Shinsekai Yori (from The New World) -

Shinsekai Yori offers no heroes and no tidy resolutions. Saki Watanabe survives not because she is the bravest or strongest, but because she is adaptable enough to learn the rules of a horrifying game. The novel/anime’s enduring power lies in its refusal to offer a clear moral lesson. Is their society evil? Perhaps. But is there a stable alternative for beings who can level a city with a thought? The story does not pretend to know. Instead, it leaves us with an uncomfortable mirror. We do not have Cantus, but we have weapons of mass destruction, we have surveillance states, we have systemic discrimination against the "other," and we have the constant rewriting of history to suit the powerful. Shinsekai Yori is not a fantasy about the future. It is a stark, beautiful, and devastating allegory for the present—a reminder that the most frightening dystopia is not one where we are ruled by tyrants, but one where we willingly erase our own past and call it peace. In the end, the "new world" is just the old one, wearing a different mask.