Psycho-Pass: Sinners of the System Case.2 - First Guardian

Enforcer Teppei Sugou, former ace pilot of the National Defence Army's 15th Integrated Task Force, is visited by a scout from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and invited to rejoin the military. While considering the offer, he recalls his last months of service.

His last mission, Operation Foot Stamp, had been a highly classified military strike against the Southeast Asian Union. The operation quickly went south for the ground forces, and Sugou's First Guardian drone was ordered in as air support to drop emergency supplies for the ground units and then return to base. Following orders against his own judgement, Sugou abandoned his comrades on the field.

Many lives were lost during the operation, including Itsuki Ootomo, Sugou's commanding officer. However, three months later, following a massacre at the Ministry of Defence, Otomo was spotted at the scene on camera. Now a suspect in an act of terrorism, Sugou cooperates with Enforcer Tomomi Masaoka and Criminal Investigation Department's Division 01 as they hunt his former mentor down.

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Masaoka, Tomomi Main

Arimoto, Kinryuu Japanese

Sugou, Teppei Main

Touchi, Hiroki Japanese

Kougami, Shinya Supporting

Seki, Tomokazu Japanese

Tsunemori, Akane Supporting

Hanazawa, Kana Japanese

Ginoza, Nobuchika Supporting

Nojima, Kenji Japanese

Kagari, Shuusei Supporting

Ishida, Akira Japanese

Karanomori, Shion Supporting

Sawashiro, Miyuki Japanese

Kunizuka, Yayoi Supporting

Itou, Shizuka Japanese

Dominator Supporting

Hidaka, Noriko Japanese

Shimotsuki, Mika Supporting

Sakura, Ayane Japanese

Morihiro, Fumi Producer

Sano, Hiroaki Producer

Mori, Akitoshi Producer

Saitou, Masaya Producer

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Oct 21, 2023

izumiyamura23

Recommended

SS Case 2 is perhaps the most trivial entry of the film trilogy, but it pulls through because it's a trip back in time to the better days in season 1. But as for why the film is trivial - Teppei has always been and feels like a background character. It's his story and the resolution has to do with him, but he doesn't feel like the MC like Akane, Ginoza, Mika, or Kogami do.

But as for why the film works? Division 1 is back. Kogami, Ginoza, and Kagari's teamwork is a delight to see, especially Kagari who we thought was never to be seen ... again. Aoyonagi and Masaoka also return, and the film serves as a fitting final appearance and send-off to Masaoka, given the unfortunate but also perhaps blessed timing that this was his VA's final project.

Reviewer’s Rating: 8

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Oct 12, 2020

NiQ1

Mixed Feelings

TL;DR - What a letdown...
This movie focuses on an enforcer named Teppei Sugou, who used to be a soldier, telling the story how he became an enforcer. The entire movie (except for the first five minutes and last two minutes) is a flashback a few years back, which, in my opinion, is a bad thing by itself because it feels like the first minutes of the movie are a spoiler of the entire thing.
Not that the actual story is really noteworthy - An attack on the ministry of defense building resulting in multiple casualties is carried out using a drone who appears to be operated ... by an ex-soldier who was declared MIA, presumably dead, in a military operation a few years earlier (yes, a flashback within a flashback, yikes!). The public safety bureau arrives in a military base and questions Sugou as a suspect of being an accomplice but the reluctance of the military personnel to cooperate with the investigation hints that they may be trying to cover something up.
Yup, yet another coverup story, been there, done that. Seriously nothing impressive. The link between the movie and the main Psycho-Pass world is very thin, to the point where you could just change the character names and turn it into a standalone movie, but then again, who would watch it?
Really too bad, because the first episode of Sinners was quite good. Like I said, what a letdown.
Art and sound - Same as the TV anime, nothing surprising here.

Reviewer’s Rating: 5

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Dec 18, 2021

Achie420

Not Recommended

This is where I drop the series.

For me (as well as many others) the first season was an announcement for a great franchise. It was extremely promising - great characters, an original and fascinating world, decent art and sound with some pretty good action and animation. The writer wasn't afraid to kill-off a likable character, erasing them from the main cast, in order to progress the story, convey a message, develop a different character, etc..

But after the first season the writer has changed, and with that change a slow, agonizing death of a franchise has begun.

Even if you didn't know that change has occurred, you ... should not be surprised, as I am sure you have noticed the differences in writing.

The new writer is just plain awful - he does not develop characters, he is afraid to kill them, his own additions to the series are horrendous, his way of storytelling is atrocious. He is just simply a bad writer.

Either Yayoi or Shion should have died or been developed a long time ago (preferably before Case.1). Why? Because they are still just husks. They are of no use to the plot or story - you could replace them with anyone new, and it would make 0 change whatsoever. Why have them?
Same goes for the 2 new enforcers that joined Division 1 in season 2.

The story is just nonsense at this point - you can assume that whatever evil/bad happens is because Sybil has planned so or a person, whose Psycho-Pass cannot be accurately measured, is behind everything.
Characters just spew random nonsense all the time, they come up with impossible, illogical conclusions that are magically correct, etc..

ENOUGH IS ENOUGH.

Reviewer’s Rating: 3

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