Mizusaki Tsubame

Unnamed Grandmother

**Mizusaki Tsubame** (水崎ツバメ) is one of the main protagonists of *Eizouken ni wa Te wo Dasu na!*, together with her friend Kanamori Sayaka she joins with Asakusa Midori with the goal of creating an anime.

Her role in the Motion Picture Club is animator.

## Personality

Forward when speaking with others, Tsubame expresses her views freely. With wealthy parents she has little concept of money when suggesting financial matters.

Free spirited, she enjoys climbing high places thinking little of others reactions. Tsubame is very observant, particularly in matters relating to movement and in small details, which she channels into her animation. As she is more strong-willed than Asakusa, she tends to butt heads more with Kanamori due to their differing priorities in what matters in animation, but recognizes the importance of compromise for the sake of the project and efficiency.

As a model and performer, she is shown to be capable of putting up a front of professionalism and being approachable, something which is described as being her "model mode."

### Official Bio

*Asakusa’s classmate who is a charismatic amateur model and is famous in the school. She is expected to be an actress in the future as both of her parents are actors, but she actually wants to be an animator and is especially good at capturing motion of characters. As Mizusaki has been banned from joining Anime Club by her parents, she joins Eizoken instead and starts to create anime together with Asakusa and Kanamori. She has different sense of money from two of them as she comes from a rich family.*

## Appearance

Mizusaki is of average height and has reddish-brown colored hair sharply cut at chin length and parted on the left side of her head, with two prominent strands appearing behind her ears. Her brown eyes are framed by thick, short eyebrows.

Mizusaki wears the general school uniform which consists of a white school shirt, a blue blazer, and a navy blue skirt. Additionally, she wears a teal tie, black knee socks, and brown shoes.

## Story

Joining the anime presentation, Mizusaki recognises Asakusa from her year. Being followed by suited men she asks for and takes Asakusa's hat.

Tracked down by people who turn out to be servants, Mizusaki is 'rescued' by Asakusa and Kanamori where they head to a laundromat for Mizusaki to dry her clothes. She is unable to join the anime club with Asakusa upon Kanamori's suggestion since her parent's will not allow her to join any clubs, so joins in creating their own.

She leaves abruptly remembering that Inoue is releasing a new anime soon.

With Asakusa and Kanamori, Mizusaki is in the staff room as they discuss with Mr. Yokota on forming a new club. With Mr. Fujimoto, Mizusaki makes her way to the new area for club activities. She wonders aloud whether they can install floor heating, and a theatre room into the warehouse.

Mizusaki practically considers the need to work in digital if they are going to screen their works.

## Relationships

### Asakusa Midori

Tsubame could recognize Asakusa as a student from her year and at once propositioned Midori for her hat to disguise herself with. The two tend to get along quite easily and become fast friends due to their shared passions and similar creative spirits. Both their creative abilities seem to compliment the other's in terms of anime production, as Asakusa tends to be more focused in world-building, particularly in designing mechanism and buildings, as well as story, while struggling with character animation. Meanwhile, Tsubame is more skilled with character animation but has less experience with world-building. Of the members of the film research club, Tsubame is often the first person to to join in on Asakusa's flights of fancy, as they both share a childish, impulsive and imaginative nature.

For her part, Asakusa tends to have to reign in or explain things Tsubame when she meddles in things she is unfamiliar with due to her naivete (caused by her privileged upbringing).

Together they strive towards the same goal; creating an anime.

### Kanamori Sayaka

Their differing personalities and priorities sometimes leads them to butt heads, but they generally get along and work to find compromise for the sake of the project, and they respect the other's abilities and the work they do for the club.

Tsubame's interest is attentive character acting in her animation sometimes clashes with Sayaka's more pragmatic and marketing-orientated understanding of animation, usually insisting on more flashy appeal and means to cut down on time spent animating. Additionally, Tsubame tends to be uncomfortable when Sayaka wishes to use her fame as a model to promote the club's projects, but usually concedes, recognizing the importance of getting more eyes on their anime by any means (so long as the animation remains the focus). In turn, Kanamori works to compromise in these matters and tries to give Tsubame the freedom to animate as she wishes and doesn't force her to act as the face of the club beyond what she deems as absolutely necessary.

### Tsubame's Parents

She refers to them as movie stars and that they nag her to follow in their footsteps. When her parents were first shown, she purposefully avoided them knowing they would criticize her career choice and would remove her from the film club. After the robot anime was shown, her parents finally accepted her wish after noting how much passion and effort she put into the production of the anime, especially taking note of Tsubame's idiosyncrasies, acting skill and attention to detail in terms of movement expressed in the anime.

## References

1. ↑ Mizusaki Tsubame character bio
2. ↑ https://twitter.com/dennou319/status/1217462506722955264