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| This episode was really chilling. The happy-faced drone advising that woman to seek "stress relief" or whatever as she was being beaten to death by a hammer, as hundreds of people stood by and took videos of it. The implications of such a complacent society :( |
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| Disgusting scene, (the murder in-front of everyone in the street) not logical at all, even in this kind of society. Bad Episode. Ep12,13 were pretty good though. |
| Whoa it's not even like a knife but seemingly 'harmless' "daily tools" like scissors and pens but those stabbings were pretty gory o___o It seems that the argument of the good and bad of the Sybil system is resurfacing more and more now (increasingly the bad, as the characters find out and as Makisihima has more dialogues). I like it, it is interesting. And Makishima raised some valid points too; I'm beginning to reconsider whether Makishima is indeed the "psychopath" he seems to be when he first appeared... |
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| I was pissed at the murder scenes. Sybil or not, there's no way people would just stand and look, or not run away from a clearly suspicious person with a fucking helmet pulling out a hammer :| There's always the survival instinct, and you can't just kill it by "an atmosphere of trust." |
| When they were about to go after the helmet guys: "Wait a minute Ginoza, if our dominators won't work on them, aren't we basically unarmed?" ^^good point "Focus on what we need to do, let's go!" ^^ wait what? That's not an answer xD What are they supposed to do since their dominators won't work? |
| I'm also glad as Kogami that the dominator didn't turn into that Eliminator I don't like this Sybyl system it's a really mess that the world has fallen into it. |
| fuck i lost my shit at that scene were the masked guy publicly demolishes that lady. certainly the worst thing about that was the drone beeing drawn to the scene not because there was a murder happening but because she was extremely stressed in that situation. omfg thats consequential storytelling! |
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| Wth these people see a woman being beaten to death and they just stare at it like a movie scene? Even record it? Disgusting. Listen, we all have our instincts. Sibyl or not, those instincts can't just disappear so easily. Either that scene was poorly done or those people are just not human anymore. Trashy people like them don't even deserve to be saved. Oh ye trash is more beautiful than them, I forgot. Almost. I believe that scene was just there to make more of us agree with Makishima. While he makes solid points here n there, I would never side with him. Tyvm. Hes just another extreme and I don't dig that. About the OP foreshadowing, I believe its saying that Kougami will manage to corner Makishima but Akane being Akane will shoot him before he gets to kill Makishima for some reason. Hopefully I am wrong but one thing I am certain about: while Kougami and Akane have many similarities, they have some key differences. The OP might be a sign of that. I just hope its not a, uh, very horrible sign. |
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| LOL the start came on strong xD very noice Kou is so smart. Proven once again C: |
| ugh that scene in the middle of the street was very disturbing. Poor woman. And it turns out Makishima can fight too lol. This case is becoming increasingly difficult while simultaneously denoting the defects of the sibyl system but it was interesting how Kougami discovered the trick behind the crime coefficients being low. |
| wait wait wait wait wait wait wait So firstly, it's within my realm of suspension of disbelief that it is possible to create a system which can numerically design a person's potential to commit a crime. But given that, why is it that people are inable to create an AI system that is unable to recognize a crime being committed without the aid of a psychopass reading. If you ask me, it would be much more difficult to code the former than the latter. So why isn't that system in place? Secondly,why is it that people just stand around when a crime is being committed right in front of them? People no longer needing to be wary of crime due to the Sybil System doesn't mean they are unable to recognize a crime being committed. If that were the case, not only would people not have the CC's increase when witnessing a crime, but then how would people know whether or not they're breaking the law. If you yourself are unable to recognize someone breaking the law, then you have no understanding of what the law is. I get that the show is supposed to present a somewhat dystopian society, but that doesn't mean it has free reign to make life shitty like this. Especially when dealing with something futuristic like Psycho Pass, it is important that the dystopian society is a product of logically attempting to achieve some sort of ideal as well as provide commentary on that ideal. Up until this point, everything had remained fairly logical. There's no reason the Dominators should be able to shoot robots for example, but hey, I'll accept it. But honestly, what the fuck were they even doing with this episode? |
