EPISODES 1-2
I'm not a fan of these two episodes. Let me be clear that I really DON'T like these two episodes.
This season kicks off right where S1 left off, or at least that's what it felt like but apparently, there has so far been only worse animation, shittier characters, a more boring plot, and a much, MUCH worse villain. Let's start off with the animation being worse, it looks less poppy and bright, almost toned down. The futuristic setting paired really well with the look of the characters, but here it looks weird since it's toned down so much, and the problem doesn't lie with the resolution. I have watched both seasons with 1080p, however, the new one looks just "worse" for some reason. This is most likely due to the switch in studios, but I'm not sure about this as of now. I will elaborate more on this in later episode reviews.
The new characters are also really bad and poorly written, they have no characterization like f.ex a backstory, any weird quirks, and motives. They more or less feel like cardboard cutouts and this makes me feel NO reason to care about these people. With these new characters, we have gotten none of that. What I'm trying to say is that there is no flesh to the bone with the characters. What made the characters in the first season so interesting was that most of them used to have a motive, but over time lost it, like f.ex Kogami became jaded and lost his purpose for being a detective since he's college buddy got slaughtered. Masaoka had similarly to Tsunemori, the instinct of justice but lost it when he realized that he didn't have control over who was or wasn't a criminal. Ginoza became stressed out after an incident that happened and has been frustrated ever since then. The only one who still had a purpose was Yayoi, who wanted to be an enforcer because her girlfriend had become a latent criminal, but that was still revealed later.
And then entered Tsunemori, who started to question the system after watching an innocent civilian gets killed by the dominator. This was the inciting incident of the show where her colleges realize that she might have a point and that there might be some deep mystery that they're all unaware of. This new season doesn't even have a fucking inciting incident, it just rolls after episode 1. In S1, you really understood that these are detectives who catch and kill criminals, where it's a world full of morals and ethics, so it made perfect sense that the main theme of the show would be laws, and the morals behind them. And I get that the point of this season is to show how Akane has adapted to the system after she realized the truth, but it's only disappointed me.
With the plot, it's even worse. There are no new questions that have been raised like f.ex Is the Sibyl System moral and who counts as a criminal? These questions got risen up in the very first episode of S1. But here, no new questions have appeared. Also, the new missions lack the excitement that the first season delivered. Since none of the new characters question the system, the stakes are incredibly low and the criminals are just crazy lunatics compared to in S1, where the criminals were more or fewer puppeteers by Makashima. And yes, the criminals here also seem to be that as well, but he feels like he controls them extremely poorly. Like f.ex he just lets his buddy die without any reason. Whereas in S1, Makashima disposed of his pawns for a REASON.
And lastly, I know it's hard to make a villain that's as good as Makashima, but then don't make a lesse version of the former! The new villain looks extremely vanilla and is most likely lacking characterization, what a coincidence that his name is Kirito as well.
Like Makashima, He's behind all of the new crimes, but the biggest mistake is that he's revealed in the first episode! In S1, Makashima was revealed to be behind all of the crimes first in episode 9, but this guy is shown instantly without any buildup or characterization. Like the other new characters, we don't know any of his motives, all that we get shown is that he sprays "WC" to the locations where he slaughtered his victims and to those that he's a warning.
The only thing that I can make small praise for in this season is the development of Akane, since learning about the Sibyl System has become much more assertive and completely stopped being a pushover. But then, this was already shown in the last 3 episodes of the original season, so it doesn't matter too much.
These were the main four issues that I've had with PP-2, but I had some enormous pet peeves as well. Like f.ex Akane is now a smoker, which bugs me a lot. I can see why since her job is stressful, but it feels a bit out of place. I see Akane as a pure character, sure she has issues but I don't see her as someone who would smoke, but remember these are more nitpicks rather than major issues. Kogami has basically disappeared from the face of the earth without any explanation as to why and at first it felt like this came right after S1, but there has been a 1-year time skip.
Overall, I'm not impressed and I sincerely hope that things will become better later on so that my suffering for these earlier episodes has been worth it.
EPISODES 3-5
You know what? These latest three episodes haven't been as bad as the first two. But that doesn't mean that they're great episodes, they just include moments that are entertaining, most of which are things that also happened in the last season, but I digress.
