This Manga Is Weird...But You Should Read It. 

Now this is a manga I won't forget for at least 10,000 years.

Land of the Lustrous is a deeply original and emotional masterpiece. It is a glistening gem of a manga and a shining example of how to address the complexities of the human psyche in an intriguing way So I also recommend it to y'all. Please try it out 💎🙏

Just finished the anime a couple of days ago, one of the few instances where the CGI actually looks amazing

I feel bad for people who's just started HnK and finding a lot of questionable animatics and arts in the fandom, Either way, come join us suffering for 10.000 years

I love this.

I've read Land of the Lustrous twice in one year (first was by myself and the second was a read along with friends) and can say without a doubt that Phos is in my top 3 protagonists of all time. Their development is amazing

One of the best manga of the last decade with a protagonist on Guts level.

This manga was so good it blew my head off, shattered me , and made me insane!

I actually just picked up the manga this past weekend after watching the anime a while back and it was one of the best, most captivating stories I've read. You're right in saying that it is weird because holy shit, those last ten to twenty chapters were out there, but it is one of those stories that you will remember and look back on fondly.

Glad to see some praise for hnk, I don't know how to describe this story as anything but beautiful from the art, depth in the cast, story and overall feel of the world hnk is something totally unique to fiction and executes it's unique story beautifully

It's one of the manga I want to read the most, but I'm squirming in my seat waiting for a Season 2 that may never come, so I'll give it one more year for an announcement, then read it. And, yes, Antarcticite is my favourite character thus far, as you could probably tell. Also, for the ad revenue, just make a three-minute outro that's you screaming the lyrics to 'Tell Me Why' into a karaoke mic, on loop if need be.

People rarely choose quality over quantity but I appreciate you getting your point across in a short video. I’m interested and had to do a like 👍🏾

*Barges into youtube recommendation *Talks about a random weird manga *Refuses to elaborate further *Leaves

The anime for this is actually a fantastic adaptation. The music and good animation add so much to the story and atmosphere

This series is incredible in every aspect and it is one of the best mangas I've ever read, it's unique in a way that really there isn't anything else like it. I'm glad you decided give it another chance and "finish" it (it's not actually over but still...). If you haven't already I suggest you watch the anime too, it's one of the best adaptation of a manga I've ever seen: it captures the spirit of the manga while being unique in its on rights being made entirely in 3D CG (with some 2D here and there) and the way it is implemented is superb because it takes advantage of the possibilities and solutions an all CG series can offer. I really think it sets a standard for every 3D anime for how good it is. The anime is also a fantastic starting point for those who want to check how's the series prior reading the manga.

Been having this on my to read list for a long time already, basically making it my highest priority still ongoing manga after I read the finished ones that I planned to, and now with hearing there's actually a colored version of it now's the best time to start I guess (If I find the motivation what with all the hiatuses and stuff). The anime adaptation for it in complete CG was also fricking amazing and if you didn't enjoy the fights in the manga I'd suggest at least checking those out in the anime (Diamond's fight with Shiro, the moon dog thing, is still one of my top anime fights, probably ever, the directing was just so well done). I'd say the only one that I can think of that has a similar aesthatic, at least similar to the anime, is Shinsekai Yori buuuut you don't wanna read the manga for that and just stick with either the anime or novel here ^^

Phos has become my favorite character of all time because of the changes she goes through and how each small change is represented either in dialogue, action, or physical appearance. (Spoilers) My grammar is so fucked and I’m way too lazy to change so if something doesn’t make sense then good luck lmao She starts off being the cutest thing ever being extremely self centered like a baby which is why some of the community calls this phos “baby phos”. She then is able to speak to the Admirals (jelly fish creatures or something) which is probably her starting to open up to outside possibilities for finding a job she can get for Cinnabar being her motivation. Though she was able to see more of the world, she loses a part of herself, her legs which are then replaced by Ventrico(sus)’s brothers shell made of agate, being what held her back from going to many places. She then loses her arms which are replaced by the gold and platinum alloy making her a whole lot stronger but also being too heavy for her representing the immense guilt of her once incompetence to save antarc which she then strives to be like with hair short in a similar fashion and using antarc’s sword. A while later, curiosity gets the best of her and she starts to suspect her sensei which knows lunarians all too much. Trying to know more about lunarians, her head is lost which is the little suspicion being replaced by Lapis Lazuli’s head giving phos bigger insight into lunarians which represents phos trying to take a look at lunarians from a different eye. Literally and figuratively. This is also the last form we see her in where she is remotely sane. She joins the lunarians taking advantage of being able to hold herself together to talk to them with the lunarian eye she receives being that symbol of her change of sides. She then starts manipulating other gems to join her which some do and some don’t. The gems that come for the ride are ones with grudges or just want to do something different. Then she goes back another time only to be distrusted going near sensei so every gem left on the island with sensei completely breaks phos into pieces and each gem hiding her pieces. This is her breaking point. About 100 years or something later she is put back together by the very person she distrusts so when she awakens she tries to get her sensei again. The for she is in now is unrecognizable from and of her older or even last one. She has broke and gone insane with an obsession with making sensei pray. She is then able to get back to the moon and start planning an attack on the island. It happens and it instigates the civil war. By the end her form resembles a human, a creature with the soul that is the lunarians, the bone that is the gems, and the flesh that is the admirals. As well as wanting vengeance against sensei. It happened and after all that, she looks back and sees her old self, selfish, carefree, free, lazy, and adorable. She doesn’t recognize her old self but all she could say was something she used to always say over 200 years ago, “How cute”. She is now human. Because she broke herself.

