![]() ![]() Aug 7 Developer 'Unknown X' Unveils Two Touhou Titles at Touhou Matsuri.Aug 7 A New Way To Duel Is Coming To Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links.00:44 Nijisanji EN Announces 'Noctyx with Cat' Merchandise.00:45 Love Live! School Idol Festival Fine Jewelry Available for Pre-Order at animate International.Jul 26 Evangelion x final Collaboration Features EVA-inspired Wireless Earphones.Jul 27 Usagi, Mamoru Say 'I Do' in 'Happy Marriage Song' Promotional Video.Jul 31 Bandai Namco Filmworks Wanted Suletta and Miorine's Relationship Left to Interpretation in G-Witch.Jul 31 Levi's Princess Mononoke Clothing Line is Wearable Art.Aug 4 Mori Calliope's One Piece Track 'Future Island' Cracks 8 Million Views.Aug 4 Train Your Cursed Technique in Secretlab Jujutsu Kaisen Gaming Chair.Aug 5 Pop Singer Tove Lo, Shinsei Galverse NFT Project Create Anime Music Video.Aug 2 Wonder Festival 2023 Cosplay Gallery.Aug 4 Designer Katsuya Terada Addresses AI During Live Drawing Session.Aug 7 Inside Daicon IV's 40th Anniversary Exhibit.Convention reports chronological archives.8, 3 More Manga Rank on NYT August Bestseller List Aug 7 Unknown X Reveals Touhou Dungeon Maker Game, Touhou Danmaku Kagura PC Version's February 7 Release.Aug 7 Sega Unveils 'Sonic & Friends' 3D Animated Shorts on TikTok.Movie Ties with New Detective Conan Movie as Highest-Earning Film in Japan to Open in 2023 So Far Aug 7 Vivy -Fluorite Eye's Song- Manga Listed as Ending in 4th Volume.Aug 7 Gundam SEED FREEDOM Anime Film Reveals 2nd Promo Video, Cast.Aug 7 Fly Me to Saitama Sequel Live-Action Film Reveals More Cast.Aug 7 Aniplex Reveals Aniplex Online Fest 2023 Event for September 10.00:40 3rd Live-Action Kingdom Film Stays at #1, 1st Crayon Shin-chan 3D CG Anime Film Opens at #2.Recommended Reading: Sakuga Blog will likely cover the series in full, and I highly recommend their detailed accounts of the creators behind this show. By combining Tsubame’s characters with Midori’s art we get a full product and a love letter to animation itself. ![]() And it gets that artists themselves are focus on different things. It gets the progression over time as an artist right - Midori evolves from the scribbles initially presented to rich visual worlds. There are so many small details in Eizouken that resonated with me as an artist despite the fact that I don’t consider myself a sakuga person (or at all qualified to comment on individual animators regularly). ![]() I focus much more on life drawing, people, and characters in my art than I do extensive backgrounds or concept art. In fact, as much as I identified with Midori as a character - especially her rampant imagination - I’m much more like Tsubame Mizusaki in practice. I continued drawing, but creating concepts was never my forté. These slowly evaporated as we went into junior high school and later high school. Yet another friend’s house was cursed with the big toe of a giant, and we would run screaming through her house, up and down the stairs all the way from the attic to the basement trying to avoid being crushed. Another friend and I dug up pieces of pottery and marbles from my backyard and hoarded them, later running a museum with these all-important artifacts for our parents. ![]() My friend D and I had an entire stable of horses that would follow us to school every morning and be waiting for us every afternoon to walk us home. When I was in elementary school, my friends and I created our own worlds, scribbling them down on scraps of paper like Midori. It’s a more simplistic drawing, and lacks the detail of her later concept art, but is a pure expression of a child’s imagination - something that stuck with me as a viewer throughout the episode and well after I was finished watching. Young Midori’s reimagining of her own apartment complex struck me more than the above scene. It’s love of animation as a medium and vehicle for our imaginations is apparent in every frame. For lack of a better description, Eizouken is a sakuga anime about sakuga. In my own corner of anime Twitter, I saw a variety of sakuga fans sharing the above image - Eizouken protagonist Midori Asakusa watching Future Boy Conan with rapt attention as her voice over muses that this was the moment she realized that people made the anime she watched - with their personal realizations of anime creators and own similar epiphanies. There is bound to be a lot of praise in the anime community (on social media, larger review sites, YouTube, and even tiny little blogs like this one) for Masaaki Yuasa and Science Saru’s adaptation of Keep Your Hands of Eizouken! Their love of animation as a vehicle for their and our imaginations is abundantly clear in every frame. ![]()
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