Land of the Lustrous/Houseki no Kuni
i just can’t get over the impact this manga had on my life. not even just the manga though, the anime was really beautiful and i just can’t get enough of it. it’s an extremely breathtaking manga with such complicated themes and it honestly just breaks my heart everytime i think about it.
it has a sort of vibe that is so hard to recreate or find. it goes past the beautiful art, the story with its incorporation of buddhist and philosophical elements. the anime has its own charm aswell, the music, the animation, the characters.
the 3d animation has amazing angles that would be hard to recreate only as 2d, also the designs of the characters are amazing.
every single character is a gem, they have no gender. they break, and even have mental struggles aswell. every gem is an immortal being, with a chance of being put back together with the correct parts. and because of this immortality, the manga deals with deep themes of identity and “self” between the gems and mostly the main character.
anyway sorry for the late night rambling, i was bored and it’s 2 am and my glazing is never ending.
I just want to say that houseki no kuni is the definition of 'for some reason it's really sad but all the characters are smiling?'
like when they wrote that after 100 phos goes to find the fleshy inhabitants excepts its their great great grandchildren I just... idk the mangaka really really knows how to ignore the passage of time for both the read......
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22 days
YESSS. i love land of the lustrous so much, it is extremely creative, beautiful, and heart breaking and it seriously deserves to have a season two. i would probably cry my eyes out watching the rest of the manga be animated but idc i need to see it completed or else i will never be happy
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