series is a love letter to the art of animation.
When I first began watching, I thought that it would provide some harmless fun, but it was so much more.
Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken! brought up emotions that only animation really can. As well as developing some of the most interesting and unique characters I've seen in a long time, it's a testament to how one can truly fall in love with what they want to do. The final episode left me beyond spellbound, but the journey there was equally beautiful.
This anime is visually stunning, has a fantastic and diverse cast, and a story that will pull at your heartstrings, especially if you have anything in your life that you too, are passionate about.
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This originally wasn't one of the anime of the Winter 2020 season I was interested in until I saw all the praise it was getting on Twitter. I saw tons of memes of the opening, praises of the character designs, and people saying it was already a contender for anime of the years just based on the few episodes that were out at the time. Because of all this, I decided to give it a go. I was unfortunately disappointed.
Before getting into the things I didn't like about the show, I will say that artistically, the show is done very well. The opening was very nice both musically and visually, but unfortunately overexposure to it through all the memes it was getting made it lose it's magic a little. I can agree the opening is a little overpraised, it's not one of my favorites or even my favorite o…
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"Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world."
'Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken!' is nothing short of a great cluster of creativity. In fact, the switching art style between the monotone draft version and colorful final product makes the animation much more realistic and impactful. This type of art style is simply ingenious for the theme that it was going for, intertwining fantasy and reality.
It brings out the fun of creating a new world, the enjoyment in recreating movements in characters and planning the whole production process. Though it's not as detailed as Shirobako, it does has its own merits in its anime production and managed to encapsulate the fun and struggles to forming a harmonic teamwork.
The perspectives of the animator duo seeing the world is more to abstract si…
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In a general view it is good but not perfect I will explain it below.
The direction is slightly lost in the middle of the first half, making it less funny and more boring to watch, failing to have a very good timing, but after the second half the anime does not sin at all and just improves.
The character design of the characters is sublime but simple, but perfectly reflects their personalities and is one of the strengths of the anime. What elevates this anime is the animation, comedy, soundtrack and development of the characters together with the development of friendship which generates feelings for the group and for the individual personality of each one, the construction of the characters is very well placed.
Animation: With this anime he can show me that animation and fluidity are n…
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It feels wrong to swing the hammer at a show made by Masaki Yuasa. Everything the distinctive director has been responsible I've enjoyed immensely, and even his messier works like Kaiba and Kemonozume were full of heart and punch.
Eizouken was different though. I had to drag myself to the finish line on this one, forcing myself through the final few episodes. It really shouldn't have been this way. Every PIECE of Eizouken is incredible: the animation is distinctive and evocative, switching styles with a grace that demonstrates great understanding of the medium. The central trio all have powerful, unique personalities not often found in anime--Asakusa, the imaginative gremiln, Kanamori, the stern pillar of willpower with a love for money, and Mizusaki, the bubbly, popular idol who really j…
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Like many others, I was extremely excited when Eizoken was announced. The premise was exciting and the animation looked stunning.The first episode delivered on that. However, as the show went on, it quickly became stale.
Story - 3: There was barely any story, and the moments when there was plot development were boring and repetitive. There were 3 "arcs" throughout the show, and each one is a carbon copy of the last. They each consisted of the girls needing money, they want to make an anime to make the money, the school gets in their way, they finish the anime and everyone goes "WOW". The whole anime felt more like an attempt to educate the public on anime production than an actual story.
Art - 8: The art was probably the only saving grace of this anime. The animation in the imagination s…
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First of all, I'm sorry if my English is not very correct sometimes, it's not my native language.
Imaginative and exciting are the words that define my feelings towards Eizouken, the recent anime from the much-loved director Masaaki Yuasa.
This series is a love letter to animation, illustrated as a hard work of imagination, teamwork, and improving again and again.
The story itself is pretty simple, 3 girls form a club to make anime, they will encounter the difficulties and realize how much effort is actually needed. I think that the story progresses very fluidly and shows many aspects of what making an anime imply and the different steps for making one (pre production, story board,etc...).
The passion for what you do is the most important factor when working, as our protagonists shows thr…
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Eizouken is a blast of 100% DIY, punk rock energy in anime form. Once the first notes of “Easy Breezy” play, you know you’re in for something genuinely different, and things just get better from there. The three high school girls of Eizouken, determined to make anime at any cost, embody in every line of their animated existence an irrepressible energy that can’t help but translate into an emotionally moving and compulsively watchable journey for anyone willing to jump on board for the crazy ride.
And a wild ride exactly what you get. While Eizouken doesn’t wave away the details that go into making animation, it’s not too concerned with the day-to-day operations (unlike the exemplary series Shirobako). Instead, Eizouken is more focused on the intense drive to create, and the frustrations t…
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Out off many animes that you see nowadays released you see that plenty of them use kind of the same kind of art style and one of the first things i realised when i saw the animation in this anime is that it's quite unique,but also that i've seen it somewhere before.And of course,it seems that the director is the same as the one who made "Ping pong the animation" and "Devilman crybaby" (first one i highly recommend it,second one highly recommended for me to see) and for sure the studio made an amazing job in animating this beautifully crafted piece of art called "Eizouken".