For anyone starting Land of the Lustrous check out the anime first. It is gorgeous and has the best use of CG you'll see in an anime.

YES! Finally Houseki no kuni is getting the attention it deserves, for all the people curious about it I highly recommend to start reading it since it's a really great read you'll go through some emotional turmoil but that's part of the experience reading it. so if you have the time go read it.

Dude, i've been obssesed with Houseki no Kuni since february 1st and the first channel i searched was yours, there was nothing, and NOW you are talking about it, It's such a funny coincidence. I really fell in love with this manga, it's so amazing and i'm really glad that you are also enjoying it. Hopefully more people will read it, and then have their world crumble once they realize that the 10,000 years are also for us xD P.S. I hope more manga and anime youtubers talk about it, 'cause i love watching video essays, and all the analysis of characters.

I recommending y'all to also watch the anime, the only 3D anime that's completely worth to watch and not disappointing at all (they mix with 2D too).

Can you do a review on Mushishi? It’s a hidden gem. Each chapter tells a different story and the protagonist is quite interesting.

I’ve seen the anime and told myself that if the manga finishes before S2 comes out I’ll binge it

Houseki no Kuni is indeed one of a kind. Both the anime adaptation, the fanbase and the manga are Outstanding. That moment when you are drawing a fanart of Phos and you get a video about Houseki no Kuni is surreal.

Finished the manga just few days ago and I have been obsessed for new HNK content. Lmao the Houseki no kuni fandom probably has the most beautiful and sparkly official art and fanarts you will ever see, it also has great body horror unique to these gem beings and it makes me really motivated!

I really hope we eventually get a 2nd season to the anime. I've had the manga on my list for a while but I just never got to it.

Phosphophyllite is my favorite character

Finally. My favourite manga. Literally had tears in my eyes reading some of those chapters

This series is as beautiful in visuals in both manga and anime, and it has done something that very few media properties have managed to do: It frightened me. I won't say much else, but the later stages of Phos' journey are legitimately terrifying to think about. "Nightmarish" doesn't quite describe it.

Thanks for not using any pronouns when talking about the ‘femboy gems’ lmao. I love it when people respect that the creator made the characters genderless in both writing and design. New fans are usually the ones who assume they’re girls even though in the manga, they all use masculine pronouns and descriptions via relationships.

I'm so glad Land of the Lustrous is getting more attention from the community. I finished the manga back and December and it's one of my all time favorites. I hope Orange comes back for S2!

Your weird recommendations haven't stopped me yet and I've watched it and that expirence was top tier

Nice, always glad to see some appreciation for this series! Thanks for the video and keep up the good work!

Houseki No Kuni is one of my favourite mangas I have ever read!

I adore writing essays about land of the lustrous, the fandom has just enough video essays to point me in the right direction of what to analyse and focus on but not so much that there's no work on my part, for every video essay i watched on this anime i have created one that no one has made before through my own connections and want for more content I trusted Ichikawa (the author) to have ever detail be important and i am rewarded every time with some analysis work i am very very proud of, like a theory that cinnabar foresaw the rest of the series from chapter 10 onwards, how the story is a Shonen turned classic tragedy through it's Buddhist ideology , cinnabar's completely unappreciated character arc. And i haven't even tried looking into Dia and Bortz character growth yet

Im so glad you made a video about Hoseki no Kuni. I've been waiting for at least a content of it on youtube for 2022 and I dont find any of them. Like this manga is a hidden gem, the ending and the hiatus literally destroyed me. 🗿

A few days ago I finished the Manga! I fell in love with it... Proud to have all the volumes in my bookshelf now🌻

I'm so glad you're talking about this manga, i feel like not many people know it and it's so good

The hiatus is killing me, manga is so good though

I really liked this short to the point style man

Aechmea is one of my favorite antagonist and characters probably ever. I dropped it multiple times but as soon as he came into play the story picked up fantastically

First discovered the anime and loved it. Glad to see a video on it.

