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Ani-One Asia Streams Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken! Anime in India
posted on by Adriana Hazra
The channel is also streaming the anime in Bangladesh, Bhutan, Brunei, Cambodia, Fiji, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Korea, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Macau, Malaysia, the Maldives, Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Mongolia, Myanmar, Nauru, Nepal, New Caledonia, Pakistan, Palau, Papua New Guinea, the Philippines, Samoa, Singapore, Solomon Islands, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Thailand, Timor-Leste, Tonga, Tuvalu, Vanuatu, and Vietnam.
Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken! premiered on NHK General in January 2020, and ended in March 2020 with 12 episodes. Netflix streamed the anime in India in April 2021.
The manga follows Midori, Tsubame, and Sayaka, an energetic trio of first-year high school girls who come together in the Eizouken (Video Research Club) to turn their anime dreams into a reality. Midori is nervous to create an anime alone. She meets Tsubame who appears to be a well-to-do girl but she really has artistic dreams of being an animator. Midori's best friend Sayaka has the financial sense to bring the project to fruition and joins the pair on their quest.
Masaaki Yuasa (DEVILMAN crybaby, The Tatami Galaxy, Night is Short, Walk On Girl) directed the anime at Science SARU. Yuasa also supervised the series scripts. Naoyuki Asano (Saint Young Men, Mr. Osomatsu) designed the characters, and Oorutaichi (Kick-Heart, Lu over the wall) composed the music. Ōwara drew the ending animation for the anime. The female rap duo Chelmico performs the anime's opening theme song "Easy Breezy," while the masked rock band Kami-sama, Boku wa Kizuite Shimatta performs the ending theme song "Namae no Nai Ao" (A Nameless Blue).
Sumito Ōwara launched the manga in Shogakukan's Gekkan! Spirits magazine in 2016. The series was nominated for the 11th Manga Taisho awards in 2018, and it won the top Bros. Comic Award in 2017. Dark Horse Comics licensed the manga, and released the first volume in October 2020.
The manga also inspired a live-action film adaptation, which opened in September 2020. The film's tie-in six-episode television mini-series premiered in April 2020.
Source: Ani-One Asia's YouTube channel
