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Farafra
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They're going to find some reason to hate this show by the time it's over. Calling it right now.
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dm
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I suspect tsundere Luke is going to learn about romance along with Natsuko.
I’m also wondering if she’s going to return to her world to discover that Tale of Perishing is now hailed as a masterpiece of animation, thanks to it now having the scenes that she is creating. Plus, there’s bound to be a disaster when a second Void attack follows on the heels of another, with Natsuko still unconscious in recovery mode. |
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Blood-
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An isekai that does not suck... what a concept. Good review by Caitlin. I appreciate her highlighting certain references that I am not familiar with.
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Joe Mello
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Me, sitting in front of a bookshelf that contains 6 volumes of Vision of Escaflowne manga: Gee, I wonder what series Hitomi was from x_x
Assuming that they come back to the initial conflict, my first instinct was to think of Makoto Shinkai and Mamoru Hosoda, whose works in the genre aren't necessarily "grounded." I don't know if Zenshu will directly crib from them but, with Natsuko already showed to have been sort of divorced from the real world, I can easily imagine the central lesson involving her embracing the unreality of animation in some way. |
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michizure
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Realizing that both Japanese grammar and non-human physiology are somewhat gender-fluid, isn't Unio a "her"? When Natsuko flashes back to the game and Unio's death, the pink-haired, humanoid figure Luke is holding in the image clearly presents as female. |
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ScottWired
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Zenshuu is the story of an anime director ruining a dark cult classic film by drawing things from cooler series I could be watching instead. I was so excited for a Kugimiya Rie mascot character to die and she robbed me of that.
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garfield15
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I'm realizing the problem with modern isekai is that so so many of them are webnovel/light novel based. Those have different rules for success and 'quality' to keep it running. Something like Zenshu which is anime-original needs to do 'something' to stand out from the rest of the pack and going more old-school in its design (even down to its literal design) and being a love letter to older anime seems to be it. This is also how I feel about that Red Ranger isekai. That's actuallly a manga so that's why there are aspects of it that feel more unique than the usual fare. |
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MagicConan14
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Something Caitlin missed which tends to come up in discussion of these first 2 episodes is how the sukeban girl from episode 1 - the one that catapulted Natsuko to fame in the first place - is a mash-up of Sailor Moon and Sukeban Deka. They even managed to get Kotono Mitsuishi, Sailor Moon/Usagi's voice actor, to do her voice.
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Covnam
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Oh, Itano Circus, so that's what that's called
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dreamingsamurai
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I'm also curious as to showing that clam bento having an expiration date of 2019-09-13. Other than setting this in the past, I wonder if that date has any significance.
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TJ_Kat
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I loved that we didn't even get a look at Natsuko's face until 20 minutes into the first episode. I'm not sure what I was expecting, but I was surprised by just how over-the-top cute they made her.
To me, Tale of Perishing reminded me of the butchered original English adaptation of Nausicaa, Warriors of the Wind. And that was before Natsuko drew the God Warrior scene. I'm sorry Hayao Miyazaki, but 5 year old me LOVED that version of the movie and watched it over and over and over again. Decades later I still remember it fondly even knowing what was done to it. |
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meiam
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I can forgive episode 1 for just having her draw a random monster and win, you gotta cram a lot in 20 minutes, but I was hoping from then on there would be more to it. Like she know whats going to happen, but she couldn't just summon random creature every time, she would need to properly create a setup for her to be able to summon the creature. Trough this you could explore a bit more about what goes on into making an anime/storyboard/plot and such from the production side of it.
As is, there's not much to it, the only limit on her power is that she can't draw the same thing twice, which is trivially easy to overcome, and that she doesn't control when she can draw, which is very arbitrary and would lead to pretty lame defeat. Anyway, its starting to seem like the big draw of the series is supposed to be a love story between her and Luke, which, I don't really care for tbh, so hope I'm wrong there. |
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