Psycho-Pass Anime Review
Prepare to enter a world where brains in mason jars make the laws and the law is maintained by potential criminals. Add in some sci-fi action, neat characters, and a depressing world and prepare yourself. The time has come to explore the near-masterpiece anime, Psycho-pass.
Psycho-Pass follows a boyish-looking but still cute, unassuming young female detective called Akane Tsunemori and her team of latent criminals as they work to enforce the law. While they are doing this, they must also undercover those who make the laws and why they make them. Along the way, they will uncover and confront villains, including the ultimate villain, a man called Makishima.
How do they dispense justice? They simply whip out their all-purpose guns, called dominators. Let me say, the dominators are cool. They can act as stun guns and knock people out. They can also make people explode, sending blood and guts everywhere. The dominators measure a target's crime coefficient. This is something that determines whether someone is a threat and how big of a threat they are, which then determines whether the dominator will stun someone, blow them to kingdom come, or whether or not it will fire at all. In other words, there won't be any accidental shootings and mistaking a gun for a taser. Of course there are flaws in the system, as you will read.
As you may have noticed, this crime coefficient is a big deal, as it basically determines whether a target lives or dies. Sadly, it doesn't matter whether the target is a perp or a victim. That's right. A victim can, and often will, be killed because their crime coefficient high enough to allow the dominator to do so. Also if a perp's crime coefficient is low, the dominator won't fire at all. So a perp can beat, maim, and kill all the people he wants and the detective is powerless to stop him if his crime coefficient is low (even as he's commiting crimes, mind you).
I could go on forever about the complexity of this anime, but then this post would be too long, so let's move on to the basics. There are two seasons and a movie (which will be elaborated on in a future post). As mentioned in the opening paragraph, the series is almost a masterpiece. In particular, the first season is well-paced, well-written, well-animated, and just well-crafted as a whole. It also does what any good first season does and that's make you want more.
The second season does suffer some drop off, most of which is in the presentation. It simply doesn't look or sound as good as the first. Make no mistake, it's still good. Just a little gimmicky. There are fewer episodes, but more of everything else. More action, more violence, more twists (several of which are BS), and more fanservice. If you've ever wanted to see Akane sit around wearing nothing but a bath towel or watch a bunch of people in their underwear get massacred, season two is right up your alley. It's almost like it knew it wasn't as good as the first season so it doubled up on flash to make up for having have the substance. It's a change you can feel and not in a good way.
In the end, I really like this anime. The first season is nearly flawless and the second season is still good in it's own right. Don't miss this this one.
Psycho-Pass follows a boyish-looking but still cute, unassuming young female detective called Akane Tsunemori and her team of latent criminals as they work to enforce the law. While they are doing this, they must also undercover those who make the laws and why they make them. Along the way, they will uncover and confront villains, including the ultimate villain, a man called Makishima.
How do they dispense justice? They simply whip out their all-purpose guns, called dominators. Let me say, the dominators are cool. They can act as stun guns and knock people out. They can also make people explode, sending blood and guts everywhere. The dominators measure a target's crime coefficient. This is something that determines whether someone is a threat and how big of a threat they are, which then determines whether the dominator will stun someone, blow them to kingdom come, or whether or not it will fire at all. In other words, there won't be any accidental shootings and mistaking a gun for a taser. Of course there are flaws in the system, as you will read.
As you may have noticed, this crime coefficient is a big deal, as it basically determines whether a target lives or dies. Sadly, it doesn't matter whether the target is a perp or a victim. That's right. A victim can, and often will, be killed because their crime coefficient high enough to allow the dominator to do so. Also if a perp's crime coefficient is low, the dominator won't fire at all. So a perp can beat, maim, and kill all the people he wants and the detective is powerless to stop him if his crime coefficient is low (even as he's commiting crimes, mind you).
I could go on forever about the complexity of this anime, but then this post would be too long, so let's move on to the basics. There are two seasons and a movie (which will be elaborated on in a future post). As mentioned in the opening paragraph, the series is almost a masterpiece. In particular, the first season is well-paced, well-written, well-animated, and just well-crafted as a whole. It also does what any good first season does and that's make you want more.
The second season does suffer some drop off, most of which is in the presentation. It simply doesn't look or sound as good as the first. Make no mistake, it's still good. Just a little gimmicky. There are fewer episodes, but more of everything else. More action, more violence, more twists (several of which are BS), and more fanservice. If you've ever wanted to see Akane sit around wearing nothing but a bath towel or watch a bunch of people in their underwear get massacred, season two is right up your alley. It's almost like it knew it wasn't as good as the first season so it doubled up on flash to make up for having have the substance. It's a change you can feel and not in a good way.
In the end, I really like this anime. The first season is nearly flawless and the second season is still good in it's own right. Don't miss this this one.
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