Line #1 YMMV/PsychoPass


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3	* ''YMMV/PsychoPassTheMovie''
4	* ''YMMV/PsychoPassMandatoryHappiness''
5	* ''YMMV/PsychoPassSinnersOfTheSystem''
6	* ''YMMV/PsychoPass3FirstInspector''
7	* ''YMMV/PsychoPassProvidence''
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10	* AlasPoorScrappy: You may feel sorry for Mika, who turned out to have good investigative skills but allowed her jealousy towards Akane to cloud her own judgment [[spoiler:which resulted in her being cornered by Togane and the Sibyl System for looking into things she's not supposed to. It's even worse after she accepts the truth behind the system without any complaints]]. She's not deluded or brainwashed or anything; Mika [[spoiler:is fully aware of the consequences of her actions. Why is this worse? Having learned what Sibyl is, how powerful it is, etc she's stuck in a corner and can't get out. She can only sit back, watch, and try to delude herself just to keep functioning.]]
11	* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: Kougami's actions in Episode 1. Was he really going to blow up the victim with the Dominator or was he trying to test Akane's resolve? On one hand, he was clearly about to pull the trigger before Akane paralyzed him. On the other, he mouthed something to Akane before he did (presumably "shoot me") and showed no signs of being angry with her the following episode.
12	* AngstAversion:
13	** The way the first episode played out with the Criminal of the Week, which in itself created a bit of a BrokenBase for his on-screen rape of the DamselInDistress, has already induced this for some.
14	** In Season 2, after seeing [[spoiler:Division 3 shooting up a bunch of panicked civilians solely based on their Crime Coefficients]], there weren't many viewers who cared about their TotalPartyKill in Episode 6.
15	* BaseBreakingCharacter:
16	** Akane was seen as one from the first episode due to her character design being considered ugly and/or odd-looking compared to the other characters and Akane herself being seen as naive and incompetent. The first episode's InfoDump makes it seem like she signed up for a job she knew nothing about, and the episode makes a point of it when the cynical Enforcers claim that the academy's training is useless.
17	** Ginoza in Season 1 is a polarizing character at first. His ByTheBookCop {{Jerkass}} attitude towards Enforcers and highly critical response to Akane's decisions earned him detractors; others felt that he made a point of criticizing Akane because he wants to make sure that she avoids the pitfalls of Shinya and his father and that his attitude is a case of being a JerkassWoobie. [[spoiler:After his father's HeroicSacrifice gets Ginoza demoted to Enforcer, the fanbase warmed up to him fast.]]
18	** While he was initially well-received and considered a great villain by many, opinions on Shogo Makishima eventually grew more divided. In essence, his supporters think he's a cunning, charismatic villain with a compelling philosophy and a beautifully poetic way of showing it despite his raw, soulless viciousness; however, he grew a fanbase of detractors who thought he was a generic WhiteHairBlackHeart villain, whose plans come together too easily for him and whose philosophy is little more than a senseless, edgy mess. This divide doesn't stop at fans, with critics also debating whether Makishima is a complex villain or a thinly-characterized, pretentious villain. Essentially, the conflict comes down to whether Makishima is cool or if he's lame and the writing tries too hard to sell him.
19	** HistoryRepeats in the second season, with viewers hating Mika Shimotsuki for her abrasive, dismissive attitude toward Enforcers and acting like a KnowNothingKnowItAll in front of Akane. Some fans started warming up towards her after her AlasPoorScrappy moment while others [[TakeThatScrappy were satisfied by her situation]]. She's given a more stable personality in the movie which most consider an improvement, but she still has some detractors, particularly for trash-talking Akane to her face. Her personality might be a case of DependingOnTheWriter, as some think that Mika could have been more likable in Season 2 if she was less of a complainer.
20	** Arata, the new protagonist in the third season, has gotten this, mostly because [[ContrastingSequelMainCharacter he was designed to intentionally contrast Akane]]. Some fans enjoy his free-spirited CowboyCop antics which allow him to be more empathetic and creative than she ever could, and love his ChildhoodFriends dynamic with Kei. Others think that his behavior is too reckless and unprofessional to inspire sympathy, consider his Mentalist powers to be poorly-explained and a source of {{Ass Pull}}s, and think of his friendship with Kei as a poor imitation of the dynamic that Akane and Kougami had.
21	* BrokenBase:
22	** Akane's actions in Episode 11. Half the fanbase [[spoiler:sympathizes with Akane, saying that her breakdown and inability to rescue Yuki from Makishima's clutches was justified]]. The other half says that [[spoiler:Akane had every reason to kill Makishima and easily saved Yuki, but was either naive enough to depend on Sibyl or couldn't bring herself to break her code even to save another.]]
23	** The show's first opening song "abnormalize" seems to be something of a polarizing phenomenon, mostly due to the singer's overblown falsetto.
24	** [[Literature/MardockScramble Tow Ubukuta]], who is writing the series composition of Season 2 instead of Creator/GenUrobuchi (who would be supervising the script), made some viewers worried on that the style of the story would be different, particularly when Urobuchi amusingly quipped that "if people die in ''Psycho-Pass 2'', [[NotMeThisTime that's Ubukata's doing]]"! Some people noticed that Season 2 has more action and less social commentary than Season 1, and a lot of viewers wonder how this season will affect the movie given that there wasn't much impact [[spoiler:except for the revelation that being criminally asymptomatic is a non-permanent condition]]. With the movie released, many officially declared Season 2 as [[FanonDiscontinuity non-canon]] because the majority of the subplots had little effect on the movie, even though the movie was the ''reason'' most of the events of Season 2 felt so inconsequential[[note]]Tow Ubukata revealed in interviews that he was [[ExecutiveMeddling severely limited]] as to what he could write for 2 in order to avoid conflicting with the plot of the movie, which had already been decided in advance[[/note]].
25	** The change of studio, from Creator/ProductionIG to Creator/TatsunokoProduction, caused some to worry that the animation quality would drop, as in episodes 6 and 7 where some of the faces looked [[OffModel different]].
26	** The animation for the second season's opening was initially this, as some viewers found it pretty cheap to simply repeat the same frame over and over again (and to use this technique multiple times) but once people began noticing the subtle differences in each episode's opening and that it was becoming a bigger and bigger MindScrew [[EvolvingCredits with each passing episode]], the complaints went away. [[spoiler:It turned out there were ''a lot'' of [[SpoilerOpening clues in those credits]].]]
