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The Literary Secrets of Psycho-Pass

Urobutcher is very good with referencing things left and right to make his most average writing feel bigger but he gets to work with one quality director after another so what do i know. Shrug. I gave PP1 a "so so" and i stand to that. (The Dominator guns are the worst btw.)

Some people call him the Christopher Nolan of the anime scene as far as being a creator goes but unlike Nolan who has been consistently fantastic over what feels like a decade now and manages to be so with films that tackle quite a wide variety of topics, tones and themes from suspense thrillers about amnesiacs to superhero films to sci-fi mind benders I have not seen the same kind of consistency from Urobuchi who has many just to shows with a sort of opposing extreme elements of societal representation where bad things happen to good people over and over and with varying results at that.

Psycho-Pass was a great show. I would have expected Philip K. Dick to be mentioned, though, as the show heavily draws from the themes and stories Dick became famous for, not just The Minority Report. Didn't they even mention Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep in the series at one point?

Holy spoiler landmine! Think you could put a warning at the top of that article listing the books and shows you're casually spoiling the ends of? Seriously, Neuromancer is STILL sitting in my Kindle's "to read soon" folder, and I bet other people haven't read/watched all that stuff. Dude.

Good article, just... come on.

Ranging from ancient political philosophy to English theater to pulp sci-fi, Psycho-Pass casts a wide net of references. While many bookish names get dropped in the story, these titles also have a ton of influence on the story and ideas of Psycho-Pass, as well as many other classic cyberpunk anime. So, whatchu talkin' bout Shogo?

The funny thing is this is extremely noticeable that he often gets paired up with directors whose popularity is either peaking or long established and has never really had to be in a situation where his writing has really had to carry a piece and yet it's always like he gets sole credit for carrying everything he's involved in like he's a Hosoda type that does it all himself. It's a really bizarre phenomenon, but it's not even just that, he almost always gets to be on a project where the character designs really take off or are given extra special attention and handling by the artist and producers like with Madoka, Paradise Exiled and Aldnoah.Zero.

Some people call him the Christopher Nolan of the anime scene as far as being a creator goes but unlike Nolan who has been consistently fantastic over what feels like a decade now and manages to be so with films that tackle quite a wide variety of topics, tones and themes from suspense thrillers about amnesiacs to superhero films to sci-fi mind benders I have not seen the same kind of consistency from Urobuchi who has many just to shows with a sort of opposing extreme elements of societal representation where bad things happen to good people over and over and with varying results at that. I find that very rarely have his biggest hits been anything that he's come up with himself either so much as been asked to write scripts for in an environment with strong veteran support and the ones that seem to spawn from him as an original creator seem to have been stuff he seems like he'd rather forget about like Aldnoah and Gunslinger Stratos.

It can't all just be light novel and eroge writers coming up with scripts and ideas.

The series would be perfect if Urobuchi were just a bit less info dumpy during expositions. I'm a fan, but exposition is not his strongest suit, I think.