Novel Spoilers

hpulley said:
Saki and Shun don't discuss the weather or anything like that. She does speak to him The first time he doesn't speak back to her at all, just smiles. Later on she is always in a fight for her life so there is no time for small talk, just learning how to defeat Maria's son.

Tokyo yes. Subways I think, underground. I focus more on the action and I start reading too fast when it gets exciting so I miss stuff and have to go back and reread. I can look for location references again tonight though I want to finish Red Data Girl six novels before the show starts so I will need to forget about Shinsekai Yori soon!

I thought she already told him she loved him on the boat but the anime either skipped it or I misread it. I looked for it last night but couldn't find it so now I am doubting myself. For once I wish I had this as a ebook so I could search for it. I have a zillion paper bookmarks for important events but stupidly I forgot to put a bookmark at that page. I will search again...

hpulley said:
I have only started RDG but it is good so far. Will have to let you know when I finish... and make a novel forum.

The final battle is long, cat and mouse in the tunnels, separations, chases, hiding, etc. Unless I misunderstood, Satoru is there too when Maria's son dies but he may be some distance away. He is at least within shouting distance I say. It is a chaotic fight, not straightforward. Wish I had the book on me... will check again tonight. They go down with Inui and Kiroumaru.

After the kid dies Saki then thinks or at least writes, I did not kill. I did not kill. I did not kill. I am alive. Even with the Psycho Buster she was worried she would die of kishi but the first person narrative makes it less intense as you know she cannot die if she wrote the book. Would have been more exciting if it had been Satoru and you didn't know, if Saki did not know if he was dead or alive and they could have had Shun speak in Satoru's head too, they were lovers after all.

hpulley said:
They both show caring but I think Satoru shows more caring. He asks if she is OK a lot anyway.

Saki is the narrator so of course it is mostly her story.

hpulley said:
Narrator's prerogative...

hpulley said:

Yes, Shun tells her that Maria's son is not really an Akki.

Cadavera said:


What is he then? How did Yakomaru control him? Are the qeerats really non-psychic humans of ages past "evolved" into their current form by cantus using humans?

hpulley said:

They are using mind control drugs is the short version. The novel spends many pages on it about the what, why and how of it.

hpulley said:
Didn't say 12yo Shun, said not a boys face IIRC.

hpulley said:
She has a flashback to the fourth episode when 12 yo Shun asked questions of the library so that makes sense. The one in her head didn't say anything the first time she saw him. Just smiled.

deave112 said:


So they've added some original stuff because in the preview you can hear 12 year old Shun tell Saki "it's all right Saki, everything is going to be all right".

But does it say in the novel if she sees the 14 year old Shun or the 12 year old Shun in her head?

hpulley said:

Doesn't give an age. Could be another time she sees him..And I can always miss stuff...

Miyaa said:
@hpulley
I just have one small question
Did tomiko and the other adults know that the queerats are humans without pk?

hpulley said:


I'm embarrassed to say I read "not the face of a boy" backwards, it was as we know instead "the boy without a face." Duh... What happens when you are excited and reading too quickly. Shun! Shun! Was so excited to see his name that I read that backwards.

But I see no mention of Shun's age when she sees him. I am trying to remember now if he wore the mask when he was 12 too or just when he was 14? We see him wearing the mark in episode 1 but it was a view of the future, I think.

deave112 said:


He wear the mask in Saki's head when she sees him?

hpulley said:


or did it already show Shun in the preview? I haven't actually seen 22 yet...

deave112 said:


I heard the Akki's death supposed to be a very emotional scene, why is that?

hpulley said:


Should be obvious: Who is he? Who's son is he? Who does he look like?

And they worry about whether or not it will work, if they will die too. Even using the Psycho Buster they worry about kishi and they worry about being killed by Akki.

deave112 said:


But they already know his Maria's son so... What? Saki just cry over him after he dies because he's Maria's son? Doesn't sound that sad to me. Someone told me it's the saddest scene in the novel.

By the way, in the preview for episode 24 they make it look like Satoru is going to sacrifice himself to kill the Akki and Saki screams "No! Don't do it! Stop!"... Is it something original for the anime or it was like that in the novel or the preview just misleading us and she screams about something else?

hpulley said:


Saki thinks she may die or Satoru may die, that was emotional to me. More her thinking she will die.

Will have to look for a line exactly like that, can't remember but the whole thing is quite a long affair. They change their minds after Shun talks to Saki, or Saki talks to Saki as Shun depending on your opinion. I can't remember now if she yells at Satoru to stop when Shun tells her to run away from Akki.

hpulley said:


Saki thinks she may die or Satoru may die, that was emotional to me. More her thinking she will die.

Will have to look for a line exactly like that, can't remember but the whole thing is quite a long affair. They change their minds after Shun talks to Saki, or Saki talks to Saki as Shun depending on your opinion. I can't remember now if she yells at Satoru to stop when Shun tells her to run away from Akki.

hpulley said:
Tough when he speaks only queerat.