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TL;DR: In short, it is not good. And sadly it doesn't stop there, it's actually bad.

First of all, I'm a big Bleach fan, but I won't say it's a masterpiece because it's not. In the same way, I don't criticize something for not being “as I expect” or because “it has destroyed the remembrance of my adolescence” if the product is adapted to the new times or whatever. My criticism is 100% objective (kinda), but if something isn't good then it isn't good, regardless of whether you are a fan or not. In this case I could establish three grade levels for the product:

You're a ... Bleach fan: it's bad, but well, it entertains and it's more Bleach. But... oh boy.
You're a fan and a hardcore one: it's bad and an insult to all the characters of the original.
You're not a fan: it's a crap without logic or sense. Average at best, but we all know is utterly shit.

The script is laughable, a series of events with no apparent sense or logic. A ridiculous escalation of power without limit. There's no consistency in the facts, with respect to this season and not to mention with respect to the original Bleach.
The plot? nonexistent. The dialogues are ridiculous and each episode has at least two or three “deus ex machina”.
The fights? one after another. But in a very anticlimactic way, and where at least in the original, the enemies were interesting, here they are absurd (you have the Thor of the old comics, even with those little wings on his helmet, a WWW wrestler with his own hypeman, some fussy schoolgirls...).

On the other hand, and this is not a problem for me, but since I have read that it is "brutal" and "god-like" it's worth mentioning. The animation isn't good, isn't bad either, but by no means it's good. There're numerous static images and the it has a lack of inbetweening in other animations (without reaching the level of BlueLock's new season). All of itdoes not seem appropriate for the product it is.
Ichigo's Getsuga Tenshō couldn't be more sad (and static), it's almost as if he himself is tired and thinks “this anime should have ended a long time ago already.”

The biggest problem is, it fails to create any kind of interest, tension or drama since you know that nothing that happens is final (someone dies? so they resurrect them. The bad guys achieve their goal? Well, another deus ex machina to solve it). The whole season has been like this, but this third part is even insulting.

Each character dies and resurrects three or four times in the same episode, which make it loose any kind of effect on the viewer. It's ridiculous to see the leader explaining for five minutes how his bankai can destroy the universe. Then you watch the bankai sequence for another five minutes (spectacular though) all so that the enemy then resurrects just like if nothing and “defeats” his rival... which of course, even after being volatilized, resurrects in the next episode.
"Normal” characters defeat infinitely powerful ones in a moment just because (like "oh no, we ran out of time and need to move to the next thing. Make that guy kill that other guy, don't think twice, it doesn't matter for the coherence of the plot i guess").
Stuff like, the bad guy is going to achieve his goal and the good guys saying “let's stay here and let these four good for nothing take care of it and may God provide”, it's a real nonsense.
Very powerful characters are now parodies of themselves.
And of course, the worst thing: Ichigo screaming the whole fucking time “Ishida!!!”

Orihime and her boobs is not fanservice or anything anymore, it's just ridiculous and annoying. Every episode they grow bigger and bigger (for real). At this point she probably should go to the hospital because she might have a major health problem. Believe me here, ridiculous.

Now going into spoilers, but as we've all seen Bleach, and the other parts of this season, it's nothing important, it's just to show how absurd it can be.

Orihime was slow to be able to heal someone, we've seen it before (when she heals Ichigo in the fight against Ulquiorra for example). But here in one second, she can joins the two halves of a guy split in two. Even if it doesn't work because it seems that he can't be saved for some reason, we know that she could save him because his power doesn't really heal, but rather it's a time reversal kinda thing.
A shinigami stronger than the entire soul society is killed by Ishida just like that.
The whole cast is immortal.
The world is going to end and the only way to avoid it, is for someone to sacrifice himself (again, just because), that someone proceed to self-sacrifice and Rukia shouts “if you do it, what will become of the squad?”... it's like, if he doesn't do it, all the squads and the entire world will end. So maybe, shut up?

