History Anime / Psychopass

** In episode 3, Akane expects that Shinya will handle the perp whose Psycho-pass color is yellow-green. What she didn't expect is Shinya yelling and kicking at him which exposes the perp's true nature.

** We also don't see the murder of the female pharmaceutical worker a few episodes later, though we get a good view of the death of her male colleague. We cut to black after the killer stabs a pin into the woman's leg and the camera cuts to her pained horrified expression; we only here him doing ''something'' with the pin. When next we see her, we see her body from above from a distance but can't really make out what happened to her (though it appears that the killer gouged out her eyes). The only closeup shots of her body we get are obscured. In a show this graphically violent, this time, they decided to play NothingIsScarier.

** We also don't see the murder of the female pharmaceutical worker a few episodes later, though we get a good view of the death of her male colleague. We cut to black after the killer stabs a pin into the woman's leg and the camera cuts to her pained horrified expression. When next we see her, we see her body from above from a distance but can't really make out what happened to her (though it appears that the killer gouged out her eyes). The only closeup shots of her body we get are obscured. In a show this graphically violent, this time, they decided to play NothingIsScarier.

** The concept of criminally asymptomatic individuals whose Psycho-pass is white with a low or zero Crime Coefficient. When they commit crimes, the system doesn't register them as a target of enforcement, keeping the Dominator triggers locked. [[spoiler:The system itself is composed of the brains of these individuals; hence, they were able to do deceptive acts in a hitch. When Akane calls them out on this in the movie which she regarded it as criminal acts, the system waves it off due to having their own understanding and definition of crime. Likewise, other criminally asymptomatic individuals such as [[{{Ubermensch}} Makishima]], [[MadArtist Touma]] and [[MadScientist Masako Togane]] are amoral and have their own agendas regardless how their actions are morally wrong]].

* HeroOfAnotherStory: In Season 3, the members of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs' Special Actions Division (which is composed of three former members of PSB's Division 1 under the leadership of Frederica Hanashiro) are also investigating the case regarding Bifrost though this is done offscreen. They also have to deal the Pathfinders who some of them have some unfinished business with Kougami.

* LighterAndSofter: Downplayed. While season 3 still has its fair share of dark moments regarding Bifrost and Arata's past, it's a lot less darker than season 1 and 2, with more criminals actually getting arrested instead of gibbed, more funny and heartwarming moments, and a helluva lot less major deaths.

* LighterAndSofter: A variant. While season 3 still has its fair dark moments regarding Bifrost and Arata's past, it's a lot less darker than season 1 and 2, with more criminals actually getting arrested instead of gibbed, more funny and heartwarming moments, and a helluva lot less major deaths.

* FirstEpisodeSpoiler: The first episode of Season 3 reveals that [[spoiler:Akane has been arrested and confined in an isolation facility due to some kind of incident and the majority of her teammates except Hinakawa and Shimotsuki have left the bureau]].

** The Season 3 opening has Arata and Kei pointing their Dominators at each other. [[spoiler:Episode 8 shows the slow deteriotation of their frienship with Kei joining Bifrost]].

** Season 3, on the other hand, dials it back a bit. While there is still a good chunk of action, Arata and Kei spend the majority of their time on investigative work and interviewing persons of interest. Its ImmediateSequel, ''First Inspector'' bumps the action back up.

** Season 3, on the other hand, dials it back a bit. While there is still a good chunk of action, Arata and Kei spend the majority of their time on investigative work and interviewing persons of interest.

** ''Gakuen Psycho Pass'', an AlternateUniverse set in high school where Akane joins Psycho Pass Academy and becomes a member of the Public Morals Committee.

** ''First Inspector'' goes right back into this territory as Bifrost launches [[AllYourBaseAreBelongToUs a full-scale assault on Nona Tower]] and it's all hands on deck as the PSB and MOFA have to retake the building.

* AllYourBaseAreBelongToUs: Twice the PSB's headquarters of Nona Tower has been attacked by a large hostile group: in the first season by Makishima, Choe, and their hired thugs, and in ''First Inspector'' by Azusawa, Obata, their Pathfinder mercenaries and combat robots, as well as the Heaven's Leap cultists freed from confinement.

