寶石之國 11

宝石の国 [Hōseki no Kuni] #11

by Haruko Ichikawa, 市川春子, 謝仲庭 (Translator)

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附市川春子親撰萬字．厚達112頁．精裝解說全事典《圖說　寶石之國》書盒永久珍藏版
收錄50篇專文及插畫，詳細解說寶石與月人的日常、文化與生態
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「要是沒有寶石的話，就好了。」

手塚治虫文化賞新生賞得主　市川春子　首部長篇作品
2017年電視動畫化．颳起全亞洲寶石旋風–—新型態戰鬥奇幻話題作《寶石之國》原著系列

「在遙遠的未來，我們成為了『寶石』。」

故事發生在距今遙遠的未來，地球上僅剩下28個擁有寶石之身的人形生命體，以及統領著他們的「金剛老師」。28個寶石各由不同成分的礦物所組成，也因此有不同的特質，除了物理上的身體硬度、韌性外，內在個性也截然不同。在他們身上，沒有所謂的性別，也沒有所謂的死亡，即使粉身碎骨，也還是有重組而「死而復生」的可能。

而為了抵抗欲將寶石帶回月球作為裝飾、日復一日前來侵襲的神祕種族「月人」，他們為彼此分配了不同的職責，並兩兩組成戰鬥小組，隨時備戰。但其中硬度低、韌性最為下級的「磷葉石」，由於太過軟弱，即使一心想要戰鬥，卻未被分配到任何職務，最後被金剛老師分配了「編寫博物誌」這個任務。不知從何做起的磷葉石，決定從找尋「尚未知曉」的事物開始，此時他被建議詢問從不在白天出沒、其他寶石也都知之甚少的「辰砂」：他擁有強大戰鬥實力，卻因會散發毒液而將自己禁閉於黑夜。在試著接近這個神祕同伴的過程，軟弱的磷葉石心中開始產生了變化，故事由此展開……

▍本集簡介 ▍

祈禱吧，機器。為了我。

回到地球試圖重啟金剛卻失敗的磷葉石，
在被擊碎兩百二十年後重新甦醒，再次用盡全力重啟金剛。
這次的復甦與重啟，自此改變了磷葉石的心，
更使地面與月亮的戰爭翻開了新的一頁……

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本集特別向日本講談社授權日本特裝版，附由作者市川春子本人裝幀設計精裝解說書，共收錄五十篇專文，分別詳細介紹《寶石之國》世界中的各項元素，從日常物品、服裝、生物、人物、自然景觀到文化，更附有對應精美原創解說插畫，想要更進一步了解《寶石之國》的世界觀及設定，此本別冊是不可不讀的一冊，精美裝幀亦值得所有讀者們收藏。

Genres: Manga, Fantasy, Science Fiction, Comics, Fiction, Seinen, Horror

304 pages, Paperback

First published July 20, 2020

About the author

Haruko Ichikawa (市川春子 in Japanese), born in 1980, is the author and artist of Land of the Lustrous (宝石の国, lit. "Country of Jewels"). She started her career in 2006 with the one-shot Mushi to Uta (虫と歌, lit. Insects and Songs). Between 2007 and 2011, she published seven one-shots in the manga magazine Afternoon, which were later compiled into two individual books named Ichikawa Haruko Sakuhinshuu (市川春子作品集, lit. Haruko Ichikawa Works Collection). She started writing Land of the Lustrous on October 25th, 2012, which currently has 10 volumes.

In 2010 she won the Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize for works on Mushi to Uta. She has also contributed characters designs to the games Pokemon Sun & Moon and Pokemon Sword & Shield.

Reviews

[Sol · Rating 5 out of 5]

Ichikawa is ratcheting up the pressure. Phos has been pushed beyond the breaking point (but there's always more to be broken), and that's just what Aechmea wants.




Maybe I should feel bad about the earth gems getting destroyed, but it's hard. Phos has suffered immeasurably, and all for their sake (even if it'll end up getting them all killed if he succeeds, but he doesn't know that). It's probably not good for Phos psychologically either. I'm hoping he'll give Euclase the chance to talk, but he's probably not in the mood. It's also an open question what he'll do when he sees Adamant, because...



