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- Jul 30, 2021
To Your Eternity - Episode 15 Review: The good die young (thank goodness he's immortal)
In a lawless island of brutality, will Fushi succeed in keeping his morals while faced with the harsh truth of humanity? "There are some people who deserve to die" In the last episode, during Fushi's battle in the tournament, he was forced to change into something he never expected. Parona, the kind-hearted friend of March, reappears as his new form. And through her skills, Fushi manages to win the battle without resorting to killing. But this victory comes at the cost of kno
- Jul 22, 2021
To Your Eternity – Episode 14: Let The Hunger Games begin!
Fushi finds himself separated from Pioran, stuck on an island where violence is law. Will they survive? “He was like an arrow without a bow” When Fushi and Pioran took a journey across the sea, they went in search of a land of monstrous animals that can provide the necessary challenge to Fushi. A step closer to being strong enough against the Nokkers. But while they are looking for a ship, they are tricked by a bunch of rogues into climbing onto a prisoner's vessel. One that
- Jul 15, 2021
To Your Eternity – Episode 13: Keep your friends close (unless a tree starts attacking)
The return of To Your Eternity heralds the return of existential crisis and a lot of sad Fushi. And makes for quality entertainment. Spoilers ahead! “I couldn’t do anything.” Grief is a tragic thing, something Fushi slowly learns more and more of. As he grows and learns, as his awareness expands, the more he learns how to feel. And the more he knows how to feel, the greater the consequences of knowing. And he learns this the most as he struggles to accept the loss of Gugu, hi
- Jul 1, 2021
To Your Eternity – Episode 12: Why cliffs and tentacles are bad news
Young love is an exciting thing. So is getting attacked by a demonic rock creature. And episode 12 of To Your Eternity just so happens to have both. “The Nokkers are here.” On a balcony by the sea, two young lovers finally make their feelings known to each other. On the day of her birthday, Rean finally lets Gugu known that she loves him. With a familiar purple flower in hand, a symbol to the beginning of their story, the two lovers bask in the truth and the love that they fi
- Jun 24, 2021
To Your Eternity – Episode 11: Family reunions suck (or why you should never meet the in-laws)
Time passes with Fushi deciding to stay with his new family. With 4 years of peace they find themselves facing a new challenge. Love and the past. Spoilers below! “Life as a human being is a repetition of mundane days, lacking in stimulation” Four years ago, Fushi decided to not choose the path of violence. Not to fight in whatever war the other supernatural being wanted to wage. Instead, he chose a peaceful life with Booze Man, Pioran, Rean, and Gugu. He chose to grow and be
- Jun 16, 2021
To Your Eternity – Episode 10: Why Grass-types are EVIL!
Bad things always come at the worst of times, just like in episode 10 where in the middle of Rean and Gugu escaping capture, Fushi finds himself caught in the roots of something evil. Spoilers ahead! “Gugu, run!” To be young is to be hasty and rash. To be young is to try and search for freedom and happiness and fight for that happiness. And being young often means forgetting the dangers that cannot be easily overcome. Fushi gets a bad wake-up call to that exact message when h
- Jun 10, 2021
To Your Eternity - Episode 9: Finding family and falling in love – a monster’s guide
Slowly but surely, Fushi and Gugu grow closer as brothers. Rean and Gugu become better friends. But can they escape the dangers coming after them? “What’s ‘die’?” In the last episode, Fushi managed to save Gugu in time from a bunch of thugs who wanted to kidnap him, all thanks to luck and good timing. Now together, they decide to stay with each other for now. And maybe have a little fun. Gugu is having the time of his life. While the trauma from his past and the special organ
- Jun 3, 2021
To You Eternity – Episode 8 Review: Family is all about mutilation
The angst and dark comedy doesn’t end in episode 8 as the consequences of Gugu’s strange appearance reveal the tragedy of his existence, which makes his bond with Fushi even stronger. “I don’t know if I’m going to be happy or miserable starting tomorrow” Fushi is slowly making himself a home in the house of the Booze Man. The walls of the brewery become a place of learning as he grows up more and more alongside his new and unlikely set of friends. There’s Pioran, wise and cun
- May 28, 2021
To Your Eternity – Episode 7 Review: How to survive crushes and make friends in Takunaha
While pain and sorrow is To Your Eternity’s bread and butter, episode 7 finally gives the audience a much-needed break from all the anguish, introducing us to a cute love story and a new character for Fushi to meet and learn from. “Why am I me?” A young boy asks the question as he stares at a tower in the distance. Why was he born in the way he was, always working just so he could have enough? This is how we meet our newest protagonist Gugu, a young boy from Takunaha who drea
- May 19, 2021
To Your Eternity – Episode 6 Review: How to train your immortal
Fushi continues his search in the newest episode of To Your Eternity. But god-like forces finally make themselves known. And we learn that Fushi has an important part to play in the madness. Do monsters have feelings or think about things? After the loss of March, Fushi has gone to explore and gain more insight into the world. Following the internalized objective within, he decides to go where the wind takes him and stumbles upon a familiar figure. Pioran, the elderly that Ma
- May 13, 2021
To Your Eternity – Episode 5 Review: A “Happy” Ending
Freedom is close for March and her friends, but those who want Fushi aren’t letting the immortal go without a fight. “And he completed the first task in his process of growth: becoming aware” The last time we saw March and friends, she was still stuck in the cells of the Yanome. With no hope, and only the future of living as a prisoner, things seem bleak for their little group. Until Parona manages to escape, and sets them free. Now their greatest challenge is to escape the c
- May 5, 2021
To Your Eternity – Episode 4 Review: Bad, to good, to worst (Or how NOT to be a tourist)
They survived a giant bear. They escaped from the deadly ritual. But the pain doesn’t end for Fushi, March, and Parona in the 4th episode of To Your Eternity. “All that remains is psychological manipulation and occupation” The episode begins with Parona’s life. Born in the same village, Parona existed under the same archaic rule that dictated countless young lives. A tragedy in her past is what drives her in the present. Why she desperately wants to protect March. A young vic
- Apr 28, 2021
To Your Eternity – Episode 3 Review: Soft, tragic, and exciting
Episode 3 of To Your Eternity manages to overcome its filler-like quality through sheer strength of character writing, and a peek of the consequence of the nameless immortal’s existence on their world will be. “How about Fu-chan then?” The end isn’t always the end. In the last episode, we see March and “It” bond more or less. Through March’s power of sheer friendliness and escapism, she decides to act motherly to the now named “Fu-chan”. It seems like the beginning of a wonde
- Apr 23, 2021
To Your Eternity - Ep. 2: Sweet and fiendishly dark
Through the smiles of a child and the darkness of her reality, the 2nd episode invites viewers to enjoy both the joy and pain of To Your Eternity’s world and promises to provide more. “Hey mommy, when do I get to grow up?” The next chapter in To Your Eternity begins with the unnamed being of the last episode. Now wearing white hair and golden eyes, “It” walks with no purpose, only absorbing information and resurrecting. And through its travels, it stumbles its way to the next
- Apr 15, 2021
To Your Eternity – Ep. 1 Review: Award winning from the get go
With a first episode that pulls at the heartstrings, the adaptation of the critically acclaimed To Your Eternity instantly delivers all the goods fans of the manga and of Yoshitoki Ōima were expecting, jampacked with atmospheric existentialism and bittersweet drama. "In the beginning, it was an orb" The show begins with a disembodied voice narrating the story of creation. Rather, the creation of “It”, an orb-like being that is sent to Earth by the voice as part of an experime
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