Shin Sekai yori

Description

From Kodansha:
Saki and her schoolmates enjoy what they consider normal lives in a peaceful provincial setting. Only their village cannot be of this era. Its customs differ from those of any known in modern-day Japan. The landscape while familiar is also much more constrained than what modern-day maps may exhibit. So when 6 friends embark on a journey of mental and physical training, this fateful journey will lead them to a series of mind-shattering truths for these characters and for us as readers.

**English Translations: **INKR Comics

Type

Manga

Related Series

Shin Sekai yori (Novel) (Adapted From)

Associated Names

From the New World

Shinsekai Yori

新世界より

Groups Scanlating

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New World Project

Latest Release(s)

v.7 c.24-27 (end) by display: none; 10 years ago

v.6 c.20-23 by display: none; 11 years ago

v.5 c.16-19 by display: none; 11 years ago

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Status in Country of Origin

7 Volumes (Complete)

Completely Scanlated?

Yes

Anime Start/End Chapter

Starts at Vol 1, Chap 1 (Different Settings)

Ends at Vol 7, Chap 27

User Reviews

N/A

Forum

1 topics, 1 posts

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User Rating

Average: 7 / 10.0 (180 votes)

Bayesian Average: 6.9 / 10.0

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Last Updated

March 16th, 2024 6:09am PDT - 1 year ago

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Genre

Adult Adventure Drama Mystery Romance Sci-fi Shounen Supernatural Yuri
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Author(s)

KISHI Yuusuke

Artist(s)

OIKAWA Tooru

Year

2012

Original Publisher

Kodansha

Serialized In (magazine)

Bessatsu Shounen Magazine (Kodansha)

Licensed (in English)

Yes

English Publisher

INKR

Kodansha USA (7 Volumes - Complete)

Vertical (7 Volumes - Complete)

Activity Stats (vs. other series)

Weekly Pos #695

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Monthly Pos #1918 (No change)

3 Month Pos #3306

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6 Month Pos #4465

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Year Pos #5603

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List Stats

On 715 reading lists

On 547 wish lists

On 441 completed lists

On 39 unfinished lists

On 243 custom lists

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From the New World Manga to End in 2 More Chapters

11 years ago

User Comments [ Order by time added ]

Worthwhile retelling

by Dr. Love
10 years ago

Rating: N/A

As someone who watched the anime first this was a decent read. If you're expecting this to be 1:1 with the anime then you couldn't be more wrong. The main story beats are all present but the story flows differently, some characters get fleshed out more than in the anime and there are even some new characters who weren't included in the anime. There are things the manga did a better job on and there are things the anime did a better job on.

Do keep in mind that this version has a lot of (yuri) fanservice, which I don't mind, but sometimes it comes off as incredibly forced.

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Interesting worldbuilding and mystery letdown by a complete failure to follow-through and forced fanservice

by tigerstar186
4 months ago

Rating: 3.0 / 10.0

At its core, Shin Sekai Yori is about exploring the world group one lives in and realizing how it's fucked up in just about every way imaginable.

There's a really satisfying way to follow through on that: have your characters, now aware of the truth and with greater power in the world, work to change that.

...and then that just doesn't happen. There's a timeskip and they just become cogs in the machine, perpetuating all the horrible practices of the village and never really make strides to change it even when they are put in the perfect positions to do so. The MC is literally the trained successor to the former village leader and a war hero, but doesn't even try to suggest that maybe repeatedly killing children to death and forcibly keeping their former enemy alive as nothing but a brain put through constant pain but not allowed to die might be just a teensy bit wrong.

The fanservice is utterly atrocious too. There's a flimsy in-universe explanation that humans could avoid their current predicament if they created a society based on love like that of bonobos -- but all we ever see is the female characters getting stark naked and having gratuitous and extended sex scenes over and over. There'll literally be pages of exposition where the images in panel are just numerous images of sex rather than things relating to said exposition.

It's so bad that even after the timeskip and all her female friends being dead, the mc decides to perpetuate it by forcing her 26-year-old self onto a teenager who didn't ask for it.

