To Your Eternity, Vol. 15

不滅のあなたへ [Fumetsu no Anata e] #15

by Yoshitoki Oima

A new manga from the creator of the acclaimed A Silent Voice , featuring intimate, emotional drama and an epic story spanning time and space...

In a world lurking with enemies long assumed to be defeated, Fushi must grapple with parasitic Nokkers parading as beloved neighbors, mothers, and siblings. Before long, the Beholder appears before Fushi as a young boy, bringing word of the Nokkers’ devastating victory…

Genres: Manga, Fantasy, Shonen, Fiction, Mystery, Young Adult, Graphic Novels

192 pages, Paperback

First published April 15, 2021

About the author

See also: 大今良時

OIMA Yoshitoki: 大今良時
Associated Names:
Yoshitoki Ohima
Yoshitoki Ooima
Yoshitoki Ōima

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.

Reviews

[Pip (Bookish_Pip) · Rating 3 out of 5]

My enjoyment of this series is fluctuating like crazy. I thought we were onto something good with the last volume but it feels as though we’ve lost the way with it.

I’m not entirely sure what it’s supposed to be saying anymore and it’s definitely not the To Your Eternity I fell in love with when the series came out. Rewatching the show has only compounded this feeling. I’ve no idea how we could go from one of the best first chapter I’ve ever read in manga to what’s going on now. It also feels like we’re not making any progress with the mysteries that have been set in place, it feels like we’re adding even more mysteries and the characters aren’t making any headway with any of them. (Fushi also felt a little odd this volume? I’m pretty bad at reading character but he felt a little out of sorts this volume with some of the things he was saying and doing but who knows…)

Also some of the humour was seriously questionable in this. Definitely made for some uncomfortable reading at times (lolicon isn’t funny Oima, just call it what it is)

I really don’t like to be negative about the series I read but seen as I absolutely loved the beginning of TYE and it’s gone through such a downfall I have to get my opinions out there. I really hope it’ll find its feet and will go back to the series I loved but I’m really not too sure anymore.

[Rod Brown · Rating 4 out of 5]

Well the shojo trappings get shrugged off pretty quickly as things turn super dark and super heavy. The evil Nokkers have a new plan for world domination that involves the exploitation of suicidal ideation among adults and children. Intense, if you're up for it.

[Max Freese · Rating 3 out of 5]

Very mixed feelings. There are some serious themes being touched upon here in this volume, but without the level of grace or respect this series used to have. The tone is all over the place.

I think I'm going to take a break from this series for awhile.

[Michelle · Rating 2 out of 5]

This was fine, but I was totally skeeved out by the new character who has a weird little sister fetish. He literally ogles his 1oish-year old step-sister's crotch. Wtf.

[Aimé · Rating 5 out of 5]

Es que me flipa lo bien escritos que están estos personajes, sobre todo Fushi. Creo que en casi todas las reseñas le menciono, pero hostia, es que los temas que le atañen me parecen interesantísimos, sobre todo cuando sus convicciones están en constante ataque y cuando más cree que comprende sobre el mundo y la vida, más se le escapa cualquier significado.

Es que es *besa al aire* canela en rama este chaval.

[Eli · Rating 4 out of 5]

3.5 stars

I haven’t really enjoyed the present day storyline as much, but the end of this had some really cool plot twists and action sequences, so I’m rounding up from 3.5 stars.

[Met · Rating 2 out of 5]

Niente, ‘sta serie non riesce a riprendersi. Sono ormai 3, forse 4 volumi addirittura che siamo arrivati nel presente e tutto procede a una lentezza disarmante. Ti prego Ōima, fai qualcosa. Riprendi il ritmo di questa storia!

[DonutKnow · Rating 1 out of 5]

Fushi has become a little cooler, even though he is still quite clueless about human emotions 🤦‍♀️

[Sol]

Chapters 133.1-138.2 review (I think that's the last one)



Truly bizarre volume. A seeming side story about a siscon NEET motivated to heroism by the suffering of his ten year old step-sister, mixed into Fushi's charade with Mizuha and his continued investigation into the return of the knockers. There were a lot of "what is Oima smoking" moments in this volume, mostly to do with questionable humour, but I think she pulled it off well. Maybe I'm just a sucker for a zero-to-hero story. This little mini-arc had tons of trademark Oima details like the similarity between Hirotoshi and Mimori's rooms, the teacher moving the vase of flowers without even acknowledging it, and Hirotoshi noticing Mimori's imposter's ("the Brat") shoelaces.



