She then goes to the academy to learn how to master it with other young people her age, including her friends Maria, Shun, Satoru, and Mamoru.
Eventually, the psychic endowed humans established a stable society by controlling their powers using genetic modification and social conditioning.
The feline Impure Cats are used to kill children at risk of developing one of the two dangerous disorders: the Karmic Demons (業魔, Gōma), who are unable to control their powers, and the Fiends (悪鬼, Akki) (Ogres in the anime), who can suppress the Attack Inhibition and Death Feedback and use their special powers against humans.
In this era, all humans possess powerful psychic abilities and live an idyllic life in agrarian villages.
Based on these evaluations, certain students are removed from society because of reasons such as poor performance (including with Reiko) or cheating.
During an unsupervised camping field trip, Saki and her friends capture a False Minoshiro, a mythical animal revealed to be an ancient library robot.
On the way back to be judged at the village, Rijin is killed by a rogue Queerat tribe while Saki and Satoru are separated from their friends.
Two years later, as Saki and her friends reach adolescence and develop relationships, Shun starts to distance himself from the others and eventually goes missing.
After holding himself back for the duration of their meeting, Shun tells Saki to go while informing her of the adults' knowledge of their transgressions two years prior, he then uses his powers to take his own life.
Soon after, unlike Reiko, Saki and her remaining friends start to realize Shun's absence despite being unable to fully remember him.
Renouncing the name the humans gave him, Squealer is sentenced to perpetual torture of "Infinite Hell" where his body is simultaneously regenerated and destroyed using psychic powers.
The Queerats (Monster Rats) (バケネズミ, Bakenezumi) are humanoid molerat mutants who live in colonies and appear obedient to the humans to the point of referring to them as gods.
[4] In an interview Kishi mentioned that he got the idea from reading King Solomon's Ring by Konrad Lorenz, in which the zoologist compared aggression of some herd animals with that of humans.
Kishi also said that some names of the strange animals were a tribute to the science fiction novel Long Afternoon of Earth by Brian Aldiss.
[18][19] The novel was adapted into an anime television series by A-1 Pictures which aired on TV Asahi from October 2012 to March 2013.
Sliced Apple) by Risa Taneda was used for episode 1 through 16, which was replaced by "Yuki ni Saku Hana" (雪に咲く花, lit.
[35][36] Along with Den-noh Coil, From the New World received the Grand Prize of the 29th Nihon SF Taisho Award by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of Japan (SFWJ) in 2008.