** The end of ''First Inspector'' shows [[spoiler:Division One making it out alive with Homura being the new bureau chief after having successfully shutting down Bifrost and Akane released from confinement as a "statutory Enforcer". The Sibyl System seems to have planned to show themselves to the public soon and appoints Arata as a immediatary when the time comes]].

** In ''First Inspector'', [[spoiler: Division 2 gets completely wiped out ([[RedshirtArmy again]]) by the Pathfinder mercenaries. In the ending, Karanomori is discharged from the Bureau due to her decreasing Psycho-Pass and is free to live as a normal civilian. Meanwhile, Tsunemori is released from isolation and reassigned to Division 1 as a "statutory Enforcer." The Bureau Chief position, which is empty due to the "death" of Chief Hosorobi, goes to Homura Shizuka as Sibyl opts to put a real human in charge instead of another cybernetic avatar.]]

* ImmediateSequel: ''First Inspector'' continues Season 3 quite literally the next second after Episode 8's ending, which is noteworthy since every ''Psycho-Pass'' movie occurs after a significant timeskip. In fact, it may be more accurate to say that ''First Inspector'' is actually Episodes 9, 10, and 11 of Season 3.

** Season 3 and its sequel, ''First Inspector'' reveal several things about Aratam [[spoiler:which is being criminally asymptomatic and being the very first character who knows what the Sibyl System is made of]].

* SurprisinglyHappyEnding: ''First Inspector'' ends with [[spoiler:Akane getting out of prison with a new position and reuniting with Kougami. Yayoi recovers from her injuries and moves in with Shion. Division 1 make it out alive with Homura being the new PSB chief and Bifrost dismantled]]. A rare feat in the franchise given the [[BittersweetEnding Bittersweet Endings]] from the previous seasons.

After the conclusion of the third season, a movie sequel, '''Psycho-Pass 3: First Inspector''', was announced. It was simultaneously released on March 27th, 2020 in Japanese theaters and worldwide on Amazon Prime Video (which is divided into [[OriginalVideoAnimation three 45-minute episodes]], making it 3 additional episodes for Season 3), and [[ImmediateSequel it immediately picks up right where Season 3 left off.]]

After the conclusion of the third season, a movie sequel, '''Psycho-Pass 3: First Inspector''', was announced. It was simultaneously released on March 27th, 2020 in Japanese theaters and worldwide on Amazon Prime Video (which is divided into [[OriginalVideoAnimation three 45-minute episodes]]), and [[ImmediateSequel picks up right where Season 3 left off.]]

* NiceJobFixingItVillain: Kamui's actions [[spoiler:on the Sibyl System]] at the end of Season 2 just made things worse: [[spoiler:forcing them to trim down their defective brains with high Crime Coefficients didn't seemed to give them the ability to judge humanity as a collective; it made them smarter, more powerful and more dangerous as seen in the movie where they manipulated several people such as Akane in order to gain total control of [=SEAUn=] and possibly the whole world. Too bad Kamui isn't alive to see what he had done]].

After the conclusion of the third season, a movie sequel, '''Psycho-Pass 3: First Inspector''', was announced. It was simultaneously released on March 27th, 2020 in Japanese theaters and worldwide on Amazon Prime Video, and [[ImmediateSequel picks up right where Season 3 left off.]]

* PrivateMilitaryContractors: The Peace Monitoring Group led by Guillermo Garcia in ''Sinners of the System - Case 3''. Based off the United Nations peacekeepers of old, they have been hired to end the three-way war in the Tibet-Himalayan Alliance. [[spoiler: PMG actually intensified the war by secretly murdering civilians from all sides, escalating the conflict and ensuring that Garcia will get a bigger paycheck in the end when he does end the war.]]
** The "Pathfinders" in Season 3. Two members work for Azusawa as his private mercenaries, and the group as a whole is the main target of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs' investigation. It is hinted that the Pathfinders are the remnants of the Peace Monitoring Group from ''Sinners of the System'' as they hold a specific grudge against Kougami.

