Reminiscence; Recollection; Remembrance: Awwww :3

At first glance, it seemed like a supernatural, action packed series.
At second look, it seemed all innocent with slice-of-life humours
And now, it seemed all serious, emotional and together with a cute relationship, we get the Chuunibyou that we have right now.

Having the series introducing each of the various protagonists, slowly developing and uncovering Rikka's background story and with her finally realising the thing called "Love" amidst her current Chuunibyou. And with the 10th episode, the duo finally admit their own feelings and confessed to each other, with Rikka taking the first step ahead. And boy, that was just sweet. That happy atmosphere could have lasted longer until trouble comes finding the following day when Rikka's mother appears and Yuuta starts to hesitate on whether to force Rikka to see the truth or continue to believe what she had, which was the existence of the horizon. True enough, the word "responsiblity" came down hard on Yuuta, since he was called irresponsible in shielding Rikka from reality and on the other hand, there was the risk of Yuuta ruining his new found relationship if he had decided to force reality onto Rikka.

Honestly I was surprised to see Yuuta choosing to go along with the latter path and that made me feel sad for him for having a wonderful relationship being reduced to a tense and unstable one. On Rikka's side, her Chuunibyou has most probably developed from her trauma of losing her loved one and the eyepatch, or her "Tyrant's Eye" is mainly a substitute for her to take her time to accept the fact, the harsh reality. Yuuta's decision could have been the right choice since it'll be easier to recover when one is still young and with the final scene of Rikka removing her eyepatch in accordance to Yuuta's request, with the disappearance of the "Tyrant's Eye", Rikka might have just overcame her own barrier and chose to follow Yuuta instead. However the ending was abrupt and Rikka didn't really showed much emotion thus it still remains debatable on whether she has fully recovered or has just lost herself in the world of reality. I do hope that the relationship between the two of them still remains as good as ever and with the series moving away from slice-of-life scenes, this can only get better.

Now it's time to search for the novels! :)

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More and more mysteries and questions are appearing with the completion of Guns-1 in Robotics;Notes. And so it seems that the completion of the giant robot wasn't the main goal for the series, as it's already completed near the start of the series itself. A sneak peek at Aki's sister also suggests that she's also working on a robot by herself too and has changed in her attitude towards Aki, with her seen calling Guns-1 a pile of junk and not bothering to reply Aki's mail at all. Who exactly is she? What is she working on? And what caused her to changed that much? Flashbacks suggests that she was a rather caring individual, chasing down her dream of completing Guns-1 but now, it all seemed to be a lie. Nothing much is still revealed about the Kimijima Kou Reports, or so for now, since only 2 has been uncovered.

I do feel abit sad to see Aki having her dream "shattered" after putting in so much effort into Guns-1 which in the end couldn't keep up with the technological advances and human expectations. That just shows how true an exponential growth in technological advances are. People would keep expecting more and more from technology as time flies and not many would be aware of the hard work and sacrifices that some have made to make something possible. In a way, having just students completing a giant robot was already a great accomplishment but the desire to see more or the higher expectations crushed the dreams of the youngsters, forcing the hard truth down that even if Guns-1 was completed, what next? Tennouji Nae still remains as a rather normal character, not so sure if she was deliberately placed into the series to show connections with Steins;Gate or that she's just a basic cameo that merely shows that it's another timeline in itself.

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There's this new found, unique trait that I can say I've seen in Shin Sekai Yori. "Confusion"

That basically sums up what I'm feeling after watching the series till now. There wasn't really a clear storyline, just showing how dangerous it may be to probe into protected secrets and every episode seems to have a small time skip here and there. Till now, I can't really grasp what exactly is the plot heading towards now. The previous episode had Shun disappearing due to him losing control over his Cantus, and in hope of seeing the aftermath of Shun's disappearance, the latest episode had a sudden replacement over his existence, everyone got their memory wiped, and neither did they show the "new guy" entrance to the group, to "act" as Shun's existence. This does bear similar traits with Higurashi's 1st season where things don't quite make sense, so hopefully either this series runs for long or that there'd be a 2nd season following this. Having too many unanswered questions till the end would make it too confusing to follow. Up to now, there have just been more and more questions, and lesser and lesser answers. I'm honestly starting to lose track of this series...

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and here's just two awesome bgms: