And that's a wrap on this season! We watch the final episode of Eizouken, realize that Lu Over the Wall is just Ponyo+That One Episode of Spongebob Squarepants, compare both with the other works of Masaaki Yuasa, and discuss what our favorite and least favorite pieces of media were from the show. Thanks to our 5 listeners for being there with us along the way and we hope you had fun!

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Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken! Episode 12 - Shibahama UFO Wars!
Masaaki Yuasa's Lu Over the Wall (2017)

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"You can't expect someone to be able to work with no time off or no enjoyment." That's the message that the Eizouken club advisor stresses to the kids as they come up against creative burnout. We take a mini-rest this week with a 71-minute movie full of beautiful painted backgrounds and the slowest dialogue cadance imagineable. Despite how chill this indie movie seems, it took more than 7 years of work from concept to creation with the director's committment to "rotoscoping without a rotoscope." Also we talk about laying on the floor a lot.

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Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken! Episode 11 - Each Other's Existence!
Kenji Iwaisawa's On-Gaku: Our Sound (2019)

Next Episode: Lu Over The Wall

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Asakusa says, "Every single motion is something intentionally depicted by an artist" in animation. Liz and the Blue Bird, a stand-alone spinoff movie from the Sound! Euphonium! franchise, is a beautiful movie full of meaningful framing and motion. We discuss the importance of show-don't-tell and talk about the sound hunting adventure in Eizouken vs the real life sound hunting for this movie.

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Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken! Episode 10 - Against Our Independent World!
Naoko Yamada's Liz and the Blue Bird (2018)

Next Episode: On-Gaku: Our Sound

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