Trivia / Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken!

• Actor-Shared Background: While the Ambiguously Brown cast are only implied as mixed race, they're portrayed by mixed-race actresses in the live action adaptation, such as the Burmese Japanese Asuka Saito (Asakusa) and Ghanaian Japanese Ema Grace (Suwande).
• Approval of God:
  • The animation director of the OP has seen the memes that "Easy Breezy" has spawned, and has said he especially liked the Spongebob one.
  • The manga's author Sumito Ōwara also seems to quite appreciate the sheer amount of memes spawned from the anime adaptation, as well as various fanart of Eizouken, and regularly retweets them on his official Twitter.
• Creator's Favorite: Kanamori. Her face is currently Ōwara's official YouTube avatar, and he has a distinct soft spot for fanart of her, which he frequently shares on social media.
• The Danza: Two members of the Robot Club, Ono and Kobayashi, are respectively voiced by Yuki Ono and Yūsuke Kobayashi.
• Official Fan-Submitted Content: In 2018, Big Comic Spirits ran a contest among animation students to come up with a promotional video for the manga. In total, eight videos were accepted and put on Big Comics' official YouTube.
• The Red Stapler: Due to her massive popularity, Kanamori's backpack also got a lot of love from the fanbase. Cue tons of viewers clamoring to find it. Good news for them, since GoodSmile is selling merchandized versions of it on their online shop, though supplies seem limited.
• Referenced by...: Questionable Content: Beeps strikes a pose identical to one in the opening to Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken! complete with background pattern and color scheme. The page is even called Easy Breezy, the title of the theme song.
• Rule 34 – Creator Reactions: Shortly after the 2020 anime premiered, Sumito Ōwara made a post on Twitter expressing his disdain for people who draw porn of the comic's cast and asking that anyone who does decide to post it avoid using any tags relevant to the series, before telling dissenters to "go to Hell."
• Shrug of God: Sumito Ōwara's stance on the pairing of Kanamori and Asakusa seems rather ambiguous. On the one hand, he seems to retweet a great number of fanart depicting them together, and has himself drawn several pieces supporting the ship, implying that he doesn't deny the possibility. On the other, he has never outright confirmed it to be canon, despite the constant stream of questions coming from his audience.
• Technology Marches On: In the comic, Asakusa's love of anime was inspired by a show she once saw on TV, presumably cable television. In the anime, this is updated to her watching full anime episodes via an online streaming platform in the vein of YouTube Kids or Netflix^note while cable TV has yet to fully die out, it's definitely nowhere near as commonly used among younger audiences nowadays compared to streaming services; most people now only have the television on as background noise.
• Write What You Know:
  • According to a tweet from Ōwara (using Google Translate to write in English), the racially diverse setting of Shibahama was inspired by his own experiences attending a similarly diverse public elementary school and seeing how blurry the lines between different demographics were.
    Sumito Ōwara: I was attending a public elementary school. There were Japanese, Chinese, Koreans, Americans, Iranians, Brazilians, Egyptians, and Nigerians. Those are normal. And there were various skin colors, religions, and various names. I don't know nationality by name. I don't know nationality by skin color. Some Japanese have dark skin. Some Japanese have white skin. They were all unrelated to us, everyone was friends.
  • In a February 2020 interview with the news branch of Japanese media outlet Livedoor, Ōwara stated that the show's premise came from his own experiences as a member of his high school's motion picture club, having used drawing and his love of anime as a way to cope with the stress he felt from being unable to fit in and academically keep up with his peers as the result of living with a developmental disorder (specified on Twitter to be both autism and ADHD).

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