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Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken!
An exuberant explosion of inventive coming-of-age comedy and meta-artistic wonder, where raw childhood daydreaming transforms mundane architecture into dynamic, watercolor flying machines propelled purely by relentless creative passion.
Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken!
Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken!

映像研には手を出すな!

05 January 2020 — 22 March 2020 Japan 1 season 12 episode Ended 8.1 (117)

Cast: Sairi Ito, Mutsumi Tamura, Misato Matsuoka, Yumiri Hanamori, Mikako Komatsu

Animation Action & Adventure Comedy The Symbiosis of Art and Commerce The Mechanics of the Creative Process Childlike Imagination vs. Material Reality Collaboration, Compromise, and Communication

Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken! — Characters & Cast

Character Analysis

Midori Asakusa

Sairi Ito

Archetype: The Eccentric Visionary / Creator Key Trait: Boundless curiosity coupled with hyper-detailed observational skills.

Motivation

To explore uncharted territory and realize "the greatest world" (最強の世界) through animation.

Character Arc

Starts as a socially anxious, reclusive girl who retreats into notebooks to escape social overwhelm. Over the course of the projects, she learns to defend her creative choices, lead a team, accept sound engineering and music critiques, and communicate her concepts directly to general audiences.

Sayaka Kanamori

Mutsumi Tamura

Archetype: The Pragmatic Producer / Realist Key Trait: Uncompromising pragmatism, dry wit, and sharp business acumen.

Motivation

Efficiency, monetizing creative labor, and proving that artistic endeavors must be sustained by economic viability.

Character Arc

Initially interested in Asakusa and Mizusaki only as assets for personal gain and school politics, Kanamori grows into a fiercely protective producer who deeply understands the artistic process. She acts as the shield against institutional exploitation and burnout.

Tsubame Mizusaki

Misato Matsuoka

Archetype: The Dedicated Artisan / Animator Key Trait: Meticulous attention to kinetic movement, wind, cloth, and weight.

Motivation

To capture the subtle truth of physical reality through hand-drawn animation.

Character Arc

Constrained by the high expectations of her celebrity parents who want her to follow an acting career, Mizusaki hides her animation hobby. By producing original work and demonstrating her mastery over nuanced physical movement, she earns independence and proves her identity as an artist rather than a passive model.

Parker Doumeki

Yumiri Hanamori

Archetype: The Specialist / Sonic Artisan Key Trait: Hyper-acute hearing and dedicated foley field-recording skills.

Motivation

Preserving audio samples and discovering authentic environmental acoustics.

Character Arc

Living in the vast, subterranean acoustics club archives, Doumeki is recruited into Eizouken to manage foley and sound design. She evolves from a solitary acoustic archivist into an essential production teammate who forces Asakusa to recognize that sound design dictates narrative pacing.

Cast

Sairi Ito as Midori Asakusa (voice)
Mutsumi Tamura as Sayaka Kanamori (voice)
Misato Matsuoka as Tsubame Mizusaki (voice)
Yumiri Hanamori as Doumeki (voice)
Mikako Komatsu as Sakaki Sowande (voice)
Masaomi Yamahashi as Security Club Member (voice)
Eriko Kadokura as Student (voice)
Yuki Ono as Robot Club Ono (voice)
Kazuhiko Inoue as Mr. Fujimoto (voice)
Shuki Sato as Security Club Member (voice)
Yusuke Kobayashi as Robot Club Kobayashi (voice)
Ryunosuke Watanuki as Robot Club Goto (voice)
Shiori Izawa as Robot Club Seki (voice)
Michiyo Murase as Art Club Kubo (voice)
Yusuke Tezuka as Art Club Nakamura (voice)

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