{"id":8338,"date":"2012-10-06T16:51:17","date_gmt":"2012-10-06T21:51:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/wp\/?p=8338"},"modified":"2020-08-31T13:13:06","modified_gmt":"2020-08-31T18:13:06","slug":"you-dont-have-to-worry-about-a-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/you-dont-have-to-worry-about-a-thing\/","title":{"rendered":"You don&#8217;t have to worry about a thing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/shin06.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" class=\"aligncenter\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A thousand years from now, technology has advanced little, if at all, if what we see in the first episode of <i><b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.crunchyroll.com\/shin-sekai-yori-from-the-new-world\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Shin Sekai Yori<\/a><\/b><\/i> is representative. Not all technology, though \u2014 genetic manipulation has produced some remarkable results in farming and perhaps elsewhere. Many people, maybe everyone in the rural community where protagonist Saki lives, are capable of some degree of telekinesis. The appearance of this power in a youngster is heralded by the appearance of a &#8220;blessing spirit&#8221; and is the occasion for a quasi-Buddhist ceremony, but it is strongly hinted that there have been generations of selection and breeding involved. And culling.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s also Dvorak every evening at twilight.<\/p>\n<p>The first episode suggests that <i><b>Shin Sekai Yori<\/b><\/i> could be a complex, uncanny story like <i><b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.funimation.com\/serial-experiments-lain\/episodes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Serial Experiments Lain<\/a><\/b><\/i> was and <i><b>Ghost Hound<\/b><\/i> tried to be. However, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/encyclopedia\/anime.php?id=14089\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the summary at ANN<\/a> indicates that it will go in a different direction:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In the future Japan has become a fractured country, and small towns now exist. The rulers of this world have the cursed power of Telekinesis. When an incident occurs, 5 children come to realize the world is not as it seems, and learn the bloody history behind this world. These 5 children unite and help the world as it falls into a downward spiral of chaos.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>More spectacular and less interesting that I would have hoped. I&#8217;ll continue watching it, anyway. It may still be the best show of the fall season.<\/p>\n<p>Screen captures are below the fold.<\/p>\n<p>The first episode of <i><b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hulu.com\/k\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">K<\/a><\/b><\/i> is worth watching for sheer gorgeous spectacle. One episode will probably be sufficient. The characters are largely violent bishies (there&#8217;s also a creepy little EGL), and I have no interest in any of them. But the animation sure is pretty.<\/p>\n<p>I also watched the brand new <i><b>Hayate no Gotoku<\/b><\/i> for a while, but bailed out half-way through. It was just dumb.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/shin01.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" class=\"aligncenter\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/shin02.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" class=\"aligncenter\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/shin03.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" class=\"aligncenter\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/shin04.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" class=\"aligncenter\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/shin07.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" class=\"aligncenter\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/shin09.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" class=\"aligncenter\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/shin10.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" class=\"aligncenter\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/shin11.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" class=\"aligncenter\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/shin12.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" class=\"aligncenter\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/shin13.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" class=\"aligncenter\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/shin14.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" class=\"aligncenter\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/shin15.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" class=\"aligncenter\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/shin16-600x338.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" class=\"aligncenter\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/shin17.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" class=\"aligncenter\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/shin18.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" class=\"aligncenter\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/shin19.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" class=\"aligncenter\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A thousand years from now, technology has advanced little, if at all, if what we see in the first episode of Shin Sekai Yori is representative. Not all technology, though \u2014 genetic manipulation has produced some remarkable results in farming and perhaps elsewhere. Many people, maybe everyone in the rural community where protagonist Saki lives, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/you-dont-have-to-worry-about-a-thing\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;You don&#8217;t have to worry about a thing&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,9],"tags":[508],"class_list":["post-8338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anime","category-current-viewing","tag-shin-sekai-yori"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xam3-2au","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8338"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97989,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8338\/revisions\/97989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}