Hi i'm relativly new to the HNK fandom (watched the anime over a year ago) and reccently came across your blog searching for houseki content (great blog btw) now on this hiatus for the new chapter i've been thinking about the ending of houseki when ever that might be so i read Ichikawa's other works to grasp her style Buddism is present in most of her stories and they tend to end bitter sweetly i think by the end no matter what it will end in phos's demise yet being reborn as a human. thoughts?
hi, welcome to the club of trying to crack the hnk code. I agree that the story might end with phos’ death, which could actually be framed as a liberation of sorts.
as for the human part, phos is already ‘human,’ at least from a conceptual point of view and according to aechmea. it makes little sense for them to be literally reborn as a human being since that race went extinct, maybe they could be reborn as themselves?