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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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WickedIcon posted:I haven't watched it yet, but it sounds like it's pretty typical Urobuchi, i.e. if I liked Madoka, Fate/zero and his VNs I'll probably dig this too. Does that sound about right? Just finished watching this myself and not quite. I'd say if you enjoyed Kikokugai and/or Saya no Uta or all of Fate/Zero, there's a good chance you'll enjoy this. If you only liked Madoka Magica or just the Waver/Rider parts of Fate/Zero and disliked the rest of it (or only enjoyed it ironically), you might find this hard to enjoy. If you disliked all of those you might as well get out now, because there probably won't be anything for you here. Good Things Backgrounds and CGI look gorgeous. The cityscape reinforces the cyberpunk dystopia feeling very well. Voice acting is good. Akira Ishida really seems to be enjoying this. This is old-school Urobuchi in full force, it reminded me a lot more of Kikokugai than anything else he's written in the past seven or so years. This can also be a bad thing, if you're not a fan of very hammy, over the top action things. Bad Things Urobuchi has a tendency to frontload all of his exposition somewhere into the first two chapters of whatever he's doing. Usually he provides a cool hook to keep you around for that, but the opening action sequence didn't do a very good job of that (compare Kikokugai's opening fight scene followed by detailed explanations of cyber kung-fu and androids, Saya no Uta's best opening scene ever in anything followed by doctor appointments explaining things Fuminori should have already known, and Madoka's opening scene and the first witch barrier followed by most of episode 2 being explanations about things). Still, this wasn't anywhere near as exposition-y as the first chapter/episode of Fate/Zero, and that turned out just fine. If we're still into heavy exposition by the end of episode 3 or 4, I'll be worried though. jonjonaug fucked around with this message at 00:03 on Oct 12, 2012 |
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Oct 11, 2012 23:59
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WickedIcon posted:Given that you're the only one who absolutely vomited with anger at me really liking Urobuchi's stuff, and I've also seen you melt the gently caress down in other threads over people disagreeing with you (how's the gay rape porn translation going, btw?), I'd say I'm gonna continue to believe that. WickedIcon please stop posting bad posts. Good_Haro's allowed to not like things and she raises a few good points as to why she doesn't like the show. Some of these points are even things that people who are enjoying the show and are looking forward to the rest agree on (overloaded exposition, some actions near the end are kind of dumb, etc.).
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Oct 12, 2012 23:38
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laplace posted:This is an interesting article that goes into some pretty interesting details about the potential origin of Psycho-Pass as a fanfic visual novel Urobuchi wrote a while ago after he saw the movie Equilibrium. Equilibrium is one of my favorite movies and Jouka no Monshou was fun so I don't see what the problem is. Giggily posted:Gun Kata is from Equilibrium. Like, reading over that dude's article it sounds like the VN he made was literally just Equilibrium fanfiction with nothing changed. Jouka no Monshou is Equilibrium fanfiction that takes place before the events of the movie and is basically just a big gun kata sperge fest. It's great. jonjonaug fucked around with this message at 23:46 on Oct 18, 2012 |
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Oct 18, 2012 23:35
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I liked the second episode. The infodump was still there, but not as drastic or as jarring as in the first, and the Enforcers seem like cool dudes. There were a couple of dropped hints to later plot threads I hope come up. Kogami not being EDGY all the time was refreshing too. E: 
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Oct 19, 2012 00:35
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New episode out! Another improvement over last week's episode, the second half was really fun. Tomozaku~ 
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Oct 26, 2012 00:24
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Dr_Amazing posted:This one was kind of weird since it was so obvious. You have the old guy saying "my keen understanding of the criminal mind makes me think that the guy getting the corporate approved abuse might end up lashing out at his coworkers." Then the other guy calling him an idiot and insisting that only the computer can tell them who is a criminal. The point was to prove that he was the one that committed the murder. It was obvious that he was likely to commit a crime, the point was that they were being cock-blocked in their investigation and needed a quick way to prove that he was capable of committing the murder. Dragging him out into the street only would have proved that he had a high enough crime coeffecient to be stunned, it wouldn't have proved that he programmed the robots to go into full murder mode.
