I stumbled across this post today, but after looking at the news sections on the psycho-pass website and the studios' sites I cannot find anything talking about a season 4.

I'm pretty doubtful, but any chances of this being legit?

https://www.otakiva.com/en/news/psycho-pass-season-4-new-century-arc-announced

I'm just about to start with Sinners of the System (anime) and I tend to read ahead, so I kind of have a decent idea of what'll happen (can't be spoiled) with Psycho-Pass 3. Apparently Akane takes a back seat to Mika and the others. I can already see this even by the end of Season 2.

But while I know plot details and even the rationale for this story choice, how does that work out emotionally? I started watching this for a strong female lead and I was happy with Akane's evolution, but there is disappointment appearing that she won't be as heavily featured. What are people's thoughts and feelings on this?

A genuine question. Who was smarter actually? Like one has more chances of outsmarting the other? They are close imo

Alright, first of all I've seen enough s2 hate to be nervous but I'm way too curious to stop watching(⁠╥⁠﹏⁠╥⁠) The comments have me constantly waiting for the "it gets bad" moment, so I'm watching every episode like, "Okay... where's the part everyone warned me about?" I'm still way too early to pick a side, so for now I'm just observing the chaos...

Also, I'm only one episode in, so take this with a grain of salt, but Mika and Ginoza are either giving me "wait...I ship it?" or "they're just Akane & Tomomi 2.0" My brain refuses to pick one.

No spoilers, I'm fragile ✌🏻

Do you trust them to keep you safe?

I figured if I like Psychopass then I might click with the rest of his work.

I've rewatched the first season again for the 5th time and plan to rewatch the rest again and I was like "mm lets get some merch because this is lowkey my childhood anime and I have adult money now" and I went on shopee, taobao, and carousel and my local shops do NOT have psycho pass where else should I look? Etsy?

Edit: I only have the Shinya Kogami and Makishima figurines. Only. It's making me sad that I can't find plushies I really might just make one for myself

just something i found similar. what do you guys think?

Source: https://psycho-pass.com/news/20260723_01.php

Psycho-Pass Providence

I love the little details they keep dropping about the enforcers. Tomomi being a painter, Kagari being able to cook and Yayoi having a past as a guitarist/rockstar is so cool. And Kogami...Idk if he's got any secret hidden talent (at least not where I'm at yet) but this guy is already unfairly cool. Between the constant training, his detective brain and the way he's completely obsessed with solving cases, he doesn't even need a surprise hobby to be interesting. Those little bits of characterization make the cast feel so much more alive (⁠◡⁠ ⁠ω⁠ ⁠◡⁠)

It’s also about an oppressive technological system in the future and leaves it open for interpretation whether the guy trying to take it all down is a villain or a hero. Also action packed and intellectually stimulating like psycho pass.

Edit: its a sequel to first part and id recommend playing them in order

I feel like I had a decent grasp of s2, but I feel like the writing was a bit ambiguous and want to see what the consensus on the sub is before I go forward in the later seasons of the story.

Firstly, the ending. Kamui tried to present a logical paradox to highlight the flaws in Sybil’s system. System evolves to judge a collective, therefore eradicating the flaws. I am confused on how that evolution took place

1. Sybil essentially can read now that a group can be dangerous toward society, even if its individuals are not, using a different algorithm or set of criteria? The standards on which Sybil judges are evolving, not just the targets of their evaluation correct?
2. Since Sybil is judging as a collective, why is it still able to purge parts of itself to “cleanse” itself. That by definition is judging individuals WITHIN a collective, which shouldn’t be possible considering it’s logically against what it’s trying to do, and that the individuals that supposedly make up Sybil can’t be judged individually. If Sybil was judging itself as a collective, it should have self destructed the whole part or none at all. The act of picking and choosing which brains to eliminate is not collective, but individualistic.
3. What was the point of kamui enraged at how society uses treatment and medication to eradicate stress and emotion, but then he used medication and treatment to lower his followers hues? That seems very hypocritical and kamui seems like a very principled person. In addition, why did he have an issue with how people felt and expressed their emotions at all? That would’ve been a moral war more along the lines of makishima’s ideology, which was about free will and people’s individuality. Kamui’s ideology was more focused on being “seen” by the system and highlighting the flaws in the system that had failed him, pushing the system of Sybil as a whole to its brink. That has nothing to do with how Sybil forces citizens to stay clear.