The only good thing where the hostage situation in episode 4 and especially when Division 3 took over and shot all of them, which still looks so cool.
One thing that I thought was neat was when Kirito had made a game where when they did something in the game, someone in real life would die, that was cool.
There's at least finally some narrative going on now. Apparently, there's a guy in the MWPSB who is hunting down Akane and one of the new inspectors called Mika is slowly finding out this secret. His name is Togane and it was shown that he had a high criminal coefficient, which makes it believable, This is actually quite an interesting dynamic, that there is a villain to hunt down but Togane distracts Akane just because he is evil and wants to see her psycho-pass get a black hue. I'm at least glad that there is someone there to save her, hope she does it well though.
Kiritos victim has this Stockholm syndrome thing going on, that came from absolutely nowhere without any reason.
Overall, the rest has just been so boring, I can't even come up with any words to describe how boring this season is and man does it truly suck, I felt like I have said everything in my analysis of the first two episodes, so that's why there's so much empty space here.
EPISODES 6-8
You know what? I was wrong about something. There are a couple of good things about this season. The main thing being the two missions that the detectives have had to do, but what this show lacks is that it feels like it won't matter too much in the long run. In S1, everything felt like it leads up to something and it did! We'll see, if the ending sucks then this show will be a 3 or a 4 (depending on what we'll see) but if it gets better then this then it might even be a 6!
I just realized that Mika is the same girl who got her friend killed in S1, that was really cool! But, the show did not a good job of making me remember that.
One thing I can also appreciate is the fleshing out of two minor characters in the first show. The psychologist and the philosopher. I think that these two have gotten more of an important role and explanation to their characters and that's rewarding since I really liked these two characters (especially the philosopher) and wanted to see more of them.
The villain in the show also doesn't suck as much as I thought he did. The problem was just the way they introduced him. And he still feels like a lesser version of Shogo. What made Shogo so interesting is how mysterious he was, at first it felt like there where just random crimes happening, but there was one mastermind behind all of them and that didn't get revealed until episode 9, but still feels familiar since we saw him in a flash-forward in the first episode.
However, in this season they introduced Kirio instantly and then they showed the crimes he committed, I think that this makes the crimes less suspenseful as well as making the villain feel more boring. And much like Shogo, he felt isolated from society since he wasn't recognized as a member of the sibyl system.
We still don't know his main motive, but we do know that he is the sole survivor of a plane crash. And since then, he has been messed around with the victims to make him a blend of 100 brains and personalites, which I found to be quite creepy, I do wonder now who's behind this? So, props to this show for making me feel engaged again!
There is one problem with this season that I haven't yet addressed and that's the lack of development in the plot and the old characters. Here's the thing, even though Akane is a badass here, she was a badass in the last 3 episodes of S1, even though Ginoza is much calmer and collected, this was shown in the last episode, even though they're new characters, this was shown in the last episode of S1.
It just feels like a lot of the potential excitement that this show could've brought was already brought in the last 3 episodes of the original season.
Okay..
So, I finished episode 8 and this is actually getting really interesting. Joshu Kasei is Toganes mom and Togane was more or less a test subject from the AA, which is the project where they morphed Kirito and all of the victims into one single body. Mika has now found this secret and has realized that both Kogame and Kirito are similar as they're both villains. Since founding out about all of this, she is now going to be told the secret of the sibyl system.
This was interesting since it exposed a lot of the corruptness that exists within the police department.
EPISODES 9-11
I just finished watching PP2 and I'm right now on a tight rope. On the one hand, this season continued off smoothly and presented a new villain with his own interesting and unique motive, as well as how he tries to abolish the sibyl system whilst using pawns in order to kill both innocent civilians and rich corporation lunatics, which was in some ways, even more, entertaining compared to S1. However, on the other hand, this season feels like a copycat of the first one, whilst at the same time ignoring many of the things that made it so great. And even those things that are enjoyable about the season are things that already existed in the last one, making this one feel non-canon and useless.
One huge reason why I was so displeased with this season was the introduction of all of the new characters, an example of a character that was not only unnecessary to the story but also obnoxious was by the name of Mika. At best, a boring and unnecessary and at worst, a whiny and useless inspector who held an unnecessary and unexplained grudge against Akane. Then, we see her character trying to stop Tsugune from clouding Akane's psycho Pass, only to fail at that and get her own one clouded. Even when she confronted the villain, her mind got broken and she couldn't come up with a response, hence the really weird clapping scene at the beginning of Episode 9.
