From the New World (Season 1)

From the New World (Shinsekai yori, 2012) is a dark science-fiction anime you can watch online on iFILM, adapted from Yusuke Kishi's acclaimed novel. The setting is Earth a thousand years from now. Machines are long gone, towns are small, and people move matter with their minds. A paradise built on something terrible.

Saki Watanabe and four childhood friends grow up in the quiet village of Kamisu 66, where everyone wields "cantus" — a telekinetic gift that awakens around age twelve. The older they get, the more dangerous their curiosity becomes. Why do adults dread leaving town? What are the rat-like Monster Rats who serve humanity so loyally? Where do the children who fail to develop their power disappear to? Risa Taneda and Yuki Kaji lead the voice cast, and a deep bench of directors shapes its uneasy mood.

The series moves slowly and pulls no punches. Layer by layer the utopia reveals itself as a dystopia where social safety rests on brutal control and rewritten memory. It rewards viewers who want thoughtful sci-fi with real ideas under the surface, not action for its own sake, and who can stomach genuinely grim turns. Stream every episode of From the New World online on iFILM.