![]() ![]() I hope that Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken! finds a fanbase, I fear that it will be small. If you, like a lot of anime fans, prefer a more sedate pace with prettily drawn, cute characters, Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken! isn’t for you. It is filled with rough and lively animation, crass jokes and silly banter. Like pretty much every Masaaki Yuasa anime, Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken! won’t be for everyone. They aren’t walking on eggshells, their voices are rough and passionate. The girls seem like real, imperfect little brats, awkward and stick-like, living in the moment. I love that, for once, this isn’t a high-school anime drenched in melancholy and nostalgia. I had so much fun watching this, and I suspect that’s only half as much fun as I’m sure the animators at Science SARU must’ve had drawing it. It is director Masaaki Yuasa at his earnest, free-wheeling best, taking a pen in hand and letting his imagination run wild. Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken! (aka Hands off the Motion Picture Club!) is a love-letter to anime and, more broadly, to the boundless potential of animation, where the only limit is the led in your pencil and the depths of your mind. They geek out together and daydream funny ideas for a story. We learn that she wants to make her own anime and she’s now found couple of friends to share her passion for it. A few years pass and she’s still as obsessed and only getting better at drawing. When youngster Midori falls in love with anime (haven’t we all?), her imagination starts firing like a machine-gun. Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken! is a love-letter to anime and, more broadly, the boundless potential of animation. ![]()
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