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Legend of Crystania is a hard pill to swallow I find. It opens with Sir Ashram cursing the Gods for stranding them in the middle of nowhere without water, food, medical aid in the middle of the sea since the events of Record of Lodoss War OVA / Chronicles of the Heroic Knight saw them and the forces of Marmo being defeated by the forces of the combined good. Oh sorry, Spoiler, the bad guys lost.

So, let's get the most obvious thing out of the way first. The animation style is really bad, but it's also good. It exists in a weird borderline of not having had a proper animation budget for it, cutting corner, and making other things very detailed. So you can have character's faces very well-detailed, voice actors of high caliber, but magical spells is more an animated suggestion.

After Ashram cursed the Gods, a God answered him and promised him everything as long as Ashram accepts being a vessel for him. Ashram agrees to this and doesn't see it as a bad idea at all. After this, we're introduced to our viewpoint character of the show, Reddon. He's a twerp as you'd come to expect, he dreams about valiant deeds and being a heroic knight and all that, while his buddy Nasser ( I believe that was his name ) isn't at all interested in valiant deeds, he's only interested in Knowledge. I, I think. The copy I have some times gives me a translation and other times want me to guess what they're talking about, so for all I know he might be speaking about the holy dale of a woman's lower spine to her butt.

Either way, they are both looking at this massive wall known as God's Wall and talk about legends of it. How the Gods slain a giant snake to erect as a wall to it's inside. The Mage is certain that one day, the doors will open to this mysterious place so they can go in and witness the splendor of whatever is inside. At this moment, an overexcited horse makes it's presence known - a signal of the twerp of Knighthood to head back home because Lady Athresia have arrived. Apparently the horse likes to tell his master whenever visitors drop by.

At the Kingdom of Dirt and Sand with some Grass, Lady Athresia is consulting the King in requesting the army to overthrow a vicious dictator, but all he can tell her is to look at his people and see how content they are. The crops are going well, they have food in stock and on the table and so forth. If he were to go to war, it wouldn't be him who would suffer, it'd be his people, and the people don't really care who sits on the throne of the Kingdom of What-Where. Thus he denies her request for army aid.

Later that Knight, a stylish assassin who looks like he's a wannabe Guts ( and curiously close to my own design, hmm.. ) named Orville... Wait, Orville? Anyway, he arrives and attempts to assassinate the old Knight-king but fails for the old man is just too good, he even blocks his hidden knife-projectile with his forearm, he's just that good! But then arrows come through the window and kills the King, turns out the Royal Cavalry themselves turned on the King ( I think..? Again, didn't get the full translation ) and that they had only used Orville with the intention of killing him as well. The King's son come in and immediately jumps the Royal Cavalry alongside some Rogueish friend who blocks another guy while the King's son - Yeah, that's Reddon - stabs one of them dead with a sword through the chest. He then hurries to his father's side who tells him to get out and save himself. Distraught, he's dragged out of there by the Rogue-friend.

As Reddon swears revenge, the word of a God offers him unlimited power if he just comes to him. And the Wall to the Gods open up, allowing them entry into the land of Crystania..

As they enter, a God stops them and acts confused over their presence here, but then he poofs after the other God laughs. Then Lizard people arrive and attack them, and after being saved by Orville who had been stalking them, even giving Reddon the King's Sword, they find out that the people here in Crystania can turn into animals. Specifically, they learn this when they save a man whose protecting this mysterious Dark Elf named Sheru, and he turns into a Lion and fights someone who turned into a Snake. He explains to the party that Crystania used to be a peaceful land, and people devoted themselves to the many Gods who reside here, as they do so, they are given the power to transform into Beast of which the God resides over. Those who turn into Snakes follow the Snake God. Those who Lion, Lion God and so forth. And it was peaceful, until the God Barrados, the God of TIGERS! Acquired a human host about as a vessel.

I have to say, being born in the sign of the Tiger, I feel targeted by this movie. Geez!

