A thousand years into the future, and the world is a pastoral idyll, with little sign of technology. People with telekinetic powers are common, and Saki, Satoru, Maria, Mamoru, and Shun are five children who are learning to control their emergent powers. But for all its surface peace and harmony, this world seems to harbour some dark secrets - secrets that Saki in particular seems likely to uncover... You get the clear feeling from very early in the episode that the world of From the New World is clearly not as idyllic as it seems, with the palpable relief of Saki's parents when her powers first manifest themselves being the first hint - and with more being dropped as the episode progresses, each more blunt and direct than the last. A dark fate awaits those who don't manifest powers to the satisfaction of the Education Committee - although what that fate is hasn't quite been spelt out yet. I'm willing to bet the tale of the Sacred Barrier and the Ogres that lie beyond it will have something to do with it, though. As opening episodes go, this one is on the slow side, spending its time building up atmosphere and a sense of real threat instead of really getting into the meat of the story - there isn't even that much time spent on character development yet, past Saki and her parents. But I'm not complaining - yet - as the atmosphere the show is building, combined with the beautiful world that the series is set in, draws you in and keeps you watching. THE GOOD: Compelling stuff, so far. I'm a sucker for shows with secrets to be revealed and where dark forces wait poised, and that certainly seems to be the case here. THE BAD: Pacing, introduces a lot of characters off the bat and then doesn't have the time to do much with them all. There's time to work on this, though. Good stuff so far, then, but there's still some work to be done to build on this promising start if the series is going to be able to really impress. From the New World is streamed by Crunchyroll..
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Fall is here.  The weather is getting colder, the leaves are changing, and the days are getting shorter.  With fall comes another new anime season.  Last fall we were treated to a great season.  To name a few, we had shows such as Fate/Zero, Boku wa Tomodachi ga Sukunai, and Un-Go.  The 2011 fall season [...]
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The juxtaposition of needless and almost surreal violence in what appears to be a present day city against a group of children playing a seemingly harmless game out in the country is our unsettling introduction to Shin Sekai Yori, another of my picks for the autumn season - as opening scenes go, it certainly seems to set the tone for what is to follow. As we move into the episode proper we're
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Impressions over the 1th episode of the fall 2012 anime series Shin Sekai Yori featuring wallpapers from the main characters of the story like Saki Watanabe, Maria Akizuki, etc...
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A tale From a New World, kick-starting a promising Fall season. I had absolutely no intentions of watching Shinseki, but then Kyo said that it looked pretty good. …And after watching the first episode, here I am. Telling you to watch it. I wasn’t expecting much, but Shinsekai was a pleasant surprise. Shin Sekai Yori [...]
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Starting of the Fall anime season is A-1 Pictures’ dark science-fiction series Shin Sekai Yori.  If the first episode of the new season sets the tone, then we possibly have one of the best seasons of all time ahead of us! It’s usually not hard to grasp the genre of the anime from the first … Continue reading »
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One of the first new shows to kick off the fall season is “Shin Sekai Yori”, the anime adaptation of the “新世界よ” novel by Yuusuke Kishi and its opening episode was nothing less that intriguing, making me quite curious about this story. The core plot is centered around five friends who live in what at [...]
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Let’s take a break from the exhausting thought-provoking Summer series and let’s jump to the one of the first Fall series — Shin Sekai Yori. Is the new season any different from the past season? Let’s find out! Visually, Shin Sekai Yori is overall impressive. It might not be as ...The post FIRST IMPRESSIONS: Shin Sekai Yori appeared first on The dere-moe Project.
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Welp, getting back into episodic blogging. It aint gonna be easy- it’s been like, what? Almost two months? That seems practically an age ago! But at least this show, unlike Binbougami-ga, ought to give me plenty to say that isn’t “Momiji’s wearing a wig, lmao!” or me trying to carry out some kind of bullshit [...]
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The first show I'm writing about in the fall 2012 anime season is one that piqued my interest after I read through its synopsis, as well as learning about the Nihon SF Taisho Award, which was given to the light novel. Shows like this with a supernatural touch never really attract me too much, but Shin Sekai Yori seemed like it'd be worth the watch. Read more »
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The premise of this anime is that the world is ruled by people who have the “cursed power” or the “gods’ power” of telekinesis. Looking from the first episode of the anime, it has mysterious bloodshed and kids having their … Continue reading →
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How very spooky. I was pretty intrigued by this show based on the description of a utopian society gone wrong…those sorts of stories are usually interesting. The first episode seems to cut between different periods of time, one being what’s probably the “main” time period depicting protagonist Watanabe Saki’s experiences within this utopian village and [...]
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WASSUP Well, well, well, the Fall season is already here! And it starts with none else than the Yamakan anime without Yamakan. SSY appears to be one of those things that take a few episodes under the belt to be actually any good to write anything about, but those pageviews aren’t going to create themselves. [...]
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From the New World In this not-so-ordinary rural town, children must go through a ritual to seal their cursed powers and learn how to utilize them in school, ranging from drawing sand pictures to building card pyramids only by using their minds. Rumor has it that if a student fails to graduate, then they simply [...]
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Initial impression – doesn’t waste any time getting into the story Autumn 2012 (12 episodes) (title literal translation – From the New World) (more info) Shin Sekai Yori doesn’t have even one second of introduction as to what the heck is going on.  Right away we’re tossed into the deep and expected to start traversing [...]
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Episode 01 - Shin Sekai Yori was one of the few series that seemed to have the potential to be be a surprise hit; the PVs had a lot of thriller vibes to them, complete with an abnormal amount of violence with some obvious supernatural involvement. With that being said, as of now this series [...]
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The first series of the fall season has arrived, all bright and sparkly! And, in the case of Shin Sekai Yori, dripping with style. It was hard to tell what exactly was going on in the opening episode, especially at first, because the show decided to throw a bunch of cut scenes and blurry art [...]
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