What are we watching: Land of the Lustrous

What’s it about: In the mysterious future, crystalline organisms called Gems inhabit a world that has been destroyed by six meteors. Each Gem is assigned a role in order to fight against the Lunarians, a species who attacks them in order to shatter their bodies and use them as decorations.

Phosphophyllite, also known as Phos, is a young and fragile Gem who dreams of helping their friends in the war effort. Instead, they are told to compile an encyclopedia because of their delicate condition. After begrudgingly embarking on this task, Phos meets Cinnabar, an intelligent gem who has been relegated to patrolling the isolated island at night because of the corrosive poison their body creates. After seeing how unhappy Cinnabar is, Phos decides to find a role that both of the rejected Gems can enjoy. Houseki no Kuni follows Phos’ efforts to be useful and protect their fellow Gems.

Studio: Orange

Director: Kyougoku, Takahiko

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIYgPnSvnCE

Where can I watch it: https://twist.moe/a/houseki-no-kuni-tv/1 , https://nyaa.si/view/991627 , https://cytu.be/r/chapochat (At select times)

Spoilers beyond the current episode are :haram: . Please use the spoiler tag if you would like to discuss past the current episode. Everything in this episode and before are fair game.

  • Awoo [she/her]M
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    4 years ago

    Oh my god you just made me realise I made this as a reply instead of a top level comment. Reposting it and removing this one as it got buried by the auto-collapse caused by whatever that user got a sitewide ban for.

          • Awoo [she/her]M
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            4 years ago

            I read I read. I just also like to get the going-in-blind experience with shows, you know what I mean. It will go on my list when I know no more content is coming, but it's definitely happening for this.

            • Coommunism [she/her]
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              4 years ago

              From what i remember the show has some minor differences from the manga but theyre both gorgeous and the 3d really was a good choice for the series also the show

              spoiler

              basically blue balls you the worst way possible

              • Awoo [she/her]M
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                4 years ago

                Yeah I know. It's a shame, but I am very very patient.