EndSky
@end-sky.bsky.social
Wannabe self-taught academic living perpetually on adult cynicism and an unquenchable thirst for milk.
Finished A Place Farther Than The Universe
A genuine work of art. A story of youth, friendship, and the future, forged in a messy, chaotic journey to the farthest edge of the universe.
A genuine work of art. A story of youth, friendship, and the future, forged in a messy, chaotic journey to the farthest edge of the universe.
November 24, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Finished A Place Farther Than The Universe
A genuine work of art. A story of youth, friendship, and the future, forged in a messy, chaotic journey to the farthest edge of the universe.
A genuine work of art. A story of youth, friendship, and the future, forged in a messy, chaotic journey to the farthest edge of the universe.
Antarctica is the coldest place on Earth. A land of empty plains of ice, of violent windstorms, of endless days and nights. A world which seems farthest from the universe.
Antarctica is also unfathomably beautiful.
Antarctica is also unfathomably beautiful.
November 24, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Antarctica is the coldest place on Earth. A land of empty plains of ice, of violent windstorms, of endless days and nights. A world which seems farthest from the universe.
Antarctica is also unfathomably beautiful.
Antarctica is also unfathomably beautiful.
Shirase really is the greatest.
November 24, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Shirase really is the greatest.
The observation that half of Kimari's original stated goals in heading to Antarctica were never going to be accomplished thanks to basic science is a little cruel, but it underlines a lot of the point of the story: That there is no such kind of "perfect" journey, but that messy road is special.
November 24, 2025 at 10:01 AM
The observation that half of Kimari's original stated goals in heading to Antarctica were never going to be accomplished thanks to basic science is a little cruel, but it underlines a lot of the point of the story: That there is no such kind of "perfect" journey, but that messy road is special.
Shout-out to Kimari's first thought upon eating 1000-year-old ice is how it'd go with booze.
November 24, 2025 at 7:44 AM
Shout-out to Kimari's first thought upon eating 1000-year-old ice is how it'd go with booze.
Shirase being a secret Mahjong prodigy may in-fact be my favourite gag of the series.
November 24, 2025 at 6:11 AM
Shirase being a secret Mahjong prodigy may in-fact be my favourite gag of the series.
We actually *do* meet a few in the later game scenarios.
November 24, 2025 at 12:19 AM
We actually *do* meet a few in the later game scenarios.
Star Blossom's main girl, Sakura Laurel, actually has the same chronic health condition, and the series places a good amount of emphasis on how she perseveres in-spite of it.
November 23, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Star Blossom's main girl, Sakura Laurel, actually has the same chronic health condition, and the series places a good amount of emphasis on how she perseveres in-spite of it.
And of course, the truth that everyone had known from the start. The painful, bitter truth.
Genuinely crushing moment, holy hell.
Genuinely crushing moment, holy hell.
November 23, 2025 at 2:53 AM
And of course, the truth that everyone had known from the start. The painful, bitter truth.
Genuinely crushing moment, holy hell.
Genuinely crushing moment, holy hell.
This one line might be the most exemplative of the series as a whole, in a sense.
November 23, 2025 at 2:45 AM
This one line might be the most exemplative of the series as a whole, in a sense.
Presented without context.
November 23, 2025 at 2:38 AM
Presented without context.
And now we get to see the real significance of the 1 Million Yen. Not as an actual story device, the girls never needed it, but as a demonstration of just *how* much Shirase invested into this seemingly meaningless goal. Because she really has done it all, despite being barely 17.
November 23, 2025 at 2:34 AM
And now we get to see the real significance of the 1 Million Yen. Not as an actual story device, the girls never needed it, but as a demonstration of just *how* much Shirase invested into this seemingly meaningless goal. Because she really has done it all, despite being barely 17.
There's something kinda perfect in Shirase and Gin's dynamic. Both equal parts driven and left directionless by the loss of the same person, doing things not because it's right or sane, but because the rest of the world pushed back against it. Both, in turn, facing that fact in shared grief.
November 23, 2025 at 2:30 AM
There's something kinda perfect in Shirase and Gin's dynamic. Both equal parts driven and left directionless by the loss of the same person, doing things not because it's right or sane, but because the rest of the world pushed back against it. Both, in turn, facing that fact in shared grief.
Gotta hand it to Yuzuki. Of the party, she's the one whose perhaps benefitted the most from the adventure, entirely because she's been able to experience having normal friends for the first time in her life. Fittingly ironic, given she was the only one who was going to begin with.
November 23, 2025 at 2:26 AM
Gotta hand it to Yuzuki. Of the party, she's the one whose perhaps benefitted the most from the adventure, entirely because she's been able to experience having normal friends for the first time in her life. Fittingly ironic, given she was the only one who was going to begin with.
This entire monologue by Shirase is *crushing*, if just in how much it brutally subverts whatever motivation there was underpinning the adventure.
November 23, 2025 at 2:22 AM
This entire monologue by Shirase is *crushing*, if just in how much it brutally subverts whatever motivation there was underpinning the adventure.
.....This is the big one, isn't it?
November 23, 2025 at 1:38 AM
.....This is the big one, isn't it?
Oh, Tsuru is a character in her own right.
November 23, 2025 at 1:23 AM
Oh, Tsuru is a character in her own right.
Absolutely stunning capstone to Hinata's character.
A story of a wounded girl who, in trying to run away, found the support needed to move forwards.
A story of a wounded girl who, in trying to run away, found the support needed to move forwards.
November 22, 2025 at 5:51 AM
Absolutely stunning capstone to Hinata's character.
A story of a wounded girl who, in trying to run away, found the support needed to move forwards.
A story of a wounded girl who, in trying to run away, found the support needed to move forwards.
Really love the commitment to the little stories with the expedition members, helps make them feel alive even while keeping the focus on the four girls.
November 22, 2025 at 5:47 AM
Really love the commitment to the little stories with the expedition members, helps make them feel alive even while keeping the focus on the four girls.
Really important to the third-act is how *alien* Antarctica feels. Not through anything fantastical, but the pure sense that the girls are in a place unlike anything else on Earth. Shots like this emphasize the effort put into capturing that very strange, esoteric framing.
November 22, 2025 at 3:13 AM
Really important to the third-act is how *alien* Antarctica feels. Not through anything fantastical, but the pure sense that the girls are in a place unlike anything else on Earth. Shots like this emphasize the effort put into capturing that very strange, esoteric framing.
It says volumes about Hinata's character that her biggest reason for coming to Antarctica is that it is *empty*, that she is so disconnected from other people that she jumps at the first chance to escape regular society. Underneath everything, this girl has some *serious* issues.
November 22, 2025 at 2:02 AM
It says volumes about Hinata's character that her biggest reason for coming to Antarctica is that it is *empty*, that she is so disconnected from other people that she jumps at the first chance to escape regular society. Underneath everything, this girl has some *serious* issues.
The full extent of Hinata's backstory is laid out, and it is *rough*. Beneath it all, she is a girl who is living on the memory of learning that the people she thought of as her friends never liked her at all, and turned on her the moment she discovered that. Really pointed bit of reflection.
November 22, 2025 at 1:27 AM
The full extent of Hinata's backstory is laid out, and it is *rough*. Beneath it all, she is a girl who is living on the memory of learning that the people she thought of as her friends never liked her at all, and turned on her the moment she discovered that. Really pointed bit of reflection.
Every time I see characters playing Mahjong, I can only think of this legendary page.
November 21, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Every time I see characters playing Mahjong, I can only think of this legendary page.