Shin Sekai Yori

[Buffalobiian]

@MFauli:

Using powder against Fiend

I don't remember any episode where they said it wouldn't work. If it was something you could visualise you could burn it, but a fiend likely doesn't know about powdered weapons being thrown at him. (might blow up the canister though). Plus, the fiend was supposed to be downwind, so the powder travels faster.

Mirror

This was forced, I agree. The fiend did travel to Tokyo on a boat, after all. It's hard to imagine that it never once had the desire to look at itself. That red hair should give it away.

death feedback

We've established that the feedback is via hypnosis when they seal your cantus. Your brain "learns" to suffocate yourself when you attack a humanoid. Maybe since cantus users have the power to project their thoughts into the world, the idea that you suffocate yourself actually becomes real via your own mental powers.

What also doesn't quite make sense is why Kiroumaru still sided with Saki when they had the psycho-buster. His reason for abandoning the thought of killing humans was because he concluded that there is no way to upturn them. The fact that Saki obtained the psychobuster is proof that they now have the ability.. though I suppose it's not anywhere near enough to kill the entire human race unless the queerats learn to manufacture it. Their technology is still way off from doing that right now.

I don't know who I dislike more at this point: Saki, or Shun.

[Kraco]

What also doesn't quite make sense is why Kiroumaru still sided with Saki when they had the psycho-buster. His reason for abandoning the thought of killing humans was because he concluded that there is no way to upturn them. The fact that Saki obtained the psychobuster is proof that they now have the ability.. though I suppose it's not anywhere near enough to kill the entire human race unless the queerats learn to manufacture it. Their technology is still way off from doing that right now.

It's possible Kiroumaru has since changed his opinions a little, due to witnessing Squealer's actions. In the past he wanted a WMD to be able to fight humans, who were arbitrary masters and arrogantly treated queerats like animals, useful animals but animals nonetheless. However, Squealer's reign is hardly better now. In fact it's even worse since Squealer treats his own kind no better than humans. In Squealer's world anybody opposing Squealer's ideas is to be eradicated and the rest are just tools. At least Kiroumaru saw that humans tried to protect each other and in fact are unable to kill other humans. It might be he's now wishing for a middle road.

I don't know who I dislike more at this point: Saki, or Shun.

It's a bit too early to be hating Shun. Do we even know he's anything but a fragment of Saki's insanity?