27	* CompleteMonster: Season 1 has the season's BigBad and two {{Serial Killer}}s:
28	** [[{{Ubermensch}} Shōgo Makishima]] is the darkly charismatic villain who [[TheCorrupter believes people living out their darkest desires]] is the "true state" of humanity. Contacting multiple killers to enable them to do as they please, Makishima allows one project to turn his classmates into grotesque statues and another to hunt people at his leisure, disposing of his pawns when they inevitably bore him. [[PureIsNotGood Undetectable to the Sibyl System's criminal registering metric]], Makishima takes advantage of his unique state of being to slit the throat of an innocent girl in front of her best friend in pure bliss at his mockery of Japan's protection measures. [[NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist Wishing to plunge the country into anarchy]], Makishima organizes a terrorist attack on the building housing Sibyl, causing mass riots in the streets and putting all of Tokyo at risk while he infiltrates the building. When his initial attempt fails, Makishima attempts to [[TamperingWithFoodAndDrink sabotage Japan's food supply]] and forms a twisted attachment to Enforcer Shinya Kōgami, unable to believe Shinya can go on without him when Makishima is gone.
29	** [[TeensAreMonsters Rikako Ōryō]], one of Shogo Makishima's side projects, [[WickedCultured relishes Shakespeare's plays]] when they depict human cruelty and suffering. Rikako has an obsession with [[MadArtist creating art]] by drugging her fellow [[PsychoLesbian female]] students before murdering them. In order to mimic her father's artworks, which Rikako enjoyed even if she had nothing but contempt for the man himself, Rikako dissects the girls and arranges the corpses into scenes to mirror the portraits.
30	** [[WickedCultured Toyohisa Sengūji]], another of Makishima's associates, is an old man who has converted most of his body to [[{{cyborg}} cybernetics]] to achieve immortality. To alleviate his incredible boredom, Senguji has turned to [[HuntingTheMostDangerousGame hunting human beings]]. Senguji enjoys releasing his prey into the [[AbsurdlySpaciousSewer large sewers underneath the city]] and hunting them down while dressed as a Victorian hunter, along with his cybernetic robotic dogs which he uses to savage his prey before he executes them. Senguji's only passion is hunting people like this, and he has racked up dozens of victims. When done, he harvests the bodies to make [[CreepySouvenir tools out of their bones]].
31	** For Colonel Nicholas Wong and Desmond Rutaranga [[Anime/PsychoPassTheMovie see here]].
32	** For Kyōka Tsujigai, Colonel Yoshito Takaesu, Jean-Marcel Belmondo [[Anime/PsychoPassSinnersOfTheSystem see here]].
33	* ContestedSequel:
34	** Season 2. Some fans dislike it because [[OnlyTheCreatorDoesItRight Urobuchi isn't writing it]], the antagonist is boring, Kogami is absent, a lot of people randomly die during the first half of the show and the viewers have no reason to care about them, the lack of social commentary and less screentime for the returning characters, most especially Ginoza and Yayoi. Many detractors have also pointed out that quite a few plot-points in Season 2 are suspiciously similar to those from Season 1, with some even accusing the season of frequently dipping into RecycledScript territory. Others like it because of Akane's CharacterDevelopment and the antagonist's broader scope, claiming that it still captures the essence of the show. Some consider it a disgrace, others think it's fine but [[ToughActToFollow just can't live up to the first season]], a small minority thinks it's better than the first season, and most just consider it SoOkayItsAverage.
35	** HistoryRepeats with Season 3. Although many fans do like it for its greater emphasis on social commentary and consider the new characters introduced to be fresh and likable, others are more critical, and consider the new characters to be {{Replacement Scrapp\|y}}ies. The most common points of criticism are that the commentary on immigration and racism is {{Anvilicious}} and doesn't make in-universe sense, and that the greater focus on police procedure and political power plays causes the series to lose its identity.
36	* ContinuityLockout: Though the ''Sinners of the System'' movie trilogy can be watched as a stand-alone, it is ''highly'' advisable to watch it as preparation for Season 3 as it contains several plot elements that were present such as Mika's CharacterDevelopment, Frederica's and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs's introduction and [[spoiler:Shinya's recruitment into Frederica's team]].
37	* CreepyAwesome: Tougane. He's singlehandedly responsible for a good chunk of Season 2's nightmare fuel, and is all the better for it.
38	* DesignatedHero: Some viewers were convinced from the start that the Sibyl system was nowhere near just, or even morally gray, considering it the real BigBad of the setting. This point is an integral part of the series itself, however, though how easy it is to cheer for Sibyl's agents depends on the viewer.
39	* DracoInLeatherPants: Because Shogo Makishima is so well-written and is rebelling against a brutal totalitarian dystopia, many people tend to ignore the fact that he is an evil bastard through and through whose endgame involves plunging Japan into anarchy and molding people into serial killers just like himself. An article on Medieval Otaku says that [[https://medievalotaku.wordpress.com/2013/08/08/shogo-makishima-the-villain-who-should-be-hero/ Makishima should be the hero of the series]], and to make things even funnier, there is an anime quiz app on Android about anime heroes that lists him as a hero.
40	* EnsembleDarkhorse:
41	** Shusei Kagari, due to being a {{Manchild}} and NiceGuy. [[spoiler:Many fans were upset at his death.]]
42	** Risa Aoyanagi started to get pretty popular due to being a merciless Inspector, contrasting Akane, but also having a [[SugarAndIcePersonality softer side]] to her around people she likes and genuinely caring about her job. [[spoiler:Which is what made her death such a GutPunch.]] Likely due to this, she received [[ADayInTheLimelight quite a bit of screentime]] in ''Sinners of the System - Case 2: First Guardian.''
43	** Sho Hinakawa got a lot of fans due to being {{Adorkable}} and using his skills to uncover much of Kamui's plan.
44	** Sakuya Tougane gets a lot of fans thanks to the opening animation, which foreshadows his true character. This is also because he's similar to fan favorite, Shinya Kougami. A lot of viewers agreed that [[spoiler:his goal to darken Akane's hue was the one of the most interesting plotlines of Season 2.]]
