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宝石の国 [Hōseki no Kuni] #10
Land of the Lustrous, Vol. 10
After failing to get Kongo to pray for the Lunarians, Phosphophyllite returns to the moon to regroup, but Padparadscha has been covered in Cinnabar's poison, and Yellow Diamond has taken a severe psychological blow. Now Phos must come up with a new plan, but ideas are in short supply. Meanwhile, Cairngorm and the other gems are finding life on the moon to be surprisingly agreeable...
214 pages, Kindle Edition
First published August 23, 2019
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Haruko Ichikawa
41 books152 followersHaruko Ichikawa (市川春子 in Japanese), born in 1980, is the author and artist of Land of the Lustrous (宝石の国, lit. "Country of Jewels"). She started her career in 2006 with the one-shot Mushi to Uta (虫と歌, lit. Insects and Songs). Between 2007 and 2011, she published seven one-shots in the manga magazine Afternoon, which were later compiled into two individual books named Ichikawa Haruko Sakuhinshuu (市川春子作品集, lit. Haruko Ichikawa Works Collection). She started writing Land of the Lustrous on October 25th, 2012, which currently has 10 volumes.
In 2010 she won the Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize for works on Mushi to Uta. She has also contributed characters designs to the games Pokemon Sun & Moon and Pokemon Sword & Shield.
In 2010 she won the Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize for works on Mushi to Uta. She has also contributed characters designs to the games Pokemon Sun & Moon and Pokemon Sword & Shield.
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October 20, 2024
This manga reminds me more and more of Fire Punch as it goes on. Every step Phos takes deepens his suffering and pulls him farther and farther from his old friends. He has almost achieved his goals - he's brought peace to the gems by reinvigorating lunarian society, but at the cost of being despised by the gems remaining on Earth, and discarded as a failure by the gems and lunarians on the Moon. Adamant is seemingly the only being in the universe who still cares for Phos, yet Phos' rage is directed at him as the ultimate cause of all his suffering. Is there any possible way out? Even if Phos succeeds in permanently annihilating the lunarians, he has no home to return to.
The most disturbing element of this volume to me is the new perspective it gives to the gems. In the worst ways, they're not really that different from the lunarians. Their deathless perspective and belief that their kidnapped friends would eventually be returned to them were understandable given their circumstances, but the way they so easily integrate into lunarian society is disquieting. Alexandrite is one of the oldest gems, and the loss of Chrysoberyl apparently drove him to an obsessive hatred of them, but he integrates just as easily as the others. Even witnessing the dust of their old friends apparently causes nothing but a transient distress to them. Cinnabar, ignored his entire life by everyone but Phos, is the one to suggest essentially killing him after Phos returns to Earth alone without weapons. The psychology of the gems is deeply and disturbingly inhuman. Phos is the only one for which it's credible that he would have misgivings about slaughtering the admirabilis living on the moon to return some of his friends to life. He is the only one with a true understanding of the concepts of loss and change. For all the rest, they're seemingly trapped in a stasis of thought, or mentally break if pushed too far (Yellow). The gem and lunarians are equally as disconnected from any humanity they might have once held. While there've been a lot of theories about whether the gifts of his legs and eye, or a human particle contained in the eye qualified him as human, I wonder whether it was rather a mental qualification the other gems and lunarians are unable to achieve. Adamant's servility and apparent cowardice do not come out looking much better, but they at least lend him a pathetic quality, lacking in the gems' (especially Cinnabar's) callous cruelty. Did the world Phos was fighting for have any true value to it at all?
Actually, a few of the gems demonstrate positive traits. Euclase makes an actual effort to communicate with Phos during the night raid, and was the sole voice of dissent against summarily executing Phos when he had already been pre-emptively crippled after appearing empty-handed in broad daylight. Yellow's mental breakdown suggests a far higher degree of inner conflict over his association with the lunarians than any of the other moon gems. That he needs to put himself into a deep delusion to function and is catatonically depressed otherwise shows he has a concept of guilt unknown to most of the others. Padparadscha is the only moon gem to maintain close allegiance with Phos, probably because Pads has, due to his condition, a view of life far closer to human than any other gem. Living in increments of only minutes, he would have a massively compressed image of the life of the gems, and be able to see exactly how static it is, and how in Phos' short life, he has achieved more than any other living gem.
