Psycho-Pass 3

Thanks to the Sibyl System, the mental states of society can now be measured on a numerical scale. Using these "crime coefficients," a culprit can be apprehended before they ever commit a crime. But is it a perfect system? For Inspectors Kei Mikhail Ignatov and Arata Shindou, that remains to be seen, as their career with the Public Safety Bureau's Crime Investigation Department has only just begun.

Shindou and Ignatov are assigned to investigate the crash of a ship carrying immigrants, but they begin to suspect that it was no mere accident. Meanwhile, a mysterious group called Bifrost is observing them from the shadows, but they are not the only ones who have taken an interest in the two new Inspectors.

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Shindou, Arata Main

Kaji, Yuuki Japanese

Ignatov, Kei Mikhail Main

Nakamura, Yuuichi Japanese

Kougami, Shinya Supporting

Seki, Tomokazu Japanese

Tsunemori, Akane Supporting

Hanazawa, Kana Japanese

Ginoza, Nobuchika Supporting

Nojima, Kenji Japanese

Karanomori, Shion Supporting

Sawashiro, Miyuki Japanese

Kunizuka, Yayoi Supporting

Itou, Shizuka Japanese

Dominator Supporting

Hidaka, Noriko Japanese

Hinakawa, Shou Supporting

Sakurai, Takahiro Japanese

Shimotsuki, Mika Supporting

Sakura, Ayane Japanese

Morihiro, Fumi Producer

Kuroki, Rui Producer

Sano, Hiroaki Producer, Executive Producer

Yoshizawa, Takashi Producer

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Dec 12, 2019

Isvi_Berserk

Recommended

-Note: English is not my native language, I apologize for possible mistakes. (This review does not contain spoilers)

After the enormous emptiness that excellent villain Makishima Shougo left us and that great first season of PP, we finally have an acceptable sequel that tries to bring new things, new characters and similar airs, but not the same. Although of course we will always miss our dear and handsome Kougami, right? Well, at least in my case if I love it too much.

I generally liked how it was carried out this season, without making the mistakes of the second, without using protagonists of the previous season for ... a long time and using new protagonists, it has allowed the story to develop acceptably, something that the second season failed to start with the villain that without offending was and felt like a cheap copy of the first villain or at least I felt that, and I think a good percentage too, without demeriting the good things that the second season has, that there are.

Also something to note is that each episode at the beginning has excellent fighting scenes and animated choreographies with incredible quality, and those scenes are in almost every episode. It's great and more considering that it lasts twice as much as the rest of the animes per week, 50 minutes per episode which was a surprise.

I can criticize things, such as the small participing of the old protagonists although I liked it, felt this somewhat forced, there are also many loose ends from the beginning, events that occurred off-screen that keep the viewer's doubt at all times, especially when dealing with Akane Tsunemori.

The series comes to feel somewhat episodic at certain times and very detective with various cases that do not stop feeling a bit like "Normal Cases" can be said that there are too many sub-plots developing in Psycho-Pass 3, remembering the anarchist Makishima in the entire first season of Psycho-Pass, this was touches more philosophical themes, not at all compared to the most detective theme the series has had since its second season.

Here we are presented to Bifrost a criminal and clandestine organization that operates through this indirect gambling game for elitists to gain and power in the shadow of Sybil and the change of social paradigms. Makishima instead wanted to demolish social foundations and "faced Sybil" head on. However, the plots of past characters converge with that of the new ones to reach a climax, I love these kinds of stories, they do not stagnate with only one protagonist throughout the story and they explore the rest of the characters in depth to create tangles and secluded frames that are focused at the end for one thing in common.

As a personal point, I want to write about Mika's character, I didn't like Mika much in Psycho-Pass 2 but she's quickly become such an amazing and funny character starting in the first Sinners of the System OVA & continuing strong throughout Psycho-Pass 3. Definitely one of more entertaining characters.

As for the animation and the OST are excellent, if there is something that stands out a lot in PP, it's this incredible soundtrack which is always at the top, and as I said before its animation and especially its fight scenes are very remarkable.

Finally, I think that Psycho-Pass 3 despite having twice as many minutes per episode, needed more chapters to be able to elaborate a story at 100% conditions.