And that's my biggest complaint with this season, many things that are presented feel weird and out of place. I.e in the ending, where Kirito and Tsugune get shot and get killed almost at the same time, which was for me incredibly anti-climatic because of the show. Another strange thing was the chief, who seems to any many different forms for some unexplained reason. Another really weird thing happening was when Akane's grandmother, who died because Togane wanted to see Akane's psycho-pass get clouded. Nothing is inherently plotwise bad about that, it's just that it doesn't make sense that at the end, Akane's psycho-pass didn't get clouded at all after everything that happened.
Speaking of Kirito and Tsugene, most of the time, they felt like copycats of Shogo and Tsugene whilst not having as interesting characterization (backstory, quirks, development, etc). Even though they had a unique intention, their personalities were way too similar to the previous characters in the show. Kamui was much weaker and fragile compared to Shogo, f.ex, in the end, he could've saved them. But instead, he tried to
The very worst thing about this show is the first 3 episodes, my god are they all TERRIBLE! We are immediately rushed into a situation where they are trying to arrest a criminal who's bombing different locations for Kamui. But we get absolutely no information about what's happening, why there even arresting him and why we should care. We just seem to have to figure that out ourselves. Which in some cases might be understandable and even necessary, but doing that in the FIRST episode of a NEW season just feels useless and out of place.
To conclude, this season hasn't been at all as good as the first one. Episode 1-3 were awful, 4 to 6 where decent and 7 to 11 had good things about it. My biggest complaints can be summed up as such: Things were too similar to the first season without being as good as the second one or barely breaking any new mold such as f.ex presenting any moral ideas and the second issue is that there are too many things that either don't make sense, are illogical, are unexplained, etc. A great example of this is how Akane's hue had the same color even after hearing about her college killing her grandmother.
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EDIT: I understand Joshu Karei's character now. She's basically just a mix of brains from Sibyl System. She is no real human, only a shell with brains that are all connected at the same time.
This season kicks off right where S1 left off, or at least that's what it felt like but apparently, there has so far been only worse animation, shittier characters, a more boring plot, and a much, MUCH worse villain. Let's start off with the animation being worse, it looks less poppy and bright, almost toned down. The futuristic setting paired really well with the look of the characters, but here it looks weird since it's toned down so much, and the problem doesn't lie with the resolution. I have watched both seasons with 1080p, however, the new one looks just "worse" for some reason. This is most likely due to the switch in studios, but I'm not sure about this as of now. I will elaborate more on this in later episode reviews.
The new characters are also really bad and poorly written, they have no characterization like f.ex a backstory, any weird quirks, and motives. They more or less feel like cardboard cutouts and this makes me feel NO reason to care about these people. With these new characters, we have gotten none of that. What I'm trying to say is that there is no flesh to the bone with the characters. What made the characters in the first season so interesting was that most of them used to have a motive, but over time lost it, like f.ex Kogami became jaded and lost his purpose for being a detective since he's college buddy got slaughtered. Masaoka had similarly to Tsunemori, the instinct of justice but lost it when he realized that he didn't have control over who was or wasn't a criminal. Ginoza became stressed out after an incident that happened and has been frustrated ever since then. The only one who still had a purpose was Yayoi, who wanted to be an enforcer because her girlfriend had become a latent criminal, but that was still revealed later.
And then entered Tsunemori, who started to question the system after watching an innocent civilian gets killed by the dominator. This was the inciting incident of the show where her colleges realize that she might have a point and that there might be some deep mystery that they're all unaware of. This new season doesn't even have a fucking inciting incident, it just rolls after episode 1. In S1, you really understood that these are detectives who catch and kill criminals, where it's a world full of morals and ethics, so it made perfect sense that the main theme of the show would be laws, and the morals behind them. And I get that the point of this season is to show how Akane has adapted to the system after she realized the truth, but it's only disappointed me.
