There are a lot of things I want to say about this series, but I think it’s best to start with a simple one: a sincere thank you to the people who created it. With a series as great as Shin Sekai Yori, endings are very, very hard. This was […] Read more
I’ve spent a lifetime railing against the cruel cliffhanger, but that was definitely one of the Top 10 for sheer torture. Two quick thoughts for starters… I actually muted the sound and played Wareta Ringo over the ED animation. Wish I’d thought of it weeks ago. I was sure there […] Read more
Cliffhangers are cruel to begin with, but at the end of these 5-minute episodes of SSY, they’re really brutal. Only a show I love as much as this one is capable of making me rage so much about its flaws, but that doesn’t mean the feelings aren’t real. This ep […] Read more
Oh, what the hell – you know what I’m going to say anyway, so why dance around it? It was great. Suffice to say, if there was one word I never expected to hear in Shin Sekai Yori, it was “Roppongi”. For those who don’t know, Roppongi is the anus […] Read more
What a remarkable and brutal series Shin Sekai Yori really is. We’re presented constantly with shows that struggle with the mechanics of plot and character dynamics – the current schedule is littered with examples of good shows that can’t quite get the balance right. There’s too much mystery and not […] Read more
I should have learned by now never to doubt Shin Sekai Yori in its capacity to go to dark places, because it seems to up the ante every week. I have to comment again about the pacing with this series, though it seems like I do so every week. This […] Read more
The gloves are pretty much off now. This is going to be a dark ride of epic proportions from here to the end, I suspect. This has been a pretty dark couple of days in anime, what with the most recent episodes of Psycho-Pass and Robotics;Notes. But for my money […] Read more
There’s no more running from the future, it seems. I must confess there were times in this episode when I had absolutely no idea what was happening. Given the fact that I probably wasn’t supposed to, that may not be such a bad thing – but for the first time […] Read more
The more things change, the more they… well – get worse. Even by Shin Sekai Yori standards, the events of this week’s episode have “disaster” written all over them. We really don’t need voice-over Saki’s occasional reminders about how the mistakes she and her friends made had tragic consequences – […] Read more
Watching Shin Sekai Yori is a sweet, beautiful sadness. OP1/Insert Song: “Yuki ni Saku Hana (雪に咲く花)” by Maria Akizuki (Kana Hanazawa) It’s not like SSY is an especially uplifting show to begin with, but there’s undeniably something sort of depressing in watching yet another brilliant, thoughtful, beautiful and dark anime […] Read more