To Your Eternity
a review by Anto10
a review by Anto10
As the title says, To Your Eternity is a great journey about how to find humanity and real emotions despite the fact of being immortal and so inhuman.
One of the best first episode I’ve ever seen, complete and excellent in all aspects: a well written story, characters you can emphatize very easily, heart-breaking moments and a good soundtrack. What hits me the most was how much I was fond of these characters even though we barely know them for like 10 minutes and this shows how much this first episode was good.
The story rounds around Fushi, an immortal orb created to be observe and to preserve the Earth who can take the form of anything that has given him stimulations. After taking the form of the unnamed boy, Fushi starts his journey to fulfill the boy’s dream to meet new people and make new experiences. Going on he will also have to deal with the Nokkers(name given by Fushi’s creator, The Beholder), unknown creatures created to go against Fushi and that can steal the forms he gathered. I really like the concept and I think it’s very unique, a creature with basically no knowledge of the Earth and who doesn’t even know how to speak needs to learn how to behave and live like a real person, founding his humanity through the people he meets. Story can be divided into three major arcs: Spirit Bear arc, Takunaha arc and Jananda Island arc. I loved the first two arcs and I emphatize so much with the characters of March, a young but already strong girl who’s the “mother” figure of Fushi and Gugu, who is like an adoptive brother to him and whose death and backstory made me cry like a baby, but I can’t say the same about the last arc, as I couldn’t care less of Tonari and the other kids, but this is something I’m going to talk about later. However I think this arc is fondamental to Fushi’s development as this is the first time he lives in a toxic and unhealthy environment with people who already lost their humanity and where paradoxically he’s the most human of all.Fushi’s development as a real person is the main focus of the show and is something enjoyable to see: you can really see how much he has grown from Episode 1, from a nobody to a real person who can think for itself, understand and making himself understood and that can feels emotions.
We didn’t get to see her for long time but I connected with her on an incredible emotional level, she’s the first person Fushi meets during his journey and she can be considered his adoptive mother, as she educate him and teach him many things.
A really strong character, undoubtedly the best one of the series along with Fushi, his story made me cry and the relationship with Fushi is beautiful. You will never get forgotten Gugu, LONG LIVE THE MONSTERS!
Essentially they’re not bad characters, Tonari and Upa are the ones who stands out the most while the others don’t get enough screentime or aren’t explored at all, the problem is I couldn’t give a damn about their faith as the show fails to create an emotional connection like the one with Gugu or March, and when three of them died I felt nothing unlike the previous deaths where I was broken.
The main antagonist and the one that puts Fushi in trouble the most during the show after she develops a crazy obsession towards him. She’s made to be hated so she does a good job and in the end she get what she deserved.Even if it wasn’t something that catches the eye I liked the animation and the art of the first 12/13 episodes, it wasn’t the best but surely not something to complain about, but just like the story it falls apart after. Same can’t be said about the music and the soundtrack in general, always on point and never disappointing.
After giving so many compliments I have to talk about the aspects I haven’t liked: despite loving the premise and even the execution, I think To Your Eternity is a bit too ripetitive with the scheme: Fushi meets new people, start to care about them and grow an emotional relationship only to then see them die. Personally it doesn’t bother me, as the duality and the relationship between immortality and mortality is one of the theme of the series, but I can understand people who got annoyed by this. Plus, the last arc doesn’t keep up with the first episode and the first two arcs, neither in terms of story nor emotional level, without talking about the animation and the quality level that dropped hard in the last episodes.
I personally enjoyed the show, I loved the development of Fushi and his journey, however I think that To Your Eternity had the potential to be even better, the first half is a solid 90-95/100 and episodes 1 and 12 are really something else but it goes down with the second half who’s not bad but that can get a 70/100 at best, so I give a 80/100 to the general series!
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