Studio Mappa’s Anime About Making Anime Is Amazingly Refreshing Isekai

A new year means a new season of anime for fans to add to their weekly rotation or add to it an ever-increasing pile of leftovers that he swears that he will arrive any day now. Although 2025 will see a battle between the de facto anime juggernaut Crunchyroll and the rising star Netflix, the former has only released anime from. Jujutsu Kaisen and Attack on Titan studio Mappa that threw anime fans to have its first episode.

Before it was released, Zenshua clever play on the Japanese word for “full collection” or “full service,” caught the attention of anime fans with its marketing ideas about creating anime from tired cartoons. Although this is not the first time that anime has pulled back the curtain and created a masterpiece (see Keep Your Hands On Eizouken, Blue timeand Look Back), Zenshu He got people’s attention because he was a Mappa anime. As mentioned before, Mappa is well known as a visual anime studio, and its extensive portfolio includes some of the most popular shonen anime. It is also a studio with similar contentions on the internet about repeated incidents of employee violations to bring his most respected anime to the door. Mappa making anime about the difficulties of animation should be fun regardless. However, ZenshuThe first episode confused fans at the beginning, revealing that it is an anime isekai.

I’m sorry is a fantasy genre of anime that has quickly turned into an easy pocket for anime fans thanks to the medium’s proliferation over the past decade. Although there are some standouts in shows like Re: Zero and Reincarnation of No Useisekai shows tend to be based on the fantasy power of anime about social media in the everyday world finding a second chance at life in a fantasy world with divine power. And while there’s nothing wrong with watching something that stimulates the brain like a frosted sugar cake, fans don’t expect Mappa to take the isekai route. Zenshu. However, Mappa finds something new in his isekai style with them Zenshu the first part.

He just caused heartache for everyone who loves isekai😭 pic.twitter.com/SDasgvZEN3

— Brandon Varnell (@BrandonBVarnell) January 6, 2025

Zenshu follows a woman named Natsuko Hirose who goes from being an illustrator who has just graduated from high school to becoming a generation-defining anime creator. His performance makes him lead a romantic comedy film with the same spirit as a director Makoto Shinkai Your name or Mamoru Hosoda’s The Girl Who Always Jumped. However, Natsuko struggles to deal with this idea, as she has never felt the joy of first love. He doesn’t help his situation by repeating the great drawings and essays his assistants have written, and he insists on letting his messy hair grow out of control until the job is done. After investigating the destruction on social media, Natsuko discovers that the director who had the most trouble (and the anime that made her love the job so much) has passed away. That’s when Natsuko accidentally chokes on her food, dies, and enters the fantasy world of anime.

Natsuko quickly blurts out that she’s been sekai’d and complains that this only happens to people who have no business before realizing that she can recreate the entire scene of the tragic tale to save her heroes from destruction. This power is reflected in his magic wand, which is like a purple crayon inside Harold and the Purple Crayon (or a piece of chalk from Nickelodeon’s ChalkZone for good children). His first step was to draw a very impressive kaiju with genga and settei markings that easily formed with every movement of his body; he gets a bunch of cool points for one-on-one shooting pointers Neon Genesis Evangelion‘s Hideaki Anno‘s animation cut from Hayao MiyazakiA 1984 Studio Ghibli fantasy film Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind
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Nausicaa / Zenshu ep 1.
Hideaki Anno’s unique concept 🥲 https://t.co/1eQji1E0SL pic.twitter.com/DzD4xeeFp5

– Catsuka (@catsuka) January 7, 2025

Although isekai is a well-trodden genre of anime, ZenshuThe first episode of the anime is standing up as one of the most impressive anime the industry has produced in years. His comedic elements are very interesting in the genre as he uses his uncritical ability to analyze fiction and reality in a refreshingly fictional way. Although it is still too early to tell if Zenshu will be for animation Look Back and One-Part Love Letter it was about the anime group last year, it leaves the first impression that it can have the opportunity to provide an interesting isekai while providing information about animation from one of the leading studios in the market.

New information about Zenshu airing every Sunday on Crunchyroll.

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