Psycho-Pass
| Psycho-Pass | |
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| Original Story | Gen Urobuchi |
| Directors | Katsuyuki Motohiro, Naoyoshi Shiotani |
| Format | Anime (TV) |
| Made By | Production I.G. |
| # of Episodes | 22 |
Contents
Genre
Sum it up in a Sentence:
The angsty lovechild of Ghost in the Shell and The Minority Report.
Main Description
In the year 2113, Japan has closed it's borders and isolated itself from the world. The country is governed by the Sybil System, a powerful AI capable of measuring a person's emotions, personality and state of mind. This measurement is known as a "Psycho-Pass". Using the Sybil System, law enforcement is able to identify and arrest potential criminals before they commit crimes.
Enter Akane Tsunemori, a naive but intelligent young woman who scored extremely high on the Sybil System's career aptitude test. Given the rare opportunity to choose a job for herself, Akane joins the Public Safety Bureau believing that she can make a difference. The Bureau is comprised of latent criminals offered the chance to help hunt down their own, called "Enforcers" and the supervising detectives that keep them in line, the "Inspectors". As a rookie Inspector, Akane is partnered with the straight-laced Inspector Ginoza, and former inspector-turned-enforcer Shinya Kogami.
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Personal Opinions
Redcrimson
Urobuchi clearly took a lot of pages from George Orwell, Philip K. Dick, among others. Still, Psycho-Pass is a rather interesting take on the futuristic dystopia formula. The world of Psycho-Pass itself is the clear draw for this show. Both the philosophical and technological ideas posed by Psycho-Pass are thought-provoking and intresting. The characters are complex and they get quite a bit of development all around. The villains especially, are are fascinatingly twisted. The OST is varied, but always appropriate. The animation on the other hand, ranges from crisp and beautiful to embarrassingly poor. The middle episodes especially suffer from numerous problems from off-model shots to visibly missing frames of animation. Presumably, these mistakes would be corrected on the BD release. Overall Psycho-Pass is worth the watch if you're in the mood for a dark, reasonably intelligent Sci-Fi thriller.
