Psycho-Pass (series)
Psycho-Pass (サイコパス; Saiko Pasu) is a Japanese cyberpunk anime television series produced by Production I.G, co-directed by Naoyoshi Shiotani and Katsuyuki Motohiro, written by Gen Urobuchi and with music by Yugo Kanno. The series aired on Fuji TV's NoitaminA programming block between October 2012 and March 2013.
The story takes place in an authoritarian future dystopia, where omnipresent public sensors continuously scan the mental states of every passing citizen. Collected data on both present mentality and aggregated personality data is used to gauge the probability of that citizen committing a crime, the rating referred to as that citizen's Psycho-Pass. Authorities are alerted whenever excessive ratings are detected, and officers of the Public Safety Bureau are dispatched with weapons called "Dominators", energy pistols that modulate their power in response to the target's Psycho-Pass.
The first story follows Akane Tsunemori, Shinya Kogami, and other members of Unit One of the Public Safety Bureau's Criminal Investigation Division. As grisly but familiar murders are investigated, they discover a conspiracy to take down the Cybil System.
The series was expanded in many films, manga, video games and novels.
Anime
- Psycho-Pass (2012)
- Re-released as the New Edit Version in 2014, with new and extended scenes.
- Psycho-Pass 2 (2014)
Films
- Psycho-Pass: The Movie (2015)
- Psycho-Pass: Sinners of the System (2019, film trilogy)
Manga
- Psycho-Pass: Inspector Akane Tsunemori (2013, an adaptation of the anime)
- Psycho-Pass: Inspector Shinya Kogami (2014)
Novels
- Psycho-Pass (2013, two-volume novelization)
- Namae no Nai Kaibutsu (lit. "The Monster with no Name") (2013, prequel)
- Psycho Pass Genesis (2014, prequel series)
Video games
- Chimi Chara Psycho-Pass (2013, included in Japanese Blu-Ray volumes of the anime)
- Psycho-Pass: Mandatory Happiness (2015; Xbox One)
- Ported to the PlayStation 4 and PlayStation Vita in 2016. Microsoft Windows port released in 2017.
- Akane Tsunemori appears as a support character in Nitroplus Blasterz: Heroines Infinite Duel (2015)
For tropes specific to individual installments, visit their respective work pages.
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- All There in the Manual: Kagari, Choe Gu-sung and Masaoka's backstories are found in the novels.
- Badass in a Nice Suit: The Public Safety Bureau's members wear suits as their uniform.
- Big Brother Is Watching: Everyone's Psycho-Pass is monitored by cameras, devices and droids.
- Body Horror: Getting shot by a Dominator gun makes your body explode into Ludicrous Gibs.
- Cast Full of Pretty Boys
- Color-Coded for Your Convenience: Hues measure Psycho-Pass levels, from clear to clouded.
- Contemplate Our Navels: Discussion about philosophy and society are abound in the series. Amped up in the New Edit Version.
- Cyberspace: CommuField is basically that.
- Pun-Based Title / Punny Name: Psycho-Pass is a pun on "psychopath".
- The Wiki Rule: Phycho-Pass Wiki.