Reviewer’s Rating: 7

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Dec 31, 2020

floofme

Mixed Feelings

It's a supbar Psycho-Pass fanfic, but an awful Psycho-Pass continuation. Just like many fanfics this one creates a conflic out of nowhere and tries to fill plot holes with concepts and terms that never were a thing before. For some reason there are "blind zones" in Japan where Sibyl system doesn't work - and this shit alone is enough to make me scratch my head and question how in the world a plot of Psycho-Pass 1 and Psycho-Pass 2 could happen if territories like this existed. Also, the original premise of the setting is a total dictatorship of Sybil, but Psycho-Pass 3 throws all ... estabilished rules in garbage can. Enforcers can attack Inspectors. Politics is important. The hues of people don't mean a lot anymore because anyone can free their loved ones if they have right connections. Dominators are just fancy "vibe check" devices.

Honestly, I feel like Psycho-Pass 3 could be just an original show. Alas, even as original it's a mess. The plot is hard to follow and introduces so many characters at once without giving us any hints about they goals, personalities or anything. The main character Arata is basically a mary sue who wields so many unique abilities that once again I can't stop thinking about fanfiction quality of this season. Inspector Ignatov, on the other hand, is the only new character who has something going for him, this guy has a solid background, an inner conflict and he he is involved in the only interesting story line in the damn show. There was also a nice detail about him coloring his hair.

All the characters from the previos season are more or less walking fanservice. Can't say a lot of about them. Neither do the authors of Psycho-Pass 3 because there were a few mind-blowing relevations regarding to some of them that never were explained.

The quality of art was nice in the first episodes, but sunked near the end. The music is meh, I remember only a remix of the first season theme.

As much as I was dissapointed with S2, at least it was still Psycho-Pass. This new season is a hardly about the world of Sybil system anymore, it's just a standard political thriller with over complicated plot and cardboard characters.

Reviewer’s Rating: 5

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Dec 12, 2019

spaceaustralia

Not Recommended

With Urobuchi gone, I didn't expect much of this season. It still failed my expectations.

I expected to, much like the second season, for it to try and explore the themes set out by the first season at the base of Psycho Pass' world. Instead, we have a plot centered around the introduction of a completely new entity, Bifrost, that contradicts the position Sybil appeared to have when Urobuchi.

I expected it to remain grounded in the world set out by the previous seasons, but, after 8 double-length episodes, Arata still appears to come up just short of clairvoyance, the perfect control of the Sybil System is ... contradicted by the existance of intentional gaps in it's control, and the politics of Sybil controlled Japan, which were previously stated to be a sham, are suddenly an institution with actual power and influence, and all changes going unadressed.

I expected the main characters from the previous season to be a constant presence in order to continue their stories. Instead, Shimotsuki appears to have undergone significant development almost entirely offscreen, and, for the longest time, Ginoza, Akane, and Kogami occasionally show up as barely a cameo, mostly to hint at further developments.

I also found the plot overall harder to follow than when Makishima discoursed at length on philosophy and Sci-fi references for several minutes at a time. That might have to do with having to wrap my head around the inconsistencies in world building. The characters of season 3 can spend several minutes discussing the implications of a political elections and just leave me scratching my head, wondering why, under the totalitarian control of Sybil, that would be important.

As a minor gripe, I wish we had seen the Dominators being used more often, but I guess that's a symptom of the smaller presence of the Sybil System in the world of Season 3. We did get some nice looking fist fights, but it's jarring for the inspectors, representatives and arbiters of Sybil's ultimate will, to have to engage in punch ups when any intent to beat an inspector to death should cloud one's hue enough for them to be justifiably used. I'm not sure we even saw the non-lethal paralyzer being used at all.

In short, I doubt I'll be back to this series. My expectations were low, but the contradictions in worldbuilding, the lack of a concrete continuation of anything set by the previous seasons, and a complete lack of any conclusion amount to a complete lack of justification for the existence of another entry to the series. Considering the way the last episode felt, the post-credits scene, and the name of the next movie indicating that it might be a prequel, everything just make me feel like the intent here is to slap the Psycho Pass name on an unrelated sci-fi detective series rather than continuing what made it interesting back in 2012.

Reviewer’s Rating: 4

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