45	** Jyoji Saiga, Shinya's former mentor, is well liked as one of the few who pointed out the flaws of the Sibyl System.
46	** Ginoza's dog, Dime. Despite having only appeared in one Season 2 episode and one audio drama, he's a surprisingly popular subject with fan-writers and fan-artists, particularly those looking to show a softer side to the normally cold and aloof Ginoza.
47	** Out from the new Season 3 characters, a lot of viewers like Homura Shizuka not only because he's handsome but his HiddenDepths where he gambles for the bureau's success [[spoiler:as he is working with the Sibyl System to destroy Bifrost]].
48	* EpilepticTrees:
49	** The second season's opening is a huge MindScrew. It's spawned legions of theories that [[spoiler:Tougane might be Kougami]] or stuff even more bizarre than that. The opening actually [[EvolvingCredits keeps changing subtly]] with every episode, becoming more and more glitched and static-filled, providing plenty of fuel for this trope.
50	** One of the most popular theories since Season 1 is that a lot of fans believed that Akane is criminally asymptomatic given her crime coefficient never goes up during dire situations and her Hue never goes dark. However, the story never discusses this, and more subsequent materials counter this theory such as the appearance of another criminally asymptomatic character, [[spoiler:Arata Shindo]], who remains on the side of good which led to the Sibyl System being interested in him.
51	* EvilIsCool: Shōgo Makishima is quite the baddie but is such a charismatic and WickedCultured villain and a genius planner to booth, Makishima is quite the awesome baddie which as FirstInstallmentWins tells below, gives a legacy that no other villain from the series lives up to.
52	* FanNickname: Kirito Kamui is sometimes called "Evil harem lead Kirito" as a nod to the similarly named protagonist of ''Literature/SwordArtOnline'' for various reasons, most of which involve a TakeThat or two.
53	* FanonDiscontinuity: Some fans disregarded Season 2 and declared the 2015 movie as "the true sequel" to Season 1, considering that Season 2 hit the StatusQuoIsGod ceiling and several of the main plotlines weren't referenced in the movie.
54	* FirstInstallmentWins: Season 1 is regarded as the best due to establishing the world of ''Psycho-Pass'', tackling the philosophical and psychological use of the Sibyl System and introducing the most compelling and memorable antagonist. The next two seasons tried to emulate this style but both are widely considered to fall short of the first season.
55	* FoeYayShipping:
56	** Some fans ship [[AngelDevilShipping Makishima and Akane]], even though [[spoiler:Makishima murders Akane's best friend right in front of her.]]
57	** Kougami and Makishima. It's very obvious since the first episode, when Akane narrates that they're destined to meet each other, and it doesn't really help when Senguji said that whenever he mentioned Kougami's name to Makishima, it made him smile.
58	** The novel offer some (one-sided) basis for Choe and Kagari: when Choe hears Kagari's voice for the first time, he notes that he sounds young and wonders whether Kagari is good-looking, too. This is never mentioned in the anime, but it certainly gives their conversation an interesting subtext on Choe's part.
59	** There's some one-sided tension between Akane and Togane in Season 2. Considering that Togane is Kogami's SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute and Akane keeps hanging out with him, the subtext is there despite that Togane happens to have a darker side...
60	* FranchiseOriginalSin: Most of the common criticisms of Season 3 were elements present in the first two seasons that got out of hand:
61	** A good portion of the season is dedicated to political power struggles and mass immigration, two storylines that were argued to make no sense since the first season showed that politicians are effectively puppets chosen by the Sibyl System and Japan's borders were locked down tight in order to preserve peace and order. But the first season also had both of those things; the difference was that the politicians were, as mentioned, puppets, and the Korean immigrant shown was there because the Sibyl System wanted to get him on their side so he would return to his home country singing their praises so that they could gain support for controlling that country as well. In contrast, the prevalence of mass immigration Season 3 is shown to cause loads of tension and unrest, something that would make the viewer doubt how or why the supposedly all-knowing Sibyl System would ever approve such a thing in the first place. While the storyline was likely intended to be a commentary on modern sociopolitical issues, it wound up not making very much sense setting-wise.
62	** The villains were argued to be some of the weakest in the series, being StupidEvil with no motivations beyond [[CardCarryingVillain committing evil for the sake of it]]. But the arc villains in season 1 also noticeably lacked much motivation for committing evil deeds. However, this was tied into that season's major themes about the restrictiveness of the society governed by the Sibyl System and what sort of monstrous personalities that a society where there's basically zero free will could produce, and all of them were legitimately unique, competent, and threatening in their own right. TheMovie and the ''Sinners of the System'' trilogy started the trend of shallow antagonists, but those also had a shorter length than the TV seasons, so it was more forgivable in the sense that there just wasn't enough time to flesh out the bad guys. But when Season 3 and its sequel movie aired, that was when the most complaints started to occur, as the bad guys up to the {{Big Bad}}s were seen as inferior, with Azusawa largely considered too petty and simplistic to live up to the standard set by Makishima or even Kamui, and Bifrost and its caretakers being much too vague to care about. It's one thing to make the antagonist of a 45 minute movie shallow, but quite another thing to do it to every villain including the BigBad in an entire season of TV anime[[note]]with episodes that are 45 minutes long, at that[[/note]].
63	** Removing older characters to replace them with [[BaseBreakingCharacter controversial new ones]] started in Season 2 when Kougami was absent and replaced by the SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute Sakuya Tougane, and new character Mika Shimotsuki was widely-reviled for her clashes with Akane and bratty attitude. The difference is, Season 2 was never supposed to be made--TheMovie, where Akane finds Kougami in Southeast Asia, was supposed to be the direct sequel to the first season. Because of that, Kougami couldn't be present in the second season by the very nature of the timeline. And both new characters' frosty reception dissipated after [[spoiler:Tougane was revealed to be a villain]] and [[spoiler:Mika suffers the consequences for her stupidity]] and undergoes CharacterDevelopment in later installments to a more likable character. However, most characters that survived the first season were still prominent in the second, but the third season replaces almost everyone with an entirely new cast. It's more egregious in the fact that all of the characters from previous seasons are still present but make comparatively few appearances; Ginoza and Kougami only show up a few times to fight the new protagonists or on one instance help them out, Yayoi [[spoiler:is brought back only to be seemingly killed off]], and Akane spends the whole season rotting in a jail cell. Sidelining a few members of the cast is one thing, but to do it to the characters who have been the protagonists since the very beginning of the series is another matter entirely.
