why was everyone so cruel to him? dude just wanted some freedom and kept getting shut down and mocked.
Just because you identify to him doesn't make him less of a traitor bastard
What freedom lol He just didn't want to be in an inferior position due to his ego.
>>283210042Did you see what he did to the people around him? Fucker had some good ideas but was also absolutely horrible.
>>283210042Fuck that rat
>>283210131>not wanting to be a slave your whole life is egotisticimagine being this much of a cuck
>>283210042Because he was going to lose and he lost, if you don't want to be the bad guy, don't lose
>>283210042The tinpot dictator was given Freedom and Democracy for him and his people.
>>283210248slavery is a state of mind
FUCK QUEERS. KILL RATS.TOTAL QUEERRAT DEATH.
>>283210042they were cruel to him because they could be. most people don't need much justification to do bad when they can get away with it, unfortunately.
can queer rats and humans interbreed?
>>283211893Yeah, that's how you were born.
The LGBTQ+ episode made me drop this way back when. That shit was so fucking gay. Not artistic. Just gay.
>>283210042SQUEALER DID NOTHING WRONG
>>283213016It's scifi you ridiculous nigger, furthermore it's dystopian scifi.
>>283210042Chudrats lost the culture war but he kept fighting, he was pathetic and deserved to be mocked.
>>283213146This, the manga makes a point of how the moral degeneration and hedonism were being pushed to keep the population easily controlled.
>>283213016It made sense in context even if the whole thing was a bit shoehorned in and not properly developed, you're just retarded.
>>283210042He was a lying bootlicker throughout the entire series.He brainwashed his own mother with surgery that implanted a device in her skull.A friend of the main character was pregnant. Once she gave birth, he kill her, kidnapped her daughter and raised her to be a living weapon....yeah, I wonder why people hate him
>>283210042Squealer was a man of the people who knew that sacrifices had to be made in order to free Humanity from the slavery of the homowizards.Needless to say, the homowizards don't like having their lifestyle of child murder and state enforced faggotry threatened
>>283214995>kidnapped her daughter and raised her to be a living weapon.this was so stupid and overly dramatic
>>283214995Cantus users are shown to genocide entire rat populations without a second thought so I don't see why I'm supposed to be upset about them killing some girl to stop that because they were a friend of the main character. What squealer did to the queen also only was necessary because of cantus users. It's not like the queen was anything close to a just ruler in the first place but whereas any human society should have been able to simply overthrow a tyrant it was the influence of cantus users on the biology of queerrats that made squealer need to resort to ugly methods just to establish a civil society.
>>283210126>traitor bastardA rebellious slave is not a traitor, anon. You'd have to be a complete retard to expect loyalty from a slave.
>>283213016The whole point was to show how they use the gay agenda to control people
>>283210042Qrd on this ugly thing?
>>283210042Because he was ugly.Welcome to the eternal truth of life, you will always get treated based on your superficial traits.
>>283210042You need to actually win if you want to be called a "freedom fighter".
>>283216418Ugly people don't get treated poorly because they're ugly. They get treated poorly because ugly people have tend to have bad personalities, because they're massively insecure about themselves and take it out on others.
283216543It's funny that people who actually believe this and are above the age of 15 really exist
What anime is this?
>>283210401I hate how the anime handled this guy's death. >puts enemy in a hole>main character says he's going to die>next scene he's already dyingUnironically needed to be more like a shonen slop fight scene.
>>283217084>can't reply properlySpotted the uggo
>>283215641How was it overly dramatic? it made complete sense.
>>283215641He literally kills the mother after giving birth and uses her daughter as a messiah in his rebellion.And what did the messiah do? Kill humans.That's literally the only reason they had her. I wouldn't have been surprised if, after exterminating all humans, the rats had killed her too.>>283216032>civil societyYes, of course, he did it all for the greater good, all to liberate his race... You don't even believe that yourself. He simply wanted to replace the oppressive human government with his own oppressive government. If he really cared about his race, he wouldn't have done that to his mother, nor would he have exterminated the dissident rat colonies or had not risked starting an all-out war.He just wanted to be free, there's nothing else but his own desires. If he had won, he would have become a dictator.There were safer ways to achieve freedom:He could have tried to escape with his colony, he could have instigated a rebellion within human society ( He already had rebellious humans under his care), he had spent years cultivating "good" relationships with the protagonist and her friends, so he could have helped them gain power and reap the benefits, but no, he went with the genocide plan.You know who really cared about the rats?KiroumaruI'm not going to defend humans either, they're bastards, but that doesn't mean I like Yokumaru. He was simply an aspiring dictator and his plan didn't work out.
283217567You want this (You)? Do a flip for me, faggot.
>>283217267Oh I found it and I remember it now. To be honest my greatest recollection of it is the out-of-place gay.
>>283210042He was about to free humanity from cantus users
>>283210284He only lost because of author's retarded asspull
>>283210042>SLAVERY IS LE BAD>ok I'll go murder all the oppressors>NO NOT LIKE THATVery telling.
>>283217606
>>283217611>still no argumentBoy, I really struck a nerve huh? Guess I hit too close to home.
>>283217760Queeratgers dont deserve rights. Saki should have left him in the jar.
>>283217760What humanity? There was no more humans left in the setting.
>>283217606I do think that if his plan worked out, the average rat would've been better off than under the humans' boot. The situation would've just flipped and the humans would become the new slave race.
>>283210042He embodies that which every short male had to experience on his own skin, that which every short male thought about at least once in his lifetime. He's based.
>>283210042Because filthy queerrats should know their place.
>>283217606Biggest uncle tom in anime history.
shinsekai yaoi
>>283217606Kiroumaru is a retard. Imagine turning your back on your own people to save you the people who enslaved you and profit off of your servitude and misery. Imagine stripping your people of the ONE chance they had to fight back against their godlike slavers.
People forget squealer was a massive cunt to his OWN people>oh you don't want to go along with my goals?>then I'll kidnap your queen and use you as fodder (literally enslaving them)
>>283218177>The situation would've just flipped and the humans would become the new slave race.Incorrect. One human, due to their telekinetic power, is all it takes to wipe out dozens of rat people in seconds, so it's impossible for the rat people to ever rule over the humans.
>>283218859It's always the same people who misunderstand that the gay shit was literal mindcontrol gene editing and both of the characters that realized this were actually in love with someone of the opposite sex
>>283218865It is possible if they have a critical mass of cantus-wielding humans specifically bred to subjugate everyone else. This is exactly what squealer was trying to achieve by stealing their children.
>>283210042Squeeler was 100% right in his actions, because he doesn't have cantus.And so were the scientists who created the village society, because cantus is the future and must be harnessed properly.
