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EP. REVIEW: Psycho-Pass 2

I've just watched the episode, but I entered in this website before only to see some news and the image of the episode in the main page pretty much told me what was going to happen (not exactly, but I was expecting for that moment to happen since I was watching) even though you don't enter in the full review itself. I wanted to point that out because I don't know whether it was a spoiler-screenshot by accident or we should expect that with any review. In my opinion the best would be taking less revealing screenshots so people who didn't watch the episode and review yet still can watch it fresh.

Kamui uses the help of an allied doctor to kidnap important political figures and transplant both their faces and heaps of their organs into his voluntary disciples (who have already been made "clear" through drugs and brainwashing,) and this somehow fools the Sibyl System into thinking they are that person.

Hope, if you really hate a show that much, just drop it. Which one is more ridiculous: a sequel that attempts to surpass its prequel, which is probably one of the best cyberpunk anime series ever; or a news website reviewer writing what is obviously a subjective, biased opinion, and treating the act of bashing an anime like its fun? I choose the latter.

Disclaimer: And yes, this comes from a butthurt fan of the show who is sick of people forcing things they don't like down their own throats. But it's perfectly logical to have such a reaction, am I right?

It's really just a bad splatter flick with no substance.
It's great unintended comedy tho.

spoiler[Just think about it: Kirito probably has a compound penis, no wonder Shisui isn't getting any]

P.S. This season in no way attempts to "surpass" the original anyway. I don't think anyone's claiming that. It looks like it was written under the constrictions of being a "filler season," as in it can't have a significant effect on what happens in the movie because they were being written around the same time.

@Hope, maybe you have more insight into this than I do, but I don't see why the staff or production committee would do a 2nd season with the intention being a "filler season" from the start.
I thought filler seasons usually apply only to super-popular shows (like a shonen show). Psycho-Pass has a decent, but not huge, Japanese viewership so I don't see why they didn't just skip a 2nd season altogether and just put out the movie.

it sounds bizarre that the staff would tell Ubukata to purposely make this season worst than the first.

At this moment it doesn't matter which interpretation is correct - as there are two very different interpretation of basic fact, this means show failed to express its information correctly.

The second season was made on a significantly lower budget by a partner studio, and was aired after a re-run (not a common thing for anime!) of the first season, so that tells me that the second season was made to promote the movie and maintain interest in the property. It's a "filler season" because the movie and second season had to be written and produced fairly simultaneously, and they don't want huge continuity errors or anything.

But I'm positive Ubukata tried to make the very best thing that he could with what he had...he's just not a very good writer. I mean, look at his resume.

Oh, I'm sure they didn't! Nobody says "make this not as good" in a production, ever. He was probably just told he couldn't make something that would heavily change the status quo from the end of season one. Doesn't mean it has to be bad! It just means the story has to sort of resolve itself within itself and not change much overall. But I'm positive Ubukata tried to make the very best thing that he could with what he had...he's just not a very good writer. I mean, look at his resume. Most people saw this coming, we just didn't expect it to be this dumb. But expectations have been managed since early on...I'm genuinely disappointed that he somehow blew a hole in my already lower, but still optimistic outlook.