Relationship between the Shin Sekai Yori manga and anime?


I have seen the anime series and I just discovered that there is a manga.

It seems to be publishing at this moment, and I could not determine where the
manga fits in.

WIthout spoiling the actual manga story, can someone elaborate if this is a
different story or not?




SeventhStyle's review (quoted in [Dimitri mx's
answer](https://anime.stackexchange.com/a/6363/1908)) touches on the major
issue with the _Shinsekai Yori_ manga. The manga has brazenly explicit
visuals, unsurprisingly almost entirely of Maria and Saki3 engaging in lesbian
antics.1 Sure, (homo)sexuality was a major theme of the novel, but the manga
really is just in bad taste, going out of its way to have Maria and Saki
fornicate whenever they get a free moment. It's pretty clear that the manga
isn't targeted at the same mature demographic as the novel was.2

In any case, the plot of the manga isn't identical to the novel plot, though
it is similar. For example, just from volume 1 of the manga, we have the
following major differences:

> When the gang is on the excursion trip at the beginning, they don't find the
> false minoshiro; when the queerats attack later on, Rijin isn't there to
> help them; and they don't get split up or taken captive during the queerat
> attack, and hence all five of them are present when they meet Squealer.
> Also, there are 3 random sex scenes featuring Maria and Saki.

Summary: if you like lesbian antics, read the manga. If not, feel free to skip
it. The novel and anime are pretty much objectively superior.

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# Notes

1 Why them and not, say, Satoru and Shun, or Shun and Saki? Well, who do you
think is reading this? (Answer: teenage boys, for the most part)

2 The _Shinsekai Yori_ novel was a proper novel, targeted at people with
excellent reading knowledge of the Japanese language. The manga, on the other
hand, is replete with furigana (phonetic reading aids), which are used
primarily in works targeted at people who have not yet mastered reading
Japanese, i.e. school-age children.

3 See spoiler below:

> And also Reiko when she's still around.




As reviewed [here](http://seventhstyle.com/2012/10/05/shinsekai-yori-manga-
mocks-the-anime/), the manga seems to be a "Mockery of the anime". The manga
loses to the serious atmosphere presented in the anime and the novel.

> Whilst the anime series is handling it with a proper heavy mood, the yuri
> inclined manga is making a joke of it – Shinsekai Yori is portraying the
> disappearance of one of its side-characters as a whimsical gag.
>
> For those unfamiliar with this series’ origin, Shinsekai Yori begins as a
> standard novel – the novel is a respected work, with quite a thought-
> provoking premise and tale. Based on the novel, Japan’s largest publishing
> firm, Kodansha, decided to create an exploitive pocket stuffer of a manga
> under the same name, which simply features excess and brazen yuri antics.
> It’s essentially a mockery of the original novel, and the anime is,
> thankfully, based on that novel – not the manga series, which as one can see
> below, isn’t even taking itself too seriously.

