Nov 25, 2025
The good news is if you don't like S3 of To Your Eternity you can pretend it doesn't exist. The ending of S2 is satisfying enough to where I can feel comfortable imagining that as the ending of this show. S3 is a complete tonal shift from everything that's come before. If you told me a completely different author was behind this one, or that S3 is an anime-original I would believe you. It would have made much more sense for them to not even call it season 3 and to give it a fresh new subtitle instead because everything here feels like a spin-off.
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That said, I'm still going to watch this to the end just in case I'm wrong, but my expectations are pretty low given what I've seen so far. The mystery behind the Man in Black and the Nokkers are basically the only things keeping me engaged at this point. Previous seasons had captivating characters with progression to keep me interested, but that doesn't really exist here. New characters are introduced, but so far none of them have the magic that any named character from previous seasons had. Another strength of S1 and S2 was the sense of danger and well-animated combat sequences. There's a little of that in S3, but given the context of everything that's happened so far I'm not expecting anything dramatic to happen now. Hopefully I'm wrong.
My biggest problem is that To Your Eternity S3 feels aimless. It tries to handle this problem by adapting and becoming a slice-of-life anime, but this doesn't work for a few reasons, and mainly it just feels like a betrayal of audience expectations. Fushi still has goals but they're vague, and even the Man in Black seems indifferent to what Fushi even does at this point. So if the narrator doesn't care what the main character does, why should the audience? I'm hoping to see some more direction and purpose in future episodes but so far this season has been a disappointment.
Reviewer’s Rating: 5
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