... Last updated 4 months ago

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Why the hell did they turn this into an Ecchi story?

by Suzushiro
12 years ago

Rating: 8.0 / 10.0

As much as I hate to admit, I am actually kind of enjoying this alternate version of Shinseki Yori because of the addition of the H and Yuri element. Does anybody else find the manga more fun to read than the novel or the anime?

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One of the worst shit i've ever read

by DefaultPeanut
1 week ago

Rating: 1.0 / 10.0

By far the worst adaptation of the novel, just watch the anime, it's way better than this version.

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Shinsekai Yuri, more like

by ferian
12 years ago

Rating: N/A

The anime and the novel have far superior storytelling. Here, the story is a jambled mess. Build up, which made the anime so suspenseful, is almost absent here. This manga would benefit greatly from a much slower, measured pacing.

Cutting the yaoi parts was unnecessary (especially considering the unwelcome changes to the story that this caused), in my opinion, but the yuri gets my full approval.

edit: Dat final solution...

Just keep pleasuring her until she believes she's human... No matter how silly the notion of it working is, it's hilarious enough for me to excuse any attached plot hole.

... Last updated 12 years ago

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The art!!!

by Dright
12 years ago

Rating: 10.0 / 10.0

The art is mind-bendingly good! So good it doesn't even make sense!

I feel like it's even better than to-love-ru, and from me that's saying something. And to top it off the setting seems good and the plot is easy to understand! A sure ten from me.

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Amazing Plot

by emkat
12 years ago

Rating: N/A

The plotline is great, and its scope is very ambitious. It's interesting how they added so many ecchi elements to a relatively dark storyline. The art is one of the best I've seen in a manga and it has very fast paced and enjoyable action.

What I'm curious is if they remember what happened to Reiko and are just ignoring the reality. If that's the case it's really dark and strange and I wonder what will happen to the other characters.

... Last updated 12 years ago

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What the?!!

by rennov
10 years ago

Rating: N/A

Honestly, that was my first reaction when I saw the yaoi/yuri scene at the series. Well, not that I mind the Yuri... but, really... is that even necessary for this kind of thriller-tense-wannabe series?

Take that aside, overall, my review more or less have the same tone with mr/miss residentgrigo. The plot is somehow messed up (one time about school life, another time about 'odd' romance, another time about war of certain clan), the twist is not that awesome, and the thriller tension of certain arc... is fail I guess.

Thankfully, The art is great (u should look at the anime if u don't believe it).

Well, I haven't finished the series, but seeing how 'boring' the plot is... I hope I can convince myself to watch/read it again. But, given how great the anime/novel rating, I guess it's just me having a different preference of story

... Last updated 10 years ago

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There's never enough!

by pandasamurai
11 years ago

Rating: 10.0 / 10.0

Shin Sekai Yori has been my favorite story, and I am excited to see that it's being made into a formidable manga; the level of Oikawa's art is astonishing. The story doesn't cut too many corners so the story is still very cohesive and the emotion riding the plot is as glorious as ever.

I am still angry at the paranoid, murdering schoolteachers, utterly disgusted by the Queerats (like the way they look and how they get treated by humans) and I'm raining tears when Saki learns of Maria's death. I hope that the author decides to revisit Saki's world in a sequel. By the way, Risa Taneda who voiced Saki got more than 20 new roles for various anime because she did so well in Shin Sekai Yori. Ah, I could die a little more peacefully if I had her voice from Wareta Ringo playing nearby as I did. The Yuri elements might not be everyone's cup of tea, (I can hear my friend Kassidy yelling, "Where's the Yaoi?!") but it's mine for certain.

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Good art, but a bit too depressing

by Laclongquan
11 years ago

Rating: 9.0 / 10.0

Post apocalypse world, what can go wrong?

Well, the theme, apparently. since it's too depressing, and the characters get killed right and left, and not enough sex scenes to take our minds of that... I must say that it's not to everyone taste.

Good shit, but it's an acquired taste.

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