To Your Eternity season 2
To Your Eternity | |
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Season 2 | |
![]() Key visual of the season | |
No. of episodes | 20 |
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Original network | NHK Educational TV |
Original release | October 23, 2022 (2022-10-23) – March 12, 2023 (2023-03-12) |
Season chronology | |
← Previous Season 1 | |
List of episodes |
The second season of the anime television series To Your Eternity was announced in the final episode of the first season in August 2021.[1] The plot continues the immortal being Fushi as he encounters mankind after decades of self-exile. The series is based on Yoshitoki Oima's manga series with the same name.
Drive replaced Brain's Base in animating the second season, while Kiyoko Sayama replaced Masahiko Murata as the director. The rest of the main staff are returning from the first season including Shinzō Fujita as series script supervisor, Koji Yabuno as character designer, Ryo Kawasaki as music composer, and Takeshi Takadera as sound director.[2] It premiered on October 23, 2022.[3] Like with the first season, Crunchyroll is also streaming the second season.[4]
The second season reuses the first season's opening theme, "Pink Blood" by Hikaru Utada, with updated visuals in the opening credits to represent the new story arcs,[5] while Masashi Hamauzu composes the second season's ending theme song, "Roots".
Episodes
No. | Title [6] | Directed by | Original air date [7] | |
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1 | "Infatuation Reborn" Transliteration: "Tensei Suru Aishū" (Japanese: 転生する愛執) | Shōta Hamada | October 23, 2022 (2022-10-23) | |
Fushi has been living with on Sarine Island for the last four decades, fighting Nokkers on his own while refusing to return to society. As he prepares to leave, he meets Hisame, the nine-year-old granddaughter and very first reincarnation of Hayase's restless spirit and equally twisted, strong will to be with Fushi for all eternity. Hisame's left arm contains the Nokker which had merged with Hayase. When travelling with Hisame, Fushi learns from a doctor that Nokkers started attacking villagers. | ||||
2 | "Beating Will" Transliteration: "Kodō Suru Yuigon" (Japanese: 鼓動する遺言) | Takahiro Tanaka | October 30, 2022 (2022-10-30) | |
Fushi expresses grief as the middle-aged Tonari is about to die and grants her last will while showing all the people he met across his journey and became able to turn into. Following his friend's death, Fushi meets Hisame again who expresses her single desire of having a child with him. As both do not understand the proper idea to how humans do not are born, they two simply share a night together. As time moves on, Fushi meets Hisame's child who clarifies that he is not her late father. Fushi then starts living alone and is often visited by more of Hayase's female great-great-great granddaughters/reincarnations as the decades go by. | ||||
3 | "The Awaited" Transliteration: "Machinozoma Reta Eiyū" (Japanese: 待ち望まれた者) | Masahiko Watanabe | November 6, 2022 (2022-11-06) | |
Fushi befriends the only successor of Hayase's obsessively twisted will and great-great-great-great-great grandson/male reincarnation, Kahaku, who explains that there is a village known as the Guardian Force Unit, worshiping Fushi and opposing the Nokkers per the will of their maternal great-great-great-great-grandmother. Fushi and Kahaku also meet Bonchien Nicoli la Tasty Peach Uralis, the Prince of the Uralis Kingdom who aims to become the next king and is attracted to Fushi's mysterious otherworldly abilities, too, who has remained in the late Parona's agile form at the request of Kahaku earlier. | ||||
4 | "The Young Man Who Can See" Transliteration: "Mieru Seinen" (Japanese: 視える青年) | Toshiyuki Sone | November 13, 2022 (2022-11-13) | |
Still in Parona's form, Fushi is uneasy about the impact will have on the people of Uralis, especially when the skeptical Church of Bennett arrival with the claim that he is a demon who serves under the Devil. Meanwhile, Prince Bonichen's harsh and troubled boyhood is revealed; how his own mother had him tortured and exorcised as she believed that his rare ability to see and hear the spirits of the deceased was from demonic possession. As he grew, Prince Bonichen was visited by the spirit of Tonari Dalton who gave him the hope and guidance to endure and believe in the existence of "the White-Haired Immortal One." | ||||