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Oct 27, 2012 00:17
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Urobuchi is the author of the VN that the Phantom TV anime was an adaptation of, it was the first work released by Nitro+. He also wrote three episodes of the adaptation.
jonjonaug fucked around with this message at 00:25 on Nov 10, 2012 |
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Nov 10, 2012 00:21
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I really liked this episode. The direction was very nice, the scene where Akane and Kagari were drinking was amusing, Ginoza finally got a cool scene, crazy murders and murderers, and there was a prolonged discussion on one of my favorite Shakespeare plays.
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Nov 20, 2012 03:42
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Episode 8 is out, it's a really fun ending to what has been a cool arc filled with crazy murders.
jonjonaug fucked around with this message at 01:18 on Nov 30, 2012 |
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Nov 30, 2012 01:02
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Raenir Salazar posted:So how did exactly did Oryou disappoint Makishima? Makishima is looking for interesting criminals. While Oryou's murders were evocative and daring, ultimately she was a copycat killer (in more than one way) who was unable to put her own spin on her work.
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Dec 1, 2012 22:24
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OnimaruXLR posted:Gino strikes me as one of those characters that's trying really hard to convince himself the shittiness of a situation is perfectly fine and in fact, the way things should be, when pretty much everyone around him realizes otherwise The fact that he looked just as relieved as everyone else at the end pretty much confirms this.
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Dec 14, 2012 03:43
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Welp. Let the suffering commence. 
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Dec 21, 2012 00:55
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cooldude2.0 posted:10 was great but 11 was just frustrating. I was glad to see the girl get killed for the schadenfreude on Akane who was being unbelievably useless. of course, if she'd actually shot at him she'd probably have killed her friend, but that still would have been a better outcome imo. She did actually shoot at him. I'm surprised she didn't drop the gun after the first shot, firing it like that.
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Dec 21, 2012 06:46
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Amarkov posted:Yeah, people thought that about Gurren Lagann too This was more Gainax completely changing what they wanted to do with the story after it started airing. Urobuchi likes to be sure of the ending before he starts writing a story, this is why his works typically have really strong endings but sometimes have weak starts. From what I've read, the director has already read the script for the last episode and really liked it, so I don't think that the beginning of the first episode will be changed by the time we reach it.
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Dec 23, 2012 00:41
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OnimaruXLR posted:So, Sasayama seems kind of like a shithead to me. Very much sort of a "Hey, being a cop means I get to shoot people, right?" kind of character. Kind of makes Kougami's attachment to him seem weird, but then again, Kougami was kind of a shithead for the stunt he pulled with the Dominator this episode too. It's like somehow after Sasayama died Gino inherited both his and Kougami's shittiness. We're getting another two episodes of flashbacks after this, I think.
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Jan 12, 2013 06:28
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Silver2195 posted:Am I the only one who prefers the idea of Sibyl simply being realistically imperfect? I didn't even get the impression it was an AI in the sense some people seem to be assuming, just a supercomputer that uses sophisticated algorithms and futuristic knowledge of neuroscience. People like Makishima aren't necessarily the result of a specific flaw of Sibyl so much as statistical outliers that demonstrate the result of over-reliance on any single system. I'm with Silver on this one. While the idea of Sibyl being something more could be interesting, it really doesn't have to be anything more than what it appears to be on the surface for the show to work.
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Jan 22, 2013 06:15
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SpazmasterX posted:So has Urobuchi ever said why he loves brutalizing women in his shows? Jesus. He brutalizes men pretty hard too. E: If anything, men tend to have it worse in Urobuchi things. jonjonaug fucked around with this message at 01:35 on Jan 26, 2013 |
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Jan 26, 2013 01:21
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Ulio posted:Ah I didn't know about the writers but some of the voice actors sound familiar, I would say the old Metalhand is Jiraiya from Naruto but I could be wrong, Akane sounds familiar too. Akane is Kana Hanazawa in one of her rare serious roles. It makes it really weird to go back to something like Steins;Gate afterward. jonjonaug fucked around with this message at 23:51 on Jan 31, 2013 |
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Jan 31, 2013 23:47
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Holy poo poo, this episode.  Shogo is so great. "Are you afraid of dying even after gaining the perception of god?" Urobuchi should just write a slice of life show where everyone is a different brand of crazy murderer. EDIT Look at this man. He is loving this poo poo. 
