r/anime • u/[deleted] • Mar 09 '13

[Spoilers] Shinsekai Yori Episode 23 Discussion

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u/[deleted] Mar 09 '13

Wait, I'm confused. I'm pretty sure Saki loved Shun but why did she have sex with satouru then?

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u/StormVanguard Mar 09 '13

Because their society has a completely different attitude towards sex than ours. And because they have a genetic predisposition towards engaging in sexual activity in times of high stress and Satouru was there when Shun wasn't.

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u/Xpulsion Mar 09 '13

When was this? I remember that she remembered that their genes were shaped like that monkey species, and decided that humans were different.

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u/StormVanguard Mar 09 '13

It was something we learned from the false minoshiro early on. It was one of the first things they tried in order to make it possible for a society of cantus users to exist without self-destructing, a make love not war kind of thing, but it wasn't enough and they had to go further resulting in death feedback.

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u/[deleted] Mar 09 '13

I think they still went ahead and did it off-screen. You know how they were in that nest thing and gave the guard a fake haythatcher egg to make him go away?

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u/Arronwy Mar 10 '13

They had sex when they were in the mountains looking for Maria. They didn't have sex when they were little kids.

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u/[deleted] Mar 09 '13

I don't think they did it off-screen.. Pretty sure they left after the egg exploded on the guard

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u/Xpulsion Mar 10 '13

I'm pretty sure they didn't either, but since there was off-screen time, and a HUGE time gap I suppose it's mainly for the audience to guess, I haven't read the novels either so I can't go from there. Oh well, this is such a small piece of the plot that I don't know why I'm questioning it .. just feel bad for Shun ;__;

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u/PhiloSlothipher Mar 11 '13

They did it in the novels. So I'm guessing we can assume they did it also in the show.

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u/[deleted] Mar 09 '13

A lot of people think they did. I don't, mind.

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u/[deleted] Mar 09 '13

Oh I see.. thanks.