Shin Sekai Yori (From the New World) Discussion Thread

[Damius]

- Well, that is some way to make people applause for a long time…
- No one seems to care about the fact that Reiko disappeared.
- Well, the referee or whoever he is believes that the same accident can happen to round in a row?
- Well… the guy who cheated in group 2 disappeared… Ok, so they found out. A high price to pay.
- So she said no ones really care about people disappearing so that explains it.
- Ok… the thing she said about Maria was just too… cruel.

[HitokiriShadow]

Originally Posted by Ingraman

How can he do the same to her, when he doesn't know her mantra? I don't think it's a matter of making up any old word/phrase/whatever for a new one. She knew his, and gave it back to him... Maybe there are other methods, but it doesn't seem like that way will work with just Satoru.

She can just tell him the mantra, but I think there's another issue. I think it also had to do with the state of mind he was in. He was clearly not lucid when she did that. I don't think she can just have him to that to her when she's completely conscious.

[something]

Episode 6:

- Horray, the art is back to normal!
- WELCOME TO THE NAKED BOY JELLO DOG RAINBOW DIMENSION, SAKI.

- Satoru gets his powers back as Saki re-creates the power granting ceremony. I suppose there's some logic in that, but, um, it happened kind of suddenly.
- Too bad it couldn't be Saki that got her powers back. I would think she's a bit more level-headed than Satoru. Though maybe it'd be ill advised to trust Saki either. She got pretty violent with that gelatinous library thing.
- Jeeze, are the powers always this strong? He can just fling multiple trees around at will?

Well, Satoru isn't long for this world. The anti-killing mechanism is getting to him. And now there's a few thousand of the critters left to kill...

Something felt pretty off about this episode in terms of pacing and all, though it was still pretty good.

[HitokiriShadow]

Originally Posted by something

Something felt pretty off about this episode in terms of pacing and all, though it was still pretty good.

Probably because about 70% of it was Satoru going to town with his psychic powers. Which would be pretty normal in a lot of shows about people with battle-applicable psychic powers but seems out of place for this show. Perhaps precisely because it was so conventional.

[Ingraman]

Originally Posted by something

Episode 6:
\Well, Satoru isn't long for this world. The anti-killing mechanism is getting to him. And now there's a few thousand of the critters left to kill...

He's hardly seeing the critters he's killing off, so I don't think he's suffering from the built-in anti-killing mental effects. I think that he's just exhausted from all of that power usage. No guarantees, though. ^^;

[something]

Originally Posted by Ingraman

He's hardly seeing the critters he's killing off, so I don't think he's suffering from the built-in anti-killing mental effects. I think that he's just exhausted from all of that power usage. No guarantees, though. ^^;

Did they state that you have to physically see the body of the individual you're killing for it to have an effect? That would seem like a pretty blatant loophole to overlook if that were the case.

[Ingraman]

Originally Posted by something

Did they state that you have to physically see the body of the individual you're killing for it to have an effect?

Not that I specifically recall, but I interpreted the comment to mean it was seeing the human(oid) shape that causes the negative feedback. If you can't see the shape... I'm not really sure how it all works. I like the series, but my optimism for its overall quality has dropped a bit. I'll definitely keep watching, but my interest in reading a book that I can't read is growing (and buying the series is less likely). ^^;

[FUNiOP]

Naked Shun. What have you been thinking about, Saki?

[HitokiriShadow]

How the hell did we get to the point that Saki needs to have all this stuff explained to her by Satoru? And she has those irritating screaming reactions to the things he said. Repeatedly. It's one of those things that always bugs me (because its really hard for me to see people actually reacting like that) but its worse here because its part of an annoying series of issues with Saki since the plot kicked into gear. This does not seem like the Saki I watched for the first 4 episodes.

Anyway, glad this little rat war storyline is over. I liked how things ended with Kiroumarou though.

[ookamigirl]

Lots of action this time as well.
Satoru was giving it his all, but it was exhausting.
They were lucky Kiroumaru's forced put an end to that rouge tribe.
Satoru if definitely the smarter one of the two.
It's kinda obvious that they'll never be able to fully return home without any consequences after all they now know.
The whole adventure was pretty intense and dangerous.