To You, The Immortal 45

What did she want to do to him?

maybe she thinks getting knocked up by an immortal being and having a kid with even a bit of his power would help her rule the land

I personally thought she believed she could achieve immortality through him, so she's trying to 'imprint' herself onto him and become his strongest influence.

I'm not sure how she figured that Fushi took on the forms of those who've died, though, unless she made that connection with the spirit bear dying and Fushi's subsequent transformation into it during his escape.

Chex.

>achieve immortality through him, so she's trying to 'imprint' herself onto him and become his strongest influence

but his transformations don't influence him. they are dead and he only really guesses what they would do in that situation unless he is able to perfect his ability to the point of getting their memories and thought patterns later down the line

I mean, she wants to do SOMETHING special, so I'm taking a guess that she thinks she can make herself more important among his forms, to the point of being able to actually influence him.

I get it. I also think there is more to the space where Gugu and March are

It looks more like she wants to own him outright and the rapey tendencies stem from her obsession of him

Like what?

March and Gugu getting their ideal ending but also being able to watch reality.

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I got that reference. Wish there was more smut.

This user is right

How many chapters have been released so far in Japan?

whats that from?

Oh shiiiiiiit.

Damn, by the looks of it she gonna have some success in getting an immortal kid.Would be very cool if Fushi managed to get away but years later heard about the crazy girl accomplishment and thus start the millennia long adventure of Fushi trying to vanquish his own bloodline because they are asshole and your usual crazy king shenanigans.

Welp, Fushi will learn the consequences of sticking in crazy, the hard way, it seems.

Wait a minute. This is volume 5? Up to what volume are we at in the translations, even?

Looks like TLs are on the 2nd chapter of Vol 5

Beginning of volume 6.

Yeah, saw an advertisement for volume 5 on the 1st page of this chapter, so volume 6 makes more sense, I suppose.

Anyone else think Hayase got hotter after getting these scars? I mean, I didn't think much of her before, but man. The crazy, scarred lady angle just does something to me.

>fucking a literal child barely understanding the world around
>killing the best girl and most likely torturing her before doing so
It's a shame that Fushi didn't kill her back then.

>immortal baby
This doesn't make sense. I mean, yeah, he is an immortal, but that doesn't mean he has to have "immortal genetics". Basically what Fushi copies is a exact replica of what it is, so his baby would carry the genes of that white-haired boy that died at the beginning, without any properties of what the real Fushi is made of.
Maybe his baby is, indeed, his son, but it being an immortal being is highly questionable, imho.

>what Fushi copies is a exact replica of what it is
considering white hair guy wasn't an immortal shapeshifter, this is wrong

>Anyone else think Hayase got hotter after getting these scars?
Glad to see I'm not the only one.

So what is the Fushi creator's endgame?
To make him copy an entire world initially?

Data collection

But the immortality of Fushi is an intrinsic property of his soul (or that weird thing at the beginning, when he was released), not his body, so he having a immortal son doesn't make sense.

>fucking a literal child barely understanding the world around
I mean. He's not actually a child anymore. He grew up with Gugu, remember? His first body also naturally grew up with him, until he transformed and resetted back into his base youthful state.

How can you be so sure it doesn't make sense? Maybe his semen contains some soul magic. It's not like you are an expert on the matter. You don't even know what he is.

I mean, who knows, man. It's all essentially magic. Even having his bloodline would be enough to claim that the child's lineage is truly blessed and superior to the commoners.

>that weird thing at the beginning
ch1 ball was fushi's body before he gained any shapes, shapeshifting (and thus immortality) is an intrinsic part of his body

>He grew up with Gugu, remember?
Right, he went from 2 to 6 years old

He's still like 5-6 years old and is very naive.
At the very least he should've experienced an actual love instead of whatever twisted relationships this bitch is going to draw him into.

>He's still like 5-6 years old
A 5 year old dog is old enough to reproduce, a one day old fly can reproduce. You're judging him by human standards but he is a immortal shape shifting being.

Think the best way to solve this is to list out how Fu's Immortality works, is it magic/curse and if so can it be passed on genetically?

>curse
Hm? He was born this way.

the average dog's life is only 10-13 years and they're also less intelligent. What's half of forever?

So "God" creates an immortal shape- shifting being but how does his power work? If its a molecular change then i would lean on it being a genetic trait thus could be passed on.

that's usually how physical shapeshifters work

The other question would be is if the offspring would just be semi-immortal and if it could shape-shift?

Why assume it's science-based with genetics and everything, even? He may even be an entirely conceptual entity, especially given that his transformations apparently need an 'impetus'. Mundane, lifeless objects seem easy enough, but living beings (especially the more complex they are, if that mole is any indication of how low the bar can be set) seem to require more powerful stimuli for him to be able to transform into them.

