* Based on Kishi Yuusuke's award-winning 2008 speculative fiction novel Shinsekai yori. Saki and her friends Satoru, Maria, Mamoru, and Shun have lived their entire lives in what seemed to be a perfect utopia: a world where almost all technology has been rendered irrelevant by "Juryoku," the psychic ability to materialize anything one desires. But when Saki discovers a long-lost artifact from the past, the façade 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. Because when your whole world is a lie, the truth can be the deadliest weapon of all... Source: R1 DVD