Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken! UK Blu-ray Release Details

Date: 2025 August 06 17:48

Posted by Joe

The good folks from Anime Limited have announced the UK Blu-ray release details for Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken!. The much loved fan favourite tells the story of a group of girls ganging together to produce anime at a school club. The tale features lots of references to other anime and takes you on a voyage pre-production of imagination along the way.

From director Masaaki Yuasa (The Night is short, Walk on Girl, Lu Over The Wall, and so much more) this Science SARU production (the studio that brought you Dan Da Dan), is a love letter to anime and explains how anime is produced along with tricks of the trade. It's also noted for it's extremely catchy opening theme Easy Breezy.

Anime Limited will be releasing two editions of the series a collectors edition with all the goodies you've come to expect, along with a regular edition if you just want the anime. The Collectors Edition, has episodes 1-12 on two Blu-ray discs, with both the sub and dub versions available. It'll be housed in a shoebox style box, just like original Japanese Blu-ray box set release. It'll also include a 132-page storyboard book, a 60-page production book filled with character and episodic artwork design, plus an interview with director Masaaki Yuasa, two double sided A3 posters, and a series of four art cards. Along with, a replica of the milk bottle from the series, milk is not included, so lactose intolerant can enjoy the set. This big collectors edition will retail for £119.99, but if you pre-order it you can save £30 and get it for £89.99 instead.

The regular edition which includes episodes in a blu-ray case will retail for £39.99 and you can buy it for £29.99 if you pre-order it.

Pre-orders will open on Thursday 7th August 2025 with the sets due to ship on Monday 17th November 2025.

This show has been one of our favourites from the last few years, it's fun, it's silly and it really does capture the passion of enjoying anime.

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As from Anime Limited's Newswire August 2025 Pre-orders

Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken! Collector's Edition

We start the month with one very special project we've been beavering away on for a while now, and finally it's ready to reveal to the world! The easy, breezy types that we are, we're all huge fans of Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken here in the office, and so ever since we nabbed the rights to release the series on home video in the UK we were determined to do something special, and here's the result...


"What's in the boooooox?" we hear you cry! We'll get to that in just a moment, but first here's a synopsis in case you've missed out on this terrific series before:

"Midori Asakusa is obsessed with animation, but while she spends hours doodling and coming up with amazing ideas, she knows that it'll be difficult to produce animated films on her own. Fortunately, Sayaka Kanamori is more into planning and finances, and she's been thinking of ways to turn Midori's ideas into something practical and profitable. That's what friends are for, right? Still, for all their hopes and wishes, their future as the next animation wunderkinds is looking rather sketchy... until they meet Tsubame Mizusaki, who daydreams about becoming an animator, even though her parents have forbidden her from joining their school's anime club. Solution: form a new club focused on "motion pictures" and let the creativity flow! It won't always be easy, but once everyone's in "toon" together, who knows what might happen!"

Now, let's delve into that big ol' box...


We should probably begin with our starting point for our plans here, which was a deep love for the original Japanese Blu-ray box set and everything contained within us, which in turn brought about a deep desire to replicate it as closely as possible. So that's what we did! The box in question is a shoebox style, with dimensions of approximately 18.3 x 14 x 10cm if you're curious.

But where to start on the contents of this fittingly comprehensive release? Maybe it should be the double-sided A3 poster? Or maybe the fact that one double-sided poster wasn't enough, and so we added in a second A3 poster for good measure?

Maybe it's the 132-page storyboard book taking you through the storyboards for both the first episode of series and its iconic opening credits?

Maybe we should start by talking about the fact that one book wasn't enough, and how we added an additional 60-page production book packed to the gills (if books had gills, anyway) with information and designs for the characters and the contents of every single episode, topped off with an interview with director Masaaki Yuasa?

We could start with the set of four art cards included in the release, but then again maybe we should talk about the most audacious addition of all, a replica milk bottle from the series so that you can enjoy your very-own refreshing post-bath drink. *

*Milk not included

Or, we could talk about the inclusion of the entire series across two Blu-ray discs, stored within an Amaray case... although we'd hope that part is a given.

Anyway, this a release we're incredibly proud of, and fully deserving of a show that excels in putting across the beauty, hard and work and ingenious creativity of the animation business in a fun package, and (in spite of what the title might suggest) we can't wait for you to get your hands on it. Pre-orders open on Thursday 7th of August, so prepare yourselves - given the price point of this release we'll be running a longer Early Bird period to give you more time to get your order in prior to its November release.

Of course, if you'd rather keep things simple, then the series will also be available on Standard Edition Blu-ray for your enjoyment too!


Product: Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken Collector's Edition Blu-ray
Release date: Monday 17th November
SRP: £119.99
Pre-orders open: Thursday 7th August

Product: Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken Blu-ray Standard Edition
Release date: Monday 17th November
SRP: £39.99
Pre-orders open: Thursday 7th August