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From the New World

★ 7.8 4K votes 2012–2013 1 season · 25 episodes Ended tv asahi
DystopiaOppressive imagined societies and the people caught in them.This show: 9/10Deep worldbuildingDense lore that rewards immersion.This show: 9/10AnimeJapanese animation traditions and grammar.This show: 9/10Coming of ageGrowing up as the central arc.This show: 8/10SerializedContinuous arcs where every episode builds on the last.This show: 8/10Dark toneShadowy mood and subject matter, a shade short of outright bleak.This show: 8/10PhilosophicalBig questions of meaning, ethics and existence.This show: 7/10Slow burnDeliberate pacing where the payoffs are earned over long stretches.This show: 7/10
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Starring
Emily NevesGreg AyresDavid WaldJohn SwaseyChris AyresMonica Rial
Starring
Emily NevesGreg AyresDavid WaldJohn SwaseyChris AyresMonica Rial
Ratings per Episode
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Votes per Episode
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About

"A utopia's psychic peace hides monstrous costs"

In a distant future where humans wield psychic powers, a tight-knit group of children in an idyllic rural community slowly uncover the brutal truths their utopian society is built on. What begins as a coming-of-age story about friendship and first love curdles into slow-burn dystopian horror, as the kids grow into adults forced to confront eugenics, monstrous creatures, and impossible moral choices. The pace is patient, almost novelistic, trading action spectacle for creeping dread and philosophical unease. It's a demanding, deliberately paced show that rewards patience with one of anime's most unsettling visions of a 'perfect' society.

Watch it for

the slow unraveling of a seemingly perfect society into genuine, thought-provoking horror

Maybe skip if

you want fast pacing or action instead of slow, philosophical dystopian dread

Written by our AI editor to help you decide, spoiler-free by design.

All Seasons

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Season 12012
7.43K258h 26m
EpTitleRatingYoursVotesRuntime
▶1The Season of New Leaves6.9
16222 min
▶2The Vanishing Children6.6
14622 min
▶3The False Minoshiro6.8
13922 min
▶4Bloody History7.4
14022 min
▶5Pursuit on a Hot Night6.3
13122 min
▶6Escape6.5
11922 min
▶7Summer Darkness7.0
11922 min
▶8Omen6.6
12122 min
▶9The Rising Wind7.4
11122 min
▶10More Than Darkness7.7
11822 min
▶11Distant Thunder in Winter7.5
10022 min
▶12The Weak Link7.9
106—
▶13Reunion7.3
9922 min
▶14Snowflakes7.6
9722 min
▶15Afterimage7.2
9422 min
▶16To my Beloved Saki7.5
9822 min
▶17Footsteps of Destruction7.3
99—
▶18Scarlet Flower8.1
10322 min
▶19Darkness8.2
10322 min
▶20Cold Sunlight7.8
9822 min
▶21The Fire that Destroys the World8.3
10822 min
▶22Tokyo7.8
9922 min
▶23The Face of the Boy7.9
9822 min
▶24Torchlight in the Darkness7.9
10322 min
▶25From the New World8.1
24222 min

Full Cast & Crew

Cast

Emily Neves Saki Watanabe
Greg Ayres Satoru Asahina
David Wald Additional Voices, Kiroumaru, Takashi Sugiura
John Swasey Additional Voices, Endou, Squnk
Chris Ayres Additional Voices
Monica Rial Maria Akizuki, Additional Voices
Mark Laskowski Additional Voices, Subaru, Noguchi
Kanehira Yamamoto Squnk, Jakujo
Kurt Bauer Additional Voices, Chief
Ricardo Contreras Additional Voices

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