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the spiral phos goes down is so deeply tragic. just knowing how she used to be in episode 1, the innocent happy gem, and then seeing her turn into this vengeful monster is such an interesting way to lead a story.
It’s possibly the perfect depiction of humanity from their beginning to end. From their naivety to their complexity’s. The option has always been here to simply live in peace and enjoy things as they are but humanity’s craving for more has always been its undoing. That’s why it was fitting that both Flesh and Bone were able to live happily but it’s with the addition of Soul that we fall. That conscience and sense of self is both a blessing and a curse. Something depicted throughout the entire story of each gem having its own purpose and the ones without purpose being the ones most troubled instead of simply just being happy with the life they’ve been given
the author went on a year and a half hiatus i believe- i think that happened around chapter 95? there's 102 now. the new chapters I highly recommend- it really hammers in the sadness surrounding this story. however, there is another hiatus for about another month, the next chapter wont be out for about ~24 days
I like the fact they're all fragment of humanity but they never be human we have no right to question the justification of there action as humane as they never be human they act like us they have vices and morality like us human but similarity doesn't always equal originality. The manga shows the extend of bastardization of means to achieve the needs of existence, glamorize the imperfection of such naivety and using religious and poetic base of storytelling to emphasize the struggle and success to achieve nothing and lead to meanless yet to peaceful end. It's tells the story of only the broken glass makes you bleed so don't let the fragile glass fool you. As beautiful nihility is, it's so tragedy of each journey.
Phos should have never trusted no one.... no one cared, and even at the end when he frees EVERYONE EVEN LUNAR PPL, GEMS ETC they mocked him... now even tho he is god he is all alone... he is the only one that deserved peace since everyone also used him and changed him
it breaks my heart that theres no season two, i hope all the time that theyre eventually gonna continue the anime. the story of the manga is great and the art is wonderful but the anime adds so much, the score and animation were stunning.
I think it is also important to say that it was not only a plan from the king of the lunarians, but also had the cooperation of adamant all this time, so Phos had been cheated since the beginning
I firmly believe a second season will be announced in the next 1-3 years once the manga fully ends in late-April. Based on an interview dated to 2017 on animate Times's website, Studio Orange was directly approached for the adaptation over other studios because of their prior 3D work. Given that Orange has been busy as of late with Beaststars and Trigun: Stampede, nothing will happen until everything related to those franchises is halted or comes to a close.
SPOILER Probably my biggest disappointment with the series is how the admirabilis were introduce in only the second volume, and then have almost no further appearances (1 major scene) or real significance to the rest of the story, especially considering how incredible their designs were and they are so to represent a third (the flesh) of the whole that is humanity.
I loved this video so much! Perfectly explained and exactly what I needed. Probably the best summary video I've ever seen! Instant sub. I would love if you did more of these!
Very glad for this summary! I had watched some of the anime back in university but I didn't finish it and I've checked the wiki several times over the years and I am always so surprised to see where Phos is at.
was hoping things will get explained in the anime. came to watch this directly after finishing the last episode. hope the anime will continuous once the manga finish
This manga left me a night without sleep, I was so curious about how it would end, expecting a good ending, but like one of the comments mentioned "you were expecting a good ending?".
yes, so he decided quit the job and leave the problems to Phos. And his job actually is pray for everyone so they can return to nothing not moon, include gems and slug people because they all part of human.
So... goddamn.... depressing... I used to be really into rocks and geology, so picture my surprise when I found out about an anime about living rocks. But Jesus Christ... why did it have to be so tragic... In my mind there is an alternate universe where everything went okay for the gems... I need the delusion
Maybe phos shouldnt bother changing anything at all, just party in the moon along with moon people. Instead of going in this tragic 100000 of sufferings.
Yep. The Admirabilis feed on the grounded dust of Gems in order to strengthen their shells and they’re evolving to integrate with their shells rather than separate. So in order to preserve the Moon Gems, they have to kill the Admirabilis. Either by waiting for them to die out as they’re organic beings or by wiping them out themselves.
that doesnt answer why they initially abducted them, that answers what would happen if they wanted to restore low hardness gems from dust. the reason they were "abducted" is because of a plea made with a previous ruler of the admirabilis. at the height of their civilization they were plagued by a massive famine from overusing their resources, leading to the death of said civilization. eventually the lack of food and the ability to evolve and adapt caused regression and loss of intellect along with rampant cannibalism. the previously mentioned ruler pleaded with the lunarians to take them to the moon where food was abundant thanks to the lunarians technology. the whole "abduction" and "slave" thing was either an intentional or unintentional misinterpretation of events. the amdirabilis eventually evolved into what we see on the moon in the story@@calebgoodman3028
its really not that sad imo. especially if you compare it to other works that exist. like yeah sure its kinda sad and has some depressing themes, but i dont know why people act like its just the most heart-wrenching traumatizing thing. i love the story but i just dont find it to be particularly depressing. Oyasumi Punpun is to me a good example of something genuinely and incredibly depressing.
This, by the way is nothing but a light jab, the people will do as they will and I have no qualms with these types of videos existing. I absolutely love this story though, Haruko Ichikawa's art is amazing to me, this story is as heart-wrenching as it is mystifyingly I absolutely love it and it is absolutely worth a read before diving into a full spoiler retelling. Said my piece ✌️
you do realize they are genderless objects right? Theyre literally gems lol. And even then, they/them are gender neuteral pronouns, it sounds stupid because youre stupid methjinks
@@jakoja9755 the war start all because the monk didn`t pray :V and could avoid any type of tragedy had happen during the manga if he pray so you tell me why it not dumb :V
@@ZhangLee.he can’t pray without a human asking him, there are no humans left. The whole plot is pretty much a Buddhist allegory when you get down to it
As a person who speaks japanese it is right to use they. The gems refer to themselves with masculine terms and even call each other brother. Although they look feminine the gems dont have a gender which the author of the manga clarified themselves. So yeah it has nothing to do with modern terminology
They are non-gendered beings. They don’t come to life looking like how we usually see them. They emerge unrefined, lacking many features of humanity. They don’t even start with eyes. An unspoken part of the story is how the gems’ appearance are molded by others. First by Sensei since the first gems wished to look closer to him, and then Aechmea with Phos and especially cairngorm (since Aechmea wanted a wife as a partner, so he dressed them feminine). Projection of gender onto the gems is a part of the larger theme of those around them trying to make them closer to humans.
everyone is constantly talking about how tragic and overwhelmingly sad the story is but honestly i really didnt feel much if anything as far as emotion goes while reading it. it usually doesnt take much to get me to cry either, like at all. anytime something happened to a character there was a 99% chance they were going to be just fine and it took the impact from those types of scenes. i eventually just stared rolling my eyes when Phos or another character would get shattered every other page and put back together with 0 consequence until later in the series, and by then still its only Phos who really faces any consequences. The story frames these scenes in such dramatic and beautiful ways but the end up just not mattering outside of when gems are abducted and never return. On top of that by the later parts of the story such unfathomable amounts of time pass that things start to lose any weight or meaning and character writing ceases almost completely. Its just difficult for me to connect emotionally to the story. Obviously some of these are intentional and play into the themes. That being said its interesting and beautiful. I love the story and its one of my favorites. I just think its funny because 99% of comments i see are "omg reading HNK did me a trauma!11!!!" and "pRePaRe 2 GeT eMoTiOnAllY dEsTr0yEd"
