“Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken!” An extremely interesting “strongest world” that combines the “individuality” of manga and the “technique” of anime.

“Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken!”Synopsis

Midori Asakusa, a first-year high school student who dreams of becoming an animation producer, goes to a screening at the Anime Lab with her classmate Sayaka Kanamori. Then, Tsubame Mizusaki, known as a charismatic reader model, called out to me. For some reason, Mizusaki is being chased by men dressed in black. Asakusa and Kanamori help her and fight off the men. The two then surprisingly learn that Mizusaki wants to be an animator. An impromptu collaboration between Asakusa and Mizusaki begins, and the ``strongest world'' unfolds in front of the three who hit it off.

Index

• Adding “realism” to director Masaaki Yuasa’s style
• The original author participated as an animator.
• The challenge of “Drawing the process of completing an anime”
• “Sharing fantasies” that shows the “ideal” of manufacturing

Adding “realism” to director Masaaki Yuasa’s style

Possibilities in manufacturing that you couldn't reach by yourself.

When he met his friends, he saw an endless world.

It is probably one of the most highly rated TV anime broadcast in 2020. Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken!.”. A coming-of-age story about three high school girls who are passionate about creating independent animation.

Midori Asakusa, a first-year high school student, is a big fan of anime. Although he has a wealth of ideas, due to his timid personality, he was unable to recruit fellow anime producers and spent his days in agony. One day, she invites her old friend Sayaka Kanamori, who has the personality of a producer, to a screening of ``Animeken'' and meets Tsubame Mizusaki, a charismatic reader model. When Asakusa and Kanamori learn that she wants to be an animator, the three of them start a ``video research club'' and devote themselves to making anime.

What is interesting about this work is not only the behind-the-scenes depiction that allows you to follow the ``process of anime creation,'' but also the structure that ``mixes reality and fantasy,'' ``the detailed design of machines such as robots and weapons,'' and ``reminiscent of Brueghel and Escher.'' The uniqueness of the original work, such as "a three-dimensional city setting that makes you feel like you're in a city," is colorfully and dynamically "expanded" through director Yuasa's brilliance.

“Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken!”(c)2020 Sumitomo Odo/Shogakukan/“Eizouken” Production Committee

In addition to important elements such as color and sound when converting from manga to anime, director Yuasa's unique brushwork has been added to the character's actions and camera work. There is.

Director Yuasa's style is characterized by maximizing emotional expression through deformed expressions and movements that ignore the laws of physics, as evidenced by his early work Mind The Game (2004). `` Ping Pong THE ANIMATION '' (14), a TV animation based on Taiyo Matsumoto's masterpiece manga with an original interpretation, is the culmination of that work.It depicts a fast-paced game of table tennis in which balls go back and forth at high speed, and even the highlighted lines in the background expand and contract. This was expressed using a graphic style touch, a driving approach that moves the camera violently back and forth, and a method of connecting extremely short cuts at a good tempo.

In modern animation, where camera work is increasing in which the camera moves in all directions in a single cut, Director Yuasa's ``methods'' are extremely unconventional and highly original, and go beyond simply ``animating a manga.'' It can be said that it has reached the level of "art".

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However, the word ``Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken!'''', as if to show respect to Asakusa, who is a ``setting chef'', and Mizusaki, who is ``realist-oriented,'' but it is disgusting that the animation produced in the movie respects gravity, air resistance, etc. However, when it comes to the imaginary world floating in Asakusa's mind, he switches to a soft, watercolor-like touch that retains the "taste" of hand-painting, in an effort to differentiate the work even more clearly than the original. I get the impression that director Yuasa's strong individuality is not applied throughout the film, but rather concentrated on the most important scenes.

The expression of “living” water, as seen in director Yuasa’s “ Lou’s Song at Dawn ” (2017) and “ When I Ride the Waves ” (2019), is set in a town that lives with water. ``Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken!''”, and the ``intensity'' of the unique mobs moving slowly is also used in `` Yojohan Mythology Taikei '' (10) and `` The Night Is Short, Walk, Otome' ' (17). ) also applies. The fusion of director Yuasa's imagination and the reality that flows through the original work is done in a wonderful way.

In that sense, ``Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken!''” is a film where you can feel director Yuasa's new ``drawings''.

The original author participated as an animator.