Hanabee has picked up several titles as of late with plans for a May 2014 release and one more that they’ve got is From the New World, aka Shin Sekai Yori. The company doesn’t have any details yet on what the release will be like in terms of pricing, exact date and formats, but intends to release news this coming week. The series is one that got a simulcast in many parts of the world when it first premiered and ran for two seasons and it was licensed in North America by Sentai Filmworks, who is set to release the first part this April in bilingual form on both DVD and Blu-ray. It’s expected that Hanabee will have it out on at least bilingual DVD for Australian anime fans.
Plot concept: Born into a world a thousand years in our future, Saki and her friends Satoru, Maria, Mamoru and Shun have lived their entire lives in what seems to be a perfect utopia. Not only is their small, idyllic community overflowing with clean rushing water and abundant green foliage, but almost all technology has been rendered irrelevant by the magical power of “Juryoku,” the psychic ability to materialize anything one desires. But when Saki discovers a long-lost artifact from the past, the facade of their world is shattered and the cracks that split the foundation of their reality threaten to swallow them whole!
Faced with a bloody secret history of how their world really came to be and thrust into a nightmarish new paradigm, Saki and her companions are confronted with dangers they never knew existed and a series of choices that may change the fate of every intelligent creature on the planet – human and otherwise!