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| watched episode 1 of pp. I was in great amazed of how crazy the technologies are , in the story. "psycho - pass" , or so what its being called as a judgement which can numbered one's mental state and personal tendecies. The guns are unexpectedly very original and nowadays-modernisation. First episode is great , 8/10 , I did not stunted but was enjoyed and a bit thrilled with it.or maybe my score was affected by my mode which is just woke up lol |
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| I love dark gritty crime shows so looks like I'm going to enjoy this. Definite GITS SAC vibes coming from this show. |
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| Pretty interesting start.. |
| I totally screamed: Holy shit!!! when the guy exploded. I know I should expect this in a Urobuchi show, but still... xD Interesting concept. If executed right, It could be one hell of a show. Looking forward for more. |
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| This is like Minority Report. The story has a lot of potential. One thing that absolutely destroys this episode for me is irrationality of the main character, and that always bothers me no matter how good the rest of the anime is. Okay -- some of you might even agree with her cause and her actions; conventionally, you might be right. But here is a girl that supposedly graduated top of her class. She is supposed to know this stuff. Why is she so completely clueless on how the world works, and so surprised? In Psycho-Pass's world, I wouldn't be surprised that a middle school student would learn that if their coefficient goes above 50, then they need to go for treatment; and if it goes above 100, they will be eliminated. Yet we're supposed to believe a girl who's trained to enforce the system is shocked to learn that the rape victim was afflicted with Psycho-Hazard when she wrote a thesis about it? WTF. This is a case where the author forgets the context of his own plot. In our world, Akane's demeanor is perfectly rational, and everyone else is crazy. In our world, the rape victim is a victim. In Psycho-Pass's world, Akane is completely irrational, and borderline retarded, or at least completely unqualified for her job, and the rape victim is a latent criminal, and needed to be eliminated. Akane needs to be fired and stripped of her license. 4/10 |
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katsucats said: Well, that is supposed to be the idea: Precisely because she is so rational and commonsensical in our world but looks irrational awkward and unqualified in her job, it highlights the potential issue and deficiency of the police system. You may think Akane needs to be fired; but Sibyl system thinks she is the only person who qualifies A-class for this job - WHY? If Akane just falls into compromise or conformity, and not ask questions or doubt herself, would she turn into another Ginoza? What is the risk (and potential gain) for NOT going the Ginoza's route, despite its apparent heavy cost (of her looking incompetent)? I think these are the questions being explored in this series, that we are encouraged to think about.This is a case where the author forgets the context of his own plot. In our world, Akane's demeanor is perfectly rational, and everyone else is crazy. In our world, the rape victim is a victim. In Psycho-Pass's world, Akane is completely irrational, and borderline retarded, or at least completely unqualified for her job, and the rape victim is a latent criminal, and needed to be eliminated. Akane needs to be fired and stripped of her license. |
| So MAL finally starts locking news threads that are only a few weeks old? I wonder where was the announcement of this change? Or we are seeing yet another case of changes made that impacted users but not communicated to them? I wonder how long people would put up with this. As much as I have a bunch of information to share about anime announced recently I cannot share it in news board, and the anime series is too disorganized and chaotic to share information except with people already interested in the particular series. |
symbv said: I think you are looking at this from an outside perspective, and I am looking at it from the inside -- internal consistency is very important for me in any story, especially sci-fi. The risk for not going the Ginoza route which is her job description is loss of consistency that sacrifices the believability of the story. Akane's narrative only needs to be justified within the world of Psycho-Pass, not the real world; it isn't that she couldn't be idealistic, but that there was no justification for her being idealistic. If she understood that people of high coefficient needed to be eliminated (and considering she wrote a thesis on Psycho-Hazard), then her response to eliminating the rape victim should not have been, "But she's innocent!", but more like "Give her some time to calm down." The rape victim was not innocent, she was a latent criminal -- that was the perspective that Akane would have seen if it she was internally consistent with her own world. It might have been forgivable if she had indeed calmly analyzed the situation to save the rape victim, but what actually appeared to happen was she