[Anime] PSYCHO-PASS

Episode 11
Now this finally shows Gen Urobuchi's "quality. A great Urobuchi story is when you watch it a part of you just died..

Shit I don't feel like watching anything else for an entire week.

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And they made it worst when
[spoil]They gave a short glimpse of her body, it's like they're trying to tell that "yup she's dead" to us...lol[spoil]

I love this. I just love this. Now this is a 'real' thing. No magical ways or coincidence that happened and save the Yuki girl. Ahh, they scared me for a while~

On second thought

It's possible if he's the "perfect psychopath" who can maintain a very calm emotional thoughts.

So in his mind, an act of killing is just the same as breathing air.

I just have to say this last part of the episode annoyed the hell out of me

I just have to say this last part of the episode annoyed the hell out of me

Actually I would argue for the contrary: the episode does not show Akane's mental state being very weak. In fact it may go to show her mental state is strong. For more than once we heard in the series that her psycho-pass seems hard to get cloudy and for more than once we heard in the series that she was picked by Sybilla for having the best aptitude for her police job as a monitor officer. If the tragedy had happened to other more ordinary people, she may have already gone mad or broken down or even like the woman in the first episode when she actually turned almost criminal -- we did not see it in Akane. She is feeling pain, sadness and guilt but that does not prove anything about her mental state. It is how she deals with those feeling that is most important.

There are many who questioned why Akane did not just shoot Makishima. I would say that we should not judge those characters using our standard. I believe in the anime world, the police so trust and rely on Sybilla system that nobody is prepared that they will ever see a case where the Sybilla system fail to judge correctly, even if a hideous crime is taking place right before the Sybilla system. The shock and disbelief is what paralyzed Akane. That's why she kept holding onto the Dominator -- she could not believe that if Makishima is not bluffing the Dominator would still not block her from shooting it. She picked up the rifle only half-heartedly and she never gave up the hope that Dominator and the Sybilla would eventually do the right thing. And if Makishima indeed was not a criminal and Akane shot him dead using the rifle, she could in turn became the criminal (which may even be what Makishima had in mind - I doubt he would not have a backup plan for himself in case she really tried to shoot him). Placed under extreme pressure of using the gun, she fired the shot but never in a calm and determined manner and the result was a miss. By then she lost all the means to stop Makishima and thus Yuki was also lost at the end.

One way I like about Psycho-Pass is that it is asking valid questions about human nature and society but the questions are also based on the environment and the technology in this future world. As much as we see that the Sybilla system has its flaw and the society has its problems, it seems that they are presented as a kind of trade-off with the comfort and sense of security gained for most people. This is not an epic tale of a dystopia like what we often see in Hollywood movies from Minority Report down but more a reflection of how such evolution of technology and society means to human and their life. in fact I doubt we will see an overthrow of the Sybilla system in the series. If anything, Akane vs Makishima is a very intriguing match: One is picked by Sybilla as the top person for the police job and the other Sybilla clearly failed to gauge correctly even if he commits a horrendous crime right in front of it. And both have the unique quality in their psycho-pass: One seems to always have a stable psycho-pass; the other never has a high crime score for his psycho-pass no matter what he does. To me the question is not whether Sybilla needs to be brought down, because if Sybilla is so flawed we might as well doubt if Akane really is picked correctly by Sybilla system and I do not think that is the point for this anime. I think the series is more about what the next step of evolution is for the society and technology, not about a revolution to bring down Sybilla.

It's not about "just shooing a gun" or reliance of technology, but the fact that using the dominator to kill someone won't affect her own psycho pass, due to the fact that she's not calling the shots.