Sheru, the Dark Elf supposingly carries the secret on how to stop Barradus but she must be escorted to the village where the rebellion hangs out, known as Fangs of the Beasts. However before they can, Barradus sends a surprise attack, and just to show how powerful he is to Reddon - kills everyone, including his own troops. Reddon is horrified at this, while he had initially been saying that he'd go any length to get his revenge on those who killed his father, this is too much to him. He and Sheru get split up from the rest of the party and he asks Sheru what makes her so special, and she recounts the tale we saw at the start. How her lord Ashram 300 years ago made a pact with the God, and at the start it was all good as Ashram was asleep and she waited for him to wake up, and once he woke up, he no longer was Ashram but Barradus. So she escaped but not before snatching the Chaos Ring, a Ring that some mystic had used to banish Ashram's soul as he was stronger than Barradus had expected and didn't give up.

And for you listening at home, Yes, Sheru is Pirotess. I thought all the way up until this time that she was a child of Ashram and Pirotess, but apparently not. Which is strange considering that’d make for a lot better story as opposed to she just suddenly sporting a different hair and skin color to go along with a different name since you know, that’s kinda a completely different character..

She thanks Reddon for escorting her but she's gotta do this on her own now. Reddon, distraught about what to do- SUDDENLY, Horse Ex Machina! His horse appears in front of him and looks happy, and together they ride after Pirotess and takes her up on the horse and head towards Barradus Fortress. Meanwhile the army of the Fangs of the Beast alongside the other companions have made a valiant charge and cut down all attackers and busted in the door to the castle. While this was going on, The Rogue, Orville and Orville's... daughter? Not sure what she is but she's been around all this, sorry for not mentioning her earlier. They're all locked in a cell, and after Leifon ( that's her name ) gets pissed and summons every Fae she can to blow up the door, she succeeds enough so the Lion guy can force open the door.

Reddon and Sheru arrive at the top of Barradus fortress, and Reddon says they have to leave Garmus ( the horse ) behind as he cannot get down there. That's when the horse decides to do a Skyrim and make a series of super stylish jumps - and break all legs and presumably internals upon landing - just to get his master and her down. The horse coughs up blood and dies, but I guess looks somewhat content in the knowledge he could assist his master. Reddon is once again distraught over this and cries profusely. Understandably, had I been in a different state of mine this would had made me cried too.

They all meet up in front of Barradus in the throne room, and he shows them just how weak and pathetic they are. The Chaos Ring does nothing against Barradus - until Pirotess in her anger throws it at him and he tries to block it with his hand. That causes it to start sucking like a vacuum cleaner, allowing Ashram to struggle. He tells Pirotess to kill him, she refuses, Reddon attempts but it's utterly pointless, his sword does nothing. Ashram commends him for his valor but his sword cannot do anything, and he tells Pirotess to use his sword - Yes, the Demon Sword ‘Soul Crusher’. After a long drawn out Yes No Yes No, she finally draws the sword and stabs him with it, killing Barradus, and Ashram thanks her and dies.

The movie ends with Reddon talking about his father and how his father would never let him hold a sword, and the Mage says that his father would be proud over what he did, and Reddon says Yes.

Legend of Crystania... Is a bad movie. It really would had benefited from a 20+ episode series as opposed to one movie. Bad animations, mixed with good animation, comes off as jarring. Very rushed story elements jumping from place to place at times, and characters dying. Yes, I didn't mention everything that happens in here and skipped some stuff and just went for the rough straight forward parts so you yourself can watch it and make up your mind about this movie.

The ending song Hikari no Chizu is pretty darn good though!

Ever since I first got into Gundam some 16 years ago and started going into the Universal Century era, I was always told how I should watch Zeta because it’s so great and how SEED Destiny is shallow imitation of Zeta. Now I am that kind of person who often reacts with being told that something is the best, all the time with the opposite reaction but in Zeta’s case I always did want to watch it. It was just that I never had the motivation to do so.

Year ago, I did watch the movie trilogy version of Zeta and I thought the first movie was hands down the strongest one with it’s opening song Metamorphoze performed by Gackt. My only complaint was that it felt like the movie was rushed. But who could forget such an fantastic ending scene of Char and Amuro meeting face to face for the first time after the One Year War?

The other two movies I barely remember anything from.They really didn’t stand out a whole lot to me. Henken’s death scene was better graphically and emotionally I believe.. Perhaps. Not sure, I’d have to rewatch that. But I definetly know that the ending to Movie 3 “Love is the Pulse of the Star” is far better and far more emotional.

So this finally leads us into our collected review of the entire Zeta Gundam TV series, and I will sum it up with one sentence here:

It’s bad, it’s really really bad.