was unprepared for the events that occurred and lost control. If the Sibyl system was imperfect, they would have more conceivably just changed the system. I would not believe for one second that they intentionally (mis)trained an agent, giving her an A for the government ministry, and then allowing her to graduate the top of her class, just for the sole purpose of balancing the police force. Her job was to reinforce the system. That's how it was explained. That's what the audience should expect.katsucats said: Well, that is supposed to be the idea: Precisely because she is so rational and commonsensical in our world but looks irrational awkward and unqualified in her job, it highlights the potential issue and deficiency of the police system. You may think Akane needs to be fired; but Sibyl system thinks she is the only person who qualifies A-class for this job - WHY? If Akane just falls into compromise or conformity, and not ask questions or doubt herself, would she turn into another Ginoza? What is the risk (and potential gain) for NOT going the Ginoza's route, despite its apparent heavy cost (of her looking incompetent)? I think these are the questions being explored in this series, that we are encouraged to think about.This is a case where the author forgets the context of his own plot. In our world, Akane's demeanor is perfectly rational, and everyone else is crazy. In our world, the rape victim is a victim. In Psycho-Pass's world, Akane is completely irrational, and borderline retarded, or at least completely unqualified for her job, and the rape victim is a latent criminal, and needed to be eliminated. Akane needs to be fired and stripped of her license. |
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katsucats said: I am looking at it from an outside perspective, but not what you said - I don't mean the real world, but I mean the "outside world" from the police system. I am not sure if you have seen later episodes but there are scenes there where Akane talked to her old schooolmates and from those girls point of view the police system is a mystery and black box. I am talking from that perspective, so there is no consistency issue within the story world. On the other hand, that outside perspective is in general a reflection of our real world (in later episodes there will be events like social network that mimics our current world), so those questions I raised earlier in my post is as valid from outside the story world (i.e. from our world) as from inside the story world (i.e. from, say, a person outside the system, like Akane's friends from school). I think you are looking at this from an outside perspective, and I am looking at it from the inside -- internal consistency is very important for me in any story, especially sci-fi. The risk for not going the Ginoza route which is her job description is loss of consistency that sacrifices the believability of the story. Akane's narrative only needs to be justified within the world of Psycho-Pass, not the real world; it isn't that she couldn't be idealistic, but that there was no justification for her being idealistic. katsucats said: I agree that the story can be written better. I also have misgiving to some of the Akane's reaction there, and it does not show us anything that may indicate her top grades in school (although it seems that the school she graduates from is not a police academy but a general college) or what training she went through to prepare for this kind of gritty and tough situation (as much as we were told she came to this first job in a rush and was under-prepared). If she understood that people of high coefficient needed to be eliminated (and considering she wrote a thesis on Psycho-Hazard), then her response to eliminating the rape victim should not have been, "But she's innocent!", but more like "Give her some time to calm down." The rape victim was not innocent, she was a latent criminal -- that was the perspective that Akane would have seen if it she was internally consistent with her own world. It might have been forgivable if she had indeed calmly analyzed the situation to save the rape victim, but what actually appeared to happen was she was unprepared for the events that occurred and lost control. katsucats said: And the audience is still looking to see how Akane will reinforce the system or make the system get better, particularly in terms of the relationship between enforcement officer and monitor officer. This is a theme that has been repeatedly brought up in the last few episodes. I hope to see progress of development on this theme as the series progresses.If the Sibyl system was imperfect, they would have more conceivably just changed the system. I would not believe for one second that they intentionally (mis)trained an agent, giving her an A for the government ministry, and then allowing her to graduate the top of her class, just for the sole purpose of balancing the police force. Her job was to reinforce the system. That's how it was explained. That's what the audience should expect. |
symbvNov 12, 2012 6:58 AM
