Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken!

The three become creative partners

Asakusa, Kanamori, and Mizusaki meet and see a chance to make animation.

The three establish Eizouken

They divide planning, animation, and production and begin at school.

Kanamori manages the production schedule and budget

Kanamori turns Asakusa and Mizusaki’s ideas into a concrete plan with deadlines and costs.

Vol.TVアニメ第2話 金森が作品づくりを継続するため工程と予算を管理し始める場面Ch. — Organized from the TV anime episodes 2, using the scene where Kanamori begins managing schedule and budget so production can continue and checking its order against the surrounding events. ↗

They complete their first animation

Kanamori turns Asakusa’s world-building and Mizusaki’s attention to movement into a workable plan as the trio finishes its first film.

Mizusaki confronts her obsession with performance

Mizusaki studies movement and discovers how her experience as a model can inform her animation work.

Vol.TVアニメ第4〜5話 水崎が演技の動きを自分の観察から作り込む場面Ch. — Organized from the TV anime episodes 4〜5, using the scene where Mizusaki builds acting movement from her own observations and checking its order against the surrounding events. ↗

They collaborate with the robot club

At the club’s request, they take on a giant-robot project.

The film club expands its language of movement and sound

The three experiment with sound and motion as well as drawings, widening what their animation can express.

Vol.TVアニメ第7〜8話 映像研がロボット作品の制作で音響と動きの設計を詰める場面Ch. — Organized from the TV anime episodes 7〜8, using the scene where the club refines sound and movement while producing the robot film and checking its order against the surrounding events. ↗

They finish a film for the school festival

They organize production under deadline and budget pressure for the screening.

Eizouken’s film is screened at the school festival

The finished film reaches the school festival, giving the three their first experience of presenting their work to an audience.

Vol.TVアニメ第8話 ロボット研究部と共同制作した作品が文化祭で上映され、観客の反応が返ってくる場面Ch. — Organized from TV anime episode 8, using the scene where the film made with the robot club is screened at the school festival and receives the audience’s response, while checking the surrounding order. ↗

Eizouken moves to new projects

The finished film leads them to new commissions and forms of expression.

The film club balances ambition with production limits

The three adjust priorities and workload so that they can keep creating without giving up the core of their imagination.

Vol.TVアニメ第12話 作品の完成度と納期・予算の制約を3人がすり合わせる場面Ch. — Organized from the TV anime episodes 12, using the scene where the trio reconciles artistic quality with deadline and budget constraints and checking its order against the surrounding events. ↗

Asakusa, Kanamori, and Mizusaki imagine their next world

After one screening, the three use their different strengths to begin imagining another animation project.

Vol.TVアニメ第12話 上映を終えた3人が次に想像する世界について語る場面Ch. — Organized from the TV anime episodes 12, using the scene where after the screening, the trio talks about the worlds they will imagine next and checking its order against the surrounding events. ↗