Episode 4 was a good episode, but my take on it is similar to Utsuro no Hako's.
Episode 4 basically takes all the little puzzle piece-sized clues that the anime has been dropping throughout the first three episodes, and it puts them together to form a very nice, neat, and tidy puzzle. In one way, it's very good storytelling (I do like the general approach taken here). But in another way it's a bit underwhelming since everything came together so very intuitively that part of me is going "That's it?". There's not much here that's particularly eyebrow-raising.
But this episode does continue Shinsekai Yori's fine tradition of an episode ending way before I (and many other viewers I suspect) thought it was over. It's a very engrossing story that's being told here, and I'm very much looking forward to Episode 5.
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