I think, whit this all would be clear:

We have squad zero, whose members are stronger than any of the rest of the soul society (more than Byakuya Kuchiki, than Kempachi...) and obviously, they have a leader, the strongest of them all. After bragging about the enormous power of his bankai for minutes and carrying it out, which takes as many minutes, the villain of the day not only doesn't get a scratch (later “weak” characters can hurt him) but he kills his rival, remember, the most powerful guy (the scene reminds, given the situation, of that from Indiana Jones movie with the sword and gun duel).
Ok, he literally obliterates him. Next comes Ichigo and his four good-for-nothing bros (sadly one of them is the great Yoruichi, who it turns out is now more useless than Orihime and Chad) and a voice in the universe says: “say my name”, Ichigo who was never the smartest in his class, says “what do you want me to do?”... after an exchange of the same absurd phrases that leave the protagonist in evidence, this finally says his name with what *deus ex machina* the shinigami is resurrected just because. Then he (remember that he with all his power has been defeated) says to Ichigo “only you can defeat him” (even if you don't have a fraction of my power, he should added). And he stays so cool, sending him and the other four idiots to the Sanctum Sanctorum.
One would think that if the bad guy gets there and the world gonna ends, since he's resurrected he should help them even if he hasn't regained all his power. Or maybe all the others who are in the control center (Urahara, Rukia, Soi Fon, Ukitake...) instead of saying “are we going to win?” they could go help since everyone's fate is at stake. Someone would say “maybe they're too far away” well, maybe they could try to reach there at least intead of shrugs and says "fuck it, it is what it is", but that's no problem for Ishida (who was trapped in a super bankai much further away, he even resurrect or whatever and kills his powerful foe (I guess it's not really dead aand will come back later) the second most powerful in command and show up there to support his master. The thing is, with all, the bad guy achieves his goal, then Ukitake becomes full Resident Evil because bananas and deus ex machina, and the bad guy lost...

Then the two dick-heads, Ishida and Ichigo, shouts their names and other absurdities for a while, and that were enough to make me give up and say “I don't have to swallow such a piece of shit no matter how much of a Bleach fan I am”. And watch out, all this is some of the most “logical/well-written” stuff you're going to find in this part of the season.

So no, I don't recommend it, it's pretty bad, and it's ridiculous how the people is saying it's the best anime ever. Even if you love it (which I think is great) you have to be objective and see that it's not good.
I would have loved it to be a masterpiece, or something I could really enjoy, but it simply isn't. And not for reasons of nostalgia, expectations, hype or anything like that, it's simply a bad product, quite poor in fact.
The series is bad, it didn't start so badly, although it didn't start well either. But it sowed the seed of something big to come. The second part was really absurd, and this one is already ridiculous, same problem as the 2nd but bigger. And the worst thing is that it's not over yet... for the moment we have to wait for a fourth cour, that even if it ends up being a 10, in average would still fail.

TL;DR: It's watchable and entertaining even if it doesn't make sense. Plot-wise it's uninteresting and a carbon copy of SAC's Individual Eleven The 2nd gig.

I've always believed that Psycho Pass should have followed the line of the sublime first season: criminal investigation and a more thoughtful and methodical approach. But they went down a more action-centric path trying to mimic GitS SAC, but where in that one it was believable and logical, here it never quite clicks. Mainly due to the fact that the Public Safety Bureau is a civilian organization, not a military one, and its competencies would not be the ones represented. Or ... that seeing individuals in suits and skirts facing special forces with state of the art equipment while they use their standard batons is not very credible.

In the movie you will find everything that is in Psycho Pass after the first season. An action story with zero logic and a background that seems interesting or deep but that when you stop to analyze it shows its superficiality and little sense.
The action scenes again aren't very credible (special ops losing as if they were random npcs, characters running and jumping even though they have been shot in the leg, jumps from great heights without consequences, some politics to fill and look like something serious, poor character development, etc.).
The plot is bad and poorly written. It's also clearly the same as the Individual Eleven arc in The 2nd Gig (Some rogue squad wants to create an independent nation of Japan. They even use like in GitS the hacking of bodies and so on).

The characters' motivations are not explained, the mix of agencies and how they "fight" is laughable, the protagonist's final act lacks conviction or logic on her part (and she might as well have done it at the beginning and saved us two hours). Sybil forgiving Akane is less and less believable in every iteration. And several scenes are blatantly poorly written to create "tension" or to force the script to go somewhere specific. There are also numerous absolutely laughable moments that make no sense whatsoever (like the bad guys not shooting and waiting to be shoot, or a character about to be killed shouts "don't shoot, he has to be judged according to the law" to the person who is going to save her. Even the bad guy and the good guy seem to think "eeeh what?").

An example of the whole plot would be: the bad guy wants to press a button that will make the world end. The good guys discover that he is wrong and that they really want him to press it, because the result would be good. Even so, they decide to mess it up, to make a whole war to finally press it themselves in front of the bad guy.


