Hello and welcome to Project Nitsuj, where today we wrap up season 2 of To Your Eternity with the second half. When we last left Fushi, the Nokkers issued a challenge to him. A massive attack on the city of Renril within one year’s time, saying that if he doesn’t show up they’ll kill Kahaku and the Nokker inside of him. Now Fushi is beginning a training arc to prepare for the invasion and gain new allies to help him fight. Will Fushi be a match for the invaders. Let’s find out. This is the second half of To Your Eternity S2.
Episodes 10-15
The second half begins with Fushi on his ship trying to master his skills but running into the wall. The entity says he needs awareness, but Fushi doesn’t understand what that means (https://youtu.be/aa9BOryn2tI?si=v8XAGSromIAiPdFI). Meanwhile, Bonchein goes to Renril to talk to their princess and urge her to evacuate the city to protect everyone. She’s however confident that the city can protect itself and even accuses Bonchein of possibly using this as an attempt to conquer the city. Back with Fushi he arrives in a town to get food where he sees a bunch of homeless people out in the streets. He tries to help them by giving them his food and even money but one person sees his generosity as a form of mockery and manipulation (and it’s because of pride like that, that you became homeless). As he continues walking through the town he comes across a slave trader and can sense the kids on the verge of death. Fushi tries to buy the kids but the trader says no (then why show them off?), so Fushi steals them under the cover of night. The boy unfortunately dies but the older sister is still alive and Fushi takes her in naming her Eko. Through his interactions with her he does start to gain a better understanding of his powers and his able to expand his senses, send his conscience into copies, and uses his powers to destroy nokkers from afar without directly fighting them (man he got OP quick). While the power increase is impressive, Bonchein is worried that Fushi is slipping away from being human. After this, the episode wraps up with Fushi, Kahaku, and Eko arriving in Renril after a month of traveling while Bonchein goes to look for more immortals like Fushi.
Not much to say about episode 11. Bonchein introduces Fushi to three immortals, or rather people he wants Fushi to develop a deep connection with so that he can become them down the line. The first is Kai, a knight who remains loyal to Bonchein. The second is Hairo a former guard of the Bennett religion (can’t help but feel a conflict of interest here). Finally, Messar, a crude yet cunning man. Right away there’s no trust between any of them and Fushi isn’t making his job easier as he mouths off to the princess who won’t just let him do what he wants and a riff starts to form between him and Bonchein. As the episode ends Fushi creates some buzz around himself by rebuilding the water wheel house in just one night and getting people to talk about him (bare witness as he puts construction workers out of business).
Episode 12 focuses on the princess of Renril, Alme. We find out that she and Messar are childhood friends and are actually half-siblings (could have fooled me. I thought for sure we were developing a romance down the line). Fushi continues tearing down houses and rebuilding them to expand his connection in the city and even gets chewed out by city guard named Kamu who tells him not to treat him and the others like children. Everyone wants to fight to protect their loved ones. Even if they won’t be all that effective in battle they still intend to try and do some damage. We learn about Hairo and how he lived a messed up isolated life because the church thought he was possessed by a demon. Messar manages to get Alme’s trust by beating her in a game and Fushi starts to gain a little respect for him and what he’s doing (he’s a guy who has a hard time being honest).
For episode 13 the town guard finally meets Fushi and Eko saves the city by discovering a dead body in the waterways.
Episode 14 starts with Fushi and the others getting access to the palace. While in the palace he meets with the ill king (alright, this episode is giving me material to work with). The king knows he doesn’t have long to live so Fushi asks what can he do for them to which the king replies, help his people. The king gives Fushi his support and trust in the coming battle (he will also have your daughter). After Bonchein tricks Fushi into knocking himself out, he and the others talk to the entity who reveals that he could supposedly stop all this fighting between Fushi and the Nokkers if he wanted but won’t. He wants Fushi to continue growing because Fushi will one day takes his place (and become like you? For what purpose?). Messar actually tries to kill him (he’s got balls) but that plan fails and the entity takes his leave. With only a day until the big battle, Fushi and the others go over their plans one last time and he scatters his remaining bodies around the city while still being attached to them so they don’t rot. The next morning, the Nokkers attack the city and they attack hard. So hard that Fushi gets separated from March’s body and one of the craziest moments, March’s eyes open up all by herself signally that she’s alive.
The battle begins in episode 15 as the Nokkers attack from afar and even poison the waterways. At first, it seems like the Nokkers are playing it safe but in truth this is all apart of their plan. In order for Fushi to protect everyone, he has no choice but to extend himself further out and attack the Nokkers. This causes Fushi to collapse from exhaustion and everyone fights to protect Fushi’s body (give them hell boys). When Fushi regains consciousness, he discovers that Kai, Hairo, and Messar all died in the attack (man it’s been a minute since this has happened). Fushi fueled by rage goes on the attack vowing to kill all the Nokkers.
