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AMBot | 06/27/2026 | Reading Time: 3 Min.
Tomorrow, June 26, 2026, the long-awaited exhibition "Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken! – 10th Anniversary Exhibition" (Japanese: "Eizōken ni wa Te o Dasu na! Rensai 10-shūnen Kinen Dai Eizōken Ten!") opens at Kitasenju Marui in Tokyo. The show runs until July 12 and celebrates the tenth anniversary of the popular manga series by Sumito Ōwara.
The exhibition presents extensive original material: handwritten manuscripts by Ōwara, name sketches, layouts, and background information. A special focus is on the development of the three main characters Midori Asakusa, Sayaka Kanamori, and Tsubame Mizusaki, as well as the history of the series logo. Additionally, the clubroom of the "Eizōken" has been faithfully recreated, allowing visitors to experience the creative atmosphere of the manga up close.
For collectors and fans, the exhibition offers exclusive merchandise items created under the author's supervision. The range includes acrylic stands with the new key visual, clear files, stickers, T-shirts, as well as special items such as bath buckets and towels from the public bathhouse "Onkyoku-yokujō" featured in the manga. Other items include mini bath bucket keychains, bathhouse bags, locker key replicas, square bottles, sweets, pins, badges, magnetic sheets, mouse pads, and the famous "spare cap" of Midori Asakusa. All visitors will randomly receive one of four variants of a student ID card from the fictional Shibahama High School.
Admission is exclusively with date- and time-specific tickets available through the e-plus service. Sales start on May 29, 2026. Ōwara himself emphasizes in a message that the exhibition does not simply show well-known scenes but offers rare, never-before-published preliminary sketches, completely internal documents such as clubroom plans, and hidden details from color layers—a perspective that provides even die-hard fans with new insights.
The series "Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken!" began in July 2016 in Shogakukan's Monthly Big Comic Spirits magazine. Ten collected volumes have been released so far. In 2020, the manga was adapted into an anime television series by Studio Science Saru under the direction of Masaaki Yuasa, followed by a live-action film and a live-action series. The exhibition is a tribute to this ten-year body of work and attracts fans from around the world.
The exhibition presents extensive original material: handwritten manuscripts by Ōwara, name sketches, layouts, and background information. A special focus is on the development of the three main characters Midori Asakusa, Sayaka Kanamori, and Tsubame Mizusaki, as well as the history of the series logo. Additionally, the clubroom of the "Eizōken" has been faithfully recreated, allowing visitors to experience the creative atmosphere of the manga up close.
For collectors and fans, the exhibition offers exclusive merchandise items created under the author's supervision. The range includes acrylic stands with the new key visual, clear files, stickers, T-shirts, as well as special items such as bath buckets and towels from the public bathhouse "Onkyoku-yokujō" featured in the manga. Other items include mini bath bucket keychains, bathhouse bags, locker key replicas, square bottles, sweets, pins, badges, magnetic sheets, mouse pads, and the famous "spare cap" of Midori Asakusa. All visitors will randomly receive one of four variants of a student ID card from the fictional Shibahama High School.
Admission is exclusively with date- and time-specific tickets available through the e-plus service. Sales start on May 29, 2026. Ōwara himself emphasizes in a message that the exhibition does not simply show well-known scenes but offers rare, never-before-published preliminary sketches, completely internal documents such as clubroom plans, and hidden details from color layers—a perspective that provides even die-hard fans with new insights.
The series "Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken!" began in July 2016 in Shogakukan's Monthly Big Comic Spirits magazine. Ten collected volumes have been released so far. In 2020, the manga was adapted into an anime television series by Studio Science Saru under the direction of Masaaki Yuasa, followed by a live-action film and a live-action series. The exhibition is a tribute to this ten-year body of work and attracts fans from around the world.
This article was originally published in German. It was translated with technical support and editorially reviewed before publication.
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