Psycho-Pass 3

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Japanese: PSYCHO-PASS サイコパス 3

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Type: TV

Episodes: 8

Status: Finished Airing

Aired: Oct 25, 2019 to Dec 13, 2019

Premiered: Fall 2019

Broadcast: Fridays at 00:55 (JST)

Producers: Dentsu, Fuji TV, Nitroplus, Sony Music Entertainment, TOHO animation, MAGNET

Licensors: None found, add some

Studios: Production I.G

Source: Original

Genres: Action, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Suspense

Themes: Adult Cast, Detective, Gore, Psychological

Duration: 45 min. per ep.

Rating: R - 17+ (violence & profanity)

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Score: 7.44¹ (scored by 87,179 users)

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Ranked: #2106²

² based on the top anime page. Please note that 'Not yet aired' and 'R18+' titles are excluded.

Popularity: #889

Members: 272,100

Favorites: 533

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Thanks to the Sibyl System, the mental states of society can now be measured on a numerical scale. Using these "crime coefficients," a culprit can be apprehended before they ever commit a crime. But is it a perfect system? For Inspectors Kei Mikhail Ignatov and Arata Shindou, that remains to be seen, as their career with the Public Safety Bureau's Crime Investigation Department has only just begun.

Shindou and Ignatov are assigned to investigate the crash of a ship carrying immigrants, but they begin to suspect that it was no mere accident. Meanwhile, a mysterious group called Bifrost is observing them from the shadows, but they are not the only ones who have taken an interest in the two new Inspectors.

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Adaptation:	Psycho-Pass 3
Sequel:	Psycho-Pass 3: First Inspector
Prequel:	Psycho-Pass Movie: Providence

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Characters & Voice Actors

Shindou, Arata

Main

Kaji, Yuuki
Japanese

Ignatov, Kei Mikhail

Main

Nakamura, Yuuichi
Japanese

Kougami, Shinya

Supporting

Seki, Tomokazu
Japanese

Tsunemori, Akane

Supporting

Hanazawa, Kana
Japanese

Ginoza, Nobuchika

Supporting

Nojima, Kenji
Japanese

Karanomori, Shion

Supporting

Sawashiro, Miyuki
Japanese

Kunizuka, Yayoi

Supporting

Itou, Shizuka
Japanese

Dominator

Supporting

Hidaka, Noriko
Japanese

Hinakawa, Shou

Supporting

Sakurai, Takahiro
Japanese

Shimotsuki, Mika

Supporting

Sakura, Ayane
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Morihiro, Fumi

Producer

Kuroki, Rui

Producer

Yoshizawa, Takashi

Producer

Sano, Hiroaki

Producer, Executive Producer

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Opening Theme

"Q-vism" by Who-ya Extended

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Ending Theme

"bullet" by Cö shu Nie

Reviews

Dec 12, 2019

Isvi_Berserk

Recommended

-Note: English is not my native language, I apologize for possible mistakes. (This review does not contain spoilers)

After the enormous emptiness that excellent villain Makishima Shougo left us and that great first season of PP, we finally have an acceptable sequel that tries to bring new things, new characters and similar airs, but not the same. Although of course we will always miss our dear and handsome Kougami, right? Well, at least in my case if I love it too much.

I generally liked how it was carried out this season, without making the mistakes of the second, without using protagonists of the previous season for ... a long time and using new protagonists, it has allowed the story to develop acceptably, something that the second season failed to start with the villain that without offending was and felt like a cheap copy of the first villain or at least I felt that, and I think a good percentage too, without demeriting the good things that the second season has, that there are.

Also something to note is that each episode at the beginning has excellent fighting scenes and animated choreographies with incredible quality, and those scenes are in almost every episode. It's great and more considering that it lasts twice as much as the rest of the animes per week, 50 minutes per episode which was a surprise.

I can criticize things, such as the small participing of the old protagonists although I liked it, felt this somewhat forced, there are also many loose ends from the beginning, events that occurred off-screen that keep the viewer's doubt at all times, especially when dealing with Akane Tsunemori.

