![]() ![]() The girls don’t just draw they evangelize to a school overrun with censors, rivals, and skeptics. They work in bold colors, illuminating an otherwise sparse and excruciating profession that keeps them scribbling into the night. They design preposterous vehicles and shoot wild movements at wide angles. They draw rough, post-apocalyptic landscapes and model quirky heroes. The girls must reconcile their imaginations and skill with the many practical considerations-budget, schedule, technology, physics, fatigue, etc.-that constrain animators.Īsakusa, Kanamori, and Mizusaki develop a splashy, athletic house style. ![]() On paper, the story is unruly, but it’s disciplined in its execution. ![]() For their short-form, schoolwide debut, they illustrate a young girl wearing a skirt and a gas mask, wielding a machete and a grappling hook, who sprints up cliffs as she battles a sentient tank in a rough, dusty wilderness. He’s busy.Įizouken! follows three teenage girls, Asakusa, Kanamori, and Mizusaki, who started their high school’s AV club-the titular eizouken-which they hope to develop into a world-class animation studio. He’s adapting the classic disaster novel Japan Sinks into an updated 10-episode series, Japan Sinks: 2020, due to premiere later this year on Netflix. He also directed the 12-episode series Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken!, now broadcasting in Japan and available on the anime streaming service Crunchyroll. Most recently, Yuasa directed Ride Your Wave, a devastating romantic comedy that screened in a limited theatrical release-for one night only-in North America. The Japanese animator and his studio, Science Saru, rush from one release date to the next. Masaaki Yuasa outpaces his peers’ production and his fans’ ability to keep up with his new films and TV series. ![]()
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