{"site":"Yomimono","license":"CC BY 4.0 (citation required)","generated_at":"2026-05-22T19:08:22.699Z","story":{"id":"r_ad0df4cf54da43b68bd7a6c9","slug":"land-volume-2-reveals-the-dark-purpose-of-the-beyond","url":"https://yomimono.id/land-volume-2-reveals-the-dark-purpose-of-the-beyond","headline":"Land Volume 2 Reveals the Dark Purpose of The Beyond","summary":"The second omnibus of Kazumi Yamashita's Land expands on the divide between the Heian-era village and the modern city beyond it, revealing that the elderly are sent to The Beyond as cheap labor and that the twins' world may be a manufactured experiment by two brothers, one of whom appears ageless.","why_it_matters":"The volume shifts the series from a mystery about parallel worlds into a pointed critique of how societies discard the old, with the creators of The Land implied to be playing out a cruel social experiment.","published_at":"2026-05-19T21:02:21.000Z","source_count":1,"sources":["Anime News Network"],"citations":[{"source":"Anime News Network","title":"Land Volume 2 Manga Review","url":"https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/review/land/volume-2/.237106"}],"license_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/","entities":{"anime_titles":[],"manga_titles":["Land"],"studios":[],"people":[],"type":"review","domain":"manga","is_roundup":false}}}