History Anime / Psychopass

''Psycho-Pass'' is a PostCyberpunk anime series created & written by Creator/GenUrobuchi of ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica'' and ''LightNovel/FateZero'' fame, with character designs by Akira Amano, the mangaka behind ''Manga/Reborn2004'', and animated by Creator/ProductionIG. The series was picked up for simulcasting by Creator/{{Funimation}}. Shortly after the anime's premiere, a manga adaptation titled ''Inspector Akane Tsunemori'' began serialization in Shueisha's Jump Square. It was also adapted into a two-volume novel. ''Psycho-Pass'' is widely considered to be the anime equivalent of ''Film/MinorityReport'', which also deals with the concept of arresting criminals before they even commit a crime based on the analysis of a central computer system.

** ''[[LightNovel/PsychoPassZeroMonsterWithNoName PSYCHO-PASS/ZERO: Monster With No Name]]'', which is [[{{Prequel}} set three years prior]] to the TV series and later adapted into a Drama [=CD=], focusing on the Specimen Case involving Kougami, Sasayama, and Makishima.

** ''[[LightNovel/PursuerKagariShuusei PURSUER KAGARI SHUUSEI]]'', a novel [[ADayinTheLimelight focusing on Kagari's life starting with his childhood.]]

** This is not the first time that Creator/MaayaSakamoto has [[LightNovel/TheGardenOfSinners played]] a [[TheSociopath sociopath]]. The difference is that this one is no [[SociopathicHero hero]].

In celebration of the 10th anniversary of the franchise, a movie entitled '''Psycho-Pass PROVIDENCE''' [[https://twitter.com/psychopass_tv/status/1558749823503069184 was announced]]. It will be released on May 12, 2023.

** ''Gakuen Psycho Pass'', a HighSchoolAU where Akane joins Psycho Pass Academy and becomes a member of the Public Morals Committee.

Hunting down those deemed a threat to society is the aforementioned Public Safety Bureau, which operates through teams of two detective types: Enforcers, latent criminals whose Psycho-Pass has exceeded the acceptable level [[ConsultingAConvictedKiller but who are called on to assist]]; and Inspectors, who supervise the Enforcers to make sure they follow procedure and don't escape. Called in on difficult and extreme cases, Bureau officers are equipped with Dominators, which allow the wielder to scan a target's Psycho-Pass and, if authorized, fire non-lethal or lethal rounds depending on the reading. Of course, being a [[AsimovsThreeKindsOfScienceFiction social science-fiction]] plot, a central theme is whether or not the Sibyl System and the Bureau [[UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans are worth their cost]].

* OffModel:
** Some scenes in Episode 14 and 17 suffer with this most especially on Akane's and Shinya's faces.
** Episode 18, to the point where the director Naoyoshi Shiotani apologized to fans over Twitter and promised to correct it all.
** Episodes 17 and 18 contained, among other things, impossible physics, impossible anatomy, skipped animation frames, and characters' faces being completely different.
** The Blu-Ray release apparently fixes everything in at least Episode 18.
** Regardless of the change of animation studios, season 2 episode 6 to 8 still suffer this most especially on the faces.
** This happens again in episodes 4 to 6 of Season 3 where the faces and limbs looked out of proportion.

* BlackAndBlackMorality: Season 3's gubernatorial election pits two independents against each other with the backing of two political parties. The Affirmation Party are avowed racists, isolationists and xenophobes, whereas their opponents, the ''Eugenics Party'', [[EvilutionaryBiologist don't care as long as their genes are "strong".]] [[spoiler:Subverted by Karina, the AP candidate, who doesn't feel the same way, but is still happy to use the populace's fear for her own political gain.]]

* EvilVersusEvil: Shougo Makishima versus the Sibyl System. The second season continues this theme with Kirito Kamui versus Sibyl.

In celebration of the 10th anniversary of the franchise, a movie entitled '''Psycho-Pass PROVIDENCE''' [[https://twitter.com/psychopass_tv/status/1558749823503069184 was announced]]. No release date has been announced yet.