Cantus aren't people
>>283218998you have to be an idiot with a persecution complex to seriously believe that your situation is any way comparable to that of the rat race from the story. It's not the 19th century anymore.
>>283219051Correct take. The Cantus users do what they can and the queerats suffer what they must.
>>283218998gem>>283219069coal
>>283218998>black guy hereYeah I totally believe you.
>>283219051Only if you define "100% right" as the action that benefits those most similar to them, and not as that which is morally correct.
>>283219200That is morally correct thoughbeit.
>>283218998>see disgusting conniving violent goblin pig>"he's just like me frfr"Telling
>>283219065Neither are the rats
>>283219292it's not thougheveralbeit
>>283217606Why do you keep talking about HIS MOTHER like that means anything in that setting? The very concept of what we think of as a mother was eradicated for the rats by cantus users. They biologically forced actual human beings into this weird colony structure and you want me to think that they would think of the breeding machine tyrant that was forced on them as their mother because it birthed them.
>>283213016Ya seethe?
>>283219447It is morally correct to put your own group first, you've just been gaslit into thinking that it's wrong for any group to do this except for that one specific group.
>finally achieve a modicum of control over your cantusnigger homicidal impulses>gee, if we become normal then the few humans left will kill us>time to make them into mole rat hybrids aberrations so we can keep killing them like we've been doing for the past 600 years, and gain slave labour to boottotal cantusnigger death
>>283219489>put homoshit in your story>it's literal propaganda population controlVery based author
>>283219531It's not morally correct to do this to the extent where you hurt and enslave others. The limiting case of your naive philosophy is pure egoism because you're the one closest to yourself.
>>283219489Meanwhile the Manga is basically porn.
>>283219305Who are you quoting mayo
>>283219489Did this really piss people off?There must be something wrong with me, because I'm not bothered.
>discussing anime on /a/>low iq mindrotten individuals scramble to make it about themselvesNever change /a/
>>283219861Get in the jar, ratgger
>>283219884Nah it didn't
>>283219884/a/ is full of faggots, no surprise here
why do certain people larp as genetic determinists on here in such a gay way whenever this guy comes up. it's not even bait most of the time because it's so emotionally charged.>OH WOE IS ME HE WAS UGLY IT WAS ALWAYS OVER FOR HIM (me)>good. freaks like him should stay in their place. eradicate every queerrat. stomp them to death. annihilate them. torture them.are you people 12 years old
>>283220835It's mostly bantz, you might just be thin skinned
>>283220874like i said, it's not playful. >might be thin skinnedno. they might be incels.
>>283220918You don't like it because it hurt your fee fees so it's not playful? Go back please.
Loser = Bad GuyWinner = Good GuyWhat's with people having such a hard time understanding this?
i'm positive i watched this but i can't remember a single detail about it. man how much time have i wasted with shitty unmemorable anime?
>>283219489If it works, it works.
>>283221187>Make them fuck each other when they're stressed instead of fighting so they don't accidentally flip their instant-death switch we implanted in themWhat a world
>>283210042physiognomy
I loved watching the mutants kill other mutants. It would be 10/10 if the planet blew up at the end for total mutant death.
>>283221187That's retarded.
>>283221400ow the edge
To me, the moral of the story always seemed to be 'It's morally justifiable to do horrible things for the greater good, but don't be a dick about it'.Squealer's problem was that he was clearly enjoying the revenge too much, which put him in the wrong.
>>283221400This is a good post
>>283221475i find that being emotionally detached is what leads to this effect though, like if squealer was emotionless in his ambitions maybe he would have succeeded, but his awareness of the hypocrisy and his anger of it all lead to someone that, if they won, would have at least built something with a different sentiment ends justify means that the ethics committee had. would it matter to the public? maybe not, but it was a distinction that faded into obscurity for no reason.
>>283221264Brave new world.
>>283219461>You're not allowed to care about your mother because familial social structure perpetuates bourgeois dominance.You can't rationalize people away from fundamental biological drives, commie.Besides, if you're going to magic people into a eusocial slave race you might as well rework their instincts while you're at it.
>>283221544Wrong. Moral people do not fight out of hatred for who is in front of them, but for the love of those who are behind them.
>>283221564I miss the weirdly optimistic take people used to have on the dystopian future, where they thought we'd be ruled by masters of psychological manipulation and human engineering instead of just retarded populists.
>>283221638Maybe we can still get that. Get retarded populists in power, pscyhological manipulators squeeze themselves into the retarded populists' system and then rebuild the system to fit their purposes.
>>283221638Well even now you can sense a "strange optimism" infusing the apocalyptic sentiment of AI singularity cultists.
>>283221597>You're not allowed to care about your mother because familial social structure perpetuates bourgeois dominanceWho said that? Why are you replying to some fantasy post you made up in your head?
>>283221624they're not mutually exclusive
>>283221705I wouldn't call myself a cultist but I admit I have more faith in an AI-driven technocracy than just about any other system right now. They just need to stop lobotomizing them over culture war crap.
>>283221823>AI programmed on antiwhiteism by antiwhites will not be antiwhitePlease wake up.
>>283221883>zero reading comprehensionyep, this is nu-/a/ alright
>>283210042Ever notice how they made humans look subhuman so it was easier to manipulate children into becoming racist? This says a lot about our society.
>>283221723Anon was treating it as inconceivable that someone might feel positively about a social structure which1) Is unnatural.2) Has negative societal repercussions.I compared his position to that of anti-family communist revolutionaries to emphasize how ridiculous it is to treat #2 as if it actual matters to real people's feelings.Even #1 doesn't make much sense, since neither our families or mole-rat society are exactly like our initial evolved state. There are enough similarities to trigger our evolved instincts, which is all that is necessary to make people care. Furthermore, from a scientific perspective instincts will continuously evolve towards conforming to present society. And from a fictional perspective there's no reason to assume instincts weren't directly rewritten.
>>283222049No what I was saying is that it's retarded to think that this guy who was born from a brood mother that shits out hundreds of babies and never cared about any individual spawn of hers would think the same way about that person the same way a human would about their mother in our society. You have to be braindamaged to see some communist anti-family message in that. If anything I think the maternal and family bonds that we have is preferable. However, that simply isn't what the queerrats have so it's stupid to emphasize the maternal bond squealer should have to his mother.
>>283210126why do people identify with a rat? It's like looking at chimps in planet of the apes and seeing yourself as a fucking monkey.
>>283222322i think it's sad to live your whole life not being able to find similarities in things because of pedantic aspects like not literally being that person or thing. it's a basic tool to have to make you aware that not being 1:1 with something doesn't mean you can't relate to it to some degree. i guess it's a byproduct of unchecked autism but still.
