Thankfully for the two, whose imaginations and exuberance often get them off track before they can even get started, they are accompanied by Sayaka Kanamori (who looks like the long lost daughter of Shota Aizawa/Eraserhead, with a personality to match). Between the two, they strike up a friendship right away, deciding to combine their skills and make their own anime no matter what. Specifically character design, movement and the actual animation process of anime. While everyone around her expects her to follow in her parent’s footsteps, her real passions lie in animation. In the first episode, Asakusa meets Tsubame Mizusaki a model and daughter of two famous actors. She is skilled at creating highly intricate location concepts as well as the fantastical machines that could exist within them. Her youthful explorations of the pretty amazingly designed city she grew up in (seriously, all of the background designs in this show are fantastic to behold.) lead her to create her own worlds and tools in her mind, which all translate to paper. The series focuses on Midori Asakusa a short, tomboyish girl with a passion for anime and adventure. It’s not the first one of those to exist, but rather than focusing on a studio or small group of professionals, this series looks at three high school girls with big imaginations strong enough to bring their passions to life. And while I wasn’t so hot on it right away, it had done it’s job drawing me in by the time I’d finished its third episode. There is something uniquely quirky and stylish about Keep Your Hands off Eizouken! right from the word go. There not been a fat lot this season that has stuck out to me as something that could be described as “required viewing”, but of the shows I have watched so far, this one is by far the one getting the most attention.
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