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「鉄巨人あらわる!」 (Tetsu Kyojin Arawaru!)
” An Iron Giant Appears!”
The world is a great big cat just waiting to be pet for the Eizouken in Episode 05 as word-of-mouth from their successful presentation gave them the opportunity to collaborate with other clubs to help bolster their reputation. But as they start to collaborate with other clubs on a deeper level, they also learn that there is bound to be a clash between two different ideologies when each party is passionately in love with their respective interests.
What this episode establishes after the humorous opening where Asakusa leaves Mizusaki behind to escape Robotics Club members is how much influence the Eizouken had built up along the way. With Kanamori’s networking skills, she was able to get them keen on the idea of having them create an anime short to promote the Robotics Club during this year’s Culture Festival. Through their support, the girls have more liberty to seek out inspiration for a short centered around mecha without having to feel too pressed to be too concerned about their resources for creating anime.
However, where they find adversary, and what we learn from the Robotics Club, is how creative types have a difficult time compromising their lofty fantasies. While we are meant to imagine the Eizouken as an immovable train far beyond the people around them, the Robotics Club emphasizes that anyone with imaginative dreams as the foundation of their life goals is going to feel strongly enough about their perspectives that they can be generally difficult to please.
The dissatisfaction that one Robotics Club member has for the lack of vision he has regarding the Eizouken’s anime ideas causes a temporary rift between the two clubs. But while it can be easy to chalk it up to this particular person being hard to deal with, he is on a similar wavelength with Asakusa and Mizusaki in being dreamers who want to create the fantastical structures and machinery they’ve seen in media they’ve grown up with. Because of this, the situation is quickly diffused when Asakusa and Mizusaki’s mutual breakdown cause the three to agree to collaborate as the Robotics Club is given further input on how the mecha planned for the “Robot vs. Crab Turtle” short that the Eizouken came up with.
What Episode 05 excels at capturing is different from past episodes in that it shows us the imaginative power of anime through more perspectives than just our three protagonists. As a result, it gives us an episode that centers around how creative thinkers with different paths are able to collaborate by combining their mutual philosophies to construct art together. The expanding roles and opportunities for the Eizouken give us a chance to see how they respond with other equally powerful imaginations causing the anime they create to shift based on mutual passions. And overall, it’s always a treat to see what magic and bloodshed come when you put multiple creative types in the same room.
For me, without question the best anime of this season. This episode simply cemented it. It simply makes me smile. Love how wacky it all is.
There is a fun atmosphere that helps bind together their efforts to find inspiration for potential anime.
The artstyle being simple and expressive gives characters like Asakusa enough funny faces/poses that make her almost as animated as the anime that exist in her imagination.
Not to mention some of the humorous touches like automatically diffusing the intimidating bottle rocket heading towards Asakusa by showing it thud against her head in the real world or having Mizusaki respond to the possibility of dying in the underground part of the school by having a halo & wings flash in-and-out.
That bit where Mizusaki said she used to practice Hadoken before bed totally killed me.
>As a result, it gives us an episode that centers around how creative thinkers with different paths are able to collaborate by combining their mutual philosophies to construct art together.<
And that's why i like and love this Anime. They have 2 creative "creation" thinkers and 1 that hold the feet on the ground for them. But this only works while all 3 trust each other
You can have dreams and such, but to bring them into reality money is the catalyst in our world. And that's why this "Money think" member is so important here, too
It is nice to see how much the anime pays mind to how valuable each of the three girls is in being able to have two imaginative creators in charge of the art and one clever producer that’s able to create realistic budgets and timing.
In this episode, it was nice to see that dynamic being similar to the Robotics Club as you have one ambitious member who spearheads their creative side as many of the other members are more fascinated with tinkering with the machinery and practical aspects of building robotics.
It gives off the feeling that having a group of likeminded creative types isn’t restricted to just animation, and acts as the foundation that binds any club/team together.
Yes. But as the Anime show it to us. Mutual Trust and understanding is a must. “blackmailing” and other stuff based on fear and pain, is not tolerable. She should not become a Editor that blackmail these 2 into producing stuff they do not like at all.
Like i can see here and there in the Manga world.. Someones feels like the Editor put a gun on the Manga-kas head to press one against their will