With license announcements expected throughout the coming week from Sentai Filmworks when it comes to new fall simulcasts and home video pickups, they’ve slid a new one out today as well. The company has announced that they’ve picked up digital rights for Shin Sekai Yori with home video release to follow in 2013, format naturally undetermined at this time. The series is based on the award winning novel by Yusuke Kishi and marks the first work directed by Masashi Ishihama. It will feature series composition by Masashi Sogo (Gantz, Fairy Tale), character designs by Chikashi Kubota (Robotics;Notes) and music by Shigeo Komori.
Plot Concept: Born into a world 1000 years in our future, Saki and her friends Satoru, Maria, Mamoru and Shun, have lived their entire lives in what seems to be a perfect utopia. Not only is their small idyllic community overflowing with clean rushing water and abundant green foliage, but almost all technology has been rendered irrelevant by the magical power of “Juryoku,” the psychic ability to materialize anything one desires. But when Saki discovers a long lost artifact from the past, the façade of their world is shattered and the cracks that split the foundation of their new reality threaten to swallow them whole! Faced with a bloody secret history of how their world really came to be and thrust into a nightmarish new paradigm, Saki and her companions are confronted with dangers they never knew existed and a series of choices that may change the fate of every intelligent creature on the planet – ‘human’ and otherwise! Yūsuke Kishi’s award winning novel becomes an epic new animated series as five young teens fight to survive the shocking revelations that come FROM THE NEW WORLD!
