The tale of how the most simple living thing evolved into a completed intelligent human being. Fumetsu No Anata e tells us a different point of view, the most tragic one. A simple rock thrown into the world through "divine retribution" will experience the evolution of Earth. It can take the form of every living thing that dies near him, the "stimulation" makes him able to.
First of all, we are presented a no-name white haired boy who wants to get to know the outside world, his family left and he cant stand being alone on that cold land for one more second.
STORY 10/10
- The rock experiences the first (and not the last) death of the series. Our white haired boy dies, our rock (already transformed into the boy's wolf that previously died) recieves the first stimulus, a painful one.
So the story goes on, the boy it's inmortal, he gets the name Fushi and the stimulation keeps flowing. Pain and Distress are also ways of evolving, Fushi is taken through that path, every human being he stays with, the greater the danger he is on. March, Gugu, Parona, all their stories fascinated me, Gugu's especially, and in turn all of them hurt like a backstab. Fushi keeps evolving, he learns how to talk, to write, to feel, feel pain, feel bliss.
However, the stimulation is created by distress, Fushi is going through all of the deaths of the people he started to feel something of.
The Season goes on, the drama does not stop, and then we arrive to the last arc, Jananda. Jananda shut the season with a wonderful twist, Hayase is on the island, the Tonari group is presented, the place go rumbling when the Nokkers arise. Fushi's life gets darkened again, most of his friends died again, he found out that Parona died as well by Hayase's hand, everything is trampled up.
The stimulation never ends, the story's moral give a final message : `
Accept death, embrace it, live with it, dying is a part of living, you cannot stop the unstoppable, being inmortal makes you feel double the pain. `
ART 9.5/10
I can't really extend or criticize the art, it's just amazing, the ghibli-like animation makes the series SO beautiful to watch, the opening, sang by the GODDESS Hikaru Utada is so so so good, is top 3 openings for me rn. Everything was according to my expectations.
CHARACTERS 10/10
The path of Fushi, the self-acceptance of Gugu, the harsh reality realisation of March, the madness evolution of Hayase, the love story of Rean, the fulfilled role of Parona, the mother-son relation between Fushi and Pioran, Tonari's path of hatred and forced-happiness, EVERY character was perfectly built and executed, I can't think of any remarkable mistake.
CONCLUSION
Im already starting season 2, and I will start the manga as soon as the season ends, I'm in love with this series, with the music, with their characters, with everything.