Phos is entirely aware that Adamant is the only being in the universe that cares about him as a person. The idea that he'd have to kill Adamant to save the other gems was only a catch-22 as long as Phos cared about the other gems. If he's convinced himself that all other gems should die, will he still have the desire for Adamant to pray? I'm not sure if Phos is aware that he counts as a human now, and thus is probably indispensible to Aechmea. Will he have anything to say to Cinnabar?



There were a surprisingly large number of straightforward answers here. It was Phos' gifts and his emotions which make him human. Aechmea also claims that humanity was never the sole requirement to get Adamant to pray, but that Adamant is, in fact, unable to pray (though he doesn't elaborate why). He's come full circle, from saying Adamant is unable to pray, to implying that it was an emotional problem, to whatever he's claiming here.



Of course, there were also a heap of more obscure hints in this volume. There's an emphasis on ice throughout. Adamant shows Phos' Lapis eye the ice floes. Phos escapes during the winter. Adamant says to Euclase that Antarcticite somehow knew that Adamant was a different kind of being from the gems. The last thing Phos dreams before regaining consciousness is Antarcticite repeating the last thing Phos said to Adamant - "If only you weren't here". Cinnabar finds his first job as a cheerleader for the gems destroying the floes. If we look back a bit further, Cairngorm's last request before his eye surgery was for Aechmea to attach a layer of Antarcticite to his body to comfort Phos, and Adamant made a comment about how the ice floes are beings similar in nature to the gems, but unable to think. Finally, the volume ends with Aechmea showing Cairngorm a pit of solid ice, part of some plan of his, commenting that gem memories prefer high purity crystals. If I try to tie this all together - Adamant says that he has memories from before his creation. If the ice floes have memories, is it possible that Antarcticite had memories from them, possibly having observed things from before the end of humanity? The comments about Aechmea and Cairngorm having a child, the attachment of the Antarcticite, the comment about gem memories preferring high purity crystals - what does it mean? Perhaps the creation of artificial memories to further control and develop Phos into "something greater than a human"? There was some speculation a long while back that Aechmea had "impregnated" Phos with the human particle (see the chapter with the human factory and Aechmea giving Phos the pearl eye), but that seems a bit outlandish at this point. Then again, they did make a point about how humans are mostly water, and supposedly both Antarcticite and Phosphophyllite are water-absorbing minerals... Unless Aechmea lied to Phos and kept a large amount of the original Antarcticite lying around, I don't think there's much chance of him coming back. I suppose there's not too much purpose in speculating on such a deliberately confounding cliffhanger.



Coming back to the purity of the ice crystals, "purity" comes up repeatedly in this volume - Aechmea claims that the gems are "pure beings", and that they corrupted Adamant from his original purpose, and that even with the gifts of the legs and arms, Phos was "too pure" to become human, but Lapis' head provided the final piece necessary. If the "7 treasures" theory is true, and Aechmea has some plan to make Phos more than human, then Phos still needs a piece from a red gem, candidates being Red Diamond, Padsparadscha and Cinnabar. Pads would probably give a piece of himself to Phos, since he apparently has no problem being unconscious for centuries at a time even now. I could see Phos forcefully taking pieces from Cinnabar, but Mercury and Gold rapidly form an amalgam, so who knows what that would do.



The fact that Adamant knows Aechmea's name implies that Aechmea was involved in his creation. I believe the Professor was called a woman, so she probably isn't Aechmea, but perhaps he knew her? We see in this volume that Aechmea has far more viewports onto the island and the school than just Phos' eye, and we found out last volume that he had been watching Ghost/Cairngorm for a long time, and kept Cairngorm's original arm. This opens up a whole can of worms about how much of the events of the series were orchestrated by Aechmea. If he thought Lapis' head was integral to Phos' growth, did he deliberately leave it behind? Did he plan for Ghost to be chipped off of Cairngorm? Did he know ahead of time that Phos wanted to go to the moon? Did he deliberately capture Antarcticite? When did he first take note of Phos? If he knew all of this, is it possible that he did, in fact, keep the original pieces of Antarcticite? Or even Phos' original head? If he could locate Phos' arms and legs in the ocean, he could reconstruct a whole new Phos if this one goes awry.

[Eel · Rating 5 out of 5]

An absolute tragic momentum of a tale filled with propulsionary grief, and selfishness. Everyone is so beautiful, yet so destructive.

