I truly had great expectations with Psycho-Pass and it's potential and in the end i only found disappointment. For a story that could be deep and well developed, what was presented is very shallow to say the least.
We are shown this futuristic scenario but most of the necessary explanations to understand it are left aside, and until the end a lot of "how's" and "why's" remain unanswered. And to complete it, i can only assume the characters just exist for the sake of the "plot" because they have little to no personality of their own and overall aren't likable.
My biggest problem was it Akane, she was probably the most boring, annoying and lifeless characters I've seen in a while. In the beginning I though I could like her because seemed to have a more righteous sense of justice than the one that ruled their reality, but that's only on the first few episodes, after that she was just downright oblivious and naive, even with all she had seen in her job. After all that said let's get to the real problem with Akane: honestly she is everything I despise. At first I though she was only a victim of alienation by the system, but when she finally acknowledged the truth she decided to do nothing about it because society was happy living in ignorance and she didn't want to ruin it for them. I'm sorry but i cannot stand characters that conform with such a distorted reality.
The only character I can say was likable in the slightest was Makishima. At some point i sympathized with his cause, but it was for only a brief moment because the reason behind his desire to free society was never shown. Was he doing that because of some background story? Or was just for fun? Or just for the plot's sake? Who knows, who cares
And then we have Kogami, he's brilliant and does not have an ounce of charisma. At first sight he might like your average badass character: listen to no one, does what he wants and smarter than everyone. But only after a short time he started to listen and care about everything Akane said or told him to do, and why that happened is beyond me. I'm not even going to enter their boring and unfounded relationship.
Characters and story aside, some dialogues are very interesting and leave you think about some important matters, such as the impact of technology on our lives and about the system itself and it's alienation, and I personally enjoy those kind of things. It also had one of the greatest and most disturbing scenes I've seen that represents all of what i previously said and I have to give credit for it.
Psycho-Pass could've been a great story but it was poorly executed and the characters only worsened the situation, don't expect it to be about blowing up dictatorial systems or the likes of it. I guess that part of of my disappointment was due to having such expectations and receiving the complete opposite.
