The Good of Anime: Humans are The New Gods (From The New World)

Catchy song and pretty visuals too

The new world is on its appearance is a perfect society, there is no poverty, people have psychokinetic powers that had ridden the need in advancement of technology and live a peaceful life in a village that looks like it went to the wrong era in the past. A harmonious society with no aggression or conflicts with other human beings, as a result it should be a world smeared with as much sunshine and rainbows, right? Well that is certainly not the case if you had even seen the first episode or even just the first minute of it, behind those concealed doors is a dark reality of how this society was created. How did the evolution of humans had become to those who inhabit it.

The show is a drama, horror, sci-fi, supernatural, psychological show. This anime way deserve the attention it didn't get when it came out in late 2012. Especially when a show made by the same studio came out around the same time and sold like hotcakes with bacon on it, surely every one knows that mediocre piece of trash that somehow become super popular "sword art online". But I digress, show is definetely way surpass my expectation I had cause no one was hyping this show as a masterpiece, cough *sword art online again. The show absolutely delivered a disturbing science fiction dystopian society, has one of the most thought out stories I've seen in anime, the setting is well rounded and foreshadows future events like crazy. It is sort of slow pace in the beginning and in the middle it's like crawl speed but they are building the mystery up till the revelation in the end which is the best. The final act will make your jaw drop to the floor. 

Animation and Sound

I'll be blunt its not the best aspect of the show, which is a shame cause it has a great art direction, I'll just blame SAO that this show didn't get the budget it deserved. The animation dips a lot and characters faces never stay the same for the entire run. (especially ep 5 and 10). When they use surreal imagery or experiment with the animation like the flashbackss and the stories it looks great. When they show amazing art and backgrounds, it looks great. At times the normal animation does look nice, most of the time especially the 3 arc, but sometimes they kinda slump. The soundtrack is kinda overused as the the most prominent ost you'll find is an ominous choir and also some high tension strings. Thus its easily reconisable, plus its there is an actual orchestral piece in the ost called "from the new world" from some famous composer, 

When you uncover the truth the world becomes darker and darker

The Meat of the show (slightly spoiler territory)

The god-like psychokinesis power that the humans obtained while being an amazing ability has wrecked havoc in the present world. One day these people with only 0.3% of the population started killing people in violent gruesome deaths, raids were held, wars were fought with these people, while they are small in numbers they were omnipotently powerful and decimated mankind, numbers dwindled down to no more than 2 million people. Centuries later the world was later filled with all of mankind having psychokinesis powers or (PK). 

People pop like blood piniatas 

The enviroment has also changed drastically despite being only centuries since the new power was unleashed. The magic power (cantus) of humans often leaks out of the body and causes distortions and errors in nature that causes organisms to genetically mutate into disturbing looking creatures. Some animals like the balloon dog is just an animal that explode killing itself and everything around it, basically impossible to survive evolution and should be extinct. Also a huge bug that shoots gunpowder and basically suicide bomb itself. How does animals can survive just to be blown up. Humans have changed the world.

How should we control our species, how should we stop our species from destroying the world. By nurturing since childhood of course like we do now. Education breeds children to become the new generation zombies of morally good citizens.

The school is like a lab rat experiment. Everything the social ethics community does to children is messed up to prevent them being karmic demons or just destroy humanity. First, if they don't have they're PK gained by a certain age, they disappear (you not what that means) cause normal humans can't be controlled. Next, the stuff they learn like the fairytales they read are actually real events in the past to scare children, like do not go past the sacred barrier cause we don't want you to see the messed up world that might harm your psyche. Problematic children no matter if its depression, delinquency or just not being skilled in their powers enough, will just be axed without a blink of an eye. Thus many students disappear, won't the other students be slightly alarmed by these events and be suspicious of the grown ups, so they added a safeguard, students are subjected to hypnosis and tampering with they're memories.  If you want to get through high school you need to meet the criteria or you are selected out through trickster cat. (They just lure them into a empty place and just kill them, no warning, no consent). How cruel. The children are watched like they are ticking time bombs waiting to unleash their fury.

Although its terrible, they are still bombs that would destroy entire civillizations in forms of karmic demons (bat shit crazy motherf****** that kill them peoples everywhere). People are scared, people fear that the next generation will come to destroy them so they should do the necessary even if they are just innocent souls. You'll see why.

Kinda weird though but I'll say it, they are a society of love and they are modified to have pleasure to intercourse to relieve stress no matter which sex they are.

Don't worry no ones naked, its just to show that teenagers experiment and relieve stress. Same sex is because they won't accidentaly have unwarranted pregnancy. Unlike most anime this does not come out of nowhere, they foreshadow it in previous episodes that human have become as primal as monkeys. If your homophobic 10 min of this shouldn't harm you right, it's a new world.

The rat monsters are an important part of the story. They are loyal to humans cause they are noble to a ruler and treats them as gods. They are strays too which will attack and hunt. They have a queen that procures the species with babbies. They have colonies and with that they fight wars for territory. They are highly intelligent creatures and can speak human language. What they are will shock you. 

That is just the setting, the actual plot, you'll just have to find out yourself. Just know that there are many people dying in this, some you'll even get to see on camera whoo. The story actually has a lot of depth and the children grow up to be teenagers and then to adults (maybe).

We humans are parasites to the world.

If Haruhi is my favourite show, this show is my best show. This show is pretty dialogue heavy not bakemonogatari heavy  or tatami galaxy ridiculous but it's pretty fun to watch things unfold. The package was nice and closed with a pretty ribbon in just 24 episodes. Coming from a guy who can't stay interested in shows and put shows on hold until I don't bother to watch them anymore. After just two watches and one long pause I was in love. This show is amazing, anime needs more shows like this.


*I rewatched it. Kinda of a nice throwback. Still holds up to the greatness it upholds.

- first arc (child arc) builds the setting and the mystery. Foreshadow future events and explore the world in it.
- second arc (teen arc) gets the plot going and really gets you to know about the messed up world, Characters you know and love die off. Very emotional. This part is kind of slow though.
- third arc (adult arc) goes torwards psychological thriller, The pace seriously picks up. The antagonist is seriously the most horendous. The climax has one of the best scenes in the show and ends perfectly, even though the world is still messed up but how would you change it. Expect to be terrified.


So did I sell it well?