01-12-2013, 05:37 PM | #51 |
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Episode 15 was meh-okay. Queerat-centric episodes seem to consistently be mildly entertaining whilst you watch them but leave me feeling like I got gypped out of an episode that week once I finish them.
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01-27-2013, 02:36 PM | #54 |
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Caught up, watched 16 and 17. This series is such a tease. And as one viewer commented, "The humans appear to have been holding the Idiot Ball."
Spoiler: show I think this show would be so much more exciting if it weren't being told over the course of half a year. You don't read a book one bit at a time over a six-month period. ^^;
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02-03-2013, 10:58 AM | #55 |
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Episode 18. Things really start ramping up here. Some character development for a few of the more mysterious characters, some plot development regarding the events seen in Episode 17, and some food for thought for the upcoming episodes. Spoiler: show
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02-09-2013, 10:11 PM | #57 |
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Episode 19 = ONE ENORMOUS STALL-TEASE. If you haven't watched it yet, do yourself a favor and wait 'til next week. Or watch it now, it doesn't really matter. But thirty minutes go by and you're no farther along than you were last week.
Spoiler: show Entertaining but very much a staller-tease. Just give me the plot, already.
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I have no idea or way to find out if the original novel had stalling like this, but I'm kind of getting worried that there's 5 episodes left (according to MAL) and it feels like we're approaching maybe halfway of the story. I'm praying we won't get a super-rushed ending and that there's actually a proper wrap-up to this story, a comprehensible ending. Cause there's no way Shinsekai's getting a second season...right?
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03-09-2013, 06:14 PM | #66 |
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I just finished episode 23, so that's what I'm going to be talking about.
Spoiler: show I'm sort of disliking how most of my SSY-posts are theories and speculations lately, but the episodes have mostly been "LOOK AT THAT HUGE BUG THAT'S EVOLVED INTO A HUMAN-SLAUGHTERER" and "RUN FOR YOUR LIVES" instead of, you know...dialog and events that progress the plot from A to C - we just hang around Point Bs a whole lot. If I bother to get all the episodes and try to marathon the show, I'll most likely be skipping half the show just because of stretched out Point Bs. And that's a huge minus for Shinsekai Yori.
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03-16-2013, 02:56 PM | #69 |
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Episode 24 was entertaining,
Spoiler: show Predictions for next week? Spoiler: show Next week should be the series finale, unless they changed something on me while I wasn't looking. Nope. Still slated for 25 episodes.
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Episode 25 made a huge deal about things we'd already known. Kind of a letdown finale, really.
Spoiler: show In the end, Shinsekai yori never managed to become one of the greats in my book; yet it did pull me in every Saturday morning, and I was delighted to wake up, watch the newest episode, and discuss it with you guys. The series was quite different from most anime these days, which was nice, but being different isn't enough: you've gotta be good too. And Shinsekai yori *was* decently good. It just wasn't great. It had some glimmers of greatness (which you can find if you go back through this thread and look for the posts where we were really excited to find out what happens next), but in the end it was just another weird story. Plot: 6/10. It was fine, but I have quite a few problems with it that prevent a higher score. Characters: 7/10 Animation: 4/10 some weeks, 6/10 other weeks Music: 5/10 dead average. Not bad but hardly noticeable. Replay Value: Low for me personally. Now that I know how the story plays out, I dunno that I'd want to watch it all over again from start to finish. OVERALL: 6/10
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Remember the song that played when it was time for the children to go home? I just had my mind blown by the following discovery. Did you know that the song is a piece by famous Classical composer Dvorak? Guess what the song is called? (And remember what the words "shinsekai yori" mean.) Well played, animation studio. Well played.
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Found out there's a manga version of Shin Sekai Yori, with the anime having apparently been a notable success.
I have no idea what the artist was thinking. Those are the YOUNG VERSIONS. Who went on the canoe trip. Yeah. Think about that for a minute. Now think about this: apparently the manga has seriously added more sexual content into the story. I'm kinda terrified if the publishers think this is what the audience wants: senseless sexualization of minors.
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