Niesio i Pioran zostają rozdzieleni na wyspie Jananda, stanowiącej miejsce zsyłki dla przestępców z całego świata. Jedyną ich nadzieją na ponowne spotkanie jest zwycięstwo Niesia w wielkim turnieju i objęcie stanowiska lidera żyjącej tam społeczności. Czy nieśmiertelny chłopiec zdoła wyjść zwycięsko z serii niezwykle brutalnych pojedynków i ocalić Pioran? Czy pobyt na Janandzie przysłuży się jego dalszemu rozwojowi? I co planuje tajemnicza zakapturzona postać, której machinacje sprowadziły go na wyspę? Oto pełna zwrotów akcji opowieść o dążeniu do wolności.
Even though her one-shot Koe no Katachi won critical acclaim, it took a longsome law suit to get a magazine to publish it because of its socio-critical theme. Eventually, it was featured in the February edition of Bessatsu Shounen Magazin, where it placed first, and later in the 12th edition of the 2013 Weekly Shounen Magazine.
She has also collaborated with UBUKATA Tow for the manga adaption of his novel Mardock Scramble.
I'm apparently incredibly slow because I didn't recognize who was on the cover, so Hayase showing up was a surprise to me. Before that though, Fushi being able to turn into was also a huge shock. And I thought I was over death ... 😢
The creator panders a bit with a prison death tournament and a new Scooby gang for the lead character to hang with. At least two characters from the earlier volumes return - after a fashion.
Santo cielo, ¿cuándo se ha desviado tanto este manga de sus intenciones originales? No es que este tomo sea absolutamente horrible, que conste; tan solo es el peor hasta el momento. Tampoco es que esa estrella equivalga a una puntuación especialmente baja; únicamente es una manera de representar mi descontento. En términos de puntuación, el tomo rondaría el 4/10.
Desde su base, la isla de este nuevo arco no parece seguir ninguna lógica. Se supone que era una antigua prisión que se ha convertido en una sociedad gobernada, pero ¿cómo funciona exactamente? Se habla mucho del coliseo, cuyo objetivo todavía no entiendo bien, y del sistema de jefes que lideran la isla. ¿Qué sistema emplean para gobernar? ¿Cómo sostienen su economía? ¿Todos se sienten en casa a pesar de estar rodeados de prisioneros? Tengo cincuenta preguntas como esas y no parece que Ôima esté dispuesta a responderlas.
Vale, supongamos que todo esto tiene sentido. Entra Tonari y ya tengo otra razón para marcharme de la isla. Por alguna razón, es un personaje estereotipado que no parece apuntar a ninguna evolución interesante y, para colmo, va seguida de varios personajes que ni siquiera reconozco de lo poco que se han perfilado. La historia parece tratarlos con cierta importancia y les dedica bastantes escenas, así que no entiendo por qué la única que tiene un mínimo de personalidad es la propia Tonari. Me quejaba de la poca conexión con Gûgû y Lyn, pero prefiero mil veces a esos dos que a esta... esta.
Mis problemas llegan hasta el guion. Más allá de la credibilidad del torneo y la isla en general, parece que Ôima se está acostumbrando a forzar situaciones. No sé qué hace Hayase ahí exactamente (no hablemos del lametón, por favor. No hablemos del lametón.) ni por qué los poderes de Parona vienen de repente. Me gusta la idea de que los recuerdos perfilen a Inmo poco a poco, pero siento que el guion se fuerza para que la escena pueda continuar. Lo mismo con el encapuchado, los poderes del protagonista (¿los tallarines reproducen también el somnífero?) e incluso sus formas. El momento en que recupera la figura de March es bueno, pero cuando dice una frase tipo "vale, ahora tengo el poder de X, el de Y y el de Z" me dan ganas de estamparme contra la pared. ¿Desde cuándo esas personas se han convertido en herramientas? No es que sea ilógico, sino que la serie apuntaba en sus inicios hacia un contenido emocional que no estoy viendo aquí.
Sigo con la serie porque la premisa es fantástica y tiene mucho potencial, pero Ôima no para de demostrarme que está más interesada en meter a sus personajes en situaciones complicadas para mantener el interés que no mostrar sus registros emocionales. Cada vez echo más de menos el arco de Ninanna, la verdad.
(Pequeño inciso: ¿se puede saber por qué hay un bebé en la portada? Si es para representar todo eso de los sacrificios de Yanome, creo que Ôima se ha equivocado tanto de arco como de personaje. Vale que Hayase participara en los rituales, pero no asociaría su figura a la de un bebé automáticamente.)
I didn’t love this volume. I think it’s still great and we’re seeing an evolution of our main character. He’s not gonna be best friends or grow close with our main side characters and because our main character feels that way, it’s hard for me to get invested with the prisoners of the island and our main new side characters when our main character doesn’t want to deal with them. But I am enjoying Fushi evolution as a main character. And it’s cool to see characters from previous volumes come back in a fashion.
