{"id":1157422,"date":"2026-02-09T12:39:18","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T12:39:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.polygon.com\/?p=545683"},"modified":"2026-02-09T12:39:18","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T12:39:18","slug":"zenshu-was-the-best-kind-of-love-letter-to-everyone-who-loves-anime-too-much","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/zenshu-was-the-best-kind-of-love-letter-to-everyone-who-loves-anime-too-much\/","title":{"rendered":"Zenshu was the best kind of love letter to everyone who loves anime too much"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure> <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Luke grabbing the arm of Natsuko, with hair covering her whole face and her hood up, in a still from Zenshu episode 1\" data-caption=\"\" data-portal-copyright=\"Image: MAPPA\/Crunchyroll\" data-has-syndication-rights=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/zenshu-was-the-best-kind-of-love-letter-to-everyone-who-loves-anime-too-much.jpg\" \/><figcaption><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap has-text-align-none\">No one in the year of our lord 2025 is going to argue it\u2019s <em>easy<\/em> to make an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.polygon.com\/anime\">anime<\/a>. It\u2019s perhaps a more straightforward process than it\u2019s ever been in human history, but the artistry and imagination of it still requires a lot. Dive just a little bit into the background of any of your favorite shows and you\u2019re liable to find <a href=\"https:\/\/www.polygon.com\/23668388\/attack-titan-wit-studio-season-anniversary-aot\">tight timelines<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.polygon.com\/2020\/2\/16\/21138309\/keep-your-hands-off-eizouken-anime-studios-working-conditions\">overworked animators<\/a>, and a whole load of personal opinions on whether the show is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.polygon.com\/23012210\/attack-on-titan-biggest-anime\">even good enough to warrant all this<\/a> fuss.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.polygon.com\/entertainment\/468386\/new-anime-2025-release-calendar-schedule-watch-streaming\">Zenshu<\/a><\/em> knows this pain acutely, even if its protagonist, Natsuko Hirose, feels she is immune to it. She\u2019s been driving toward being not just an anime director, but a <em>virtuoso<\/em>. Her ability to draw fast and well quickly lands her at the helm of her first feature \u2014&nbsp;only to end up overworked and eventually dying from food poisoning. Except she\u2019s not really dead; she wakes up in <em>A Tale of Perishing,<\/em> her favorite anime from childhood, where she has the ability to magically draw figures that come to life to fight off enemies.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">The show pulls no punches about what being a workaholic animator has done to Natsuko\u2019s life and psyche. When we meet her in the beginning, she&#8217;s an anime protagonist by way of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cousin_Itt\"><em>The Addams Family<\/em>&#8216;s Cousin Itt<\/a>, with hair constantly covering her face. She\u2019s so burnt out, frustrated, and blocked that the battles of a feudal fantasy world feel like a reprieve. But <em>Zenshu<\/em> is a show that is about love and care, however sublimated. And across the 12 episodes of its first season, it never settles for being just a typical isekai adventure.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/zenshu-was-the-best-kind-of-love-letter-to-everyone-who-loves-anime-too-much-1.jpg\" alt=\"A really jacked anime lady wearing a bikini and a tiger mask while a unicorn looks on\" title=\"A really jacked anime lady wearing a bikini and a tiger mask while a unicorn looks on\" data-has-syndication-rights=\"1\" data-caption=\"\" data-portal-copyright=\"Image: MAPPA\/Crunchyroll\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">Sure, the show could certainly have enough fun with its core concept to carry it for years. The Nine Soldiers, the main protagonists of <em>A Tale of Perishing<\/em>, are a fun bunch, and Natsuko\u2019s otherworldly disruption of their adventure would be enough to power an adventure show for a while. The creators of <em>Zenshu<\/em> clearly have a good time poking fun at \u201990s anime tropes, whether it\u2019s Natsuko\u2019s magical girl transformation sweeping the hair out of her eyes and landing her at a desk, or her inadvertently inspiring a bimbo babe to become jacked.