All Episodes
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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. ...
Patlabor: The Movie - Mecha Escapism Is Too Realistic
Can't have a podcast about anime without watching something heavy with giant robots in it. Eizouken is comissioned to create a "realistic" "giant fighting robot" (oxym...
The Wind Rises - Sound Effects and Overdramatics
Eizouken drafts a new member, sort of! Enter Doumeki, sole member of the Sound Club who helps with sound effects while Asakusa's motivation switch disengages. Miyazaki...
Wolf Children - The (Shape and) Movement of Water
Mizusaki has been obsessed with movement and her whole life. Doumeki shows how sound can be used to relieve some of the animation load. Wolf Children is a vibrant movi...
Great Pretender - A Little More Conversation and Music
It's festival time and the robot club + Eizouken have to pull off a massive heist to get people in the doors for their joint short. Finished just in time, the voice ac...
Perfect Blue - The ABPs of the Industry: Always Be Promoting
After the success of their latest short, Eizouken's skills are in high demand, but not for a lot of money so they decide to deep dive into self-promotion and self-publ...
Liz and the Blue Bird - The Sound of Silence in Storytelling
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! E...
On-Gaku: Our Sound - Breaking Off a Slice of Life
"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 ...
Lu Over The Wall - We Saved the Last Dance
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, compar...