History Headscratchers / PsychoPass

****** I'm pretty sure she ''sn't'' fine with it. However, unlike the two enforcers, Ginoza is entirely beyond her control - in fact their huge difference in experience at the time made him her de facto superior. She only started demanding that he treat her as an equal and criticizing his conduct in episode 9; in episodes 1 and 2 all she could do was try to justify her own.

** It allows them to identify criminals and potential criminals without letting them commit a crime. It also allows them to take action against them without needing a warrant. Also since they use dominators they can restrain or kill criminals based on how badly they have deteriorated psychologically. While it does deconstruct aspects of the system, its shown that the world has become peaceful and less stressful for everyday people.

* What advantages has the Sibyl System given the main characters that this universe's law system wouldn't have given them? It seems like the system is only in the story to be a hinderance. If you're going to put a radically different law system into a story, shouldn't you try to give the audience an example of how it would be BETTER to have the new system BEFORE deconstructing it?

*** I never said it was flawless, just that the Enforcers' status as latent criminals has yet to show any sign of inconvenience for them. Yeah, Kagari said that he was diagnosed as a kid, but we have no indication that this made his life more difficult in any way. And besides Kogami's standard "cop who gets obsessed with certain cases" cliche, none of them really seem to do anything that would imply that the title of latent criminal fits them at all because none of them get any character development

* How the Dominators kill off latent criminals. Why put so much power in weapons to the point where the target gets reduced to [[LudicrousGibs Ludicrous Gibs]]?

**** After having rewatched the full episode I see that I was mistaken when I wrote my first response: when she points the Dominator at Masaoka earlier it says "Execution at the discretion" under the coefficient and "Paralyser" in the upper right-hand corner, implying that the word "execution" is used here in the meaning of "carrying out, enforcement", not "capital punishment". Apparently the victim did become a target for elimination only when Kōgami's dominator indicated the change in her status, not before that. Having said that, I'm not sure I understand what point you are looking for in the original question. If it's about the character's motivation and in-universe justification, then Akane never intended for the woman to get paralysed and the fact that Ginoza ends up doing it anyway is completely unrelated to what she had been trying to do (namely, to get the victim to calm down without assaulting her with the Dominator). If it's about the story-telling purpose of her actions, then the end result ''wasn't'' the same. If she hadn't prevented Masaoka from paralysing the victim when he had the chance we wouldn't get to see the conflict between the idealistic newcomer who wants to protect the innocent, regardless of whether or not the Sybil System sees them as such, and the jaded veterans who have already deferred most of their judgement to the System.

**** After having rewatched the full episode I see that I was mistaken when I wrote my first response: when she points the Dominator at Masaoka earlier it says "Execution at the discretion" under the coefficient and "Paralyser" in the upper right-hand corner, implying that the word "execution" is used here in the meaning of "carrying out, enforcement", not "capital punishment". Apparently the victim did become a target for elimination only when Kōgami's dominator indicated the change in her status, not before that. Having said that, I'm not sure I understand what point you are looking for in the original question. If it's about the character's motivation and in-universe justification, then Akane never intended for the woman to get paralysed and the fact that Ginoza ends up doing it anyway is completely unrelated to what she had been trying to do. If it's about the story-telling purpose,

*** Its subtle, but its still there. The whole first episode has the bad guy ranting about it, as well as the incident with his victim. Then we have Kagari saying he was diagnosed when he was a kid. We also have the example of Makishima being a prime example of why the system is flawed. We don't really get someone explicitly saying the system is flawed till episode 13. It may have simply been subtly building up till the second half of the series, but if you pay attention its clear that the system isn't exactly flawless

*** Then why does Masaoka say that they're going to put her to sleep and take her into custody. He doesn't strike me as the type to lie about something like that, especially since Akane just checked her own Dominator and saw the reading.

* Those HUGE SMILEY FACED security disguises. Wouldn't they be more likely to disturb rather than pacify?

* I'm only on Episode 7 (11 have aired by the time I'm writing this) but something seems to keep going over my head (among a lot of other things). The Enforcers are labeled as "latent criminals", but only Kogami has ever really been known to have done anything that psychotic or harmful, and that was in a flashback. The rest of them just sort of have these labels and it's really hard to tell the difference between them any "normal" characters. Obviously the bad guys are all super crazy, but the Enforcers themselves don't really represent themselves as people with the potential to go nuts like that. Also the fact that none of the Unit One characters besides Kogami and Tsunemori have gotten ANY development. We get a look back at Ginoza's past relationship with Kogami, but that's about it. Am I missing something here?

* In the first episode, Akane prevents Masaoka from paralyzing a rape victim whose Hue has become cloudy. Her reasoning was that she had not done anything, and I figured it was the right choice because it would be far better to bring her in calm than to make the whole thing worse by paralyzing her, especially when it becomes clear later that the effects take a long time to wear off. However, by preventing the victim from being paralyzed, her Psycho Pass only gets cloudier, to the point of lethal levels. Akane calms her down of course, but in the end the poor girl just ends up hit by paralyzer anyway. What was the point of Akane stopping the whole process in the first place if the end result was the same?

** It's possible he just never really bothered with it when he was young. We still don't really know much about his past.

* Masaoka seemed surprised at the idea of Internet communities. But the story is set in the future, and he's not that old -- he would have grown up with Internet being at least as ubiquitous as nowadays. [=CommuFields=] aren't really that different from present community forums in their principle, just in technology used.

** This, furthermore, implies that the whole Sybil System only works in [[CrapsaccharineWorld cities with good relay coverage]], and the countryside where there is no [=WiFi=] is [[CrapsackWorld effectively lawless]]...

** This, furthermore, implies that the whole Sybil System only works in [[CrapsaccharineWorld cities with good relay coverage]], and the countryside where there is no [=WiFi=] is [[CrapsackWorld effectively lawless]]...
*** It's possible the Dominators communicate with the Sibyl System via something like satelites (episode 3 clearly shows a parabola antenna connected by wire to the carrier drone), which makes the lack of relays in episode 1 irrelevant and justifies why the cast needed to use the carrier drone as a "Wi-Fi router" because the building they were in ''blocked all external wireless signals'' by design.

*** It's possible the Dominators communicate with the Sibyl System via something like satelites (episode 3 clearly shows a parabola antenna connected by wire to the carrier drone), which makes the lack of relays in episode 1 irrelevant and justifies why the cast needed to use the carrier drone as a "Wi-Fi router" because the building they were in ''blocked all wireless signals'' by design.

** This, furthermore, implies that the whole Sybil System only works in [[CrapsaccharineWorld cities with good relay coverage]], and the countryside where there is no [=WiFi=] is [[CrapsackWorld effectively lawless]]...

* Relays. It is said that the block the perp ran off to in the first episode has no relays, thus the drones can't function there. However, the Dominators function just fine despite them being separated pretty far from their carrier drone. This collides with episode 3, where it is shown that they can't use both drone (specifically, the Dominator carrier ones) and Dominator because they have no network coverage (indirectly, relays) there. This implies that the whole Sybil System only works in [[CrapsaccharineWorld cities with good relay coverage]], and the countryside where there is no [=WiFi=] is [[CrapsackWorld effectively lawless]]...