Manga Thoughts: Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken! 5

Getting past “a manga first draft of events I’d already seen animated” to “further adventures of the Eizouken” had been encouraging. Dark Horse continuing to defy gloomy expectations and bringing out a fifth volume of Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken! might have been taken just a bit more for granted. I didn’t rush to read this new instalment of the story. Perhaps it was a matter of “a manga about making anime isn’t quite the same as an anime about making anime.” Sumito Oowara’s artwork is interesting when it comes to the world the characters move in, but the characters themselves might not be “much more consistently good-looking in the more limited number of drawings manga requires” or “getting away with stuff that has to be toned down for broadcast.”
( Saving the clock tower )