The best anime of 2020 – Looper

Masaaki Yuasa's Japan Sinks: 2020might've been a letdown, but the director also oversaw one of 2020's success stories, the delightfully addictive and highly memedKeep Your Hands Off Eizouken!Based on the manga bySumito Owara, it's the story of three female students and their passion project. When main protagonist Midori Asakusa, a talented artist with a boundless imagination and a knack for drawing incredible landscapes, meets a young model named Tsubame Mizusaki, an equally talented artist who prefers drawing the human form, sparks fly. Seeing a business opportunity, Asakusa'sinfinitely more sensible best friend, Sayaka Kanamori, suggests that they team up and create their very own anime.Their school already has an anime club, however, so the girls decide to start a motion picture club ("Eizouken" in Japanese) as cover for their ambitious project.

From its catchy opening song (getting "Easy Breezy" by rap duo Chelmico out of your head is a legitimate challenge) to the free-flowing animation from the team at Yuasa's studioScience SARU, this show is 12 episodes of unbridled joy. "There are a few anime that pop-up every few years that are life affirmingly wonderful, and Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken! is definitely one of them," Forbessaid in its review, calling the series"a love letter to anime as a whole" on account of Midori's obsession withFuture Boy Conan,aseminal early series from Studio Ghibli co-founder Hayao Miyazaki.

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The best anime of 2020 - Looper