Cairngorm is a weird case, and I really don't understand what Ichikawa means with him. He is the only moon gem to explicitly reject Phos, but his reasons at least have a basis in his belief that he was enslaved by his eyes. In some ways, I can accept Cairngorm explicitly and wholeheartedly falling in with the lunarians more than I can accept Alex quietly going over to them, or Cinnabar casually betraying Phos. I know a lot of readers really hate him for seeming to fall for Aechmea's lies of omission (fine) or betraying the concept of gender neutrality by becoming the moon's princess (stupid), but he's become one of the most interesting characters in the manga right now, right up there with Phos, Adamant and Aechmea. He hates to think he's being controlled by others, but so far he's shown almost no resistance toward Aechmea. Even when he found out about Aechmea's big omission regarding Adamant's prayers, he remains loyal to his prince. I imagine there'll be some big fallout if he ever has reason to believe Aechmea has betrayed him. Regardless, I have a feeling that he will probably play an important role in however things end up playing out, whether as an ally or an enemy of Phos.
The most disturbing element of this volume to me is the new perspective it gives to the gems. In the worst ways, they're not really that different from the lunarians. Their deathless perspective and belief that their kidnapped friends would eventually be returned to them were understandable given their circumstances, but the way they so easily integrate into lunarian society is disquieting. Alexandrite is one of the oldest gems, and the loss of Chrysoberyl apparently drove him to an obsessive hatred of them, but he integrates just as easily as the others. Even witnessing the dust of their old friends apparently causes nothing but a transient distress to them. Cinnabar, ignored his entire life by everyone but Phos, is the one to suggest essentially killing him after Phos returns to Earth alone without weapons. The psychology of the gems is deeply and disturbingly inhuman. Phos is the only one for which it's credible that he would have misgivings about slaughtering the admirabilis living on the moon to return some of his friends to life. He is the only one with a true understanding of the concepts of loss and change. For all the rest, they're seemingly trapped in a stasis of thought, or mentally break if pushed too far (Yellow). The gem and lunarians are equally as disconnected from any humanity they might have once held. While there've been a lot of theories about whether the gifts of his legs and eye, or a human particle contained in the eye qualified him as human, I wonder whether it was rather a mental qualification the other gems and lunarians are unable to achieve. Adamant's servility and apparent cowardice do not come out looking much better, but they at least lend him a pathetic quality, lacking in the gems' (especially Cinnabar's) callous cruelty. Did the world Phos was fighting for have any true value to it at all?
Actually, a few of the gems demonstrate positive traits. Euclase makes an actual effort to communicate with Phos during the night raid, and was the sole voice of dissent against summarily executing Phos when he had already been pre-emptively crippled after appearing empty-handed in broad daylight. Yellow's mental breakdown suggests a far higher degree of inner conflict over his association with the lunarians than any of the other moon gems. That he needs to put himself into a deep delusion to function and is catatonically depressed otherwise shows he has a concept of guilt unknown to most of the others. Padparadscha is the only moon gem to maintain close allegiance with Phos, probably because Pads has, due to his condition, a view of life far closer to human than any other gem. Living in increments of only minutes, he would have a massively compressed image of the life of the gems, and be able to see exactly how static it is, and how in Phos' short life, he has achieved more than any other living gem.
Cairngorm is a weird case, and I really don't understand what Ichikawa means with him. He is the only moon gem to explicitly reject Phos, but his reasons at least have a basis in his belief that he was enslaved by his eyes. In some ways, I can accept Cairngorm explicitly and wholeheartedly falling in with the lunarians more than I can accept Alex quietly going over to them, or Cinnabar casually betraying Phos. I know a lot of readers really hate him for seeming to fall for Aechmea's lies of omission (fine) or betraying the concept of gender neutrality by becoming the moon's princess (stupid), but he's become one of the most interesting characters in the manga right now, right up there with Phos, Adamant and Aechmea. He hates to think he's being controlled by others, but so far he's shown almost no resistance toward Aechmea. Even when he found out about Aechmea's big omission regarding Adamant's prayers, he remains loyal to his prince. I imagine there'll be some big fallout if he ever has reason to believe Aechmea has betrayed him. Regardless, I have a feeling that he will probably play an important role in however things end up playing out, whether as an ally or an enemy of Phos.
October 8, 2020
Passionate and desperate volume. Gorgeous and convoluted, of course. Full of world building and character restructuring. Good stuff!
May 16, 2022
i feel so bad for phos…
November 15, 2025
io sto adorando questa storia e i disegni di ogni copertina mi stanno lasciando senza parole 🤍
July 8, 2023
حق میدم بقیه اینقدر هاستایل باشن باهاش.
