[Anime] Psycho-Pass 2

Almost two years after it first aired, the cyberpunk dystopian thriller returns for a second season. Premieres this October 9th. Most likely Funimation will be picking it up for streaming in the States.

• Synopsis

The series takes place in the near future, when it is possible to instantaneously measure and quantify a person's state of mind and personality. This information is recorded and processed, and the term "Psycho-Pass" refers to a standard used to measure an individual's being.

(Source: ANN)

[will update this as more specifics about this season's plot are revealed]

• Cast

Kana Hanazawa as Akane Tsunemori
Kenji Nojima as Nobuchika Ginoza
Keiji Fujiwara as Sakuya Tougane
Ayane Sakura as Mika Shimotsuki
Takahiro Sakurai as Sho Hinakawa
Shizuka Itou as Yayoi Kunizuka
Miyuki Sawashiro as Shion Karanomori
Masumi Asano as Risa Aoyanagi
Marina Inoue as Mizue Shisui
Ryohei Kimura as Kirito Kamui

• Staff

Okay, here is where some things will really start to differ. Two major differences in the staff are in this season. This is taken straight from the ANN article on PP2.



Most of the rest of the staff remains the same.

Planning Supervision: Katsuyuki Motohiro, Gen Urobuchi (Nitroplus)
Original Character Design: Akira Amano
Character Design: Kyoji Asano
Series Director: Kiyotaka Suzuki
Chief Animation Director: Kyoji Asano, Akira Takada
Color Plan: Rumiko Nagai
Art Director: Takahiro Matsuura
3D Driector: Yoshifumi Kasanaga
Director of Photography: Shunsuke Nakamura
Editing: Yoshinori Murakami
Sound Director: Yoshikazu Iwanami
Production: Psycho Pass Production Committee

• OP and ED Artists

Hey, look at that, both Ling Tosite Sigure and EGOIST are returning to make the OP and ED theme of this anime respectively, there's something to look forward to (both can be heard in the PV).

Overall, I'm excited to see the direction this new season will take. More of muh waifu being a boss~

does she still look like she is High ? lol

EGOIST yes.

Urobuchi yes.

Some different people working on it. Ehhh new things ain't bad but suspicious nonetheless.

Answer to crappy cliff hanger in a series I was invested in. Hell yes.

Not sure whether to be more excited about the OP/ED or the actual anime. Both are absolute favorites.

Makishima mark 2?

It was a kind of fun first episode.

Episode 1

Not exactly though


Mika is the new Akane except ten times more annoying. Akane has developed into a fine leader here.

The thing that makes her more annoying besides being the "contrast opinion" is that she's the god damn "Rookie". We already saw that you don't need that kind of attitude after the end of Psycho Pass 1 with the change of Ginoza's whole personality, so it's annoying to see that attitude appear again.

To me she's just a character needs to be fill the role of the trope. I also bet my imaginary money that she will directly cause a character death...

OP and ED were stellar, same goes for the episode. Can't wait for episode two.

He feels very similar to Makishima. Makishima knew he was in a state of such overwhelming power that when he uses it, he does it in an articulate manner to purposefully flaunt how hopeless opposing him is and typically chats with his victims in a self-reflective manner before executing them.



It remains to be seen if he can prove himself, though I would like something different rather than another Makishima so he doesn't just end up standing in his shadow.

They're making Mika do her speal because they want a contrast to how Akane was and is now, I've no doubts Akane or an Enforcer going to give her a one on one talk eventually. Still doesn't change the fact that Mika is boring though.

Nigga, I love you, really. But why so serious?

[size=7](and by serious I mean cynical, still love you <3)[/h]



I can agree with you on your second point so far. It's only just the first episode, but compared to old man Masaoka, and even Kagari, Hinakawa and Togane seem unimpressive so far. Glad (that was sarcastic) to see that Yayoi's still living up to her useless ass lesbian archetype though.



Overall, I thought it was solid episode. Tatsunoko managed to capture the general animation feel right, though they seem to lack the finer details Production IG used to have. OP was even more amazing to hear properly, ED theme... could have been better, I just liked that beginning part (plus it's hard to live up to Nameless Monster, let's face it). I'm curious to see how it goes, but so far, none of my doubts about the show have really been quelled yet.

I guess I got a bit carried away since I'm feverish and all, but jokes aside,

Episode 2

The only character development we get to see of Mika so far is she opening her mouth to oppose Akane. It's a given that they want us to dislike her.
Also it seems male inspectors have gone extinct.

... instinct? Or do you mean extinct?

Edited. lol

I wonder will Akane's flame will come back or is he dead?

This show is on full retard mode. I'm sorry but even a normal rational person would have realized something is wrong and acted appropriately.

I think this show can justify itself depending on how the next few episodes talk about Sibyl and the degeneration of society but the current last few episodes are just full of so much retard that I've left fist marks in my desk from frustration.

Do you mean the scene where she drops the nail gun for the gun, or how they can't use the tracking system to find shisui evethough they did it first season. Or what about the new dominators not showing Risa was the highest one eventhough they all show the inspectors and inforcers.






My guess is sybil is obviously rigging certain things to rid the evidence of certain psycho phenomena such as making all those denominators go to lethality mode to kill off the witnesses.
Though you are right. There are a lot of plot holes, but I believe if you turn off our world's common sense, you may understand it. Such as, Risa didn't try to kill the bad guy at first because she trusted the system and wanted a clear psychopass; only to betray it to do her duties.

Denominators is the given limit of a numerator, might want to check spell-check and put it as Dominators. Probably want to spoiler that too.

So many sodding plot holes.