64	* GeniusBonus:
65	** In 2099, the Japanese government was actually planning to deactivate the Sibyl System. Altruistic? No: they were going to replace Sibyl with ''[[MeetTheNewBoss another]]'' [[BigBrotherIsWatching national surveillance program]] called [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panopticon "Panopticon"]], named after the English philosopher Jeremy Bentham's concept of a circular prison where a single guard in a tinted central post could monitor every prisoner at any given time and the prisoners would never be able to tell when the guard was looking at them, only that he ''could'' be.
66	** The first two episodes of Season 3, titled "Laelaps' Calling" and "Teumassian Sacrifice", are references to the mythological Laelaps the hunting hound, and the Teumassian Fox. Laelaps always caught its prey, while the Teumassian Fox was impossible to catch, and the act of Laelaps chasing the Teumassian Fox risked causing a paradox requiring Zeus' intervention. The obvious parallels are the Inspectors being Laelaps always catching criminals, while Bifrost is the Teumassian Fox, constantly evading Sibyl.
67	* HarsherInHindsight:
68	** In Season 3, it's a bit of a RunningGag that Arata and Kei keep upsetting powerful people in their investigations, which leads to Shimotsuki getting a constant stream of complaint letters on her desk. Most of these are pretty humorous as Arata and Kei keep managing to get away with their antics [[RulesLawyer with the thinnest of justifications]]. Then during the gubernatorial campaign case, Todoroki gets insulted by his stepbrother who also proceeds to insult his mother, which causes Kei to snap and punch the stepbrother. This time, the letter of complaint is played dead seriously, as [[PoliceBrutality a PSB officer attacking a civilian]] is not an incident Shimotsuki can just brush aside like the previous times, and she chews Kei out in her office, suspends him, and orders him to get a Psycho-Pass evaluation and go to counseling.
69	** Episode 19 reveals [[spoiler:that about 99 percent of future Japan's food supply is based on genetically engineered "Hyper-Oats"; even, presumably, the meat products people have been shown eating]]. The same week this episode came out, there was a lot of press about that a lot of mass-produced food products throughout the world are not what they seemed: Horse meat popped up in some of Europe's meat supply as well as in IKEA's meatballs and Anheuser-Busch brewers were charged with significantly watering down their beers.
70	** In January 2013, roughly halfway through the show's run, [[SinisterSurveillance Edward Snowden went public with the details of the NSA's PRISM program]], making the premise of the show [[RippedFromTheHeadlines even more relevant]].
71	** The riots that occurred in Episodes 15 to 16 came really close to home where a riot also occurred in Ferguson, Missouri in response to a policeman shooting African-American teenager Michael Brown in 2014.
72	** [[spoiler:Kamui's]] backstory of being the sole survivor of the plane crash, which killed 205 people became more horrifying that two weeks after the show ended, [=AirAsia=] [=QZ8501=] crashed into the Java Sea en route from Indonesia to Singapore which resulted to 162 casualties. Coincidentally before Season 2 aired, two passenger plane incidents occurred in 2014: The missing Flight [=MH370=] which presumably crashed in the Southern Indian Ocean with 239 people still missing and Flight [=MH17=] which crashed in Ukraine after being shot down by a missile during the ongoing pro-Russian unrest in the country, resulting to the deaths of 298 people.
73	** Shuusei Kagari is branded as a latent criminal at a young age but he never shows signs of committing crimes. This became very disturbing when his English voice actor, Creator/ScottFreeman, [[http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2015-09-06/voice-actor-scott-freeman-convicted-of-possession-of-child-pornography/.92346 got arrested in 2015]] for possession of child pornography which ended [[RoleEndingMisdemeanor his voice acting career]].
74	** In 2019 it was found that the Chinese government [[https://www.businessinsider.com/how-ijop-works-china-surveillance-app-for-muslim-uighurs-2019-5 was using a smartphone app called IJOP to monitor the personal histories of many citizens in Xinjiang]] as well as using facial recognition cameras and "reeducation" centers, which is very similar to what the Sibyl System does.
75	* HesJustHiding: TheStinger of the Season 3 finale shows [[spoiler:Yayoi, dying after her car was crushed by a fallen beam]]. Many fans refused to accept that she's dead because she's one of the original characters with the shortest screentime in the previous seasons only to have [[AscendedExtra more relevance in the third season]]. Fortunately in ''First Inspector'', she's only in critical condition and is slowly recovering at the end of the movie.
76	* HilariousInHindsight:
77	** Scott Freeman, the voice actor of Kagari, said in a Funimation commentary that he wanted to get his hands on a working Dominator replica. Then [[http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/interest/2013-04-16/taito-kuji-raffle-line-offers-psycho-pass-domniator-sound-figures these made]] [[http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/interest/2014-09-26/bandai-shows-off-the-psycho-pass-dominator-proplica-with-demo-videos/.79258 the news]].
78	*** Taken even one step further: in September 2015, Silencer Co. revealed a new pistol called the Maxim 9 and showed it off at the 2016 SHOT Show in Las Vegas. [[http://www.outdoorhub.com/news/2016/01/18/photos-silencerco-shows-off-updated-maxim-9-pistol-at-shot-2016/ It looks]] ''[[http://werewolf0001.livejournal.com/2865515.html incredibly similar]]'' [[http://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2015/09/16/first-look-silencerco-maxim-9-integrally-suppressed-pistol-video/ to a Dominator!]]
79	** The Specimen Case arc details about a SerialKiller who arranged the dismembered limbs of their victims into various positions. Then, one Season 1 episode of ''Series/{{Hannibal}}'' has Will Graham investigating on a case similar to this except the bodies are arranged as a totem pole.
80	** The entire premise of the series, to a tabletop RPG player:
81	--->[[{{TabletopGame/Paranoia}} The Sibyl System is your friend. The Sibyl System wants you to be happy. Happiness is mandatory. Failure to be sufficiently happy is treason. Treason is punishable by summary execution. Are you happy, Citizen?]]
82	* IKnewIt: Not too surprisingly, considering the show's excellent use of clever foreshadowing.
83	** Kougami [[spoiler: used to be an Inspector]].
84	** Also [[spoiler:Shogo]] being [[spoiler:immune to]] the Sibyl System.
