[Anime]Shinsekai Yori (From The New World)

Revy wrote:I still remember what Saki said about Maria in one of the early episodes and have been waiting for that event to unfold ever since.

Aidoru's translation of the first chapter wrote:
I haven’t introduced myself yet.
My name is Watanabe Saki. I was born on December 10, year 210, in Kamisu Town 66.
Immediately before I was born, the bamboo groves said to flower only once in a
century, bloomed. For three months not a drop of rain fell from the skies, but summer
brought snow, and every conceivable meteorological anomaly occurred with regularity.
On the night of December 10, the world became enveloped in a pitch-black darkness,
when many witnessed a flash of lightning, lighting up a dragon covered in golden scales
swimming through the clouds…
…That was precisely what did not occur.

Year 210 was an exceedingly average year, and like all other babies born in Kamisu
Town 66 in that year, I was very average. It must have been different for my mother,
however. When she became pregnant with me, she was in her late thirties and felt that
she would not have any more children in her lifetime. In our times, this would be
considered a very late maternity.
What compounded the problem was the fact that my mother, Watanabe Mizuho,
worked as a librarian, a crucial occupation. Her decisions shaped the future of the town,
and sometimes lives were even at stake. Taking part in pre-natal training while coping
with the pressures of her job must have been a considerable hardship for her.

At the same time, my father, Sugiura Takashi, was the mayor of Kamisu Town 66. This
was probably a pretty busy job as well, but at the time, the job of a librarian carried a
far heavier burden than that of the mayor. That hasn’t changed now, of course, but the
difference probably isn’t as considerable as it was back then.

My mother went into labour in the middle of a conference on how to classify
newly-excavated documents. This was over a week earlier than was expected, but since
her waters had broken, she was immediately transferred to a maternity clinic on the
outskirts of town. It was only ten minutes later that I first saw the light of day.
However, by a stroke of bad luck, the umbilical cord had wrapped itself around my neck,
and I could not even cry. The delivery assistant was a young person for whom this was
his first job, and he almost fell into a panic, but luckily the umbilical cord was easily
removed, and I was able to take my first breath of oxygen into my lungs and produce a
healthy cry.

Two weeks later, at the same maternity clinic, another girl was born. This girl was
Akizuki Maria, and she would later become my close friend. Maria was not only
premature and breech-born, but like me, had the umbilical cord wrapped around her
neck. She was in a much more delicate state than I was, and was virtually in a coma
upon being born.

Her delivery assistant was able to deal with it in a calm manner, having had experience
with me. They say that if he was slower to remove the umbilical cord by even a small
amount, she surely would have died. When I heard this story for the first time, I felt
much joy in the fact that I had indirectly saved my friend’s life… but remembering it
now, my emotions are mixed. If Maria had not been born into this world, so many lives
would not have been lost…

TopgunUK wrote:I actually had the event she's referring to somewhat spoiled for me months ago though.

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Revy wrote:The manga is extremely provocative.
NSFW

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Goddamn...

TopgunUK wrote:Novelfag's explanation of Tomiko's youth:

Might be considered a spoiler, and It'll probably be explained in the show at some point so I'll put it in tags just in case.

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Revy wrote:The manga is extremely provocative.
NSFW

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Goddamn...

DMCMaster wrote:Well personally I dont go to manga sites all to often, also I really had to force myself to watch this (Downloaded it, just never felt like watching it)
Anyway just marathoned the first 5 episodes, and I had to stop when i realized it was 5AM

TopgunUK wrote:

DMCMaster wrote:Well personally I dont go to manga sites all to often, also I really had to force myself to watch this (Downloaded it, just never felt like watching it)
Anyway just marathoned the first 5 episodes, and I had to stop when i realized it was 5AM

I didn't mean you.

I meant Revy and Miku, since they've been watching for a while and we've mentioned the Manga here before, I figured they'd have checked it out, I think Sankaku posted pages too.

I saw some shitty raw scans back before the Animu started on /a/.

Are you liking the show so far?

TopgunUK wrote:She had huge tits even before the timeskip.

I was keeping an eye out for her to see how she'd developed.

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Destructo wrote:what the fuck

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