Despite hosting a show interviewing people about their favorite media to geek out on, podcast veteran Deanna has never watched anime. While recording for Welcome to Geekdom, her friend Janice decided to make it her mission to give Deanna a crash course. This series covers lessons learned in each episode of Masaaki Yuasa's Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken! along with an accompanying movie or show.
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Intros and Curriculum
In this limited-run podcast, Janice sets out to make an anime fan out of Deanna using lessons learned in Masaaki Yuasa's acclaimed series Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken!...
Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind - Creating A Whole New World
Asakusa fell in love with animation when she watched (an homage to) Future Boy Conan. We delve into concept art and worldbuilding with another early Miyazaki work. Thi...
Akira - Transforming 2D Drawings Into Nightmare Fuel
The Eizouken crew discover a room full of manual 2D animation equipment and bring an old set of drawings to life using perspective and effects. We watch another classi...
Promare - So Stylish It Melts Your Brain
The Eizouken girlies set out to make a high-impact short feature with flashy fights and a simple story to secure club approval and funding. Flashy fights? Simple story...
Paprika - Dreamy Direction That Will Make You Go "What?"
Satoshi Kon was known for directing movies that push the boundary between reality and fiction, leaving you to wonder what was real and what was imagined in his works. ...