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Manga Thoughts: Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken! 3
As I began reading the third volume of Dark Horse’s release of the Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken! manga, memories of the first two volumes had me supposing this would bring me to the end of the original source material for the anime adaptation at last. Having started off aware of suspicions Dark Horse didn’t have the dedication to keep publishing anything other than its most successful manga and the long waits between instalments of this title wouldn’t help there, though, I was wondering if this would wind up a last hurrah leaving me right where things had ended the first time around.
The time since I saw the anime has been increasing (even if the back cover of this volume of manga now mentions Sentai announced it would be releasing it over here), but the first events seemed familiar enough as the three members of the Eizouken animation club met Doumeki, the lone member of their high school’s audio club (as the artwork kept casually pointing out their society was more visually varied in skin tone than casual assumptions about “most” anime and manga might drift into). I wondered about Asakusa’s “Astounding Audio Treadmill” producing the same sound no matter what she ran on, looking more at the “romanized” translations than the original Japanese characters, and then the very next page explained that was the joke. There was a flashback to a first meeting of Asakusa and Kanamori I couldn’t quite remember, and then another flashback to an even younger Kanamori drumming up business for a end-of-the-road convenience store I could recall.
As I worked towards the last chapters of this volume, however, I did start wondering if they would get to all of the complications in the production of the Eizouken’s third work of animation or if I’d be stuck depending on Dark Horse’s good graces just a little more than I’d been supposing. While facing that concern, I got to the club selling video discs at a convention and then watching their work in an after-party, and all of a sudden I was wondering something different, namely whether the complications had been added for the anime for the sake of a more elaborate production and bigger conclusion. Instead of just wondering, I did manage to check out bits of the last episode, which also ended with the convention and the after-party. That I’d accepted everything at the time I’d first seen it does seem to mean it worked well.
In turning to Carl Gustav Horn’s notes at the end, there was one more surprise in the announcement Dark Horse is “planning to continue” into two more volumes. That appears to be everything collected in Japanese volumes so far, given there was also a comment about Sumito Oowara’s work on the original manga resuming. This was encouraging enough I went looking at once for solicitations of the fourth volume in English, but I couldn’t turn up any listings of it. The promise, at least, was better than nothing, even if I can wonder how impressive the manga will become all by itself.
The time since I saw the anime has been increasing (even if the back cover of this volume of manga now mentions Sentai announced it would be releasing it over here), but the first events seemed familiar enough as the three members of the Eizouken animation club met Doumeki, the lone member of their high school’s audio club (as the artwork kept casually pointing out their society was more visually varied in skin tone than casual assumptions about “most” anime and manga might drift into). I wondered about Asakusa’s “Astounding Audio Treadmill” producing the same sound no matter what she ran on, looking more at the “romanized” translations than the original Japanese characters, and then the very next page explained that was the joke. There was a flashback to a first meeting of Asakusa and Kanamori I couldn’t quite remember, and then another flashback to an even younger Kanamori drumming up business for a end-of-the-road convenience store I could recall.
As I worked towards the last chapters of this volume, however, I did start wondering if they would get to all of the complications in the production of the Eizouken’s third work of animation or if I’d be stuck depending on Dark Horse’s good graces just a little more than I’d been supposing. While facing that concern, I got to the club selling video discs at a convention and then watching their work in an after-party, and all of a sudden I was wondering something different, namely whether the complications had been added for the anime for the sake of a more elaborate production and bigger conclusion. Instead of just wondering, I did manage to check out bits of the last episode, which also ended with the convention and the after-party. That I’d accepted everything at the time I’d first seen it does seem to mean it worked well.
In turning to Carl Gustav Horn’s notes at the end, there was one more surprise in the announcement Dark Horse is “planning to continue” into two more volumes. That appears to be everything collected in Japanese volumes so far, given there was also a comment about Sumito Oowara’s work on the original manga resuming. This was encouraging enough I went looking at once for solicitations of the fourth volume in English, but I couldn’t turn up any listings of it. The promise, at least, was better than nothing, even if I can wonder how impressive the manga will become all by itself.