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Live-Action Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken! Film Delayed Due to Coronavirus Disease COVID-19
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scheduled to open on May 15.
The tie-in live-action television series will continue to air as scheduled.
star in the live-action project as the characters Sayaka Kanamori, Midori Asakusa, and Tsubame Mizusaki. They also perform the film's theme song "Fantastic Sanshoku Pan" (Fantastic Three-Filling Bun). Rock band Thinking Dogs perform the series' theme song "Heavenly ideas."
The six-episode television series premiered on April 5 on TBS. The film and series have the same staff and cast. Oto Abe and Satoshi Uekiya co-star in the series.
The live-action project also stars Sakurako Konishi as student council president Tōru Dōtonbori, Ema Grace as student council secretary Sowande Sakaki, Masahiro Takashima as Fujimoto-sensei.
Other cast include:
- Minami Hamabe as Haruko, a weather club member
- Mizuki Itagaki as Ono, a member of the robot club that has requested Eizouken to make an anime
- Hiyori Sakurada as Dōmeki, an audio club member who wants to collaborate with Eizouken on anime production
- Eiji Akaso as Kobayashi, a robot club member
- Yura Someno as Takanashi, a member of the robot club
- Yuki Kameda as Azuhata, a member of the robot club
- Mirai Kawazu, a member of the weather club
- Wakana Matsumoto as Tsubame's mother
- Sō Yamanaka as Tsubame's father
Asahinagu) is directing the film and series.
The manga follows Midori, Tsubame, and Sayaka, an energetic trio of first-year high school girls who come together in the Eizouken (Video Research Club) to turn their anime dreams into a reality. Midori is nervous to create an anime alone. She meets Tsubame who appears to be a well-to-do girl but she really has artistic dreams of being an animator. Midori's best friend Sayaka has the financial sense to bring the project to fruition and s the pair on their quest.
Ōwara launched the manga in licensed the manga, and will release the first volume on October 6.
The manga inspired a television streamed the series in North America, Central America, South America, Europe, Africa, Oceania, and the Middle East.
Sources: Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken! live-action project's website, Comic Natalie
