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Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken! Episode 10 references.

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I love ep. 9 so much

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Hey! i was rewatching the first few episodes of Eizouken, and check out what i noticed: 

While we know the animators who worked on Eizouken are basically geniuses, as a character design nerd i’d love to congratulate them on how well they did designing and characterizing their characters. One specific and very subtle example i’d like to bring up is this: 

In the theme song, when Kanamori, Mizusaki, and Asakusa are being introduced one by one, surrounded by little moving symbols that represent them, check out this detail. 

Look at the linework for the doodles and especially the boxes around the doodles. Notice how the boxes don’t line up, the background colors don’t seem to have a distinct pattern, and the lines arent perfectly straight. The doodles are funny and slightly crudely-drawn, like doodles you’d see in the margins of a boring homework assignment. 

now compared to Mizusaki’s. notice how the doodles are a bit more neat, and show more things that are in real life and less cartoons. The boxes still don’t line up, but all the lines are almost perfectly straight- and it has a color palette. 

now finally compared to Kanamoris! Notice how almost everything on hers is a real thing and not a cartoon, and how the boxes are almost perfectly lined up- and the background colors of the boxes have a distinct color pattern. 

This shows a lot of indirect characterization and gives us a window into the characters before we even know the character’s names. Isn’t it amazing how subtle characterization can teach us so much about a character?!

I love the eizouken crew’s attention to detail so much! 

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Why does this look like a Draw the Squad meme

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I forgot that they’re in their own world, too. 

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Akira (1988) // Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken! (2020)

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