The other big piece of this volume was a significant advancement of the knocker plot, and a lot of new questions.
We saw in the previous volume that the white haired girl was infested, now she reappears with Hayase's spear. Fushi suspects the guardians are at work, but why would they aid the knockers? Maybe they've been subverted. The spear makes me think it could be Left Hand inside the white haired girl. But Mizuha's knocker seemed to take an authoritative tone with it ("this is a purging and a guidance"), as did the white haired girl's imposter with the Brat. But when Fushi asked if the white haired girl's imposter was his enemy, it said "You'll find out eventually anyway," which is noncommittal. If it is Left Hand, maybe it's working for the guardians against the knockers? But in the battle for Renril, the other knockers seemed to be trying to extract Left Hand after he killed Fushi, so it seems unlikely. And why would Left Hand infest someone who isn't Hayase's descendant?

We get more pieces of the puzzle of how the knockers work. The Brat says that it "felt sorry for [Mimori] when [it] watched from Paradise", which accords with Left Hand's claim that knockers are souls. Paradise is supposedly the vision that dead see before they reincarnate, so apparently knockers are able to remember things from when they're disembodied, like ghosts but unlike the reincarnated. The white haired girl's imposter says "die once and try again" when she kills the Brat, so knockers might also be able to control their reincarnation like Hayase. Rikuya's maiming seems it might have been caused by his knocker, maybe at the behest of Mizuha's? We see that not all humans are infected, as the Brat claims it only entered Mimori's body on the day she broke her arm, which couldn't have been more than a couple years ago, yet the Brat developed a personality in that time. The Brat further claimed that Mimori had no memory of the time it controlled her body. This matches up with Mizuha claiming to have no memory of Izumi's murder, and the murder of the white haired girl that we see later, where it doesn't seem like Mizuha is the one talking. But why exactly would a knocker want Mizuha's mother overtaken at that moment? The replacement of her mother was the event that made Fushi realize the knockers are still around. We see threads emerge from the head of the Brat when it gets decapitated, and it doesn't die until the white haired girl's imposter destroys its head, so I guess knockers now live in the brain and puppeteer the body when they wish. It's funny seeing how cartoonish the knockers' body manipulations have become, from completely destroying Hisame's left arm, to Kahaku's pretty gross whip arm, to their now-perfect control.

Mizuha's story is a minor part of this volume, but it gets some significant development. Mizuha gets her long-awaited date with Fushi which strains his friendship with Tonari. She's disgusted by his use of her friend's bodies to make a descendant of Hayase happy. I hope we see some more reactions from Fushi's friends toward Mizuha. Mizuha gets another volume ender advancement, going from "be my friend" to "let me teach you about love" to "love me". Can't wait to see how Fushi handles that one.

Eko does not appear in this volume :(

Finally, the ghosts. They've apparently not returned to Bon, which doesn't sound ominous at all.

EDIT: The very next chapter after I wrote this, almost every question I had was answered, except what happened to the ghosts.

[Shannon · Rating 3 out of 5]

Read as individual chapters (#133-138)

Total review score: 3.08

[Nightshade · Rating 3 out of 5]

I'm really not sure what I think of the way that this story is going.

It appears that knockers now take over the bodies of suicidal people with the idea that they are making their lives better. Except it seems they're not all in agreement.

Immo has certainly matured in the years he spent spreading across the planet. But I'm not sure I like the new Immo as much. There was something nice about his innocence and naivety.

I am not enjoying these latest volumes as much as earlier in the series, but I'm still interested to see where the story goes.

[Lauren · Rating 2 out of 5]

review: This is the wildest book I've ever read and I still feel an insatiable compulsion to bleach my eyes, despite having first read this over a year ago. Some of us have watched the anime recently, and... Do we remember one of the best first chapters and first episodes of all time? Yeah, nah – my recollections have been mentally water-blasted out of my head and replaced with a cringe NEET with a weird fetish being pulverised into oblivion by a demonic clone of his sister. I think that's what happened?

What happened to the original series? Look – your character is immortal and can live through all of history. You want him to experience modern day Tokyo and role-play as a schoolboy. I understand the urge. If your technical execution wasn't so unhinged, I would be more sympathetic. Either way, I dearly hope that we can put this installement behind us and look forward to better things.

[Carlos J. Eguren · Rating 2 out of 5]

He detestado profundamente toda la subtrama de ese "hermano mayor" y creo que Oima se ha perdido con la elipsis temporal. Este salto, que al principio era tan prometedor, ha hundido la serie para mí y lo que antes era interesante, ahora se nota que está excesivamente alargado. No obstante, sigue siendo "To your eternity", solo que yo dudo de que continúe con ella el resto de la eternidad. Me ha cansado.

