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Mraagvpeine posted:Including that red stone, that would make 6. What would #7 be? Gold is definitively one of the 7 treasures of Buddhism, it's whether Silver or Platinum is one of them as well. It's more that the other one is like "grey metal" and both of them apply; you can assume here that Platinum is being used for the Grey Metal option, so Phos is made of 6 of the 7 so far.
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All existence is suffering, but being Phosphophyllite is particularly bad suffering.
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The Buddhist influence on the series' storytelling permeates basically all levels of it. It's an extremely Buddhist series. So why exactly does Phos have to suffer? Because to suffer is human and to be alive. Existence is suffering. Plot-wise, Phos needs to be Human to be able to pray and give Adamant the order to allow the Lunarian's souls to move on and cease existence, so their suffering is part of Aechmea's plan. The lunarians are basically 'higher souls who live on a higher plane (the moon,) and spend all their time partying or fighting' so they're basically devas. Devas are at a disadvantage when it comes to escaping the cycle of reincarnation - they accumulated too much good karma in their life without achieving enlightenment, so they get rewarded for their good deeds, basically, with a cushy, easy life... but those are also distractions from enlightenment just as bad as danger and pain, so they'll likely never become a buddha. The gems and admiribilis also feel like they're representatives of the human and animal realms of existence - where the latter is simply that it's a lot harder to be enlightened as an animal, and since they've been 'domesticated' by the lunarians before, they've got some animal vibes. The human realm of existence is considered to be the best one for achieving enlightenment with the overall low level of distractions (it's not too comfortable nor is it too dangerous) which goes well with how the gems spend the vast majority of their time on the island just kind of doing nothing or looking for ways to distract themselves. In a way, the gems squander their gift of relative comfort. Adamant is basically a machine bodhisattva - someone who could reach enlightenment themselves, but chooses not to do so to assist others do so instead, with the caveat that as a machine, they can never actually reach it themselves anyway. Phosphophyllite, who is now aware of all levels of existence, who has basically been in agony all conscious hours of the past however knows how long, is the closest thing to a human in the setting. And they have thrown away every personal connection to every person they've ever known, is the most human person in the series, but probably has much, much more suffering to go until they actually reach that point. The numbers and timescales in Buddhism are Extremely Large. I don't know why y'all are spoiler tagging when the series has been on hiatus for a year and generally speaking everyone in this thread would've read up to then.
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Oct 9, 2021 18:23
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The manga's unfortunately been on an extended hiatus over a year long at this point.
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Nov 21, 2021 20:11
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The full body coating of the gold/platinum amalgam is an incredibly rad look. Phos looks cooler the more everything sucks.
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Being honest, it was basically an acceptable choice because there was no other direction until it started to get officially localized, where they got a direct note from Haruko Ichikawa to use they/them and keep them completely gender neutral. At that point when it was completely clear what the intent was, and the scans continue using he/him for all the gems, that's when it's clear that they're being lovely about it because they don't want to use singular they.
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...Oh, I just realized with this being 99: there's definitely going to be 108 chapters of this, so I expect it'll end in 9 more.
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