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REVIEW: Psycho-Pass episodes 12 - 22 streaming

Truth of the Sybil System is also kind of ludicrous, too much flat out philosophizing and psychoanalyzing. Some stiff animation this time around.

I was disappointed by the lack of development Yayoi had in the finale. Kagari had more importance in the end but Yayoi was the one who got her flashback episode.

I would have enjoyed the show more if kogami's every action and movement did not scream BISHONEN!

− Truth of the Sybil System is also kind of ludicrous, too much flat out philosophizing and psychoanalyzing. Some stiff animation this time around.

Regretfully this active viewing would be much more effective if Urobuchi would let us do most of the thinking for ourselves

Regretfully this active viewing would be much more effective if Urobuchi would let us do most of the thinking for ourselves – characters have a tendency to monologue, spewing forth their plans, psychological evaluations of each other, and each and every detail about a point the show deems important as if they were a narration panel in a preachy comic book. With little left to our own interpretation, things can get bogged down with theories, to say nothing of the fact that watching characters eat breakfast while discussing political theory is not all that thrilling. (Episode nineteen compounds this by having particularly stiff animation.)

Being a long-time fan of cyberpunk, I would have probably rated this show a lot higher. Then again, it catered directly to my specific tastes in fiction, so my ratings for it would be undeniably biased.

One of the things I love about cyberpunk fiction is the inherent function of skewering societal norms. Psycho-Pass did this well, particularly by skewering Japan's societal defining proverb "Deru kui wa utareru" (The stake that sticks out gets hammered down). Not only were the square pegs hammered down, the worst of themspoiler[became the governing "brain" (heh heh) of the system that did the hammering]. I thought the big reveal of the godlike Sybil system spoiler[presented as a pastoral, golden field populated by individual brains in jars] was hysterically funny. (maybe I've read too many Matt Greoning comics, or something... spoiler[Akbar and Jeff's Cryogenic World-Domination Hut LOL]

This wasn't obvious to me at first, but the later scenes concerning spoiler[Japan's food supply and how it was produced] seemed to indicate that the Sybil system was an spoiler[entity unique to Japan], created in part to spoiler[assure Japan's absolute independence from outside nations and cultures. In effect, a culturally anaerobic environment]. A very sly way to lampoon the outdated nationalist and isolationist attitudes still found in certain segments of Japanese Society.

Most of the cyberpunk authors I've been exposed to have been either Americans or British. They skewer a lot of societal ills found in Western culture. It was a nice change of pace to see this done by a Japanese author, focused on Japanese society.

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Regretfully this active viewing would be much more effective if Urobuchi would let us do most of the thinking for ourselves – characters have a tendency to monologue, spewing forth their plans, psychological evaluations of each other, and each and every detail about a point the show deems important as if they were a narration panel in a preachy comic book. With little left to our own interpretation, things can get bogged down with theories, to say nothing of the fact that watching characters eat breakfast while discussing political theory is not all that thrilling. (Episode nineteen compounds this by having particularly stiff animation.)

This is a legitimate complaint. I remember GitS having a few of these kinds of episodes. At least, that particular (I think) episode had a funny homage to Werner Herzog's The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans. Made me laugh. IMO, it makes up for the dialog-heavy scene that it appears in.

Gen Urobuchi's Psycho-Pass gave me everything I wanted in a good cyberpunk story, and didn't leave out any of the elements that make cyberpunk what it is. That, and he likes Herzog. I am now a dedicated fan.

How can you say you like steam punk and act like Japanese wrtiters and anime creators have never touched the subject. Jesus Christ even Miyazaki has a lot of steam punk influence in several of his works.

Then I don't know have you ever heard of titles like Akira, Steamboy, and Metropolis. And there are plenty of other works that present issues like nannies states a lot better than this turd, like UnGo for one.

tuxedocat wrote:

Being a long-time fan of cyberpunk...Most of the cyberpunk authors ...Gen Urobuchi's Psycho-Pass gave me everything I wanted in a good cyberpunk story,

Im going to face palm myself. How can you say you like steam punk ...even Miyazaki has a lot of steam punk

Tanteikingdomkey wrote:

I would have enjoyed the show more if kogami's every action and movement did not scream BISHONEN!

Now, the trick question is, who is more bishounen, Kougami Shinya or Hibari Kyoya. ...no that is not a trick question.