Shinzo | |
![]() Japanese cover of the Shinzo DVD featuring the main characters | |
マシュランボー (Mushurambo) | |
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Genre | Action[1] |
Created by | Izumi Todo |
Anime television series | |
Directed by | Tetsuo Imazawa |
Produced by | Tarō Iwamoto (TV Asahi) Kōichi Yada (Toei Advertising) Kōzō Morishita (Toei Animation) |
Written by | Mayori Sekijima |
Music by | Katsumi Horii |
Studio | Toei Animation |
Licensed by | |
Original network | ANN (TV Asahi) |
English network | |
Original run | February 5, 2000 – September 23, 2000 |
Episodes | 32 |
Manga | |
Written by | Yoshihiro Iwamoto |
Published by | Kodansha |
Imprint | BomBom Comics |
Magazine | Comic BomBom |
Demographic | Shōnen |
Original run | February 2000 – September 2000 |
Volumes | 2 |
Shinzo, known as Mushrambo (マシュランボー, Mashuranbō) in Japan, is a Japanese anime television series produced by TV Asahi, Toei Advertising, and Toei Animation. It was directed by Tetsuo Imazawa, with Mayori Sekijima handling series scripts, Sachiko Kamimura designing the characters and Katsumi Horii composing the music.
In the series, genetically-altered creatures known as Enterrans take over Earth and rename it in their own image called Enterra. Now three Enterrans have to protect the last human in order to find the hidden sanctuary called Shinzo and restore the human race.[2] The anime focuses primarily on the adventures they undergo while working to accomplish this task, though battle action becomes the main focus in the middle of the series. Due in part to the popularity of Hunter × Hunter in some areas in the competing timeslot, the series struggled with an average viewership of 3.5%, and was cancelled.
In the United States, the anime was licensed and dubbed by Saban Entertainment & Buena Vista Television[3] with all the original Japanese musical score completely replaced with a brand new completely different original American-made musical score and all the Japanese sound effects completely replaced with brand new completely different original American-made sound effects like in all of Saban Entertainment's other edited anime dubs.