Tuesday, January 29, 2013

Shin Sekai Yori episode 16

Hello there my lovely readers. Anime posts? I shall have some today. Hopefully anyway as Blogger is looking a little off today. Maybe it is just my computer....
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Thanks for telling us that Maria. I couldn't have guessed that otherwise.
In any event here is the first of hopefully many posts today. Shin Sekai Yori episode 16 time. Spoilers for snow and gross QueerRats.
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Maria lacks at being brief...like me.
Episode Summary: Saki reads the longest goodbye letter on the face of the planet. It was more like a short story. Add in a maybe opening song and half the episode was gone with flashbacks and retelling of all the awfulness of this series. Saki and Satoru read Maria's sad letter as the past 2 years/episodes fly across the screen as well as some new memories. Saki and Maria were friends from the first day of school and on and spent all their time together with sprinkles of Satoru mixed in. Shun and Mamoru seem to be late additions to the group. But mixed in with these happy memories are the reality ones, the ones that show the kids being killed or picked off. Maria talks about how their village is so scared of kids they break them like eggs without seeing how they would be hatched. Maria determines that she might have been able to handle the village for a bit longer but Mamoru was too far gone. Maria doesn't want to leave the village but has to. She asks Saki and Satoru not to follow her and tell them to tell the elders they are dead. She also hopes that since Saki is so strong that she and Mamoru won't be forgotten. Maria is optimistic that they can make it out there on their own and wishes them love. They go back and question Squonk on what happened and where the letter was given to him. Saki gets very upset when she learns it was at the igloo and that there is very little information for them to go on. So Saki and Satoru go to Squealer and tell him that they are going to tell the elders that Maria and Mamoru died. Squealer is super excited about this idea and is eager to dig up some bones and plant them like Maria and Mamoru fell off a cliff. Saki gets upset but Squealer explains that large QueerRats have similar bone structure to humans. He then offers to let them spend the night in a way creepy way.
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Insert random Lord of the Rings music here.
Saki and Satoru do spend the night but while out looking the next day 40 year old in the future Saki talks about how the QueerRats were surely using their confusion to take advantage of them. They search for a while and Satoru tells Saki to take a break, that he will steer their vehicles. Saki falls asleep and ends up having an incredibly creepy dream about monsters eating other monsters. At the end of the dream she sees “Shun” and he apparently tells her something that makes her upset. Satoru wakes Saki up from her nightmare and they set off on foot again looking for Mamoru and Maria. They don't find them at the end of the day but Satoru tries to keep up their spirits by saying they still have an entire day left to look for them. Satoru builds them an igloo and talks about random things to try and keep Saki's mind off things. Saki wonders if they will forget Maria and Mamoru like everyone else and Satoru says he won't forget them even if he is dead. Satoru and Saki both agree that if things get worse at the village they will run away and join Maria and Mamoru. Saki says these words but ends up crying because she doesn't believe them. Satoru ends up comforting her in probably many meanings of the word. Saki thinks about their situation and how grim things look. She thinks about how “Shun's” advice to Saki was not to go after Maria and Mamoru because she needs to die. THE END!!!!
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How much of a head start did Maria get if the letter is 4839483 pages long?
This series....just so much happiness. So much light. I mean I watch horror shows with no problem but there is something different about this show. It is hard to put my finger on why it is different watching horrible things happen in this show while I am generally okay with sci-fi/horror movies.
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How can this village be evil? Look at these happy faces!
Maybe because it because this show, this village looks sparkly and happy. Why just look at the past with Maria and Saki. Playing with their moms, everything looking safe and kid friendly, and generally a sense of peace. Like wow wouldn't it be nice to raise a family here? But then it is revealed that everything is a lie, all the adults know it is a lie, and still people keep having kids and continuing to allow them to be killed. Maybe is the creepy part, that everyone is okay with this death cycle and keep on smiling?
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The starting scene of Toyko being attacked. Probably never gets old.
