12/29/2023 0 Comments Fumetsu no kami meaning![]() Who the hell cares about Tonari and what she wants? At this point Fushi is competing in the tournament in order to help Tonari and her crew escape Jananda – there’s really nothing in it for him. The other problem I have with all this is that Fushi by now really should know better than to get caught up in all this. Tonari’s origin story felt very perfunctory and really didn’t do anything to move the needle, at least for me. And the characters surrounding her – unlike those surrounding Gugu and even March – have never been fleshed out in any meaningful way. The last thing in the world I wanted at this point of the story was a Tonari flashback, to be honest, because I just find her to be totally unsympathetic (and annoying). What sort of a universe is it where Gugu and Parona are dead, and Tonari lives on? Yes, we know the universe in Fumetsu no Anata e is nothing close to fair. Perhaps the fact that Fushi’s nature makes the guest cast so crucial has a lot to do with it, for an arc is only as good as those characters. It does seem to be be more extreme with Fumetsu, however, for whatever reason. We have our share of episodic journey series of course, not uncommonly in the fantasy vein, and it’s the nature of any such narrative that some arcs will be stronger than others. This arc isn’t particularly strong, and that’s perhaps the greatest flaw in the jewel that is Fumetsu no Anata e – the peaks and valleys are very widely spaced. No matter how much I sugarcoat it, the facts of the matter won’t change.
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