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Zenshuu.
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. (Source: MAPPA)
Mitsue YamazakiOriginal Creator
Kimiko UenoOriginal Creator
Yoshiteru TsujinoOriginal Character DesignMitsue YamazakiDirector
Sumie NoroAssistant Director
Kayoko IshikawaCharacter Design
Akio ShimadaArt DirectorYoshiteru TsujinoWorld DesignJunko SuenagaColor Design
Kenta FujitaDirector of PhotographyMutsumi TakemiyaEditing
Yukari HashimotoMusic
Natsuko HiroseAnna Nagase
Luke BraveheartKazuki Ura
Dansei Seisaku ShinkouYoshinori Nakayama
Choujitsuzai ExisterMamoru Miyano
Veteran EnshutsuMasashi Yamane
JusticeRomi Park
UnioRie Kugimiya
Josei Seisaku ShinkouHina Sakurai
Midori IchihashiKanon Takao
MemmelnMinori Suzuki
Shuu NinomiyaHiro Shimono
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An absolute love letter to the cheesiest corniest most beloved beautiful story telling tropes and beats in all of anime. One of the best anime original anime I've ever seen and one of the best anime I've seen in a good while. Solid 9/10. It would have been a 10/10 Masterpiece it played the story too…
Read full review on AniList →__Animation/Visual style__ As expected since MAPPA is working on Zenshuu the animation is extremely fluid and several creative shots make good use of the team’s skills. The combat animation is very cool and even the sketches and paper creatures look great. There's not much to say here besides top-c…
Read full review on AniList →Warning: This review spoils ZENSHU extensively. To spoiler tag everything would be a fruitless exercise and turn this into a mess. This review is part review and part rambling analysis of an anime I was shocked to adore as much as I did. Anton Ego’s ‘The Critic’ Speech from Pixar’s Ratatouille is…
Read full review on AniList →# ~~~____My Review of "ZENSHU"!____~~~ ~~~img420(https://imgsrv.crunchyroll.com/cdn-cgi/image/fit=contain,format=auto,quality=85,width=1200,height=675/catalog/crunchyroll/33e6a8e90a15d3f7d1b619a03d663b31.jpg)~~~ <hr> I'VE WATCHED THIS MOVIE BEFORE!!!! ~~~____Story____~~~ ZENSHU follows the story…
Read full review on AniList →It feels like Mappa has become the most hated high-profile anime studio in recent years. Between their exploitative work practices and their tendency to gobble up every high-profile shonen they can get their hands on, I get the sense that most people are just tired of talking about them- and their e…
Read full review on AniList →Look, we all know about Mappa's practices and how awful they are. Underpaying their animators, forcing them to work 24/7, making them sign NDAs that force them to not talk about how bad working conditions are, taking on too much work than they can feasibly handle, not bothering to promote anything t…
Read full review on AniList →Do you remember your first anime? How has your discovery of that anime and the medium in general impacted your life? For some, watching anime has led them down an artistic path, whether it's just drawing pictures, drawing manga or comics, or working on new anime for others to fall in love with just…
Read full review on AniList →What was Natsuko’s journey? That was the question I struggled to answer for myself the more I went back and thought about the overall anime with zenshu. Winter 2025’s latest original anime, Zenshu, had a lot of interest in from for how its being animated by studio MAPPA, a very well-known animation…
Read full review on AniList →# Zenshu Review __Why Did I Choose To Watch This__ Zenshu is an original anime created and produced by studio MAPPA. At first any anime fan hears MAPPA and the automatic assumption is the anime's destined to have steller animation and beautiful artwork. Initially that was enough to draw interest i…
Read full review on AniList →__Résumé : animé :__ Après avoir obtenu son diplôme à la fin de ses études, Natsuko Hirose commence une carrière dans le dessin animé. Son talent la propulse rapidement au poste de réalisatrice. Son premier anime remporte un énorme succès, déclenchant un phénomène social et lui valant d'être reconnu…
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