[Rylan · Rating 5 out of 5]

i’m shaking crying this volume hit so hard the way things are going i don’t know how this will end

[Andrada Brătescu · Rating 5 out of 5]

The day this series will stop making me feel like my heart is being chopped into little pieces and marinated is the day the earth stops spinning, I love it with every pore of my body

[Aitor · Rating 5 out of 5]

Jamás pensé que esta serie se volvería tan turbia, pero aquí estamos con un primer capítulo impresionante. Phos, ante la agonía del paso del tiempo, transmite su deseo de desaparecer ante un Kongô incapaz de cumplir ese deseo. Ichikawa demuestra físicamente la inestabilidad mental de Phos, un personaje que, mientras mejora como persona/gema, empeora en su salud mental. Ni siquiera sabía que era posible mezclar un arco de personaje negativo con uno positivo al mismo tiempo, pero para eso está Ichikawa cerrándome la boca.

El funcionamiento incorrecto de Kongô es. como si no estuviera demostrado ya, una prueba definitiva del dominio de Ichikawa sobre la narrativa y el budismo. Además de ser un giro de guion inesperado (que sea capaz de extinguir las tres especies al mismo tiempo), es una encarnación incorrecta del ideal budista. Kongô ama incondicionalmente a las gemas y, precisamente por eso, falla como Buda. En el budismo, la vida es sufrimiento y tan solo puede encontrarse la paz extinguiendo al yo, pero Kongô ha encontrado un propósito vital en la protección de las gemas. Al tener un amarre terrenal como es el amor por las gemas, es incapaz de cumplir con el ideal budista. En lugar de ser un guía espiritual sabio y venerable, es una máquina que trata de alcanzar la humanidad mientras lidia con las expectativas que todos tienen puestas en él como ser divino. Gracias a esto, Ichikawa trata un tema más: las complicaciones del ideal budista como ser desanclado del mundo terrenal y las consecuencias directas para un dios que, a efectos prácticos, se ha convertido en un padre de familia enfrentando ante el odio de uno de sus hijos. Es lo más desgarrador que podía hacer la autora con el personaje de Kongô y me parte el corazón verle en semejante situación.

Mientras las gemas viven en paz en la Tierra, celebrando incluso el cumpleaños de Kongô y aceptando a Cinnabar por fin en la familia (algo que me hace bastante feliz), los planes de Phos llegan a nuevas cotas de sufrimiento. Quizá me esté equivocando, pero creo que Ichikawa ha desplegado su cerebro galaxia con la nueva forma de Phos. En el budismo, un Bodhisattva es alguien en su camino para alcanzar la iluminación y ser un nuevo Buda, pero también alguien que pospone su llegada al Nirvana para ayudar a otros a alcanzarlo (aunque eso depende de la creencia). Phos guarda similitudes con el Bodhisattva Avalokiteśvara o Kannon (en Japón), ya que quiere ayudar a todo el mundo a alcanzar la paz y guarda esa conocidísima imaginería de los mil brazos. Ichikawa, sin embargo, le da una vuelta macabra a todo esto y crea a una Bodhisattva que, en lugar de ayudar a otros, busca su propia paz a través del genocidio de las gemas y, así, se convierte en una especie de heraldo apocalíptico cuya imaginería de mil brazos semeja los hilos de una telaraña que atrapa a todos los personajes en su interior.

La guerra comienza al fin e Ichikawa da rienda suelta a su genialidad con el colofón de los distintos arcos de personajes secundarios que se habían ido formando en tomos anteriores. Para comenzar, se contrapone a Dia con Bort, ambas gemas de ideologías opuestas tanto entre ellas como a sus actitudes al inicio de la serie. ¿Quién sabe si Bort ha cambiado a raíz de su necesidad de proteger a Dia o si ha sido todo lo contrario, su separación de Dia lo que ha motivado su cambio total hacia la no-violencia? Y lo mismo con Dia: ¿su necesidad de atención comenzó con Bort y ha provocado un refuerzo de su egoísmo ante la obtención de fans selenitas? El caso es que ambas gemas han cambiado e Ichikawa concluye sus tramas con un impresionante desenlace.

