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EP. REVIEW: ZENSHU.




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Farafra



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PostPosted: Tue Jan 14, 2025 12:51 pm Reply with quote
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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PostPosted: Tue Jan 14, 2025 2:17 pm Reply with quote
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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PostPosted: Tue Jan 14, 2025 2:29 pm Reply with quote
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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PostPosted: Tue Jan 14, 2025 3:20 pm Reply with quote
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

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One thing I'm curious about is how it's all going to connect back to the initial conflict: Natsuko's difficulty with directing a grounded high school romance.

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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Unio sacrificing himself by performing a self-destruct spell.

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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PostPosted: Tue Jan 14, 2025 6:57 pm Reply with quote
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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PostPosted: Tue Jan 14, 2025 7:06 pm Reply with quote
Blood- wrote:
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.


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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PostPosted: Tue Jan 14, 2025 7:52 pm Reply with quote
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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PostPosted: Tue Jan 14, 2025 10:36 pm Reply with quote
Oh, Itano Circus, so that's what that's called Laughing
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dreamingsamurai



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PostPosted: Wed Jan 15, 2025 2:36 am Reply with quote
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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