[L. Luck · Rating 3 out of 5]

There’s interesting ideas here, but a creepy dude who tries to look up his little stepsister’s skirt and wants a relationship with his little sister like from bad anime and manga but gets “redeemed” as a caring brother without the creepy stuff addressed/clearly fixed is NOT one of them. There’s upskirt shots of the girl, too. 😰

[Dani Wladdimiro · Rating 3 out of 5]

No sabría decir si es un buen o mal volumen, porque volvemos a tramas que ya fueron tratadas, y las temáticas se vuelven repetitivas, por lo que a veces agotan, pero hay que reconocer que en el género de Shonen es difícil tratar ciertas temáticas como la pedofilia, y acá lo hacen, sin mucha profundidad, pero lo blanquean. Pero bueno, lo que me ocurre es que ciertas personajes que en volúmenes anteriores eran el alma de la historia, ahora son relegados a personajes secundarios sin mayor trasfondo para hacer de figuras decorativas para la casa. Quizá Tonari y Bon son los únicos rescatables, la primera poniendo los puntos sobre las ies a Fushi, y el segundo utilizando su don para tener más información de las personas que se les arrebataron sus cuerpos. Aun así, deja mucho que desear.

Dejando lo malo, me gusta que la autora vuelva a lo que más interesaba en To Your Eternity, que eran las historias personales, sus traumas, sus dolores, y con la historia de la pequeña que un Knocker tomó su cuerpo, luego que se decidiera suicidar, es volver un poco a sus inicios de la obra. Siento que es de gran valor lo que está tratando de hacer, pero no me llega como las primeras historias del manga, pero si se nota que las temáticas ya son más de la era actual, por lo que uno puede sentir más propio el problema. Habrá que ver que ocurre a futuro, y como Fushi va desentrañando todo esto, que quedó abierto con los instintos de Mizuha.

[小さな N (.❛ ᴗ ❛.)⊃ [_|_] ♡ · Rating 2 out of 5]

~*See below for review in English*~

08.2022

Sobald die Geschichte in die Neuzeit verlegt wurde, war ich mir unsicher, ob sie mir so gut gefallen würde, wie noch zu Beginn. Es liegt nicht einmal unbedingt an der Epoche in der wir uns befinden... die Geschichte fühlt sich jetzt so anders an. Die Charaktere sind merkwürdig und die Art, wie die Geschichte erzählt wird, ist auch komisch. Ich kann es gar nicht wirklich beschreiben, wenn ich ehrlich sein soll. Die ersten Bände waren so voller Gefühl, aber die letzten Bände paar waren irgendwie strumpf, haben mich kaum berührt sondern eher verwirrt. Es ist aber auch nicht die Art der Verwirrung, wo man unbedingt wissen möchte wie es weitergeht... sondern einach nur ein ein Gefühl von... "hä?"

Ich werde noch weiterlesen und hoffen, dass mir Band 16 wieder besser gefallen wird.

~**~**~**~

As soon as the story moved to modern times, I was unsure if I would like it as much as I did at the beginning. It's not even necessarily because of the era we are in... the story feels so different now. The characters are weird and the way the story is told feels odd too. I can't really describe it, to be honest. The first volumes were so full of emotion, but the last few volumes have been kind of lacklustre, barely touching me and rather confusing me. But it's not the kind of confusion where you really want to know what happens next... but just a feeling of... "wha'?"

I will continue reading and hope that I will like volume 16 more.

[Doc · Rating 3 out of 5]

How to exorcise a nokker.

This volume has some pretty gruesome things in it making it less enjoyable then many of the other volumes as though Yoshitoki Ōima is trying to shock us to show how nokkers can be extremely evil like any human can. Mimori is a young girl who now has a big brother (thanks to his father dating her mother) who has a seriously creepy little sister fetish and although he means well most of the time it gets worse when his little sister now possessed by a nokker ties him up in bondage and whips him like a mini sadist to punish him. In addition to this there is talk of suicide (and at least one success sort of) in this volume as well as with Mimori's ghost helpless her nokker controlled body is subjected to a variety of acts of violence to hopefully force it out so her ghost can return once more to her body. Oh yeah...of course with all that there is Mimori's story about why she came to be in her present situation adding parental abuse to the list of ewww moments for those that might be offended by any if not all of the things above. It might just be all sorts of negative stuff in one book making it harder to enjoy the series but I will continue to hope things will get better as the truth about Mizuha's moments of unconscious mayhem is explored.

