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Another instance of eye color changing - and its significance

After episode 2, it seems the eye-color changing scene has struck manga readers and anime-onlies alike.

A common interpretation I’ve seen is that it shows the nameless boy’s influence, or the shift from animalistic to more human tendencies.  However, I personally find this logic a bit shaky.  The nameless boy has clearly passed on, and Fushi’s eye-color changing eventually stops completely despite Fushi becoming more and more human.

I was skimming through the earlier chapters of the manga, and to my surprise found what looks to be possibly yet another instance of Fushi's eyes changing back to the color of the nameless boy's.  It then got me thinking about what its significance could be. (Said manga panel is directly under the cut.  Fairly minor spoilers.)

non-spoiler tl;dr: The change in eye color represents how Fushi is directly carrying out the boy’s wishes.  For example, in this first case, experiencing the sweet taste of fruit.

More explanation below.  Manga spoiler warning.

It's a bit more subtle here, but the ring pattern in the eyes more closely matches the boy's, as opposed to Fushi/Joaan's where there is none.

I think its kind of funny and also fascinating that none of us have really noticed or payed much attention to this detail until the anime pointed it out. I had previously thought it might have been a blunder, but now after seeing this I'm starting to think it was purposeful.

Which makes me wonder, why would Ooima choose to show this, especially when after a certain point it doesn't happen again? Well, what comes to my mind first is that this might be a way of conveying that Fushi is directly carrying out the boy's wishes. He's letting the boy see the world with his own eyes, so to speak. As previously stated, in the first instance we see the eyes change color, Fushi was able to experience the sweet taste of fruit, something the boy had expressed that he wanted to do. And similarly here in Yanome, Fushi is being flooded with new sensations. As the boy had wished, he is meeting all sorts of people, and feeling all sorts of things.

(heavier spoiler warning from here on.)

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It also makes me wonder if this could be possible with Fushi’s other forms.  We haven’t seen it again - but it makes sense, because in the later cases, it wouldn’t really be possible to fulfill the vessel’s wishes.  That, or Fushi never had the opportunity.  For example, we cannot see Gugu’s face, so there would be no way to tell.  It would not be possible to see Parona’s dead sister again (going off of the anime OP, that was likely her wish).  Meanwhile, theoretically, if Fushi had become a mother using March’s body, or become king using Bon’s, would his eyes have changed?  Something to think about.

Another mark against the “vessel’s influence” idea that I wanted to point out can be observed from the scene in which Kahak hugs Fushi in Parona’s body.  After becoming sick from the advance, Fushi states that being in Parona’s body likely influenced his reaction.  However, his eyes remain yellow throughout the entire ordeal.

There could be more interpretations, or maybe even some more moments throughout the manga where a color change happens that I missed (OR I could be entirely wrong about this part, we'll see what the anime does lol). Either way, I just think its really interesting!

#to your eternity #fnae #fumetsu no anata e #reposting here from reddit bc im shameless 😔 #ANYWAY i just wanted to say this because it really interested me and i wanted to discuss it #but again this is just my interpretation haha #shweshispeaks #okay so i just remembered the part in the latest arc where he carries out the wishes of some of the characters from Jananda #and his eyes dont change color there so the first paragraph after the heavy spoiler mark is basically moot #but i'll leave it anyway because i'll own up to my mistake #i guess this might be something unique to the boy #also ive become paranoid about this #some of the volume covers show fushi with purple eyes too #theres so much to unpack my gosh