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| The Bystander Effect was shown in full action and the whole spectacle was as disgusting as it can get with everyone just going on with their own business in the pharmacy and everyone just standing there as the woman gets beaten to death helplessly. They've gotten so complacent with their mostly safe lives that their brains just shut off when something that's thought to be impossible happened. The onlookers that whipped out their phones were extra disgusting. The helmets being able to replicate the Psycho-Pass of a nearby person shows that the Sibyl System is getting more and more holes punctured into it. Shogo being able to handle himself in hand-to-hand combat against three definitely showed that Shinya's training wasn't anything superficial. |
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| That hammer scene was messed up.. Love how everyone's just standing around watching or filming.. Scarily seems like a lot of people in this day and age as well. |
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| Makishima is too lethal lol. And dayum, that second kill was really macabre. Not just because of the mindless crowd, but also due to the drone with it's mocking questions. |
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| Damn this show is getting so interesting |
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| Ok, that hammer scene very disturbing. ppl just stand and look made it even scarier. The Sybil system has so many flaws. It seems that Makishima can fight. Good for him. |
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| I am glad they found a way to counter it |
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| Weirdly, I found it killing using an ordinary stationary is more disturbing than a sharp weapon, like knife or axe. Maybe they did a good job at potraying how distrubing it is. Makishima's goal was revolution, probably. And Akane sooner or later will be joining him. |
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| Well this might have reached a peak in stupidity here with that whole "brutal murder in public in front of dozens, and literally no one reacts to it in the slightest" scene. The citizens have been shown to react as one would expect them to, towards any and all crimes up till now... Literally every public crime has had people screaming, running... And the victims of said crimes weren't in an absolute state of disbelief either. Everybody's coefficient has been shown to rise by being exposed to the crimes as well. Furthermore, this crime here didn't start as anything insanely shocking/unbelievable--but just a beating. And such things really shouldn't be so alien to them since this show HAS shown that violent crimes do happen pretty regularly. And that the society DO know of enforcers and their work. And the possibility of someone dodging check-ups and the like. Plus I would also think that in such a "pure" society such violent crimes would have an even bigger spotlight placed on them... And there would be more and more discussion about such things as they get more and more alien--we as humans will always have a deep fear of the unknown and that which we are unprepared for. And the world didn't exactly change to how it is now THAT long ago did it... Aaaaah, I could go on. Why the fuck would you pull this plot point out of your arse like this show. Good shock requires some depth and planning. This just feels like the writers deciding "oh this would be a cool concept to explore" and realising "oh this would be shocking to the audience" halfway into the story, not realising the actual impact of it, and how it's way too much of a change to make this far in. Well, as stupid as this episode was, it was still as enjoyable as usual. I'm looking forward to the descent into chaos that has been teased these last few episodes. Definitely feels like it's ramping up to something. Also whenever this track plays -https://youtu.be/dr3ryeDVpJE Godamn does it makes it all the more kickass. |
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| This's some fked up world, why everyone just bystander there, there's still people that believes in some sort of justice beside Sybil, like Akane or Kagami, how come no one felt like that, they feel like machines at that point that just do whatever Sybil deem good or bad. Like they lost their sense of awareness, their eyes looked blank too... Anyhow good episode. |
| This episode showed that if humans become dependent on a flawed system for moral guidance, then a woman can be murdered right in front of their eyes. Also, Makishima has some impressive hand-to-hand combat skills. |
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| All of the episodes so far felt average up until this one. I feel like the characters are starting to feel a bit more interesting and we are finally digging into some dystopian themes. |
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| So Makishima is a person who rejects technology, someone like him cannot adapt to the changing world |
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| My crime coefficient just skyrocketed watching those people stand around a brutal crime taking place right in front of them but doing nothing |
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| Tis episode pissed me off due to the indifference the crowd showed to the woman being beaten to death and it also forced me to turn on English subs for a couple of minutes because I couldn't understand how Shinya figured out the criminals helmet trick. 10/10 for making me do that. I am satisfied with how the helmets were handled because it still gives the Sibyl system a shot at being 'effective'. It would have been terrible if these helmets just flat out masked your crime coefficient. |