[Herdis Marie · Rating 3 out of 5]

To his shock, Fushi has discovered that Nokkers have evolved, and now possess the ability to perfectly masquerade as humans. Installing themselves in living human bodies, they behave almost like parasites, taking over their hosts at opportune moments.

But what do they want this time?



This volume was a bit odd.

We start by becoming acquainted with Hirotoshi, brother to the little girl possessed by a Nokker that Fushi encountered in the previous volume.

Hirotoshi is ... a bit creepy. I feel like Oima could have spared herself the pseudo-pedophilic aspects of his character, without which he would have been fine, if a bit of a loser. This honestly contributed a lot to my discomfort with this volume.

Nokker-Mimori is also unnecessarily creepy, in my opinion, as well as annoying.

I do like this new parasitic aspect the Nokkers have adopted, though, and I think that might be interesting moving forwards, but I hope the next volume feels more connected to the story as a whole. This one felt a bit ... disjointed, somehow.

[Rose · Rating 2 out of 5]

tw // pedophilia, incest/pseudo incest

a hot mess of a volume and I personally think I should be paid reparations for reading literally any scene involving the creepy pedophile step brother. the shibari????????????! i should be able to press charges for that. i had to add a tag for pedophilia AND incest/pseudo incest and i do resent that. this volumes seems to have just been written specifically to put a blood thirsting unkillable monster in a 10 yr old girl's body so we could have the occasional flash up a skirt and to have the newest hayase family successor be deeply concerningly unhinged, as seems their purpose to the entire story. and that the loli obsessed brother could be her "savior" in the end. disgusting.

[The Book Dragon · Rating 4 out of 5]

So the Nokkers are back but instead of being gross little puss balls that take over humans, they're extra tiny parasites that choose to infect suicidality depressed individuals, acting like a buffer between them and the bad parts of life while leaving convenient memory gaps.

Except right now, we have a 10 year old girl who committed suicide and a Nokker is using the body as a meat suit. Picture a demonic little 10 year old running around with a weed wacker. And she's not the only one infected. Hooboy... this is getting crazy... well crazier...

[Miranda · Rating 3 out of 5]

Content Note: Thirty-year-old man creeping on his extremely minor stepsister. Lots of gore and some possibly upsetting images of a child being decapitated and otherwise harmed.

... uh yeah this one was weird. Did we really need the whole thing with the stepbrother and his stepsister?

Starting to feel like the plot has been a little bit lost with this one, which is sad, because I was still enjoying it well enough. But oof.

[Kayuri · Rating 5 out of 5]

Dieser Band hält so einiges bereit. Auch wenn es im allgemeinen etwas ruhiger wirkt in der aktuellen Zeit. Das mag daran liegen das die Gegner nun auch unter dem Radar bleiben. Vor allem das Ende wirft so einige Fragen auf und ich bin gespannt wie es weiter geht. Kann sich Fushi noch weiter entwickeln?

[Gisela Pereira · Rating 4 out of 5]

Está obra tem tido altos e baixos e este número 15 melhorou um bocado. A história da Mimori partiu o coração, porém a parte da Mizuha desespera não gosto deste personagem é o final fiquei chateada. Inmo não abre os olhos e continua a cometer o mesmo erro com esses “herdeiros” dos golpeadores…

[K · Rating 2 out of 5]

This is not the series I love anymore.
I personally viewed Fushi as an ace aro character like me so I was disappointed when he randomly started asking all these questions about love and such. I also absolutely loath whatever is going on between the ten year old nokker and it’s brother.

[Noelle Nichols · Rating 5 out of 5]

Wow, that took a dark turn, but I'm here for it. I'm all for the age of the heart and mind and what possobilites this unlocks for the nokkers and future clashes.

"Even if your body's healthy, if your heart's busted, you're gonna be unhappy."

[Lori CucVig · Rating 4 out of 5]

Il nemico si è evoluto. Cosa vuole? Come vive? Cosa sarebbe più giusto? Conosciamo un nuovo personaggio che si aggregherà temporaneamente alla lotta contro i Knocker. Ma altri misteri si muovono sotto la superficie. Non è ancora pace. Vedremo...

[Wing · Rating 3 out of 5]

This series just gets.... weirder and weirder.

[Dennise · Rating 3 out of 5]

The way Gugu’s story always makes me cry the most of all I love him sm

[Paola · Rating 2 out of 5]

1.5 stars ✨

Geez, so disturbing 😬

[Digi Demii · Rating 1 out of 5]

Wayyyy too many inappropriate things