Fumetsu no Anata e, or "To your Eternity", just ended it's 1st season and let me tell you the honest truth: This anime is something else.
I can't express in words how those stories and characters makes me feel, the way that they conect with me is unbelievable.
First of all, let's talk about the story, shall we? Story 10/10:
One day some misterious being is sent to the Earth and doesn't have any emotions, feelings or sense of self or even identity. This being is basically a shapeshifter that can transform into other things and creatures, but first has to reach some specific moment to this happen.
Along the way Fushi, our main character, start to meet new people, making friendships and also new enemies as well and with with all the contact he establishes he learns more about the world around him, how to speak, how to write, how to express what he is feeling, how to understand some situations and how to do things by himself.
It's important to note that he is immortal, but this not make him invencible or a kind of badass MC that wins every single fight, he is actually weak and can't do much against stronger opponents that he eventually face.
In other words, he's not OP and it's interesting to see him growing up as an individual at the same time that he continues his journey.
Some moments of the story you can relate not only with him but to other people as well and the feelings they have are demonstrated in such a meaningful way that it's amazing!
Art/Animation 8/10:
The animation is very good most of the time.
Some moments are not great and has some minor issues, but that's okay.
The art design is beautiful and unique, it's kind impressive and memorable the faces of all the characters.
Sound 9/10:
Awesome.
The opening fits perfectly well with the themes and narrative of the anime.
The ending is good, but I didn't like as much as the opening.
The narrator is made by Kenjiro Tsuda, the extremely talented seiyuu that gived life for characters such as: Overhaul (BnH), Hannes (Shingeki), Nanami (Jujutsu) and many more.
He was perfect doing his job here.
The characters overall had excellent voices, can't complain about it.
Character 10/10:
One of the best parts about this anime.
All of the characters had their own complex personality and they all feel realistic to me. I could find interesting things about them every scene that they did something worth to analyze. Parona was one of my favorite ones.
She is a woman that was trying to live moving foward, despite the bad things that have happened in her life. Another character that is hard to not remember is March, a little girl that had a dream to grow up and be an adult, she just wanted to become a mother and make her family.
Gugu, was another one that always made smile and cry.
I could go on and on talking about them and it's crazy how the characters are impressive and well written. Easy 10 out of 10.
Enjoyment 10/10:
First time that I watched this anime I was so involved with the setting and the first scenes that I couldn't wait for the next episodes.
Literally, all the episodes were very entertaining, few of them were not so high impactful as other ones but they were very good, too.
Overall 10/10:
I don't care if other people will agree or not, but this anime is one of the best of this year and truly deserves all the praise it receives.
I could say that the experience I had watching was simply wonderful.
I laughed, I cried and I felt like I was on that journey with Fushi.
Maybe the message is: live your life the way you want doing things you like to do with people you like as your company, because, you know, all of us will die someday. Life just happens and you need to enjoy it!
Final thoughts:
This is a masterpiece.
Extremely well done. Top tier anime.
I would recommend it to all my friends.
Thanks for reading and you if agree with me, give an upvote. :)
