Land of the Lustrous Vol. 7: Land of the Lustrous 7
- ISBN
- 9781632366375
- Publisher
- Kodansha
- English release
Land of the Lustrous faces a repair that could change who Phos is. With Phos's head taken to the moon, the available replacement makes restoration a different problem from simply returning a damaged fighter to service. This is for readers following the accumulated bodily changes, not an entry point chosen because the premise sounds philosophical. The earlier losses give the proposed repair its force: the name remains familiar while the material carrying it becomes less so.
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Lapis Lazuli's head is available for the transplant, and more than half of Phos's original body has already been lost. The question is consequently more exact than whether a replacement is powerful or useful. It is whether rebuilding a person can eventually produce someone else. That makes this a defensible register change within the bodily transformations: repair itself becomes the source of uncertainty. The publisher leaves the transplant's success in question, so there is no need to sell the book by promising its outcome. Its distinctive purchase argument is the threshold it confronts, where preserving Phos and preserving Phos's original substance no longer look like the same task.
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