Episodes 16-20
At the start of episode 16 Fushi goes on a war rampage killing Nokkers left and right single-handedly (damn, son. Kind of happy you don’t have Wolverine’s powers right now). While Fushi is fighting, Bonchein takes a chance, and cuts the bodies of Kai, Hairo, and Messar from Fushi’s rope and they come back to life thus becoming immortals. With their power Fushi is able to fight better and they even chose to kill themselves and have Fushi make them new bodies as a means to travel faster where they’re needed. Just when things seem to be going alright, Kahaku does something stupid and attacks the others. He’s come to the conclusion that the entity is a demon and in order to protect Fushi’s humanity he chooses to side back with the Nokkers (I knew we should have chopped that left arm off). They tie him up for now and continue to keep on fighting.
Things are intense in episode 17 as everything around Fushi falls apart. There’s no end insight, people are dying, Fushi can’t trust Bonchein, Alme gets infected and dies (how and when did that happen), and Fushi is at his breaking point. Just when he’s at his lowest and wants to give up, Kahaku approaches him (ironically he is the one who cares about the most through all of this), feels Fushi pains, and tries to end his suffering by ending him (you fucking traitor). As the Nokker in Kahaku’s arm tries to end Fushi, March arrives trying to save him.
In the final three episodes the Nokker succeeds in robbing Fushi of all of his forms and reverting him back into a ball (should have killed him when you had the chance). With Fushi gone, the Nokkers invade the city and try to kill everyone. Bonchein makes the ultimate sacrifice and kills himself to give form back to Fushi as well as return all of his friends back to life (a majority of them). I will say it is cool to see everyone back again. After seeing his loved ones again, Fushi regains the will to fight and together they overwhelm the Nokkers, killing a majority of them and forcing what remains of them to retreat and save the city. Fushi does revive almost everyone who died in the attack but there were a few causalities such as Eko and Kahaku escapes with the Nokker in his arm. The group celebrates their victory, but Fushi knows that the world will never know peace as long as the Nokkers are alive. So he goes into a deep deep sleep to spread out his senses the same way he did in Renril only this time he plans to cover the whole world and kill every Nokker that’s hiding. While Fushi does that everyone lives their lives to the fullest. While some were killed by anti-Fushi factions they all don’t regret their choices. Even Bonchein gets resurrected and dies of old age. As for Kahaku. In one of the selfless and craziest acts of love, Kahaku sacrifices himself to take down the Church of Bennett in one big explosion (scene here: https://youtu.be/3OQfTAQIri8?si=l6G170TCS84hBjDO). Centuries past and the world shockingly was okay with tree branches covering their buildings and streets and not questioning it (well it does help that Tonari wrote a book about Fushi but still). When modern times Fushi finally awoke from his deep slumber and was now ready to explore this new world now free of Nokkers (not gonna lie, this ending felt like a series finale).
Final Thoughts
And that was the second season of To Your Eternity. How was it? The first half was good and the second half start it off slow with not a whole lot to cover but got better and more interesting once the battle started. The one big improvement this season is the development of Fushi’s character and powers. We see him become his own person. He cares about people but can be easily overwhelmed by them, get emotional, lose patience with them, and get angry. It’s like watching a child grow into an adult and watch them understand the responsibilities they had to do even if it was hard and they didn’t want to do it. The new characters and companions he meets this season were just as good if not better than the first season. Bonchein was easily my favorite. Which is ironic because when I first saw him I didn’t think I was going to like him because of his personality but he improved to be great person. His methods questionable at times but overall he did care for Fushi, the world, and made the ultimate sacrifice to save his friend. Kahaku was also a character who surprised me. He goes on quite the rollercoaster from enemy to friend to enemy again and then back to friend. Just like Bonchein he made the ultimate sacrifice for Fushi to redeem himself. While Fushi may have been surrounded by people he loved and loved him back, I think in the end Kahaku may have loved him the most and maybe understood Fushi better than anyone.
The animation and music are the same as last season. I did like the mixture of early European/Eurasia civilization. The only real downside of this season is the start of the second half. I found the preparation part boring. If you look hard you’ll find some good moments, but they’re quickly overshadowed by the battle and the amazing ending we got for this season.
Final Score
The final score for To Your Eternity S2 is an 8/10. A great season that built off what the first season did and ran with it. A third season is set to come out and I can’t help but wonder what new challenges will Fushi meet in the modern era? Are the Nokkers really gone? What about the entity? What exactly is he planning to do? We’ll just have to wait this fall to find out. Thanks for reading and I’ll see you next time on Project Nitsuj.