85	** [[spoiler: Masaoka being Ginoza's dad]]. Due to [[spoiler: the mention of Ginoza's father being a latent criminal combined with Masaoka's age and [[CoolOldGuy fatherly air]],]] many fans guessed it episodes before it was revealed.
86	** In Episode 16, everyone who thought [[spoiler: [[ShooOutTheClowns Kagari would be the first]] of the main cast to die]] were proven right.
87	** Quite a few people guessed that the Sibyl System was [[spoiler:powered by the brains of Criminally Asymptomatic people]]. Episode 17 proved them right.
88	** In the second season, viewers were sure that the plane crash briefly mentioned in episode 2 would turn out to be important, [[SpoilerOpening because an airplane appears prominently in the opening.]] They were right.
89	** There were viewers who guessed that Togane was connected or related to the Sibyl System in some way due to the opening hinting so, [[spoiler:they were totally right. One of the Sibyl Systems brains is his mothers. He works for her!]]
90	** Many viewers correctly guessed that Mao [[spoiler:is one of the Bifrost "foxes" within the PSB. But by the time this was revealed, Mao is already going a HeelFaceTurn]].
91	* IronWoobie: Akane. Even after being [[BreakTheCutie put through hell in Season 1]], she still maintains her clear Psycho-pass and continues to look at the positives in life (although now she's fully aware of all the negatives too).
92	* ItsShortSoItSucks: Season 2 has only 11 episodes, half of what Season 1 had. On the first glance, the 8 episodes of Season 3 look even worse, but each episode was twice as long as episodes of the other seasons. Combined with ''First Inspector'', a direct continuation of S3, they are as long as Season 1 was.
93	* ItWasHisSled:
94	** [[spoiler:Masaoka is Ginoza's father.]]
95	** The Sibyl System [[spoiler:is a WetwareCPU composed of the brains of criminally asymptomatic people.]]
96	** [[spoiler:Shinya leaves the bureau near the end of Season 1.]]
97	* JerkassWoobie:
98	** Ginoza. His view on Enforcers as "dogs" and trust on the Sibyl System completely is due to fear of being demoted into a latent criminal which already happened to his father and his partner. It doesn't help that his Psycho-Pass is slowly getting cloudy [[spoiler:and eventually, he ends up being demoted to Enforcer after watching his dad die to save his life.]]
99	** Mika by the end of Season 2. See AlasPoorScrappy above.
100	* JustHereForGodzilla:
101	** Fans who don't want to watch Season 2 due to Kougami's absence only watch Episodes 7 and 10 because he's there despite appearing for only one minute and existing only in Akane's mind. When the trailer of the movie came out, a lot of people were excited about it because Kougami would finally show up.
102	** There are fans who only watch Season 3 because they want to see the original Division 1 members, particularly Akane, Ginoza and Kougami.
103	* MagnificentBastard:
104	** Season 1:
105	*** [[WickedCultured Shogo Makishima]] is a SerialKiller obsessed with the inner darkness of human nature. Swaying others into becoming killers themselves to help damage and tear apart the current society, Makishima then eliminates them when they disappoint him or serve their purpose, and begins cultivating inspector Shinya Kogami as his chosen nemesis as he schemes to destroy the oppressive [[BigBrotherIsWatching Sibyl System]]. Forming multiple plans to tear the system down, it is revealed Sibyl in fact wants Makishima to join its HiveMind, which he lethally rejects by murdering their emissary, declaring that his loyalty is to his own individuality and he will keep playing his games by his own will. Even after all his forces are beaten, Makishima sets out on a lone wolf attack, nearly bringing all of Japan to its knees by destroying the centralized food plant. Cultured, charming, manipulative and ruthless beyond measure, Makishima will stop at nothing to impose his vision of freedom upon Japan and revel in the resulting chaos.
106	*** [[AffablyEvil Choe Gu-sung]] is a Korean war survivor and Shogo Makishima's best friend and intellectual equal. Acting as [[TheDragon liaison]] between Makishima and their clients, Choe provides them the resources to commit crime in the Sibyl System's "perfect" Japan as part of the revolution the duo seek. Also a genius programmer, Choe uses his abilities to distract the entire nation's security forces while he and Makishima deduce the location of and assault the building housing Sibyl's mainframe. [[TheCracker Hacking through all its defenses]] and using his words to distract the Enforcer tailing him, Choe comes moments to exposing the undetectable criminal brains used to run Sibyl to the world and his death motivates Makishima to carry on their goal.
107	** Season 2: [[WellIntentionedExtremist Kirito Kamui]] was surgically made into a [[MixAndMatchMan collective being]] as a child after he alone survived a plane crash indirectly caused by a precursor to the Sibyl System and now seeks its betterment for humanity. A master psychotherapist, Kamui gets his followers' crime coefficients below judgeable levels, making them all the more threatening. Engineering a series of daring attacks, Kamui surmises the physical location of the Sibyl System and forces it to remove a number of corrupted brains from itself so that it can judge his collective mind, dying satisfied with the impact he made.
108	* MemeticMolester: Tougane. [[spoiler:His way of wanting to "darken" Akane's hue is creepy even without his StalkerShrine, and his manhandling of Mika can be borderline rape]]. Fanarts presented him being overly dark and creepy and a bonifide stalker.
109	* MemeticMutation: See [[Memes/PsychoPass here]].
110	* MisaimedFandom: After Episode 11, {{Ma\|gnificentBastard}}kishima has picked up [[DracoInLeatherPants a nice pair of leather pants]] with parts of the fandom. [[{{Bishonen}} Is anyone surprised?]]
111	* {{Misblamed}}: Tow Ubukata got a lot of flak from fans for the mediocrity of Season 2. An [[http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/interview/2015-05-20/tow-ubukata/.87808 ANN interview]] revealed that he just "filled in the blanks" after he was told of the plot of the movie. While some had forgiven him for this since it can be a case of ExecutiveMeddling, others find it an excuse to justify the staleness of Season 2 and that he should have done better. Of course, there are other factors why Season 2 didn't live up much to the first one.
112	* {{Moe}}: Regardless what the staff says about "banning moe", there are some characters who several fans want to protect in an anime where AnyoneCanDie:
113	** Hinakawa in Season 2. He's {{Adorkable}}, shy and stutters a lot. Most fans are praying that he doesn't die. And at the end of Season 2, [[spoiler:he survives!]]
