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| Wow, what a dick move on Saki's part. For all her selfishness of wanting to save Satoru she was real fucking quick to throw Kiroumaru away. That is legitimately disappointing to me. Every other plan that involved sacrificing someone else, a human, she rejected adamantly. What happened to the girl who was lifting the Queerat out of the river? Then, she had the audacity to ask Squealer why he would rebel, and his reason echoed Kiroumaru's. It's nearly laughable that she'd get upset about it too, considering she literally just sacrificed a Queerat for the sake of Humanity. She embodies their reasoning and fear. Somehow she went from a compassionate character to a selfish one by the end of this series. Despite all her bravado she seems to be nestled right into the very society she swore to rebel against. On the other hand; I can't bother to sympathize with Squealer, he pretty much got what he deserved. Even if his actions were justified, at the end of the day he didn't bother to try and make amends with the next generation of humans. He treated Saki and her friends like they were responsible for their ancestor's actions. If he didn't present himself as an ally to Saki and her friends, I would probably feel more bad about his situation. But it feels more like he's betraying people who were open to treating him differently because of his own prejudices. I mean, both sides were wrong. They could've benefited from some more open communication. Saki seemed like she could've been that channel, but here we are, at the end, kind of just going through the motions and not changing much of anything about the system. It almost seems like Saki even goes so far as to give up there at the end, writing a letter and leaving it in the hands of someone else in the distant future. As a whole the series was quite good, but a lot of this last episode made me dislike Saki. Which, in a way, is impressive as she was the only character I cared about this entire time. |
 "...Is your mother worried? Would you like us to assign someone to worry your mother?" |
| whatr a deep serious serious I've finished, yet I was left with so much open things to think over...thank you! |
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| i wonder, are they still killing their kids up to age 17 if they fail at Sage academy? i assume not since Saki is in charge now an also due to some dialogue hinting at changes in the society as well as the tainted cats no longer being kept hidden, man they really forgot about poor Reiko when i looked at my list i wondered, why i didnt gave SSY a 10? its on par with my other favs like Now and Then, Here and There or maybe Tsumiki no Ie but after a rewatch i see that it does annoy how poorly amimated some episodes were, partycularly ones like 6, 8 an a few others an then there was the psychobuster plotline which i never liked, still this remains as one of the most memorable anime ive seen 9/10 i know this wont happen but id be up for a full story about the fall of the ancient civilization, episode 4 was not enough for me |
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| Pacing at times was poor but great overall 8/10 |
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| From The New World (Shin Sekai Yori) might be still the best horror anime to this day that im writing this comment. from the spooky town, spooky mystery, spooky background music, and that final arc. Maybe the only good horror anime up to date. Only negative is that I just didnt see any point to introduce a Karma Demon. The anime should have just focus on the Ogre and not the Karma Demon. And I wasnt a big fan of the final 3 episodes of they going across the country and being in caves. Another thing that bothered me is in the second arc: so the government saw that some of the Rats were building factories with weapons from the past from information they gathered.....AND THE GOVERNMENT DIDNT FIND THIS SUSPICIOUS!!!!??????? But a great anime. A true slow-burner. But never boring or dull, and to that I credit the spookiness of all. |
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| Shinsekai Yori is like a one-shot, experiments with quite a lot of themes but excels in just few. It has a problem with pacing but I think the deeper problem lies within it's framework, strictly speaking about the story it's amazing but the way it's presented is at times bad. But on the good side of it, I think Saki is a great protagonist and all the characters are distinct and well-defined. Squealer is a fucking phenomenal antagonist(Yes, he did nothing wrong). On a purely psychological/philosophical aspect, Shinsekai Yori is quite good. I can rant about how it does things wrongs, but I'll probably praise this series for it's takes on different things. One such thing on the top of my head is the "Psychobuster" which I thought would be deus ex machina for Shinsekai, but it wasn't, for which I was quite relieved instead it developed Saki's character. All in all a great series. 8/10 for me |
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| Okay, wow. I feel sad about Kiroumaru's — as well as Maria and Mamoru's child's death. Then they have to drop that bomb about the queerats. π This final episode really had me feeling sorry for Squealer too. |
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| So the whole plotwist was something obvious to anyone since episode 1 when Saki saved the rat ? still liked how deep it ended. |
| Rip Kiroumaru, truly one of the most badass characters. Honestly bit stupid to have allowed Squealer to carry out his revolt despite years ago knowing he's suspicious but still you can't truly hate him as he was just standing up for his 'kind'. Aside from that quite the fascinating anime with its unique plot on this dystopian dark world of psychokinesis people and mutants. |
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| Kiroumaru died a noble death, he was him. |
| hello hello |
| One of the best storytelling ever. 10/10 |
| “Do what feels right in your heart. You will be criticized either way.” (Eleanor Roosevelt) |
| I don't get it. I mean, I do; humans have always been/will always be hostile towards and feel threatened by an "other", but god what a slog to get through. For risking the world to save Satoru and not face any more bloodshed, Saki sure was quick to let Kiroumaru get annihilated to prove a theory. She also gets to live a pretty charmed life after having squashed, essentially, a civil rights movement. I'm not even of the mind that fiction always has to punish the "villain" (whatever form they may take), but... Man. This absolutely wasn't helped by Saki being one of the least compelling protagonists I'd ever bore witness to by that point either. And you know what else grinds my gears? Frequent, long exposition dumps delivered by a character that is... simply sitting... in a room... doing nothing... but talking... forever. Fuck me, what an absolute misuse of an audiovisual medium. Ugh. And Satoru saying towards the end, "ArE tHEy eVen ReALlY HuMan AnYMOre??" Like, yeah, I thought that was the entire point? So what fucking message am I even meant to take away? "If they don't have any identifiable physical traits then treat them like dirt. Oh, until you realize that they're intelligent. Then they're cool. Still treat them like lesser though, on account of the aforementioned differing physical traits. Oh, wait, turns out they're just like us. Too bad we killed them all. I guess it's on us to tell their story." Yeah, history is written by the victors, but they don't often speak glowingly of their opponents in text books now do they? This show's cheeks. |
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