Like I said earlier this was half recap episode/half new material. Again I wasn't TOO disappointed in the recap because of the manner in which it was done. I did think that Maria wrote a novel and it went on for a bit too long but what can you do? It was like they were making this entire episode a filler episode anyway. But with the recycled scenes were the new ones that really hammered home how Saki and Maria were really the core of this group. But thanks for the recap, I almost forgot about how awful this series can at times.
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Smashing all those little eggs.
Some of the issues in the recap were a bit....well worth mentioning. Like how ironic it was that Maria was talking about how things are wrong with the village. Maria doesn't know that Saki knows more of the truth than her so for Maria to talk about the dark side of the village was just...ironic. If that is the right use of the word. I do love Maria's analogy about how the kids are getting taken out. Like cracking the eggs because of things they fear in the future, not because of any truth they have now.
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And then they beat him up.
Clearly Squealer will end up bring the downfall of someone in this series. Or the kids will kill him. Because he is the shadiest person/creature thing. He keeps saying things like I am unworthy of your presence and stay here in the shit hole tonight even though you gods deserve better and of course I will help you out. But you know he is either working with the adults and is an uncover agent or he is plotting to overthrow all the humans. He is just that shady.
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You probably should be scared of the QueerRats too.
Of course Saki and Satoru aren't helping matters any with their attitude. I am sure that is because they have been raised to treat the QueerRats as beneath them but flies and honey folks. Flies and honey. I mean you can be like me and run after the flies and scream at them and accuse them all the time of being shady. Or you can smile and eat up the compliments and wait to hear the explanation on the bones and thank them. Just in your little broken heart know the truth and realize he is the enemy while keeping your inner thoughts.....inner. Be the Katniss.
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I don't see Shun there do you?
I love how Satoru is really protecting Saki. Again why did she pick Shun? We didn't even see him in any of those flashbacks. At least we saw a bit of Satoru. But yes Satoru is going through just as many things as Saki. Maybe more because he doesn't know the truth? I only say that because at least Saki understands what could happen and why things are happening while Satoru just knows....its bad. But still he takes the time to try to cheer Saki up and take her mind off things. Even to go as far as make up small talk and....well maybe have the “sex stress”.
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Shun is the least dead person ever.
Saki's dream was messed up. At least it was not as crazy as her Fail-Eevee induced nightmare and the death of Shun horror house. We get it everything is horrible. But the important part of the dream was “Shun” talking to Saki. I am a bit tired of the oh they are saying something but we can't hear what it is until the end of the episode. This show has enough with the mystery without having to guess what people are saying or waiting to hear what is said. But how does dead Shun know anything about Maria?
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Um....they have been doing a pretty good job of that so far...
Another episode was spent looking for Maria and Mamoru yet they were not found. Adult Saki chimed in here and there to remind us that she is certainly going to survive this all but everyone is a suspect!!! I mean expendable. I usually don't get upset while watching this show but seeing Saki trying to keep it together but failing because she knows the truth was hard to watch. It is not like Satoru and Saki are looking for an injured person. They are looking for people who are moving around and potentially hiding from them. At this point they really can't find Mamoru and Maria and they know it. But Saki knows that their lives outside the village will be short. I doubt Maria and Mamoru would really spend the rest of their lives in the wilderness. Eventually they were going to come across other humans and that would mean death for them both.
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And then there was two.
The sneak peak for next week shows that Saki and Satoru do not find Maria and Mamoru. Fast Forward to age 24 (or was it 26?). yeah that is a big leap in numbers. Me thinks it was 26. Either way Saki and Satoru aren't going to find Maria and Mamoru. Does that mean they are out there in the woods, making little unsanctioned babies that aren't under the watch of the egg smashing village? Perhaps that is what everyone means by Maria needs to die. If these time skips keep happening perhaps the series will end at 40 year old Saki looking at the destruction that Maria's teenage kid created. Of course that wouldn't be fair as it would be partially Mamoru's fault. Why all this Maria hate? Either way it is really going to be lonely for Saki. And then there were two. At least......Saki and Satoru won't be in danger anymore right? Congrads Satoru you live!!!!!

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