Eizouken doesn’t just articulate lessons, it embodies them – all of its insights about animation are illustrated by the show itself Mizusaki’s machete skills have gotten sharp, and her illustration of them naturally conveys the power of animation to evoke fluid, impactful human movements, even with her relatively loose-limbed base design. I love her grimace here, which really implies both her frustration and her understanding that this is her own fault Meanwhile, Asakusa is finally experiencing the consequences of constantly adding new visual ideas without thinking about how they’ll fit into the overall aesthetic or narrative. As the windmill process demonstrated, creating a convincing illusion of movement requires both a strong understanding of physics and perspective, as well as the experience to know when “unrealistic” details are actually crucial to the emotional effect Mizusaki, the perfectionist, is frustrated with how her explosions look. The first shot already establishes their expected distribution of duties – Asakusa’s walls have painted backgrounds pinned all around them, while Mizusaki is rifling through a stack of sheets to check the flow of the motion The empty floor has been filled with shelves for papers and finished cuts, and Asakusa and Mizusaki are each hard at work on their own production desks.
#Keep your hands off eizouken live action full
HERE WE GO!Īfter an establishing shot of the film studio sign, we enter their club building in full production mode. Eizouken’s fourth episode might actually be its best episode yet, and I’ve run out of patience waiting to revisit it. To be honest, there aren’t that many contenders – there’s one specific episode of Paranoia Agent in contention, and aside from that, the consistent excellence of Shirobako.īut while Shirobako stands as a remarkable collective love letter to the full production process, I don’t think I’ve ever seen an episode get as deeply in the weeds of cost-saving animation techniques, production compromises, and editor-animator dialogue as this, nor illustrate the final product with such tangible awe at the wonder of creating something with your own hands. Having already watched this episode once, it already feels like a genuine contender for the best episode of anime about the anime-creating process that I’ve ever seen. At this very moment, I could already be watching Eizouken’s fourth episode – it’s only the tragic necessity of offering some framing to these notes articles that keeps me from the golden glow of its animated splendor.
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