Además de la dualidad Dia-Bort, el manga concluye macábramente la evolución de Lex, que antes odiaba a la gente selenita y ahora se ha convertido a efectos prácticos en une más, en aquello que juró destruir. De todas las gemas, Benito parece la única capaz de darse cuenta de la locura que está provocando Lex a las órdenes de Phos.

El último capítulo del tomo, aunque quizá demasiado expositivo, es el más revelador de todos. Se deduce al fin que la tierra donde viven las gemas es Sukhāvatī, la Tierra Pura Amidista donde Sensei (sospechosamente similar a Hōnen, el fundador de la secta Jōdo-shū) hace las funciones de un Amitābha al que es necesario orar para obtener la salvación. Me resulta curioso que, partiendo del Budismo de la Tierra Pura, Ichikawa haya decidido establecer el espacio principal de la serie en, precisamente, una Tierra Pura fracasada con un Buda en ciernes.

Más allá del lore budista, el plan de Aechmea resulta ser la conversión en ser humano de Phos o, en sus palabras, "en algo mejor que humano", como tratando de crear un nuevo Kongô. Me encanta que se afirme la venganza como el sentimiento más humano, más alejado de la espiritualidad. A diferencia del resto de emociones, la venganza solo viene motivada por el beneficio personal a través del perjuicio ajeno, un camino totalmente opuesto a la iluminación y que lleva a la destrucción personal. Phos se está convirtiendo en un ser humano a través de esta autodestrucción.

Como puede verse, este tomo es una cosa espectacular, siguiendo con el nivel de los anteriores. Una vez llegado el arco de la luna, todo está subiendo de nivel en materia de historia, personajes, trasfondo budista e ingenio narrativo. Grandísima Ichikawa y grandísimo Houseki no Kuni.

[Radwa · Rating 4 out of 5]

- some honesty at the beginning would've prevented all of this
- i don't really understand the gems. are they really against phos that they refuse to consider that maybe stopping the endless fighting might be a solution worth considering?
- being on the moon spoiled the earth gems and stripped them of their humility and iguess that says something
- so, the conclusion is humans are the worst? cool, cool, cool.

[emma ☁ · Rating 5 out of 5]

sincèrement ce manga est l’un des meilleurs que j’ai jamais lu de ma vie. l’histoire est tellement incroyable et recherchée et la tournure que l’œuvre prend est trop estomaquante mais dans le bon sens… phos i will protect you with my whole life même si tu fais n’importe quoi j’en ai rien à faire !! c’est réellement un des protagonistes les mieux écrits que j’ai pu lire

[Darja · Rating 5 out of 5]

I'm not even surprised but still...

[rika ⋆₊˚⊹ · Rating 5 out of 5]

ogni capitolo ha una rivelazione scioccante, i can't do it anymore 😭

[Rebecca Lindau · Rating 4 out of 5]

:(

[Lidiandoconlavida · Rating 5 out of 5]

«Adamant me reconstruyó. Él todavía me ama».

:(

No me había dado cuenta de que Phos tiene partes de las tres razas, cómo no he caído si sobrepienso todo. Así que el desarrollo de personaje ha sido para convertirlo en humano... Qué cruel es el pto príncipe voy a #######. Aunque sí que es verdad que me duele ver a Phos en ese estado, bueno, los demás no merecen su misericordia. Ha estado solo desde hace mucho tiempo, así que está en su derecho de venganza. Es triste que en cierto modo haya cumplido la promesa que le hizo a Cinnabar; tiene un nuevo trabajo (proteger al sensei de Phos jaja) y ahora Cinnabar se lleva bien con los demás. Pero duele.

El reencuentro de los diamantes también me ha dejado 💔💔, ha sido tan triste y épico ver cómo han cambiado los dos y literal por poco se reconocen. Echo de menos sus antiguos yos y los de todos, la verdad.

Aunque el ship de Bortz x Cinnabar también me gusta... Adjunto la imagen que me ha destrozado en cuestión:



La traducción para los no bilingües:

Cinnabar: ¿estás bien Bortz?🏃🏻‍♀️
Bortz: sí sí no te preocupes.
Cinnabar: ¿pero seguro? ¿No estás oxidad...?
Bortz: eh eh, no digas eso pequeña *sonríe como😏*
Diamond: 😨

Jajajaja demasiadas emociones contradictorias, sobrecarga de información, caída del sistema.

