Shinsekai yori biggest flaw?

Dec 18, 2018 8:34 PM

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I'd have to agree with some of the users above. It's my favorite all-time show because I'm biased towards complex world-building, but the complexity of the plot and fine details introduced throughout the show were more so brilliant in concept than in execution. And now that I'm not viewing the show with rose-tinted goggles (watched the show four odd years ago), the characters are mostly forgettable despite how the show attempted to develop them. It's just that their personalities aren't particularly novel, and the characters' behaviors/actions are hardly differentiated. Also, the change in art direction for that one episode. All minor gripes in the grand scheme of things, however.

Mar 17, 2019 12:58 PM

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They made squealer suffer for a month

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Apr 9, 2019 5:47 PM

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NanakoAC

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The story of Maria and Mamoru was wasted.
Given the various timeskips throughout the story, i was expecting another one sometime in the second season, where Maria would return, she and saki could meet up again as old ladies, compare philosophies on the societies they've built over time, reminisce on what they could have done different.

After that incredible letter she wrote, i expected maria to do something interesting, I thought she was going to be the major villain of season 2.

Instead, it turns out that the fake death was a real death. Woops, gone forever, totally really dead, now move on. We got her daughter as a monster, an entirely non speaking role

Also the more grim elements of sacrifice to keep a society running, they were a major theme in season 1. I was expecting the latter half to feature a lot more of that, saki struggling to exist in a society that still routinely slaughters its own kids for vague suspicions. Maybe devoting a lot of her adult life to slowly changing that, bringing justice to the education committee, etc.

Instead it seems to have continued unabated. All the politics of the second act were geared towards colonialism, and foreign policy concerning the rats. Not a single word was ever said again about the child massacres, and with a rampaging (sort of) ogre to massacre lots of people, the ed committee had more reason than ever to say "that proves our point" and keep killing kids. Was this meant to be a happy ending?

After spending twelve years building her career, to gradually reach the position of power she was supposedly destined for - where she might change the system from within - she instead threw it all away. Not just to kill squeara, but to not lie about it

The biggest flaw is the entire second season, i feel like they forgot what their story was about, and just discarded the most interesting elements of it

Apr 20, 2019 4:40 PM

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Hydrocells

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biggest flaw?
haha I think Shun is not dead, and the one I am most upset about is in the romance section, when I say I will always love Shun, why does he even marry Satoru

Oct 16, 2019 9:32 AM

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Oct 23, 2019 9:39 AM

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Auron_

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Characters being utter garbage with incredibly simplistic disposition.

Many inconsistencies and moronic behaviour.

Shameless info dumps.

Time skip instead of properly addressing things.

Also this is a bit personal but the way they did gay relationships as this superficial fooling around before the "real deal" comes was a bit distasteful.

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