Could be his entire ability works off of Plato's Theory of Forms?

Not just Gugu and March. There's the nameless boy as well.

UENO!

Yeah, had the same thought.
>Intense chick obsessed with the MC, MC is bothered and annoyed by her

>if that mole is any indication of how low the bar can be set
I think the reason "to live" is more than enough for him to copy the "impetus" of a creature like that. After all, surviving is the ultimate goal of any lifeform in existence.

I dunno, guys, I thought this manga would be more like Kino no Tabi and YokohamaKK: just a "thing" walking around learning what it is to be human. But what I got was contrived drama/complexity. Meh.

>guys
back to r*ddit you.

>But what I got was contrived drama/complexity
Story. It's called a story, you retard.

>just a "thing" walking around learning what it is to be human
Is that not what you are getting?

Nah, it's called poor writing. The mangaka uses the tragic element way too much and in the same way every time.

He is not walking around, he is living a collection of tragedies.

>he is living a collection of tragedies
that he met by walking around.

>He is not walking around
I'm pretty sure he's walked everywhere he's gotten too outside that one time he took a boat.

Did you get mad at Kino for using a motorcycle to get around? Are we nitpicking modes of transportation now?

The first 3 chapters of this manga were GOAT. I regret reading past it.

Oh, c'mon, you got it. The motor force of the series is the tragedyporn and not the journey. And now we also have fights with dark villains.

>The motor force of the series is the tragedyporn and not the journey.
Why are those two things mutually exclusive? He's on a journey apparently learning what living means. Life has given him highs and lows although much like Kino no Tabi this series dwells in the more somber components of living.

Yes there is tragedy but it's not without purpose or meaning and it's all in service to giving Fushi experiences he presumably needs. If you just wanted a stoic immortal that is more the spectator to other people's lives you expected something very different.

>The motor force of the series is the tragedyporn and not the journey.
wrong, they work in tangent, we have seen tragedies in different societies. we saw a tragedy in a northernmost village, where everyone but one boy had died because the boy stayed behind. we saw a tragedy in a primitive village because they where being pushed by more advanced people to give them a child in a ritual manner.
we saw a tragedy in a kingdom when the daughter of a noble fell in love with a peasent boy and said boy died protecting her in an accident.
the way these tragedies are presented is in a journey made by the immortal in search of his purpose.

Without the tragedies he would have no reason to travel or learn anything. As soon as he felt comfortable he decided to stay with Gugu and without the knockers he would have lived the rest of his life there, end of story. The tragedies give the MC a reason to grow, move and experience new things.

Yeah it became a bit of a battle shounen with him having to kill that weird being that steals his forms.
Kind of disappointing.

A deaf girl surrounded by psychos, a cute child being sacrificed, a deformed boy dying when his love is finally reciprocated. I'm sorry, but it's clear that the author loves tragedy and cheap drama just for the sake of it.

they are actually there so he won't just settle and live peacefully
he needs to evolve and move on

>loves tragedy and cheap drama just for the sake of it.
wut. you mean the tragedy and drama have nothing to do with the story about an immortal learning what it means to be human?

>but it's clear that the author loves tragedy and cheap drama just for the sake of it.
Look dude, I know you're trolling but you realize that this isn't just suffering for suffering's sake right? The story is making more than enough use of these plot points and they are set up enough to actually invest the audience.

What exactly would you have wanted from this premise. Use more than a sentence to describe it.

>you mean the tragedy and drama have nothing to do with the story about an immortal learning what it means to be human?
So being human is nothing more than tragedy, melancholy and frustration? The point is: the journey seems only an excuse for these exaggerated sad stories. Again, it's cheap.

>saw past the happiness Fushi had living with the humans
Your life is cheap faggot, most are.

>The story is making more than enough use of these plot points and they are set up enough to actually invest the audience.
Ok, but for me the excess and repetition make everything feels like emotional manipulation.
>What exactly would you have wanted from this premise. Use more than a sentence to describe it.
I already said. I expected a more intimate SoL-esque journey. But I think the tragic death of dreamers and innocents gives more money.

>Your life is cheap faggot, most are.
Human life is made of 99% boredom and 1% excitation.

>but for me the excess and repetition make everything feels like emotional manipulation.
Stories are all about manipulating your emotions user. This story is about an immortal on a journey of self discovery; it's filled with highs and lows but you are focusing only on the lows.

> I expected a more intimate SoL-esque journey.
So watch the apocalypse girls show this season. If you wanted a more episodic narrative that's one thing. But SoL is also incredibly repetitive by design so I'm sure you would be complaining about that as well.

