Older Children (May contain mild bad language, bloodless violence)
Vintage:
September 28, 2012
Status:
Still Airing
Summary:
About one thousand years into the future, civilization has been retrograded and humans are living dispersed within small communities. People in this era have a psychic power called "Juryoku" which materializes things they imagine. In the absence of advanced scientific technology, people are using this power as a major source of energy.
One day, a girl called Saki, along with her friends, finds a small archive robot outside the town. It records the ancient history of humans. It tells them that Juryoku was found in the 21st century and the discovery caused a world war between psychics and non-psychics. The psychics won this war and thus their reign of terror began.
When the adults in town figure out that the children discovered this forbidden knowledge, they seal their Juryoku and exile them. Saki and the others end up in a forest where they meet a huge hairless bipedal mouse known as a "Bakenezumi" and get involved in a violent war the creatures are currently engaged in.
When I first watched this show I had some expectations, mainly based off my first episode impressions, but soon after that I have no expectations at all. Shin sekai Yori is the most unique anime I watched to date. Granted the show has a lot of explaining to do, so if you're not into heavy dialogue anime then I wouldn't recommend this to you. However, once you get through most of the explanation, I would say around episode 9 or 10, once you get that understanding for what their world is really about and the mystery behind it, that is when the show really starts to shine. The only downside to this that I have found is that sometimes the animation quality is lacking and looks really simple. I find that since the animation studio behind this is A-1, I figured that they spent most of their time doing SAO. So hopefully now that SAO has finished we can see an increase in production values in the show :)