>>89380Meant more in the philosophical sense of it didn't really give me anything to think about. It told the story of a gung-ho tensai who blazed past everything in life that she forged no meaningful human connection and as such when she's faced with writing a story that requires connection to that feeling she's thrown into a rut and overworks herself into collapse. Upon which she's sent to fantasy land to live out her own hatsukoi story with her childhood husbando and come to understand the meaning of love. Then after all's said and done she's back in the real world with this newfound perspective and is able to create a successful work based on it. Saying that general synopsis out loud makes me feel like it's something I've seen quite a fair bit before, though not in this exact setting.
But that's really it. I thought about Zenshuu when it came to predicting how the plot would go and pretty much predicted the final episode perfectly while having a little fun thought experiment about how it'd end, though I was a bit wrong in thinking it'd be either a
giant Natsuko/Luke, but it was just normal Luke. Sure you can say I'm just ruining the fun for myself by picking apart something meant to be enjoyed mindlessly, but I think it's good to reflect on what I like/dislike about things, and in the case of Zenshuu it was building itself up to maybe have potential to surprise me so I kept hope throughout but it played exactly into my expectations.
I think it'd be cool though if MAPPA were to make the story instead about Natsuko being dead in the end having overworked herself for the company and then them going bankrupt for losing their main talent. Though, that might hit a bit too close to home for MAPPA to want to write about.