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 Psycho-Pass is an original anime that has been known about since March of this year. After months of no information being released it was later revealed to be a cyberpunk anime produced by Production I.G and written by Gen Urobuchi. Story In the world of Psycho-Pass, it is possible to instantly measure a person's state of mind and their personality. People who are found to be very predisposed to committing crimes are removed from society. However, people who have the mindset of criminals and also have good detective skills are occasionally offered jobs as enforcers of the law, as their understanding of the criminal mind can give them an advantage in stopping and solving crimes. The executive officers that manage these enforcers are society's top elites, who have been measured to have stable personalities with very low predisposition for committing crimes. These agents of law enforcement are equipped with guns that are capable of measuring a person's state of mind, automatically selecting the proper amount of force to use in response. Main Characters  Shinya Kogami (VA: Tomokazu Seki) is an enforcement officer who belongs to the Bureau of Criminal Investigation Department. He is trained to investigate everything in detail to the limits of even his own body and powers. He is well-respected by his colleagues. Shinya himself, even though he is an enforcement officer, has a high level of criminality potential as measured by the system they use. It seems his past is also tied to an unsolved bizarre murder case.  Akane Tsunemori (VA: Kana Hanazawa) is a surveillance officer in the Bureau of Criminal Investigation Department. She is pushy and soft on the outside, but cunning on the inside. Akane is a fresh grad who enters the force as an executive officer because of her high aptitude scores. Staff and Other Info Chief Director: Katsuyuki Motohiro (Known for Bayside Shakedown, a popular live action series.) Director: Naoyoshi Shiotani (Blood-C: The Last Dark) Scenario: Gen Urobuchi (Madoka Magica, Fate/Zero) Original Character Design: Akira Amano (Hitman Reborn!) Studio: Production I.G Number of Episodes: 22 Where to view: No streaming options seemed to be planned so far, but I doubt we'll have to worry about fansubs if it comes down to it. Initial Air Date: October 11th, 2012 Official Website: http://www.psycho-pass.com/ Personal Opinions Gen Urobuchi writing a cyberpunk story is something that hasn't happened in quite some time (Kikokugai in 2002 and his Equlibrium fanfiction in 2003, Blassreiter doesn't count as his initial ideas were rejected and he ended up writing less than a third of it). I try to maintain an air of cautious optimism about things that I really want to see, but holy poo poo I am so hyped right now. Production I.G is doing straight up cyberpunk with adult characters again and Gen Urobuchi is writing it! Or we could potentially get another Blassreiter, but from interviews with Urobuchi and Motohiro that doesn't seem to be the case. Urobuchi appears to have a good degree of creative control on this project. Promo Videos https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcDbfLyQEoA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_A_wsT5WQE jonjonaug fucked around with this message at 02:41 on Oct 8, 2012 |
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Oct 6, 2012 07:49
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Gen Urobuchi doing cyberpunk? Last time this happened we got Kikokugai, which loving owns. (I'm not counting his Equilibrium fanfiction because Equilibrium isn't really cyberpunk also I refuse to believe that exists.)
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Oct 6, 2012 07:51
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I didn't realize it was an original story, which makes me more excited because the only original anime I've seen or even know of is Madoka. I don't think this could possibly be bad. The premise sounds like it has plenty of room for interesting twists.
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Oct 6, 2012 08:04
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Sounds like Money and Intelligence from Bakuman, so it's already got points from me.
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Oct 6, 2012 08:28
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 This promo is what's especially gotten me excited for this show. The department is broken down into the Enforcers and Inspectors, and since the Enforcers have a high crime potential it's the job of the Inspectors to deal with any of them that get out of line. The majority of the cast are Enforcers, and Akane is an Inspector. If this doesn't become a plot point I am gonna be so mad.
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Oct 6, 2012 13:12
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Enforcers, no trigger discipline. Inspectors, trigger discipline. I guess the enforcers are going to be gunho rowdy bunch in the groups while inspectors would be the level headed ones.