With the plot, it's even worse. There are no new questions that have been raised like f.ex Is the Sibyl System moral and who counts as a criminal? These questions got risen up in the very first episode of S1. But here, no new questions have appeared. Also, the new missions lack the excitement that the first season delivered. Since none of the new characters question the system, the stakes are incredibly low and the criminals are just crazy lunatics compared to in S1, where the criminals were more or fewer puppeteers by Makashima. And yes, the criminals here also seem to be that as well, but he feels like he controls them extremely poorly. Like f.ex he just lets his buddy die without any reason. Whereas in S1, Makashima disposed of his pawns for a REASON.
And lastly, I know it's hard to make a villain that's as good as Makashima, but then don't make a lesse version of the former! The new villain looks extremely vanilla and is most likely lacking characterization, what a coincidence that his name is Kirito as well.
Like Makashima, He's behind all of the new crimes, but the biggest mistake is that he's revealed in the first episode! In S1, Makashima was revealed to be behind all of the crimes first in episode 9, but this guy is shown instantly without any buildup or characterization. Like the other new characters, we don't know any of his motives, all that we get shown is that he sprays "WC" to the locations where he slaughtered his victims and to those that he's a warning.
The only thing that I can make small praise for in this season is the development of Akane, since learning about the Sibyl System has become much more assertive and completely stopped being a pushover. But then, this was already shown in the last 3 episodes of the original season, so it doesn't matter too much.
These were the main four issues that I've had with PP-2, but I had some enormous pet peeves as well. Like f.ex Akane is now a smoker, which bugs me a lot. I can see why since her job is stressful, but it feels a bit out of place. I see Akane as a pure character, sure she has issues but I don't see her as someone who would smoke, but remember these are more nitpicks rather than major issues. Kogami has basically disappeared from the face of the earth without any explanation as to why and at first it felt like this came right after S1, but there has been a 1-year time skip.
Overall, I'm not impressed and I sincerely hope that things will become better later on so that my suffering for these earlier episodes has been worth it.
EPISODES 3-5
You know what? These latest three episodes haven't been as bad as the first two. But that doesn't mean that they're great episodes, they just include moments that are entertaining, most of which are things that also happened in the last season, but I digress.
The only good thing where the hostage situation in episode 4 and especially when Division 3 took over and shot all of them, which still looks so cool.
One thing that I thought was neat was when Kirito had made a game where when they did something in the game, someone in real life would die, that was cool.
There's at least finally some narrative going on now. Apparently, there's a guy in the MWPSB who is hunting down Akane and one of the new inspectors called Mika is slowly finding out this secret. His name is Togane and it was shown that he had a high criminal coefficient, which makes it believable, This is actually quite an interesting dynamic, that there is a villain to hunt down but Togane distracts Akane just because he is evil and wants to see her psycho-pass get a black hue. I'm at least glad that there is someone there to save her, hope she does it well though.
Kiritos victim has this Stockholm syndrome thing going on, that came from absolutely nowhere without any reason.
Overall, the rest has just been so boring, I can't even come up with any words to describe how boring this season is and man does it truly suck, I felt like I have said everything in my analysis of the first two episodes, so that's why there's so much empty space here.
EPISODES 6-8
You know what? I was wrong about something. There are a couple of good things about this season. The main thing being the two missions that the detectives have had to do, but what this show lacks is that it feels like it won't matter too much in the long run. In S1, everything felt like it leads up to something and it did! We'll see, if the ending sucks then this show will be a 3 or a 4 (depending on what we'll see) but if it gets better then this then it might even be a 6!
I just realized that Mika is the same girl who got her friend killed in S1, that was really cool! But, the show did not a good job of making me remember that.
One thing I can also appreciate is the fleshing out of two minor characters in the first show. The psychologist and the philosopher. I think that these two have gotten more of an important role and explanation to their characters and that's rewarding since I really liked these two characters (especially the philosopher) and wanted to see more of them.
The villain in the show also doesn't suck as much as I thought he did. The problem was just the way they introduced him. And he still feels like a lesser version of Shogo. What made Shogo so interesting is how mysterious he was, at first it felt like there where just random crimes happening, but there was one mastermind behind all of them and that didn't get revealed until episode 9, but still feels familiar since we saw him in a flash-forward in the first episode.