از اون ور میدونم این حمدها سنشون زیاده ولی ازدواج به نظرم چایلد ابیوز میومد هی.
و از این ور زرت زرت زمان ۲۰۰ سال میره جلو هی.
از اون ور میدونم این حمدها سنشون زیاده ولی ازدواج به نظرم چایلد ابیوز میومد هی.
و از این ور زرت زرت زمان ۲۰۰ سال میره جلو هی.
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October 10, 2022
Tbh the story kind of lost me at the moon arc, wasn't really my thing -- but loved the first half of the story and the art is amaaaazing
May 7, 2022
Poor phos :(
May 27, 2022
What a depressing and ever-darkening volume in the series, making the cute lovey-dovey stuff more creepy and disturbing in comparison. Poor Phos, nothing is going their way and everyone is turning on them.
October 3, 2021
Loved it
The story and characters have come a long way from where they started and it's been an incredible experience .
The story and characters have come a long way from where they started and it's been an incredible experience .
May 18, 2024
We’re in uncharted territory now boys
November 16, 2024
getting back into this. i forgot a lot of what was actually happening but im glad to be back. pretty good as usually except i hated that one romantic pairing, you know which one.
August 13, 2025
Algo se está condensando atrás de todo, pero aún no termina de cuajar. Por lo demás este volumen tiene ciertas partes bastantes raras con Cairngorm y Aechmea
June 8, 2023
«Por favor... ¿Oraría para ellos otra vez? No por alguien más, sino por mí. Téngame piedad. Ya no puedo... Encontrar la voluntad para seguir».
Todo el mundo está siendo cruel con Phos y yo no puedo aguantarlo 😩
No, en realidad lo que no puedo aguantar es a Cairngorm. Y al príncipe. Son insoportables en todos los sentidos. Creo que este es un buen contexto para decir que literalmente ✨los odio con toda mi alma y me gustaría que dejaran de existir✨
Pero me ha gustado este tomo porque se ha avanzado con la recuperación de las gemas y sobre el destino de los admirabilis, además de que conocer más su historia, ha sido muy interesante (llegaron a ser caníbales wtf guay pero turbio). ¿Y lo bien que le queda el cambio a Bortz? Su pelo y su látigo están muy cool, aunque sí se siente un poco distinto, como que ha perdido algo porque su pelo largo lo hacía ver muy bad bitch.
Y pensar que nadie entiende a Phos😩 Cinnabar en qué te has convertido (se me ha caído un ídolo). Los de la luna ni intentaron traer a Phos de vuelta y los de la tierra separaron sus partes, las escondieron e incluso se olvidaron de él. Muy cruel, mi joyita no se merece eso. Poor thing... (Probablemente solo se ponga peor. En fin *saca palomitas*).
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January 16, 2023
Me gusta como la historia comenzó siendo linda e inofensiva y lentamente se fue haciendo más oscura, nuestro protagonista solo quiere lo mejor para los demás sin darse cuenta que haciendo eso podría literalmente destruirlos a todos. Aún así, siento mucha empatía con Phos, ya no tiene la salud mental para seguir pero él aún continua buscando una solución, aunque cada vez sea más oscura su decisión. Este por el momento ha sido para mí, uno de los mejores o el mejor tomo hasta ahora.
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February 16, 2022
I JUST WANT PHOS TO BE HAPPY
October 18, 2023
my god... todo el slump que tuvo la historia valió la pena. Este fue un payoff EXCELENTE. Estoy anonadado.
November 20, 2021
Este es el tomo en que, por fin, alguien echa en cara a Phos su egoísmo. Ante el estado mental cada vez más destructivo de Phos (así nos lo demuestra su explosión interna, en que ni siquiera los minerales en su interior pueden soportar el peso de su culpa), Caingorm, en un espectacular movimiento por parte de Ichikawa, demuestra su nueva personalidad al criticar de frente las acciones de Phos. Además de esto, el manga enfrenta al personaje con un nuevo debate: el genocidio de la especie Admirabilis a cambio de la restauración de las gemas perdidas. Phos, al descubrir las consecuencias de sus acciones (el malestar de las gemas y un posible genocidio), comienza por fin a mostrar un cambio positivo. No solo deja atrás la apatía de los primeros tomos y la ambición de los últimos (con el objetivo de matar a Kongô obnubilando sus pensamientos); también decide disculparse ante las gemas por su actitud hasta el momento y se arriesga a combatir en soledad para evitar nuevas muertes propiciadas por su impulsividad.
