History YMMV / KeepYourHandsOffEizouken

** The backgrounds show off Creator/StudioBihou's versatility its fullest. From the show's detailed [[{{Bizarrchitecture}} bizarre]] cityscape which the characters live in, to the imaginary world of Asakusa's and its rougher, unfinished appearance. Even the more amateurish look of the Art Club's backgrounds are pulled off flawlessly.

** The backgrounds, by Creator/StudioBihou, show off the studio's talent for stylized and varied background art on full display here. From the show's detailed [[{{Bizarrchitecture}} bizarre]] cityscape which the characters live in, to the imaginary world of Asakusa's and its rougher, unfinished appearance. Even the more amateurish look of the Art Club's backgrounds are pulled off flawlessly.

* SugarWiki/AwesomeArt: The character designs are all unique, distinctive, and expressive, and the anime brings them all to life expertly with Masaaki Yuasa's SignatureStyle of exaggerated poses and vibrant colors. Fitting for a show about how wonderful animation can be.

** The backgrounds, by Creator/StudioBihou, show off the studio's talent for stylized and varied background art on full display here. From the show's lived in, [[{{Bizarrchitecture}} bizarre]] cityscape the characters live in, to the imaginary world of Asakusa's and its rougher, unfinished appearance. Even the more amateurish look of the Art Club's backgrounds are pulled off flawlessly.

** The backgrounds by Creator/StudioBihou too, with the studio's talent for stylized background art being on full display here. bringing to life the show's lived in, [[{{Bizarrchitecture}} bizarre]] cityscape and the imaginary world of the girls while making them distinct from one another. They're also responsible for the more StylisticSuck-y look of the Art Club's backgrounds, which are more appropriately amateur in execution.

** Fans have taken to calling Asakusa "Gremlin"/"Goblin" on account of the combination of her short stature, energetic demeanor, and wide-eyed, wide-faced design, all reminiscent of the [[Memes/{{Overwatch}} "Gremlin D.Va"]] meme. Some fans also refer to Asakusa as "Bucket Hat Girl," owing entirely to her near-omnipresent NiceHat, or "Frog/Frog Girl," on account of her wide, far-apart eyes, small nose, and wide, flat mouth being froglike in design.

* SugarWiki/DevelopmentHeaven: For the anime, Creator/ScienceSARU didn't have legal permission to use footage from ''Anime/FutureBoyConan'' in the first episode. They got around this by painstakingly recreating scenes from ''Conan'' from scratch; not only did they trace the scenes frame by frame and recolor them, but they even recreated the music and sound effects.

** The background art by Creator/StudioBihou too, with the studio's talent for stylized background art being on full display here. bringing to life the show's lived in, [[{{Bizarrchitecture}} bizarre]] cityscape and the imaginary world of the girls while making them distinct from one another. They're also responsible for the more StylisticSuck-y look of the Art Club's backgrounds, which are more appropriately amateur in execution.

* FoeYay: There's been a rise in Sowande x Kanamori shippers thanks to the interactions between the two girls, their similar cutthroat and cunning natures, and how they serve as {{foil}}s to each other.

** The girls' [[https://66.media.tumblr.com/a3c40409637fce3c1e4253bc6bd574d3/f2a6e2e6f870e185-dc/s540x810/01f8d3d1c6919450c6b52f076bbebbfcbc43be43.gif dance]] in the opening is beginning to be spread around ''à la'' [[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureVentoAureo the torture dance]] which it is compared to as its DistaffCounterpart.

* {{Woolseyism}}: Sowande at one point calls Kanamori "Kanemori-chan", riffing on the latter's love of money (as "kane" is Japanese for "money") and playing off of how "Kanamori" is derived from the kanji for "gold forest" (with "kana" being the Japanese word for "gold"). WebSite/{{Crunchyroll}}'s English subtitles translate the quip as "Kanamoney," which carries over the wordplay but lacks the insult that comes from Sowande intentionally using the honorific "-chan" in an inappropriate manner (as Sowande and Kanamori aren't particularly close). Crunchyroll's Spanish subs, meanwhile, go with "Platamori," which manages to successfully play off of the meaning of "Kanamori," roll of the tongue fairly well, and act as a well-placed subtle jab (as "plata" is the Spanish word for silver, which is traditionally regarded as less valuable than gold).

* ValuesDissonance: The series's perspective on the animation industry is very much skewed through a lens of Japanese Confucianism: Asakusa and Mizusaki are consistently depicted as being the only ones in the wrong for constantly being distracted from their work and letting their ambitions get the better of them rather than adhering to the requests of Kanamori, their producer and superior, with all of this carrying an undertone of animators only having themselves to blame for any hardships they face in the industry, and that if they conformed to both the will of their superiors and their place as workers in the natural order, they wouldn't suffer so much. Contrast this with the western perspective, where the general understanding is that it's usually the fault of the producers for most difficulties that arise during the animation process, with greater exposure of the harsh industry climate among westerners making it known that the actual animators are more often than not treated more as tools rather than people. While the discrepancy could be explained in part by Asakusa and Mizusaki being the only two animators in the Motion Picture Club and having much more say in the final product as a result, the series has nonetheless been criticized by some in the west for presenting a misleadingly lopsided depiction of professional animation as a result of these differences in social and professional philosophy.

