Reviews tagging 'Blood'

To Your Eternity, Tome 1 by Yoshitoki Oima

9 reviews

modernhobbitvibes's review against another edition

adventurous emotional sad medium-paced

5.0

I'm suing storygraph for emotional damage for suggesting this to me. But also 100% going to find a way to read volume 2.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Violence, Animal death, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Death, and Child death

Moderate: Kidnapping and Excrement

breedawnwriter's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional inspiring mysterious sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A

3.0

A powerful story about what it means to be human. I was definitely intrigued by the concept, but ultimately the execution left me wanting more existentialism and more…aliveness, I guess.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Blood, and Violence

Moderate: Child death, Injury/Injury detail, and Animal death

Minor: Grief

A child is offered as a sacrifice to a god.

nat_kiverse's review against another edition

dark emotional funny mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Kidnapping, Child death, Grief, Murder, Violence, Abandonment, Blood, Body horror, Child abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Suicidal thoughts, Animal death, Death, and Vomit

booksthatburn's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Blood, Violence, Death, and Animal death

Moderate: Child death, Injury/Injury detail, Child abuse, and Murder

fifteenthjessica's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.0

It's intriguing, and different from other manga I've read. So, this orb that can imitate the forms of things it touches and regenerate. Eventually, it takes the form of a wolf right before the wolf dies. The first chapter follows the wolf-orb as it reunites with the wolf's caretaker and the two go on a journey to meet up with the rest of the boy's tribe.

The boy is injured and head back home to recover. Only he doesn't. The orb then is able to take the boy's form.

The manga then switches gears to introduce what I assume are the other major characters, March and Parona. They live in a village and I believe they're sisters. The village must sacrifice a young girl each year, and March, who is eager to grow up, is chosen.

On the way, they meet with the orb/boy/wolf, who March befriends by feeding. The orb then defeats the monster March was to be sacrificed to.

I feel like this is more focused on thematic exploration of the meaning of life than on the plot, which is fine, but I tend to read stories that are more characters-plot-theme than theme-characters-plot, so I'm not sure what to make of it compared to similar stories because I don't have a frame of reference. The art is nice. I don't know what to say.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Child death, and Body horror

Moderate: Blood, Violence, Injury/Injury detail, Animal death, and Grief

cait's review against another edition

adventurous challenging mysterious sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death, Blood, Gore, Violence, and Abandonment

pip72156907's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

This book is so interesting!! I definitely will be reading more. I personally really love books/shows with cool supernatural/magic/mystery parts to them, and those things are what I normally look for or focus on. (For example, I really liked the curse aspect in Fruits Basket, and focused on that rather than the slice-of-life parts.) This book was great for me because of that!!! Fushi is such a cool character. I also like this book because it gives me some Princess Mononoke vibes which is cool.

MAJOR Spoilers:

WHY DOES EVERYONE DIE?? PLEASE JUST SPARE US ONE PERSON ESPECIALLY NOW THAT IN //later volume spoilers!! THE NEXT BOOKS GUGU DIES TOO AND THERES PROBABLY MORE TO COME.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood and Death

gothicmoon's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective tense fast-paced

• Loveable characters? Yes

4.0

astonished... not sure what i just read im just. wow 

gotta reread bc i rushed through it bc it consumed me

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Blood, Body horror, Child death, Death, and Grief

eatsuki's review against another edition

challenging emotional sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death

Moderate: Blood, Child death, Grief, and Sexual assault

Minor: Animal death