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Feb 15, 2013 02:57
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The director of the show seems to have tweeted about being "sorry" about the quality of episode 18, and that this will be "fixed" (probably means BD version). Prepare for animation errors.
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Feb 21, 2013 14:46
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OK I really liked the plot developments in this episode, but my god that animation was awful. I'm having Persona 4 anime TV broadcast flashbacks. 
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Feb 22, 2013 01:22
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Rime posted:Anyone else catch the ruined and half-drowned office towers in the last few minutes there? I mean, we'd had hints of post-apocalyptic stuff before, like the "border patrol drones" that were brought in to quell the riots, but this was new. Those have been seen a few times before. In fact I'm pretty sure the opening shot of episode 1 has a few in it.
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Feb 22, 2013 05:37
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Aureon posted:So, collective wisdom was wrong: Masaoka is Kougami's father, not ginoza's. Or perhaps both. What, no. What gave you this idea?
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Mar 1, 2013 04:47
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pandaK posted:Hyper Oats is the greatest thing to have happened in this anime. There are a lot of "greatest things" to happen in this anime. I'm legitimately enjoying the story of the show, but if you're not laughing at all of the ridiculous poo poo in it (Gino's hair, all of the random quoting of various works, the Dominators making people EXPLODE, Shogo being just this fantastic crazy person, Kogami's occasional split second crazy faces, etc.) you have a very poor sense of humor.
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Mar 3, 2013 07:40
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Episode 20 PV. Can it be tomorrow right now please? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6OQ6dxG_2L8
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Mar 7, 2013 05:22
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New episode is out. Akane is awesome and oh no Masaoka. 
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Mar 15, 2013 02:56
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Giggily posted:Also it's going to suck with Akane or Shinya inevitably dies next episode, along with Kunizuka "I feel like I can trust my life to you" Yayaoi. I expected her to die like right after saying that.
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Mar 15, 2013 03:24
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Bot 02 posted:But who was that at the end? It looked like Makishima, but I very much doubt he is alive after this episode. What are the odds it's Kougami? It was obviously Kogami.
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Mar 22, 2013 01:13
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A second season of Psycho-Pass is in the works. Can't say I'm too surprised, it did very well for its timeslot and from what I hear the side material stuff is selling pretty well.
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Jul 7, 2013 01:42
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ViggyNash posted:I honestly expected there to not be a second season, but I guess there is enough left over for the Urobutcher to work with. Second season is being written by him right? No news on it other than that one is in the works. It probably won't air for at least another year.
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Jul 7, 2013 02:58
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Funimation has Psycho-Pass BDs up for preorder. They'll be released in March 2014.
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Dec 21, 2013 03:02
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ManSeriesBrofist posted:I'm excited to get this. Are they going to have just standard DVDs, because 95ish dollars for a 22 episode series pushes it a bit for me. The special edition looks to be Blu Ray only while the regular edition looks to be be both DVD and Blu Ray. I don't think there's a DVD only edition. rightstuf has better prices, so you'll be better off preordering from there.
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Dec 21, 2013 03:24
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I got the BD set in a couple of days ago, it's nice. I'm rewatching the series now and it feels a lot better paced if you marathon it as opposed to waiting weekly for each episode. Footage from Motohiro, Shiotani, and Wada's trip to Sakuracon is included, along with a private interview with them. Some highlights (somewhat paraphrasing here, just copying stuff I talked about in an IRC channel):
This was just the first part, apparently there's a second part on a later disc. I'll post about that too if I see anything interesting. jonjonaug fucked around with this message at 00:07 on Mar 4, 2014 |
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Mar 4, 2014 00:05
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Psycho-Pass will be reairing on the noitamina block during the Summer (it'll be extended half an hour to get it all in). Season 2 of Psycho-Pass will be airing this fall and will be a one cour show, with another project at a later date (probably the film). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ob2y3e89F94 jonjonaug fucked around with this message at 13:40 on Mar 21, 2014 |
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Psycho-Pass got a video game announced. It's being produced by 5pb with cooperation from Nitro+. Also it's for the XBox One and has Kinect support. ...wait what? I'm not even sure how to react to this other than with bemusement.
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