| So MAL finally starts locking news threads that are only a few weeks old? I wonder where was the announcement of this change? Or we are seeing yet another case of changes made that impacted users but not communicated to them? I wonder how long people would put up with this. As much as I have a bunch of information to share about anime announced recently I cannot share it in news board, and the anime series is too disorganized and chaotic to share information except with people already interested in the particular series. |
symbv said: But then again, her friends have not been specifically trained for this task.I am looking at it from an outside perspective, but what you said - I don't mean the real world, but I mean the "outside world" from the police system. I am not sure if you have seen later episodes but there are scenes there where Akane talked to her old schooolmates and from those girls point of view the police system is a mystery and black box. symbv said: My problem would not be that Akane improves the system, but that the context in which this happens is odd (Akane's existence within the Psycho-Pass world is odd). But I will keep watching this for the time being unless it goes further downhill for me. It may be a bigger deal to me as I am severely annoyed by main characters that lack self-confidence. For example, despite all the hoopla, every episode of Mirai Nikki and Fate/Stay Night that I forced myself through was just painful to watch... Akane isn't quite there yet, but she needs to develop...And the audience is still looking to see how Akane will reinforce the system or make the system get better, particularly in terms of the relationship between enforcement officer and monitor officer. This is a theme that has been repeatedly brought up in the last few episodes. I hope to see progress of development on this theme as the series progresses. |
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katsucats said: That actually is what we don't know - I mean the training. It just looks as if she just got thrown straight into that police system without much of a training. I know it beggars belief, but so far I noticed it was never mentioned what kind of police training she went through or even if she went through any training. It just seems that she got that aptitude result and recommendation from Sybil System and after some consideration decided to take the job of monitor officer. Personally I would like to see more about what happened before she showed up in ep.1 but after she graduated from college. But so far she just seems to be a voice from the normal world, that is, the world outside the police system.But then again, her friends have not been specifically trained for this task. |
| So MAL finally starts locking news threads that are only a few weeks old? I wonder where was the announcement of this change? Or we are seeing yet another case of changes made that impacted users but not communicated to them? I wonder how long people would put up with this. As much as I have a bunch of information to share about anime announced recently I cannot share it in news board, and the anime series is too disorganized and chaotic to share information except with people already interested in the particular series. |
| In the beginning I dismissed this because I found the character designs to be too big a turn-off, but after sitting down to watch the whole episode for the second time, I decided that the plot outweighed the way the characters are drawn. The cityscape art is pretty great though; I just don't like the way Akane's eyes are so droopy and sleepy-looking, and yeah... the faces kinda get to me. And the ED is just outright awesome! |
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| The safetly shit is annoyin' so slow! |
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| Hey hey hey ! That's some amazing stuff here. |
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jfizzl said: there is always at least one shit character to ruin a good anime. why is it always a dumb illogical/irrational bitch who just gets in the way *cough* sakura from naruto *cough* Because you are an immature idiot that you don't know how to judge characters other than how powerful and cool they play it. June93 said: 1idd0kun said: Indeed, the system is a product made by the current government officials to keep their power and wealth over the populace, as no one will want to oppose since even a little stress can land you into criminal status, and as it seems from what the criminal dude was saying earlier the populace seems to be brainwashed or conditioned into believing that people with a high enough latency to them shouldn't be associated with and casted out of society.Jourdal said: Lol i knew everyone would hate the girl...but I don't see why. This system is like 20 different types of flawed. It judges your criminality based on your mental state at that given moment...which is wrong since everyone has criminal thoughts at one time or another. The criminal in this episode is sort of a victim himself based on his little monologue about not doing anything but suddenly labeled a criminal. That's right, and when they chase a potential criminal, the stress of being hunted down makes them even more criminal. The whole system is retarded as fuck. It's a pile of shit. I'm hoping protagonist girl will oppose this fucked up system. This is the aspect i find most interesting and i want to see if our little protagonist will end up being the start of fight against this system. |