Story:8/10
Simply put,3 girls make up their own "animation club" for the simple reason of becoming better at what they've always loved to do, and that is drawing.It may be a simple plot,but the story knows exactly what…
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The best moments in Eizouken are when the girls brainstorm for a project and allow their imaginations to run wild. The setting changes to a dream like state where anything seems possible. They have discussions about the practicality of designs, if structures should be added, what scenarios should change, all the while the viewer is able to share their artistic vision as their ideas are brought to life in vivid detail. Then suddenly its sunset and you realize they’ve been brainstorming for eight hours straight with no breaks. That’s passion. And Eizouken is all about passion.
But passion is nothing without a source to draw inspiration from, and Eizouken stresses that animation is not invented purely from the mind of the artist. Everything the girls create is a product of their own interac…
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The rawness of creativity is one of those things that you can't just tell people about...you have to show it. It's a bug that when it bites, drives the person's mind to do extraordinary things before they inevitably have to return back to earth. And what a way to celebrate those euphoric moments.
Story:
Our story takes place in the weird, random, and bizarre town of Shibahama where whole buildings to entire districts of this eccentric watery labyrinth of a city look like multiple people took their own ideas and mashed them together into one thing. Here we meet the 'frog child' Asakusa Midori, an artist whose dream it is to show people the wonderful and weird world that exists in her mind through the medium of animation. Alongside her comrade Kanamori Sayaka, the two get in a tussle w…
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Animation is a wonderful medium, isn’t it? The way drawings get put into a consecutive illusion of motion, combining all sorts of aspects of art and color to create spectacles that inspire others to do the same. That’s the power of visual media: creative inspiration. You can look at all sorts of auteurs and visionaries such as Quentin Tarantino and Hideaki Anno, and they’ll tell you their inspirations: anime, movies, tokusatsu productions, etc. It’s the origin story of most in all creative industries. Creativity begets creativity, so it’s all the more wonderful to see works that celebrate it. 2014’s Shirobako was a charming and immersive look into the anime industry from the perspective of 5 friends working in different aspects of that field. 2017’s Re:Creators brought all sorts of fiction…
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“Art reflects reality”
A commonly used expression usually used to express the idea that art takes shape based on happenings in the real world.
2020’s winter crown jewel without a doubt is Eizouken and offers a perfect example of the aforementioned expression. It follows three high school girls on their journey to create an anime for an upcoming festival. The two creatives, Tsubame and Asakusa are held together by Kanamori who acts as their de facto agent and manager, keeping them on track. Along the way we are able to follow the creative process of the girls and gain amazing insight into the absolutely monumental task that is creating an anime. It’s so easy to sit back in bed and turn on Crunchyroll or Funimation to watch the latest episode of your favourite series, but do you really kn…
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I really wanted to love this show, it’s just there is nothing to love, because there is nothing, period. It is entirely devoid of substance.
The series is a monster-of-the-week about three aspiring anime creators, the “monster” being them imagining their various everyday happenstances as fantastical animated dream sequences. There is some glimpse of a plot about their anime-making school club, but that’s not the point, the point is a love letter to the medium, celebrating the creative power of animation. These imaginative scenarios are indeed creative and pleasant to look at. You know what else is creative and pleasant to look at? Actual anime, where cool pictures have context and substance behind them. The very first episode of the show illustrates it already: it includes an entire metic…
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Racoon-dog shenanigans. Crab-turtle bent on world domination. And a goblin who thinks she’s a piece of wood
WATCH OUT FOR THE SPLINTERS!!!
While I’m not the biggest Masaaki Yuasa fan, I must admit his work is breath of fresh air in a stagnating industry. With off-beat works like ‘Fantastic Planet,’ ‘Ali Baba to 40-hiki Touzoku,’ ‘The Wrong Trousers’ (Wallace and Gromit Film), and Tex Avery cartoons serving as his inspiration, it’s no wonder his films/series evoke interest from discerning anime fans. What captivates fans, however, is not so much the substance of Yuasa’s work — which is often unchallenging by his own admission — but the differing artistic styles and unique atmospheres that he cultivates.
Yuasa, unsurprisingly, utilizes a variety of different aesthetics to stimulate the au…
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Being an anime fan, the question of how animation is made is probably one I’m sure most people have asked themselves before. Before Eizouken debuted on TV, we have to remember that creating anime isn’t an easy task. It takes an immense level of commitment, passion, and expertise to make what we see on the screen. It’s not a program that follows a specific code as every anime is different, in shape, in form, and in seeking its ways to entertain the audience.
Masaaki Yuasa is no stranger when it comes animating and storyboarding in his past projects. With decades of experience, he’s been progressively adapting and evolving his techniques in the field of animation. From unique sports show Ping Pong: The Animation to the wildly space odyssey of Space Dandy, he’s here to show the world once ag…
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