As I say, one would expect a Psycho Pass movie to be somewhat more realistic and better made (like the material it tries to imitate/homage) something to reference in the future. But this is just a plain, entertaining, fun and forgettable action film. Is that a bad thing? No, not at all. It is what it is and that's it.

To put it bluntly, it could have been the original GITS, and it is its live-action adaptation

A rom-com with violence and in the yakuza world, could be cool I though,but I was wrong. I'm going straight to the point, it is bad.

The art is weird and low budget. The characters has a weird looking design and the draw is very digital and crunky, the kind of you would expect from a tablet. The animation is average, doesn't need much more, though.

The character development simply isn't there.
The girl is prude and naive, her actions make no sense and it seems like she was born the day before.
But the next episode she empower herself selling one of her kidneys (maybe I ... miss something and that was a joke (?) dunno) and become kinda dominatrix with the boy. But then she get back to be naive and so on.
The boy is a douchebag masochist with weird and fucked up desires. Some kind of "jekyll and mr. hyde" personality, and also is a yakuza and a high schooler.

The plot boils down to "you're going to marry this guy, so you're going to move into his house and sign up for his school, and do what he tells you to do" literally that, five minutes in and it's all set up, we don't need to know any more I guess.
All this seasoned with the use of really offensive language, verbiage and swear words continuously without being necessary. A treatment and degrading attitudes towards the female protagonist are shown. Things like prostitution or sexual humiliation are trivialize. The relationship is toxic, disfunctional and disrespectful to say the least.

I prefer seinen anime and I'm not against violence in them, but here everything seems to be for the shock and awe of the viewer, as if someone said "if we make the character use super gruesome violence as if nothing, so casual, and say things that you would expect to hear in porn movies that's going to make our product serious and adult".
I don't know, if it had some kind of justification, a decent and adult plot, or even some sense in its plot I would understand it, but it lacks any logic and it is clear that it doesn't know what it wants to be, and what it pretends to be is not funny and doesn't make sense. I don't recommend it, not even a little

Looks good so I decided to finally start it. But for the first five minutes, literally, one character screams every single thing he says. EVERY SINGLE THING. Screams, yell, bellows... and he is one of the two main characters. Of course the rest of the characters scream back to him, so those five minutes feels like a torture.


It may be a great series, but doesn't really looks that special though. For what I saw in three episodes, dunno, doesn't do anything great.
But mostly, I can't stand those kind of characters and attitudes.
Maybe someday I'll decide to put it on silence and continue ... watching until I see they stop yelling, but i guess the behavior of one of the MC are gonna be likewise.
So if you're like me and can't stand characters screaming nonsense all the time I wouldn't recommend it, the rest will probably find it entertaining.

All wrong. Very wrong. Basically the plot is just a big great hole in the script and you cannot follow along without further knowledge of the source material.

The two previous seasons, even when skipping a lot of things, and not developing the plot and characters correctly, could be enjoyed. Even without having read the manga (not great, but still).
But that isn't the case with RE, here's nothing makes sense: characters that were good are now bad, others are friends of those they hated, other characters you don't even know who they are until they say their name and you realize... The story is very ... poorly told and obviates many details, important ones.
You cannot show a group of characters in their house and in the next episode they're all in prison, and just continue from there. If you've read the manga you know what happened, but this is another product, a whole anime, it needs to has a plot, an exposition, development, you know all of that. This isn't a "visual accompaniment to the manga". You cannot go like "well you just know what happened in between this and that".
Doesn't help to the overall story that they tried to condense a 16 volumes Manga in just 24 rushed episodes.

The story itself isn't that great either, it misses that dichotomy of ghouls trying to be human, enforcers being worse than other ghouls and so. Tokyo Ghoul always moved between gray areas and was sublime for that. Here you simply have bad ghouls (the sadistic and very bad kind) and humans. So it is very much like just good vs bad.

And well, Haise, the main character, is probably the least main character in the story: boring, flat and absurd. Just a parody of his former self.
The other characters are secondary and no ones without exceptions stands out. In fact the the protagonist's subordinates are just as dull and bland as the former.

The animation and drawing quality is below the previous seasons as well. And personally I don't like the redesign of the characters at all, although that's a subjective thing, but I really dislike it.

I can't recommend this product to anyone who hasn't read the manga, but I can't really recommend it to anyone who has. It's bad, plain and simple.

TL;DR: good beginning, bad middle part, worst ending. But art and music make it watchable. First five episodes are really good. And well, it is entertaining if you don't care about many things.