* StartXToStopX: In ''Sinners of the System - Case 3'', [[spoiler: Guillermo Garcia and his top men in the Peace Monitoring Group intentionally fan the flames of war by using [[FalseFlagOperation disguised mercenaries to commit war crimes against civilians]], which escalates the conflict into a situation bad enough for the local governments to ask PMG to come in. PMG then suppresses the warring parties, negotiates a peace deal, and leaves heroically... of course, after they are paid handsomely for ending the war. Had Tenzing not discovered the scam this time, Garcia and PMG would have left the Himalayas to do this again in another conflict zone.]]

'''Psycho-Pass: Sinners of the System''' (or more simply, ''Psycho-Pass SS'') was announced as a movie trilogy continuation of the franchise and premiered in January through March 2019. Each movie [[ADayInTheLimelight focuses on certain characters]]: ''Case 1 - Crime and Punishment'' (Mika Shimotsuki and Nobuchika Ginoza), ''Case 2 - First Guardian'' (Tomomi Masaoka and Teppei Sugo) and ''Case 3 - Beyond Love and Hate'' (Shinya Kougami). ''First Guardian'' was also the final film appearance of Creator/KinryuArimoto as the voice of Tomomi Masaoka before he died in February 2019.

'''Psycho-Pass 3''' premiered on October 24, 2019 on Amazon Prime Video. Introducing two new Inspectors, former political scion Arata Shindou and Russian immigrant Kei Mikhail Ignatov, the story takes place three years after the ''Sinners of the System'' movies and concerns a conspiracy called [[Myth/NorseMythology "Bifrost"]] that is secretly manipulating the economics and politics of Japan without Sibyl's knowledge. Meanwhile, several of the former Division 1 members have been recruited into the Ministry of Foreign Affairs' Special Action Division, while Sibyl has imprisoned Akane Tsunemori in an isolation cell for classified reasons. Tow Ubukata is in charge of series composition while Ryo Yoshikami and Makoto Fukami, who also wrote the ''SS'' movie trilogy, are in charge of the scripts. [[https://twitter.com/psychopass_tv/status/1178506083872063488 Light novel & manga adaptations]] are also included as part of the season, written by Yoshikami and illustrated by Akira Amano.

After the conclusion of the third season, a movie sequel, '''Psycho-Pass 3: First Inspector''', was announced. It was simultaneously released on March 27th, 2020 in Japanese theaters and worldwide on Amazon Prime Video, and [[ImmediateSequel picks up right where Season 3 left off.]]

** The end of "First Inspector" shows [[spoiler:Division One making it out alive with Homura being the new bureau chief after having successfully shutting down Bifrost and Akane released from confinement as a "statutory Enforcer". The Sibyl System seems to have planned to show themselves to the public soon and appoints Arata as a immediatary when the time comes]].

** Season 3 is rather tame with casualities with only a few minor baddies being killed. The only major character killed off is [[spoiler:Kyoko Saionji]]. Meanwhile TheStinger of Season 3 finale shows [[spoiler:Yayoi's car being crushed, leaving her survival uncertain]] until the end of "First Inspector" shows her recovering from her injuries. The only major character killed off in "First Inspector" is [[spoiler:Haruki Shirogane]].

* HeroOfAnotherStory: In Season 3, the members of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs' Special Actions Division (which is composed of three former members of PSB's Division 1 under the leadership of Frederica Hanashiro) are also investigating the case regarding Bifrost though this is done offscreen.

* LeftHanging: Season 3 ends with a lot of storylines unresolved such as the events behind Akane's imprisonment, the mystery behind Bifrost and the unsolved case of Akira Ignatov and Atsushi Shindo's deaths. It doesn't help that the final episode only spawns more loose threads such as the upcoming showdown between Azusawa and Arata, [[spoiler:Kei's recruitment as the Thirteenth "Inspector" of Bifrost and Yayoi's fate after her "car accident"]]. "First Inspector" resolves most of it except with Akane's confinement and Akira and Atsushi's deaths.