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Oct 6, 2012 15:18
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Law and Order: Future Crimes Division. This show is gonna be awesome.
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Oct 6, 2012 15:26
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Giggily posted:
Plot point? It seems obvious that that's going to be Shinya and Akane's basic character dynamic. Clueless, rule-abiding newbie trying to keep maverick veteran in line - that's pretty standard for a cop show.
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Oct 6, 2012 18:17
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I'm going to be pretty interested to see what kind of organised crime can even exist in this kind of environment. Like I'd assume that the themes of the show will be how people pansy around on preventing the police from finding *evidence* of crimes even if they can assess who is likely the culprit at a glance. Except that by the stated information so far, they are allowed to incarcerate people solely one the basis of having a high crime index. So uh... even if the potential for drama in terms of conflicts between inspectors and enforcers, and people with low crime index committing crimes anyway... I don't see how the actual crimes themselves are going to work.
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Oct 6, 2012 18:18
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Wow, this looks like my kind of thing, and I would have missed it if not for this post. Thanks.
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Oct 6, 2012 18:19
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Darth Walrus posted:Plot point? It seems obvious that that's going to be Shinya and Akane's basic character dynamic. Clueless, rule-abiding newbie trying to keep maverick veteran in line - that's pretty standard for a cop show. It's more implied that the Inspectors are brought on board in part to kill Enforcers that get out of line, so it's a little bit darker than that.
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Oct 6, 2012 18:55
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Giggily posted:It's more implied that the Inspectors are brought on board in part to kill Enforcers that get out of line, so it's a little bit darker than that. Point. Well, this is Urobuchi.
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Oct 6, 2012 19:11
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lodoubt posted:Like I'd assume that the themes of the show will be how people pansy around on preventing the police from finding *evidence* of crimes even if they can assess who is likely the culprit at a glance. I doubt it. Personally I think it's more likely the show's going to go over the massive flaws with the idea that a person is "predisposed" to crime and show how the system is wrong.
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Oct 6, 2012 19:57
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Dr Pepper posted:I doubt it. Personally I think it's more likely the show's going to go over the massive flaws with the idea that a person is "predisposed" to crime and show how the system is wrong. I'd be quite happy with Minority Report: the Anime, to be honest.
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Oct 6, 2012 19:58
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Dr Pepper posted:I doubt it. Personally I think it's more likely the show's going to go over the massive flaws with the idea that a person is "predisposed" to crime and show how the system is wrong. I'm not expecting the next Madoka though, just a better Minority Report.
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Oct 6, 2012 22:07
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It seems like a bit of an oversight that an Urobuchi series isn't streaming anywhere.
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Oct 7, 2012 01:04
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Vincent Valentine posted:It seems like a bit of an oversight that an Urobuchi series isn't streaming anywhere. It's a noitaminA show. Odds are pretty drat good that it will get streamed. Negotiating the licenses for this sort of thing can often fall down to the last minute, but I'm sure someone will get the rights. I can't even remember the last noitaminA title to not get streamed (not counting Thermae Romae, which was just 3 episodes).
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Oct 7, 2012 01:12
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Srice posted:I can't even remember the last noitaminA title to not get streamed (not counting Thermae Romae, which was just 3 episodes). Ano Hana.
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Oct 7, 2012 08:36
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I love cyberpunk. This show gives me Ghost in the Shell vibes from just reading about it. Maybe they won't be cyborgs, but there seems to be some similarities. Thanks for working on this and creating a thread, Jonjonaug.
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Oct 7, 2012 14:59
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After seeing this thread, I'd have to be a psycho to pass this one up. This actually looks pretty interesting, and I've been itching for something like it ever since we had the Dennou Coil / GitS:2nd Gig simulwatch. Here's hoping it's solid.
