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MAPPA Produces 'Zenshu.' Original TV Anime

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Mar 22, 2024 7:29 AM
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Production company Bushiroad opened an official website for an original television anime series titled Zenshu. on Friday. The website revealed the production staff, main cast, teaser visual (pictured), and a teaser promotional video.

Cast
Natsuko Hirose: Anna Nagase (Summertime Render)
Luke Braveheart: Kazuki Ura (Blue Lock)
Unio: Rie Kugimiya (Fairy Tail)
Memmeln: Minori Suzuki (Macross Δ)
QJ: Akio Suyama (Wolf's Rain)

Staff
Original Work: Mitsue Yamazaki (Dumbbell Nan Kilo Moteru? director), Kimiko Ueno (Dungeon Meshi series composition), MAPPA
Director: Mitsue Yamazaki
Assistant Director: Sumie Noro (Maoujou de Oyasumi)
Script: Kimiko Ueno
Original Character Design, World Design: Yoshiteru Tsujino
Character Design: Kayoko Ishikawa (Sarazanmai)
Chief Animation Director: Kayoko Ishikawa, Shuuji Takahara (Re-Main), Kazuko Hayakawa (Mahou Shoujo Tokushusen Asuka), Etsuko Sumimoto (Tsurezure Children)
Art Director: Akio Shimada (Noblesse)
Color Design: Ayako Suenaga (Shingeki no Kyojin: The Final Season)
Director of Photography: Kenta Fujita (Isekai de Cheat Skill wo Te ni Shita Ore wa, Genjitsu Sekai wo mo Musou Suru composite director)
Editing: Mutsumi Takemiya (Kimi no Koto ga Daidaidaidaidaisuki na 100-nin no Kanojo)
Music: Yukari Hashimoto (Komi-san wa, Comyushou desu.)
Sound Production: dugout
Casting Manager: Makoto Tanimura (Sound Wing) (Tada-kun wa Koi wo Shinai)
Animation Producer: Takahiro Ogawa (Tondemo Skill de Isekai Hourou Meshi)
Studio: MAPPA

Synopsis
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)

Teaser PV


Official site: https://zenshu-anime.com/
Official X (Twitter): @zenshu_anime

Source: PR Times

Zenshu. on MAL
VindstotMar 23, 2024 12:15 PM
Mar 22, 2024 7:35 AM
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ah so now MAPPA is gonna roast themselves using Sadako from Ringu?
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Mar 22, 2024 7:44 AM
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lol mappa making an anime about themselves so meta

the animation producer is good so i might watch
Mar 22, 2024 7:47 AM
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Looks interesting for me!
Mar 22, 2024 7:50 AM
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So MAPPA Animators will die from animating a dying animator, is this some kind of call for help message?

They should just call it MAPPA: The Animation...
Mar 22, 2024 7:59 AM
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Out of context, premise sounds like a typical shoujo manga plot, but in context, ship bait kings are making an original anime about an animator who doesn't understand the idea of ​​heterosexual (judging by the trailer) love? This is the most meta-ironic anime I've seen since Dogo Koba animated LN about a heroine obsessed with cute girls.
Mar 22, 2024 8:06 AM
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This new season of Shirobako is gonna get real.





"Get your tentacles off me or ill make calamari out of your manhood" -Mirai Nikki Dub
Mar 22, 2024 8:26 AM
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interesting to say the least?! looks pretty cozy fr. the animation looks really good, as expected from mappa. something new on the takahiro ogawa production line!
Mar 22, 2024 8:37 AM
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Cool. We need more anime about animators and the industry.
HACKs! 🤢🤮
Mar 22, 2024 8:44 AM

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Looks interesting.
Mar 22, 2024 9:37 AM
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The animation in this trailer is absolutely stunning and flavorful. I'm so impressed. I'm really excited to see how this turns out.
BEASTARS Season 3 will be the best anime ever :)
Mar 22, 2024 10:23 AM

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We will be watching. Looks pretty nice. I want to see Mitsue Yamazaki's feelings through this project.
Mar 22, 2024 10:30 AM

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Also, one more correction...

Bushiroad and dugout are not Producers of this anime. This is also another solo-funded project like 'Chainsaw Man' and 'Tondemo Skill'.

Hopefully, the MODS change the producer's tags on this show to None.
Mar 22, 2024 10:46 AM
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Also, one more correction...

Bushiroad and dugout are not Producers of this anime. This is also another solo-funded project like 'Chainsaw Man' and 'Tondemo Skill'.

Hopefully, the MODS change the producer's tags on this show to None.
we always tag sound production studios on anime pages, so dugout will stay there. Its nothing new.

Bushiroad tho depends on them, they are only helping to promote the anime so I kinda agree on this one but I don't mind either way.
Mar 22, 2024 11:23 AM

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we always tag sound production studios on anime pages, so dugout will stay there. Its nothing new.

Bushiroad tho depends on them, they are only helping to promote the anime so I kinda agree on this one but I don't mind either way.
DatRandomDude said:
we always tag sound production studios on anime pages, so dugout will stay there. Its nothing new.


Ahhh I see... I got confused because Tondemo Skill didn't have dugout mentioned as a producer and it is also a solo-funded MAPPA production. Or is there something else with that show?
Mar 22, 2024 11:27 AM
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DatRandomDude said:
we always tag sound production studios on anime pages, so dugout will stay there. Its nothing new.


Ahhh I see... I got confused because Tondemo Skill didn't have dugout mentioned as a producer and it is also a solo-funded MAPPA production. Or is there something else with that show?
@Pre_Yum uhhhh its most likely just a case of them forgetting to add that in lol
Mar 22, 2024 11:31 AM

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A cynical way of looking at this is that MAPPA is trying to sanitize and romanticize the hellish anime production culture into a beautiful, feel-good story about human beings discovering the joy in life while making anime. Of course both of those things co-exist in the anime industry, but it's rich coming from a studio who caught so much flak grinding animators to dust in the past few years, isn't it?
Mar 22, 2024 11:32 AM

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@Pre_Yum uhhhh its most likely just a case of them forgetting to add that in lol


LMAO... Makes sense.
Mar 22, 2024 1:36 PM

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How ironic it is MAPPA studio
Mar 24, 2024 12:23 AM

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Always happy to have more anime on anime/manga creation.
Mar 24, 2024 5:50 PM
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The premise sounds similar to the manga Miss Kiryu Doesn't Know What Love Is.


Mar 24, 2024 7:02 PM

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A part of me wishes that its a darker, grittier, more grounded version of Shirobako... but knowing that its being made by Mappa, the higher ups at the company are unlikely to allow such a project to be greenlight in the first place.

And I've a bad feeling that the "anime production" aspect will be as relevant to the show as "gaming" was in Gamers!.
Mar 26, 2024 12:53 PM

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So the studio this girl would be working for is Mappa?

I mean seeing her well being, that's the most educated guess lol.

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