Shin Sekai Yori

[Buffalobiian]

Alternative title:
Shinsekai Yori (Japanese)
新世界より (Japanese)
From the New World

Plot Summary: In the future Japan has become a fractured country, and small towns now exist. The rulers of this world have the cursed power of Telekinesis. When an incident occurs, 5 children come to realize the world is not as it seems, and learn the bloody history behind this world. These 5 children unite and help the world as it falls into a downward spiral of chaos. -ANN




Hadena - Episode 01
Commie - Episode 01

[Belial]

The first episode seems interesting, defiantly going to keep watching

[shinta|hikari]

This was a lot darker and more complex than I thought it was going to be. This is not the type of show that I get excited to watch every week, but the type that I rate very highly once I manage to finish it.

[MFauli]

That was surprisingly ... awesome.

Almost didn´t give it a try when I saw the little girl in the picture above, but I´m glad I gave it a chance. The way the parents keep secrets from their children is extremely scary, somehow.

I see the potential for greatness on par with Bokurano. Let´s see how it turns out.

[Kraco]

Quite interesting and definitely darker and more atmospheric than I was expecting. I like how the whole culture and way of life pretty much changed. It was also a better change than in something like Psyren, because a destroyed apocalyptic world is nothing but a destroyed apocalyptic world, no matter how it was born. But here were have people who have lived for generations under these rules and laws and know nothing better (or different).

I wonder what the fiends are. If kids without any or with too weak psychic powers are killed, it would seem strange just outside of the villages, behind some robes would live humans without any powers. Are they people that mutated senseless? Or simply some beasts that roam there to ensure obedience? The copycats are obviously controlled by those in power.

I watched UTW's version, btw: Episode 1 - UTW

[Xelbair]

The story about Akki... what if it is the other way around? what if THEY are the Akki - the ones with late-bloomed power get exiled and get drunk on power(From the looks of it the purification ritual actually weakens their power) and they keep rampaging.

[David75]

First scene was well introduced and was quite gory in a not too graphical way despite the realuty of it. I guess angles and scene cut was done properly.
Then we get to the rest of the ep that didn't feel as good as we were in child fears territory, even if there's a darker reality confirmed by the parents.
I will watch ep 2 for sure. Since this is only an introduction, I can't just get stuck on that "child's fear" feeling.

[Buffalobiian]

UTW - Episode 02

[MFauli]

Still extremely hard to grasp what this show actually is about. Some weird combination of Ghibli-movies, Mushishi and Bokurano. Which isn´t a bad thing.

[David75]

I can't decide whether that cat is controlled by the school officials, or if it's an after effect of not being able to control your powers. Like you develop them in the wrong way and it backfires that way.

With the synopsis pic and the way the MC is interested/cares in/for QueerRats, I guess they'll play an important role in the show. Like the MC being saved from the cat by a special link with the QueerRats. Side effect would be she has to live outside of the safe limits (outside the rope) as an outcast. Yet she will probably be the one to stabilize the force... I mean make this fucked up world better by stopping the killing of so many innocents.
But it might be too easy.

[animus]

The vibe this show gives off reminds me a little of Kamisama Dolls.

[Ryllharu]

The narration is the most unnerving part.

At first Endou Aya (SkyRaker in Accel World, Sheryl Nome of Macross, Yurika in Apollon) narrating sounded just like a generic narrator describing the world, but at the end of the second episode, they made it abundantly clear that she was one of the five kids of group one. Not Maria, so it has to be Saki.

Moreover, they blatantly told us that Maria will go berserk sooner or later and kill dozens if not hundreds of people. So now we have to look forward to the how and the why.

[Kraco]

Are QueerRats normal people who were mutated by those with psychic powers into weak creatures?

The opening scene of thise episode also affirmed that while the world developed a society stabile on the surface, it's no doubt withering away. We don't know how many children are pruned due to not awakening to powers, but I suspect it's a lot, and they further remove those not developing strongly enough despite awakening. It's not really a situation that would encourage population growth, plus I reckon lots of crimes are also punishable by death (or whatever else, but nonetheless removing the people from the psychic gene pool).

It's nicely successful how it's depicted these kids are living "happily" without realising how twisted their world is.

[shinta|hikari]

Excellent show so far. It has both light hearted and foreboding elements, and it is the smooth mingling of both that set the perfect atmosphere for the story and world this show is trying to unravel.

[Buffalobiian]

UTW - Episode 03

[Kraco]

No wonder they were told people encountering evil minoshiro wind up dead: I doubt the secretive society they live in wants just about anybody encountering a random creature in the forest to learn everything about the distant past. So, curiosity will kill the cat...

Helluva lot of information, though, inside a single small entity.

[Buffalobiian]

I wondered if the librarian would have had the means to kill Saki if it chose to. I have a feeling it could (or could summon something that could), but decided that killing humans wasn't beneficial.

I heard the number, and thought that it wasn't that big, but then calculated backwards to find it's 980 000 x 1TB HDDs worth of text. Now that's a fair bit. It mentioned that it held all texts within that holographic body, right? Do all other librarians hold a copy, or are they in charge of various other types of archives? (pictures, video footage etc)

A wandering terminal makes no sense either, so I'm keen for an explanation. I was expecting this episode to be as dark as the previous two, but being unexpectedly light isn't a bad thing in this case.

(What happened to "not staying out at night or the copycat gets you"? The entire time they sat talking around the fire, I kept thinking "wtf are you doing people?? get inside a tent..")

[Kraco]

I heard the number, and thought that it wasn't that big, but then calculated backwards to find it's 980 000 x 1TB HDDs worth of text. Now that's a fair bit. It mentioned that it held all texts within that holographic body, right? Do all other librarians hold a copy, or are they in charge of various other types of archives? (pictures, video footage etc)

I'd at this point believe texts or writings meant more like books or works in this case. Non-fiction, and even many fiction, books have used plenty of illustrations since ancient times. It would make little sense thus to separate them. Considering the amount of data, I reckon some videos could be included as well. After all, plain text takes very little space, and it can even be further compressed for digital storage.

[David75]

Since there's some tech involved, that world could be a virtual reality of some sort.

[animus]

The anime's awfully cryptic and confusing... but I like it.