114	** Kagari who was detected as a latent criminal at the ''age of 6'' but is a ManChild. [[spoiler:Sadly, he dies in Episode 16 of Season 1 and several of his fans are still mourning for him.]]
115	** Akane. Yes, even her due to her character design which basically screams "Moe!" and having an adorable jellyfish hologram and moeblob avatar of her. Even though she [[TookALevelInBadass matures]] as the series progresses, she still keeps a lot of cute aspects.
116	* MoralEventHorizon:
117	** An in-universe example in Season 2. Akane promptly decides Kitazawa is beyond redemption when he detonates a bomb that kills a lot of people... and this was ''after'' she had already gone out of her way to bring him in alive and give him a second chance. Even her patience has limits.
118	** As revealed in Episode 9, [[spoiler:Tougane already crossed the line after he killed a puppy as part of his mother's experiment back when he was a kid. And then he kills Akane's grandmother offscreen just to darken her hue.]]
119	** [[StarterVillain Kobuo Okura]] may elicit sympathy at first due to his being a normal {{Salaryman}} mistreated by society for getting a bad Psycho-Pass one time, but he loses all sympathy points when he rapes his hostage.
120	* {{Narm}}:
121	** The [[LudicrousGibs gibs-explodey death of the criminal in the first episode]] was a bit... gratuitous. Since this appears to be a standard function of the Dominators, [[OverlyLongGag this happens many more times]].
122	** Shinya getting worked up in the second episode and Akane's reaction. It was a dramatic scene, but the {{Melodrama}} and Akane's OffModel face made it... less dramatic. This is without even mentioning [[https://38.media.tumblr.com/1bd066f7864a1e75b148a14989805fed/tumblr_miyribKs9U1ql5ljco1_500.jpg Kogami's happy face]].
123	** Episode 17 has Kogami waking to drink some coffee quietly and... [[http://media.tumblr.com/9ffefbfdb9254c37402f383f370791e6/tumblr_inline_mi8nxepgK01qz4rgp.gif Holy crap!]]
124	** Episode 18 [[http://1-media-cdn.foolz.us/ffuuka/board/a/image/1361/49/1361492596467.gif has the funniest looking facial expressions ever]].
125	** Episode 19: HYPER OATS.
126	** Episode 20: Be careful, Kogami, [[http://static.metanorn.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Psycho-Pass-0141.jpg Makishima is stealing your happiness]].
127	** The ending animation theme of Episode 14 (Episode 7 in the ''New Edit''), which first featured EGOIST's "All Alone With You", shows all the main cast ''naked'' from the torso up. It doesn't help that the effects used in the animation made it more cringe-worthy. Fortunately, it was changed in the following episodes.
128	** Season 2's 9th episode was almost non-stop Nightmare Fuel. Sort of. Unfortunately, the Dominators being used so many times per episode is diminishing their impact, and some find [[spoiler: Tougane's puppy killing]] scene to be so evil it's almost cartoonish. He also refuses to stop smirking evilly every 5 seconds he's on screen.
129	** Season 3 has the heroes investigate a cult where the lowest-ranking members are referred to as "[[{{Uke}} Bottoms]]", and the term comes up in dialogue repeatedly.
130	* OneTruePairing: Though there's no romance, the majority of the fandom supports Shinya/Akane, considering that there's a lot of ShipTease in both seasons and the movie. The second season ramps it up where Akane imagines talking to Shinya while discussing the Kamui case and doing second-hand smoking with the same brand of cigarettes that Shinya smoked.
131	* OnlyTheCreatorDoesItRight:
132	** Those who really disliked Season 2 feel that Ubukuta doesn't live up to what Urobuchi established in Season 1, particularly how several elements were used such as the characters (old and new) and the Sibyl System's portrayal and how the first half devoted much on the shock and gore. And at the end of the season, it feels like [[TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot there wasn't much impact on the characters (except for Mika) and the setting itself]]. Because of this, a lot of viewers have expressed their excitement and approval towards the movie which is almost entirely unaffected by Season 2's story and is written by Urobuchi & Makoto Fukami, the same duo behind the first season.
133	** Even though Urobuchi didn't return to write for the ''Sinners of the System'' movie trilogy and Season 3, many fans also consider Makoto Fukami, the co-writer of Season 1, the 2015 movie and the movie trilogy, as the true successor to what Urobuchi established. When it was announced that Ubukuta was in charge of the series composition for Season 3 while Fukami would be one of the scriptwriters, some are cautiously optimistic that the latter would fix the flaws that Season 2 made.
134	* ParanoiaFuel:
135	** The whole notion of "quantifying" mentalities and arresting potential criminals (and occasionally executing them) before they've even committed a crime. (Yes, [[Film/MinorityReport it's been done before]], but that doesn't make it much less scary of a concept). And to make matters worse, even an innocent victim can have their Psycho-Pass hue clouded and their Crime Coefficient raised simply by the emotional stress of being victimized, to the point that they themselves can end up targeted for law enforcement action. Nor are Inspectors safe, since the better they understand the criminal mind, the more it affects their own Crime Coefficient, and at least three Inspectors have been demoted to Enforcer by getting so caught up in a case that their Crime Coefficients skyrocketed.
136	** In the second season, [[spoiler: Kamui's disguises means he could be anyone and anywhere.]]
137	** Also from the second season, we have several people across the city playing a harmless mobile game, unaware that [[spoiler:they're controlling homicidal drones and gunning down innocent civilians and Enforcers]]. The very next episode ends with their mobile devices being hacked and showing the damage they caused. Imagine texting or playing a game on your phone and then suddenly, ''[[spoiler:dead bodies everywhere.]]''
138	* RescuedFromTheScrappyHeap:
139	** Many fans who started out the show hating [[WideEyedIdealist Akane]] grew to like her as she [[TookALevelInBadass took several levels in badass]] and gained a more mature, if still positive, worldview.
140	** Some people didn't like Ginoza in Season 1 [[{{Jerkass}} due to his behavior towards the Enforcers]] and for being a typical ByTheBookCop. But everyone felt sorry for him when [[spoiler:his father died in front of him, and he ended up being demoted to an Enforcer]]. Come Season 2, he TookALevelInBadass ''and'' [[TookALevelInKindness Kindness]], and was much more likable.