| Oh my gosh! Great episode, great anime. OST is THE GREATEST THING I EVER HEARD. Action's cool. Music and action together are making much impression. Ending's cool too. Everything's cool here. Realistic look. I want more :3. Thanks god that serie is not having just 12/13 |
| First episode is great. I'm watching episode 4 but if everyone keep hating on Akane, I think I'll drop this anime. =_= I like her very much and I don't understand why you have to give such an impression to her on the very FIRST episode,especially those who called her "bitch". She's still a rookie on her first day and it's normal to be a bit shocked and scared after having to witness all that stuff.I'm sure she will improve soon but if the writer wants her to stay like that, it's possible that I'll just drop this one despite Akane's voice actress being Kana-chan. |
mapotofuuDec 10, 2012 7:29 PM
| 0.o Well shit on my tits, brilliant start to this storyline...., So the rape victim, who was normal before everything went down, went thru hell by being taken hostage and getting fucking raped...., is now someone who they were going to kill??? Did I get that right? The enforcers have owners? like a dog has an owner? WTF! Wait and you guys are all exclaiming this to be a great anime? wch part? Please tell me so i can go rewatch it and be in the hype like you guys.... Not gonna hope for anything amazing after this. This first episode is enough for me to see how retarded this entire thing is gonna play out... Episode Naxcore: 1.12 out of 5 |
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loopoff said: Hm, usual flawed premises. The show starts when the police system has been already in place for quite a while, and now blatant moral issues that would be obvious to just everyone start cropping up all at the sudden? It's obvious that even without tackling more complex themes the big problem is that automatic judgement done by the gun isn't "final" in any way and can move back and forth. So why should someone be sentenced to death when a moment later he could easily recover? So everyone should be shot as soon he has a momentary moment of anger? Not that many people would stay alive. It could work if these types of recover were unprecedented and triggered by some rare compassion, but it's just too unlikely that this starts to happen all at once, and only because a MOE heroine appears in the wrong show. Lol You my friend, have a lot to learn. Also, you think everything will well go for the heroine just because she is moe? You must be new to Urobuchi. |
| I always liked crime shows, in a city setting and epic animation. Anyway, that was nice. 4.5/5 --> 5/5 -0.5 because I don't like the main character T_T Wish I saw these show earlier. >_< |
| Jiiii, the newbie pisses me off - it was for the victim's own good; yet she shoots her partner -.- |
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| Interesting first episode.The only turn part that I found awesome was when that guy got shot and then blow up.I think Akane probably should have let Shinya kill that girl.If the gun works how I think it works it measures the person's mental state and that girl probably would have been a possible future threat/criminal.I mean psychological she would have been traumatized from being beaten,kidnapped,raped and then getting that guy blown up all over her.She probably would have end up crazy and gone on a murder spree,so I understand why she should have been killed. |
xriceball26 said: Jiiii, the newbie pisses me off - it was for the victim's own good; yet she shoots her partner -.- It's for the victim's own good to die? |
Shaduge said: no wonder they looked like reborn characters When I saw the thumbnail my first thoughts were, "Huh....why does this art look so familiar..?" Really cool episode, I'm interested. I wasn't expecting much from this anime, so it's safe to say I'm pleasantly surprised. Also, I wonder if we'll see that one guy again? He seemed to be an inportant character. |
a1oner said: @June93 Short on manpower? Even if it was indeed established through dialogue, don’t you think that’s a lil ridiculous? And to think that a lousy, morally upright character would be given such a pass/license to hold this kind of weapon is simply out of whack. The reason they are short on manpower means that the system chooses only people who are mentally strong and can endure what they witness without going "nuts" or stressed aftercruel events. Those people must be strong in their heads. Not everyone is strong, and that's the reason the system chose her as inspector - she has what the job and system requires. It doesn't matter if she's naive, lousy, morally uptight - she fits her job mentally. |
| I can't believe I waited so long on this show. Loved the first episode, Got those Darker than black vibes as well and that being my favorite show.. I have a feeling I'm gonna love this series. Awesome Funi licensed it so now it'll get a dub and home release. |
Hakuromatsu said: xriceball26 said: Jiiii, the newbie pisses me off - it was for the victim's own good; yet she shoots her partner -.- It's for the victim's own good to die? Finally so one who sees the guns flawed system.. Relying on a machine for judgement... The guns scanner screwed up twice. First it didn't take the man down nonlethal, so it gives up a and says kill him but it too so long to update the criminal escaped. Then it flips back to nonlethal over a traumatize victim. I hope they give that thing a software upgrade. |