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| That episode was terrible! Particularly for that one scene. First of all, I understand that this, such as any other anime, is a work of fiction and fantasy and as such I won't watch it expecting everything to be believable. HOWEVER, there are still limits, even in fantasy stories, you can't pass in order to make such a story palpable; in order to make sense out of it. That's why good writing is always a requirement for good stories. And I think they went way beyond the limit with the scene in which a murderer kill a woman in cold blood, hammering her head over and over again for dozens of time, in front of dozens of people in a very public place and NO ONE reacts to it with even a glimpse of shock or disbelief. Everyone just stands there, watching it like they were watching cars passing by on the street. It was stupid as fuck! And if society was like that, it was long dead already with a bunch of walking brainless zombies. I kinda like the concept of the story behind the plot. I like the idea of this society that grew reliant of what looks like a very advanced and infallible security system which detects potential criminals even before they commit crimes and avoid punishing innocents by reading a whole bunch of data from their bodies and brains. It's an interesting lore and with tons of potential to be explored, indeed. But the plot doesn't help... I was finding the main characters mostly very "two sided" (either too evil, or too good) but I was dealing alright with that as most anime, movies and tv shows suffer from this sort of issue anyway. But it's hard to stand a plot in which, other than the main character, everyone else is unbelievably stupid just for the sake of it. In the episode they even tried to give an explanation for the lack of behavior from the crowd, but I was until it's end expecting them to address something else, because it definitely wasn't reason enough to justify it. Basically, the citizens are too accustomed to the system, so they don't judge anything by themselves... which is contradictory even to the plot itself, because if that was the case the previous victims of murders would never freak out before actually knowing the Sybil judgment of their offenders; and that doesn't make sense at all. Bad episode for what, until now, it has been a very average anime. I am starting to believe that this is one of the most overrated anime I have watched based on MAL scores... I expected much better, specially given how well some people use to talk about it. Hopefully it gets better. |
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| episodes just keeping improving and improving. makishima's ideal are better than i thought, i actually agree with him, the sibyl system just keeping getting thrashed in every episode lol. oh and i love that psycho pass gives new definition to "violence" lol |
| lol this edgy shit is so over the top. “someone is getting beaten to death with a fuckin hammer in front of us but psycho-pass didn’t go brrrr so is ok” |
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| Anyone that thinks the public murder scene is unrealistic should do a search for Kitty Genovese. Now imagine a society in which everyone is complacent and brainwashed into believing crime is impossible. Unfortunately, that scene from this episode far more realistic than any of us would like to believe. |
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| thought it was just some another guy who could keep his crime coefficient low just like makishima, but turns out it was the freakin helmet that aside, i'm not trying to justify makishima for what he does and all but he's still right about how they all live like sheep, getting themselves so accustomed to this system which is something to be highly wrong about. |
anxi0usgum1Feb 16, 2023 1:42 PM
| I hope we'll get more explanation than just "This helmet takes the psycho-pass of someone within 30 meters". |
| Having a minimally staffed law enforcement bureau like the PSB deal with every single crime is a terrible idea. Some sort of police force or combat robots stationed around cities to respond more quickly (if not immediately) to crimes would be more effective. One of those thugs had a knife and was standing behind Shougo doing absolutely nothing while his buddies were getting attacked. Could've just stabbed him while he was doing that, but he was still staring off into space when he was finally the centre of attention. |
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| I miss the previous opening, but this new opening is actually really good too. I cannot believe this? The robot was giving her a warning about her stress level, like, Bruh, she’s getting murdered, of course her stress levels are going to increase. And this happened in front of multiple people on a busy street. Im also surprised there was security or authorities near the areas |
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| Stupid system and stupid society who depend too much on the system.. Basically they r (the polices) unarmed if they still depend on those gun.. |
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