Episodes 1-5: excellent
Episodes 6-9 non sensical
Episodes 10-11 a wreckage

I couldn't recommend the anime, still I had mixed feelings.
The first episodes are great, the characters presented are interesting, the plot intriguing and the realism in the details stand out.
Then, for some reason, since the introduction of the character of "Five" all goes down hill, everything they had done well ceases to make sense. The situations are illogical, absurd and not credible at all. ... Realism is no longer present, the characters' motivations are diluted, and they do things contrary to the personality they had shown us in previous episodes. But for real, all the script becomes crapy and sloppy. And again, nothing is credible, but not at all. It is a complete nonsense. A shame because everything was perfect before this point.

The character of "Five" is probably one of the worst ever created. I don't understand how a character with so much screen time can have zero sense for the plot, she simply chases the main characters for no reason, there is no story or logic. There's basically nothing, it is like they needed to fill five episodes with that "personal" story and in the meantime they decided to ruin the whole series.
The character of Lisa lacks sense in the story. And it is not credible the way she is introduced, nor how she is made to fit in among the main characters.
She is also an absurd person, period.
The motives of the protagonists, and their objective, once revealed, are quite absurd.
Also the means they decide to use to achieve their goal does not justify, at all, what they intend to achieve. Once discovered you almost can't agree with them.
The detective is the only really good character, but when logic and plot abandon the script it feels out of place, too real for what we will see until the end.
The secondary characters are absolutely secondary, they have no personality or characteristics or anything.

Visually it is wonderful, musically fantastic. the ending song is wonderful too.

Story: 3, there's no real story, just a plot to keep things moving.
Characters: 3, they are plain and simple.
Art: 9, just beautiful.
Music: 10, really nice and fix perfectly with the images. Yoko Kanno always delivered. She's always on point.
Overall: 6, it's entertaining, but all is a big meh. It's redeemed because the art and music, though.

Episode 10 has a lot of shots and situations directly copied from the movie Seven, as a fun fact.

My recommendation is to watch the first five episodes, and as soon as Five appears, skip to the last two. Even when the last two have a lot of holes and situations that are not believable, at least they give an ending to the fantastic first five episodes. And you would save yourself a whole lot of nonsense besides the hard time of putting up with an insufferable character.

TL,DR: over the top situations full of action scenes, an impeccable visual style, and an interesting non-logical story, but everything's so cool.

First thing first, the show is good, but as good as a good action shonen/movie/videogame, period. The rest is incidental. You should approach this anime as you would if it were a Devil May Cry, if it's cool it's cool, whether it makes sense or not.
So if you are looking for a deep and well tale story, an intriguing with no plot holes and a study of the psyche of its characters this is not that kind of anime (this is not, even with ... all the similarities, a Psycho-Pass kind of show). This is a wild ride with a story and characters that make you want to keep watching it, but without asking for any of the above.

Everything is so over the top, but so over the top that one can only suppress any logical reasoning in their brain and be dragged along with what's happening on the screen.
The first chapter is perhaps the least interesting, in fact after watching it I abandoned the series disinterested, months later I returned and watched the 2nd and ended up hooked and enjoying it. So if you find yourself, like i was, not very invested on it, i recommend you give a try to the next ones.

The visual style is spectacular (very cyberpunk-esque), the animation is monumental, the characters have great designs and unique personalities. There is a good characters development, especially of the one who would be considered the main character. The plot is quite interesting and complex (with reminiscent of Psycho Pass as i said) but at the same time nothing makes sense. And that's what makes it great.
If you are in for the ride you'll enjoy it. An anime with an interesting story where when things happen you must just focus on the “wow, really?! I didn't expect this” and not on the “I didn't expect it because it doesn't make any sense”, even when, in fact, it does not.

There's Dragon Ball fights, even some buildings are knocked down. Some characters has their severed limbs sewn back on and keep fighting. They "teleport" sometimes to a place just because it's necessary for the plot (How did they know where they were? How did they get there from the other place? whatever, is cool, who cares. Motorcycles that almost fly. Bleeding out? No problem. And the story? oh boy, interested? yes, it's impossible not to be interesting when you mix, action, consciousness simulations, genetic engineering, virtual worlds, space travel, references to a lot of well-known movies (the title of each chapter is the name of one), despotic empires, corruption, information manipulation, nuclear warfare, immortality, social issues, the greater good, indoctrination, abuse of power... not everything listed is in the anime, don't wanna spoil anything, but you can imagine the amalgam of themes one after the other.