This series is so special to me. It's the only series I've ever gone out of my way to buy the physical copies cause I want to support it that badly. I've never seen a series be so cruel to it's cast yet so beautiful to see. Every character changes in ways unexpected. While phos changes should make you feel alienated from them and not like them, the way all the other characters react to phos helps keep you on their side even when you can tell what they're trying to do isn't going to end well.

Glad to see you giving it another chance. Originality is paramount in my opinion and this series exudes it in excess.

Thank you for getting to the point! Subscribed!!

I've been a HUGE fan of this series for about 2 or 3 years now, started with the anime and I'm fully caught up on the manga and have discovered a lot about not only the background, but the creator Haruko Ichikawa. One of the most interesting parts for me is how she's been developing the story since she was in highschool (she's around 30 years old currently) and it's filled with deep Buddhist symbolism. I mean, like, DEEP. so much that I cannot get into it, so I really suggest looking into it if you're interested. I really really hope that we get a season 2 for the anime, there's just so many things I want to see come to life in animation and characters that I'd love to see. I cannot reccomend this series enough, however there is currently a hiatus that's lasted over a year now so all of the fans are waiting to see what happens next after being left with the intense cliffhanger. This manga will most likely break you, I've had friends who've had actual breakdowns over the characters and the author herself said that sometimes she needs to take breaks from writing... yeah. it's rough for us hnk fans out here. it's amazing nonetheless, and it is my favorite manga of all time.

I've been waiting for this video. The most underrated manga.

ah yes... finally someone is open up to talk and appreciate hnk... I'm in tears rn because of how beautiful the manga was... Especially the main character.... Thank you for being open about this topic, I will forever be in your dept...

I’ve been waiting for this video since you posted on ig about starting hnk

Finally me favorite gem of a series gets some more appreciation 😃

Read this last month and it instantly became one of my favorites

I CANNOT BELIEVE SOMEONE IS TALKING ABOUT THIS ITS ONE OF MY FAVORITE MANGA I LOVE YOU

Land of the Lustrous is really awesome, this manga made me cry which few stories. It's a hard lesson that change isn't always a good thing and that "the road to hell is paved with good intentions"

I watched the anime adaptation way back in 2018 when Super Eyepatch Wolf discussed it in his favorite things of 2017. I liked it, and thought it went to interesting places with Phos in particular, but not enough to follow the story afterwards. With these words of encouragement, I just might pick up the manga and dive back in and see what's up

ive been a fan of this series since 2019.. and Its emotionally tramatized me ngl.. 💀💀 Its one of my favourites! I just hope when it eventually adds, its not all bitter..

land of the lustrous is my favourite manga of all time so i am really happy to see you recommand this

thank you so much... hnk needs that rep...❤❤

The reason why the gems are almost indistinguishable is i think very "artistic" FIRST of all, the gems are all the same. They are very symmetrical, they dress the same, they do the same things, they all love sensei, and most importantly they all think similarly. Their ideas are very much just "this is how I and everyone thinks and there is no reason to think otherwise". BUT the gems become very "different" when they are showing who they are. When they show their individuality the author purposefully draws them in such a way that you can say "ah this gem is definitely amethyst", or "ah this gem is ghost". BUT when the gems are just there standing as part of a scene or the background, when their dialogue is not necessarily important and any one of the gems could've said it, its really hard to tell who it is, because it could've been any gem and the scene wouldve been the same. When their ideas are so different from the rest, and when their individuality is so bright, like Bort who is probably the only battle maniac in the group, the author gives them a trait that makes them stand out, you cannot mistake Bort for anyone else in any scene. Phos starts off as a character thats quite hard to distinguish from the rest, but she starts thinking differently, and you notice her standing a little off to the side, starting to have changes in her appearance, and until finally she is just so different from everyone else that she just looks off...

FINALLY some recognition for my favourite manga of all time

We need more people covering this series ☺️

I already planned to get into this series for a long time, the moment I finish D.Gray Man, I will read Houseki next.

I really hope we get a season 2. Even though it's an emotional rollercoaster

awesome series and awesome manga. glad to see masked put it in his list :)

I just read it and came to see if there were reviews of it. That manga honestly had me in my feels. Phos is one of the greatest protagonists in manga. I heard praise of him on twitter but I never would've predicted what happened with his character. I need a new chapter.

