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宝石の国 [Hōseki no Kuni] #3
Vương Quốc Bảo Thạch - Tập 3
Với những kẻ có độ cứng thấp, ngoài "lòng dũng cảm", ta chẳng có gì cả.
Ở một tương lai không xa, những bảo thạch bất tử không ngừng chiến đấu với Nguyệt nhân.
Trong lúc những bảo thạch khác đang ngủ đông, nhân vật chính Phosphophyllite cùng làm nhiệm vụ với Antarcticite - bảo thạch chỉ hoạt động vào mùa đông.
Hãy đón xem trận chiến của những bảo thạch kiên cường và xinh đẹp.
Ở một tương lai không xa, những bảo thạch bất tử không ngừng chiến đấu với Nguyệt nhân.
Trong lúc những bảo thạch khác đang ngủ đông, nhân vật chính Phosphophyllite cùng làm nhiệm vụ với Antarcticite - bảo thạch chỉ hoạt động vào mùa đông.
Hãy đón xem trận chiến của những bảo thạch kiên cường và xinh đẹp.
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First published August 22, 2014
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About the author
Haruko Ichikawa
40 books144 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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May 24, 2025
This series keeps getting better every single volume! I might get obsessed.
December 29, 2020
The more I read Land of the Lustrous the more captivated I am. It has a very unique setting and characters. On top of that, the art is minimalistically beautiful. With a few lines the mangaka creates such stricking imagery.
May 27, 2023
کاراکتر جدید.
دپرشن رو هم خوب داره نشون میده.
دپرشن رو هم خوب داره نشون میده.
December 6, 2020
Sutch a heartbreaking volume, my heart shattered u,u
Land of the Lustrous volume 3 by Haruko Ichikawa get 10/10 stars.
Land of the Lustrous volume 3 by Haruko Ichikawa get 10/10 stars.
June 8, 2025
La trama avanza y se vuelve más compleja. Algunos descubrimientos que llevan a nuevos misterios...
January 28, 2020
Antarcticite *feels*
January 30, 2025
I didn’t expect this to be so tragic ): … I’m really enjoying this manga though after this one I definitely just want to devour the rest
November 29, 2023
This one was a lot more action scenes and less dialogue which made for a much quicker read, and all i can really say is Phos, Phos, Phos... *shakes head gently*
June 15, 2022
Antarcticite makes a strong impression on both Phos and many readers. His no-nonsense treatment of Phos combined with his strongly displayed affection for Adamant raises the question of what he is really like deep down, unlike most of the other gems, who are either straightforward or seem to be displaying some sort of facade. More importantly, he treats Phos with a respect none of the other gems have shown. No matter how poorly Phos does at their winter maintenance tasks, Antarc just pushes Phos to keep going. Most importantly, when Phos loses his arms, he doesn't blame Phos for the error, but himself for planting the idea in Phos' head, and even puts himself in danger to try and retrieve them. Paradoxically, this probably makes Phos feel even worse, as he says it was the lack of punishment for his cowardice that prevented him from hibernating.
Many little details come out at me this time around. When Antarc and Phos rush to Adamant after losing Phos' arms, he is caught by surprise and wraps his hands in his robe when touching them, as he doesn't carry gloves. Rutile, Red Beryl and Peridot note short supplies of powder, linen and paper respectively, exhorting the other gems not to waste. We see here that the table Adamant broke in the previous volume has been repaired, and when Phos is trying at cracking the ice using high heels, Antarcticite wears flats, implying they have only the single pair of high heels (Phos' alloy forming heels is a great way to both emulate Antarc and to have him "grow" physically).
This volume has the best "cracking" scenes yet. There's something perversely beautiful about it, the way their hidden gemstone interiors are displayed, and the dissonance of how painful it looks with their nonchalance about it. And best of all is Phos' kintsugi scene, where his exertion cracks his exterior apart, causing the alloy to bleed through, forming a stronger body. One of the most iconic scenes in the anime, and done just as well here.
The lore is further expanded as the method of birth of the gems is revealed, and Antarcticite claims that the extinction of humanity may have been "millions of centuries" ago. The lunarians are suspiciously non-aggressive when trying to distract Adamant. The ice floes mimic the form of the lunarians, seem to have some vestigial ability to speak, and Adamant implies they are related to the gems.
May 9, 2022
with each volume this series becomes more and more captivating
August 31, 2020
Increíble.
Cada manga mejora respecto al anterior.
El 2 fue genial, y este es incluso mejor.
Fos ha cambiado muchísimo respecto al primero, incluso me ha sorprendido, ya que no me esperaba el final del manga.
Este manga se centra en ella, Senséi y Antarticita.
Me alegro que se vayan a seguir publicando en español, ya que está siendo muy interesante.
Cada manga mejora respecto al anterior.
El 2 fue genial, y este es incluso mejor.
Fos ha cambiado muchísimo respecto al primero, incluso me ha sorprendido, ya que no me esperaba el final del manga.
Este manga se centra en ella, Senséi y Antarticita.