El tomo vira orgánicamente hacia la introspección. Desde la viñeta donde las aleaciones de Phos se deshacen ante una decisión complicada, Ichikawa enfoca su atención en el rechazo de su propia identidad. Enfrentada con una situación ya irreparable, Phos se encierra en su interior, incapaz de ver más allá de su autoodio. Este tema permea al resto de las gemas: Yellow Diamond, por ejemplo, se enfrenta a una existencia vacua por su elevada edad y busca ser selenita sin darse cuenta de que el resultado sigue partiendo de la misma idea, una existencia sin propósito ni final. Su suicidio supone la máxima destrucción del yo, un rechazo de la propia identidad que alcanza incluso a Caingorm. Ella, en su ingenuidad, busca esa conversión selenita en la nada sin comprender muy bien de qué se trata y, al ser confrontada con una parte de ella misma, termina destruyéndola para dejar de pensar en su pasado. Una vez más, rechaza su identidad.
El final del tomo, además de inesperado, resulta verdaderamente macabro. Phos, ahora consciente del paso del tiempo por la influencia de Lapis, sufre 220 años de agonía en una especie de parálisis sin fin, maltratada por sus gemas compañeras. La situación es humorística para el resto, pero Phos, al despertar, cambia el tono del manga hasta el momento. La bola de nieve ya es demasiado grande como para volver atrás y la gema debe enfrentarse a las consecuencias de sus actos, un castigo por una parte justo para con su comportamiento previo y por otra parte injusto para con su salud mental. Ahora que Phos parecía estar cambiando, las gemas, impulsadas por las decisiones previas del personaje, devuelven a Phos a esa fase depresiva profundamente dolorosa. Qué puta tristeza, chaval.
Esta serie no hace más que mejorar. Algunos puntos de humor no me llegan y creo que Ichikawa se vuelve algo reiterativa en este tomo, pero no hay ninguna razón para no considerar gran parte de los capítulos como una auténtica obra maestra.
El tomo vira orgánicamente hacia la introspección. Desde la viñeta donde las aleaciones de Phos se deshacen ante una decisión complicada, Ichikawa enfoca su atención en el rechazo de su propia identidad. Enfrentada con una situación ya irreparable, Phos se encierra en su interior, incapaz de ver más allá de su autoodio. Este tema permea al resto de las gemas: Yellow Diamond, por ejemplo, se enfrenta a una existencia vacua por su elevada edad y busca ser selenita sin darse cuenta de que el resultado sigue partiendo de la misma idea, una existencia sin propósito ni final. Su suicidio supone la máxima destrucción del yo, un rechazo de la propia identidad que alcanza incluso a Caingorm. Ella, en su ingenuidad, busca esa conversión selenita en la nada sin comprender muy bien de qué se trata y, al ser confrontada con una parte de ella misma, termina destruyéndola para dejar de pensar en su pasado. Una vez más, rechaza su identidad.
El final del tomo, además de inesperado, resulta verdaderamente macabro. Phos, ahora consciente del paso del tiempo por la influencia de Lapis, sufre 220 años de agonía en una especie de parálisis sin fin, maltratada por sus gemas compañeras. La situación es humorística para el resto, pero Phos, al despertar, cambia el tono del manga hasta el momento. La bola de nieve ya es demasiado grande como para volver atrás y la gema debe enfrentarse a las consecuencias de sus actos, un castigo por una parte justo para con su comportamiento previo y por otra parte injusto para con su salud mental. Ahora que Phos parecía estar cambiando, las gemas, impulsadas por las decisiones previas del personaje, devuelven a Phos a esa fase depresiva profundamente dolorosa. Qué puta tristeza, chaval.
Esta serie no hace más que mejorar. Algunos puntos de humor no me llegan y creo que Ichikawa se vuelve algo reiterativa en este tomo, pero no hay ninguna razón para no considerar gran parte de los capítulos como una auténtica obra maestra.
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September 24, 2025
Bueno, de momento aquí lo dejo, me faltan tres números que aún no están disponibles en la biblioteca.
Menudo subidón los dos últimos. En estos, sin esperarlo en la complacencia anterior, se genera una verdadera intriga basada en todo lo leído en los anteriores tomos y las piezas empiezan a encajar.
Les personajes (la autora desea que se utilice el género neutro), es decir, gemas, lunarian y seres marinos parecen indiferentes al bien y al mal. Solo les importa no sé qué exactamente: ¿la estética?, ¿sus vidas de apariencia efímeras pero que duran siglos?... no lo sé pero me cautiva. Incluso la violencia es estilizada por el dibujo de la autora... En medio, claro, la figura de le sensei, Kongo, que se revela cada vez más patética pero que puede que tenga un importnte papel en el desenlace.
