The Easy Breezy Weekly Fan Newsletter Issue #1

This post is written by committee for the Easy Breezy Fan Club. We hope you enjoy!

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The new TV anime project from Masaaki Yuasa-san has finally arrived and it's as great as we'd hoped! Episode one was an exciting introduction to the characters, their motives and their interests. Here is an introduction and our thoughts on them:

• Midori Asakusa: Otaku-type. Specific interest in architecture, mechanical design and town planning. Small in stature and ego but highly passionate and eccentric about her interests. Kami-nihilist and mad scientist type.
• Sayaka Kanamori: Producer-type. Utilitarian minded with an eye for financial gain and project management. Awkward in stature but not timid, she has a hidden drive and disingenuous facade. Statistician and autist-wrangler type.
• Tsubame Mizusaki: Beauty-type. Upper class girl with a talent for human-form artistry. Attractive style and with a extroverted but open heart. Rebellious princess and repressed otaku type.

The OP is so catchy! I can't get it out of my head.

Tsubame-chan is my favourite. Her distinctive Yuasa-san style character design and ojou-sama archetype appeal to me a lot, she looks just like Yuasa-san's version of Miki-chan from Devilman! Midori-chan is the most relatable and as such acts as my main character, as I would guess was intended. However Kanamori-shi is the clear fan favourite! Her design is unique and striking, and as such allow for some fun poses. Her style is not my type, but I think she is a fun character that bounces off Midori very well. Her accent and verbal ticks feed into her moe appeal. All the voice actors are also refreshing, some voices you don't normally hear in anime.

The characters are all distinctive and have distinctive silhouetting, well done character designer Asano Naoyuki-san. With such talent on board I'm not even surprised the show is so good.

I want to join the Robot club! Cute zeon-type monoeye model in the background too.

My favourite part of the show so far is the setting design. The architectural design is dynamic yet consistent, fantastic but grounded. The juxtaposition of old and new architecture is usually an emergent phenomena in town design, with Japan's crowded cities and relaxed building restrictions being the perfect petri-dish for such seemingly bizarre hodgepodged constructions as shown in the show. It's Midori-chan's eye for such things and her ability to see the abnormal which intrigues me. Most people would think twice about the clock that cannot be seen for example. The city is built like a labyrinthine mansion, which is surely the best setting possible! I hope and trust we will see more intricate and clever setting design over the series.

We also got this nice end illustration from Aoki Toshinao-san of the girls in the style of his characters from (the excellent) Hisone & Maso-tan. Hopefully we get more art like this every episode.

Where will the story go from here? We here at the club are sure it must lead to the girls making their own anime, or so it seems. They will have to create a new school club (Eizouken) since Tsubame-chan cannot join the anime club, and with the girls working together as setting artist, character artist and producer we're sure it'll work out. They're just like Anno-san, Akai-san and Yamaga-san!

We here at the Easy Breezy Fan Club sure are excited to see what is coming up and will be sure to release issue #2 when the next episode comes out! Faito Yuasa-sama! Faito Eizouken!