To Your Eternity is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Yoshitoki Ōima. It has been serialized in Weekly Shōnen Magazine since November 9, 2016, with the individual chapters collected and published by Kodansha into eleven tankōbon volumes as of August 2019. The story follows an immortal being whose purpose is to gain knowledge of the world. As the story progresses, this being takes the form of an abandoned boy and his wolf. In North America, the manga has been licensed by Kodansha USA for a digital and printed English release. An anime television series adaptation by Brain's Base will premiere in October 2020.
Plot
The manga follows a mysterious immortal being named Fushi, sent to the Earth with no emotions nor identity. Fushi is able to take the shape of those around that leave a strong impression on him. Starting as a sphere, he takes the form of a rock, then a dying wolf. As a wolf, Fushi meets a boy living alone. The boy dies after living with Fushi for some time, and Fushi takes his human form, but without any knowledge of how to speak or live. From that point on, Fushi meets and parts with numerous people over the course of hundreds of years, maturing as a person and taking on the forms of those who die. He acquires numerous other powers, such as the ability to recreate objects he has interacted with in the past, and feel the pain and joy of others. During Fushi's journey, he is aided by a mysterious black-hooded figure with even greater powers than his own, who claims to be his creator, and is opposed by plant-like beings called Nokkers who can steal his forms. After fighting the Nokkers for centuries, Fushi kills almost all of them in a climactic battle, then spends years spreading his body across the planet to prevent them from coming back, ending part one of the manga.
Yoshitoki Ōima launched To Your Eternity in the issue #50 of Kodansha's shōnen manga magazine Weekly Shōnen Magazine on November 9, 2016. The manga was announced on May 23, 2016. It is Ōima's second series in Weekly Shōnen Magazine; her first series was the critically acclaimed A Silent Voice. The series' first arc finished on December 4, 2019, while the second arc started on January 22, 2020. On January 17, 2017, Kodansha USA announced that they would digitally publish the first ten chapters of the series on various digital platforms. Thereafter, they will publish the manga's new chapters simultaneously with the Japanese release. The first printed volume in North America was released on October 31, 2017.
Volume list
Chapters not yet in ''tankōbon'' format
These chapters have yet to be published in a tankōbon volume.
Anime
On January 8, 2020, Kodansha announced that the manga would receive an anime television series adaptation. The 20-episode series is animated by Brain's Base and directed by Masahiko Murata, with Shinzō Fujita handling series composition, and Koji Yabuno designing the characters. The series will premiere in October 2020 on NHK Educational TV.
Reception
The first collected volume of the series sold 29,288 copies, ranking number 17 on the weekly Oricon manga chart. Its second volume ranked number 34, selling 22,565 copies in its first week, while its third debuted at number 41 with 20,445 copies sold. The manga was nominated for the 11th edition of the Manga Taishō awards in 2018 and it managed to gain a total of 47 points. In May 2019, it won the award for Best Shōnen Manga at the 43rd annual Kodansha Manga Awards, alongside The Quintessential Quintuplets.
