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| Not sure how to live without my weekly dose of Shinsekai yori ... |
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| THANK YOU A-1 ! Thank you for adapting this masterpiece even with low budget they were able to come around and make this series beautiful |
| Pretty good ending for a show that started off really slow. |
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| The revolution about queerats was amazing. Didn't see that coming, but it makes perfect sense. 10/10 |
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| Excellent plot which suffered from terrible execution in some episodes unfortunately. I also feel like the final war could have been a bit more epic, because Yakomura's plan was heavily flawed, and to see he had no countermeasure to that was a bit underwhelming. Anyway very good anime. The best of the fall season and one of the best of 2012. 8/10. |
| Finally all that suffering has ended They can now go back to have a peaceful life Saki and Satoru are together Didn't think that all the killing was done to humans themselves It was an overall great episode Peace has finally come....No more suffering for both sides |
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| So I was right, I knew the queerats were humans mixed with molerats but at first I thought they were warped into queerats. Anyways, the ending was pretty satisfying. I really loved the world building. Despite suffering from A-1's typical QUALITY it was still good and of course the some episodes were bad and some episodes were really good 8/10 |
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| Kiroumaru. Could have made his death much more emotional. :( That last episode by far the best one of this season so far. Amazing how I felt a deep sadness with Squeeler's words. They'll ring in my ears for a long time I think. Wanted to give the series a 9 for a few boring episodes but man, considering the deep messages it gives, the great ending as well as the creative world, I'm giving it a 10 because Shinsekai yori is one of a kind. Something really special. |
| A lovely ending to a great story. If only the series had been better directed overall, I would've instantly put this as one of my favorite anime. As it is right now, it will have to get a strong 7/10. I personally think this series lends itself well to marathoning. Since the letter from two episodes back never was mentioned, could a novel reader please tell us what it said? |
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Marow said: Since the letter from two episodes back never was mentioned, could a novel reader please tell us what it said? Just copy+pasting someone else's summary: |
JOHJMar 23, 2013 12:39 PM
| Brilliant anime, this was truly AOTY for me, I'm glad it was kind of an open ending, it wasn't a happy end, but they are paving the way for society to change. |
Marow said: I think the anime shows that it is used as some kind of manual? Or perhaps I misremember... Anyway, in the novel it contains a long polemic, written in some language unknown to Saki (English?) and required translation by the library archive, against the "devils" (cantus human) while calling it a sacred war and the phychobust the "sacred powder" and the pedant "St. Benedict's Medal" and in it there is a small part about how to use the pedant.Since the letter from two episodes back never was mentioned, could a novel reader please tell us what it said? |
| So MAL finally starts locking news threads that are only a few weeks old? I wonder where was the announcement of this change? Or we are seeing yet another case of changes made that impacted users but not communicated to them? I wonder how long people would put up with this. As much as I have a bunch of information to share about anime announced recently I cannot share it in news board, and the anime series is too disorganized and chaotic to share information except with people already interested in the particular series. |
| I'm truly glad I stuck with this show. Every episode was worth it all the way up until the very end. From me it earns a solid 9/10. One of the shows I honestly looked forward to watching every week. The suspense, the romance and the thrill. Watching close friends grow up, lose each other and then fall in love. That's my kind of show. Even from the beginning when the episodes were slow and little happened, people were dropping it calling it boring. I'd say, "The story is still building, give it time." Look where we are now. |
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Nequam said: Let me generalize this more. The more resemblance that animals have to humans, the more we'll be inclined to not hurt them. If these features include talking, it'd mean we would be more predisposed to not hurt said individuals as much, although with superior abilities like Cantus, we would probably still control them. Now as symbv mentioned earlier, the more ugly they are or less resemblance they are to humans (like resembling a mole), we'd be inclined to call them beasts and whatnot. However this is all under the context of having said Cantus, it may be entirely different in our modern society. I guess I took the wrong approach by comparing the world of Shinsekai Yori with our own. There are, like you mentioned, a lot of factors that go into why the humans are treating