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To Your Eternity, Volume 2 by Yoshitoki Oima

4 reviews

booksthatburn's review

dark tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Violence, Gore, Blood, Child death, Animal death, and Death

Moderate: Child abuse

fifteenthjessica's review

dark mysterious reflective sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

To Your Eternity is slower and darker than I thought.

See that cute girl on the cover with the dancing toys? That's March from a vision of her growing up right before she realizes she is killed protecting Parona.

It also seems like the storytelling will be more on the episodic side, with Fushi traveling along and meeting new companions.

This finishes the story of March and Parona, sort of.

Parona has failed in her goal to protect March, but  she may have been able to end the village sacrificing a girl with Fushi's health. However, I feel that there is a lot more to see with Parona, especially since it's implied her actions have started a conflict between the Ninannah and the Yanome, so I'm hoping that Fushi ends up backtracking a bit to check in on her.

But, speaking of Parona, who has done much of the character growth this volume, I'm a little confused by her backstory. She could have been sacrificed like March was supposed to, but her older sister hid her away. She hasn't seen her older sister since and is exiled when the rest of the village found her. But, nowadays, the village seems friendly with her, especially March's parents.

The final chapter is a bit different. Fushi is traveling and meets up with Pioran

the criminal the Yanome had pose as a shaman for their interactions with the Ninannah

. She offers to take Fushi to her homeland and teach him to speak, write, and live as a human. As they travel, there's an incident that leads Fushi to interact with a figure that I think is the narrator, as well as an enemy. So, two volumes and 13 chapters in, readers now have an inkling of why Fushi was placed on Earth. Another revelation is that I think, over the course of this volume, I've learned the way Fushi's shapeshifting works.

Fushi can only shapeshift into a living creature (or maybe just humans and animals) that he's touched after it dies. He can heal his forms' wounds, but for things to heal properly, he can't have anything in the wound, otherwise, his body will seal whatever it is inside his body. His ability to remember his forms may affect what he shifts into. His forms are definitely affected by what he wants to accomplish, and he will not return to the rock or lichen for the foreseeable future because of this.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death and Body horror

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Blood, Abandonment, Animal death, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Police brutality, Violence, Suicide attempt, Death, Kidnapping, and Gore

Minor: Rape

januaryt123's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death, Violence, and Sexual violence

idlereader's review against another edition

adventurous emotional medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty

Moderate: Animal death, Child death, and Violence

Minor: Sexual harassment