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Edjwald
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Zenshu (TV) Source: Original Demographic: Animation Studio: MAPPA Genres: action, adventure, comedy, drama, fantasy Themes: entertainment industry, isekai, magical creatures, magical items, medieval, monsters, reincarnation, sorcery, superpowers Plot Summary: After graduating from high school, Natsuko Hirose starts her career as an animator. Her talent quickly flourishes, and she makes her debut as a director in no time. Her first anime becomes a massive hit, sparking a social phenomenon and earning her recognition as an up-and-coming genius director. Her next project is set to be a romantic comedy movie themed around first love. However, having never been in love herself, Natsuko struggles to understand the concept of first love, and as a result, she's unable to create the storyboard, causing the movie production to come to a standstill. Air Date & Platform: January 05, 2025 (Sunday) Available on: Crunchyroll Episode Count / Runtime: Pending [EDIT: Added fancy opener stuff. -TK] |
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Edjwald
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Yeeha! It's an isekai! :::::runs out and opens the back screen door of the porch before yelling some more :::: It's an original, well done isekai!
I didn't know what to expect from this show...I thought it was going to be some artsy fartsy rumination about art and the transformative power of imagination, and I guess it is because IT'S AN ISEKAI! And you know, I'm okay with truck kun and adventure guilds and stat screens and so on if the anime has some other stuff going for it, but by God it's nice to see an anime taking a fresh approach. It's been so long (sob). Do you hear me Grimgar of Fantasy and Ash? Do you hear me Saga of Tanya the Evil? Pretty well drawn and animated too....did I mention this anime is an isekai? |
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Beltane70
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Sounds to be an isekai along the lines of 1982's TRON.
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Blood-
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Episode 1
In retrospect, it's kind of shocking no animators have made an animator the hero of an isekai before. Betcha there is a ton of animators who found out about this and went, "D'oh! Why didn't I think of that???" I give the show big points for not using a Medieval Generica setting. This isekai does feel somewhat fresh and non-cookie cutter. I liked it and yet there is something that's leaving me a bit cold and I'm not exactly sure what it is. The protog isn't particularly likeable or engaging, imo. But the show did more than enough to keep me checking out some more. |
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Edjwald
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@Blood You know, I've been squeezing my before-coffee (it's cooking as I type) morning brain like a grapefruit trying to think of an anime where an anime/manga/light novel creative type crossed over to another world, and the closest I can think of is the reverse scenario in Re:creators where fictional characters came alive in our world.
And what's even crazier is that Korean web novels are full of examples where authors or editors got drawn into their own worlds. One popular scenario is that a god was one of their readers and got pissed at them for missing deadlines or because a favorite character died or whatever, and poof! An even more popular scenario is that a reader criticizes a web novelist, not realizing that said novelist is a deity just messing around in their spare time. Anyway, ideas get kicked back and forth between Korean and Chinese and Japanese web novels like a red recess ball, so it's really surprising that no anime has mined that vein yet. I also know what you mean about the feeling of slight emotional distance. It might be as simple as the fact that the closed off protagonist literally went around like cousin It in a hoody for 97% of the episode. She's not only being unhygienic, it's symbolic, telling the rest of the world to keep out. It's hard to bond with a character looking like that. |
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smurky turkey
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It does make for a good start with the mc probably being forced to change atleast a little bit sooner or later. But yeah, a fresh feeling isekai with good production values is not something you get all that often anymore. I also find the world really interesting in that it reminds me a bit of QA in Another World due to how broken and not logical it is. Finally, I wonder how it will end, will Natsuko change the world enough that she is happy with the result and resurrect somehow (she is dead right?) to then make a successful movie?
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Blood-
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I'm reminded of No Longer Allowed in Another World, a show from this past summer. The protag was an real historically famous author who got the isekai treatment. One of his super powers involved a story-telling skill that could defeat foes. It's based on a manga that first came out two years ago so I wonder if it was an influence on this anime original idea.
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dm
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Episode 2
spoiler["No stock footage! You can't use something you've drawn before!"] Thinks.... thinks.... (the audience has probably already figured out what is coming). spoiler[Itano circus!] I love the opening animation. It's probably something I won't be skipping as the series goes on. Wasn't there something in the pre-release materials about how Hirose's working on a romance, but has never really had a romance, so she was really struggling with the storyboards and the script? I haven't picked that up from what we've seen so far, but if that's the back-story, well, Luke is right there, girl, in full tsundere glory. As to creators being involved in the story, maybe Re:Creators, even though that is a case of the characters being brought into our world, it's still a matter of the creators coming up with something that meets the challenge. That series, however, has a big audience-participation element: the creators are constrained by audience acceptance and approval of the way they power-up the characters. I wonder if Hirose will return to a reality in which A tale of perishing is a triumphant work of the animator's art instead of being the forgotten work it is in the reality she left. |
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Yttrbio
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I'm trying to join the lovefest, but at its core it still feels like just another power fantasy isekai show. In some ways even more indulgent than usual because instead of being granted magical BS, the skill she already has generates it. But I tend find the whole "art is magic" thing to be silly in general.
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Well, I'm definitely warming up to this. Gee, can you tell the creators of this are women? I laughed at Sexist Luke's diatribe knowing that he was gonna have to eat crow. Man, TWO good isekai in the same season (this and Red Ranger)??? My tankard floweth over...
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Edjwald
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@yttrbio - It's true, I, for one, may be over-reacting because the standard isekai has become so standard that any deviations seem refreshing. Depending on whether the isekai go the born as a youngin' or waking up in a forest route, the steps are basically laid out. Discover status screen. Kill horned rabbit or wolf. Go to adventure guild. Meet friendly, pretty receptionist. Go to inn with the friendly, plump widow and the cute young daughter. The only question is when the MC is going to meet the pretty young adventurer(s) who are going to be their first party member. Will the MC rescue them in the forest or from bandits on the way to town? At the guild? In an alley attack? At the inn? In their first dungeon? .
The MC also isn't the typical nice person Gary Sue or Mary Sue that winds up in isekai, universally adored because of how they don't abuse their OPness in a world full or cruel nobles and ruthless mercenary types. Luke's a nice deviation from the norm romantic lead too. So maybe some of the broad lines are familiar, but loving isekai and waiting for shows to break the mold has felt a little like being a Chicago Cubs fan prior to 2016. It's enough for me. |
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all-tsun-and-no-dere
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The Dark History of the Reincarnated Villainess has the main character reincarnated into the story she wrote when she was 12! |
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Edjwald
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I just googled it, and it sounds like it's going to premiere later this year? Thanks much for the info. I read a lot of Korean and Chinese web novels, but I stopped reading Japanese light novels and manga because I figured out I enjoyed reading the light novels and such after watching the anime more than I enjoyed watching anime after reading light novels. |
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