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I've just wasted 6 hours of my life thanks to this average anime baiting me in with the Psycho-pass title. Maybe I could take it if it advertised itself as a spinoff - which it really is - but the fact that it dares to masquerade as a sequel is just downright shameful and ridiculous. This is an average crime story which doesn't even try to or fails miserably at continuing with the themes and good qualities of its predecessors, which is unacceptable from a supposed sequel.

It doesn't deal with questions of morality and society in ... any meaningful way, has no charismatic characters or emotional intensity. Instead we get an average detective story with cliché cyberpunk themes we've seen a hundred times thrown in like immigrants, politics, a huge behind the shadows conspiracy, and boring, cookie-cutter characters from the current crime story trends. Add to this the edgy, fanfiction quality writing that tries to pretend it deals with meaningful themes by throwing in random, unfitting monologues about them every once in a while. I won't even get started about the retarded mentalist abilities with 0 explanation, which also makes no sense at all in the Psycho-pass world btw.

And on top of this all, somehow they ended the season without doing anything meaningful with the setting or the character at all, they literally cut without anything interesting happening, and dared to end with a garbage cliffhanger after all this. I would probably give this a 5 if it weren't selling itself as a Psycho-pass sequel, but this is just unacceptable for me.

I'm not even gonna watch anything Psycho-pass related in the future, unless Urobuchi is writing it. Fooled once, never again.

Nowhere near as bad as the anti-Fate route and anti-DEEN circlejerkers would have you believe.

The adaptation contains quite a few annoying changes compared to the VN, but overall it manages to keep the main story - and more importantly - the spirit of the Fate route intact. The outstanding character development between Saber and Shirou - which is a core part of the fate universe - is also adapted well enough, could have used a bit more time dedicated to this aspect though, it's the main strength of this route after all. It also expands greatly on the characters of Saber, Kiritsugu, and Kirei ... compared to Fate/Zero, and does a lot to better explain the ending of it.
More focused on drama and romance elements than other adaptations so far, the action is much weaker compared to ufotable of course, but servicable for its time.

Overall, it is well worth watching and is still a very decent entry point into the Fate franchise, despite it's shortcomings. I shouldn't have listened to the hate bandwagon and watched this long ago.