Not much new to say about this one. It's fun and imaginative, with loads of immersive fiddly detail. The story's maybe not all that, but the rest more than compensates for it.
Carl Gustav Horn provides even more fiddly detail in his endnotes, including an overview of Comitia, a fan convention centered around original works. Oowara himself steps in with a few tidbits as well.
The chapters on sound are used to expand the world the girls live in. Their high school has been shown to sit near water. Water runs through, around, and under numerous buildings that feature in the series. Water remains a strong visual theme in the girls' work too.
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As the girls descend we find more and more of the cityscape submerged in water. Where they stop, there's an overpass and a group of abandoned cars. This scenery is the most familiar — looking modern day. Though nothing is said directly, the landscape implies a near future, post sea level rise world. I'm curious to see what future clues we might get about the landscape and timeline.
Unsurprisingly, a wonderful anime has a wonderful manga. The best thing about Eizoken is that it refreshes your sense of wonder and lets you look at the world around you as full of inspiration again.
Love Eizouken, but this volume was probably my least favorite. There are defiantly some good chapters, there just seems to be alot of forgettable bland fillers. Doumeki is the new cast member, who doesn't get used enough for an intro volume, Kanamori gets a flashback chapter that really helps flesh out her character in a simple way, the club seems more like a serious animation studio. Though it's more of a transition volume, so the plot's pretty basic. It wasn't too engaging, though there were defiantly some good chapters, just it was muddled in the bland. The character moments and interactions are as fun and the fantasy segments are kinda bland. I think the first volumes set the bar so high.
Took a while to finish this one, despite its relative brevity. Got distracted by the Theban plays.
The Eizouken set their sights on having a film ready for a convention and gain a new member in Doumeki, the sole member of Shibahama High's Audio Club. Always a cozy, inspiring treat to read a new volume of this series. Especially excited for volume 4 as that will finally be new territory for me story-wise, having seen the anime. This series continues to be one of my favourites about striving to make a living at one's craft. If it continues to be as insightful and funny as it is, I only expect my esteem of it to increase.