Psycho Pass Episode 1-3 Thoughts

*MASSIVE SPOILERS AHEAD*

Psycho-Pass is a show that's been a high priority on my PTW list. The only thing I knew before going into this show was that 1. Hana Kanazawa is playing the female MC, 2. It's a cyberpunk anime 3. It has 3 seasons and is airing one right as I'm typing and 4. The main villain is supposed to be amazing, 5. I've seen a pic with brains that have to do with the show and finally the catchy yet chaotic opening.

Episode 1: It had an interesting first 2 minutes of something that would happen later (TTGL also did this), The main villain and Shinya Kougami basically had a fight, where I'm predicting it will either fit in or reappear in some of the last episodes in the show, so as of right now, it didn't make sense but it probably will. Then, I got some really great exposition where I understood what the Sibyl System and what a Psycho-Pass was. Apparently, the world in Psycho-Pass has something called a sibyl system, where it's built to make your life as suitable to you as possible. It's a guide into everything you do and it tells you what suits you the most for your personality and taste. Everyone in the world has a Psycho-Pass, that they can use to make sure that their emotions and life are in order and that every desire gets fulfilled. When the psycho-pass gets clouded, that's when the police break in and force you to go to therapy or get killed. No one in this show seems to get arrested, the criminals either get to therapy or get slaughtered.

Anyways, like I mentioned in things that I knew when going into Psycho-Pass, Hana Kanazawa is in here! Now, Hana Kanazawa is someone that I really like but I wouldn't consider her to be one of my favorites, but on Akane Tsunemori, she has done a superb job. Speaking of Akane, what a bishoujo! She is not only adorable, good-looking and one of the highest-ranking students at her university, she also has a great sense of justice. This is noticed when they had to kill someone who has a high crime rate in her Psycho-pass but is a victim. It's clear that she is shocked and that she feels that this is something immoral, but what she then does was so surprising. She then shoots Kougami, which was suspenseful af! Everything from them killing the perpetrator dying in the most genius way to her shooting Kougami was amazing. Psycho-Pass has seriously one of the best first episodes in anime history, it's up there with Monster, Gurren Lagann & Steins: Gate.

Episode 2: After the high intensity and dramatic first episode. This one is more slowed down and focuses more on dialogue and is set in the daylight. Kougami is now in the hospital and Akane feels gloomy about what has happened. Everyone kind of ignore her, but when they see that is was truly an accident that happened on her first day of the job, they start to talk to her again. There is no mission here and we get to see Kougami explaining his actions where we get to see a flashback off something traumatic that had happened to him.

Episode 3: As the episode begins, we see a grunting Kougami working out. I'm starting to like him a lot as well, he has definitely had some great characterization so far in the show. Now, the crew with a mission! I didn't think that this fight between the perpetrator and him was as entertaining, mostly because he didn't blow upright and there in the most epic way like in ep.1. What was so interesting about the perpetrator was that he was a guy you felt bad for. He was bullied by his colleges, but then Kougami starts thinking that it's him that murdered some innocent lives, which is why they're investigating at that place.

Alright, so this was some of Psycho-Pass! I'm looking forward to watching some more of this, really great so far. I have no complaints except for the fight in Episode 3 only being alright.