#natsuko hirose

[bekkomi]

random sketch because I'm feeling a little cringe about them honestly too scared to post on other socials bc one of the VAs follow me-

[seekers-who-are-lovers]

The fact that she kept Unio’s horn and it lightens up is like an alarm that probably tingles bc Luke and the gang have kept his (their) promise. How would Natsuko react to this?

I think she’d brave the barrier between them, checking out if there’s a train coming and surge toward them, hug them like a bear, never letting go. She’d cry, he’d cry, they’d cry out of joy. Unio would jump and down. People around them would think that they were cosplayers surrounding Natsuko, who’d insist that they stayed at her apartment. It didn’t matter if they couldn’t fit on the futon. They would huddle together if ever.

Now, Luke, how about him? Initially, he and Natsuko would feel awkward to each other but that would only last a few minutes as the embarrassment would vanish. They knew what happened during the last minutes they shared when Natsuko came back to the real world. He would never let Natsuko go. Never ever.

Zenshu | Ep12 | Huh?

[ligbi]

Zenshuu Official merchandise and additional artwork from studio employees and BluRay 3

[galaxyspark-6e16]

did i really cry at the end of an (maybe) isekai where the answer to prevent a doomed narrative is a fix-it fic ( or in that case a rough animation sequence) because i did.

i've seen a lot of people giving their own thoughts and interpretation of the finale, which made realized that THIS! is what media does to fans. We consume it, we digest it for a while, and then we move on. But not for a majority of us. There are, and will be, media that stays with us forever.

Take Natsuko, atop impacted her in such a way that it influenced her life. From the choices she made and people she met, that movie (and Luke) as with her through. in her highest and her lowest, but was always by her side, reminding her why she's pursuing this dream. we may never know if she would have taken the path of an animator if she never that movie, but we can assume her life would be different either way. that's how important it atop is.

Sometimes, you will come across something, for the first time, with fresh eyes that is engraved forever in your mind, heart and soul. that you love wholeheartedly, that love is real because it makes you happy. So that's my take on Zenshu, a beautiful love letter to artists who'd been inspired to take a pencil to draw, to write, to mold, and it blooms into passion and commitment towards their future of what inspired them to pursue the career that brought them so much joy and love in the first place.

[skylersunrise]

After they meet each other again Natsuko gets to bust out the stuff she bought with her bonus from natsukoi: first love doing so well, she PREPPED for this shit homegirl is READY.

So yeah they have a sleepover

She wasn’t sure on exact sizes but figured baggy is better than too small. #baggyclothessupremacy

And of course like any self respecting romance enjoyer, I do so love me an accidental cuddle Situation.

Observe!

Hehe cuddle bugs~

But then unio comes in with his little brother energy

I cannot draw the unicorn, my apologies.

Still writing. Just in a doodle craze :)

[mayor-mclikeme-please]

But where is the lie?

[harmorii]

natsuko everytime she watched that damn movie

[ladyloveandjustice]

Okay, so ZENSHU is a new anime that FINALLY does something actually cool and meta with the isekai concept, following an animator named Natsuko who get's isekai'd into her favorite flop anime movie, which is destined to end in total tragedy for all the characters. She discovers she can do a magical girl sequence and animate something that will save the day (like the God Warrior from Nausicaa) in exchange for having to sleep however long it would have taken her to animate IRL (three days, usually). She starts saving the characters and and starts changing the narrative that way

This leads to possibly the best character arc of all time, where she meets the hero's love interest and the movie's quintessential damsel in distress, who is destined to get in trouble all the time and fridged at the end of the movie. (Her name is Destiny that's how destined she is).

...Only then Natsuko animates a cerval cat pro-wrestler to save the day, and Destiny is SO ENAMORED by it all she decides to get INCREDIBLY RIPPED and become a prowrestler herself, leaving her destiny as a love interest behind, her skimpy fanservice outfit transforming into a skimpy cerval cat pro wrestler outfit. She and Natsuko become friends, and she breaks off from this hero to forge her own path.

The story also kind of playfully interrogates how Destiny was underdeveloped and granted no agency by the narrative. She mentions having no friends and being lonely. She's notably awestruck when Natsuko says she's going to live and dress however she wants (in response to her baggy sweatshirt and cousin It hair being mocked):

And when she chooses to embrace her pro wrestling love, she echoes these words.

Destiny has this whole thing going where she's nobly forcing herself to marry this gross guy to open this orphanage, and Natsuko points out to her that this subplot makes no sense because she could just open the orphanage herself:

The narrative always framed it like Destiny couldn't do anything on her own, so it doesn't even occur to anyone until Natsuko brings it up. But once she realizes it, Destiny does decide to live how she wants and open that damn orphanage herself.

The show could have just had Natsuko hate Destiny (since she clearly also likes the Hero) or made fun of her and treated her as useless and awful, but instead it's made clear she IS a very sweet person, she makes friends with Natsuko, the show treats it as a thought experiment on "what if the classic Damsel in Distress fated to be Fridged learned she had agency and developed her own interests with the help of another woman?" It's a really light hearted take on the subject, but that's what makes it so fun.

Anyway ZENSHU is really good stuff so far, one of the few modern isekai that has rights, and finally one that plays with classic tropes in an actually interesting way. The director and screenwriter, Mitsue Yamazaki and Kimiko Ueno, are some cool ladies who've previously worked together on one of my faves, the Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun anime, and their talent really shows here.

[nitunioart]

I'll love you forever

gaahhhh i love them sooo muchhhhh

[whollysensei]

silly doodles in case i'll have a mental breakdown tmrw 🥰🥰🥰

[offonaherosjourney]

What a choice to have an immortal elf character fall to nihilism, depression and despair after centuries of losing her friends to war after war after war until she is so broken she actively prays for the end of the world and then have the main character be like "girrrrl, i know how to fix you. you just need to find a hyperfixation. here, let me introduce you to this thing in the music industry of the world where i come from called idols" and have the elf girl decide she wants to live after all just so she can keep simping over her new favorite anime husbando.

What a correct choice, that is

[bekkomi]

Hi, I'm still getting emotionally destroyed

[ianime0]

Zenshu | Ep1 | Natsuko Transformation

[ligbi]

Zenshuu images from the official Mappa twitter, secondary key animator Ankomochi, and the chief animation director and character designer Kayo

[hopefultimemachinedelusion]

*inhaling*

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

[skylersunrise]

More bits of the fic I’m making hehe

I feel like Luke would be?? So fucking smug about being natsuko’s favorite of the nine soldiers. Sure she has merch of every one else but Luke is the obvious outlier.

Unio, ever the instigator- finds all of her merch. (Except for the… spicier bits hidden in her room. That shit’s on lockdown.)

I also think during the time away from Natsuko Luke has gotten more playful, but that’s just a HC. And yes he pierced his ears sue me.

I’m still writing, and doodling in the meantime. Cheers!