141	** Mika who was hated for her incompetence and jerkassery finally went through much needed CharacterDevelopment in ''Sinners of the System.'' Not only does she put her detective skills to good use, but she is also much kinder to the members of her team, particularly Ginoza. She is also much more courageous and was willing to take on latent criminals head-on even as she was TrappedBehindEnemyLines completely outnumbered. This extends into Season 3, where she is now [[DaChief the chief of Division 1]] and has grown into a [[ReasonableAuthorityFigure tough but fair boss]]. Some viewers have even noted that her rougher personality fits much better for a desk job authority figure than as an agent in the field.
142	* RootingForTheEmpire: Some fans have decided that Makishima is justified in trying to bring down the Sibyl System. [[spoiler:Considering the Sibyl System is one of the most corrupt things in fiction... [[VillainHasAPoint He's kind of right]].]]
143	* TheScrappy: Mika in Season 2, due to her rudeness to Akane and Ginoza, overall lack of competence and unshakable belief in Sibyl.
144	* ShockingMoments:
145	** Episode 11 has a lot of this, but everything from Episode 14 to Episode 16 is made of this. Episode 17 has a moment like this as well.
146	** Basically every time the [[ImpossiblyCoolWeapon Dominators]] are involved, [[{{Gorn}} especially]] [[LudicrousGibs the]] [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill lethal]] [[OverdrawnAtTheBloodBank setting]].
147	** The ending of Episode 5 in Season 2, [[TotalPartyKill and the aftermath that ensues in Episode 6]].
148	* SpiritualLicensee: This is about the closest thing there is to an anime adaptation of ''Film/MinorityReport'' and ''Comicbook/JudgeDredd''.
149	* SophomoreSlump: Season 2 is derided for being mediocre and rushed with a boring storyline which is a rehash from Season 1 storyline and new characters which the viewers don't care much. Season 3 managed to fix some of the damages such as new characters that made the viewers care, reworking Mika's personality and an interesting storyline.
150	* {{Squick}}:
151	** Rikako is seen sleeping naked with another naked girl in her bed. Then, it turns out that the girl in question is already dead.
152	** Kougami was reading a case file to Akane about a politician who was murdered with his hippocampus cut out and shoved into his anus!
153	* TakeThatScrappy:
154	** In Episode 5 of Season 2, Kasei looks annoyed when Mika reprimanded Akane's actions as if it were a bad thing. When Mika leaves the office, Kasei states that she "will get eaten alive". And a majority of the fans agreed with her.
155	** Then in Episode 6, Jyoji Saiga has to tell her to stop whining and just do her job as an Inspector when a Psycho-Hazard breaks out.
156	* TheyChangedItNowItSucks: The Sibyl System's portrayal in Season 2. In Season 1, it was morally ambiguous WellIntentionedExtremist system, with its main intentions being creating a peaceful, ordered and safe society with some faults in the form of UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans attitude. [[TheExtremistWasRight It worked, being effective against most criminals]] and keeping most citizens safe, to the point that even Akane had to admit that. However in Season 2, it's portrayed as a downright evil BigBad, with numerous KickTheDog moments, years-old conspiracies to stay in power and butchering its own workforce for no apparent reason.
157	** It's later indicated that at least some of its erratic behavior is because Kamui's existence is such an aberration that it is causing the System to suffer a kind of HeroicBSOD because of the gaping flaws he exposes in Sibyl, and it has gone into a state of deep denial causing it to act in an irrational manner.
158	** Following after the above, one major criticism of Season 3 is that the Sibyl System is essentially [[DemotedToExtra background fodder]] for the whole season, which is the very core identity of the franchise. Some viewers have derided the third season for being ''Psycho-Pass'' InNameOnly and that there isn't too much that separates the final product from most other generic [[PoliceProcedural Police Procedurals]]. While Sibyl was also sidelined for Case 2 & 3 of ''Sinners of the System'', they were side stories; it's a different matter entirely to do it for an entire season.
159	* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter:
160	** Yayoi does not undergo any important event or do anything of importance for the ''entire series'', and some were bothered by how she appeared to be there just for the [[HoYay Les Yay]]. It's telling that, if she had never existed, the plot wouldn't have changed in the slightest. She was the only Enforcer to get a full-fledged [[ADayInTheLimelight flashback episode]] and even ''that'' didn't tell us much about her that we didn't already know; her connection to Rina became an AbortedArc when Season 2 came and probably won't be revisited. What's worse is that she only had one line in the movie! Fortunately, the first ''Sinners of the System'' movie and Season 3 gave her a huge role.
161	** Choe Guseong. Although he was important plot-wise, he never got any CharacterDevelopment or had his motives explained, especially disappointing because Korean characters are so uncommon in anime. In the context of this show this was doubly disappointing because he was the only foreign character, full stop: It would have been interesting if he had provided some context on how other countries view Japan's Sibyl System.
162	*** His character gets developed in the novel but it was censored due to what happens to [[UsefulNotes/NorthKorea his country]] is close to what happened in real life.
163	** Shusei Kagari only gets the focus in about two scenes, neither of which are followed up on: In the first he reveals that he was declared a latent criminal at age five and subsequently hates both SIBYL and Akane for saying that making choices was a problem, in the second he's offered the chance to join the villains and destroy SIBYL. The first doesn't actually affect how he and Akane get along and the second just results in Kagari giving a speech refusing the villain before [[spoiler:he's killed off]]. He could have offered perspective on those who grow up marginalised by the Sibyl System, but that's never explored and he never really provides any insight into investigations. The ''New Edit'' gives him an additional scene where he muses on what life was like for him when he was living in a containment cell for years [[spoiler:right before he's killed off.]]
164	** This is how many felt about Ginoza [[spoiler:who's now an Enforcer]] in Season 2. The second season doesn't utilize much of him, particularly his contribution to Akane's case on Kamui, his feelings and viewpoints [[spoiler:on being an Enforcer]] or how he copes [[spoiler:with Aoyonagi's death]]. Since he's a major character in Season 1, viewers were very disappointed that he had [[DemotedToExtra less screentime]] in Season 2. While he is given the spotlight in the first ''Siners of the System'', he goes back into being DemotedToExtra [[spoiler:due to being transferred to the Minister of Foreign Affairs between the movie trilogy and Season 3 with no explanation.]]
