To Your Eternity (不滅のあなたへ) is an adventure anime based on the manga of the same name by Oima Yoshitoki. The second season aired between the Fall of 2022 and the Winter of 2023.
After decades of isolation, the outside world finally tracks down Fushi. He is visited by a young girl named Hisame. She is the grand daughter of his nemesis, Hayase and contains the nokker that her grandmother had joined with in her left arm. He decides to travel with the young girl, to see what is happening in the world around him. He ends up in a village were he encounters and aged Tonari as she nears death. After her death, Hisame tells Fushi about her desire to have his child. Neither of them understand what that means and afterwards He returns to isolation.
More time passes and he is again visited by other descendants of Hayase, each wanting to have his child. After successive generations, a male decendent arrives named Kahaku. He who ensures him he is not his father. His desire to be with Fushi has not changed with his gender and he convinces him to assume the form of Parona. Kahaku tells him about a village that worships him and have been battling the nokkers. On their journey to this village they gain a companion in the eccentric Prince Bon. Bon has the ability to see spirits of the dead and is enamored with Fushi's mysterious abilities.
Before leaving Bon's kingdom of Uralis, trouble follows Fushi in the form of the Church of Bennett. They have been spreading their message of hatred and distrust towards the immortal being, labeling him as a harbinger of doom and destruction. In order to prevent nokkers from attacking he doesn't stay in one place for long. With Bon and Kahaku, they travel the land, warning people of the danger they may find themselves in. Before long they attract the attention of the Church of Bennett and all of them are imprisoned. The church puts Fushi, Bon and Bons manservant Todo to death. Todo and Bon are left to die of starvation while Fushi is imprisoned in a sphere that they pore metal into. Through his inability to actually perish he persists and succeeds in breaking out of his hellish prison, astonishing everyone. He rushes off to rescue his friends at which point Bon learns that his closest servant is actually a woman who has been in love with him for a long time.
The church still desires to make an example out of the prince and sentences him to death for his alliance with the Devil. A plan is concocted and his execution is faked. Upon returning home he understands he can never attain his wish to sit on the throne, especially with him officially being executed. He changes his mannerism and leaves his home, searching for Fushi.
It doesn't matter if Fushi continues to move around, the nokkers are attacking more regularly, targeting both him and places of larger population to draw him into their traps. The Black Man warns him that a major attack is going to happen in a city Renril and he must make a choice about fighting them or ignoring the threat they pose. Driven by his attachment to humanity he decides to do everything he can to make this the final confrontation with his persistent enemy. He struggles to bring hope to the residents of the city and is rejected by its rulers after he pleas with them to work together.
He leaves the city and begins to formulate a plan to help them without their authorization, leaning into his ability to recreate anything that he has come into contact with. In the course of his training, Kohaku and Bon find him, amazed at what he has been able to accomplish. Fushi has also gained a new ally in a strange mute girl named Eko. The allies return to Renril in order to attempt to convince the Princess to let them help. Bon gathers three new allies to the cause, people he claims can be very useful to Fushi. He also convinces the Princess to give them an audience to discuss their plan to protect the city from the nokker threat. She again rejects their offer but Fushi is not disuaded. He is determined to help protect the city with or without its rulers permission. His training ith recreating things has giving him a tactic to fight the threat.
If he can sense the nokkers before they are able to attack, he can fight them before anyone is killed. In order to do this he needs to make himself part of the fabric of the city and the land around it. He begins a campaign of rebuilding as much of the city he can with his own ability, connecting them to himself. Slowly he builds a network of himself through the city, attracting some skeptical attention. Soon it becomes hard to hide whats going on and he explains what he is doing and why. Eventually he has to return to the Princess to convince her to let him do the same to the palace and other military targets. By the end she relents and the vast majority of the city is, in reality, Fushi.
As soon as that task is done and a plan is put into place with the soldiers, the nokkers make their move. According to the Black Man, all of the nokkers that exist have gathered for what may be the final stand. Fushi is taking responsibility to handle killing the nokkers on himself as everyone nervously waits. As the first day turns to night, the strain of controlling the entire city, killing as many nokkers as he can find, rebuilding damage and further extending his influence underground, takes its tole and Fushi passes out. He awakes in the morning to find the city in the midst of furious battle and the three new allies all dead.
Feeling that victory is slipping from his hands Fushi learns at a moment that almost lead to his defeat that the three recently deceased allies have been restored to life. Copies of them he created in his misery, revived once they were cut from being connected to him. He now had three soldiers that were immortal as well and the efforts were redoubled to fend off the threat. Day after day they continued to fight but it was a progressively losing battle. The nokkers were invading the city and killing citizens, reanimating their corpses to further the attack. with each new strategy employed by Fushi and his allies, the nokkers adapted to new attacks. It was at this point that the nokker inside of Kahaku began to act on its own, forcing Fushi to make a choice.
He confronts Bon regarding the three allies ability to return to life again and again. Fushi tries to reanimate March but is unsuccessful. Unknown to him, a copy of her he had stored in a different part of the city had already been restored to life after it slipped out of the bonds connecting it to him. She was searching desperately for Fushi. When she finally locates him he is being horribly attacked by the nokker in Kahakus arm. Reducing him to his original orb status, successfully stealing all of the people he had memorized. Kahaku, regretting the episode, tries to cut it out of him only for it to flee into the city. Marsh finds Bon and brings him back to where Fushi was reduced to almost nothing and the search is on for the nokker that stole all of his memories.
In a desperate attempt to save him, Bon kills himself over Fushi, which means that Fushi will take on his body and abilities. As he wakes he discovers the fate of his friend and sees his spirit, who fills in the gaps. For the first time he sees the spirits of his long lost companions. Bon explains to him that at the time a person dies they make a choice to remain on as a wandering spirit or move on to another plane. All of his friends who remained have the ability to inhabit the facsimiles he makes of them. They renew the attack on the nokkers, finally eliminating all of them with the exception of the one that had resided in the decedents of his old rival, Hayase.
The story continues in Part Three.
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