* SurprisinglyHappyEnding: "First Inspector" ends with [[spoiler:Akane getting out of prison with a new position and reuniting with Kougami. Yayoi recovers from her injuries and moves in with Shion. Division 1 make it out alive with Homura being the new PSB chief and Bifrost dismantled]]. A rare feat in the franchise given the [[BittersweetEnding Bittersweet Endings]] from the previous seasons.

* A video game, ''VideoGame/PsychoPassMandatoryHappiness'' for the UsefulNotes/XboxOne [[http://www.destructoid.com/psycho-pass-is-getting-a-game-on-xbox-one-275414.phtml at first in Japan]] and with the game getting an English sub release in Hong Kong for Fall 2015. It received an English release on the [=PS4=] and PS Vita in Fall 2016. The game storyline [[SimultaneousArcs is concurrent with roughly the first 8 episodes of the first season.]]

* A video game, ''Psycho Pass: Mandatory Happiness'' for the UsefulNotes/XboxOne [[http://www.destructoid.com/psycho-pass-is-getting-a-game-on-xbox-one-275414.phtml at first in Japan]] and with the game getting an English sub release in Hong Kong for Fall 2015. It received an English release on the [=PS4=] and PS Vita in Fall 2016. The game storyline [[SimultaneousArcs is concurrent with roughly the first 8 episodes of the first season.]]

** ''PSYCHO-PASS 3'', a two-volume novelization of the third season.

** In Season 3, almost everyone from Division 1 is gone, the only old faces remaining being Shimotsuki, Hinakawa, and Karanomori, with Tsunemori having been placed in an isolation block. We find out in Episode 2 that at least [[spoiler: Ginoza and Sugo have joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Operations Division, along with Kougami who is back in Japan.]] TheStinger in Episode 3 also shows that [[spoiler:Yayoi is now a freelance journalist which means she has managed to keep her Hue clear and get her Crime Coefficient down to below 100]].
** In the ending of ''First Inspector'', [[spoiler: Karanomori is discharged from the Bureau due to her decreasing Psycho-Pass. Meanwhile, Tsunemori is released from isolation and reassigned to Division 1 as a "statutory Enforcer." The Bureau Chief position, which is empty due to the "death" of Chief Hosorobi, goes to Homura Shizuka as Sibyl opts to put a real human in charge instead of another cybernetic avatar.]]

** Small amounts of it for Shinya and Akane throughout the series. Particularly in Season 2 where Akane lights up Spinel-brand cigarettes and lets the scent of it fill her room. These are the same brand of cigarettes that Kougami smoked. [=S2E7=] also showed she had one in her hand during her FantasySequence where she was imagining Kougami walking her through the Kamui case.
** Season 2 seems to be providing this for Yayoi and Mika.
** Also in season 2, there's ''loads'' of this between [[spoiler:Kamui and Shisui]]. From the almost-erotic way he makes her bite his finger, to the moments when they hug tight and whisper into each other's ears, capped off with her line "I don't mind if you use my body in any way you see fit" which can't be anything but DoubleEntendre. Not to mention that starting with the second half of the series, they're always seen together.

* AmbiguousSituation: TheStinger of the Season 3 finale shows [[spoiler:Yayoi's car being crushed by a fallen beam with her critically wounded until she passes out. However, her exact fate is left uncertain]]. Not so ambiguous anymore as of ''First Inspector'' which picks up [[ImmediateSequel right where this left off.]]

** Season 3 is rather tame with casualities with only a few minor baddies being killed. The only major character killed off is [[spoiler:Kyoko Saionji]]. Meanwhile TheStinger of Season 3 finale shows [[spoiler:Yayoi's car being crushed, leaving her survival uncertain]].

* LeftHanging: Season 3 ends with a lot of storylines unresolved such as the events behind Akane's imprisonment, the mystery behind Bifrost and the unsolved case of Akira Ignatov and Atsushi Shindo's deaths. It doesn't help that the final episode only spawns more loose threads such as the upcoming showdown between Azusawa and Arata, [[spoiler:Kei's recruitment as the Thirteenth "Inspector" of Bifrost and Yayoi's fate after her "car accident"]].