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From the New World (TV).

Mutating or repairing on a cell-by-cell level is impossible for a human mind to do. Yes, we see characters do it, but that doesn't lessen the impossibility. It just means that characters are doing an impossible thing, i.e. a flaw in the show.

Mutating or repairing on a cell-by-cell level is impossible for a human mind to do. Yes, we see characters do it, but that doesn't lessen the impossibility. It just means that characters are doing an impossible thing, i.e. a flaw in the show.

The difference here is that Tomiko actually explained what her power was doing in detail while none of the other attack-type power usage in the show was really explained, so this raises the question: if the other types of Cantus usage (besides things like levitation which is more an application of force) weren't manipulating things on the molecular level, then what were they doing?

Dude I think you're kinda forgetting the obvious here.

This show takes place in an impossible setting full of people with impossible powers.

Cantus isn't part of real life, it could literally be whatever you want it to be as long as there isn't any rule assigned to it.

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This argument has always bothered me as a general statement. I think the whole "lol it's magic so it doesn't have to make sense" thing is just bogus. Something fantastical can be analytically constructed, or not. There are both both fantasy and science ficiton stories in which the speculative elements are random bullshit (for example Harry Potter) and those where it isn't (for example Ender's Game and The Chronicles of Amber). It is possible to have a 'physical fantasy' story, in which the fantastical elements work and are explained in an analytic and technical way. I personally find these to be the most rewarding, and the ones that are really BS I find quite boring.

I'm not going to go into whether I think this show is science fiction or fantasy, because for one I think that distinction isn't as big a divide as it's often considered, and second because it's a red herring anyway.

Anyways, the science in From the New World is actually very good, especially the biology aspects. It would be weird if the Power wasn't treated with the same level of rigor as everything else, and was.

They didn't just throw the word 'telomere' in there as technobabble (or biobabble in this case ). It served multiple purposes to the plot and setting (for example, it showed us that scientific knowledge of such things persisted into the future, where at first glance the society may seem to be 'back to the basics' due to their abandonment of advanced mechanical technology), and also was accurate. If telomeres could actually be repaired like that, we would probably see similar results.

Popular fantasy and science fiction works normally don't make sense. Otherwise it can be too boring for most people too watch. When you are fighting in space, you are not supposed to able hear any sound. In Star War, Gundam ... explosion sound everywhere.

Albert Einstein said we can't travel faster than speed of light. Most anime follow this rule, they use space warp instead.

Magic is too fake, you can't explain about logic anyway, unless you explain all the rules in that world at the very beginning, there are going to be alot of BS coming. Even Fate Zero doesn't make any sense when they spent like 4 eps explaining the rules. Almost all the rules are breaking at the end.

From the New World biology is BS. Combining human and rat genes. Make human unable to other humans.

They used a variety of episode directors, and A-1 has a lot of projects going on simultaneously. It's not uncommon for the best directors to be assigned the early episodes of a series, then switched off to another series just coming online. The worst example of this for me was Studio DEEN's Shion no Ou where the original artists were replaced with people who couldn't draw a nose without making the character look like Pinocchio (warning: linked graphic is spoiler).

The graphics improve down the road in Shin Sekai Yori, with the later episodes being quite well illustrated.

yuna49 wrote:

They used a variety of episode directors, and A-1 has a lot of projects going on simultaneously. It's not uncommon for the best directors to be assigned the early episodes of a series, then switched off to another series just coming online. The worst example of this for me was Studio DEEN's Shion no Ou where the original artists were replaced with people who couldn't draw a nose without making the character look like Pinocchio (warning: linked graphic is spoiler). The graphics improve down the road in Shin Sekai Yori, with the later episodes being quite well illustrated.

Well, it's really annoying and jarring to see how much of a difference in quality there is between the first few episodes to everything that came after them...

If only Production I.G or Bones would have handled this series instead...

drdr48 wrote:

yuna49 wrote: They used a variety of episode directors, and A-1 has a lot of projects going on simultaneously. It's not uncommon for the best directors to be assigned the early episodes of a series, then switched off to another series just coming online. The worst example of this for me was Studio DEEN's Shion no Ou where the original artists were replaced with people who couldn't draw a nose without making the character look like Pinocchio (warning: linked graphic is spoiler). The graphics improve down the road in Shin Sekai Yori, with the later episodes being quite well illustrated. Well, it's really annoying and jarring to see how much of a difference in quality there is between the first few episodes to everything that came after them... If only Production I.G or Bones would have handled this series instead...

I've seen both of them screw up an anime. Look over at the The Flowers of Evil thread for people bitching about IG's take on that one.

In my experience, A-1 has done an incredible job with most series. And that's evidenced by the amount of work they do have.

Also, if there was some kind of way to use their powers for birth control, don't you think they would have let them have heterosexual relationships in their teens?

The whole point of them having homosexual relationships as the norm when they are in their teens is because they don't have any kind birth control methods and the adults don't want any unexpected pregnancies, especially not at that age.

Just watched the BD of the first four episodes and MY GOD the animation quality is just amazing, almost like a feature film.

So why? Why did it had to turn to crap after that? (The animation quality, not the show, of course).