🥈 8/10
A world without crime, or at least, future possible crimes are being prevented as much as possible. Pretty an ideal world, isn’t it? Here in Psycho-Pass, in a future world, comes to the existence of a system that can detect people’s signs of criminal intent, output in a number, a number over 100 means a sign of criminal intent is detected, while over 300 means being a threat to society. However, is such a system really perfect? What if a truly innocent person is detected to show signs of criminal intent? And what if the system detects no signs of criminal intent of a sadistic criminal at all? That would be a total problem, isn’t it? Find your answer in Psycho-Pass.
🎬 Story - 8/10
Dark and serious. Heartbreaking and depressing. The story itself is no comedic. The series begins when Akane Tsunemori started working as an inspector, telling stories through her and her unit. The story itself is filled with details, some are quite complex, containing mysteries to be revealed throughout the series. I am amazed that this kind of plot can be written and made into the anime pretty well. However, there are some complexities that are not being explained clearly, rather rough and incomplete explanation.
🎨 Animation - 7/10
Pretty average, reached the standard. This anime also contains graphic violence, meaning blood, which suits the theme of the anime, making the anime even darker, more serious, and more realistic.
🔈 Sound - 7/10
Pretty average, reached the standard. As for theme songs, I did not like them but did not hate them either. Songs are mainly personal taste and preferences. As for soundtracks, nothing is outstanding yet nothing bugged me at all.
🕶 Characters - 8/10
Well-rounded and solid character building. Character development is shown strongly, a huge change can be noticed in later parts of the series, which really impressed me. The storytelling does display several aspects of the characters, getting audiences to know and understand characters even more. Different emotions and personalities of characters are also being shown.
However, there is an obvious flaw to be noted. The characters’ background, they are being told incompletely, rather fragments of memories, some of them should be told more but did not, while some of them are not necessary but being told and they play no role in the story. Furthermore, the main antagonist’s background is almost not being told at all, leaving no clues and motivation to be found to audiences. Anyway, the performance of the main antagonist is already badass and evil, pretty interesting and hard-to-predict character, the show just did not execute the idea to its fullest potential. To sum it up, the right and proper character’s background storytelling should have been done.
🎉 Enjoyment - 8/10
Psycho-Pass is one well-composed anime, being dark and serious rather than comedic had encouraged me to watch the show to its end. This show is pretty hard to predict what is going to happen, which made watching this show exciting.
📌 Recommendations
Psycho-Pass is unique, a combination of sci-fi and police is not what you will see every day. If you are looking for a sci-fi anime, dark and serious anime, or a police anime, then I recommend this anime. Enjoy!