>>283222322Have you watched the anime? YOU ARE THE MONKEY
>>283221187I can see a non-retarded reason (preventing unwanted pregnancies) for this but neither the anime nor the manga seems to explain it properly. Otherwise what the fuck is the point in making it about homosex specifically?
>>283222566It's not specifically about homosex. Every single person in cantus user society has been implanted with a sort of internal kill switch that makes them instantly die if they kill another person. They did this to stop the possibility of another subject A or whatever they were called from indiscriminately murdering people with psychic powers. Another of the barriers they put into place to prevent this was making cantus users more like bonobos, having them settle stress problems with sex instead of violence (because they would instantly die if they killed each other). However in the majority of the population this would only work on problems between the opposite sex, so they went a step beyond and edited in increased homosex, effectively diffusing the problem across the board
>>283222389No way, I'm an aryan Canto-user.
>>283222300It's a metaphor bro. I wasn't literally calling you a communist.>it's stupid to imagine alternate humans could feel differently about their alternate family structure than I doWhy? Why is it impossible that a real mole-rat has affection for its mother or colony, or that such positive feelings are triggered by situations shared by both human and mole-rat upbringing? Why can a mole-rat-human not blur the line further?I've already pointed out it's dumb to assume that queerats have modern human instincts, but even if we give you that, you're making further unjustified assumptions and applying abstract social reasoning to a context where it's not relevant. In reality people still care about their families in spite of "toxic" circumstances. In an impartial discussion you're not more likely to rationalize cult members out of their feelings than communists are to rationalize you out of yours. You're treating your personal familial feelings as more rational, conscious, and foundationally archetypical than they are.
>>283222322Have you never once identified with the underdog? Not in sports, movies, anime, books, nothing??
>>283223174If you're identifying with a scummy piece of trash just because he's the underdog then I'm not sure if you're actually identifying with them for being an underdog
>>283223434You've got the moral depth of a grade schooler.
>>283210042they didn't think he was human so they treated him like a rat. And he acted more and more like a rat because of that. It perpetuates itself
>>283214995>>283217606How is any of that shit you listed "bootlicking"? Do you even know what that means? Are you sure you're not just projecting? I didn't watch the show and I'm missing a lot of context for what you're saying. However;>There were safer ways to achieve freedomThis is wrong. This is always wrong. There is only ever ONE way to achieve freedom and that is to TAKE it. It cannot be given and it is NEVER "safe". And unless it's you doing it, you have fuckall room to criticize their methodsYou list all those things he "could" have done. Yeah, I'm sure they "could" have done all sorts of things back in the 1770s, too. Doesn't mean shit. It is the nature of the oppressed or those who believe themselves oppressed to raise arms against their supposed oppressors. It is inevitable that there will be people born with a spark of rebellion that turns into the blaze of revolution. You can fight against them if you disagree, but only statist bootlickers (You) start whinging about how "bad" violence is and how they TOTALLY could've been free if only they'd written one more petition or done one more attempt at soft power instead of starting to shoot.Spouting moral grandstanding against violence is the luxury of the faggot playing armchair general. You're not Squealer and you've not suffered exactly like him. Violence is amoral and to engage in violence is a cosmic right that exists so long as people are capable of violence. Tyranny can exist only in situations of a monopoly on violence. Thus, widespread capacity for violence being in the hands of the individual is a good thing.He may have lost, but whether he was "right" is irrelevant. The only thing that gets tested is who's left.>>283217606>>283221597>>283223062>his MOTHER, nooo, think of his poor heckin' mother!It's a fucking appeal to emotion, that's what's wrong with it.
>>283223623Kidnapping and killing Maria and Mamoru was fucked up and inexcusable. The kids weren't their oppressors.
>Vicious psychopaths and their descendants cling to their world polluting powers to the point where they not only have to create complicated rituals and brainwashing to keep themselves from destroying each other, but also forcefully mutate normal humans into these non-human forms so that their self-inflicted brainwashing can not be exploited by their slave caste to liberate themselvesStomach churning. This show was about environmentalism, right?
>>283222746That sounds fucking awful.I'm supposed to believe the rat-man is bad just because he's ugly and wanted to do a little genocide, when the enemy is a bunch of kill-switch implanted yaoi-bait fags?>>283223654I don't know who they are, but I'm of the opinion that all is fair in love and war. You always hear bootlickers talk about how you can't beat jets with an AR-15, but in that case, the pilots/mechanics and especially their families are the weak link and perfectly valid targets.It's one thing if he did that for no good reason, but if they're related to key personnel or he actually had something to gain from it, then it's justified on practical grounds. Of course, at the end of the day, it's all fiction. So everything is contrived and it's possible he did retarded shit solely to act as a strawman at the behest of the author.
>>283223719>This show was about environmentalism, right?There's the whole thing with cantus being funneled outside the villages and literally warping the surroundings outside the barriers, and Tokyo being a radioactive desert. But I wouldn't say it was about that.
>>283223808>I don't know who they areso you didn't watch the show?
>>283223808>That sounds fucking awful.yes, it is. that's the point. it's a dystopia
Why didn't the queerats just escape to a different continent?
>>283210042He's ugly and stupid
>>283223972Some tried. They found nothing but violent wastelands
>>283223886IDK, the lengths that the Scientist go through to preserve the cantus (a power cantus users are not even allowed to use to its full potential anyway) when everyone would have been better of if the ability had gone extinct seems like a pretty obvious parallel with how we are willing to do anything to curb pollution other than actually change our way of life and let go of dangerous technology.They would rather turn humans into rats and cantus users into bonobo hybrids than just remove this dangerous ability outright.
>>283223972World is fucked because of cantus calamities. There might be other settlements somewhere out there, but the novel never goes there. I think, it's been so long since I read it.
>>283210042Because he wasn't after freedom, he was after revenge and to destroy society. He didn't flee to land where he took followers to be safe from, he created a revolt and he loved it.
>>283223988That was probably just Korea
>>283210042There were a few things that confused me>Did the hot grandma that I REALLY wanted to fuck survive? Can't remember.>Why did the gigachad that could split the planet in half die so easily? I know he can't kill the cute messiah but can't he send her to the shadow realm or restrain her with psychic tentacles?>How strong was the schizo kid? Stronger even than the gigachad? Why was he such a threat to everyone? He was so based, I liked his dog too. RIP.>Why was the giant queerat samurai such a cantus simp? He realizes they enslaved his race, right? Uncle Tom energy. Damn. Why'd he do it?>Did Squealer and the other rats genuinely love Messiah and did she love them? Seems like it. Squealer treated her more like a daughter he loved than merely a weapon or pet.