165	** Not quite the same, but a similar case applies to [[TheScrappy Mika]]. Her background was that she moved on from the trauma of losing a friend and became an inspector. She was handed over to Akane's care and introduced the same way as Akane from Season 1. These backgrounds sets up some high expectations for the character which, in the eyes of most, she never fulfilled.
166	** There is a faction who go the other way and feel what they tried doing with Mika (making a {{foil}} for Akane who would break upon learning the truth rather than choose to stand against it) was an interesting idea, but just not handled well, partially because Akane never really reacts to all the shit that Mika sends her way, so we never see them properly interact on that level.
167	** Risa Aoyanagi was an ActionGirl who was cynical when it came to her job but was also [[SugarAndIcePersonality sensitive and caring to those she cared for]]. She has great chemistry with Ginoza, she seemed as though she'd be more fleshed out and become a major character in Season 2, and she proves in Episode 4 that, despite being [[spoiler:nearly naked, handcuffed, and ''thrown into a light fixture'']], [[DamselOutOfDistress she still holds her own]]. [[spoiler: Then she's brutally killed, by her own Enforcer, no less, and she's only mentioned a few times afterwards.]] Fortunately, the ''Sinners of the System - First Guardian'' movie managed to make up for her appearance where she's in a good working relationship with Masaoka and Sugo.
168	* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot:
169	** It would've been great to see a romance subplot between Ginoza and Aoyanagi in Season 2, as it was hinted that they could start dating at some point, but the subplot is thrown out the door once [[spoiler:Aoyanagi is killed.]]
170	** None of Season 2's events has any effect on the movie [[spoiler:particularly with the system being capable of judging a collective]] which has nothing to do with how they segregate and screen the normal civilians from the latent criminals in Shamballa and [[spoiler:how they send Akane to [=SEAUn=] so they can make an excuse to have the latent criminals in the military police terminated ''which they already knew at the start'']]. With the exception of Mika being a YesMan to the system and being antagonistic to Akane along with the introduction of Hinakawa and Teppei, many people treated Season 2 as non-canon.
171	* TooCoolToLive:
172	** [[spoiler:Kagari. Many viewers [[HesJustHiding refused to believe that he kicked the bucket]] until the next episode confirmed his death.]]
173	** [[spoiler:Masaoka.]]
174	** [[spoiler:Division 2 Inspector Risa Aoyanagi, who was on good terms with Ginoza despite his demotion and not much of a ByTheBookCop.]]
175	* ToughActToFollow:
176	** Tow Ubukata takes the reins from Urobuchi in writing Season 2, but the second season didn't live up the first , especially in how the old characters were used. It doesn't help that it's revealed that Ubukata was asked to "fill in the blanks" because of the movie, so either you believe this is a case of ExecutiveMeddling or just an excuse for not doing a good job.
177	** Season 2's BigBad, Kirito Kamui, is widely considered boring: Unlike Shogo Makishima, whose [[BadassBookworm very]] [[TheSociopath interesting]] [[{{Ubermensch}} characterization]] made him a borderline DracoInLeatherPants, Kamui's in-universe reputation seems unearned. When his DarkAndTroubledPast is finally revealed, it's considered ridiculous and convoluted due to a combination of MST3KMantra and ArtisticLicenseMedicine. In fact, many anime fans remembered Makishima as one of the greatest antagonists made by Urobuchi while Kamui is quickly forgotten afterwards.
178	** Season 3's BigBad, Bifrost, is even worse: nobody, not even the viewers, knew what their endgame is until ''First Inspector'' [[spoiler:where they're using the debugging system to get around the Sibyl system just to leech off money]]. The two "Congressmen", Shirogane and Kyoko, don't have much depth making the viewers care less about them even after their defeats while Homura [[spoiler:turns out to be working for the Sibyl System so he destroy Bifrost from within]]. Though one of the members, Azusawa, is portrayed as a compelling villain since he rarely underestimates the PSB in Season 3 and outsmarts everybody, except the Sibyl System, in ''First Inspector'', his real motive is [[spoiler:to join the system due to his god complex until the system deems him unworthy, causing him to go under a VillainousBreakdown.]]
179	* UnintentionalUncannyValley:
180	** Senguji externally looks like a human, but he's almost completely a cyborg. This is most evident during his interview in Episode 9, where his eyes are completely unblinking and hollow and his smile looks unnaturally stuck on his face.
181	** The CEO at the drone factory also qualifies under this trope. He's drawn in an unusually realistic style compared to most other characters in the series, which becomes pretty jarring in a few unflattering close-ups of his mug showing his mouth to move with the same mouth-flap style typically seen when it comes to anime characters. His [[StepfordSmiler cheerful disposition doesn't make him any less creepy either]].
182	* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic: Considering that her best friend was murdered in Season 1, a lot of people expect that this would be Mika's motivation as an Inspector... except that she comes off as KnowNothingKnowItAll complainer who's jealous of Akane and tries to get her fired. [[spoiler:When that backfired, she was confronted by the Sibyl System who used her information to get Togane kill Akane's grandmother]]. Though her situation in the last episodes is considered to be AlasPoorScrappy, the movie erased all that sympathy and made her more obnoxious to point of keeping Akane in the dark regarding the Sibyl System's true plans and calling her dense for not figuring it out. And due to having less screentime, she seemed to move on [[spoiler:with getting Akane's grandmother killed]] after [[NeverMyFault she denies that none of it is her fault]].
183	* ViewerPronunciationConfusion: English-speaking viewers are more likely to pronounce Nobuchika Ginoza's last name with a "g" as in "general", but the proper Japanese pronunciation is like the "g" in "girl".
184	* SugarWiki/VisualEffectsOfAwesome: With special mention to the Commu-Fields in Episode 4 of Season 1.
185	* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotPolitical: Season 3 does go out of its way to explore the issue of immigration and racism, with one of it's main characters (Kei) being an immigrant himself. This becomes especially apparent within the last few episodes, where the issue becomes a standpoint with the Heaven's Leap follower bombing immigrant hotspots and Kei's actions in the first few episodes being twisted to the point that he had to be let go from Karina's bodyguard personnel. It's hard to overlook that this may have been intentional on the writers' part, especially with this sociopolitical climate of the recent decade or so.

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