Episode 5 – To Your Eternity Season 3

One of the funniest things to watch”To your eternity“That’s how we got this line in the weekly recap: “Izumi was killed by her daughter Rui Ye. But the strange thing is that Quan is still alive. “Not only is it crazy that these two sentences can be true at the same time without canceling each other out, but we’re also reminded of Quan’s revelation ghost Very around and will be involved in future matters. Of course, Nokkers isn’t actually disappearedbut the only explanation our heroes can come up with for this is that Black One just made a small mistake when he declared the Nok threat to be gone forever centuries ago. Nothing is ever simple for our beloved orbs, not even in a world of wonders like bubble tea.

certainly, real The test Fuji faces this week is not the dire threat of ancient immortal beings wiping out all of humanity, but something even stranger and unknowable: the public education experience of Japanese middle school students. On the one hand, you can criticize the show and Bang himself for simply dropping Fauci into the middle of high school without even giving him a crash course in what school is all about, but then we’d miss out on some delightfully relatable scenes, like Fauci developing ADHD with his mechanical pencil and annoying the teacher with his lack of basic manners.

I don’t mind the indifferent attitude Fuji as a whole has about how little they understand modern society, and it’s mostly played for laughs; I’d say the hijinks are a fair trade for some somewhat muddled storytelling. if i try to treat the universe To your eternity Taking it as literally as I can, I can find all kinds of holes in the way the narrative handles the resurrection and restoration of the memories of a dozen ancient, quasi-magical creatures and their immortal orb friends. But the show is clearly less interested in directly attacking the philosophical dilemmas of the new status quo, as that would get in the way of all the classic high school anime tropes. It’s certainly weird to see Fauci talking to petty teenagers about his new friends’ vicious promiscuity, but not in a bad way. If Fauci hadn’t escaped from a more primitive, survival-oriented time in the first part of the story, he would never have been able to see the human side. Plus, the new episode gave us the best line of the week, when Gu Gu was asked if he wore a chameleon mask to school, and he just replied, “Of course!” without further explanation.

Before the other shoe inevitably drops, we at least get some good material that does reflect the unique and rather tragic circumstances of our heroes’ lives. Mizuha is once again vying for Fushi’s heart, but Fushi has grown up enough to at least be able to express his feelings about…well, feelings. Not only does he seem to be some variation of asexual/romantic in nature, but he also recognizes that his immortality makes the idea of ​​a romantic relationship impossible. It’s a predictable but welcome characterization for Fuji, who spends so much of the story being characterization based only on his reactions to the actions of others around him. There’s an even better moment at the end, when Tonari confronts Fushi and asks him if he’s ever thought about what a relationship with Mizuha would look like to a friend like March. Just because they’re all living in a teen comedy now, doesn’t mean the horrific circumstances of their past are behind them.

While I enjoy the simple pleasure of repeating genre clichés, I’m more interested in how To your eternity Will (hopefully) subvert the old “school days” routine that Fushi is now stuck in. In fact, we see endless webs of Fushi vines everywhere, a constant reminder that, despite all its familiar trappings, this world is no our planet. Beneath the façade of modern civilization lurk various gods, monsters, and magic that need to be contended with. It’s too good a setup for the show to waste on a long nostalgia trip.

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To your eternity The third season is currently airing
Crunchy roll.

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