>>283224033Haven't really thought about that. But I'd say SSY is probably about something else first and foremost, and the environment second, or something else from which the environmental issues arise as a subset.Like power, lusting for it, obtaining it, maintaining it. Unbridled scientific progress, with moral considerations thrown to the wayside. Playing God without caring about the consequences or underestimating/outright miscalculating them.The environment taking a hit is only one consequence of it.
>>283224033>just remove this dangerous ability outright.why the fuck would you remove literal divine powers that are the answer to everythingyou must be insane, or a queerat
>>283224265>Did the hot grandma that I REALLY wanted to fuck survive? Can't remember.No>Why did the gigachad that could split the planet in half die so easily? I know he can't kill the cute messiah but can't he send her to the shadow realm or restrain her with psychic tentacles?We've never seen them be able to magically exile people to "the shadow realm", this has no bearing of reality in their world. And restraining her would do nothing, they're PSYCHIC POWERS>How strong was the schizo kid? Stronger even than the gigachad? Why was he such a threat to everyone? He was so based, I liked his dog too. RIP.She had great powers because she grew up without the propaganda and society placed restraints >Why was the giant queerat samurai such a cantus simp? He realizes they enslaved his race, right? Uncle Tom energy. Damn. Why'd he do it?He outright says they already looked for a way to genocide cantus users and couldn't find anything reliable enough to risk total extinction, which he knew would be inevitable if they rose up. Squeeler is such a petty obsessed with himself cunt that he had no qualms with risking his entire species extinction>Did Squealer and the other rats genuinely love Messiah and did she love them? Seems like it. Squealer treated her more like a daughter he loved than merely a weapon or pet.He killed her parents, kidnapped her, and raised her as a psychotic weapon. She was very obviously completely mindbroken, any illusions that he "cared" about her was simply he knew she was his only shot at genociding the cantus users. People like to forget that he went into cantus user hospitals during the invasion, killing all the mothers and doctors so he could enslave the babies en masse. The show specifically flashes back to Squeelers description of how babies of enemies are treated in their wars during this exact scene. They are treated like dirt, given no respect, and live cruel torturous lives at the benefit of the ones that enslaved them.
>>283223062>It's a metaphor bro. I wasn't literally calling you a communist.>hurr durr I didn't actually mean the words I put in your mouthOkay retard. I don't know if you're just some idiot who wanted to project his ramblings on communism to an unrelated discussion or if you're the same guy who made the argument in the first place. In any case you completely failed to engage with the original argument I argued against that:Squealer should care about his mother and therefore he is an unsympathetic character because he mistreated his mother. Now there are two options:>1. Queerrats somehow did keep the human concept of "mother" through "genetics", "nature" whatever.In this case the queen clearly didn't fulfill that role and we can't blame Squealer for not treating her accordingly. He would not have developed a mother-son relationship to the queen.>2. The genetic alterations on queerats changed their outlook on motherhood.In this case it's stupid to apply our preconceived human notions on how you should treat your mother on queerrats. For all we know instinctively squealer might have simply prioritized the wellbeing of his hive through some other instinct and as long as the broodmother can fulfill her purpose he doesn't care for her wellbeing at all.Clearly in both cases the "BUT HE WAS MEAN TO HIS MOM" argument doesn't make any sense. Now you argue for or against squealer for any other reason. I don't care, but don't put words in my mouth and please read this carefully and make sure you understand it before you reply to me again.
>>283222566>what the fuck is the point in making it about homosex specifically?So the manga can slip in yuri panels between plot stuff.
>>283224434Also the reason the child was such a thread to everyone was because she thought she was a queerrat therefor could kill people without flipping the death switch. The cantus users literally couldn't fight back or they would die
>>283224434i think he means shun. people were speculating that shun could be the successor to four eyes.>>283224471we can see that the queer rats do venerate their queens, even squealer did at first. when he first introduces the humans to his queen, he if very defferential towards her.
>>283224629>shunOh he was a karma demon, meaning he couldn't properly regulate his powers. Most likely because of the societal secrets the group learned as kids from the AI. The only kids that really wanted to listen to the AI were Saki and Shun. The others were too afraid. Shun went schizo and Saki managed to regulate her emotions which is why she was chosen to succeed the grandma
At the end why does it feel like the world is just going to go to shit and humanity is still going to be extinct cause the retarded Cantus users can't stop corrupting the world
>>283224684i was disappointed that it didn't end with the implementation of some new way raising kids, since that seemed to be what the title implied. instead it's just, "man, i hope one of us comes up with something!"
>>283224684Because your personal views color your interpretationsI felt it was simply going to continue, eventually leading to better cantus control
>>283224684I guess Japan? having the only real way of regulating these psychic nukes is a problem if there are other psychic users out there in the world without the mind conditioning.Then there is the problem with the psychics becoming so strong, that the mind conditioning isn't going to stop them from mutating everything around them like Shun did.
>the amount of Squealer hate ITTGood. Justice for Maria and Mamoru.
>>283224434>We've never seen them be able to magically exile people to "the shadow realm", this has no bearing of reality in their world. And restraining her would do nothing, they're PSYCHIC POWERSWhat was that black tornado that was going to abduct the wimpy shota? It wasn't a cat, unless it was some kind of horror movie hallucination effect that the wimp mistook the cat for a tornado.
>>283224808>openly tells mamoru she doesn't love him at all and is only making doshe was a frigid bitch and will not be missed.
>>283224618But why did he have a kill switch in the first place? Are the cantus users born with it, or did the queerrats somehow mind condition it into the child? I don't remember how it happens.
>>283224434>>Did the hot grandma that I REALLY wanted to fuck survive? Can't remember.>NoThanks bro. Damn, that's a shame. She was so hot.
>>283224854the kill switch is a physical/genetic thingthey also undergo hypnosis/conditioning to make them physically ill just contemplating it, as a secondary safeguard before the killswitch kicks in
>>283224684>>283224757I appreciated that it didn't shoehorn in some magical fix-all solution to force a "happy ending" on a society that is clearly shown to be riddled with problems. If you believe in Saki and Satoru then good, maybe their hopes of fixing the world will come to fruition. But the world building is very nuanced with no clear outright "good guys". Is a world where cantus users, who turned all normal humans into rat monsters and enslaved them, fix all the loopholes in their system and continue to dominate the world really a good one? Who knows. So it's left to our interpretation. >>283224829>What was that black tornado that was going to abduct the wimpy shota?I can't specifically remember this but we aren't shown that they can banish people to some magical prison world so we can safely assume that's not what that was. >>283224854>But why did he have a kill switch in the first place? Are the cantus users born with itYes. They are a genetically manipulated society of bonobo people
>>283224757>>283224784I feel the same, it seemed like Saki was trying to be optimistic at the end having learned the history and how the Psychics fucked the world so badly. But is like Saki is like I hope a someone else finds out what to do soonBut the scientists are the biggest retardss with grafting the deathfeed back, humans have the ability to harm one another, cause in point with fiends, just made humanity more doomedFrom what I understand other psychics from the remnants of other countries exist in the same situation as Japan, I wondered if they had better luck figuring out a way to save the humanity
>>283224845Her maternal instincts and selflessness led her to abandon Saki for Mamoru. She was anything but a frigid bitch, speedwatcher-kun.
