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Knowing that I've loved media such as Oyasumi Punpun, by what I've seen I assume that Takopii is similarly as visceral. That's okay by me, even more with how bastardized the subject of bullying tends to be...

Thats good! Glad you could enjoy your read then :)

Also, how are you liking Takopii so far? It feels like my type of thing

Can't disagree with it being incomplete since I wrote it at... 5/25. I did hear a little bit about later events, though. Sounded quirky. :P

Did bro win a fight without using his immortality at last

lol what is this

High praise! Glad you enjoyed it. (Even if it is a rough one.)

just a little bit

i will! someday...

She looks awkward and cute! I will check this out. Thanks. :)

What other anime can you compare it to? Just to get a general idea

> Many Durarara fans and critics alike rate the x2 sequels significantly lower.

I'd only continue watching to see where Celty's story goes. But idk if that price is worth it. Steins;Gate 0 damaged S1. Psycho-Pass S2 damaged S1. Later Gintama parts damage the whole package. I expect the same thing to happen with Durarara, but I could be wrong.

> Would you say the original is a complete enough experience?

Durarara's story is potentially bottomless. It repeatedly makes the same point that people you pass by on the street have their own lives/you're likely tangentially connected to them. It makes its point, yes, but like I say, I'd like to see where Celty ends up. So it's complete enough, yes.

> ...it might start to feel a little tedious if you can't connect with its characters after 60-ish episodes.

60 eps of investment... that's a tall order.

It's also one of those shows that looks effortlessly pretty for me. I'm a fan of the evening breeze vibes I get.

I sorta related to Mikado's circumstances. Terminally online kid from the country taking in a bunch of new information with his move to the big city. Aside from that loose empathy (that's since faded), the cast are too quirky to properly level with, despite the insight I get into their lives. Furthermore, from what I hear about the direction of Mikado's arc in later entries, I think he's gonna become straight up alien to me.

What do you make of Narita's obsession with connecting everything together?

Glad to see you're enjoying Durarara!!

> I think Makishima's decision, at the very least, is a testimony to his strong beliefs. Not as earth-shattering as Griffith's choice, but yeah.

Agreed. Denying the Sibyl System reaffirms his stance. And generally speaking, it's a bold stance to take.

I could've made my Griffith comparison clearer. What I was trying to say, specifically, was that Makishima didn't have his principles tested. He didn't reluctantly turn down Sibyl. When I see a character urged to make the wrong decision, then resisting that urge, that's powerful to me. More points if the character in the hotseat chooses the more difficult path for justified reasons in-line with their character rather than merely hopium.

Griffith made the wrong decision in sacrificing his friends, but I found it compelling because it made total sense and he has to be talked into it. It could've gone either way. The earth-shattering scale of his choice isn't the appeal, it's the insight into his decisions as he falls to the God Hand, recalling his dreams, giving into the temptation of release from pain, and prior moments of character drama cropping up once again. Makishima's choice didn't have the large-scale impact, and that's fine. I just think more insight into his decision-making process would've made the moment more powerful for me, rather than a simple reaffirmation of a principle I already knew he held.

> I think Makishima's decision, at the very least, is a testimony to his strong beliefs.

However, I rewatched the scene. Plot twist: there's an interesting element at work that I had previously failed to acknowledge. Makishima's bias is valued by Sibyl. He is to be taken into account by the system. In the process, his decisions will be given more efficacy should he join. Makishima wants to mold society, and as you say, he is daring and committed in this pursuit. Joining Sibyl is an opportunity for him to receive the fast-track to the influence he desires. Accept the offer and enact his will in ways that weren't possible before. Couple with that call to power, and immortality, the scene becomes somewhat more compelling to me because Makishima stands to lose something we know is important to him specifically in declining this offer. Immortality is an applicable, lame, tenet at work in comparison. And of course, his will would've been one of many, but the stage upon which he'd be working is literally at the heart of Psycho-Pass's society.

Anyway, clearly there are layers to this show. Work has been done to make things make sense. Even if it falls short for me personally, I will always respect Urobuchi's efforts. He just makes it a bit difficult for himself sometimes haha.