I don't remember the last time I disliked a character so passionately as I do the one that made a reappearance in this volume. I feel like there were no subtleties here and Oima chose a premise that seriously forced Fushi to improve upon himself.
Literally the first time I haven’t cried or teared up when reading this series, but still really loved it! Saw some familiar faces and I am starting to like the new ones a little more!
The first half was lacking for me a bit. Just felt a little padded. I wasn't connecting with the new characters.
And then BAM second half.
Letting us feel the idea of freedom. Of turning the tides. Some excellent fight scenes. And then an old, evil, son of a bitch comes back and man oh man do they do damage. The end result left me going "Holy shit" and this series went back up once more.
Quinto tomo ya de la serie regular de Oshitoki Oima que arranca con un nuevo arco que ya se presentaba al final del tomo anterior. Viajamos a la ciudad de Jananda, una isla que reúne a los criminales más peligrosos de todos los territorios. Es una isla sin ley, y solo un torneo en el coliseo permite a cualquiera establecerse como jefe en la isla. Aunque siente un gran rechazo por la violencia del lugar, Inmo sabe que la única salida posible para poder rescatar a Pioran será ganar dicho torneo.
Una quinta entrega que quizá sea la que mejor conjugue las dos etiquetas que predominan en To your eternity: shonen y drama. Por un lado tenemos una serie de combates y escenas de acción fascinantes. Por otro lado, el drama personal, con ese cuidado por el desarrollo emocional de Inmo siendo este quizás el volumen donde más peso a tenido todo el camino recorrido hasta el día de hoy.
Ha sido una verdadera montaña rusa de emociones. Un nuevo personaje que se suma al elenco, viejos conocidos que reaparecen y un nuevo capítulo de lo más interesante ¿Sabrá mantenerse la sexta entrega? Pronto lo sabremos.
Okay, so this volume actually made me mad. First, there was Tonari. I think she's supposed to be spirited and peppy and precocious, but I found her to be deceitful and obnoxious. She's super-immature for a 14 year old, and the way she insists on playing with Fushi's emotions and loyalties was incredibly upsetting. Again, I think we're supposed to like her/root for her, but I just couldn't do it.
The other was Hayase. Ugh. First of all, I thought that she had died back in book three (which would have made perfect sense and I would have been fine with it). But, no. She not only survives, but she killed Parona! I was devastated! Before, Hayase was rough and emotionless. It seems that her encounter with Fushi before has completely derailed her. I mean, she makes her appearance in this book by crawling up to him and licking his face while he sleeps! Disgusting!
I get that this is not a happy series, but I'm not too thrilled with this volume. Pioran had better be okay, or I'm going to be super-upset!
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
"there is no need for you to pain yourself over humans who have chosen to die."
"it's wrong looking for meaning in people's lives and deaths."
not the march and gugu flashbacks 😭😭 this volume was a lot more philosophical and fushi really starts thinking about all the people he has lost on the way and it just hurts.
Oh man what a bad time for Fushi. In this volume he gets sucked into the Jananda Tournament of champions, has to fight another Nokker, still needs to rescue Pirona, and meets some new maybe friends. Fushi is going to need all the luck he can to get off this island and maybe learn a few new tricks to go with it.
More of the awkward and the incredulous, as Fushi finds his dumb self accidentally off to a prison island to serve time under the heel of human traffickers and at the behest of a bloodthirsty mob. It was never clear, after the first volume of this manga series, how the random and incongruous events that comprise Fushi's journey can ever fundamentally be termed learning experiences, but alas, to the prison island readers go.
In TO YOUR ETERNITY #5, the old lady Pioran is locked up on the accusation of murder after a chance encounter at a regional port (which itself seems impractical, considering how far she and Fushi have traveled in a world with limited technology). Fushi, himself, is tossed around as he searches for a way to rescue his only friend. Is he the plaything of arena hoodlums, seeking their fortune and freedom through bloodshed? Is he the game piece of annoying children whose concept of companionship reeks of the oversimplified?
This volume isn't very engaging and feels much like the beginning of a dawdling filler arc. For one, the primary character of influence is a dreadfully, gallingly vexing orphan girl named Tonari who, quite simply, never shuts the hell up. Tonari lies and connives to keep Fushi under her influence, often getting in his way despite pledging time and again to help him earn his freedom from the prison island. The girl's effort to serve others while in parallel serving herself is so blatantly off-putting that one, for once, truly wouldn't mind if the author killed off the manga's secondary characters without remorse.
To that end, the return of Hayase of Yanome as a militant rogue with murderous attributes and villainous tendencies has a debatable effect on the story. TO YOUR ETERNITY #5 attempts to conjure a kind of adversarial inevitability with this character who suddenly appears after several years' absence, but the end result isn't at all compelling. It's just plain uncomfortable. The woman is clearly fraught with assorted mental debilitations and her obsession with Fushi (she keeps licking him for some reason) foretells her ignominious end in a future volume.
