Reviews

This was a hard series for in the sense that I watched the first nine episodes and then just stopped watching cause I lost interest. I managed to start watching again after the series had finished broadcasting and I can say that I don't regret it. The series is basically a minority report set in the realm of science rather then people telling the future. It worked really well in incorporating the use of the dominator weapon as opposed to the act of seeing someone commit a crime and then stopping them before they do.

The story itself really picks up around 10, the main story is something that most people would enjoy. It is addicting and draws you in, I thought it would just give us the premise of the psycho pass and then we would follow the characters and team as the solve crimes upon this basis. However the actual main story without giving away any spoilers is far better and more thrilling.

The characters are well drawn and all round sympathetic. I even found myself sympathizing with the Villain in the story. The villain is believable and charismatic, he is capable of such evil and cruelty and yet as the story progresses and more specifically after the plot twist we understand more his reasoning but that does not make actions justified. The enforcers were all around great characters, they were hard to see as latent criminals just because they showed none of the signs of being crazy, or anything like that but throughout they are treated as almost sub-human. They are seen as dogs, and I found that fascinating in a way since the inspectors are so reliant on them and yet at the same time they see them as a nuisance.

Really enjoyed the music, not much of an expert in this area but it was great listening, i usually skip through but I sat through the entire episode including the OP and ED, second anime I have done this to after Samurai Champloo.

Art was great, characters were well drawn and easy identifiable, without making all of them generic in a sense, they all seemed unique. Which is not as common as one may think, there are many anime where characters are drawn generically and just some hair etc is changed but here you were really able to see the individualism in each character. The scenery was excellent, really helped the story moved fluidly against such beautiful backdrops and well drawn futuristic metropolitan.

All in all I really enjoyed the anime, the ending did leave me a bit unfulfilled but it was still a good ending. Well worth a watch and one won't regret it, first nine episodes can get a bit slow and boring sometimes but bear with it things get alot better very soon.