Shin Sekai Yori episode 12: Unleash the truth!

Hello there my lovely readers! I have been busy as usual. XD So much to do, so little time, poor time management, ect ect. I am a broken record at this point. Of course I can always catch up on anime as everything is ending before the start of the Winter Season. GO ME! Eventually I will catch up because they will stop airing episodes of what I am watching. Of course....new stuff will start up then. Maybe I should see what is going to air soon. More things to add to my list!

And then there were people splats.

Well....anyway here is one episode yes? GO ME! One episode at a time. Up now is Shin Sekai Yori episode 12. Spoilers for the truth on a silver platter.

Well that was a little stalkerish.

Episode Summary: Saki is taken to see Satoru's grandmother Tomiko. She greets Saki warmly and says that she has waited a long time to meet her. Saki is surprised she knows her and thinks it is because of her connection with Satoru. Tomiko is like oh no I am interested in you taking my place as head of the Ethics Committee. Saki can't comprehend how that can be since her powers/grades aren't that great. Granny explains that school does not just test their powers, it tests their mental stability and that given all Saki has gone through she is still at the top of the class in that department. Saki is like...what do you mean all that I have gone through? Why you know when you saw the Fail Eevee and learned about our horrible past and we sent QueerRats to kill you? Turns out the adults knew all along what happened (shocking) and when the kids came back they were interrogated. Saki was the one who adapted the fast to this knowledge and had the least amount of side affects despite always wanting to learn more. Thus Granny wants Saki to take over for her one day, even as going as far to make the Board of Education spare Saki (and I guess the other kids). Granny talks about how the Board is full of paranoia people who have never even seen a Fiend. Saki asks if Granny has seen one and she states that she has. She tells the story of an average boy with average problems who was flagged as having problems. But back then there weren't as extensive fail safes as there are no so his small problems went unnoticed. One day the boy snapped and killed 1,000 people in his town. Working as a nurse in the hospital at the time Granny saw the boy as he made his way to the hospital. He was out of it and asked the doctor to help him with his cold. The doctor killed him with a lethal dose of some medicine but not before he was killed himself. Chemicals in the brain might have been the problem but new measures were taken to make sure this wouldn't happen again. People were only considered humans with rights at the age of 17. Any year prior the Board of Education could take them out with the mutant cats or the QueerRats.

Librarian indeed.

Saki decides she wants to hear more horribleness so Granny tells a story similar to what happened to Shun. That an innocent girl has her powers leaking from her body and it killed all of those around her. She was eventually locked up and given deadly pills to take. Due to all the education she has received she remembered the story of the kid throwing themselves in a lake rather than become a karama demon and she took the pills. Granny sounds rather sad about this story as the girl was so sweet. Granny tells Saki that things need to be done and one day Saki will be able to take on that responsibility. Saki demands to have her memories back and while Granny explains that Saki can handle the truth no one would be able to and they need to keep them sealed. Granny says that if Saki accepts the job she can remember the boy again. The kids all go home for the day but drama happens later on. Maria makes a joke to Mamoru about his poor grades and he decides to run away and leave a dramatic note. Maria wants to go look now but Saki points out they need Satoru and can't all be absent from school. So they all go to school and wait for their free period. Ryou is like um where are you all going since you are my friends and Satoru tells some lame story about how they are all going to study snowflakes and Ryou has been assigned to sketch snow in the back of the school. Ryou and the missing part of his brain believe the story and runs off. The other three kids then leave to go look for Mamoru. THE END!

So don't kill me!

X______X Did all of that really just happen? Did I witness crazy? Am I still watching crazy? Is there a reason why Saki is partaking in this insanity instead of setting everything on fire? Just what the hell?

How old are you?!

First off Granny Tomiko is looking good for being a Granny. Now I guess it is possible with this new knowledge people are free to marry at 17 and start procreating at that time. Granny could be in her early 50's under that thinking. But she was still looking good. I was expecting a more....well kimono wearing, tea serving older lady who has a hunch and what not. This has nothing to do with anything, just...it was easier to see Saki in Tomiko or the potential when they looked similar.