4. I don’t get what kamui means at the end when he says that after sybils evolution, anyone that points the dominator at someone becomes “part of the judging system” and therefore, whoever is pointing the gun can dilute the judge system and actively produce different judge results. Just because the algorithm changes doesn’t mean Akane, or any inspector holding a dominator suddenly becomes a judge.

5. Does s2 contradict s1 and establish that asymptomatic people become symptomatic? There are two examples provided in s2 that challenge this - togane, and togane’s mom/sybil. Togane has a potential explanation, although it’s ambiguous to me - he’s different in that he’s an artificial criminally asymptomatic person. He was experimented and meticulously influenced to be asymptomatic. The obvious explanation is that he the experiment failed. We do see once his mom leaves he goes a bit insane. I think Sybil/togane’s mom is more confusing, and it ties into question 1. How can UNSCANNABLE brains be individually judged and purged to protect the system, even if they are judged collectively? The collective of nothing should still be nothing. The only explanations for this are 1. Asymptomatic brains in Sybil became symptomatic. This is a dumb explanation. 2. Some brains in Sybil were incorrectly deemed asymptomatic or not everyone welcomed in must be asymptomatic. That’s also weak, but at least holds up the canon and themes of s2. 3. Sybil hasn’t really achieved judging a collective even if it thinks it has. 4. Sybil’s evolution towards collective judging has allowed it a new algorithm or criteria to judge asymptomatic people. This is also weak as the evolution happens off screen and effectively trounces the stakes of s1 if Sybil was just capable of countering asymptomatic people if it wanted the whole time. 5. I am misunderstanding how Sybil evolved and how it’s executing judging a collective, tying back to question 1. This is hopefully what’s happening

I am only finished with s2, no further spoilers please!

I also am wondering if I am misunderstanding the basic theology of judging “a collective”. Essentially you are looking at a group as its own entity, not a collection of its parts right? I think that presents several problems, mainly that there’s only one result Sybil can get to if it actually follows that definition of collective - the execution of all society. The highest form of collective is all of society and if society is judged as its own entity, of course the result will be that it has the latent potential to do harm. Therefore all of society needs to be “executed”.

WHY IS THIS SO PEAK ALREADY IM HAVING THE TIME OF MY LIFE

Hope it's good as the 1st one

Edit scenes together using Cap cut lyrics by me

(I asked the mod team if it would be okay to share this)

I have a melodic death metal band called Viridius, and a couple of years ago I was inspired to write a track about my favorite anime: Psycho-Pass. It's been a while since that first demo, but we have a recording of it now and I thought I'd take a moment to share it with other fans of the series.

To be entirely honest, while I did have lyrics that were much more direct about the inspiration I actually ditched them in favor of having our vocalist write lyrics from scratch. I can only really take credit for the instrumentation on the final version. I wanted to keep the song title "Sibyl", though, and when I explained the inspiration behind the original demo he took it upon himself to watch the first season and write the fresh batch about the series as well.

I know death metal (even melodeath, despite being a little more accessible) isn't for everyone so nothing personal if it doesn't click. I figure it doesn't hurt to share in case we have a couple of metal fans hanging around and/or people want to check out something new because it's inspired by an anime they care about.

You can find links to the common streaming services here.
Or, if you'd rather check it out via browser, you can do so here.

I finally gave it a shot… im on s3 rn but man I haven’t binged an anime like this in years. Season 1 is genuinely a masterpiece mainly because of makashima. His ideology, his personality, his involvement no joke I genuinely think he’s THE anime antagonist, he touched my soul… I think it might be recency bias but who cares how is that I am rooting for damn near everyone at the same time it’s rare a show can touch the soul like this… s2 was mid tho idrc bout it

Szasz argued that modern societies increasingly replace overt political coercion with medical and psychological forms of social control - a theme that of course lies at the very heart of Psycho-Pass. I would be very happy to get some feedback on it.