Just when I think the anime has already stagnated or has no ideas, suddenly Zenshu appears and tells us “this seems like you’ve already seen it, but no.” Why am I telling you this? Well, the story is really off base.
The premise of Zenshu is something you don’t expect, because everything starts off very nice. An entertainer who found success and now lives under the same stress as a person who has to deliver results to an employer because expectations of them are too high.
It is easy to think that we are going to see a tragic series of someone who must work as if there were no tomorrow and thus continue fulfilling the dream of working in one of the most demanding training industries in the world. But what if she gets gastroenteritis that sends her to the canvas and leaves her out of action for eating something she shouldn’t have?
Well, everything that follows is a real bad trip that seems to have no reason and that you will end up hooked on because you want to know what the hell happened. It is one of those mysteries that can only be conceived in the mind of an otaku and that come true in an anime.
Extreme stress like that of any person
Natsuko Hirose is a girl with all the talent in the world. She started as a basic cheerleader, she grew, she became successful. Let’s say that he became a kind of prodigy in the anime business to such a level that he was already commissioned to direct a film and well, that job is not easy at all.
Well, Zenshu shows Natsuko working on the storyboard of an animation trailer and you start to worry because it seems that the delivery date is already very close and it is not going to be easy to complete the work.
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Add to that the fact that Natsuko behaves like that boss who tells you that you did everything wrong and doesn’t tell you where. Technically, the “figure out on your own” applies to you and the level of demand is out of the question. Now, you probably think that Zenshu is going to follow that path of the drama of a cheerleader who fails to complete her job and someone changes her life.
Well, in this case, we talk about how this is a very particular Isekai and the way we get to it is through food. Yes, it’s not that “truck kun” did his thing or ran over someone. It was food poisoning and what follows is one of those moments that make you think “who the hell came up with this premise.”
The premise of an Isekai that gets out of control
Well, like a good Isekai, Zenshu takes us to another world. Natsuko realizes that it is the same world of an animation that she knows because she identifies all the characters in the story. The thing is, you don’t realize what’s happening until you’re more than just a spectator.
When Natsuko is a participant in everything that happens during the story, she realizes that she must do something or act in a way that changes the course of things. The premise up to this point sounds like bread and butter, it’s not that outstanding, the thing is that she does want the story she’s watching to change because she knows that the consequences will be expensive for the characters.
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But how is Natsuko going to do it? Well, the thing “is not that simple” but that is when the power of animation does its job. You have to give it to the protagonist. This is where that “key art” on the cover of the animation makes sense.
It happens that Natsuko is accompanied by a power strip that talks to her and asks her to save those characters that may be going through a catastrophe and, since she is an animator, she finally started drawing as if there were no tomorrow and manages to create something. . The thing is that it looks like a sketch of an animation, not a complete work and that’s where everything makes sense.
The idea of Zenshu is really crazy and we will have to give it a chance
I must be honest, the charm of Zenshu lies a bit in the illogicality of its premise. We’ve already seen a school girl who turned into a spider, a boy who ended up in a video game and almost died. Come on, we won’t lack examples. The point is that Natsuko is good at drawing and it seems that Isekai will be that engine that serves as inspiration and growth.
Many times we think that the joke here is that the characters gain powers and become all broken. But they must learn something along the way. Be better human beings, believe in yourself, not be so harsh and from there your development becomes much more coherent. More or less it seems that this is how Zenshu will be, but there is still a long way to go.
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