>>283224434Eh, to be fair if it wasn't for Kiroumaru then Squeeler's plan would definitely have succeeded. There was no other way they'd ever take down the akki, and in time there would be a whole squad of them loyal to queerats. It would've been ogre.
>>283224854Genetic engineering to make cantus fry your own organs when using cantus against someone you perceive (that's important) to be of your own species. Messiah perceived queerats to be her own species.
>>283224924>I can't specifically remember this but we aren't shown that they can banish people to some magical prison world so we can safely assume that's not what that was.No worries, it was like a fever dream. It happened in the school hallway after they got suspicious of him. That's right before he left with the red hair girl and impregnated her. It felt more like a pity fuck though.
>>283224265I could have fixed her.
>>283224944Probably, but that's the nuance between Kiroumaru and Squeeler. Kiroumaru cared about his own species so much that he wasn't willing to risk their extinction. Squeeler was so self obsessed and angry that he had no qualms with risking TQD. He was doing "the right thing for the wrong reasons". Kiroumaru was doing the "wrong thing", if you see it that way, for the right reasons.
>>283224629>we can see that the queer rats do venerate their queens, even squealer did at firstYes and? That doesn't mean they see them as motherly figures. They might only venerate them as birth givers and might still do that if they're lobotomized
>>283224924i wasn't hoping for a "magical fix-all solution" only that they would to try a different system, knowing that it would carry it's own risks and flaws. there's no indication by the end that saki and satoru had anything more than idle hopes of being able to make any real change, when the whole story focused on their resolve to make a difference.
>>283225095the magical fix-all solution is already implemented:genetic selection through ruthless killing of anyone who can't control their cantusit will just take a few generations
>>283225095I feel that would detract from the stronger themes the story was more focused on delivering. Saying "the whole story focused on their resolve to make a difference" is simply untrue. It was part of it, but SY is far more concerned with it's message than the A to B journey the characters take. They are vehicles to deliver themes. It's not a battle shonen.
>>283225095But what is the change they wanted? Give the queer rats more rights? Try to change the whole, extreme culling system that kills a child at any sign of trouble? Find of cure that may not exist to psycho psykers that wont require the mind conditioning at all?
>>283225189that last one and the first one, too, i gather.
>>283225045In the end, Big Rat just loved his mama. It's hard to hate him.
>>283210042he's an ugly rat. sorry, but that thing is not human.
>>283225247>I will literally kill myself if you promise to take care of my momWhat a guy (rat)
>>283225377His tribe was spared, his queen no longer a baby making carpet, and his nephew? became the BFF ratman of the new cantus using leaders. I guess he chose right.
>>283225439>his nephew? became the BFF ratman of the new cantus using leaders.Wait what? Did that only happen in the novel?
>>283225492I read the manga, which I think followed the novel more closely. Either way, a ratboy that looks like a midget clone of him is now friends with our two MCs.
>>283225553>I read the manga, which I think followed the novel more closely
>>283225653Outside of the yuri porn segments, I thought the manga followed the novel more closely, since it wasn't retrained by episode count, and was able to explain things in more detail, and show scenes that were cut from the anime.
>>283210042Look how beautiful the Cantus-users are. Look how harmonious and gorgeous their society is.Those are the true inheritors of humanity. Even if they sprang from the same stock, one is obviously very much superior to the other.Fuck Squealer, he can be consigned to the dustbin of history like the untermensch he is.
>>283219884People called it Shin Sekai Yaoi.
Cantus is so lame. Modern technology already works pretty well to meet most human needs. Why would you want everyone to have gay mind powers just to spend most of your efforts on restricting them to keep everyone from killing each other?
>>283226183Humans didn't chose to have it.It just popped up randomly, and then humans started to purge them, not realizing that it was only making the cantus users stronger due to the desire to survive making the powers go out of control.
>NOOOO you need to support the literal subhuman moleratsShan't
>>283226250You'd be one of them
So what was this ugly scornced living being supposed to do? Just be some kind of NTR protagonist and just take being a cuck enduring humiliation rituals?
>>283226704Not genocide a population of oppressed people who have no idea about the horrors of the structure of their society their predecessors and leadership prop up, that's for sure.
>>283217606If squealer had won, and raised more psychic kids, the rats probably would have been wiped out by a wave of fiends and then the earth would go back to the warlord era except even worse. Man, the more I think about it the more bleak this setting is. Even if the humans removed all the psychics, whose the say they wouldn't randomly appear again one day just like the first time? And the psychic society the scientists setup clearly isn't sustainable, and eventually the world will become some warped nightmare outside of small pockets.
Shun deserved better
>>283226860all human adults knew what was going on.
>>283227218They knew about some stuff concerning themselves, it's explicitly stated the information about queerrats being humans was forbidden knowledge. Otherwise they wouldn't be able to kill them without triggering their death switch
>>283227202Was he an autist? A schizo? How strong was he?
>>283224471>The very concept of what we think of as a mother was eradicated for the rats by cantus users. They biologically forced actual human beings into this weird colony structure and you want me to think that they would think of the breeding machine tyrant that was forced on them as their mother because it birthed them.You said this. You are wrong to to think that it's somehow implausible that queerats could feel positive, even human-like emotions towards their mothers. Both arguments, dissimilarity from current society and political judgement of the queen as an oppressor, are not fundamental to real human emotion. It's not even clear that if you threw a psychologically modern human into queerat society that they wouldn't project normal human emotions onto their abnormal situation. People are more psychologically flexible and less rational than you are suggesting.That is the extent to which I was arguing with you. If you want to go argue about objective morality in queerats then I won't stop you, but that isn't relevant to you making questionable statements about human psychology, which is what I cared about.
essentially the psykers are on a time clock to figure out the karma demon/fiend problem. While trying to make the queer rats lives slightly better but not restore them to normal humansis what Saki plans to do since she can live forever. Still fucked that normal humans are screwed and at the whims psychic nukes
>>283227577Sorry man, at this point I think you're too far up your own ass to understand the simplest argument. Keep sniffing those farts
>>283224265>How strong was the schizo kid? Stronger even than the gigachad? Why was he such a threat to everyone? He was so based, I liked his dog too. RIP.You mean the karma demon kid? It wasn't about how "strong" he was. Every Cantus user is strong. The ones who never develop strong Cantus are culled in childhood.. All of them have the potential to level an entire village in a few minutes. The problem with a karma demon is that they lose their focus and slowly alter the world around them. It's like radiation poisoning, instead of a nuclear bomb.This entire story is about asking what people will do to ensure the survival of their species. Manipulating genes, hypnotizing and conditioning kids, and killing kids who don't pass every test with flying colors would be horrific in the modern world. But, without them in the SSY world, Japan would be a smoking crater with no survivors. Does that make it ok? The old lady in charge is shown as the wisest and most moral character. But does that make their society not dystopian?