No sé, me huelo final trágico "a la japonesa", pero quedan tres tomos, así que ya se verá.
Menudo subidón los dos últimos. En estos, sin esperarlo en la complacencia anterior, se genera una verdadera intriga basada en todo lo leído en los anteriores tomos y las piezas empiezan a encajar.
Les personajes (la autora desea que se utilice el género neutro), es decir, gemas, lunarian y seres marinos parecen indiferentes al bien y al mal. Solo les importa no sé qué exactamente: ¿la estética?, ¿sus vidas de apariencia efímeras pero que duran siglos?... no lo sé pero me cautiva. Incluso la violencia es estilizada por el dibujo de la autora... En medio, claro, la figura de le sensei, Kongo, que se revela cada vez más patética pero que puede que tenga un importnte papel en el desenlace.
No sé, me huelo final trágico "a la japonesa", pero quedan tres tomos, así que ya se verá.
January 4, 2022
The story goes further - and there is no black and white, good or bad. There is a schism between Lustrous, and not much can be done... even if Phos believes that somehow she can save everyone and change Brilliant's mind. Im curious to see how the story will get sorted but I am also afraid to see what would happen with my favourite characters. I am still disappointed with Smoky Quarz, or Princess, as she presets that others call her now, and I would be curious to find out where the need to love comes from in her case.
The very last volume ahead of me!
The very last volume ahead of me!
October 11, 2024
- does phos have any true allies? are there even sides in this senseless war?
- i don't think there's a happy ending phos can acheive. she can't please herself and everyone else
- what is going on with cairn and aechmea? I don't get it and I feel weird not knowing his motives and whatever he's hiding
- phos getting introduced to video games was unexpected and the only wholesome moment amid the heartbreak
- this is just too much suffering now
- i don't think there's a happy ending phos can acheive. she can't please herself and everyone else
- what is going on with cairn and aechmea? I don't get it and I feel weird not knowing his motives and whatever he's hiding
- phos getting introduced to video games was unexpected and the only wholesome moment amid the heartbreak
- this is just too much suffering now
August 6, 2022
Well… I couldn’t have seen this coming, and even if I had, I don’t know if I would have been prepared for it. It’s been such a major shift from the prior volumes, and the ditsy atmosphere, but even then there were all the signs of something on the horizon. Just give me… a little time… to recuperate…..z.hm..
April 18, 2024
I hate all the gems and the way they're treating Phos.
Also, Phos is losing their mind, the way they're transforming is scary yet so beautiful. It's like I'm hypnotized by the horror.
Especially the scene where Phos is hanging over sensei and says, "If only you weren't here..."
Straight out of horror yet it's one of my favorite panels in the entire manga.
Also, Phos is losing their mind, the way they're transforming is scary yet so beautiful. It's like I'm hypnotized by the horror.
Especially the scene where Phos is hanging over sensei and says, "If only you weren't here..."
Straight out of horror yet it's one of my favorite panels in the entire manga.
September 3, 2024
j'ai tellement de la peine pour phos et en même temps j'aime TELLEMENT son character development 🙂↕️☝🏻☝🏻
LA SCENE DE MARIAGE 😭💔 c'etait trop trop beau, pour ça j'aimes les mangakas femmes car elles ont vraiment un female gaze qui fait vrmt ressortir la beauté des personnages sans en faire quelque chose de sexuel
la relation du prince et de la princesse est juste adorable bref je fond
LA SCENE DE MARIAGE 😭💔 c'etait trop trop beau, pour ça j'aimes les mangakas femmes car elles ont vraiment un female gaze qui fait vrmt ressortir la beauté des personnages sans en faire quelque chose de sexuel
la relation du prince et de la princesse est juste adorable bref je fond
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March 5, 2020
I'v been losing interest in this series as well as a few others but Phos's clear desperation will have me picking up the next one.
February 15, 2021
woah woah phos
May 8, 2021
why won’t you pray Sensei
May 10, 2021
Cairngorm smashes Phos's head. The Lunaries put Phos's head back together. Cairngorm and Aechmea get married. Phos fails the mission back on Earth.
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December 12, 2021
The pain is strong
August 7, 2022
if there is ever a recommendation to take from me is please or watch houseki no kuni <33 its my absolute fav pieces of media and i love them sm, i could talk about it for hours
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