'''Psycho-Pass''' opens in 2112 as idealistic rookie Inspector Akane Tsunemori [[NaiveNewcomer begins her first assignment]] to the Public Safety Bureau. Along with her fellow Inspector Nobuchika Ginoza, she is set to supervise the Enforcers of Division 1: Shinya Kougami, a former Inspector turned Enforcer; Tomomi Masaoka, a veteran Enforcer with deep knowledge of the Sibyl System; Shusei Kagari, a flirtatious man identified as a latent criminal at age 5; and Yayoi Kunizuka, a stoic woman of few words. Following a string of suspicious crimes and [[ItsPersonal unsolved cases]] all leading back to the name Makishima, it's up to Akane and the Bureau to solve the conspiracy threatening society itself. The series premiered in [[Fall2012Anime Fall 2012]] on Fuji TV's Creator/{{Noitamina}} block.

On September 6, 2013, Creator/ProductionIG [[http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2013-09-06/psycho-pass-anime-gets-new-film-along-with-2nd-season officially confirmed]] that there will be a [[{{Sequel}} second season]] and [[TheMovie a movie]]. The second season aired in the Fall2014Anime season while the movie was released on January 9, 2015. The series composition for the second season was written by Tow Ubukata, best known for his dark {{Cyberpunk}} novel ''Literature/MardockScramble'' as well as helming ''Anime/GhostInTheShellArise.'' Creator/TatsunokoProduction was in charge for the animation for the second season instead of Creator/ProductionIG.

'''Psycho-Pass 2''' begins one and a half years later, and follows the new Division One. Built up of both returning members [[DwindlingParty and a few replacements]], the team is joined by: Sho Hinakawa, an [[PlayfulHacker introverted geek and former hologram specialist]]; Mika Shimotsuki, a [[ByTheBookCop by-the-book]] detective who clashes with Akane's unique thinking; Sakuya Togane, a mysterious and shifty {{Cowboy Cop}}-type; and Joji Saiga, who [[AscendedExtra returns to actively consult]] at Akane's request. When an Inspector goes missing and an Enforcer is killed following an incident, Akane leads the unit in fighting a series of terrorist attacks through the city, connected only by the attackers mentioning [[TheChessmaster "Kamui"]] and his mysterious ''[[ArcWords "WC?"]]'' graffiti. The second season aired in the Fall2014Anime season.

As preparation for the second season, a rebroadcast of the first season titled ''Psycho-Pass New Edit'' aired in the Summer2014Anime season, with the episodes edited into 11 one-hour long broadcasts. In addition, the ''New Edit'' adds additional footage at the beginning of each episode as well as halfway through (serving as a kind of transition scene between the two original episodes it is combining together). In total, the ''New Edit'' adds almost 35 minutes of new footage to the series.

* ViewersAreGeniuses: Season 1 tends to mention philosophical and literary references, most especially when Makishima is involved. Before the first actual physically confrontation between him and Kogami, the latter even repels the former's quote of Blaise Pascal with a quote from Ortega y Gasset.

* ViewersAreGeniuses: Season 1 tends to mention philosophical and literary references, most especially when Makishima is involved.

* BlackAndBlackMorality:
** Season 3's gubernatorial election pits two independents against each other with the backing of two political parties. The Affirmation Party are avowed racists, isolationists and xenophobes, whereas their opponents, the ''Eugenics Party'', [[EvilutionaryBiologist don't care as long as their genes are "strong".]] [[spoiler:Subverted by Karina, the AP candidate, who doesn't feel the same way, but is still happy to use the populace's fear for her own political gain.]]

* MultiEthnicName: [[EnforcedTrope Enforced]] by the Sibyl System in Season 3. Prospective immigrants to Japan are required to take a Japanese first name to obtain permanent residency status, although after this they are not required to use it in their everyday lives. Kei Mikhail Ignatov, his wife Maiko Maya Stronskaya, and his deceased brother Akira Vasily Ignatov are all examples of this.

* BerserkButton: Even with her immense HeroicWillpower, it turns out that Akane has one: [[spoiler:maiming or killing her family members. When the murderer of her grandmother brags about his deeds at the end of Season 2, her Psycho-Pass spikes to 85 -- up to ''60 points higher'' than her usual reading.]]

In celebration of the 10th anniversary of the franchise, a movie entitled '''Psycho-Pass PROVIDENCE''' [[https://twitter.com/psychopass_tv/status/1558749823503069184 was announced]], together with [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkq2JvMBrcM another anime project]] which will be announced on October 2022.

