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

“Sharing fantasies” that shows the “ideal” of manufacturing

“Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken!' is also a 'manufacturing x youth drama' in which the three main characters - the director, producer, and animator - share their beliefs and work hard to create a single work.

This "manufacturing x youth drama" is a very popular genre in movies, such as " The Begin Again " (2013), " Sing Street " (2016), " Little Rambo " (2007), `` Me, Earl, and Her Goodbye '' (15), `` Brigsby Bear '' (17), `` Goodbye, Summer '' (15), and `` Bakuman. '' ” (15) and “ Kirishima, Club Club Yamitteyo ” (12) are packed with great works and masterpieces.

If we include the element of "club activity manga", many more works fall into this category, including the aforementioned " Haikyu!! ", " Blue Period ", " Chihayafuru ", " Hibiki: How to Become a Novelist ", and " Slam Dunk ". However, this work has a strong sense of "work" as the producer Kanamori is the main character. It takes an objective view of students' status and clearly depicts the ``limitations'' (the school is prohibited from receiving money outside of school, the student council stands in the way as an enemy) while ``using'' them. Although it is a ``club manga,'' it can be said to be close to a ``work manga.''

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

He is not just a hot-blooded sports enthusiast, but always has a "calm eye". This is likely due to the fact that the original author, Odo, had experience in various positions as a director, screenwriter, and producer in the film club during his student days, as well as the knowledge he has gained through his past creative activities.

It is interesting that the structure is not one of brute force such as ``drawing without sleep'' → ``completion'', but rather the challenge of ``how to pace the work by counting backwards from the deadline'', and each person's beliefs conflict with the other. Kanamori conveys his work theory to Asakusa with lines such as ``I accept money in order to take responsibility for my work,'' and Mizusaki speaks of his pride as an animator, ``Even if most people don't see the details, I am Many of the famous lines that color the movie, such as "We have to save the world," appear in scenes where the characters understand that they have to come to terms with the "reality" of a deadline, but insist on their unyielding feelings.

At the same time, the dramatic depiction of each character's growth is also admirable. As Asakusa was creating works with Kanamori and Mizusaki, he realized that what he had been doing alone in his head was "directing", and after experiencing outsourcing the background work to the art club and making mistakes, he began to communicate. He cultivates his abilities and learns how to be a director through Kanamori's scoldings such as, ``This film is bad because you think it's bad. It doesn't matter who you are. You're the director.'' .

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

Although Kanamori is a reliable leader, he also agrees with Asakusa's opinion that ``it's a producer's job to cultivate an eye for seeing,'' and he evolves into a producer who ``understands the hardships of the workplace.'' Mizusaki, whose father opposed making anime, said after completing the work, ``As I was making it, I realized that ``I live'' means making things like this all the time. There's nothing I can do about it,'' he plainly declares to his parents, ``the life of an artist.'' All of these are thoughts that I would not have been able to reach without meeting my ``friends''.

In this way, ``Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken!'' depicts ``the joy and beauty of creating things with people who understand'' from a gentle and warm perspective. In the first place, the scene unique to this work in which ``another person enters an individual's fantasy world'' also shows that ``image sharing,'' which is the most difficult process in manufacturing in the real world, is being carried out smoothly, and many It can be said to be the ``ideal'' that artists of all ages aspire to.

The catchphrase of this work is ``The strongest world is born!!'', but by the time Asakusa, Kanamori, and Mizusaki met, the ``strongest world'' had already been created. That's probably why we are so fascinated by them.

Manufacturing cannot be completed by one person. That's why it's so tedious and so fun.

Text: SYO

Born in 1987. After The Graduate from Tokyo Gakugei University, he worked at a film magazine editorial production site and a film information site before becoming a film writer/editor. Works on a wide range of topics including interviews, reviews, columns, event appearances, and recommendation comments. Contributed to ``CINEMORE'', ``FRIDAY Digital'', ``Fan's Voice'', ``Eiga.com'', ``Cinema Cafe'', ``BRUTUS'', ``DVD & Video Distribution'', etc. Twitter「 syocinema 」

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