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krpalmerSix volumes of the Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken! manga being translated into English and published means there’s now as much manga going beyond the anime as there was manga the anime was adapted from. I at least remember the first accusations Dark Horse might not bother to release even the manga that turned into the anime, so it was nice to see this new volume. At the same time, starting into it I did have a bit of trouble picking up on the story again beyond the sense the tale of the Eizouken’s latest anime-within-the-manga hadn’t been complete in one volume and just might have ended on a cliffhanger.
Once everything was sorted out, though (and the title of the series was spoken by a character within it, which had me thinking back to the days of MSTings and the jibe “And we have title,”) the club was moving ahead by looking back to their very first production with thoughts of expanding upon it. This led to thoughts of adding voices to the animation for the first time and a search for voice actors that introduced another character. Seki Sakurada is a (junior high) girl of a thousand voices; she also uses those voices for her own misbegotten gain, which led to some comedic action. Once Sakurada had been more or less roped into the Eizouken, I noticed just how aghast she could get at the enthusiasm of the established members. This led to the casual display of some pretty impressive skills from Doumeki, the previous “new character” of the manga, and perhaps even the confrontation of assumptions about her facing a certain slope in matching up to the three Eizouken members established from the start.
As for one of those members I had started this volume a bit prone to thoughts that Sumito Oowara’s art was showing the Eizouken’s director-type Asakusa as ever more squat, rounded off, and “cartoony.” As the volume progressed, though, there were a few attention-catching moments where the way she was being drawn changed for just a few panels. Things ended with the latest production and Sakurada’s attempts to deal with the enthusiasm of others both still in progress; the translator and editor’s afterword did mention two more volumes still to be translated, if with the comment this would happen “with your support.”
Once everything was sorted out, though (and the title of the series was spoken by a character within it, which had me thinking back to the days of MSTings and the jibe “And we have title,”) the club was moving ahead by looking back to their very first production with thoughts of expanding upon it. This led to thoughts of adding voices to the animation for the first time and a search for voice actors that introduced another character. Seki Sakurada is a (junior high) girl of a thousand voices; she also uses those voices for her own misbegotten gain, which led to some comedic action. Once Sakurada had been more or less roped into the Eizouken, I noticed just how aghast she could get at the enthusiasm of the established members. This led to the casual display of some pretty impressive skills from Doumeki, the previous “new character” of the manga, and perhaps even the confrontation of assumptions about her facing a certain slope in matching up to the three Eizouken members established from the start.
As for one of those members I had started this volume a bit prone to thoughts that Sumito Oowara’s art was showing the Eizouken’s director-type Asakusa as ever more squat, rounded off, and “cartoony.” As the volume progressed, though, there were a few attention-catching moments where the way she was being drawn changed for just a few panels. Things ended with the latest production and Sakurada’s attempts to deal with the enthusiasm of others both still in progress; the translator and editor’s afterword did mention two more volumes still to be translated, if with the comment this would happen “with your support.”