"With great power comes a sense of solitude" -Kongou-sensei
Houseki no Kuni is one of the best fantasy anime out there.
Yeah. No. For Sure. (I Am Not Kidding)
It has a remarkable story. From an eye catching CGI. An amazing Soundtrack. And astonishing Characters.
Land of the Lustrous is my Peaked to its Fantasy genre.
When a six meteors hit a so called found Earth, it manage to decreased the popularity of lands. But what's left is a crescent island. Only to be found that Gems, Lunarians and few organisms are living in Earth. On the other hand, Lunarians are the only creatures that can roam freely around the Earth which their job is to captures these Gems.
Here we see a story of 28 gems that roaming around the Crescent Island. But we only have one main character here for this story. The name is Phosphophyllite or shortened for Phos'. The young naïve Phos was set to be one of the youngest and weakest gemstones amongst all of them. With a Mohs Scale of (3.5 out of 10). It’s in fact that Phos is one the least strongest Gemstones.
A childlike personality, Phos was set to be a troublemaker from getting involve to the Lunarians which they are almost a Human like. Because they mineralize these Gems when they get held captive. And once they get taken away. They're gone.
While living in a fantasy world. Land of the Lustrous delivered a well, captivating Characters. It is almost staggered as a real life scenarios. Phos struggled of being a useless spoiled Gem, then to become a well centered in the society throughout the show. And that's Character Developments. I didn't say too much of a spoil, but that's how every story works.
Phos is just a coming of age character. With a well written one.
"It's strange, thinking back on how I lived spoiled, following simple hunches... Now, I'm jealous of my old self." -Phosphophyllite
Self realization is rare to be heard of saying. Like, "Damn, I used to be that kind of a person."
In reality, we never really talked ourselves of how we change. We just see things and adapt to it. We just watch and learn.
We only tend to know of how we changed if people gossips about you of how you altered your life comparing what you were back then.
What really amazed me here is that they never use pronouns, neither She or Her. But it uses They, Them, and I.
In the manga, the author or translator noted that the characters appear to exclusively use Male pronouns like, He or Big Brothers.
To be honest, I never would have thought that CGI will work perfectly in anime, but studio Orange have the rights to be applause for their works. I would love to see a 2nd season of this Well, Remarkable, Amazing, Astonishing series. And hoping for it after they finish Beastars.
To resolute this review. I give it a Mohs Scale of Diamond which is a 10/10, but I don't put a whole numbers in my Reviews. My Rate is 9.6/10