Sure let me get right on that.

So second...I was really not expecting that to go down. I thought Saki, Satoru, and Maria were all doomed. Just that maybe the head honchos were unaware of one aspect of their crimes and needed to know about it before chopping off their heads. I am sure the kids thought that too. Like oh snap we were looking into “Shun's” disappearance and now we are going to disappear next. That is what they were thinking and that is what I was thinking.

Say what?! X___X

But Granny Tomiko is like um hi please take my place as head secret keeper. Have some tea. I was like....is Saki being punked? I know the old civilization has passed but maybe there are hidden cameras folks! You never know. At this point though Saki should just pass out or die from mental craziness. Like a roller coaster of awful. Just kill me and get it over with because obviously you are all just messing with me.

So you is crazy. Just your crazy can be explained.

Hold on though folks! Granny Tomiko is like look Tenchi has been bringing up some good points and I need to explain why Saki is the way she is. Because I think I have mentioned a few times how emotionless and unfeeling Saki has been. Like um you learned all this crazy and now you are going to back to school like nothing has ever happened? True a lot of these bad things happened to all the kids but Mamoru was breaking down all the time and Maria seemed to deal by forgetting everything and playing with Saki's boobies. Satoru seems to be just as equal with Saki in terms of being okay with things but for some reason Saki is special. Well thank goodness Saki's.....ability to keep on going in the face of insanity has been explained. Maybe the fact that Saki showed a desire to live in the face of “Shun” exploding all over the place put her above Satoru.

Well given that you kill half the students that might not be such a great accomplishment.

Saki should have said HELL NO! I do not want this job. Eff you and you tea. Where is my friend? Where are all my other classmates? Give me back my sister and my memories! Eff you for sending QueerRats to kill us. Or that is what I would do because my mental stability isn't as high as Saki's. Or I am normal. NORMAL folks. Saki is an insane person who finds out horrible things and manages to keep it together because she turns into TELL ME MORE or I WILL FIND OUT energy.

And you're hired!

And I think that gave Saki even greater points with Granny Tomiko. Saki didn't start wailing on the ground upon hearing more awful news. She didn't put her fingers in her ears and start singing lalala. She is like tell me how this kid died, what happened to this girl, ect. So for someone who is insisting they are not good for the position of Ethic Committee Head Saki is doing a great job of showing she is great for the job.

Oh that wild adventure...it was...special.

Granny Tomiko really didn't hold anything back with Saki. She explained how everyone is always on edge and perhaps rash decisions have been made before. That most of the Board of Education hasn't even seen Fiend. I think I get confused on things as people have jobs in the “library”, “Board of Education”, and “Ethic Committee”. Like those terms mean different things in the here and now but clearly library does not really mean library. It probably means feeding the mutant cats or something. So I probably need to cast that aside and focus on the fact that all the adults are insane.

22 weeks, 17 years....almost the same.

Granny Tomiko explained why the adults are as harsh as they are and why kids aren't considered real people with rights until the age of 17. I guess by 17 if you haven't gone insane yet you aren't going to and you are free to live! Maybe they tell all the kids pieces of the crap that Saki knows now and the ones who live get to go on to the birthday party and the rest are not going to eat cake. I guess if you think about it 1,000 dead people verses 1 maybe out of control kid isn't that bad. Madoka math right? But some kids are flagged because they have weak powers or are cheaters? Yeah maybe this net is way too wide.

So in case you needed the cliffnote version of who is in danger that would be weak students, good students, and fair students. Everyone woohoo!

The case of the Fiend was a bit frightful. It appears he had an average life, had average powers, and had average problems. But then we look at Mamoru and maybe things become a little more clear. Someone can't even tell a bad joke without Mamoru crying. As much as you want Mamoru to man up maybe he can't. There is something inside that person that just can't handle things. Like some people can just drive by a dead animal and not given it a second thought. I wince and tried to avoid causing any more damage and think about it for quite a while after the incident, like what if that had been my cat. :(

Okay maybe the whole thing was traumatizing.

