A coming-of-age suspense set in an isolated utopian village of espers where some children mysteriously disappear. Featuring a lot of scary realism, strange culture, and goblin-like monsters.
It's Houseki no Kuni, but with a far stronger anthropological approach. The setting is also slightly similar to Ergo Proxy.
Also similar to: Madoka Magica.
25 episode conclusive adaptation of a novel.
10/10★ - Horror disguised as a child's play.
Strengths: world-building, mystery, pragmatism.
This anime is scary. It looks like fun: children, school, super-powers. But every shot has a dark tone on it that anticipates some monster jumping out and devouring everybody. It's frightening.
The environment this anime creates makes your heart forget its beat. At first glance, it's just another school anime. Except it's a school for children that can do psychokinesis. It looks weird, exotic. But ultimately it's just a bunch of children living in a different, fictional culture.
But then you notice: something... feels off.
To begin with, it begins with with a massacre. Bloody and monstrous. And the artwork lampshades it: it's dark. It's not bright as to highlight it's an anime with esper kids going to school. It's dark to show: there's gonna be some dark stuff happening in this. And so you wait, because you know it's gonna happen. It's gonna happen, right?
Any moment now.
You don't know what is going to happen, but something, dark, surely, is going to happen.
The way the world is built. You can feel it's not an everybody-lives anime. It's scientific. It has that gross coldness of saying living beings, useful farm animals, social humans, and individual "life" isn't that much of a big deal. You just know it won't pull any punches killing children or making them mysterious disappear. And it won't pull any punches doing anything worse either.
And then, episode by episode, you're shown something that makes you question just how far this rabbit hole goes, and what in the world is going to happen by the end. It's really a masterfully written and adapted anime. An experience that keeps you anxiously hooked on it. Excellent by all means.
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The anime isn't a romance, but features some couples, including homosexual ones. It is not ecchi, no fanservice, but contains some brief nudity.
It's seriously violent. It starts with a guy exploding people with red blots of blood, so you can expect some realism in how mortal injuries work in this series, as opposed to just cartoony violence. It has PG ratings in some countries because it avoids being extremely graphic, but the themes are there and they're hardcore.
From the New World.
It's Houseki no Kuni, but with a far stronger anthropological approach. The setting is also slightly similar to Ergo Proxy.
Also similar to: Madoka Magica.
25 episode conclusive adaptation of a novel.
10/10★ - Horror disguised as a child's play.
Strengths: world-building, mystery, pragmatism.
This anime is scary. It looks like fun: children, school, super-powers. But every shot has a dark tone on it that anticipates some monster jumping out and devouring everybody. It's frightening.
The environment this anime creates makes your heart forget its beat. At first glance, it's just another school anime. Except it's a school for children that can do psychokinesis. It looks weird, exotic. But ultimately it's just a bunch of children living in a different, fictional culture.
But then you notice: something... feels off.
To begin with, it begins with with a massacre. Bloody and monstrous. And the artwork lampshades it: it's dark. It's not bright as to highlight it's an anime with esper kids going to school. It's dark to show: there's gonna be some dark stuff happening in this. And so you wait, because you know it's gonna happen. It's gonna happen, right?
Any moment now.
You don't know what is going to happen, but something, dark, surely, is going to happen.
The way the world is built. You can feel it's not an everybody-lives anime. It's scientific. It has that gross coldness of saying living beings, useful farm animals, social humans, and individual "life" isn't that much of a big deal. You just know it won't pull any punches killing children or making them mysterious disappear. And it won't pull any punches doing anything worse either.
And then, episode by episode, you're shown something that makes you question just how far this rabbit hole goes, and what in the world is going to happen by the end. It's really a masterfully written and adapted anime. An experience that keeps you anxiously hooked on it. Excellent by all means.
AniDB - MyAnimeList - IMDB
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A mix of coming-of-age, suspense, super-powers, action, sci-fi, and a lot of danger and mystery.The anime isn't a romance, but features some couples, including homosexual ones. It is not ecchi, no fanservice, but contains some brief nudity.
It's seriously violent. It starts with a guy exploding people with red blots of blood, so you can expect some realism in how mortal injuries work in this series, as opposed to just cartoony violence. It has PG ratings in some countries because it avoids being extremely graphic, but the themes are there and they're hardcore.
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新世界よりFrom the New World.
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