Zenshu Episode 11 Review
The moment that everyone dreaded to see has finally arrived: A Tale of Perishing has seemingly gotten back on track for its horrendously sad ending. With the Last Town reeling over the loss of QJ, everyone turned on Natsuko. They blamed her for everything going wrong and the Voids copying her drawings. Then, in the biggest wham moment of the entire series, Natsuko and Unio were seemingly killed by one of those new Voids. And now, Luke begins to succumb to despair.
But where there is despair, there is also hope.
This is Heartbreaking to Watch
The first half of this episode is, frankly, the visual embodiment of despair. The Voids start to slaughter both the cultists and the mob (no lost tears for the latter) while the rest of the named characters are fighting for their lives. Through it all, Luke has the thousand-yard stare as his mind starts to fall apart. You can practically hear the sound of glass shattering as he goes into full-on denial of the people he’s lost. Once Natsuko’s pegbar dissolves into light, though, he fully breaks. It’s like taking every sad moment in a Shonen series and rolling it into one.
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Meanwhile, Natsuko is still alive inside the Void, and she’s in the middle of her own form of despair. She sees everyone she’s ever known mocking her, calling her drawings trash and saying she’s not as good as she thought she was. In other words, Natsuko is dealing with the bane of every creator to ever exist: haters. And they get to her.
Natsuko herself doesn’t like to touch upon it, but the series itself has no such compunctions as it shows just how much stress she was under before she got isekai’d. Everyone’s expectations for her were sky-high, and she was under so much pressure to meet them, even though she didn’t know what she was doing. It’s one of the biggest drawbacks to this kind of runaway success. When people expect you to keep topping whatever you did last, eventually it becomes…impossible.
Natsuko Completes her Character Development
I loved this part of the episode because it went so in-depth into Natsuko’s insecurities. Underneath her carefree attitude is a women whose suffering from a very realistic fear of failing. Nobody likes to fail, especially when people place so much trust into them. However, failure is going to happen one way or another at some point in our lives. What matters is if we can recover from it. And if we can’t, that’s what having other people around is for.
Which is why the anime’s choice of having Unio being the one to get through to Natsuko is brilliant. As he was the one who was most at odds with Natsuko, having him admit that she’s the only one who can help him has the most impact. Which leads into yet another amazing moment for the episode.
There’s Nothing Wrong With Loving Fictional Characters
As a proud nerd who isn’t afraid to show his love for works of fiction, I’ve never understood why people feel the need to mock someone because they love a fictional character. People get called weirdos because they’re obsessed with this one character from their favorite show or movie. However, what those people fail to understand is that when you truly love a character from fiction, then they can remain a positive influence on your everyday life. They can encourage you when you’re feeling down about life, which will happen often. Their actions can serve as an example of how you should live your life. Seeing what they do could very well inspire someone to do something great with their lives. It could spark a lifetime of love for something. Donte and Aaron had the characters of Dragon Ball, and I can’t keep count of how many characters have inspired me over the years!
And for Natsuko, that character was Luke.
Natsuko has likely been in love with Luke ever since she first saw A Tale of Perishing for the first time. It took her getting to meet the real Luke to get her to realize her love, though. Which, honestly, seems like a dream come true for everyone whose ever had a crush on a fictional character. It’s great that she gets to live the dream.
So, with Natsuko’s confidence restored and Unio by her side, the two head back into the world to save it from a bad ending. And not a moment too soon, because Luke is about to commit a canon event. Though, just like in the Spiderverse films, screw the canon events!
