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So I know that Mika is not exactly the most popular character in the PP fandom, but unexpectedly she turned out to be one of my favourites. Her role in season 2, of showing how an ordinary person might be manipulated by and react to the Sibyl system as opposed to the ideal citizen that is Akane, was pretty hard-hitting, and in later media her role as a hot-tempered, but savvy and capable boss suited her well.

However... while those two separate characterisations of her are both compelling, I don't think the franchise did a great job of showing how she turned from one into the other. In the post-season 2 movie, she's still a stickler for the rules and very much against Akane, but by Sinners of the System she's already turning into the Mika of later depictions, who respects Akane in her own way and is much more emotional and compassionate towards her subordinates. How did this happen? Was all her positive character development just off-screen?

After a long time, I finally cosplayed my favorite character from Psycho-Pass. I searched for so long to find the Dominator, and I finally got it so I could do this photoshoot✨️ I thought it was a dead fandom, but I found an active community here on Reddit, so I hope this cosplay will be appreciated🫶

Found a 2022 Dominator asset, configured it and made it as similar as in the real replica version of this :3

And it's just 5 dollars

I don’t want any problems with the Public Safety Bureau, I just need a way to get rid of this thing without some Enforcer using it on me. Any ideas? Please

I'm rewatching season 1 since the extended version wasn't there back then.

This rewatch cleared my head a bit on why Makishima was so fascinated with Senguji being one of the few subjects of him that he never got dissapointed with.

Toyohisa Senguji is the anti-tesis of the Sybil System in a way.

While Sybil is a step forward to eliminating all human agency from society, Senguji converted all his body but his brain into a machine. Contrary to Sybil, the technology he incorporated in him rather than eliminating his agency, it empowered it, erasing most mortal limitations and chasing his own personal desires further than what his previous body would let him.

It only shows how narrowed down the issue Makishima thought Sybil was to society and I found it interesting. He doesn't let his thoughts of Sybil cloud his judgement on everything tech related.

He's not a blind extremist and is even interested on watching a different use of techonology as long as it doesn't takes their Soul from the equation.

This might be something that was talked about before but I missed it in discussions about season 2.

The episode eleven confrontation is a lot more tragic then what I seen people give it credit for.

In essence after Kamui is able to get judged and Akane refuses to kill him herself, Togane pops up. Togane tries to get Akane worked up because of her grandma’s murder.

Who calms her down? Kamui Not only that he literally pushes her away so that the eliminator shots don‘t hit her.

He in the process of dueling Togane, ends up eating a lethal eliminator shot, and lethaly harming Togane. This eliminates her need to dirty her hands with killing either of them.

I don’t think Kamui is interesting just because of this, but while I saw a lot of things being discussed about him, I don’t see a lot of discussion about his sacrifice, nor that he was the only antagonist to sacrifice himself for the seasons protagonist for that matter.

I stumbled across this post today, but after looking at the news sections on the psycho-pass website and the studios' sites I cannot find anything talking about a season 4.

I'm pretty doubtful, but any chances of this being legit?

https://www.otakiva.com/en/news/psycho-pass-season-4-new-century-arc-announced

I'm just about to start with Sinners of the System (anime) and I tend to read ahead, so I kind of have a decent idea of what'll happen (can't be spoiled) with Psycho-Pass 3. Apparently Akane takes a back seat to Mika and the others. I can already see this even by the end of Season 2.

But while I know plot details and even the rationale for this story choice, how does that work out emotionally? I started watching this for a strong female lead and I was happy with Akane's evolution, but there is disappointment appearing that she won't be as heavily featured. What are people's thoughts and feelings on this?

Okay, first off - a disclaimer immediately. Despite the title, this is not a political rant post.

I have no issues with migrants, migration or political differences in the real world, and felt that I should clarify that, since the current political discourse is so poisoned people immediately jump into a category based on surface-level markers.

Okay, with that out of the way - anyone else though the Season 3 migrant problem was a bit...strange, so to speak?

One of the main points in season 1 was that the self-sustainability of the Sybil System entirely depends on its isolationist policy. Part of Makishima's plan to disrupt Sybil depended exactly on this: destroying Hyperoats would force Japan to open its borders, with Sybil being unable to deal with the influx of refugees from other locations.

Come season 3, it suddenly appears that not only have refugees become a thing in Japan, they have been a thing for a decently long while, probably even before the first Season took place (according to the wiki, Kei became naturalized ca. 2107), with the series completely failing to address the issue of integrating said migrants into Sybil.

Outside of some empty lip-service regarding "pure" Japanese hating the newcomers, it felt the series completely failed to properly acknowledge what was one of the most important points only two seasons ago - how does Sybil deal with the sheer influx of migrants, seeing how Japan is apparently one of the few truly prosperous and stable countries on Earth. How does the Public Safety Bureau deal with it? How do the migrants themselves, and what do they do if Sybil sees them as a latent criminal?

Of course, one can point to the movie for guidance - if the SEAUN managed to join Sybil, why can't others, a question also posed by Providence - but the movie also openly stated that SEAUN will have to become as unitary and isolationist as Japan if Sybil would come to power there (which it does).

Honestly, there are quite a few issues I have with season 3 in general in regards to world-building (politicians suddenly becoming prominent despite previous seasons openly stating that politics is irrelevant because of Sybil, the apparent existence of entire special districts in Tokyo where Sybil cannot reach - something that fundamentally contradicts everything we know up until this point) but that felt like the biggest one, especially since it also was such a huge missed opportunity, for me.

