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ThreePercent said: ...And this is only the 4th episode. Loving this series. Same here, terrific Worldbuilding and it seems plausible, within the logic of the show. |
| "Truth is always a delusion." - Friedrich Dürrenmatt |
| Finally getting into the groove, previous episodes didn't catch my attention as much. The OST is amazing, specially the chanting song that plays at the beginning of each episode. |
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EZSPECIAL said: Finally getting into the groove, previous episodes didn't catch my attention as much. The OST is amazing, specially the chanting song that plays at the beginning of each episode. Yeah this series is finally starting to pick up. Things are looking good going forward. And this ED is so addictive. |
| Interesting development so far, they're taken to see someone and they've lost their powers for now... That ending sure was interesting! Nice action as well in this episode! |
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| really great episode, first half was a lot of information but it helped clear things up and understand the history so it did it well tbh, then all the action in the second half just created so much tension, love it! |
| Very heavy dialogued episode. We learned a lot, but there are still a lot of unanswered questions, which I'm sure they will cover in the later episodes. Looking forward to it! :) |
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OriginANIME said: Very heavy dialogued episode. We learned a lot, but there are still a lot of unanswered questions, which I'm sure they will cover in the later episodes. Looking forward to it! :) Btw, I'm wondering, was Saki just visualizing how the death feedback would work or did she actually do something in the past? |
RazielZeroApr 19, 2013 4:10 PM
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| Could someone please explain what that yellow like creature was talking about. I did not quite understand. Also what actually is mantra? |
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| Yay, bring it on. |
| Isayama Hajime should be awarded The Manga with The Highest Inconsistencies of Characters' Appearances. He keeps performing multiple plastic surgeries on those Shingeki No Kyojin characters in a SINGLE chapter. Yes, I've read up to the latest chapter of Shingeki No Kyojin manga. Forced myself to read through the kidsketching chapters after the anime's ended. At least from now on, I only have to go through the hell once a month. Patiently awaiting SNK TV/movie/OVA anime-sequel. The 2015 SNK live-action movie would probably suck. |
| Hmmm interesting. |
Please learn about cel animation and its technical process. Learn how special effects and backlighting were done without computers. |
| It just..got.....real..... |
| "One often meets his destiny on the road he takes to avoid it." Oogway |
| The history is very dark. Nice cliffhanger at the end. NANI ?!! BOOM !!! xD |
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| A lot of stuff going on. We learn a lot of things from that "library". When it mentions that Boy A was going around killing others, the group was sufficiently surprised that another human would kill someone so we can tell that this has not been a part of their society. They learn of the things that PK can do and so the early restraint is similar to the Psycho Pass. That determination of students who are likely to abuse that power are eliminated like that boy was who cheated during their match. This brings up the point then - why was that girl who wasn't good at controlling her power or PK removed? Maybe this is another condition, that one needs to have a certain skill level to not be eliminated. When they started talking about adding genes to the genome and the effects of shutting down the liver and parathyroid, literally all I could do was think of what would happen and they mentioned exactly that later in the conversation. Too much school ;) Of course, thanks to the doubtful Saki, we think that the "library" was telling the truth and it's the monk who wants to suppress this information. Also, the shots of what looks to be like a woman while those pigs were getting attacked can lead to quite a few speculations that I'll keep to myself for now. There is already a strong backstory to their society and this will set the stage for a great (possible) revolution. I'm really excited to see what happens |
| -Nothing can stay unchanged. Even so, can you still keep on loving this place? -Be still my soul; when change and tears are past, all safe and blessed we shall meet at last. |
| some heavy conversation in this episode.. I watched it twice :3 kind of understand it.. so it happen in some years later hmm? :3 nice story.. I'd love if shaft made this anime :3 |
| Fuckin' awesome. Had me on the edge of my seat for the entirety of the episode. |
| Wasn't expecting info on this scale so soon! Really hoping that the group gets their Cantus back eventually. Coupled with the amazing ED, this anime is extremely good so far. |
| What was thing thing going to say before it got burnt? It kinda confused me, I wasn't able to follow along at the end. |
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| 1. God dam, it's like I'm reading a college text book. Had to pause the subtitles to really understand. 2. Well, at least the last 3 episodes got 40% explained. 3. it took 4 episodes for the pace to pick up slightly... jesus christ... 4/10 |
Samu-tan said: Excellent episode. This was truly magnificent. |
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| Up until now, this series feels weirdly random concerning the story progression and dramatic highlighting. I can feel there is a good story involved, but the exectuion fails somehow. A little bit. |
| Holy shit, that episode was fucking intense. All those revelation... So those Queerats would be anciently human? From their weird evolution, they must be from a very old civilization, what would be our civilization I guess. In the beginning, psychotelekinesis was a scientific advance, probably a gene that a few human had? Then everything turned to shit when people started to use it to commit crime. We can see it in the opening scene of the anime. I liked to see that everyone of them was surprised to hear that human could kill each other. In their little utopia, they couldn't imagine that human could kill themself. No wonder it shocked them to hell. I wonder what that priest would have done to them if they would have been brought to that temple. Would they have killed them? If so, why didn't he did so in that forest? We could think that he would be scared to be killed from that constraint applied to their power, but if so, he wouldn't have killed all those Queerats. That mean that they would probably have brainwashed them and left them in a new family/village, something like this. Now, from the preview, it look like they will be separated from the priest, who will probably have died from the dog-thing explosion. Man, I have to watch it now, but I have to go back to sleep after, I wonder if it will make me think so much that I will not be able to sleep... Difficult dilema :/ |