Me alegro que se vayan a seguir publicando en español, ya que está siendo muy interesante.
March 15, 2018
In this volume we get a bit more world-building and a new character. Winter is starting, which means less sunlight and therefore less energy for most of the Lustrous. While almost all of them go into hibernation, Kongo-sensei and Antarcticite become everyone's guardians. Antarcticite spends most of the year in a liquid form, but every winter they solidify and gradually grow stronger as temperatures get colder.
Phos is usually the first of the Lustrous to begin hibernation and the last to wake up, but this time around they can't seem to stay asleep, a possible side effect of their new legs. Kongo-sensei assigns Phos to Antarcticite as their new partner. Phos isn't sure they're up to the task, especially after the disastrous incident with the Amethyst twins, and then there's the issue of the talking ice floes that prey on Phos's anxieties.
Although the first volume made this series look like it was going to be a "natural discovery or Lunarian attack of the week" kind of thing, in the last couple volumes it's become more focused on Phos's desire to become stronger and more useful and eventually able to help Cinnabar. There are also hints that Kongo-sensei knows more about the Lunarians than he's told the younger Lustrous.
I wasn't expecting this volume to be as tragic as it was. The panels in which Lustrous (I won't say which ones) were broken into pieces were brutal, and this time around there was more explicit recognition of the horror inherent in the Lustrous's tendency to lose memories whenever they permanently lost a body part.
It'll be interesting to see where Ichikawa goes after this.
Although I'm very much enjoying the story and world-building details, I do still have some issues with this series. First, I'm just going to say it: the action scenes in this series aren't always very good. They're pretty, and the composition of individual panels and pages is great, but the action often requires a lot of effort to follow and doesn't always make sense. For example, at the beginning of the volume the Amethyst twins cut open another weird pod-like Lunarian. In the first volume, when a similar Lunarian was cut open there was a sequence of panels that showed arrows made out of Lustrous pieces emerging from the Lunarian's...pore things.
In this volume, it wasn't nearly as easy to tell what had happened and how. In one panel, the Lunarian's pore things were just empty holes. In the next panel, giant spiky blade-things has already fully emerged, which no obvious indication of how something so big could have fit inside the Lunarian and emerged from those holes. After staring at the image for a while, I eventually figured out what might have happened, but those pages were really jarring and confusing the first time I saw them.
After the fun I had looking up the properties of real-life cinnabar after reading volume 1, I decided to see if Ichikawa had based Antarcticite off of the properties of real antarcticite. From what I can tell, although antarcticite is just as brittle as the manga said it was, Ichikawa made up most of the character's abilities. A bit disappointing.
All in all, this volume contributed a few more interesting world-building details and continued Phos's transformation into...something. It's definitely looking like this series is going to end in tragedy, at least where Phos is concerned. I plan to continue on with Land of the Lustrous, although limited library availability may mean that I'll have to switch to buying it.
Extras:
Two pages of 4-panel comics - the humor felt a little weird and out-of-place after the events of this volume. Also, a page with two translator's notes.
Rating Note:
I gave this 3.5 stars on sites that allow half stars. Although I'm really enjoying the story and world, the artwork takes way more effort to decipher sometimes than it should.
(Original review posted on A Library Girl's Familiar Diversions.)
Phos is usually the first of the Lustrous to begin hibernation and the last to wake up, but this time around they can't seem to stay asleep, a possible side effect of their new legs. Kongo-sensei assigns Phos to Antarcticite as their new partner. Phos isn't sure they're up to the task, especially after the disastrous incident with the Amethyst twins, and then there's the issue of the talking ice floes that prey on Phos's anxieties.
Although the first volume made this series look like it was going to be a "natural discovery or Lunarian attack of the week" kind of thing, in the last couple volumes it's become more focused on Phos's desire to become stronger and more useful and eventually able to help Cinnabar. There are also hints that Kongo-sensei knows more about the Lunarians than he's told the younger Lustrous.
I wasn't expecting this volume to be as tragic as it was. The panels in which Lustrous (I won't say which ones) were broken into pieces were brutal, and this time around there was more explicit recognition of the horror inherent in the Lustrous's tendency to lose memories whenever they permanently lost a body part.
It'll be interesting to see where Ichikawa goes after this.
Although I'm very much enjoying the story and world-building details, I do still have some issues with this series. First, I'm just going to say it: the action scenes in this series aren't always very good. They're pretty, and the composition of individual panels and pages is great, but the action often requires a lot of effort to follow and doesn't always make sense. For example, at the beginning of the volume the Amethyst twins cut open another weird pod-like Lunarian. In the first volume, when a similar Lunarian was cut open there was a sequence of panels that showed arrows made out of Lustrous pieces emerging from the Lunarian's...pore things.
In this volume, it wasn't nearly as easy to tell what had happened and how. In one panel, the Lunarian's pore things were just empty holes. In the next panel, giant spiky blade-things has already fully emerged, which no obvious indication of how something so big could have fit inside the Lunarian and emerged from those holes. After staring at the image for a while, I eventually figured out what might have happened, but those pages were really jarring and confusing the first time I saw them.
