Please don't mind pronouns 😭✌ they are all gender less.

HOUSEKI NO KUNI (Land of the Lustrous) is a manga about identity, immortality, loneliness, purpose, change, and what it means to remain when everything about you keeps changing.

The story takes place in a world inhabited by gems who are immortal beings made of crystalline material who live under the guidance of kongo, their teacher. And yeah the story take place after the extinction of human race.

Their peaceful existence is constantly threatened by the Lunarians they are mysterious beings who descend from the moon and hunt the Gems, taking them away piece by piece coz they love to wear them ✌ (don't judge anyone too quickly.)

And then there's our protagonist phos. (My fav of all time)

At the beginning, phos is basically one of the weakest and most useless gem, she's fragile, inexperienced, and completely incapable of fighting the lunarians.

Unlike the other gems phos doesn't have a proper role in their society either. She desperately want to contribute somehow, but she's just so weak.

eventually, kongo gives phos a seemingly insignificant task:
write an encyclopedia of natural history and this is where phos journey really begins....




I can't type anymore without spoilers ig...

One of the things I love most about houseki no kuni is how seriously it treats change.

And yeah, imo, phos's development and phos/hnk conclusion is best in animanga. There's no match for it.

I love it sm that it's the only manga I've read twice. I read its epilogue 3-4 times.


If you guys want I can make a complete analogy post of hnk, and explain the epilogue from my pov. Plus why I love phos ✌