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Oct 7, 2012 21:11
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I'm not even bothering to learn anything about this besides the name. I just hear Urobuchi and immediately get ready to be blown away.
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Oct 8, 2012 23:59
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cheetah7071 posted:I'm not even bothering to learn anything about this besides the name. I just hear Urobuchi and immediately get ready to
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Oct 9, 2012 08:17
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New show by Urobuchi? Alright, I'm in, guy has never made anything bad in his life.
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Oct 9, 2012 12:25
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Zahki posted:New show by Urobuchi? Alright, I'm in, guy has never made anything bad in his life. he wrote madoka.
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Oct 9, 2012 13:12
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Zahki posted:New show by Urobuchi? Alright, I'm in, guy has never made anything bad in his life. Popehoist posted:he wrote madoka. Watched the trailer for this and it looks OK. I was expecting it to be more GITSy and visually interesting. Still looking forward to it, just not as much.
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Oct 9, 2012 13:21
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Popehoist posted:he wrote madoka.
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Oct 9, 2012 14:13
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Zahki posted:New show by Urobuchi? Alright, I'm in, guy has never made anything bad in his life. Popehoist posted:he wrote madoka. I'm sorry, the correct answer is Blassreiter. Good hustle with the "say popular thing sucks" answer though!
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Oct 9, 2012 14:58
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Chas McGill posted:Watched the trailer for this and it looks OK. I was expecting it to be more GITSy and visually interesting. Still looking forward to it, just not as much. From the reactions I've seen to the preview screenings, the majority of people are complimenting it for having fantastic background scenery and writing, with pretty standard character animation. Honestly, though, as long as the writing is good the animation isn't going to bother me. MadRhetoric posted:I'm sorry, the correct answer is Blassreiter. Good hustle with the "say popular thing sucks" answer though! How dare you dislike something that is popular, Popehoist. 
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Oct 9, 2012 15:20
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Giggily posted:From the reactions I've seen to the preview screenings, the majority of people are complimenting it for having fantastic background scenery and writing, with pretty standard character animation. Honestly, though, as long as the writing is good the animation isn't going to bother me. I didn't like Madoka*, but I do like cyberpunk and, by extension, Minority Report style what-if scenarios, so I'm still hopeful that the writing will hold up. How they handle the 'rookie' character will be rather important, I think. Got a bit of an Ai Tanabe from Planetes vibe from her. *I should note that I'm not at all familiar on the genre it is based on, so perhaps I missed out on a lot of references and concepts when I watched it. Chas McGill fucked around with this message at 15:40 on Oct 9, 2012 |
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Oct 9, 2012 15:28
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drat, this looks nice; last anime I watched was Bodacious Space Pirates, and this looks like an excellent change of pace!
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Oct 9, 2012 15:51
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Funi announced that they'll be streaming this starting at 12:45 pm EDT on the 11th. http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2012-10-09/funimation-streams-code-breaker-kamisama-kiss-jormungand-psycho-pass-robotics-notes-oniai
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Oct 9, 2012 18:59
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Nice. I think I finally found an anime to watch this season.