After the fun I had looking up the properties of real-life cinnabar after reading volume 1, I decided to see if Ichikawa had based Antarcticite off of the properties of real antarcticite. From what I can tell, although antarcticite is just as brittle as the manga said it was, Ichikawa made up most of the character's abilities. A bit disappointing.
All in all, this volume contributed a few more interesting world-building details and continued Phos's transformation into...something. It's definitely looking like this series is going to end in tragedy, at least where Phos is concerned. I plan to continue on with Land of the Lustrous, although limited library availability may mean that I'll have to switch to buying it.
Extras:
Two pages of 4-panel comics - the humor felt a little weird and out-of-place after the events of this volume. Also, a page with two translator's notes.
Rating Note:
I gave this 3.5 stars on sites that allow half stars. Although I'm really enjoying the story and world, the artwork takes way more effort to decipher sometimes than it should.
(Original review posted on A Library Girl's Familiar Diversions.)
July 9, 2025
20250709 2nd read
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20190828 1st read
這集的經典畫面南極石碎滿地，還有變成魔鬼終結者水銀人的小磷。
第八集台版要出啦！
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20190828 1st read
這集的經典畫面南極石碎滿地，還有變成魔鬼終結者水銀人的小磷。
第八集台版要出啦！
May 5, 2023
«—Tenemos poca solidez, así que si perdemos el coraje, no habrá nada que nos quede.
—Solo puedo hacer lo que puedo.
—Eso es solo porque haces lo que puedes.
—Haré mi mejor esfuerzo en las cosas que puedo hacer.
—Entonces nunca serás capaz de hacer algo más que eso».
Me ha dolido la pérdida de Antarcticite incluso si ya la sabía, me gustó mucho su personaje, pero igual que en el anime no me ha dado tanta lástima porque ha sido muy precipitado o al menos así lo he sentido yo. Y Phos... Pobre Phos, aunque me gusta la evolución/corrupción de su personaje.
Me pregunto a qué se refería el sensei con que el hielo (o al menos las partículas de este) son pecadores. Se me ha hecho muy curioso que pudieran hablar o reflejar las ideas de los demás, como si personificaran los pensamientos intrusivos.
Algo que me molesta es la fe ciega en el sensei. Tengo trust issues y no veo por qué las gemas confían tanto en él, es que no puedo entenderlo, sobre todo teniendo en cuenta que el sensei es muy sospechoso.
Y EL FINAL. PHOS HA OLVIDADO A CINNABAR AAAAH T.T
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December 23, 2024
What the ACTUAL FUCK is happening in this fucked up gem society? I still don't trust sensei one bit and i get a weird vibe about their relationship with antacticide. What in the name of Cullen energy is building your own training school/family/shipping factory for gem people who idolise you??? I just hhhh... they are kinda weirding me out. And phos is really just going through stone cutter equivalent of a wringer.
May 28, 2025
Dalsza kontynuacji tej świetnej serii!
Ubóstwiam tą mangę. Ichikawa znów się popisuje umiejętnościami artystycznymi i pisarskimi, a fabuła rozkręca się bardziej i bardziej. Tym razem, Fos ma pracę zimową, i jej szokująco nie traci....Ale traci ręce i swojego nowego kolege, Antarkta. Ups. Tym sposobem bardziej zbliża się do bycia uosobnieniem statku Tezeusza.
Kocham tą serię, to jest szczyt literatury dla mnie.
Ubóstwiam tą mangę. Ichikawa znów się popisuje umiejętnościami artystycznymi i pisarskimi, a fabuła rozkręca się bardziej i bardziej. Tym razem, Fos ma pracę zimową, i jej szokująco nie traci....Ale traci ręce i swojego nowego kolege, Antarkta. Ups. Tym sposobem bardziej zbliża się do bycia uosobnieniem statku Tezeusza.
Kocham tą serię, to jest szczyt literatury dla mnie.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
August 1, 2018
و داستان شروع میشود...
December 22, 2021
Este volumen ha traído de vuelta la maestría emocional del primero de la serie. El desarrollo de los personajes es increíble y la llegada de Antarcticite is maravillosa. Lo disfruté mucHOO
April 26, 2022
oh antarcticite
September 14, 2022
*flips literally ALL OF THE TABLES*
December 1, 2022
between this and The Broken Earth trilogy, post-apocalyptic rock magic just hits different
December 10, 2023
ONE good day. ONE.
April 28, 2024
Screaming crying throwing up
July 4, 2024
Antarc 🥲
October 5, 2024
antarc just like me fr fr ‼️‼️
October 6, 2024
I know it won’t get better (for Phos) but…
May 15, 2025
ANTARC MY BELOVED WHERE R U COME BACK HOME I MISS U
December 3, 2024
antarc:( also, the body = memory correlation is what i live for. death might be impermanent but the chipping away of self comes at a cost
July 8, 2025
¿Alguien dijo desarrollo de personaje?
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