perfect world

With the movies coming out, I think the Psycho-Pass community on Tumblr should get closer together and know one another better!

Reblog if you want to be asked these questions and send a character in a person’s ask!

Akane Tsunemori: What is your proudest moment?

Kogami Shinya: What’s the worst injury you’ve had?

Ginoza Nobuchika : What’s your best feature?

Mika Shimotsuki: What is the last lie you told?

Yayoi Kunizuka: Put your iTunes on shuffle - what’s the first five songs that come up?

Hinakawa Sho: Do you have any strange phobias?

Shion Karanomori: What is your biggest “what if”?

Togane Sakuya: How can I win your heart?

Kamui Kirito: Where is your hometown?

Masaoka Tomomi: Tell me about your favorite mentor/teacher you’ve ever had.

Makishima Shogo: What is your real name?

Sugo Teppei: Describe your best friend?

Rikako Oryo: Current desktop photo? Home screen of your phone?

Saga Joji: What is your biggest regret?

Senguji Toyohisa: If there was a robot invasion, what would be your weapon of choice? How likely do you think you are to survive the apocalypse?

Gu-sung Choe: Which languages do you speak? If you could instantly learn 5, which ones would they be?

Mizue Shisui: What were you doing last night at midnight?

Risa Aoyanagi: Are you currently in a relationship? How many have you had?

Nicholas Wong: What is your current occupation?

Makishima isn’t crying in episode 22.

The first time I watched the episode I was pretty sure it was only sweat, but when I came on tumblr everyone else seemed to fully believe he was crying and this was symbolic because it was likely the first time he’d ever cried in his entire life. Being a sociopath, it would have been meaningful because he never expected to be able to exhibit those kind of emotions.

While that’s a nice assumption, the animation doesn’t lend itself to this at all. Under the cut is a scan of the key animation from the art books + an explanation on why it’s actually better and even more meaningful that he’s not crying.

Well, I think Kogami and Makishima are important because they function as foils to each other. This is really the main basis of their entire dynamic on the show. Almost everything about them is a foil right down to their clothing.

Makishima is associated with white colors, Kogami is associated with black.

Makishima’s fighting style is more speed-reliant (he is still rather strong though), whereas Kogami’s is more strength-based.

Despite being the same height, their body types are meant to contrast.

Makishima vehemently opposes what their society has become and is willing to cross many lines to see Sibyl destroyed, whereas Kogami dislikes the society but overall follows the law.

Makishima is interested in realizing the truth of his own individuality, but Kogami is obsessed with revenge which is more external than internal.

They are similar in a variety of ways too, but their similarities only become apparent when they are being contrasted. Which is the key difference to me. Some people in the fandom seem to think Makishima and Kogami are essentially the same person and it’s really not true. Understanding and similarity does not always = getting along. Kogami’s understanding of Makishima is not absolute, either. (Though some people seem to think his statements are 100% true and that baffles me. His claims, along with Akane’s claims about their relationship are solely from their personal perspectives.) This is why many of Kogami’s claims about Makishima are not entirely accurate which I’ve discussed here.

A lot of the fandom seems to have a warped view of how Kogami truly felt about Makishima. While he recognized that they were similar, Kogami did not see this as a blessing. Multiple times in the anime he expresses distaste over this fact. His understanding of Makishima was always presented as a burden to him, and this is obvious in the last line when he tells Makishima: “I sure hope not.” Fandom seems to twist this line into some attempt at Kogami trying to be nice to Makishima and it isn’t that at all. Kogami is being very serious when he says this. Kogami was never thrilled or happy with recognizing aspects of himself in Makishima.

Which I’ll continue to explain under the cut.

I figure this might be helpful. Let’s just go in the order on the website, shall we?

I’m going to put the character name (in romanization and characters), followed by a literal and poetic translation of their name, wrapped up with more information where needed.

Seki-san saying “Crime Coefficient”, with his voice modified in a veeery familiar way. He and Nojiken dubbed it as “Domi-emon” XD

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