Crunchyroll has announced during a recent New York Comic-Con panel that the upcoming Zenshu anime from MAPPA will air in January 2025. Additionally, they’ve also released a new trailer for the upcoming series. Check out the trailer for Zenshu below:
MAPPA is a known for producing major anime series, including for Jujutsu Kaisen, Attack on Titan, Chainsaw Man, Bucchigiri?! and much more. They will also be producing the upcoming Lazarus anime alongside the creator of the original Cowboy Bebop series. Zenshu is a rare case compared to most upcoming 2024 releases in that it is a completely original creation from MAPPA. The cast and staff of the series are as follows:
Cast
- Anna Nagase as Natsuko Hirose
- Kazuki Ura as Luke Braveheart
- Rie Kugimiya as Unio
- Minori Suzuki as Memmeln
- Akio Suyama as QJ
Staff
- Original Work: Mitsue Yamasaki, Kimiko Ueno, and MAPPA
- Director: Mitsue Yamasaki
- Scriptwriter: Kimiko Ueno
- Assistant Director: Sumie Noro
- Character/Environment Concept Art: Yoshiteru Tsujino
- Chief Animation Directors: Kayoko Ishikawa, Shuuji Takahara, Kazuko Hayakawa, and Etsuko Sumimoto
- Composer: Yukari Hashimoto
- Background Art Director: Akio Shimada
- Color Design: Junko Suenaga
- Director of Photography: Kenta Fujita
- Editing: Mutsumi Takemiya
- Sound Production: dugout
- Casting Manager: Makoto Tanimura
- Animation Producer: Takahiro Ogawa
About Zenshu
MAPPA describes the series as follows:
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.