Shin Sekai Yori

[Ryllharu]

[UTW] Shinsekai Yori - 13



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The biggest question from this episode is what exactly saved Mamoru? Mamoru is far too weak to crush a copycat and Maria was sent home.

Maybe Shun isn't quite as dead as we might have thought.

I'm guessing the Education Committee picked Mamoru as a sacrifice for a test. Like Satoru's grandmother said, the group is kept alive at the request of the Ethics Committee, who finds promise in them (mostly Saki), a certain resiliency, while the Education Committee has repeatedly proposed that the whole group be purged because they're paranoid.

In killing Mamoru, the Education Committee hopes to provoke another one of them into snapping, justifying the execution of the entire group. They probably really don't like that Asahina met with Saki, and proposed that she be her successor.

[Kraco]

The biggest question from this episode is what exactly saved Mamoru? Mamoru is far too weak to crush a copycat and Maria was sent home.

Maybe Shun isn't quite as dead as we might have thought.

Nothing would make me happier than Shun still lingering, but I wouldn't trust on that. I also got the impression it was Mamoru doing that, but perhaps it was half-subconsciously, leading him down a very dangerous path. But maybe it was, after all, someone else who doesn't agree with the Education committee's decision. It would be strange, in my opinion, if eliminating citizens' children, for any reason, didn't generate opposition, so technically there could be any number of people willing to save him, but naturally the Ethic's committee still seems the most likely helper, unless there's a mole within the very Education committee itself.

They seem to be working to maintain a status quo that's going to inevitably end in their eradication, when they should be working towards improving their situation. The cowards in charge don't have what it takes. You need some of the people they're trying to kill.

Wasn't that the theme of the show? That a group of children find out truths about their world that's slowly destroying itself. That's what the paranoia and lack of tools, ideas, and methods is doing.

[Uchiha Barles]

Wasn't that the theme of the show? That a group of children find out truths about their world that's slowly destroying itself. That's what the paranoia and lack of tools, ideas, and methods is doing.

Well, I don't know if I'd call it the theme, mainly because I don't quite know where this story is heading, and there's enough missing of where this story came from. It'd be nice to see what the other societies that arose after the dark ages were/are like, as well as some of the details of how they handled the problem of out of control cantus users. Because there could be reasons they don't try. A friend of mine likened it to everyone walking around with a pocket nuke as a vital organ. There's no counter to that, and there are reasons you might not want to experiment with that. I'm just not convinced that Cantus has been properly presented as such a case yet.