| There is a reason the Dominator changed that guy's "verdict" from paralyzer to elimination, same with the victim >.> Yes. The system needs upgrade. Just see it as something new that still needs improvement, but so far is doing its job good with few flaws. |
| Yes but you missed my point. The Dominator is a bit slow on its decision making don't ya think? I see it as knew just kind of disappointed is all. Then the victim is a separate case, you just don't go shooting someone on temporal hysteria. I thought the gun only went lethal when there was no turning back guess I was wrong. Overall its still a good gun. |
| This prove that the gun still needs improvement, just like you said. Maybe after several years they will manage to make it better. |
| Agreed and they proved the theory in the next episode as well. |
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| So so similar to Dredd??... |
| OMG OMG OMG!!! LOVE IT!!!! |
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| While not really anything new, I liked the premise, but I'm not a fan of the horribly mundane execution in how they dealt with morality and whatnot. Not expecting much from this series judging from this episode, the demographic, and the overall character artwork (having so many bishounens says a lot about the anime). But who knows, it may turn up to something good. (5/10) |
| The whole enforcement system has such a hole that an elephant can drop through, crime coefficient and what not. Measuring the level of stress does not mean any depress person will commit a crime. I simply cannot believe this passed any psychiatric muster. Following this logic, many victims of crime will also be apprehend which is simply inconceivable in any civil society. Of course, anything short of a ploy for machine, or certain someone to control people plot-line will irk me very much. It's a fantasy so I will cut it some slacks, but since the entire premise was built up based on science and logic, the whole enforcement system should make sense. |
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| Good first episode, like many people said the guns are pretty damn cool lol, also since im taking a political class this semester, I'm interested on how the whole enforcement system in this show was made |
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| I watch this anime becuz i'm a fan of Akira Amano sensei's character artwork.. ^^ But.. HOLY SHIT! (pardon my language) it's too gory for my taste, but becuz i'm already in my 7th eps, so i might as well watch it.. lol Akane is 1 badass female (talking about in the first day of ure job and already shoot ure own co-worker) xD |
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| good start the show seems promising but I can already feel the main girl is gonna annoy me more than nina from code geass or the main character from fate stay night with her bullsh*t but we'll see |
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| After hearing the love for episode 16 i figured I should start this series before it ends. It's pretty awesome already |
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| well can't say much other than everything in this episode was a massive YES in my book so far, loved the art and the character models the only person I have doubts about is the newbie :/ I don't want to go into a rant or anything yet its only the first episode but i saw flashes of what kind of character she might be and i don't like it.. on the other hand, loved the action, the whole system with the guns and such and how they are used, how they read a person's 'psycho pass' i am interested to see how they develop on that, i really am.... it just kept my attention and the episode FLEW! which is always a good sign for me! all in all definitely cannot wait to see more of this, been anxious to pick it up but wanted to wait until it was nearing the end as I hate the idea of waiting for episodes, especially if i get into it.. |
| I want a Dominator. |
| she is innocent but still gets shot? :/ fk this anime's start is retarded |
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| First I'll go for the negative aspect of this anime: IT'S TOO DARK! I know that there's a point behind this, but still I think things could be a bit clearer. Besides that, I think that this episode was too fkin perfect or at least for my taste. I mean everything about it! Futuristic scene, awesome atmosphere, weapons and more. But I admit it, this Psycho-Pass thingy sucks :D |
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| Definitely an interesting start. Looking forward to see what this anime has to offer! |
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| It was an interesting episode. But I don't get why did the crime coefficient of the victim increase? Just by being with the criminal it increases? (which makes no sense to me) or it was already high? And why Kougami was intended to shoot the victim in the Lethal mode? |
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