Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken! (2020): cast, story & where to watch

Released in 2020, Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken! is an animation, action & adventure and comedy series.

What it’s about. First-year high schooler Midori Asakusa loves anime so much, she insists that "concept is everything" in animation. While she spends her time doodling endless ideas and settings in her sketchbook, she hasn't taken the first step to creating anime, insisting that she can't do it alone. After Asakusa's money-loving best friend Sayaka Kanamori notices her genius and drive – and when it becomes clear that their classmate and charismatic fashion model Tsubame Mizusaki wants to be an animator – the energetic trio start an animation club. Together, the three aim to realize the "ultimate world" that exists in their minds, as they come to see the power that fiction and imagination have on their lives and the world around them.

Who’s in it. Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken! stars Sairi Ito as Midori Asakusa (voice), Mutsumi Tamura as Sayaka Kanamori (voice), Misato Matsuoka as Tsubame Mizusaki (voice) and Yumiri Hanamori as Doumeki (voice), among others.

How it landed. With an audience score of 8.1/10, Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken! sits among the best-reviewed titles in the catalogue.

Where to watch. In US you can stream it on Crunchyroll and Crunchyroll Amazon Channel. See the full, country-by-country breakdown on our where to watch Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken! page.

If you liked it. Fans of Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken! tend to enjoy Rick and Morty, Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba, Attack on Titan and Attack on Titan: No Regrets.