I think the most disturbing part of the whole massacre was the fact that in the end he killed himself on accident? Perhaps it was the chemicals in his head or maybe he lost his mind but he went to the doctor to get help? Just so sad indeed. This seems like a true case of mental illness in this new age. Well mental and physical. They are born with these powers and sometimes they just go out of control. Very sad indeed. Usually one wants someone to blame with these tragedies but who can be blamed for this?

HMMM each time they change how things work they change clothes?

Another thing to note in this story that Granny Tomiko told about the days of her being a traumatized nurse is what people were wearing/the society in general. It seems with each new tragedy they change how everything works and looks. In the story there were tall looking buildings being used as school. Almost like a school in Japan now. The outfits they were wearing were not the ones they are wearing now. Like oppies this didn't work out lets go further back in time and try this new lifestyle. Village for all and....special hats. Boats are the main way to get around. Oh and monkey sex too. So when Granny Tomiko is telling the story about her past you can see how quickly this society changes or tries new things out and how despite it all things still fail.

Why is this happening to me?!

The tale of the girl who suffered the same fate as Shun was equally as sad. Probably worse than Fiends. Both afflicts can happen to anyone but with Fiends maybe the person could be saved if given enough times. With this Fox in the Henhouse disorder nothing can be done. You can be Maria and lalala your way through life and BAM you are told that you are leaking energy all over the place. Wouldn't that be horrible? You have a super power you didn't ask for and you go to school to learn how to control it. You do all that is asked of you and still you being alive causes other people pain. You kill off your family and mutant the landscape and surrounding living beings. But since you have had such training in school the obvious choice is to kill yourself. This school does a great job of brainwashing people. Good job.

Everything is horrible. The end.

Maybe the reason why Saki didn't set Granny Tomiko on fire was....well because she really can't due to her school. But maybe because Tomiko SEEMED upset by all of this. That this was all a burden to know and partake in but without all these horrible fail safes things would be more much terrible. Instead of a 15 car pile up the adults quickly sweep the crashed car...off a cliff. Repairing the car might work in the short term but why risk it not working out? Best to just total that car and erase everyone's mind of the whole incident. Perhaps since Saki was given the whole truth and treated like an adult she was able to take in all this information and see it for what it is. Now me....I am running away. Where is Mamoru I am joining him!!!!

This is your entire life!

In the end I can't even imagine what Granny Tomiko talked to Satoru and Maria about. They were scared out of their minds too. But Granny Tomiko doesn't want either of those two taking her place. She wants Saki. Saki could handle learning the truth about Shun but not her friends. So what did she talk to those two about? Just strike the fear into them? I don't know. X___X I don't think we will ever know.

Dear lord Mamoru. You take this weakest link thing all the way to the bank.

And why is that? Because Mamoru is crying again. What the hell folks? Saki promised to leave him out of this mess and Satoru watches Saki seal this promise with a kiss (on Maria). He didn't attend the scared alive session. Maria made a JOKE! I mean...if they know that someone, a friend of theirs, is dead and their memories erased....he could be next. But he knows the least about anything and loses his mind the most. Oh lord boy. This fragile creator needs a hug. Why hasn't the system flagged him yet?

Ryou is living a stolen life and no one cares about him. :(

Ryou is so sad guys. Just so sad. He has had all his memories erased and is apart of a team that knows it is wrong to have him and he knows it is wrong too. Yet he is trying to belong and just got rejected by Saki and now...now folks. He is basically going to count ceiling tiles or watch paint dry. How the hell did Satoru convince him snowflake studies were the key to getting a good mark in independent studies? HELLO WHY ARE THEIR INDEPENDENT STUDIES?! Lock up the kids. But yeah...Satoru thinks fast on his feet and Ryou is just a sad case.

Please take my place in this horrible situation. I think you are worthy.

So in conclusion Saki knows a whole lotta crap that is going down in this village of hers, was set to be killed but spared because HEY they want to give her the job as head secret keeper, and Mamoru is proving Granny Tomiko's point that these rules are in place to protect the weakest link. So clearly folks the comment Saki made forever ago about Maria causing so much destruction is making sense. CLEARLY!