> I don't think it would be as hard as you think. Anyone creating, sharing or consuming violent media would have (at least to some degree) a clouded Psycho-Pass, so information control would have been child's play once the scanners became omnipresent. And I expect people who are naturally violent would be isolated from a young age like Kagari was.

"All these people have lived up until now without ever even considering that something like this could happen."

I heavily disagree. I think it would be incredibly difficult to foster the conditions of this ward. Every single person needs to be stripped of innate desires of self-preservation, the very sight of blood and distress. The lady, when approached by this heavily built heavily breathing obstruction who forcefully turns her around to face him, she just stands there for a solid five seconds without running away or calling of help. There's apathy and mere curiosity, then there's fucking aliens. I can't even conceptualise how a massive group of people stands by like this, so I'm at a loss in even trying to use headcanon to make it make sense.

As for this violent media point, I struggle to see how a person watching violent media has their psycho pass clouded as a result. I know you say "at least to some degree", but this is still fundamentally suggestive of a connection between the violent media itself and the psycho pass. As in, the violent media clouds the psycho pass by a unit ranging from 1-99, so to speak. I just doubt how the violent media is a cause even by 1 unit. This echoes that old-ass argument that violent video games are corrupting our kids LOL. The connection could be there, but it's highly highly contentious in the real world nevermind on the massive scale that we see in Psycho-Pass. And the perfection of the information control that we see in this ward is even more difficult to reconcile.

In any case, I'm doubtful that the world of Psycho-Pass establishes that violent media has been banned and quarantined off in the manner that you suggest. I mean, come on man, the lethal setting on the Dominators turns its target into porridge. People know that there is a police force. There are screwed up sadists on the fringes inspired by theory and violence of the past. How can only these people encounter these resources, but not some wider subset? Why is the information control so selective? At the end of episode 4, our characters stun two suspects in a night club and bystanders run away. In episode 5, Kagari shoots off a suspect's arm in a hallway. Bro runs away, passes some random bystander in the elevator, blood dripping everywhere. In episode 6, the corpse artwork is described to be made in "bad taste" by passerbys. I get that this was made by a girl from a school where Sibyl's coverage was limited, and I credit the show for ironing out that kink (alongside the overall emphasis on clean-up, sending people to institutions). Again though, the asking price is so high. Sibyl's effects are difficult to accept. This was a quick glance over three episodes, the perfection of information control has already been impacted. Like, we don't see our characters taking in this lady (who saw the guy's dismembered arm in episode 5), and I guess we're left to assume no one in the entire building happened across the trail of blood. Idk, it's just so difficult to accept that a single ward can be perfectly insulated from violence on the conceptual level.

The Sibyl System's process is also wacky to me. The system is an aggregate of minds observing its subjects' mental states. What is it reading? Well, it can't be anything outside of brain activity because the helmets block it completely. So we're left to accept that a system as ingrained and successful as this can't engage in pattern recognition reCaptcha style, as in, recognising shapes: "what is wrong in this image?" There's no reading of language, body language, heartrate, bodily trauma, etc. It gets more stupid the more I think about it.

> Mind you, Makishima would have become practically immortal if he joined the Sibyl System, but he turned that down.

I find Makishima's stance against the Sibyl System somewhat compelling in and of itself, but I didn't remember the offer being all that tempting to him to begin with. "Counter-culture sociopath, ardent Sibyl hater denies joining the system he hates", not exactly shocking to me. Was Makishima ever especially tempted by the prospect of immortality in the first place? It makes his decision less powerful to me. Think Tenma edging toward killing Johan now that Wim has a makarov pointed at his head. This is a weaker challenge to Tenma's no-kill rule than Johan as-is (without innocent child hostage LOL). It'd be about killing Johan moreso that saving Wim's life right there and then. I guess people generically value immortality, maybe? Idk if Makishima values it though. Anyway, as for putting himself in harm's way, he definitely does that. But yeah, turning down joining Sibyl wasn't exactly a Griffith sacrificing the Hawks moment for me. It was only ever gonna go one way, I don't recall any inner conflict within Makishima.

I'll respond to your message soon. For now, though, I'm curious where you stand on these questions Psycho-Pass seems to get us asking.

Is free will more important than the prosperity of society at large?

Is an individual's free will more important than the prosperity of that individual?