>>283219832It's ok when it's girls.
>>283222006>societythat's just life
Surprisingly good thread
>>283225189Their society can't afford to give up psyker powers given that they'll be immediately genocided by Queerats, which is why they kill off their children that lack psyker power.
>>283210126jeet
>>283230171idk why they dont just eradicate the last remnants of non psychic humanity instead of pussy footing, then they dont have to worry about psychic weaklings.But wasn't it stated that the weakest psychics have higher chances of being a Fiend or karma demon?
>>283228029>argumentAppeal to emotion*Anon's "argument" was nonexistent to begin with and predicated entirely on saying squealer bad because we should feel bad.
>>283224265>Why'd he do it?Because he realized he and his people wouldn't be any more "free" under Squealer's rule, after Squealer began committing atrocities against his own people just like the Cantus people he wanted to fight.
>>283224757>instead it's just, "man, i hope one of us comes up with something!"That is the point. Saki and satoru became part of the corrupt system while coping that they're "different" and a change was near, even if there was no reason to believe that and they themselves supported the status quo. It's not a happy ending and wasn't meant to be, and that's a good thing.
>>283232488that's a stupid point. boo.
>>283226183You could say that cantus is a metaphor for the human's potential and power to change things around them, in particular for technology.
>>283232506Nah. It's a story of the protagonists going from naive shonen-types to realizing the full scale and complexity of the problem. A "part of the system" ending might not be the most original, but it's the only possible one that isn't stupid. The author understood that he didn't know how to resolve all human conflict (we haven't managed to do that irl either), so he didn't try to force a half-baked solution for a happy ending.
>>283232676people have affected social change in the past. it isn't stupid to think that the status quo can be changed. the series portrays their system of governence changing over time, too. history isn't over.
this was the worst anime ive ever watched
>>283232824You must have not watched many anime then.
>>283232872ive watched hundreds
>>283233065name 50
>>283233065As a rule I don't even take seriously anyone that has watched less than a thousand. This is a place for people who actually watch anime and want to discuss it, not for tourists who take anime as a side hobby. You probably would find reddit more palatable.
>>283224265>Did the hot grandma that I REALLY wanted to fuck survive? Can't remember.No. She got the second most brutal, drawn-out and humiliating death in the series after Squealer.
>>283233116shut up faggot, watching more doesnt make you more knowledgeable or your shitty opinions matter. i dont need to watch 1000 anime to know that shin sekai yori is garbage. you should fuck off to reddit, they love that anime over there
>>283233190As anyone can reading yor post tell your undeveloped taste affects your mental stability and the only thing you are capable of coming up with is emotional ramblings and throwing back my advice at me as a form of inane attempt at an insult. It's ok to be inexperienced in terms of watched anime, however you should work on your ego and probably think a lot more before making posts here. I'll reiterate once more, you might find reddit far more suited for your casual approach.
>>283233250lol youre the one with an ego flexing cuz youve watched more than me, watching thousands of anime does nothing to develop taste or make you better at discussing anime, all you are doing is adding slop or obscure shit to your list that is so long everything blurs together and you forget what youve even watched. keep coping for all that wasted time nerd!
>>283233250>undeveloped tasteImagine thinking anime develops taste and doesn't retard it.
>>283233336I sincerly hope you do realise that using nerd as an insult while posting on an anime board is hypocrisy in it's purest form. All your post proves is that you simply reached the peak of mount stupid and refuse to come down because you don't want to risk having your opinions changed by experience.
>>283233386Image thinking that performing a task doesn't improve your undesrtanding of it, imagine questioning the very nature of learning, imagine being so undeveloped mentally that you need to receive your opinions from someone else instead of forming them based on what you experience. It's people with such approach that contribute to stagnation in any activity they partake in. You really don't need to fear failure, embrace it and learn from it.
283232824worthless post by an attention-seeking contrarian.
>>283233451You hallucinate more than an "AI".
>>283233190>watching more doesnt make you more knowledgeableYes it does.
>>283232724Change is not out of the question and the ending is genuinely hopeful in the regard. It's just that neither the protagonists nor the author knew how to resolve the situation he himself created.
>>283233477And once more you hide behind your ignorance out of some strange notion that you will become less by admitting to yourself that your opinions might be wrong when, in fact, it would make you more of whatever you see yourself as. This is an anonymous anime board, no need to die on this hill.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCKtsUe1ssA
>>283233512You do not address anything said. Whether you have good taste or not - it is at best unaffected by anime or made worse.
>>283233403nerdy nerd is nerding out>>283233451consuming media is not a skill dumbass, watching 1000s of anime is not improving your media literacy, youre just numbing yourself with entertainment. also nobody was talking about other people's opinions idk what youre on about
>>283233556I mean when you question the very nature of experience there really isn't much more that can be said. I can only hope you find what you're looking for.
>>283233475bump me next time pussy, i watched the show, engaged with it, thought about the story and ideas and themes and still didnt like it-not being contrarian>>283233486on what? watching 500 vs 1000 vs 2000 isnt increasing any discernible knowledge
>>283233561Of course it is a skill, parsing information and understanding it is a skill like any other. Unless you mean you only expierience the audiovisual stimulus as a form of white noise that never causes you to critically evaluate it. In that case maybe you would have more luck with a different hobby.
>>283233628>on what? watching 500 vs 1000 vs 2000 isnt increasing any discernible knowledgeDid you know everything there was to know about anime after you watched you first one?
>>283233684obviously not but thats not what we were talking about is it? this other anon mentioned not even taking anyone who has watched less than a thousand seriously, my point was theres diminishing returns in the knowledge you gain in the medium, tropes, genres, japanese culture etc. most of the "good" anime is your first tens, hundreds of watches. by the time you hit 1000+ youre hardly watching anything new, impactful, meaningful, interesting etc, youre just checking boxes
>>283233787>obviously not but thats not what we were talking about is it?Well it is.If you do not know everything there is to know about anime after watching one anime, do you know everything after two anime? If not, then five anime? Ten anime? What number do you draw the line where you know everything there is possibly to know about anime?