Glad to see people finally putting some respect on this manga.

easily my favorite manga that I read last year. Its such an amazing story and im eagerly waiting for the return from its hiatus.

I remember watching the anime and it made me cry and I still need to get caught up with the manga

Land of the Lustrous is really underrated its nice to see it get some recognition

I am on a personal mission to get a bunch of my friends into this manga + catch up to it just so I can have someone to discuss about it with. It's just such a unique way of telling a story filled with VERY human emotions....through characters who are very much not human (they're rocks). Anyway thanks for spreading the good word og HnK further

one of my top five manga of all time, phos in my top five MCs! so damn good! so underrated a true masterpiece

Finally!!!! Masked has read Land of the Lustrous! When it appeared on your "Dropped List", I was disappointed.

Feeling sad that Cairngorm didn't got a mention, 2nd best character imo

Just a heads-up, if some of you still can’t understand, all the gem characters are all genderless. Ichikawa (author of Land of the Lustrous) confirms this. There are articles somewhere that states and go into further detail of why. You can also find Ichikawa’s interviews (that are translated).

Tbh Phos as a character felt so much similiar Eren from shingeki no kyojin.

When I first read Hnk I thought it so darn weird, like the weirdest ever and I feel so strongly about it despite not fully understanding it. After some time pondering and re reading and reading analysations, I finally put my mindset in the story and look a bit through the lens of Phos and it wasn't about the weirdness anymore. It was a horribly lonely, empty world. Like the only path you have is the one everyone's pointing at and desperately crawling at. And Phos just went to break through everything for the chance of an actual choice.

0:57 you're right that's the first I've ever heard a plot like that

Bout time I’ve been fiending for a review

"It's about moon people..." OK I'm sold!

I read this arledy. Thank You for talking about it. This manga have special place in my heart

Probably the best conceptually oat maybe behind Pandora hearts

Land of the lustrous was my first manga. I read it in black and white, probably not the best choice, but the emotional impact it left me with can't be compared. I went outside that day after I finished it and just blankly stared at the sky for a bit because I couldn't process that I was back in reality HAHA

rock femboys is way too accurate of a description

For those who like to listen to music while reading, taku iwasaki's soundtracks goes really well with HnK. It's amazing how it fits perfectly in most of the scenes

TLDR: Give Land of the lustrous' anime a go! You'll defo like the manga if you like the anime💪 I ended up getting really rambly...sorry;;;; it is a manga I genuinely love so so much I'm new to your channel and super ecstatic that you covered HNK! ♡ This is my favourite series ever, but even I will admit it isn't everyone's cup of tea 😔 Honestly, even though the manga is banging, I would actually recommend starting with the anime Just from episode one, you will know if it's for you Done by Studio Orange (they also animated Beastars), I truly believe the anime is a perfect if not superior adaptation of the series 💪 On TOHO animation's YT channel they have fantastic 10-20 sec animation spotlights and trailers which you can check out! The problem with identifying with characters is nonexistent in the anime and the fight scenes are a lot more structured and dynamic, the show just bleeds passion and hard work hehe The series gets quite dark and twisted as you mentioned so best to go in with caution! I'll stop myself here but Padparadscha is the bestest character, thank you for coming to my TedTalk 🙇

Let’s gooo amazing manga glad you pushed through it

i just finished the latest chapter and holy shit this manga is so freaking good

Dude Now Finally I mean This manga got really famous in 2017 when the anime competed against Made in abyss for Best anime of the year. This has true artistic value, one of those Seinen that challenge what traditional manga is.

Im glad you like it. And if thats weird to you you should watch Angel's Egg.

Finally he gave HnK another shot lets go, one of my absolute favorite manga

It been a while since I read land of lustrous now I reminded of how sad the story can get ffffucck

This series is amazing. One of my favorite manga and top 3 favorite anime

one of my absolute favorite series

just watch the anime the quality is stunning and its so pretty the colors

Don't know about you guys but I can't wait for the day when we hear his thoughts on Yu Yu Hakusho.Hope he picks it up and read it soon.

I ve read this manga recently, and is one of the few mangas i give a 10.

YUP PLEASE READ THIS MANGA AND THE ANIME IT SO GOOD

ufotable should pick this manga up and animate it tbh

FINALLY I HAVE WAITED FOR THIS

only a few thousand years til the manga comes back

Refreshing to see a very short to the point video. Might actually be the best way to sell a manga to someone. Potential 3min series?