It's hard to enjoy this manga, so thoroughly wrought that it is with unlikable characters, continuity errors, poorly assembled character dynamics, and weakly orchestrated action.
🌑*-☾𝚃𝚘 𝚈𝚘𝚞𝚛 𝙴𝚝𝚎𝚛𝚗𝚒𝚝𝚢 ☾-*🌑 Fushi is on Jananda Island, a haven for murderers and criminals. Yet there are some wrongly accused who dream of a future far from the bloody games and thirst for murder. When Tonari strikes a deal with Fushi, he must enter the fighting arenas and fight to the death. The winner will step out as the leader of the island, and Tonari hopes that he will free her and her friends. But Fushi wants no more blood shed. Haunted by his past and the people who were killed, he wants no more violence. But the god keeps on returning, and then Hayase—the girl who took so much from him—returns. Her creepy and disgusting desires for Fushi scare him as much as they anger him. The second-to-last volume before the end of The Prison Island Jananda arc.
Wow. That cover is honestly quite horrifying. While it might not seem horrifying at first, once you read this novel and see a glimpse of Hayase's actions, it's creepy. Yoshitoki Oima is a versatile author who managed to write a profound and emotional fantasy series. Having read her A Silent Voice series, I was shocked by how different in tone and atmosphere they were. This series picked up on unsteady ground for me at first, but then it reached a point where I loved the direction it was taking. Then it turned in this direction.
I soon found that I did not enjoy this arc that much. Hayase did some pretty unneeded and strange things that didn't feel appropriate in the story at all. She licked him, kissed his face when he was sleeping—you get the point. The frequent deaths of characters manage to accomplish things. Make the playing field feel more unstable and unpredictable until it doesn't. When every single character in the cast is killed off for the sake of furthering the protagonist's character development, it becomes predictable and repetitive.
Tonari was a character who I thought had a great build. I soon grew to find her irritating and not necessary to the story. She felt immature overall. At the same time, I didn't get attached to her character with the suspicion that she would be killed off too. Looking at the five volumes I've read so far in this series, Fushi has come so far, and I'm proud of him. He's slowly becoming more human. Simultaneously, he develops human flaws, making him a more relatable protagonist. I do feel like his character growth is starting to go in circles. Someone dies, he feels guilty, cuts himself off from humans, settles down, and on the cycle goes.
I want the next couple of volumes to bring something new to the table rather than recycling the same formulas. ⛔PLOT 🆗CHARACTERS ⛔PLOT TWISTS
Je me suis enfin lancée dans la lecture de cette suite et quelle suite !
Après la triste mort de Googoo, Imm prend la route en compagnie de Piolan. Pourtant, leur périple va les amener à être coincée sur l’île de Jananda, une prison à ciel ouvert, une île ou se trouve tous les pires criminels du pays.
Wow, il s’est passé tant de choses dans tous ces tomes, c’était un vrai plaisir de pouvoir les enchaîner. J’avais vraiment hâte de lire cette suite. Au départ, suite aux quatre premiers tomes, j’avais peur que le mangaka nous entraîne dans le même schéma qu’on avait revu trois fois de suite. Il rencontre quelqu’un, grandis, s’attache, puis le personnage meurt, ainsi de suite. Pourtant, un changement se fait.
Le titre est toujours aussi émouvant, mais le « To your eternity », prend tout son sens lorsque nous lisons ces tomes. L’éternité est réellement mise en avant. Une centaine d’années n’est qu’un claquement de cils pour Imm qui ne peut mourir et voir le temps passer beaucoup trop lentement pour lui.
Nous voyons la civilisation évoluer, les mentalités, les mœurs, mais également les Knocker. L’histoire est d’une beauté sans nom, c’est clairement une de mes plus belles découvertes de l’année.
En bref, To your eternity est un manga qui je le redis, dois être lus. Il mérite le coup d’œil. L’histoire est belle, prenante, émouvante, nous donnes des leçons, nous pousses à la réflexion. Nous voyons l’éternité avancer au travers des yeux d’Imm et je suis déjà impatiente d’avoir les prochains tomes entre les mains.
Stuck on the island of Jananda and separated from Pioran, Fushi learns that in order to get what he wants, he must first win a fighting tournament, a tournament that grants leadership of the island to the victor ...
I wasn't as fond of this volume either, sadly.
The whole business with the tournament felt rather silly, and the reappearance of Hayase was both creepy and irritating (seriously, what is with the face licking?).
I am intrigued as to what her motivations might be, however. She has clearly undergone some changes, and I'm hoping that Oima will give us her backstory sooner rather than later.
One of my biggest problems with this volume, however, was Tonari. I just found her extremely annoying. I think she's supposed to be cute and spunky, but I honestly just wanted Fushi to slap her.
She did improve towards the end, though, so I'm hoping she isn't quite as irritating in the next volume(s).
And, I have to confess, her crew were kind of adorable.