Land of the Lustrous Manga Volume 8 (ch 53-61) REACTION
Added 2025-06-08 17:14:48 +0000 UTCJesus Christ this is so insane now... I feel like we've taken like ten 180's and we are nowhere near stopping! Insane direction of this story.
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1:08:00 this is so interesting. It feels like the Phos we knew finally broke down the moment she "Died" for the other gems, when she was taken to the moon. Her love, innocence and everything she believed in died up there. And she came back as a different entity. Which is even more interesting, because it's the first time we see her doing something downright evil, which is playing that manipulation game with the gems to take them to the moon. Even if the end goal is good, the old Phos never would have think of being ambiguos on purpose with the other gems, she was direct with everyone even with her doubts about Kongo. And also, is the first time she lashed out at Cinnabar. For some reason, she was unable to ask them if there was someone who wanted to come with her to the moon, because she was so blinded by her animosity toward Kongo, that she thought she should do all of this in secrecy, when Kongo most probably wouldn't have stopped her. She was just afraid of confrontation, and she choose the dishonest way of doing this. Even without hiding anything, I'm sure a lot of gems would have wanted come with her.
GermyRTZ
2025-06-09 07:08:31 +0000 UTCJust a small suggestion: it might be great if you paid a bit more attention to the backgrounds and panel composition. The author makes sure nothing is there without a reason. There's a lot of implicit information, expressed through the choice of objects and their spatial arrangement — especially in the panels that take up more than half the page ^^
Koopa
2025-06-09 03:12:29 +0000 UTC
