I mean I enjoyed watching it as the time quite a bit, I never thought it was bad, but my initial reaction was "too edgy" at times. Especially when niggas were quoting enlightenment era philosophers to each other in the middle of a fight scene (I still maintain that was bad writing).
There are a handful of cliches in seinen like false symbolism, "moral ambiguity" that clearly isn't that it managed to avert impressively. The series ended without a real resolution to the ethical opposition between Akane and Kogami, it was interesting that both characters (as well as the villain) served as viable subjects for viewer insertion. And on the symbolism front, we get a lot of mileage out of the dominator/firearm thing, it serves as a clear reification of the overarching theme of personal responsibility while still being interesting (e.g. the parallelism between Kagari being killed and Kogami's use of a conventional firearm later on, mechanically identical but to opposite emotional effect). Compare the series it gets the most comparison to: Deathnote. DN was great but if you watch it a little critically you'll see so much "symbolism" that gets thrown in just because it's cool. The most obvious being the apple/fall motif which hardly even counts, it's single level allusion that doesn't go anywhere. Like in the first episode Light murders people and that concludes the depth of that apple symbol which gets visually highlighted every 20 minutes.
Great work of our era? Probably not, but but a cut above your standard "serious" seinen fair.
2017-05-21 at 8:51 PM UTC
Obbe
Alan What?
[annoy my right-angled speediness]
I've never heard of this. Is it a movie? The names sound oriental.
2017-05-21 at 8:54 PM UTC
An anime series that aired a couple of years ago. There's a second season and movie attached to the franchise but the first season is kinda the only thing people talk about.
2017-06-20 at 6:50 AM UTC
aldra
JIDF Controlled Opposition
is that a flaccid cock in the foreground
2019-05-29 at 11:11 PM UTC
i dont understand what snib snab did here.
ALCOHOL ABUSER
2019-05-29 at 11:42 PM UTC
Dregs
African Astronaut
[that freakishly double-edged allmouth]
Uhh? dietyellow in for the most complex, confusing of ll niggas. Seek n Get help nigga
2019-05-29 at 11:48 PM UTC
I thought it was pretty decent too, but I'm not qualified to take such an intellectual stance on it. I just found it to be an interesting and wonderfully dystopic sci-fi setting.
tl;dr and I wouldn't take your word for anything but yeah Psycho-Pass was okay
Kami-sama no Memochou was a better early 10s cyberpunk series
2019-05-30 at 12:32 AM UTC
anime is autty
what i care about is why is this the thread snib snab's ban is linked to? I guess we have some sort of KANGAROO KOURT here where evidence used to convict someone isn't allowed to be seen by the jury.
2019-05-30 at 5:30 AM UTC
IDK, this thread is over two years old lol, he was probably spamming.
Also I stand by my review, more or less. It remains kinda edgy and obnoxious seinen in some ways but also had actual content and despite the trappings of a your typical anime psuedo-morality play it was actually a cohesive examination of an imaginable society in the spirit of 20th century seriously introspective dystopian fiction.