5 | "The Holy Man's Voyage" Transliteration: "Seija no Ensei" (Japanese: 聖者の遠征) | Shōta Hamada | November 20, 2022 (2022-11-20) | |
In the elderly form of his lifelong friend Booze Man, Fushi begins to overawe the Uralis people with his miracles. While trying and failing to save a man's ailing daughter, Prince Bonichen discovers a shocking and wondrous truth, but decides not to tell Fushi. | ||||
6 | "Heretics Betrayed" Transliteration: "Itan no To" (Japanese: 異端の徒) | Yoshihisa Matsumoto | November 27, 2022 (2022-11-27) | |
7 | "Crime and Forgiveness" Transliteration: "Batsu to Yurushi" (Japanese: 罰とゆるし) | Takahiro Tanaka | December 4, 2022 (2022-12-04) | |
8 | "Beyond Dreams" Transliteration: "Yume no Saki" (Japanese: 夢の先) | Masahiko Watanabe | December 11, 2022 (2022-12-11) | |
9 | "Expanding Consciousness" Transliteration: "Hirogaru Ishiki" (Japanese: 拡がる意識) | Shunji Yoshida | December 18, 2022 (2022-12-18) | |
10 | "Resonance" Transliteration: "Kyōmei" (Japanese: 共鳴) | Matsuo Asami | December 25, 2022 (2022-12-25) | |
11 | "The Value of Flesh" Transliteration: "Niku no Kachi" (Japanese: 肉の価値) | Masahiko Watanabe | January 8, 2023 (2023-01-08) | |
12 | "Secret Behind the Veil" Transliteration: "Bēru ga Himeru Mono" (Japanese: ベールが秘めるもの) | Kiyoko Sayama | January 15, 2023 (2023-01-15) | |
13 | "The Wise Man's Identity" Transliteration: "Kenja no Shōtai" (Japanese: 賢者の正体) | Ken Sanuma | January 22, 2023 (2023-01-22) | |
14 | "Morning of Rebirth" Transliteration: "Saisei no Asa" (Japanese: 再生の朝) | Shunji Yoshida | January 29, 2023 (2023-01-29) | |
15 | "The Self, Worn Down" Transliteration: "Mamō Suru Jiga" (Japanese: 摩耗する自我) | Masahiko Watanabe | February 5, 2023 (2023-02-05) | |
16 | "Three Eternal Warriors" Transliteration: "Fumetsu no San Senshi" (Japanese: 不滅の三戦士) | Kiyoko Sayama | February 12, 2023 (2023-02-12) | |
17 | "What You Want to Protect" Transliteration: "Mamo Ritai Mono" (Japanese: 守りたいもの) | Shunji Yoshida | February 19, 2023 (2023-02-19) | |
18 | "Death of the Deathless" Transliteration: "Fujimi no Shi" (Japanese: 不死身の死) | Matsuo Asami | February 26, 2023 (2023-02-26) | |
19 | "And Then, Dawn" Transliteration: "Soshite Hinode e" (Japanese: そして日の出へ) | Masahiko Watanabe | March 5, 2023 (2023-03-05) | |
With young March returned to life, she and Bonichen go to seek aid to get Fushi to regain his human form and cherished memories of those whose lives he has touched over the centuries. Now aware of his latest ability to resurrect the dead, Fushi is overjoyed to reunite with his good friends Gugu and Tonari Dalton. As the Nokkers are overwhelmed by the people returning to life, they retreat, therefore saving the realm of Renril from destruction. Having realized that he and his fellow Guardians have never actually managed to accomplish anything for Fushi, a broken Kahaku leaves. | ||||
20 | "End of an Era" Transliteration: "Jidai no Owari" (Japanese: 時代の終わり) | Kiyoko Sayama | March 12, 2023 (2023-03-12) | |
With the Nokkers having retreated from the realm of Renril, Fushi and his resurrected lifelong close friends- March, Gugu and Tonari Dalton- get to talk about their new dreams. Meanwhile, Kahaku comes to a critical decision. |
Notes
References
- ^ Mateo, Alex (August 30, 2021). "To Your Eternity Anime Gets 2nd Series in Fall 2022". Anime News Network. Retrieved August 30, 2021.
- ^ Pineda, Rafael Antonio (April 11, 2022). "To Your Eternity Anime's Season 2 Teaser Reveals New Director, Studio". Anime News Network. Retrieved April 11, 2022.
- ^ Pineda, Rafael Antonio (September 5, 2022). "To Your Eternity Anime Series 2 Reveals More Cast, October 23 Premiere". Anime News Network. Retrieved September 5, 2022.
- ^ "Crunchyroll Announces Release Schedule for Fall 2022 Anime Season (Updated)". Anime News Network. Retrieved October 23, 2022.
- ^ "To Your Eternity Anime Series 2 Video Features Hikaru Utada's Theme Song". Anime News Network. October 23, 2022. Retrieved October 7, 2022.
- ^ "Sutōrī | Anime "Fumetsu no Anata e" Kōshiki Saito" ストーリー | アニメ「不滅のあなたへ」公式サイト [Story | Anime "To Your Eternity" Official Website]. anime-fumetsunoanatae.com (in Japanese). Retrieved October 23, 2022.
- ^ "Anime Fumetsu no Anata e" アニメ 不滅のあなたへ [Anime To Your Eternity]. NHK Educational TV (in Japanese). Retrieved October 23, 2022.