Shin Sekai Yori (From the New World) Discussion Thread

[Ingraman]

Originally Posted by Fencedude

Wait. Why is the library a transparent creature that can hypnotize you?

Maybe this critter and Index need to swap series? ^^;

That was a little weird. Animal abuse! ^_^

[HitokiriShadow]

Well, things sure got interesting there at the end. Looks like the plot will finally start moving next time. Not that I mind the show taking its time to set things up.

And I really love this ED. Might have to buy it.

[FUNiOP]

Some shiny Pokemon appears. It uses Hypnosis. I should probably go back to playing White 2 now. Interesting stuff happening, though. Real plot soon? Probably!

[Ingraman]

Originally Posted by HitokiriShadow

And I really love this ED. Might have to buy it.

I want to buy it, but I'm not having much luck finding the CD. It's either not out yet, or I'm doing a terrible job searching for it. Probably the latter. Or is it one of those things that'll be packed in with the BD (& DVD?) release? CDJapan says BD 1 comes with an OST w/ep1 OP, but that doesn't help with this...

[HitokiriShadow]

Originally Posted by Ingraman

I want to buy it, but I'm not having much luck finding the CD. It's either not out yet, or I'm doing a terrible job searching for it. Probably the latter. Or is it one of those things that'll be packed in with the BD (& DVD?) release? CDJapan says BD 1 comes with an OST w/ep1 OP, but that doesn't help with this...

I haven't actually looked for it yet, so I have no idea what's going on with it.

[ookamigirl]

Finally an episode that explains a whole bunch of useful things.
Guess all the new info was a bit much for the kids to handle.
Their artificial society is everything except perfect and peaceful.
Looks like they just got a chance to see that for themselves.
The whole queerats situation didn't help very much either.
So much trouble in such a short time, but finally!

[HitokiriShadow]

So humans killing humans a new concept for them. They were utterly shocked by the idea of it. And Saki was clearly being affected by the biological restraint they were talking about. But why? Was she getting murderous impulses for some reason? To make Shun stop (she was looking in his direction)? She also clearly has a history with it.

We also learned something very interesting about sexual intimacy in this society. I hope they go somewhere with this! Saki flashed back to two things. One was Maria hugging her playfully from behind, which we saw in episode 1. The one was.... her mother? Just hugging her? I wasn't sure who that was and if was something we actually saw in a previous episode. I assume its just her mother hugging her from sometime in episode 1.

Anyway, things sure started moving along and getting exciting in the second half. We had three episodes of set-up and a bunch of exposition and explanation in the first half of this episode, so now actual plot movement is finally kicking in.

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Episode 3:

- I should probably be paying more attention to these flashback (or flashforward relative to the first scene but back relative to the main storyline) scenes.
- Crap I've forgotten everyone's names. Time to look them up... okay, Shun. Shun suggests investigating all the weird supernatural creatures people talk about. Great, you're going to get at least two of these kids killed.
- They can't even fathom the concept of their power not working on something. Oh that is soooo going to bite them in the ass.
- Go figure the goofball kid is the most reasonable one in the group. He seems to be the only one who thinks all this is a bad idea.

- But now in an effort to look tough he's leading the way.
- Maria's braids are adorable.
- They meet a demon minoshiro. And Saki gets cocky. This can't end well!
- Saki... don't bully creepy glowing creatures. Didn't your parents teach you anything?
- Also, it's a library. Sure why not?

Man this show is weird... and very interesting.

Man I really need to import this ED. Guess I'll wait a few eps and see if I like the show enough first. But so far, realllllllly promising. I'm trying to remember the last show that had this sort of "cute kids in a really creepy setting" vibe. Narutaru?

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Episode 4:

- "The document confirmation requirement has been waived." Hahaha. But man these kids are kinda twisted.
- Fuuuck this is good. Just look at how absolutely shocked these kids are at the idea that one human could kill another. This (seemingly) peaceful little society is about to experience some very traumatic shocks.
- Also, explanations! This ties together all the pre-ep flashbacks, and explains the missing children. Nicely done for an obvious infodump.
- Death feedback. Lovely!
- And infodump is interrupted at a critical moment by The Man.
- Oh the rat people. They're totally one of the groups of humans that were supposedly destroyed. The non-PK hunter-gatherers, no doubt.

And that ending. =D

Damnit this show is good.

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Originally Posted by HitokiriShadow

We also learned something very interesting about sexual intimacy in this society. I hope they go somewhere with this! Saki flashed back to two things. One was Maria hugging her playfully from behind, which we saw in episode 1. The one was.... her mother? Just hugging her? I wasn't sure who that was and if was something we actually saw in a previous episode. I assume its just her mother hugging her from sometime in episode 1.

Latter was about 5:20 into ep 1, where her mom hugging her after Saki's Cantus powers woke.

And I'd be more excited if Saki weren't obviously hot for Shun, and he for her. In a show like this, yuri is just going to mean death. =/ I hate tragedy yuri so I'd rather it not even go there.