In celebration of the 10th anniversary of the franchise, a movie entitled ''Psycho-Pass PROVIDENCE'' [[https://twitter.com/psychopass_tv/status/1558749823503069184 was announced]], together with [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkq2JvMBrcM another anime project]] which will be announced on October 2022.

** Taken UpToEleven with Arata, who's mentalist abilities could be used to trace a suspect's motives and thoughts through a process called "Mental Tracing".

* FunWithAcronyms: For some strange and annoying reason, Fumination's subtitles ''kept using'' MWPSB which ''literally'' stands for "[[OverlyLongName Ministry of Welfare Public Safety Bureau]]'' despite that the characters are saying "Public Safety Bureau" and/or "PSB". It's like saying "Department of Justice Federal Bureau of Investigation" or [[DepartmentofRedundancyDepartment DOJFBI]] instead of, you know, just "Federal Bureau of Investigation" or FBI.

* StunGuns: This is one of the three modes of the Dominator. Subjects that elicit this reaction from the Dominator are incapacitated and taken into custody to receive therapy. However, if the target is qualified to be too dangerous, [[OneHitKill a less-friendlier mode]] comes into place...

** Considering [[Creator/GenUrobuchi Gen]] [[FanNickname Urobutcher]] was involved with all of the scripts, is anyone surprised? At the end, the dead include [[spoiler:many antagonists including Senguji, Rikako, Mido, Touma and Choe; along with Akane's friend Yuki and her old classmate Spookie Boogie; Professor Kudama (who was killed in the episode he was introduced, to boot); Shusei and Masaoka. In the last episode, only one person dies, Shogo Makishima.]]

->"I have detected that you are experiencing a great deal of stress. We recommend that you [[TVTropesWillRuinYourLife log off TV Tropes]] and seek mental care immediately."

* ThoseTwoGirls: Akane's two friends, Yuki and Kaori, who first appear in Episode 2 are completely ordinary and serve to show us a bit of Akane's everyday life outside work. [[spoiler:As of Episode 11, however, Yuki is killed]].

** ''PSYCHO-PASS/ZERO: Monster With No Name'', which is [[{{Prequel}} set three years prior]] to the TV series and later adapted into a Drama [=CD=], focusing on the Specimen Case involving Kougami, Sasayama, and Makishima.

** ''PURSUER KAGARI SHUUSEI'', a novel [[ADayinTheLimelight focusing on Kagari's life starting with his childhood.]]

** ''Kanshikan Kougami Shinya'', following [[{{Prequel}} Kougami's earlier days in the Bureau]].

''Psycho-Pass'' is a PostCyberpunk anime series created & written by Creator/GenUrobuchi of ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica'' and ''LightNovel/FateZero'' fame, with character designs by Akira Amano, the mangaka behind ''[[Manga/KatekyoHitmanReborn Reborn!]]'', and animated by Creator/ProductionIG. The series was picked up for simulcasting by Creator/{{Funimation}}. Shortly after the anime's premiere, a manga adaptation titled ''Inspector Akane Tsunemori'' began serialization in Shueisha's Jump Square. It was also adapted into a two-volume novel. ''Psycho-Pass'' is widely considered to be the anime equivalent of ''Film/MinorityReport'', which also deals with the concept of arresting criminals before they even commit a crime based on the analysis of a central computer system.

* ReusedCharacterDesign: Akira Amano, know for her ''[[Manga/KatekyoHitmanReborn Reborn!]]'' manga, reused the designs of her characters from her manga for the characters in the anime.

** This is not the first time that Creator/MaayaSakamoto has [[LightNovel/KaraNoKyoukai played]] a [[TheSociopath sociopath]]. The difference is that this one is no [[SociopathicHero hero]].

* ConspicuousCG: The show often mixes traditional animation with CG to emphasize the massive technological advancements and futuristic atmosphere of the world. Unlike many examples, it is done in a ''much'' smoother fashion thanks to stellar animation and designs that help to enhance the environment without calling much attention to it. What also probably helps is that Creator/ProductionIG has a rather extensive (not to mention outstanding) reputation with creatively mixing CG and animation in a clean fashion.

* ''StagePlayPsychoPassVirtueAndVice'', a 2019 Stage play that centers on new original characters from the PSB's 3rd division. It was held at the Ninon Seinenkan Hall in Tokyo from April 18 to 30, 2019, then at Morinomiya Piloti Hall in Osaka from May 4 to 6

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