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REVIEW: From the New World GN 7




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whiskeyii



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PostPosted: Sun Mar 22, 2015 12:04 pm Reply with quote
It's interesting for me to compare the ending of this to the ending of the anime. The anime seems to end with the sense of very gradual, almost glacial change as Satoru (I think?) is last seen spoiler[raising new Cats], implying that while neither he nor Saki want that to be a permanent solution to karmic demons and fiends, they're still needed to maintain some kind of order til a better solution is found.

On the other hand, the manga has the General who pretty much out-and-out says spoiler["We shouldn't use Cats anymore!"] and gets the crowd to rally behind him, which seems like a much more revolutionary step forward.

I'd be really interested to know which of these elements (or even both, that'd be a twist!) are in the original ending.
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kpk



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PostPosted: Sun Mar 22, 2015 1:29 pm Reply with quote
whiskeyii wrote:
It's interesting for me to compare the ending of this to the ending of the anime. The anime seems to end with the sense of very gradual, almost glacial change as Satoru (I think?) is last seen spoiler[raising new Cats], implying that while neither he nor Saki want that to be a permanent solution to karmic demons and fiends, they're still needed to maintain some kind of order til a better solution is found.

On the other hand, the manga has the General who pretty much out-and-out says spoiler["We shouldn't use Cats anymore!"] and gets the crowd to rally behind him, which seems like a much more revolutionary step forward.

I'd be really interested to know which of these elements (or even both, that'd be a twist!) are in the original ending.


The one from the anime.

The manga's ending is original and too hopeful if you'll ask me.
The solution they gave there was just too simplastic IMO. It just didn't make sense.
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maximilianjenus



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PostPosted: Sun Mar 22, 2015 7:25 pm Reply with quote
I actually was expecting that spoiler[saki was the fiend, the secret to the "fiend" was not only that he was imprinted to not be human, but that there were more of them, thus putting saki in a forceful situation in which she had to kill one thus revealing she as the fiend]
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residentgrigo



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PostPosted: Mon Mar 23, 2015 11:23 am Reply with quote
I forgot this was a thing but seeing it listed inspired me to write a second review (and update my MU one) to pass time at work. My first review over @ amazon´s listing of the first volume is called "They wrote themselves into a corner" so read it first for this to make more sense. Have fun:

So this corpse crawled over the finishing line but the book still hasn´t left japan? Well that makes sense as one won an award and the other is creepy shonen p0rn and my first review (based on vol.1-3) even got a conversation going. Well this mind boggling spin-off is one on the most critically derailed adaptations in recent memory so i am glad that my assessment wasn´t too harsh. If you want to see real slaughters then look at amazon.jp´s listing for the Shin Sekai Yuri manga as i at least tried to be fair last time. I flipped through the rest (as fast as i could) to get it out of my life and the series even managed to worsen as it went along. Reasons are NTR elements in the final arc, horrendous continuity between scenes, loli sexual coercion that leads to a scene of breastfeeding (that entire scene was just characters destroying and reminded me of the surprisingly comparable Cross Ange) and how our lead remembered her dead lover (more like sex toy) in the form of a flashback to an orgy. Isn´t first love sweet? All the male characters are still as flat as toast and only show up to fill some quota or something and the art (he should do porn instead) is utterly unfitting. The last volume even closes on a nopan shot of the lead back in her 14 year old body so at least it stayed consistent. Sigh. Let´s just say that the manga wasn´t PLOT focus. Then i still would have disliked it due to the incomprehensible nature of the narrative and i am familiar with the source material! I wonder if i would have understood this tale´s intent better if i was a fresh reader but that shouldn´t matter as i still would have shook my head as the entire story just went on random tangents between time jump with new characters introduced to be senselessly slaughter next while executing any form of structural coherence on top. This may be the worst manga adaptation of recommendable source material in years and it can stand in line with Witchblade (stick to the comic only here) or the one for Rahxephon manga (at least it wasn´t a p0rn doujinshi). I am glad that this travesty got the internet beating it deserved and it still boggles my mind how this was published alongside Titan for 2 years. The master of publication disaster Champion Red would have made more sense and i wouldn´t have touched it then. Well i wanted to burn myself after hearing the online uproar around it and that i did. Well done me? Watch the decent anime, wait for a fan translation of the book or stick to the dystopian manga like the Seinen Eden - It's an Endless World!, the Josei Husk Eden or go for the ultimate classic of classics and read Aldous Huxley´s Brave New World. All of them are very dark and sexual charged but none were written for 13 year old´s in mind and can back up their content and then some. You know just like a certain Miura manga. The really dark one that won a Tezuka despite the baby slaughter, the sex orgys and... Read all of them and leave such childish trash as Oikawa tried to sell here at the roadside. How the hell did the original author allow any of this to be done to his original characters is my closing though.


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Pietato



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PostPosted: Wed Mar 25, 2015 12:26 am Reply with quote
Anime was too full of plotholes and poor choices for my liking.
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