![]() ![]() We all connect to the characters, and I hope that the audience connects to them too, as well as to the animation industry. This is a good introduction for the audience to our work at Science SARU and all the individuals who work here, including myself and Yuasa-san. The story is a love letter to making anime and creating to achieve your dream - how do you personally connect on an emotional level to the themes in the narrative? Episode 8 covers her backstory and that was very emotional and moving. Of course, Mizusaki is amazing too - the way she loves animation is amazing. I share a lot of feeling with Kanamori too, because at the moment I’m doing the Kanamori role in real life. She’s trying to put that vision forward to share with the audience, and she’s very charming as well. Asakusa is the lead in the story - I really love her because of her imagination. To be honest, I’m a producer at the moment, but before that, I was a director, and before that an animator, so I kind of know all the aspects of each role and character. The three main characters: Asakusa, Mizusaki and Kanamori are three wonderful characters that are unique, funny and loveable. ![]() It’s not that I wasn’t interested I just didn’t have the knowledge at the time. But I got there eventually after I turned 30. It took a while to get to the place where I wanted to be. So I decided to educate myself in animation and I watched a lot of movies and shows. I hadn’t watched Ghibli films, or even Disney, at that time. I went to animation school in my late 20s. Animation didn’t start off as my interest until I went to school in London. Before this, I studied fine arts and sculpture, and I was also very into art and literature, philosophy and music, and all sorts of other things. It was a long journey to get into the animation industry. Is School where your love for animation began?Īctually not. The story is about three girls making an anime at school. And we think it’s good to show the audience how much we enjoy the process through the struggles - it contains all these aspects and elements. Also, the manga gives a very positive message via the story and characters about moving forward, solving problems, and how to bring your ideas to life. It’s about them evolving from the beginning and becoming a team. Eizouken is a little bit different as it’s more about what they are making and imagining, and follows the struggles of making it as amateurs rather than professionals. ![]() There are other TV shows about animation, like Shirobako, which are very popular with fans since they like to see characters making anime. One of the discussions we had before we did Eizouken! was that, when we found the manga and read it, we found it really suited us. Our pipeline is very limited - our time is very limited, and our staff is still somewhat small compared with the very big studios, so we carefully go through all of the possibilities, including TV series or feature films. When we finish a project, we take a lot of time to think about what we want to do next. What was it about the manga that appealed to you and Masaaki Yuasa that made you and your team want to turn it into an anime? It’s kind of exciting and very fulfilling as a production team to bring these characters to life. Each of the three girls have different roles - an animator, a producer and a director. It’s a story about them trying to achieve their dream through animation and art, which is what they’re most passionate about. It is a story about three high school girls that establish a school club to make animation, but to receive the budget they need to make the club, they have to go through a lot of trials and hard work. In your own words can you briefly describe to our readers what Eizouken! is about? We decided to work on the project because it was a very interesting story and we all related to it - it’s not a typical anime or conventional anime, so we didn’t expect this kind of amazing feedback from the fans. The team is doing great work, and we honestly didn’t expect all this feedback from the audience. STARBURST: Congratulations on the success and popularity of Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken! - it's our favourite anime of the season.ĮUNYOUNG CHOI: Thank you so much for the kind words. Anime is a huge passion of ours at STARBURST so we were thrilled when Eunyoung Choi the lead Producer and Co-Founder of one of the most popular Anime studios in Japan, ScienceSARU, agreed to sit down with us to talk about the studios latest mega-hit show, Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken!, her history in the industry and what's next for the legendary studio. ![]()
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