

Did the Shinsekai Yori anime cover all of the material in the light novel?

Is there more content past episode 25, and would there be more content to
continue the series?


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Did the Shinsekai Yori anime cover all of the material in the light novel?


There's no content "past episode 25", per se - the novel1 ends just where the
anime does, with Saki putting Squealer out of his misery, and finishing with a
mention of the sign in the academy that reads 「想像力こそが、すべてを変える」 ("Imagination
can change everything"). As such, there isn't any content on which one could
base a sequel.

However, it isn't quite the case that the anime covered all the material in
the novel - clocking in at around 950 pages of dense prose2, the novel
contained many bits and pieces that didn't make it into the anime.

Some of this is probably because of restrictions on the kinds of content that
can be shown on TV - e.g. somewhere around what would be episode 8, Saki
witnesses Satoru and Shun having sex, and this is described in the novel in
great detail (though not in a salacious way).

Most omissions, though, were probably just because of constraints on the
amount of time available to the anime - _Shinsekai Yori_ is an incredibly
detail-rich story, and translating all that detail to the screen would require
far more than just 25 episodes of anime. Remember how we got nearly a full
episode of infodump from the false minoshiro in episode 4? That's the cut-
down-for-TV version of that scene. In the novel, the false minoshiro speaks
for around twice as long.

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1 Do note that _Shinsekai Yori_ is an actual novel, not a light novel.

2 In the one-volume edition, anyway.


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First of all, the novel version of "From the new world" is not a light novel.
I think it's a hard SF novel, instead of a light novel.

Yes, the 25 episodes of the anime covered the whole novel.

But there is a new series "New world zero year" that is running in a novel
magazine. It has not been turned into a book yet. This series talks about the
story before "From the new world".


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