The series comes to feel somewhat episodic at certain times and very detective with various cases that do not stop feeling a bit like "Normal Cases" can be said that there are too many sub-plots developing in Psycho-Pass 3, remembering the anarchist Makishima in the entire first season of Psycho-Pass, this was touches more philosophical themes, not at all compared to the most detective theme the series has had since its second season.

Here we are presented to Bifrost a criminal and clandestine organization that operates through this indirect gambling game for elitists to gain and power in the shadow of Sybil and the change of social paradigms. Makishima instead wanted to demolish social foundations and "faced Sybil" head on. However, the plots of past characters converge with that of the new ones to reach a climax, I love these kinds of stories, they do not stagnate with only one protagonist throughout the story and they explore the rest of the characters in depth to create tangles and secluded frames that are focused at the end for one thing in common.

As a personal point, I want to write about Mika's character, I didn't like Mika much in Psycho-Pass 2 but she's quickly become such an amazing and funny character starting in the first Sinners of the System OVA & continuing strong throughout Psycho-Pass 3. Definitely one of more entertaining characters.

As for the animation and the OST are excellent, if there is something that stands out a lot in PP, it's this incredible soundtrack which is always at the top, and as I said before its animation and especially its fight scenes are very remarkable.

Finally, I think that Psycho-Pass 3 despite having twice as many minutes per episode, needed more chapters to be able to elaborate a story at 100% conditions.

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Dec 14, 2019

Ghosty-Senpai

Mixed Feelings

Three episodes in, I was ready to declare Pyscho-Pass 3 an excellent season of one of my favorite shows. The music was good, the animation was beautiful, fight scenes were complex and brutal, the new cast of characters were starting to grow on me and cameos from the old characters gave some of them more opportunities to shine than they had in the past two seasons (plus the movies). I was really digging it.

Then about halfway through, I noticed a slight dip in the animation quality. The fight scenes became more sporadic and rushed. The dominators only came out a handful of times. And while ...

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Dec 12, 2019

spaceaustralia

Not Recommended

With Urobuchi gone, I didn't expect much of this season. It still failed my expectations.

I expected to, much like the second season, for it to try and explore the themes set out by the first season at the base of Psycho Pass' world. Instead, we have a plot centered around the introduction of a completely new entity, Bifrost, that contradicts the position Sybil appeared to have when Urobuchi.

I expected it to remain grounded in the world set out by the previous seasons, but, after 8 double-length episodes, Arata still appears to come up just short of clairvoyance, the perfect control of the Sybil System is ... contradicted by the existance of intentional gaps in it's control, and the politics of Sybil controlled Japan, which were previously stated to be a sham, are suddenly an institution with actual power and influence, and all changes going unadressed.

I expected the main characters from the previous season to be a constant presence in order to continue their stories. Instead, Shimotsuki appears to have undergone significant development almost entirely offscreen, and, for the longest time, Ginoza, Akane, and Kogami occasionally show up as barely a cameo, mostly to hint at further developments.

I also found the plot overall harder to follow than when Makishima discoursed at length on philosophy and Sci-fi references for several minutes at a time. That might have to do with having to wrap my head around the inconsistencies in world building. The characters of season 3 can spend several minutes discussing the implications of a political elections and just leave me scratching my head, wondering why, under the totalitarian control of Sybil, that would be important.

As a minor gripe, I wish we had seen the Dominators being used more often, but I guess that's a symptom of the smaller presence of the Sybil System in the world of Season 3. We did get some nice looking fist fights, but it's jarring for the inspectors, representatives and arbiters of Sybil's ultimate will, to have to engage in punch ups when any intent to beat an inspector to death should cloud one's hue enough for them to be justifiably used. I'm not sure we even saw the non-lethal paralyzer being used at all.

In short, I doubt I'll be back to this series. My expectations were low, but the contradictions in worldbuilding, the lack of a concrete continuation of anything set by the previous seasons, and a complete lack of any conclusion amount to a complete lack of justification for the existence of another entry to the series. Considering the way the last episode felt, the post-credits scene, and the name of the next movie indicating that it might be a prequel, everything just make me feel like the intent here is to slap the Psycho Pass name on an unrelated sci-fi detective series rather than continuing what made it interesting back in 2012.

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