Psycho-Pass 2 Episode 6 Discussion

LusciousLobsters said:
why did togane remind akane of kougami at the end? was it like the circumstance and the lighting, or did i forget something from season 1?

denno- said:
Something's bothering me. Tougane checks Akane's psycho pass on a daily basis and probably points his denominator at her all the time too and if so, then the chief should have taken notice of this and became suspicious of his actions an take preventive measures...

He has been monitoring her since he got there and it has been a year since! If the chief doesnt think this is suspicious she's either too lax or just overlooking his actions on purpose.

Sam1198777 said:
I will pretend that season 2 never happened because that ending man..its so stupid. All the development that Akane underwent in S1 was put to the test there and that idiot still couldn't pull the trigger. Lol, this season is a joke

AlexTheRiot said:
I don't think you understand Akane's development in season one..

Sam1198777 said:
I truly do, and it is absolutely NOT in her character this time. See, couldn't she have shot him in the leg? She actually did hit Makishima with a helmet from the back just after he had killed her friend, she didn't go all ass-wimpy at nona? tower. This guy has literally killed so many inspectors, friends of hers too. But no. Either the writers shouldn't have blatantly tested that and brought that scene up, or they shouldve let her take some better action this time and not collapse just like she did the first time, when confronted with a killer villian. Makes no sense, how much you try to justify the trainwreck this is

Sam1198777 said:
I will pretend that season 2 never happened because that ending man..its so stupid.

AlexTheRiot said:
Even if she shot his leg that boat was getting the hell out of there. The only surefire way to end things then and there would be to shoot to kill(would she really be good enough with a machine gun to merely wound him anyway?), and that's just not something we're ever going to see Akane do unless Togane succeeds in his plans. In fact I'd say the true importance of the scene was to demonstrate that, despite Kamui pushing her mentally, she is still able to make those decisions that make her an un-stainable Inspector so that we have her progress mapped out the way Togane does.

iAmZiro said:
Another crazy episode, I can't get enough from this show.

I think that'll be only you.

Sam1198777 said:
So basically you're saying the scene, heck, the whole development, was well executed and served a proper purpose? Oh so, you're telling us that this scene served to show us that Akane remains calm in the face of adversity? Hmm..i wonder what the hell season one did during the entire course of its run.. /sarcasm

Also, no, the scene showed that she did have time (he wasnt leaving, he clearly said "we know you wont shoot (you wimp)". And even after that, she stopped togane. Which is insane.

deadoptimist said:
Erm... It was all sorts of ridiculous again. It'll be a long rant...

The main question that I have is whether their country is controlled by Sybil or not now. Because it kinda is according to the lore, but it kinda isn't as far as this season goes.
I was under impression that Dominators are Sybil's eyes and hands, and Sybil is so effective, because it is not a set of protocols, but a vile adaptive net of brains - so it can't be fooled by usual means. Why doesn't Sybil track or lock the stolen Dominators? Why is the rogue inspector not stripped of her authority to use them (if access can be granted, it can be taken)? Why can't Sybil overrun Dominators' judgement even in case of emergency, that obviously happens in this episode? Is she not perturbed? Because it was predictable, thet the resulting outbreak would be dangerous for her. Even if she is curios, doesn't safety usually comes first? No matter her goals, it seems unlikely that she would want an uncontrollable outbreak of data.
Btw, I hope that the glove is the source that lets Kamui use the Dominator, because it is strange to lock the hand held gun solely to eye (and also use only one type of biometrics).
Then, I don't understand why the chief is so idle in handling the issue with the game. Police is hacking ministry of defense code? Why? Just shut down the stuff, or black out the district. They can't stop acess to a MMO game in a totalitarian world? Really?

Then there is the game. It continues to sadden me, that games look so bad in distant future, as well as the fact that they play it on handhelds. Other than that, why do they calling it "holo"? It's obviously not, since holo is something projected, and this is a VR, made by processing real environments, am I not right?
They touched an interesting subject of soldiers in a psychologically controlled society, though it's a bit surprising, that their drones still are human-operated. Also their inspectors kill people to ensure national interests just fine, so why can't border guards do it?

Lastly, why does nobody do his or her job? Chief is nowhere to be seen in the situation of crysis. Mika is doing whatever, even though it is the right time to ask the chief for support. Why do they do what doctor suggests despite Mika protests? She is stupid, but she is their inspector, and after her report they can all be sent to the facility. Enforcers discipline sure is lax in this season. >< They were better trained in Gino's times.
Mika was even right in one case - letting people know was a ticket to disaster. Doctor could be curious, but others should've known better. In their total control world, they could even send drones to individual players... Not to say they could block access to the net.
Btw, if the new kid is so good with coding, why not give him as a help to Shion? She needs help, and character dynamics would've become better.

Other than that tiny Akane now outruns military tech, and does so instead of a bunch of enforcer men. Drones are not affected by hue, so why her? (Unmanned military tech that can't shoot, if the trajectory can lead to friendly fire, lol.)
Enforcers are suddenly all over 300 (they are scared, but why necessary over 300?).
The rogue inspector dresses silly and shoots her enforcer, even though she used to like them in a number of ways. I hope that it's because she is on very strong drugs.
I understand Akane not wanting to shoot Kamui herself, but she could've let Tougane to try to damage the boat at least. She is supposed to be mature now.

magnum339_tyrant said:
Why didn't Akane kill Kamui? (rhetorical question)
What happened to the Dominators? Why they have ammo now?
Now that everyone's dead, there's only Division 1 to protect Japan. What will happen?
If Togane's working with Kasei to study Akane's hue to bring her to the Sybil System (or even if he's not), then I think he wants to sabotage the brain party by turning her black. I guess he has a grudge against the System, maybe because they turned his mother (probably Kasei) into one of them? (just a theory)

AlexTheRiot said:
Even if she shot his leg that boat was getting the hell out of there. The only surefire way to end things then and there would be to shoot to kill(would she really be good enough with a machine gun to merely wound him anyway?), and that's just not something we're ever going to see Akane do unless Togane succeeds in his plans.

dondon151 said:

Solution: use the Destroy Decomposer on the boat.

fst said:
By the way, who was driving the boat?!

tanteiRE said:


I don't know about his grudge against the system. When Mika reported Sakuya was pointing a dominator at Akane, Kasei seemed to overlook it. I think they're more of a team than enemies.
Also, since Sakuya has the highest recorded Crime Coefficient, it seems odd that he's still alive. Perhaps Kasei prevented his death.
IMO, the most dangerous person to Kasei and the Sibyl System is Akane, because she knows the truth behind it. The only way to get rid of Akane is to cloud her hue.

soraibi said:

and I'm also missing the awesome quotes from plays and books from last season ;(

Nobunagun said:
anyone else saw how Akane got a headshot in this week's OP visuals?
It's highly unlikely that this would ever happen but who knows, though? Still pretty interesting to see that scene.

darkreaver94 said:

Don't think so. I think it is more of cheap writing to make the situation more intense.

Cnon said:

I think you're right but after all of these incidents she had to kill him. Lots of innocent people are dead. Admit it she's weak and enforcers doesn't want her to change and they protect her. She have to learn to carry her own weight .It's her job to protect these people and she keeps failing!

Peralisc said:
So season 2 collapsed into utter bullshit with this very episode.

Akane specially went through all the effort to take the automatic machine gun to kill kamui and then she doesn't use it, wtf?????
And then she even stops her colleague from doing the right thing in her place, wtf???

Also some guy manages to hack into drones to that extent, seriously? And not only that but there is nobody to stop or prevent the hack or stop the program? gtfo!!!!