Eizouken ni wa Te wo Dasu na!

Midori Asakusa sees the world a bit differently. Always having her nose in a sketchbook, Asakusa draws detailed landscapes and backgrounds of both the world around her and the one within her boundless imagination. Even the simple act of doodling on a wall evolves into an emergency repair on the outer hull of her spaceship. She is only brought back to reality by her best friend Sayaka Kanamori. The pair are stark opposites, with Asakusa's childlike wonder contrasted by Kanamori's calculated approach to life.

After a chance encounter where the two "save" the young model Tsubame Misuzaki from her overprotective bodyguard, a connection instantly sparks between Asakusa and Misuzaki, as both share an intense passion for art and animation. Whereas Asakusa is interested in backgrounds and settings, Misuzaki loves drawing the human form. Sensing a money-making opportunity, Kanamori suggests that they start an animation club, which they disguise as a motion picture club since the school already has an anime club. Thus begins the trio's journey of producing animation that will awe the world.

From the brilliant mind of Masaaki Yuasa, Eizouken ni wa Te wo Dasu na! is a love letter to animation, wildly creative in its approach, and a testament to the potential of the medium.

[Written by MAL Rewrite]

Kanamori, Sayaka Main

Tamura, Mutsumi Japanese

Asakusa, Midori Main

Itou, Sairi Japanese

Mizusaki, Tsubame Main

Matsuoka, Misato Japanese

Doumeki Supporting

Hanamori, Yumiri Japanese

Sakaki, Sowande Supporting

Komatsu, Mikako Japanese

Fujimoto-sensei Supporting

Inoue, Kazuhiko Japanese

Kubo Supporting

Murase, Michiyo Japanese

Okamoto Supporting

Takagi, Reiko Japanese

Kashima Supporting

Yazaki, Kazuya Japanese

Kanamori's Aunt Supporting

Sadaoka, Sayuri Japanese

Choi, Eun-Young Producer

Okamoto, Junya Producer

Tsuruoka, Shinya Producer

Sakata, Jun Producer

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Nov 17, 2025

Mister_ermo

Recommended

"Eizouken ni wa Te wo Dasu na!" is a fun anime for those who want something short and relaxing in its simplicity, and perhaps even more so for people who love animation or want a glimpse into how it's made. However, it should be noted that it is a 'feel-good' anime, where there's a positive resolution to every problem, and as such, it does not offer much intellectual or emotional stimulation.

That being said, its main weakness (or flaw) is not necessarily the lack of real conflicts, but rather the constant reliance on deus ex machina. When everything is convenient - no matter how complex the ... obstacles are - it breaks the illusion of plausibility; the director's hand is exposed, so to speak. As such, the issue is not so much with Eizouken's world-building as with the sense of outside intervention.

Other than that, I found the creative process sequences (i.e., the 'imagination' scenes) to be tedious at times. I can see how the technical aspects might be interesting to some, but for someone like myself, who isn't as invested in anime or animation in general, the sequences were quite boring.

But criticism aside, it’s still a fun, feel-good anime that's ideal for a quick binge or for when you're feeling stressed out. If that's the case, I do recommend giving it a try!

Reviewer’s Rating: 6

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Mar 9, 2024

gabrielsemipro

Mixed Feelings

Often enough, what hooks you into an anime is ultimately how it makes you feel.

I don't know if i'm in a soft spot now but, it did made me feel like i understood the love and passion for animation, for the process, for how each and every author makes everything feel unique by leaving imprints; How who we are, how we feel, where we go, impacts the art that is made.

This is what i felt watching it, passion and love.

It helps having a honestly refreshing character design, cool animation, humour and a care-free plot. I'm not giving it a 10 because i think it's ... perfect, it absolutely is not even close, but what i felt is what counts, and i loved feeling it.

Reviewer’s Rating: 10

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Mar 22, 2020

ExemplarCayman

Not Recommended

I really wanted to love this show, it’s just there is nothing to love, because there is nothing, period. It is entirely devoid of substance.

The series is a monster-of-the-week about three aspiring anime creators, the “monster” being them imagining their various everyday happenstances as fantastical animated dream sequences. There is some glimpse of a plot about their anime-making school club, but that’s not the point, the point is a love letter to the medium, celebrating the creative power of animation. These imaginative scenarios are indeed creative and pleasant to look at. You know what else is creative and pleasant to look at? Actual anime, where ... cool pictures have context and substance behind them. The very first episode of the show illustrates it already: it includes an entire meticulously recreated by hand sequence from Future Boy Conan, complete with the characters being awestruck by how cool it is. Ok, Future Boy Conan is cool, so why don’t I just watch Future Boy Conan? What’s the point of watching a fictional equivalent of a youtube reaction video? Recreating a scene from an old anime without adding anything transformative to it isn’t an artistic achievement, it’s just copy pasting. It’s a rather unorthodox case of failing the “show, don’t tell” principle - the show tries so hard to tell you how cool anime as a medium is, it fails to be an actual anime that is cool by itself. It also tries too hard to be artsy, coming off as artificial, insincere, and pretentious, because the “artsiness” is not supposed to be deliberately constructed. Just listen to Yuasa talking about how they’ve made the main girls ugly on purpose, “to subvert the moeblob trend” - nevermind that one of the girls is supposed to be a photo model - it just reeks of pretentiousness.

And outside of the “I fucking love anime” the series offers nothing. The plot is an excuse for the sakuga moments and the main trio are one-note plot devices devoid of any actual character. There is nothing to care about, empathize with, or be invested into. Nothing to look forward to either, if you’ve seen the first episode, you’ve seen the entire show. There is Yuasa’s art and direction, but again - there is plenty of actual anime also directed by Yuasa, where stuff happens and things matter. The informational tidbits about the technical aspects of the animation process are theme-park level, you’d be better off watching Shirobako for that (and by “that” I mean wanking over how educated you are because you watched a cartoon, someone who genuinely wanted to learn about the real life process of creating animation should watch documentaries). Even the imagination sequences quickly get repetitive and boring because there is only so much fun in watching substanceless moving pictures.
This is not the worst show in the universe, and it’s not like it does something monumentally awful. It’s just there are hundreds of better shows that are more deserving of your time being invested into them.

4/10 for “don’t watch anime reaction videos, watch actual anime.”

Reviewer’s Rating: 4

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