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No sé si quiero ver el final de esto pero *procede a ver el final*

[Maria · Rating 5 out of 5]

Wow! I've got a lot of feelings about this Volume! As time passes, the chapters become even more depressing than before!

So, here's what happened; Phos goes alone to Adamant and tries to convince him to pray for the Lunarians. The Earth gems, however, break him to pieces and scatter his fragments all around the place, so the Lunarians would have a hard time finding him again.

After 220 years, almost all the Earth gems have forgotten about him. Save for Euclase and Adamant, who decide to put him back together. Phos tries again to force Adamant to pray, but fails. Now, he has completed changed! He is no longer the silly, but happy and determined gem we met at the beginning of the story, but a furious, depressed person, who wants to take revenge for what the Earth gems did to him and get the job done.

To be honest, when I first met Phos, I wasn't very fond of him. For the most part, I found him to be kinda annoying, but now that I see his current self, I wish he could remain like the go-lucky person he was. I admit, seeing him becoming stronger and gaining the respect of the fellow gems was nice, but that's it.

Anyway, Phos decides to shatter all the Earth gems and force Adamant to pray, so he gets a handful of his Gem friends, a spaceship and multiple Lunarians and attack the Earth gems…

[karli · Rating 5 out of 5]

one of the most talented authors i’ve ever seen in Japanese manga

she somehow always keeps making this manga stressful to read with every volume. I keep thinking about how beautiful Phos and their struggle is that I can’t feel bad for anyone else. Beautifully and tragically captivating.

[Claire · Rating 5 out of 5]

pain

[El Claver · Rating 4 out of 5]

i am sad

[Julia · Rating 3 out of 5]

I found 11th part of The Land of Lustrous less interesting and gripping than the rest of the story and it was caused by few things. First, it is still the issue I have with such a huge change in Phos. She became some kind of monster, and completely lost the goal she had at the beginning - to bring back the other Juweles. Now she became obsessed with only one thing - to make Brilliant pary, and that is fair enough, however I still can't see how would she forget the things she had been previously obsessed about. It just didn't make as much sense for me. She has also turned into a cruel and mindless creature and I just simply can't agree to that.
Another thing that bothered me was the role of Smoky Quarz and her falling in love with the Prince - why falling in love was related to her change? Why couldn't she just change without becoming a bit silly and annoying.
Last thing, the explanation of Prince of how he wants the Brilliant to pray feels a bit forced, and I felt it was created only for the story to make sense at this point. Also, because of the prolonging of the plot, I felt that the author didn't have an idea on how to go on further.
I will read next chapters once they get published. I just hope itll be sooner rather than later because I still want to know what exactly caused the defect in Brilliant and what would happen once he finally prays.

[Anne Marie Larsen · Rating 5 out of 5]

The previous volumes showcase the downfall of Phosphophyllite as they lose pieces of their body and their memories. Somehow, I found myself curious to see what else their quest for the truth of their existence and their master would cost them, and was frighteningly enthralled as Phos’s head was replaced and the inner urge to rebel was ignited by Lapis’s inquisitive awakening.
However, this volume asks a raw, almost disturbing question: can you build a human? The moment the Prince revealed his plan for Phos, it was as though the entire series built toward the moment Phos walked into their home, held together by a foreign alloy and a despair only humans can understand. The story leading to the chilling arrival of Phos to Kongo’s room was contemplative, but this volume reached a new level of existentialism and depth.
I wholeheartedly hope the author will return from hiatus to finish the story such that the following chapters may also be compiled into a physical volume.

[May · Rating 4 out of 5]

کل جلد های قبل یه طرف، این جلد یه طرف



اهداف واقعی خیلی از کارکترها معلوم شد و ظاهرا چیزی تا پایان داستان نمونده
این جلد پنل هایی داشت که در عین ساده بودن خیلی تاثیرگذار و عمیق بودن‌...