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Oct 11, 2012 02:46
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Just saw the first episode. It was pretty, um, bad. For the record, I went into it giving the show the benefit of the doubt and even wanting to like it, but, just, drat. I can't really muster up enough care to write this again, so I just edited my blow-by-blow from IRC: Well like so the premise is basically Minority Report, but it's guns instead of telepaths or whatever. So, okay, it starts off with the newbie chick showing up for her first case. which is like alright whatever standard. But then her partner is like "Oh hey here's these guys you're in charge of now" They're like, ultra criminals. Except because they're ultra criminals they're cops? idk how it makes sense that someone with a high "criminal coefficient" would be good at like catching criminals, but whatever okay, I'll go along with it. Now he tells her that they're gonna go after some guy who was flagged on scanners and ran earlier. Which is like, again, alright. But then her partner takes half of the ultra criminal brigade and peaces out. He's just like "we're splitting up, there's no actual plan have fun!" And then the older ultra criminal guy who's w/ newbie chick explains like her job to her, even though you'd think that she, having passed tests and poo poo to get this job at this level, would know this stuff already. Meanwhile, the target goes off on a rant to himself about how, since he was flagged as a potential criminal, his life is over so he might as well kill and rape people because why not (subtle, I know) So he starts doing a rape on some lady he grabbed (naturally). Meanwhile, newbie chick is still like "oh my god what's going on" and I'm like "yeah I'd like to know too!"––I mean-–so the older criminal guy with her like leads the charge in and stuff. But the other team finds the criminal first but Ishida Akira's first shot fails to disable the guy so he runs. Now we find out that because the guy had raped the lady he targeted now HER psychopass is criminal level, like instantly (also this is apparently normal/just how Psycho-pass works/everyone knows this). Ultimately they track down the guy, he gets upgraded to insta death and Tomokazu Seki shoots him while newbie girl cries. Then they chase down the rape victim and because she escaped the initial attempt to disable her she's instantly a super criminal and the gun says she's gotta die too. So the badass ultra criminals are like WELL THATS LIFE while newbie girl is crying about it (why she didn't know about this seemingly basic principal of the psycho pass is beyond me). She eventually talks the lady down from killing herself and the gun is like "OKAY NOW YOU'RE BACK DOWN TO NON-LETHAL DESIGNATION." Which makes you wonder if it's that easy to downgrade someone why would you step it up to lethal so quickly? Anyway Tomokazu Seki tries shooting her but newbie girl is like slow mo NOOOOOOOOOOOO (seriously) and shoots him. Of course it works on him because he's an ultra criminal so he's a viable target and then he gets knocked out or something and the episode ends Oh, I forgot the prologue. So, Tomokazu Seki is like fighting stuff and then Sakurai comes down the stairs dramatically and is like "You did well despite your injuries." And then newbie girl narrates about how they're ~destined rivals~ who ~know each other better than anyone else~ and ~only focus on each other~ (basically could have been cribbed off some naration about Kiritsugu and Kirei). So basically what I'm saying is it's poo poo.
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Oct 11, 2012 05:33
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drat, well there goes my hopes for this season. drat you anime! 
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Oct 11, 2012 05:37
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Well. Avoiding Good Haro's post till I watch the first episode; here's something from the director.MAL - Director Motohiro Katsuyuki Omits Moe From Psycho-Pass Anime posted:Weekly Playboy News released an interview with director Motohiro Katsuyuki and writer Urobuchi Gen about new anime Psycho-Pass. Monohiro said he didn't allow the production staff to use the word "moe" in the discussion meeting. "This anime goes against the current trend of anime industry. So it'll either be a complete failure or a great success." Urobuchi said Motohiro protects him from noitamina producer's demands to add appealing elements for female audience. Going to live or die on its own strength I guess.
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Oct 11, 2012 15:34
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The rookie looks rather 'moe', though. What is he on about? Compared to GITS the character designs look cutesy.
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Oct 11, 2012 15:50
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Chas McGill posted:The rookie looks rather 'moe', though. What is he on about? Compared to GITS the character designs look cutesy.
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Oct 11, 2012 15:59
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Guyver posted:Going to live or die on its own strength I guess. Well, I guess it's good to know that there are no excuses for the army of fanboys this show will inevitably generate to blame any complaints about the show on.
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Oct 11, 2012 16:23
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Endorph posted:They're certainly not 'moe' in the typical anime way. I think she's meant to look somewhat innocent because her being somewhat innocent is actually a Thing, not because they want to sell figurines of her where you can see her underwear.
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Endorph posted:They're certainly not 'moe' in the typical anime way. I think she's meant to look somewhat innocent because her being somewhat innocent is actually a Thing, not because they want to sell figurines of her where you can see her underwear. Those two statements aren't exactly mutually exclusive.
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