>>283233628>bump me next time pussywhat is the point of engaging with you if you have nothing to say? You clearly only want to anger people who liked the show, otherwise you would've posted some actual critique.But even if you're not baiting and genuinely believe that it is the actual worst show you've ever seen, then your taste would be so vastly different and incompatible to the average anon's taste itt, there still wouldn't be any point in talking with you. Or for you to come here and shit up the thread, for that matter.
REMINDER>Cantigger pollution will continue to destroy the environment until cantigger extinction>Foreign queerats have already been shown to be adaptable to fucked environment>Squealer will be immortalized among Japanese Queerats as a tragic hero that fought against extinct "gods" (demons)Justice always prevails
>>283234638>Foreign queerats have already been shown to be adaptable to fucked environmentI don't remember this. Based if true.
>>283210042Sorry but I don't want to see cute girls getting killed by rats. And this >>283224808 Squealer did everything wrong because he was just power tripping warmonger. It is even more evident in the books.He got access to all world's knowledge and wasted all this.
>>283234928>picFor all the flaws of the anime adaption, at least they didn't do this shit.
>>283235113>flaws
>>283217529He literally couldn't fight back
>>283234666>Foreign queeratsI felt that the history slug implied that the bonobo/molerat genetic modifications were a uniquely Japanese modification. Otherwise any unmodified human could cross the sea and abuse the system with ease.
>>283210042His only mistake was not making killing the race traitor a higher priority.
>>283236017He did manage to put the fiend in a hole though. They could have easily made her take more time to realize how to kill him.
>>283234638Victory after defeat.
>>283219685>It's not morally correct to do this to the extent where you hurt and enslave others.There's nothing wrong with enslaving others precisely because they're "others". You exploit plants, animals and microbes to your benefit because they're useful to you and you feel nothing in common with them. So just stop treating outsiders of your group as if they belonged TO your group. You should only help outsiders as much as it can benefit you, otherwise not at all. You gain nothing from defending those that would never do the same for you.
>>283222791>aryan Canto-usermore like a mutant freak with natural criminal tendencies that has to be put to death
>>283242268Oh look, a talking rat.
>>283218859Collaborators have pretty much always been treated like shit, yes.
>>283222791>AryanOh yeah, the dysgenic, homosexual walking bioweapons who see themselves as deities and everyone else as subhuman cattle made to serve them are DEFINITELY aryan.
>>283213016im homophobic and that episode did not strike me even remotely as weird or disgustingyou might be retarded man
>>283218803>maru is a retardhe strikes me as the closest a queerrat could be to a human. guess this is why
>>283218803Squealer was too cautious. He knew he had to keep the Messiah a secret trump card to use against the Giant Hornets if alliance talks fell through but not letting Kiroumaru know about his ace in the hole ensured that his chances of getting him on board were essentially zero.He should have just gambled and shown Kiroumaru his whole arsenal.
>>283233131>No. She got the second most brutal, drawn-out and humiliating death in the series after Squealer.Did the anime skip it? I legitimately can't remember her dying.
>>283242421Speaking of aryan cantus users, I wonder what Europe is like in this world
>>283244679Does Europe still exist? On a localized scale the worldbuilding in this show is great for the most part but the Japanese-centric POV makes it hard to tell what's going on.
>>283239306NTA but fair enough.
>>283243337kek
>>283224944I don't think Squeeler could have won unless he ensured the complete extermination of all humans.The biggest problem with that idiot's plan is that he has to ensure the complete extermination of humans with only one winning piece, the messiah girl. If humans escaped in various directions or decided to start a guerrilla war, Squeeler would have had to live the rest of his life in paranoia, distrusting the human slaves in his colony but knowing that if he got rid of them, the surviving humans might return seeking revenge.Even if humans surrendered, escaped to the other side of Japan, and never returned, he would still have to face two problems:1- They would have to keep humans as slaves in their colony, so that if humans ever decided to return in the distant future, the queerrats would have a way to defend themselves. The problem is that humans already have a dystopian system in place to prevent demons from being born, and I can't imagine rats being able to manage such a complex system.2- The Cantus can affect distant places. In the anime, they explain that Tokyo is hell because humans think it is. If the surviving humans explained to their children that the Queerrats are monsters and that their colonies are abominable places, then the colonies and the rats themselves would end up becoming what humans think they are.To be honest, I can't think of a way that the queerrats could win a war against humans. Kiroumaru was right; there is no plausible victory worth the risk.
>>283242421>dysgenic, homosexual walking bioweapons who see themselves as deities and everyone else as subhuman cattleI don't know if you were trying to be sarcastic or what but that's a pretty fucking good description.
>>283210042the weak are shown no remorse
>>283243796It doesn't entirely skip it, but she does get burned badly in the anime too. She dies off-screen in the hospital in the anime.Messiah splits her head in half vertically in the manga and her body is crucified through her skull with her eyes gouged out and put on display in the manga. She's also badly burned and has one of her limbs amputated before being killed.
>>283223654It really is not when it gave them a weapon to combat the people that literally turned them into a fucking slave race through biological engineering using mole rats. Being able to liberate your own race and be able to combat your masters that will kill you with their fucking minds if you dare to speak against them is more than worth the life of two people.
>>283251709Such is life.
>>283249403It would only take one human being a hero to take out that winning piece too. Which seemed like it only didn't really happen initially due to the surprise element involved in the attack and bad assumptions having been made by the humans in charge.
>>283224434>Squeeler is such a petty obsessed with himself cunt that he had no qualms with risking his entire species extinctionHonestly, queerat existence under cantus dominion seems so miserable that Squealer's plan really was set up to be a win-win scenario: Either he gets to throw off cantus oppression once and for all and improve the queerat condition, or the suffering of his race is finally ended permanently in a suicide by cop fashion. The real tragedy here is that it ultimately turned into a worst case lose-lose scenario instead, with both the revolution squashed but queerats continuing to exist anyway.
>hey guys you know what's better than hot yuri sex?>genocide :)to this day i wonder what the fuck did i read
>>283255706>It would only take one human being a hero to take out that winning piece too.Shisei bros, are they insulting our hero? On a more serious note, I think they literally can't do it, no matter how brave they are. I don't think Shisei bitched out, although that's a valid interpretation. I don't think it's possible, consciously or unconsciously.
>>283253823Any way she tanked that? With her telemere whatever, I don't even know what those are. Are they like nanomachines? Can she regenerate. She was so sexy. Too sexy to die.
>>283255788It's not possible, that's the whole point of the genetic engineering and conditioning that the cantus users placed on themselves. Saki was already feeling sick just from concocting the plan to kill the messiah indirectly. That is the total extent of what cantus users can do to harm other cantus users unless they're fiends: Find someone else to do the job.
