India, Jan. 6 -- Unlike its truck-load of anime adaptations such as Jujutsu Kaisen, Chainsaw Man and Attack on Titan: The Final Season, Studio MAPPA's latest endeavour brings alive an original storyline that does not fall back on a source manga or light novel source text. Taking a daring plunge into the world of originals, the acclaimed animation studio instead jumps into the familiar territory of Isekai on its own terms.

Directed by Mitsue Yamazaki and written by Kimiko Ueno, Zenshu's fatally uncanny familiarity drives its protagonist, Natsuko Hirose, so far to the edge that she literally dies of exhaustion. Hirose, voiced by the beloved Anna Nagase, who's lent her talents to characters like Nagisa Funami in Blue Box and Harley Quinn in...