The main story of Eizouken ni wa Te wo Dasu na! is about making anime, and while the show doesn’t go into very technical detail, we get to see what equipment and techniques are being used to create scenery and basic animation like adding an extra frame and randomizing that frame to make an animation not noticeably loop, or adding particles to give the effect that there’s wind in the scene, or explosions sometimes require fewer animation frames to simulate an intense blast, and so on. If you’re curious about how animation works or if you’re an aspiring artist or animator, Eizouken ni wa Te wo Dasu na! may give you pointers on techniques you least expect, or it may refresh your knowledge from animation class or college.

There are a few anime series that are about anime production like Shirobako or something closely related like New Game!’s video game development, but Eizouken ni wa Te wo Dasu na! takes it a bit further by letting the audience see how amateur anime is made through the imaginative lenses of the main characters. Not only do we see how concept art and ideas are created, modified, or sometimes scrapped, we also get to see how Midori and Tsubame visualize their creations using their colorful imaginations. By visualizing an idea or concept, Midori can pick apart flaws like without a counter rotor, she will uncontrollably spin in her propeller skirt, for example. Explaining ideas through visualizations is a very creative way to see how animation works without boring the audience with tons of dialogue, and Eizouken ni wa Te wo Dasu na! is great at this.

Every episode of Eizouken ni wa Te wo Dasu na! feels like they have their own little adventures, from Midori, Tsubame and Sayaka evading their captors by riding a flying vehicle that looks like a giant dragonfly to repairing a spacecraft damaged by space debris and fighting a giant crab turtle with a giant robot. The endless possibilities and the magic of the human imagination inspire us to innovate, create, and entertain people and our little world called Earth. It’s the creative minds of us human beings that brought us from the stone age to the industrial age, then brought us to the moon, and eventually, like Midori’s many dreams—take us to the stars.