Phos - Blog Posts
Land of the Lustrous | Phosphophyllite
March 23, 2020
I looove phos I need to draw them again. Need to read the manga again too there's so much new content from when I stopped.
Acrylic paint and gel pen on watercolour paper
Land of the Lustrous | Phosphophyllite
~December 2019
Lil drawing because I'm obsessed with phos' different forms/progression to insanity
Metallic watercolour, india ink and gel pen on watercolour paper
Land of the Lustrous | Phosphophyllite
~November 2019
Drawing of all of phos' forms (at the time) because I was obsessed ❤️
Pen, watercolour and metallic watercolour on watercolour paper
Land of the lustrous/ houseki no kuni and ultrakill have so much in common it's not even funny. But I fucking love it, now here me out.
Humanity is dead and the things that have come after are threatened by the remains of what came before. Nihilism is present in both series aswell as religious themes and a character being corrupted by realizing how things truly work.
The lunarians from hnk being the souls of humans simply wanting to pass on while the husks from Ultrakill being the remains of said humans bodies in hell.
Kongo sensei in hnk being like ultrakill heaven by desperately trying to make the lustrous live like how humans did long before them even carving them into a more humanoid shape. While heaven in ultrakill tries desperately to keep the things the same as they always have been even long after humanity's death and the disappearance of god.
The lustrous in hnk being like the machines in ultrakill. Both being what comes after humanity desperately trying to pick up the pieces and caught in between the battle of the lunarians/ heaven and Congo sensei/ hell.
Phos and Gabriel would also be similar in how they both started with a strong almost positive outlook before haveing said outlook being shake To its core by a loss of something apart of their body. Gabriel haveing lost his light and his faith shaken by V1 and the council takeing his said light leaving him to die within 24 hours and phos haveing lost their legs, arms, And head as well as most of their memories granted I'll say phos has changed far more then Gabriel has (so far) in ultrakill.
Both series also have a sense of nilalism though both with a different take on it. Ultrakill take being (in large part due to mirage) that the pointlessness of it all is what makes life worth living while hnk has a much more somber and sobering take of "to live is to suffer,"
And another thing!! Both series have largely non binary casts! Hnk because they are all rocks and the few Charaters that are gendered are lunarians, while ultrakill has robots and husks who you couldn't tell what gender they are anyway with the only cannonical gendered characters being either angels or prime souls!
And don't even get me started about the religious themes in both series! Hnk of course being Buddhist (I might've gotten that wrong please don't butcher me) and ultrakill being Christian.
I could go on but I haven't read hnk in like a year. And I don't wanna get this to too wrong.
Spoilers for houseki no kuni and the Magnus archives.
Honestly s5 John and shattered phos radiate the same energy.
Phos and John's arcs are the same just different universe and that is not a bad thing.
You KNOW if they where in the same room they'd trauma bond.
Also, what if hnk was just the result of the extinctions ritual?? Like "a world where humans are long gone replaced by something uncaring about them"
Like I can't be the only one who thought that, but anyways just a neat thought I had.
Here's the full image if anyone wants to use it for something.
I'm surprised I haven't seen anything like this before, but