minouneetzoeApr 27, 2014 8:16 PM
| «Time is passing so quickly. Right now, I feel like complaining to Einstein. Whether time is slow or fast depends on perception. Relativity theory is so romantic. And so sad.» - Kurisu Makise a.k.a. The Zombie |
| This episode was so incredible, holy shit. Learning about the background of PK was an interesting experience. Don't know how to feel about this priest guy quite yet |
| I was literally thinking "it would be cool if this started in central asia, Kyrgyzstan namely" 2 minutes later, they reveal it was Azerbaijan. Close. Enough. I have PK. |
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| Lots of information to be digested. Now I'm starting to understand the setting of this anime. |
| Wow that episode was amazing! I actually like info dumps and this one was exceptionally good. I honestly don't know why I even dropped this show(then again this was a time in my anime experience when I extremely enjoyed Sword Art Online*shiver*) So glad I picked it back up though. |
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| Damn, that was a heavy episode. So if I'm understanding this right, the cantus is responsible for their PK powers. Then why don't they permanently remove it from children while they're young or whenever they do that ritual shown in the first episode? It would be somewhat like circumcision. Sure it would be a totalitarian practice, but isn't their society already pretty totalitarian? |
| Exposition heavy episode. Lots of interesting things revealed. |
| "Let Justice Be Done!" My Theme Fight again, fight again for justice! |
| Good stuff. For whatever reason I had trouble processing this the first time I tried to watch the show last year, but basically there have been placed a bunch of safe guards in order to avoid the children turning on the other humans. Things such as killing "bad seeds" before they can "sprout" and using the power of suggestion to temper murderous rage. Now, my problem with that last part is that we are shown Saki go into shock or whatever when the priest "stabbed" his leg and told her not to hurt him. Isn't this very...easy to manipulate to control people? Maybe it was just that one time to lock in the "suggestion", though. Also, I've been spoiled about a certain "event" in episode 8, I believe. But, did this episode not foreshadow it when the kids were told about that certain species that I can't remember the name of? |
Ston3_FreeN7Jul 16, 2014 11:15 PM
| "Yes, I have been deprived of emotion. But not completely. Whoever did it, botched the job." - Geralt of Rivia |
| the requiments for registering at the library: at least 18, name , age and address verified by: driver license, social security card, student id, a copy of the residence certificate, pension book, etc xD this storage device is clearly from an other time, it didn't even realize all those verification items are outdated, wonder if once it was sort of a toy into libraries then when civilization got ruined it managed to selfconservate the treating it to allow access was silly... wonder if they'll manage to get to any place, or if the priest will die and leave them into the wild that explosive dog at the end was hilarious xD |
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| DAT PACING. SO much information. |
| "Justice Never Dies!" - Kenji Endou, 20th century Boys |
| SO many things happened. Well packed, I'll say. Liked it :3 |
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| Great worldbuilding and exposition, this show is getting better. Will keep watching. |
| Finally some answers but that kid breaking down was really annoying. |
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| That information dump was incredible! Extremely well-worded and with sound sci-fi explanations. It's hard to tell from just these 4 eps, but it seems to me that these characters are a bit too archetypal for my taste. The loud dumb one and the crybaby were pretty annoying in this one. But with a premise like this, I'm hoping things smooth over and the exposition makes good use of the setup. |
| Things a finally starting to heat up, but damn those rats are gross to look at.. |
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| It got dark very quickly, then it become very ratty. The blow dog looks more awesome than how I thought it looked from the camp story. |
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| Would a telekinetic mass extincion like the one represented in Shin Sekai Yori be possible in real life? |
Grouchio said: Would a telekinetic mass extincion like the one represented in Shin Sekai Yori be possible in real life? As much as that'd be cool, I don't think so. zat-bust said: It got dark very quickly, then it become very ratty. The blow dog looks more awesome than how I thought it looked from the camp story. lol, that pun. |
mayukachan said: Grouchio said: Would a telekinetic mass extincion like the one represented in Shin Sekai Yori be possible in real life? As much as that'd be cool, I don't think so. zat-bust said: It got dark very quickly, then it become very ratty. The blow dog looks more awesome than how I thought it looked from the camp story. lol, that pun. Thank the gods. It would only be cool if I were one of the PK gifted, so that I could actually survive the ensuing genocide. |
| this is some brave new world rip-off here |
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UnoPuntoCinco said: this is some brave new world rip-off here New world? |
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UnoPuntoCinco said: this is some brave new world rip-off here They've been compared before, but they are relatively different. |
| holysh*t! intense episode! lots of info about the world! great episode! |
| I loved this chapter. As i expected Telekinesis brought humanity to the verge of extinction and different societies have evolved as a result of it. And theirs manages to keep TK under control, albeit with some harsh methods. I bet the rat she saved some episodes ago comes to their assistance now. |
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