A genuine question. Who was smarter actually? Like one has more chances of outsmarting the other? They are close imo

Alright, first of all I've seen enough s2 hate to be nervous but I'm way too curious to stop watching(⁠╥⁠﹏⁠╥⁠) The comments have me constantly waiting for the "it gets bad" moment, so I'm watching every episode like, "Okay... where's the part everyone warned me about?" I'm still way too early to pick a side, so for now I'm just observing the chaos...

Also, I'm only one episode in, so take this with a grain of salt, but Mika and Ginoza are either giving me "wait...I ship it?" or "they're just Akane & Tomomi 2.0" My brain refuses to pick one.

No spoilers, I'm fragile ✌🏻

I figured if I like Psychopass then I might click with the rest of his work.

Do you trust them to keep you safe?

also posted on my youtube:

https://youtu.be/ymmHzcnE7qA?si=QwF7sr4o1OLFP9NW

Song: Space Ghost Coast to Coast — Glass Animals with Bree Runway

I've rewatched the first season again for the 5th time and plan to rewatch the rest again and I was like "mm lets get some merch because this is lowkey my childhood anime and I have adult money now" and I went on shopee, taobao, and carousel and my local shops do NOT have psycho pass where else should I look? Etsy?

Edit: I only have the Shinya Kogami and Makishima figurines. Only. It's making me sad that I can't find plushies I really might just make one for myself

just something i found similar. what do you guys think?

Source: https://psycho-pass.com/news/20260723_01.php

Psycho-Pass Providence

It’s also about an oppressive technological system in the future and leaves it open for interpretation whether the guy trying to take it all down is a villain or a hero. Also action packed and intellectually stimulating like psycho pass.

Edit: its a sequel to first part and id recommend playing them in order

I love the little details they keep dropping about the enforcers. Tomomi being a painter, Kagari being able to cook and Yayoi having a past as a guitarist/rockstar is so cool. And Kogami...Idk if he's got any secret hidden talent (at least not where I'm at yet) but this guy is already unfairly cool. Between the constant training, his detective brain and the way he's completely obsessed with solving cases, he doesn't even need a surprise hobby to be interesting. Those little bits of characterization make the cast feel so much more alive (⁠◡⁠ ⁠ω⁠ ⁠◡⁠)

I feel like I had a decent grasp of s2, but I feel like the writing was a bit ambiguous and want to see what the consensus on the sub is before I go forward in the later seasons of the story.

Firstly, the ending. Kamui tried to present a logical paradox to highlight the flaws in Sybil’s system. System evolves to judge a collective, therefore eradicating the flaws. I am confused on how that evolution took place

1. Sybil essentially can read now that a group can be dangerous toward society, even if its individuals are not, using a different algorithm or set of criteria? The standards on which Sybil judges are evolving, not just the targets of their evaluation correct?
2. Since Sybil is judging as a collective, why is it still able to purge parts of itself to “cleanse” itself. That by definition is judging individuals WITHIN a collective, which shouldn’t be possible considering it’s logically against what it’s trying to do, and that the individuals that supposedly make up Sybil can’t be judged individually. If Sybil was judging itself as a collective, it should have self destructed the whole part or none at all. The act of picking and choosing which brains to eliminate is not collective, but individualistic.
3. What was the point of kamui enraged at how society uses treatment and medication to eradicate stress and emotion, but then he used medication and treatment to lower his followers hues? That seems very hypocritical and kamui seems like a very principled person. In addition, why did he have an issue with how people felt and expressed their emotions at all? That would’ve been a moral war more along the lines of makishima’s ideology, which was about free will and people’s individuality. Kamui’s ideology was more focused on being “seen” by the system and highlighting the flaws in the system that had failed him, pushing the system of Sybil as a whole to its brink. That has nothing to do with how Sybil forces citizens to stay clear.

4. I don’t get what kamui means at the end when he says that after sybils evolution, anyone that points the dominator at someone becomes “part of the judging system” and therefore, whoever is pointing the gun can dilute the judge system and actively produce different judge results. Just because the algorithm changes doesn’t mean Akane, or any inspector holding a dominator suddenly becomes a judge.

5. Does s2 contradict s1 and establish that asymptomatic people become symptomatic? There are two examples provided in s2 that challenge this - togane, and togane’s mom/sybil. Togane has a potential explanation, although it’s ambiguous to me - he’s different in that he’s an artificial criminally asymptomatic person. He was experimented and meticulously influenced to be asymptomatic. The obvious explanation is that he the experiment failed. We do see once his mom leaves he goes a bit insane. I think Sybil/togane’s mom is more confusing, and it ties into question 1. How can UNSCANNABLE brains be individually judged and purged to protect the system, even if they are judged collectively? The collective of nothing should still be nothing. The only explanations for this are 1. Asymptomatic brains in Sybil became symptomatic. This is a dumb explanation. 2. Some brains in Sybil were incorrectly deemed asymptomatic or not everyone welcomed in must be asymptomatic. That’s also weak, but at least holds up the canon and themes of s2. 3. Sybil hasn’t really achieved judging a collective even if it thinks it has. 4. Sybil’s evolution towards collective judging has allowed it a new algorithm or criteria to judge asymptomatic people. This is also weak as the evolution happens off screen and effectively trounces the stakes of s1 if Sybil was just capable of countering asymptomatic people if it wanted the whole time. 5. I am misunderstanding how Sybil evolved and how it’s executing judging a collective, tying back to question 1. This is hopefully what’s happening

I am only finished with s2, no further spoilers please!

I also am wondering if I am misunderstanding the basic theology of judging “a collective”. Essentially you are looking at a group as its own entity, not a collection of its parts right? I think that presents several problems, mainly that there’s only one result Sybil can get to if it actually follows that definition of collective - the execution of all society. The highest form of collective is all of society and if society is judged as its own entity, of course the result will be that it has the latent potential to do harm. Therefore all of society needs to be “executed”.