Land of the Lustrous - Ch. 103 - Innocence

[MangaDex]

 

[CanerieRoe]

This gives off last chapter vibes, but I’m probably trippin

 

[Okuu]

Broooo the existential dread is setting in again.

 

[Skydaz]

Now its time to see how Phos will handle everything from here

 

[kaminomikan]

... and then the humans corruption was born

 

[Arnau]

So... This is the end right? Right guys?!? Because if there is a next chapter where phos is like Kongo-sensei and the little rocks are like the lustrous rocks of the first chapter, I'm crying, I'm pouring my eyes off even 😣

 

[Scrabbleman]

This feels like a 2nd-last chapter. I bet the next chapter is going to be a timeskip where we see new humans or something, and their own new culture, and Phos may or may not still be around.

 

[nonexistent696969]

where i can see the ichikawa sensei drawing visual on 10th annual chitose film festival? i've search it up but i got nothing

 

[Trevoga]

This gives off last chapter vibes, but I’m probably trippin

I feel like that's been true for half the chapters over the last few years.
Aka for like 3 chapters before

 

[RatoMolhado]

I want to hug godly Phos and pet their head...

 

[Manchura]

across both iterations of this one thing is clear:

how utterly dumb this plot is, "humanity is evil"

why? never get a real answer, just esoteric and circular arguments, the gems were born long after humanity died, the robots are busted and suffering mass errors, the moon people were the abandoned souls of the worst of humanity, and the professor was nihilistic as hell and did everything she could to quickly wipe away any trace of humanity as fast as she could for...no reason, becoming a revisionist to all accomplishments that led her to the point she was able to do what she did

also let's not forget there is literally sea humans now since Phose released human gene vault recreations the moon people created into the sea

all in all this plot has lost itself and just comes across as a religiously arrogantly "every human is born, raised, and exists as an evil that is destined to die for it's crimes" BS you see every domestically abusive zealot parent uses to justify whipping their kid 100 times for asking if they can have dessert

 

[Granite13]

I really loved the anime which is where I started. And I loved the manga a lot right up to the point where Phos got super weird and vindictive against the gems but I hung in there.

I could deal with the whole reboot thing as an appropriately strange ending to what is honestly a strange story. All the way up until the 10,000 year conclusion. I was happy the gems ultimately got to spend so much time together again.

But, really, that should have been the place where the author looked for the ending, whatever it turned out to be. The premise has been stretched past the breaking point.

I'm only continuing to read it for a sense of completion so close to the end.

 

[hierof]

did the eyeball just cried when phos mentioned the professor ?

 

[KaioshinX]

The robots are busted and suffering mass errors, the moon people were the abandoned souls of the worst of humanity, and the professor was nihilistic as hell.

And that's just it, isn't it? Compounding onto everything Phos suffered through, their only exposure to humanity has either been through its worst reflections or through second-hand accounts.
Say what you will about Phos's current outlook on humanity, but it's only ever been inherited from others, and it makes sense (for them) at this point in the story.

What's yet to be seen in these final 5(?) chapters ahead is what the contrastingly optimistic and innocent life forms will take away from all this and how that will in turn affect Phosphophyllite if they truly are meant to oversee them into a new Era. Seeing as how it only took a few assuring lines to make Phos go from having a meltdown to being chill af, their influence is potent.

You could very well be right that we're just spinning our wheels here, but I'd rather wait for the resultion to this whole dilemma before coming to any conclusions personally, and Phos' willingness to still acknowledge and share the goodness in humanity, no matter how cynical they are, is something worth taking account of.

To people who wish the story just ended a few chapters ago, I honestly would've been kinda bummed that we never got this level of honest introspection from Phos that I've been wanting to see since vol 1 and onwards since, for most of the story, they've only been finding self-worth in appeasing others whether it be the other gems or the Lunarians.

 

[Manchura]

To people who wish the story just ended a few chapters ago, I honestly would've been kinda bummed that we never got this level of honest introspection from Phos that I've been wanting to see since vol 1 and onwards since for most of the story, they've only been finding self-worth in appeasing others whether it be the other gems or the Lunarians.

I completely forgot to talk about the fact adamant's brother is like a terminator, meaning humans may have been alive but killed by him and considering the shape he is in...you don't get that way by deconstructing buildings or tearing up monuments

just another reason to not like this plot

 

[KaioshinX]

Humans may have been alive but killed by him.

After redirecting a meteorite, the humans immediately destroyed Adamant's Brother, then created Kongo.

 

[Manchura]

After redirecting a meteorite, the humans immediately destroyed Adamant's Brother, then created Kongo.

didn't kill him though, turned into the ice flows and he continued to exist demanding form to finish what he started, entirely based on the professor's nihilism when creating and educating him as he came to be

 

[KaioshinX]

didn't kill him though, turned into the ice flows and he continued to exist demanding form to finish what he started

I'm mixed up on the phrasing here, are you saying the humans didn't kill Adamant's Brother, then turned into ice floes or that Adamant's Brother himself became the ice floes, because I've seen people claim the latter due to the misconception in ch 89.

 

[Manchura]

I'm mixed up on the phrasing here, are you saying the humans didn't kill Adamant's Brother, then turned into ice floes or that Adamant's Brother himself became the ice floes, because I've seen people claim the latter due to the misconception in ch 89.

adamant's brother stayed alive even after his blackbox was destroyed, uploading himself into the computers controlling the meteor he crashed, then made more meteors crash into the earth to further kill humanity, with the fragments of the first meteor ending up in the ice flows

at least that is what I've gathered from the brief moments this thing has not been a cryptic nightmare of "you wouldn't understand"

 

[CardinalBirb]

gosh i really want more