Well, well, well... Guess who is back, Psycho Pass, after 3 new movies we get a new season , is it good?... eh,not really.
I'll start with what i disliked about it.
My first problem is something, pretty obvious, the sudden change of the cast, I say sudden because I had no idea of what this season would entail.The new cast was decent at best, even though the new enforcers for most of the time had one single trait, and it felt like their existence didn't really matter.In the end some of them got some development but it still felt underwhelming. The new inspectors, Kei and Arata, start pretty interesting but as time goes on and the story progresses they become boring, and one of them goes against all his character at the end of the season, for conflict. Arata is basically Akane but with some mental powers that came out of nowhere,it wasn't even explained it just got introduced and we had to accept it(There's also a big dragon head that appears in all of them,it's reason, like the ability, wasn't explained so i'm not gonna dwell much into it). Just like Akane he believes that people can change and in a lot of cases he goes against his enforcers to save some people that couldn't really be saved, and that fact is made obvious every time.In one way it shows how much he cherishes life but when he ignores everything and goes out of his way to save "unsavable" people it comes off as annoying after it's done multiple times.
The reason why the old cast disbanded isn't revealed yet so i can't really say much about it outside my frustration, every time i saw the old cast i was reminded that they weren't there anymore and it really didn't help me like the new cast.
Another big problem i had is the world.When i first saw the world of Psycho Pass i was enthralled, it felt outlandish, i wanted to know more and see how crazy they could get with technology. This season went against that and added some places that felt, really out of place for this world, they seemed like they were frozen in time for decades,old buildings and factories that looked straight out of eastern europe. The fact that Japan was very advanced was set in stone in the first season, seeing those places so close to the city everything too place in really made me think this didn't happen in the same world.
The big bad guys this season weren't of my liking either , the whole concept of such a big organisation with such a power existing alongside Sibyl felt too forced, their headquarters also looked ridiculous, it reminded me of something out of Bioshock. The stock game, i don't know how to call it, was pretty stupid, it felt like i was watching 3 people playing Monopoly. All my problems with it tie with the world problem, if this wasn't in Psycho Pass, but in a different world where all these contradictions didn't exist, maybe i would have found it interesting.
In this season they tried tackling subjects like economy, politics, religion, immigration. Most of them worked... well pretty much all of them to some degree, except religion. Why exactly did it fail?, same problem as the bigbadvillainsorganiation, a new cult emerged, it's leader was accepted Sibyl and they amassed a big number of followers. Their "church" is a building with such a size that some priests would've wet themselves at the sight of it, so big that at least some kid made a "yo momma" joke about it. With such size you think it was built afar from the city, nah, it just appeared there, also they made it so no signals can enter it, so Sybil wouldn't interfere, glad they were ok with that. This might seem like i'm nitpicking, maybe, but for me it just destroyed my immersion and made me think how stupid it looked.
Without spoiling much of the story these are some of my problems, there are other, especially with the characters but that would mean giving context, so spoilers, yeah i'm leaving it like that.
After complaining so much, you might be surprised i gave it a 6, well there are some things i liked.
The best thing this season had to offer is... a likeable Shimotsuki, one that it's existence isn't just to make the viewers want to punch their screen, and goddamn i'm glad this happened. Her development started since the first case file movie so i wasn't that surprised but it still felt good.
In the first half, Kei and Arata had a fun chemistry and seeing them resolve cases was actually interesting. Sadly as time went on they got, not as interesting,and sometimes annoying. But for some time they made me forget about unit one.The side characters, even if they were one dimensional for most of the time, they were likeable so that's good i guess.
After they stopped talking about bifrost (badguys), it focused more on the detective/police side of Psycho Pass that i love, they kept doing that until the last episodes. I really liked that part of the it.
The animation was amazing, prod ig really improved their cgi and the combination of it with animation. All the fight scenes looked good and the choreography wasn't plain.
Is this season the worst thing that Japan has birthed?, no.
Most of my problems happened in the first episode and the last ones, more exactly bifrost, throughout the rest of the episodes, there was some problems but,not that many.
Is this season worth watching? Depends, if you liked the movies you might like it but there's also the chance you'll find the change of cast jarring, like me.
My advice if you want to watch it is to go without any expectations, even expect the worst season of Psycho Pass, if you go with high expectations and the hope you'll see Akane and Kougami working together, you'll be utterly disappointed.