However, in this season they introduced Kirio instantly and then they showed the crimes he committed, I think that this makes the crimes less suspenseful as well as making the villain feel more boring. And much like Shogo, he felt isolated from society since he wasn't recognized as a member of the sibyl system.
We still don't know his main motive, but we do know that he is the sole survivor of a plane crash. And since then, he has been messed around with the victims to make him a blend of 100 brains and personalites, which I found to be quite creepy, I do wonder now who's behind this? So, props to this show for making me feel engaged again!
There is one problem with this season that I haven't yet addressed and that's the lack of development in the plot and the old characters. Here's the thing, even though Akane is a badass here, she was a badass in the last 3 episodes of S1, even though Ginoza is much calmer and collected, this was shown in the last episode, even though they're new characters, this was shown in the last episode of S1.
It just feels like a lot of the potential excitement that this show could've brought was already brought in the last 3 episodes of the original season.
Okay..
So, I finished episode 8 and this is actually getting really interesting. Joshu Kasei is Toganes mom and Togane was more or less a test subject from the AA, which is the project where they morphed Kirito and all of the victims into one single body. Mika has now found this secret and has realized that both Kogame and Kirito are similar as they're both villains. Since founding out about all of this, she is now going to be told the secret of the sibyl system.
This was interesting since it exposed a lot of the corruptness that exists within the police department.
EPISODES 9-11
I just finished watching PP2 and I'm right now on a tight rope. On the one hand, this season continued off smoothly and presented a new villain with his own interesting and unique motive, as well as how he tries to abolish the sibyl system whilst using pawns in order to kill both innocent civilians and rich corporation lunatics, which was in some ways, even more, entertaining compared to S1. However, on the other hand, this season feels like a copycat of the first one, whilst at the same time ignoring many of the things that made it so great. And even those things that are enjoyable about the season are things that already existed in the last one, making this one feel non-canon and useless.
One huge reason why I was so displeased with this season was the introduction of all of the new characters, an example of a character that was not only unnecessary to the story but also obnoxious was by the name of Mika. At best, a boring and unnecessary and at worst, a whiny and useless inspector who held an unnecessary and unexplained grudge against Akane. Then, we see her character trying to stop Tsugune from clouding Akane's psycho Pass, only to fail at that and get her own one clouded. Even when she confronted the villain, her mind got broken and she couldn't come up with a response, hence the really weird clapping scene at the beginning of Episode 9.
And that's my biggest complaint with this season, many things that are presented feel weird and out of place. I.e in the ending, where Kirito and Tsugune get shot and get killed almost at the same time, which was for me incredibly anti-climatic because of the show. Another strange thing was the chief, who seems to any many different forms for some unexplained reason. Another really weird thing happening was when Akane's grandmother, who died because Togane wanted to see Akane's psycho-pass get clouded. Nothing is inherently plotwise bad about that, it's just that it doesn't make sense that at the end, Akane's psycho-pass didn't get clouded at all after everything that happened.
Speaking of Kirito and Tsugene, most of the time, they felt like copycats of Shogo and Tsugene whilst not having as interesting characterization (backstory, quirks, development, etc). Even though they had a unique intention, their personalities were way too similar to the previous characters in the show. Kamui was much weaker and fragile compared to Shogo, f.ex, in the end, he could've saved them. But instead, he tried to
The very worst thing about this show is the first 3 episodes, my god are they all TERRIBLE! We are immediately rushed into a situation where they are trying to arrest a criminal who's bombing different locations for Kamui. But we get absolutely no information about what's happening, why there even arresting him and why we should care. We just seem to have to figure that out ourselves. Which in some cases might be understandable and even necessary, but doing that in the FIRST episode of a NEW season just feels useless and out of place.
To conclude, this season hasn't been at all as good as the first one. Episode 1-3 were awful, 4 to 6 where decent and 7 to 11 had good things about it. My biggest complaints can be summed up as such: Things were too similar to the first season without being as good as the second one or barely breaking any new mold such as f.ex presenting any moral ideas and the second issue is that there are too many things that either don't make sense, are illogical, are unexplained, etc. A great example of this is how Akane's hue had the same color even after hearing about her college killing her grandmother.
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EDIT: I understand Joshu Karei's character now. She's basically just a mix of brains from Sibyl System. She is no real human, only a shell with brains that are all connected at the same time.
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