یعنی واقعا ائچمیا پشت تمام اتفاقات بوده؟ خیلی عجیبه؛ مثلا می دونست فوس تحت تاثیر آنتارک قرار می گیره؟ یا چطوری از عقاید و فرضیات لاپیس خبر داشت؟ احتمالا توی چپتر های بعدی خیلی چیزا مشخص بشه. و اینکه چند صفحه اخر خیلی امیدوار کننده بود

البته شنیدم چپترهای بعدی قراره خیلی حیرت انگیزتر باشه و خیلی چیزا تغییر کنه. اگه اینجور باشه ایچیکاوا باید هزینه تراپیست منو بده :))

[phoenix kai · Rating 4 out of 5]

3.5 this was such a brutal, heartbreaking end to this story. the art was beautiful as always. this book really made me rethink the purpose of the story. why was it being told? there were so many themes of change, growth, self harm, deception. it was hard to watch our hero grow into something so twisted and hurt. i never could relate or understand the thinking of any of the characters other than phos. it felt like the gems stopped caring about one another in a way, especially the gems who went to the moon. this was a tough read emotionally and there was a lot that i had to question, but i was thankful it made me think and self reflect so much.

[Andy · Rating 5 out of 5]

I no longer blame Ichikawa for having writer’s block. I never did to begin with, but I understand more now… for a story and cast so unique, so unconventional, where do you go from here? Wherever the artist’s vision leads, I will willingly follow. But man, what a cliffhanger…

I do think I may be mentally scarred from some of the imagery in these chapters though. And everything, really. If they ended up serializing this, too, I’m not sure I would survive :P

Count me with the people eagerly awaiting Volume 12, whenever it comes out.

Also, SHORT-HAIRED BORT we love

[Prasanta ku pattnaik · Rating 5 out of 5]

Heart broken

I initially didn't like how things turned out to be in the beginning of this volume but it grew on me and it made more sense later on reading this volume. It has become so much more interesting over the last few volumes and I believe it's entering it's final arc. Nevertheless I really enjoyed it and will keep supporting it..thank you Ichikawa sensei for creating this

[Cosmin · Rating 5 out of 5]

I think this volume is the magnum opus of Phos’s hatred towards himself and a crude and also compelling of his spiraling towards insanity. He is braking most of the principles he had as a character for it’s goal. He doesn’t care anymore who is hurt, he just wants to succeed.
And i think this is a great way to show how human nature works, we as humans are volatile creatures, put in enough trauma and pain and we’ll change completely to someone not even slightly resembling our former self.

[SSRI · Rating 5 out of 5]

The peak of differentiation in the series regarding characters and motivation. Completely split, there's a tonal shift after the 200 or so year gap. Pho's has completely evolved into a villain of sorts, bent on a revenge fueled purpose - purpose itself. The precipice of existentialism and genuinely heartbreaking.

[Pranjal Prasad · Rating 5 out of 5]

Dived right into vol. 5 after the anime, and I think the manga excels at what most manga don't: building up tension naturally. Each confrontation has a purpose, and brings us as readers closer to the central mystery surrounding the Lunarians in such an organic fashion. I really hope the hiatus ends soon.

[Brandon · Rating 5 out of 5]

Everything is going wrong and Phos is completely wrecked. This is the darkest volume yet, with some of the creepiest art, and depressing turns. We finally start to get some answers and payoffs to the things that have been going on since the first volume of the series. This might be my favourite volume yet and the series is really reaching a climax.

[Alexandra Cardenas · Rating 5 out of 5]

“You either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villain” Phos has tried hard and long to do what’s right for her fellow gems but it seems as if nobody is ever on her side and some have even given up on the plan and have become complacent. She finally broke and all hell is breaking loose. Very good volume!

[lou · Rating 5 out of 5]

j'ai tellement pas envie de finir l'histoire 😔😔 comment ça on passe d'une histoire choupi de cristaux marrants à une critique et réflexion sur la condition humaine et son importance dans le cycle de la vie ??
j'aime trop trop trop les dessins sont juste sublimes je pense je vais changer mon fond d'écran parce je suis amoureuse du style de l'autrice 🙂‍↕️

[Mits · Rating 3 out of 5]

Wow this one was just sad. Phos going off the deep end completely with no trace of his former self :( And I still hate the Cairngorm plot. Some things are getting wrapped up though and the new twists are compelling.

[mo · Rating 5 out of 5]

wow this hurt me i’m crying

[Rebecca Dawkins · Rating 5 out of 5]

My god, this series is amazing! I’m frustrated that I’m probably going to have to wait another year for the next installment! (Darn you translations!)