For some reason, I have a hard time liking Ooima Yoshitoki's works. The details in To Your Eternity are beautifully drawn (although I'm not a fan of her art style), and she is able to immerse you into her story's interesting world, with her many diverse characters, but I don't think this is my kind of story. I feel like she's overusing tropes that bring sadness and emptiness into the readers. There's nothing wrong with a story that makes you cry and think deeply about life; in fact, I love them, but, to me, this kind of story where the main character goes on a journey in which tragedies are used for the sake of the main character's development is not interesting enough for me. This story seems to mostly move forward with tragedies and unexplained supernatural moments, with some human bonding and growth on the side. I know the main point of her story is probably for the readers to appreciate the beautiful part of life, such as friendship and love, as well as the sorrowful ones, like grief and greed, I guess, but I didn't enjoy her manga like I thought I would.
The other issue I have with the story is that the mysteries just continuously add up without any answers or hints. That's fine, many series do that, but I think there comes a point where there is supposed to be some development in that aspect - and we still don't get any of it even after 60 chapters: we just continue to see people dying and some certain problematic characters following the main character around. I don't know if the plot eventually develops in the later chapters, because it might be the kind of story that goes with the flow and doesn't necessarily lead anywhere. Some people might enjoy that kind of thing, but I am not one of them when it comes to taking advantage of dramatic situations all the time to bring intense feelings into the readers, without having a concrete reason there.
One last thing is that the antagonists of the series are just... weird. The hooded entity is probably not a human, so it's okay if he's odd, but that one psychopath has nothing interesting about them. The only thing is that they're obsessed with the main character, and that's all there is to them, so much that it's ridiculous and boring. Otherwise, most characters in the story are engaging enough, especially Gugu, the true MVP of this story.