* FunnyAneurysmMoment:
** The "there is nothing fun about social media" joke takes on a considerably more uncomfortable air following late July 2020, when ''Eizouken'' author Sumito Owara was discovered to be following accounts on WebSite/{{Pixiv}} that specialized in 3D renders of photorealistic child pornography, with Owara's response to the situation on WebSite/{{Twitter}} being criticized as [[NeverMyFault an attempt to shift blame onto his audience]].
** The child pornography scandal surrounding Owara also had a noticeable impact on how other previously-released bits in the manga came off as well, including scenes where Kanamori brings up the topic of Asakusa's panties (a bit which occurred after the point where the anime adaptation ended), Mizusaki making an oggling-ish observation about Kanamori's legs, and especially the bathhouse scene, which had previously received acclaim for being ''non''-sexual in nature, overall [[HiddenInPlainSight revealing a number of red flags that previously went unnoticed]].

* OvershadowedByControversy: While ''Eizouken'' was initially a subject of high acclaim, nowadays it's mainly known for the fact that the manga's author, Sumito Owara, got caught following photorealistic child porn artists on WebSite/{{Pixiv}} in late July 2020 and gave a caustically dismissive response on Twitter that attempted to [[NeverMyFault shift blame onto the people who called him out]] rather than taking accountability for his actions when taken to task for it. While many initially believed Owara was simply unaware of those artists' mature work (as Pixiv has an optional filter to prevent R-18-tagged works from showing up), later digging into his site activity and the content of ''Eizouken'' itself seemed to debunk this and stoke the flames further. Consequently, even though its fandom is still going strong, it's become incredibly difficult to discuss the series without having to address the issue of Owara's apparent predilictions and actions, especially due to how heavily they undermine both ''Eizouken''[='s=] message of recognizing and improving upon your mistakes and Owara's own treatment of the series (in particular his hardline stance against RuleThirtyFour); a large number of fans abandoned ''Eizouken'' out of a belief that it is irreconcilable with Owara's apparent hypocrisy.
* PeripheryDemographic: The series has garnered a surprisingly large following among the neurodivergent community, especially once the anime adaptation began airing, thanks to Asakusa and Mizusaki [[https://grrlofswirls.tumblr.com/post/190794662211/from-the-first-episode-asakusa-midori-always embodying a large]] [[https://autisticheadcanons.tumblr.com/tagged/keep-your-hands-off-eizouken! number of characteristics]] common among autistic people and people with ADHD (particularly the former). While Asakusa and Mizusaki are never actually specified to have a neurological condition, the similarities have made them characters with whom autistic viewers and viewers with ADHD tend to identify and embrace, and a number of autistic fans even headcanon them as being autistic[[note]]though the reveal that author Sumito Owara has ADHD seems to have galvanized the apparently mutually exclusive headcanon of Asakusa having the same condition among fans with ADHD; that said, many autistic fans, fans with ADHD, and especially [[BreadEggsBreadedEggs autistic fans with ADHD]] are willing to headcanon her as having both, given that the two conditions can co-occur[[/note]]. It helps that these traits are never used to paint Asakusa or Mizusaki as "weird" or worthy of scorn, but are rather treated as just part of who they are, being counteracted and complemented by their passion for animation (with their skills in the field being shown as the result of years of practice rather than being inherent talents) as well as the two being able to realistically connect and make friends with each other and with Kanamori, a far cry from stereotypical depictions of neurodivergent individuals not only in the west, but also and especially Japan (particularly in regards to autism, the stereotypes about which in Japanese society are still rooted in outdated and debunked theories from the 1950's). The fact that author Sumito Owara revealed in [[https://twitter.com/dennou319/status/1110565948153430016 2019]] and [[https://twitter.com/dennou319/status/1240489281308594177 2020]] that he's autistic and has ADHD also factors into this to an extent.

* OvershadowedByControversy: While ''Eizouken'' was initially a subject of high acclaim for, among other things, its considerable and positive deviations from the norms of its genre, its remarkable care for the animation industry, and the downright gorgeous and expressive animation of its anime adaptation (not to mention it having a huge PeripheryDemographic among neurodivergent viewers for its positive portrayals of autism-coded and ADHD-coded characters), nowadays it's mainly known for the fact that the manga's author, Sumito Owara, got caught following photorealistic child porn artists on WebSite/{{Pixiv}} in late July of 2020 (he was first found out on March 30, but the information didn't become more widely publicized until July 26) and gave a caustically dismissive response on Twitter that attempted to [[NeverMyFault shift blame onto the people who called him out]] rather than taking accountability for his actions when taken to task for it, with the prominence of this controversy only growing after later developments indicated that Owara was not only fully aware and accepting of that kind of content (among other things following another artist who almost exclusively posts child porn art, including porn of real-world child celebrities), but also may have included references to those predilections in ''Eizouken'' itself. Consequently, even though its fandom is still going strong, it's become incredibly difficult to discuss the series without having to address the issue of Owara's personal preferences and actions, especially due to how heavily they undermine both ''Eizouken''[='s=] message of recognizing and improving upon your mistakes and Owara's own treatment of the series (in particular his hardline stance against RuleThirtyFour), and a large number of fans abandoned ''Eizouken'' out of a belief that it is irreconcilable with Owara's apparent hypocrisy.