11/15/2023 0 Comments Keep your hands off eizouken plot![]() ![]() I will never be interested in the micro level of detail that goes into mechanical designs, for example. Sense of wonder and world building prevails over character, which diminished my enthusiasm as a reader significantly. It reminds me a lot of the Nausicaa manga in the level of lavish detail and the sense of a whole, visually created world, and also in being rather dry as a story. ![]() They aren't so much characters as vehicles for showing us the processes behind garage-band-like anime. At the same time, they could just as easily be boys, or anthropomorphic animals. I can say at least, that there isn't a mawkish paternal gaze on them (as I tend to feel from healing type stories with an all-girl cast), nor a sexualized one, either, so that's good. The Eizouken characters are all girls, and this is completely insignificant. ![]() Someone who's inclined could take hours ferreting out little details in the backgrounds and the designs created by Asakusa. The creator's love for the anime that these students also love bursts off the page. This manga is absolutely brimming with visual imagination and a vivid sense of place. Their trials in creating a three-minute demo reel to justify their club's budget are almost certainly callbacks to Gainax's early days, when the men who became the primary producers of that company were teens. Three students-two ardent anime fans, and one natural manager-form a school club dedicated to the creation of anime. ![]()
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