So I recommend it as long as you know what you are coming for.
I came expecting the series to be nothing more than a superfluous show full of fanservice and no story to tell. It turns out that I ended up loving the story (although not to be taken too seriously) and there isn't even that much of a fanservice, there's a character with a big cleavage but not unnecessary frames of it the series never ceases to amaze!

The premise of the manga is interesting, although the interest of it is diluted a bit as soon as the plot advances for a simple reason: simplicity.
Everything happens too fast, it's as if someone yell "i choose violence" and all hell broke loose for everyone just like that.

The work consists of a total of three volumes (although only one appears here in MAL).

The plot is a sort of "Lord of the Flies", there are touches of all the themes in novel: morality, civility, leadership, society, innocence lost and duality of human nature. But at the end it fells flat in a sort of ... battle royale without further development.
You can see how social groups are formed based on segregation but then they start fighting and that's it. You see how without law some boys feel they have rights over girls (and you can imagine exactly what I'm talking about here), you can see how fear and paranoia takes hold of everyone in an instant... but it doesn't go further, a quick glance and that's it, more chases and fights.
The structure, where certain chapters focus on the specific circumstance of a character, and that "little story" begins and ends in that very chapter doesn't help to develop the more global themes in the plot.
It is worth noting that this is the author's first work and it is by no means bad at all. The drawing style is good and it's more similar to western works somehow, but not that much either.

The fact that it takes place on a ship in space is somewhat indifferent (sso if your only expectation was a mystery in space or a certain space setting, I would not recommend it.), it could well take place on a farm or under the ocean, it is of little importance to the plot once the reason for everything that happens is made clear.

I intend to read the last volume, and maybe my overall perception will change after doing so.
So, even if i had mixed feelings because it is a case of "not bad but could it being better" I recommend it to anyone who are interested in the themes it touches.
Also, keep in mind as a warning (you could imagined it already) that this manga is violent and certainly explicit (although nothing super exaggerated or too gore). And (spoiler ahead for a very specific situation, as a trigger warning or whatever: There's an attempted gang rape (but this is never showed nor explicit).

This manga is very good. It is incredible that having only four volumes it manages in the first two chapters to create an intrigue that you want to know more about. Also the characters grow on you as if you knew them from many more previous chapters.

It is really well written, condensed into a short manga a complex and deep story with ease. (note that I didn't read the light novel in which it is based. In fact I just discover there is a light novel because of this manga).

The premise is quite interesting and original. And when you find out more about it it's ... become more intriguing. And the more practical and empirical way in which the characters approach it when digging around makes it even more interesting.

The plot is quite good, mixing somehow the school slice of life and the situations that usually occur in that kind of stories: love, friendship, bullying...(but not at all in a boring way and without taking time away from the more complex plot), and the personal stories of the characters with science fiction/supernatural.

The characters are interesting and charismatic. There are no usual tropes, nor anything ecchi just because. So it doesn't lose seriousness or credibility (I hate it when a serious story uses those nonsense resources).
The drawing is also simply fantastic: scenery, characters, facial expressions, very nice.

The general atmosphere and the vibe (the mystery, the drama, the friendship, the situations, the locations) reminds me of Summertime Rendering (but without violence or death) or the video game Oxenfree.

I recommend it to anyone who likes drama and mystery and wants a serious and well-written manga.

After five episodes I found nothing to continue watching it. Everything's very typical: the new guy is the best and super pro but he keeps it as a secret. Everyone looks at him with suspicion and tries to provoke him, until he starts to let loose and shows that he is the best and so on and everyone's like "you really rocks!"

He is an alpha male with good vibes: "I'm the best but I'm modest, although I like that you know you can't beat me". Don't have a problem with that, that's cool, but just doesn't work for me in this anime.

I don't know, it ... could be entertaining but I don't see the interest on it, it is some kind of Harry Potter story (note that I didn't read or watched it, but know the basic plot, but could be wrong about it): they're students in a prestigious school of magic, there's bad forces that they eventually will face, there's rivalries between different classes (they're categorized as "premium" or "inferior" students, the ones with the free plan with ads I guess),
they study and practice, they need some kind of tech-tool to use magic instead a magic wand and all that.

But definitely, from the moment the protagonist's sister starts provoking him erotically, rubbing her breasts against him and touching him lewdly in a totally wtf scene I knew that it clearly couldn't get any better. Also, to improve his sister's tool, she has to undress in front of him to be scanned or whatever.
After those things, even if it was the best story in the world, I wouldn't feel any attachment or interest for the characters, so it's a no for me.