the bakenezumi a certain way; the way they look like beasts and how they do not have Cantus. Nequam said: And morality can only be as applicable to the degree or extent that such species have an agency or capability in exercising said rationality. Someone lacking senses or integrative power in their brain (whether it be human or not) can't really be subjected to the same terms of our moral systems. Yes, that is exactly my class concluded, that if the animal/thing does not have the same mental capacity as humans do, then it isn't part of our moral system. But we do have obligations to treat them a certain way, which I guess for the most part, is exactly the way Kamisu's 66th District has been doing with the bakenezumi. Nequam said: Nevertheless, it's somewhat sad to see that it had come down to psychic users having to exist in the first place. Scientists with psychic powers must have been doing the genome manipulation I guess... It's definitely sad that PK users started appearing. Having such powers immediately separates humans into two classes... |
tingy said: The one very intelligent thing the author is that he asked: How would happen if this kind of power should arise in some people? The cliche type would come up with something like X-Men or Avengers but here he took a dim look of humanity and imagine these people with superpower may want to be rulers themselves, and then he asked: But if they are so ambitious and power-hungry, will they tolerate each other? And so he came up with the Dark Ages when PK human slaughtered each other to compete for top power. And he then asked, What next? And he built this world in this story.It's definitely sad that PK users started appearing. Having such powers immediately separates humans into two classes... |
| So MAL finally starts locking news threads that are only a few weeks old? I wonder where was the announcement of this change? Or we are seeing yet another case of changes made that impacted users but not communicated to them? I wonder how long people would put up with this. As much as I have a bunch of information to share about anime announced recently I cannot share it in news board, and the anime series is too disorganized and chaotic to share information except with people already interested in the particular series. |
| Mind blown at this! Great ending to this series! I'm glad I didn't drop it! |
Lirina said: Not sure how to live without my weekly dose of Shinsekai yori ... Just live the way you do prior to discovering this... And don't tell me you've forgotten... |
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| good 9/10 from me. |
| If your going to complain that Yu-Gi-Oh! Mangas are on the top NY times manga best sellers, you must not realize how popular Card games are(as well as the fact that you get a free card). |
| Great ending. So many bittersweet moments. I feel sorry for Squealer...I am glad Saki put him out of misery. Human with pk were really evil...to change the human without pk. |
| man that was amazing. i did not believe i would actually feel bad for yakomaru/squealer after all that slaughter, but in the end i did. that was a pretty twisted revelation. great show, i wish the novels were translated to english ='[ |
| Straight 9/10 I had issues with the pacing and grafics quality now and then, but the story was a good one. Also, I had thought about bakenezumi = humans before, but in the light of all the wholesale slaughter, I forgot about it.... having it conformed like this is more than unsettling. Also, the torture of Squealer... please tell me again, how did the word "humane" come into existance? can't be derived from "human", that's for sure. Btw, if they don't change their ways, the very same thing will happen again. PS: Kiromaru died like a fucking boss *salutes* |
| I want Rambo in a mecha-suit with a laser-chainsaw gun that fires nuclear warheads, fighting the love-child of Predator, Alien, a group of Bangladeshi terrorists, and Satan. (Actually that would be a pretty sick show) - StopDropAndBowl |
| RIP Kiroumaru He did so much especially at his end. |
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| Thought provoking, brilliant, heartfelt 10/10 |
| Thank the shipping gods. 4/5 |
dio_brando86 said: Marow said: Since the letter from two episodes back never was mentioned, could a novel reader please tell us what it said? Just copy+pasting someone else's summary: I want to go read the novel now as it seems to be the superior version. |
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| The final episode was rushed; Still though, an amazing, unique story. |
| What an amazing episode, the ending feels acceptable but I just love this show and I want to see much more of the world and what not, but I guess this is the (at least when it comes to anime). I don't have a lot to say tbh, but the story was epic, very clever and fascinating. 10/10. |
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| I was glad that Saki could at least end Squealers pain at the end of the episode. The world can be a cruel place. |
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nevajno said: He disarmed the queerat soldiersI don't understand now what happened to Kiroumaru's army. They can't be killed by Akki because of death feedback when she kills queerat. |
| The score is rising quite fast :P |