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">But by the end, these ideas get pulled together to something much more formidable and compelling than it might appear at first. Across its back half, <em>Zenshu<\/em>\u2019s run of episodes moves from looking at how Natsuko\u2019s drive to become a prolific animator (based on her die-hard affection for <em>A Tale of Perishing<\/em>) led her to live her life with blinders on to an epic battle among the Nine Soldiers. In a lesser show, these might feel like disparate extremes. But with <em>Zenshu<\/em>, the build felt perfect. Each battle leveled up the action and the stakes (and looked great while doing so), giving us another notch of Natsuko opening herself up to the people around her beyond being just a source of inspiration. Before she knows it, she\u2019s tangled up in the lives of those around her \u2014 and all the better for it.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/zenshu-was-the-best-kind-of-love-letter-to-everyone-who-loves-anime-too-much-2.jpg\" alt=\"Natsuko mid magical girl transformation with her face looking shocked \" title=\"Natsuko mid magical girl transformation with her face looking shocked \" data-has-syndication-rights=\"1\" data-caption=\"\" data-portal-copyright=\"Image: MAPPA\/Crunchyroll\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">In that way, <em>Zenshu<\/em> works on several levels of story. The main story is charming, and it\u2019s neat watching the entire show use that to quietly push Natsuko through her creative blocks, as her magic becomes more complicated to use; she not only has to avoid recreating shapes but push through creations that get weaponized against her. Again: Making anime is hard work! And <em>Zenshu<\/em> never forgets the value in making our hero experience art rather than just simply creating it. The creative disconnect she had before she died \u2014&nbsp;what the \u201cba-dump\u201d love moment should feel like in her film \u2014 gets answered when she finally gets out of her own head long enough to experience it herself. When characters die or get threatened, Natsuko moves from ironic detachment to being openly moved. It\u2019s cute that \u201cthe real creative verve was the friends we made along the way,\u201d but <em>Zenshu<\/em> lets these moments feel true and earned; there\u2019s a believable shift in Natsuko\u2019s inner world over the course of the series that compels her to finally respond to the outer one.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">In many ways <em>Zenshu<\/em> feels like a love letter to anime, its fans, and all the delicious pain and imagination that comes with creating it. Was her adventure real? A dream? Some sort of fanfiction? Who knows; the ending \u2014 which, bittersweetly, seems pretty final on screen \u2014 is delightfully clipped. But the story persists anyway, whether Natsuko \u201creally\u201d changed it canonically or not. And it changed her, too. Her passion for the movie alters the course of her life time and time again: It propels her to become a creator, to obsess and hone her skills, to find connections. It only makes sense that, at the end of the remarkably self-contained season, it prompts her to find healthier and happier relationships to both work and those around her, too. There\u2019s some encouragement to all of us, anime creators and consumers alike, to slow down and appreciate what makes life feel worth it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">As the show pulls back the curtain on Natsuko\u2019s specific struggles, it makes it all the more impressive how much fun <em>Zenshu<\/em> is. It looks great, whether it\u2019s the bombastic fantasy action or the sketchy, colorful magic that seems to glimmer off the screen. There\u2019s dynamic action and slow-boil romance, nuggets of wisdom and, ultimately, a splendidly ambitious story. It is a love letter to how impossible anime can feel from all sides of it \u2014 and how much a true labor of love can feel like magic in the end.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">Zenshu <em>is now streaming on Crunchyroll. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.polygon.com\/anime\/545683\/zenshu-review-great-anime-winter-2025-season-finale\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No one in the year of our lord 2025 is going to argue it\u2019s easy to make an anime. It\u2019s perhaps a more straightforward process than it\u2019s ever been in human history, but the artistry and imagination of it still requires a lot. Dive just a little bit into the background of any of your favorite shows and you\u2019re liable to find tight timelines, overworked animators, and a whole load of personal opinions on whether the show is even good enough to warrant all this fuss.&nbsp; Zenshu knows this pain acutely, even if its protagonist, Natsuko Hirose, feels she is immune to it. She\u2019s been driving toward being not just an anime director, but a virtuoso. 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