>>283255807>Any way she tanked that?No, lol. They crucified her through her skull because her head would fall apart otherwise.
>>283255844Maybe a decent plan after the nerve gas failed would've been siccing one of those spooky centipedes on here. The big ass ones that killed the poor guy that was crushing on Saki and saved her life. Was there any expanded material on him? He seemed pretty strong and cool for a redshirt. RIP cool guy. We've all been there.
>>283255902Still would. Also, the fatass doesn't belong on the Based Boomers wall. He was not based.
>>283255987kek.
Was the Superman really creeping on the red haired girl when she was levitating? I think they were implying he was staring at her pussy. But he's an old man, blind, and a popular hero. He wouldn't do that right?
>>283256037What the fuck are you talking about? Superman? Staring at her pussy? Blind popular hero? Are you sure you're in the right thread?
>>283256076I think he's shitposting about Shisei
>>283256076Yeah it was when they were practicing for the guy that can destroy the earth if he concentrated hard enough so the red haired girl levitated to impress him but then he (allegedly) stared at her pussy and she got upset then her black haired friend got upset too but the boys didn't care
>>283256082>>283256089Girls (and boys) would literally wet themselves over Shisei in Kamisu 66 (including his own daughters and sons) and I'm not even shitposting.Their society is highly sexual and they even fuck their parents and children.
>>283256103Why were they mad about the (alleged) pussy staring then? I didn't know he had kids. Did they know he died?
>>283255788Personally I took it less as a finite limitation and more of that attempt failed simply due to lack of real preparation for the act. If they were completely incapable of it under any circumstances then the failsafe of it killing the user is unnecessary. I would have to imagine that despite the idea of a fiend ever appearing again they had to have had some sort of protocol for it but it fell out of practice. But equally it could just be that despite all his power he simply didn't have it in him in the end to do what is necessary.
>>283256117>Why were they mad about the (alleged) pussy staring then?They were not.>I didn't know he had kids. Did they know he died?We don't know anything about his family.
>>283256166>They were not.They looked so mad. I interpreted it that way. Does that mean when women look at me that way they're not mad either?
>>283256140>I would have to imagine that despite the idea of a fiend ever appearing again they had to have had some sort of protocol for it but it fell out of practice.I think that's what the nerve gas and cats were for. Problem was Saki couldn't go through with the nerve gas, and the queerat combat support + Akki's crazy powerful Maria genes meant the cats couldn't handle the job either.
>>283256187>They looked so mad.Post pic and prove it.
>>283256219I can't post pics here of women I know, they'll get mad for sure.
>>283256299Are you talking about women in real life? Who the fuck cares about them?
>>283256140>I would have to imagine that despite the idea of a fiend ever appearing again they had to have had some sort of protocol for itTheir protocol for dealing with fiends is to kill any and all children who show any signs that they could turn out to be fiends. Like the boy who persistently cheated at a game in one of the early episodes and was never again seen afterwards. Arguably this protocol never failed, since the messiah wasn't a fiend after all. What they didn't have an emergency protocol for was the appearance of a cantus user with killing intent arriving from outside their village, much less one who would launch a surprise attack.
>>283210042because the show is a dystopian nightmare where the uber rich have succeed in creating the perfect slave race from the prior poors.
>>283256210Only one of those was arguably part of a real protocol for the issue, and it was more of a preventative one at that. The gas seemed more like a pre-society relic that they knew about but wasn't really factored into their plans proper. And was a break in case of all other measures failing hail mary play. Failure to really plan for the reality of it seems like the problem in the end. But it is understandable given how the possibility ever happening in the first place is seemingly impossible given all their measures. Though part of that failure was all the real measures pointed inward and never accounted for the potential of it happening outside their influence. Even with what measures they did have for that which ultimately failed or were compromised.
>>283256365That is still a failure of the system and protocols in the end. Yes the internal preventative measures worked as intended. But they didn't have a real plan for what to do if despite everything it still happened anyway. Or if they did they became lax in readiness preparation for it.
>>283256365Was Squealer smart? The whole hypno thing with Messiah was neat.
>>283249403Read >>283218946>>283255706>It would only take one human being a hero to take out that winning piece toonot how it works.
>>283256454I don't think it's a failure of their protocols that they were thrown a curveball which apparently had never occured before in all their history. The fundamental problem they are facing is the fact that every cantus user is a walking, talking weapon of mass destruction. So in building their society, the cantus scientists figured that they had to categorically rule out that any cantus user can ever access his or her powers to intentionally harm other humans. They engineered attack inhibition and death feedback to that end, to prevent mutually assured destruction. The obvious problem is that this leaves them vulnerable to any humans who have no such restrictions placed upon them. So in order to deal with fiends, who can kill with intent, and karma demons, who lost control of their powers and so kill without intent, they already loosened the restrictions a little bit. The neutered cantus users can't attack those two directly, but they can do it indirectly, using tainted cats, administering poison, and similar methods. But loosening the restrictions even more would defeat the point of having developed them in the first place. If there was a way for cantus users to circumvent their attack inhibition and death feedback to deal with a fiend, then they would probably be able to use the same loophole to attack normal humans, giving them full access again to their powers of mass destruction through a backdoor. That was their dilemma.For their society to function, all the psychic nukes had to be under lock and key at all times. If they had to allow access to psychic nukes in case of emergency, then they needn't have bothered with engineering attack inhibition and death feedback in the first place. They had to trust that they could actually pull off a perfectly pacifist society by culling problem children, or otherwise would have to admit that sooner or later some cantus user will nuke the shit out of everyone else and that would be that.
>>283256454>That is still a failure of the system and protocols in the end. Actually, what fucked them over was that they DIDN'T observe their protocols. Normally Saki's group would've been turned into catfood after they went off limits during the school trip. The village elders decided against it because they saw too much potential in Saki and her friends. But if they had been killed like standard protocol demanded, then Squealer would never have obtained his ultimate weapon. Funny that, eh?
>>283255706Squealer was also letting the Messiah wander around the village, at night, while wearing a full body robe and hood.All it would take is one panicked cantus user briefly mistaking the messiah for a rat and twisting his head off in an instant to end the whole war.Really, this SHOULD have happened but luckily for Squealer all the retarded main characters kept running around screaming that the hooded person is a fiend and ensuring that everyone else's genetic aversion was being preemptively triggered.Really, best solution would have been getting an ignorant cantus user and telling them that the hooded person was actually a disguised rat with a sniper rifle and that they need to kill them from ambush with a long distance incineration spell.
>>283210042ugly
>>283257454Really the whole plot hinged on their singular blindspot of not having any form of inherent birth control despite being a high sex society. If they can use physic powers to alter their own dna then it should be childs play to sterilize kids at birth, only to undo it after they pass all their tests.