>Stories are all about manipulating your emotions user.
There is a difference between creating emotion and between forcing emotion.
>it's filled with highs and lows but you are focusing only on the low
Because the highs only exist for the lows. Everything always ends in tragedy.

>There is a difference between creating emotion and between forcing emotion.
How is this story not creating emotions. The tragedy is always the punctuation of the storylines they exist within. The author isn't just killing off random characters and is instead developing them and having them interact with Fushi so it's not just a bunch of randos dying.

>Because the highs only exist for the lows.
"You can't appreciate a sunny day without having a rainy day"

This story does need to use the contrast between the happy moments and the sad ones. All I'm hearing is that you're not happy it's not a series of disjointed short stories with an immortal just wandering around and instead got a linear narrative where the author is using the juxtaposition between a journey for self discovery, and personal loss to develop the character.

>the author is using the juxtaposition between a journey for self discovery, and personal loss to develop the character.
Personal loss doesn't have to always be "suffering" and broken dreams. But the author chose suffering and broken dreams because it is easier to hook the reader.

I was hoping the manga would be an entire series about something like this flashback, but then it got all retarded.

>Personal loss doesn't have to always be "suffering" and broken dreams.
Again, you are only looking at one half of this equation. When Fushi is growing as a person it's not just through losing people and part of his whole character the last handful of chapters is trying to avoid losing anyone else. Even he doesn't want to be seperated from those he's come to love.

>But the author chose suffering and broken dreams because it is easier to hook the reader.
Violence, Sec, and titillation are far better hooks as they reward the audience for sticking around. Having loss be a major theme is a harder sell because of the reasons your complaining right now. People don't like it when the subject matter is depressing.

It's pretty much what you say, I mean, it's not like he is traveling with a regular set of friends or with a goal in mind. He is just living and learning what a human is.
The only difference is, unlike other manga with this premise, is that every mistake he does will haunt him forever in all his travels, so he can't really disconnect his experiences from every travel he does.
Not that it needs to be like this, his "creator" told him to not get attached to the humans he met, but Fushi refused to listen him.

What the fuck? Why is she so thirsty?

I mentioned Gugu and March because they were shown to realize something was off about where they were
>It could change itself by imitating the form of all that may and does exist.

I hope Fushi one day learns how to make a copy from what he learns in books.

this threads still alive

Any theories about why Darth Sidious made Fu? He clearly has some purpose he wants him to fulfil, and the knockers seem made specifically to stop him. My guess is that Fu was created to survive some sort of apocalypse, and bring the imprints of the being's he's absorbed through that apocalypse. But why would the knockers want to stop Fu from acquiring more forms?

>let my friends go, and I will allow you to snusnu me
Well, could be worse.
Sure, it's the crazy despicable bitch who is responsible for the death of the cute little girl and that other warrior girl from the same village, but at least she's not one of those weird plant-monster things that steal his memory-copies.

The interesting thing is that knockers still can't kill him, they would just rob him of his accumulated identity.
My bet is that at some point Fushi will get so powerful he's quite literally able to perfectly mimic the entire world so he will be able to bring everything back after apocalypse, not simply a number of things.

I have the theory that this is some kind of game of chess between two forces and Fushi is the Alchemist's piece in this battle. While the Knockers are the pawns of the opposing side. Something like Philemon vs Narlothotep in the Persona series.

What's brown endgame?

Interesting. I could definitely see that. I wonder if that "inner world" we saw March and Gugu in has something to do with that. I can't tell yet if it's a real thing inside Fu or just his imagination or something.

Hm, I think the black cloak guy said that he wasn't immortal, but I could see something like that, if he's the servant of some higher power.

I'm behind.

She killed that girl from the village? That sucks.

I think they are aliens. Two races of aliens are using Earth as their battlefield and while one race only could adapt to plant-based life, the other one could adapt to more complex lifeforms. Basically Fushi's race powers allow them to blend with the locals of the planet while they try to defeat or escape from the Knockers.

Apparently she also tortured her before killing her.

2nd best girl dies off screen

Eldritch truth when

>2nd best girl
Who is first?

March

Pioran

She wants to feel the Bear D.

>brown
Who?

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It's no coincidence that she looks like Ueno.

I want fushi to turn into a mole and crawl up my butthole

Go to bed Hayase

Oh, her. Well, she wants the Fushi, that's not a surprise.

I kind of agree, but I'm enjoying this arc a lot more than the previous ones. Anything is better than reading about Gugu and Rynn every week

>Anything is better than reading about Gugu and Rynn every week
why? what's wrong with them?