| LOL, at first few episodes i was like wtf did a watch, but it payed off watching it till the end, even tho there were some question that aren't still answered. I still like it! 10/10 Wanna read the novels now for so questions to be answered! :o |
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| Crappers~~ i accidentally pressed like it instead of lov it in the poll! D': KYA!!~~ Saki and Satoru get married! I knew it! I just knew it! finally, some of my favourite characters aren't getting messed up! And they have a Baby! |
| This show left me with a feeling beyond words. It was a deeply thought through novel, the author expressed some existential questions through a probably best chosen kind of story. But above all the existential, ethical and philosophical take, the story has a highly original, rich setting, a true new world that is both futuristic and archaic, beautiful and scary. I just can't possibly praise this concept more, and i say concept since i'm talking about everything related to shinsekai yori. I'm just HAPPY that i lived to see this. |
| They got married! So happy, 10/10 loved this anime, sad to see it end but great things have to end sometime and something greater will take its place. |
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| Maria and Mamoru's child got stopped by death feedback and the truth about the Queerats comes out. That explains the name as well. They were (once) part human after all. I somehow felt a little bad for Squealer, even after all he did. :( Saki and Satoru got together in the end. Saki is pregnant and they started raising tainted cats! We didn't get to see Maria or Mamoru anymore though. I really wonder what became of them or if they even lived. Overall a great series. It kinda took me a while to really get into it and it could be confusing at times, but it certainly was magical in some way. Very original. 8/10! :D |
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Monde11 said: nevajno said: He disarmed the queerat soldiersI don't understand now what happened to Kiroumaru's army. They can't be killed by Akki because of death feedback when she kills queerat. Then they were wiped out by Squealer's army. |
| "whats so special about bonzai trees?" "They are the loli of the tree world."  Inganock of the Brightest Flame |
| Speaking of which, we didn't really fin out WHAT happened to maria and mamoru :/ And about Squealer... well to be honest i think he was right. Given the situation he was in, I mean if queerats were formarly human turned to rats just for the purpose of the cantus peaople to be able to kill them without deathfeedback... I'm sure evryone can understand that actually Squealer had his slice of justice that was never given course. So in the end the story is pretty grim, conclusion being that queerats (humans without cantus) are still just rats and not considered humans. What kind of saddened me was Satoru's asking Saki if she can even think of them as humans. No, nobody can think of them as humans, but that doesn't change the fact that some humans were transformed to rats. So who made justice for those humans in the end? Nobody i guess. |
| Death feedback kills whomever kills their own kind. Since the PK users can't kill the non pk users, they simply changed them into queer rats so that they wouldn't appear human. The origin of queer rats... now that hit me pretty hard. |
| "whats so special about bonzai trees?" "They are the loli of the tree world." Inganock of the Brightest Flame |
AnimageNeby said: It's really worth it, and, I'm sorry to say, since it's rather artsy and not geared towards the masses, it isn't very popular with the hoi palloi. The sales are pretty bad, and I think it deserves better. At least it deserves some support of those people that CAN appreciate it. It certainly has the potential to be a cult-hit, after some time. Sometimes, I do not understand how crappy series get so high sales, while really good ones bite the dust. It makes me sad and a bit disillusioned in mankind, frankly. Well i wouldn't be surprised if it didn't sell well. Because we, the people who appreciate this kind of story AND anime are pretty rare. It was a very mature and philosophical driven plot that most of the people watching anime don't have the patience to think through. People who do appreciate this kind of stories are more inclined to read books that can deliver this, or watch movies rather than watch an anime with moe faces. I have a lot of friends that would totally obsess over this, I know it, except when I told them to start watching it they just looked at me in disbelief asking "Cartoons?!". I wish I could instead just give them the book to read, but how can I since we can barely read some hiragana.... So yeah... I would totally buy it on Blue Ray, especially because the animation is much much better as seem on certain subbers. |
| This show is easily my favorite of the fall season I really enjoyed it from start to and im a bit sad now thats its finished , non the less it was very well done and kept me entertained all throughout , I actually felt sorry for Squealer in the end to see the torture he faced one thing that confused ,maybe it was a mistranslation but in previous eps they referred to the "fiend" as a he but in this episode they say her? am I the only one who is confused here? |
| SSY doesn't deserve its shitty sales. |
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