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For me Shinsekai Yori is an anime about the history of humankind, despite the fact it takes place a thousand years from now. A very unique and good show that worth the praise and was refreshing to me in it's own right.

I started watching Shinsekai Yori when it started airing in 2012 but stopped at episode 13 because I lost interest in it because I thought "what a slow anime...". I started it again from episode 1 in 2017 and finished it in a week. Now I think it was too fast and slow at the same time. The pacing of the story was a ... little bit slow for my taste, but the rate we received information about everything was too fast/not enough time has spent on it. Most of the time we got information about the current world and the last 1000 years in big (too big for me) fragments, which was good because we could somewhat empathize with the shock of the characters but it caused information loss for me and there were some parts I had to rewatch because of this and I'm not a big fan of rewatching dry information bits.

Despite the pacing, the story was really good and it had quite a few plot twists. We got segments of the main characters life's with years in-between so we could concentrate on the more important bits. With the summary of the in-between years the story remained intact, did not got segmented. It was a very elegant way to tell it.

As for the animation and art... I didn't like it that much. It was unique and likeable but sloppy more than once. I know that making an animation is hard work and I can accept some hiccups but there were a little bit too much for me. Also there were some parts in the animation that were completely unnecessary in my opinion or I just didn't get what they wanted to express with them. Although I have to praise it's fluidity. The scenes felt natural most of the time. Another great part was the effects. They were nice and subtle sometimes, really over the top in others and could strengthen the feel of each scene.

Sound-wise I really enjoyed the entirety of the show. I liked the reoccurring songs, the sounds (or the lack) of animals, the dramatic music, the voice of (most) characters and the ED as well. It suited the show well. One of the few things I disliked was Mamoru's voice for some reason but overall they did a great job.

And here comes what I disliked the most. Characters, character development and character relations. Most of the main characters had a certain depth, some more-some less, but I just simply can't say I like any of them or I hate most of them. They are too ordinary despite being special in that society. And there's not really any development in their personality. It's not that they are the same in the beginning and the end of the show, it do feel like their personality age, but all along I feel like their perspective is too narrow despite everything they live through. As for their relationships with each other... I just couldn't understand why they felt that way toward each other most of the time.
The supporting characters in the other hand were perfect in my opinion. They had the necessary depth in personality and goals that was required and I could decide easily whether I like them or not.
I would especially like to praise Squealer's character. He was a really well established character.

It is a good anime, but I think it could have been better. The message it wanted to convey was conveyed but if you learned history you can learn the same if you think about it. Most humans are arrogant, egocentric, somewhat racist and short sighted creatures. Most of them want happiness for themselves even if it means the agony of others. But if the need arise they can change, temporarily at least, to solve the problems these attributes create. It happened multiple times in our known history. Personally I hate mankind for these attributes but I can love each individual because of the potential he/she have to change it and the things around him/her.

As a final word... If you interested in this anime because of it's premise or because of a review then watch it. It can change your perspective and thoughts of the current world and the past. It can change you so you start thinking and not accept everything without a second thought. Thank you for reading this review!

After watching the Crunchyroll Anime Awards 2016 and some Youtubers reactions to it I decided to give Yuri!!! on ICE a go. At first I quite liked it, then it became less and less enjoyable with every episode...

I generally don't watch sport animes nor BL so the show was new to me in these aspects, but did not capture me in the slightest because of these elements.

Let's start with the sport aspect... For the first 5 or so episodes it felt like I was watching the Olympics. I did not really understand how difficult the performances were but it felt good to see them. After ... that it just became more of the same with more and more forced personal struggle. The last 2 episodes were really really boring because of this....

For the BL part it felt like it was there to be there so our main character could improve for a reason and that's all. It was obvious from the start but there weren't enough screen time for it to feel entirelry right with me when the establishment of the relationship happened. There were tears, anxiety, happiness after that but all of it felt forced and it got more screen time than necessary...

The story was like this: Get somewhat familiar with the characters > Competition > New characters > Competiton > New characters > Competition and that's all. Because of this the characters were vague for me. All had some kind of a dream but nothing I would remember after some days. Especially Yuri's character was bad. It was all over the place. Agressive, submissive, brave, cool, crybaby, anxious, etc. Inconsistency in it's finest.

The art and animation was alright but a lot of short clips were repeated more than once. I did not like the skating bits however. They felt too much like cheap green screen parts from older live action movies with unmoving backgrounds... The character designs compansated for it though, they were quite good.

The one part I praise is the sounds. The OP and ED were good especially the OP as far as the music goes (The animation for them was kinda meh...). The songs the skaters were skating to were diverse but enjoyable and really set a mood for the skating. The voice actor selection for the skaters were really good as well amd they did a fine job with their lines.

The last thing I would like to rate is the fanservice. It was definitely for the female watchers. Asses, musculine (half-)naked men, shiny and tight costumes for the performances, and some close up lipshots...I still can't get over those....

All in all it was watchable, even entertaining to some degree. I expected far worse than what I got because of the Youtube reviews.
I wouldn't recommend it to everyone but if you like ice skating or shipping male characters with each other then give it a go.

Btw I'm a straight man in his early twenties with an acceptance to homosexual relationships. Maybe someone can better understand this review with these informations.