The Fall Anime 2025 Preview Guide - To Your Eternity Season 3

In the beginning, an "orb" is cast unto Earth. "It" can do two things: change into the form of the thing that stimulates "it"; and come back to life after death. "It" morphs from orb to rock, then to wolf, and finally to boy, but roams about like a newborn who knows nothing. As a boy, "it" becomes Fushi.

Through encounters with human kindness, Fushi not only gains survival skills but also grows as a "person". But his journey is darkened by the inexplicable and destructive enemy Nokker, as well as cruel partings with the people he loves.

To Your Eternity Season 3 is based on the manga series by Yoshitoki Ōima. The anime series is streaming on Crunchyroll on Saturdays.

How times have changed for Fushi, our favorite shape-changing immortal orb-dude. Last time we left him, he'd become a tree with roots spread out across the world. In the hundreds, or possibly thousands of years since he went full arboreal, it seems the danger posed by the creepy, tentacle-like Nokker things has finally passed, and the world is fully at peace. It resembles our modern world, with schoolchildren in uniforms, high-rise buildings, and roads filled with motor vehicles, but it is still clearly not our world. The script in books and on posters doesn't look like any modern language, and the brief glimpse we see of a globe reveals an alien map. Much like Fushi awakening into this strange new world, we've no idea what to expect.

That's one of the great strengths of To Your Eternity, in that the story re-invents itself every few episodes, with a different setting and cast of diverse characters. That can also be its weakness, as the character Fushi becomes increasingly close to inevitably dying, and he then adopts their forms. However, Fushi can now resurrect his friends at will, which leads to a very confused little March manifesting inside a dark museum. By the time Fushi tracks her down, he's heartbroken to find she's been adopted by a perfect new family and doesn't need him anymore. That's how he spends an extended period as a fish(!) before being captured by a very persistent new friend.

We have already been introduced to a bunch of new, modern characters who all attend the same school. By far the most interesting is the troubled Mizuha, who is clearly supposed to be a descendant of the Fushi-obsessed Hayase. She's a brilliant girl who excels at whatever task she sets her mind to, railroaded into each new pastime by a mother who is both pushy and neglectful of Mizuha's feelings. Mizuha feels such existential ennui that she wishes for death… but will that change now that she's met Fushi?

It's a slightly jarring change of tone for the show to evolve from fantasy warfare to modern high school romcom, but I trust Fushi will soon be embroiled in complex and heartbreaking drama of one kind or another again. The new characters have potential, and Fushi's strange new living situation may evolve in entertaining ways. (I particularly like how, although the rest of his companions revived far from Fushi's main body, he kept shy little blonde girl Eko and Horse from manifesting until he found a place they could all safely stay.) Last season, the production quality was frankly awful, with abysmal, limited animation that couldn't keep up with the story's demands. From the appearance of this very attractive episode, that particular criticism seems to have been addressed. I hope the animators can maintain the aesthetic quality without overworking and delaying. I'm thrilled Fushi has returned for a final season to wrap up his epic story. I'll be happy to follow it to its end.