About a month ago, a friend and I discussed TV shows and anime and we got into the discussion of Gundam where I spoke fondly of the various shows, especially the One Year War part of the Universal Century. He expressed an interest in watching that with “I should probably watch Gundam at some point” so I suggested that we can watch it together, that I could be his guide to Gundam, and so we got started. We went through the original MS Gundam TV series where at it’s conclusion, I concluded that the movie trilogy is far superior as it cuts out needless fat like Doan’s Island, and the White Base insistence on sending the Guntank out into combat, in space, since in the movie they replace the Guntank with a second Guncannon instead. After this, we proceeded to watching War in the Pocket, 08th MS Team, MS Igloo series, and finally 0083 Stardust Memory.

This finally lead into us starting to watch Zeta Gundam, TV series together. Oh boy, if I thought the movies was rushed, I was in for a surprise. Right from the get go, the story jumps from beat to beat at a rapid pace, giving us no clear sense of time progression at all, yet it’s suppose to take at least two days in terms of time from Char’s team locating the Gundams, to Kamille getting captured and held in detention, to the inevitable Gundam-jack, but all of this happens in the span of Episode 1 making Kamille seem like an insane highly emotional unstable kid.

From here on onward, it’s a constant battle in every episode. I don’t think a single episode went on without at least one Mobile Suit combat scene but I could be mistaking. Character motivations is all over the place and they flip-flop faster than pancakes. Now we can understand Emma’s motivation, she had no idea that the Titans were such murderous totalitarians as they turn out to be. This makes her one of the better characters in the show per default.

Reccoa is probably one of the worst characters in the show. From the very start, it’s clear that Kamille wants to ‘engage docking procedures’ with her fast and hard from the start, and they even make this a point of him being a hormonal teenage boy and Reccoa an attractive woman. She’s supposed to be a good spy but frankly, she’s the worst spy ever. She does nothing but to get caught and she claims that she enjoys spying because she lost herself after the One Year War, but what this really means is that she wants to dock with Char but he has no interest in her, so she takes this to mean that men only use women as tools. Until she meets Scirocco who is the, and I quote, only Man to treat her as a woman first. Because that is what is important to her, that she has T&A and is acknowledged for that.

Or to put it in far more absurd terms, Reccoa is the perfect justification that the American Military would love to have in order to ban women from serving. She’s that bad of a character.

Perhaps ironically, this leads us into the character known as Paptimus Scirocco who is hands down the best character. He treats everyone with respect and friendliness, even Yazan. Perhaps you could claim that this is a manipulative tactic of him but in that case, you can never trust anyone ever who is kind because they’re only out to manipulate you. That being said, we do know that he has an ulterior motive but we never truly learn what this motive is. Perhaps it’s divulged in the Crossbone Manga that deals with the Jupiter Empire.

But oh, let’s not forget about Beltorchika, or as I’d like to called her Bel-“DOCK ME AMURO”-chika. No really. She goes from I’m a character to throwing herself into Amuro’s arms and demanding he do her there and now. Okay not like that but might as well be since she just out of the blue wants him to kiss her, and he does. It makes no fucking sense. On top of that, she’s a total bitch towards Kamille and other characters. Awful!

And don’t get me fucking started on Katz, a more worthless character together with Sarah is hard to find. Why is he even on the Argama to begin with, why did he go into space? There’s absolutely no fucking reason to other than Amuro sent him there. Besdies, we all know that Kikka was the ace soldier of the One Year War’s White Base Children Platoon anyway.

And Sarah, fucking Sarah. What a despicable character. Eventually, whenever I saw her I’d just be screaming “ SHUUUT HEEEER! ”

I think it’s a damn shame that Zeta Gundam TV series did not live up to my expectations, instead just feeling like a repeat - almost like a prototype - of Neon Genesis Evangelion. From character’s having extremely poor characterizations, to random segments of drama and angst thrown in just for arguments, to the extremely poor quality of the show, Zeta Gundam is a complete disappointment.

But that’s my opinion after all. Perhaps you’ll enjoy it more.But for all my opinion’s worth, you’re better off watching the Movie version. it keeps a better pace of things and it gives you a cameo in the form of Advance of Zeta, the Hazel II Gundam. 

All said and done, let’s enjoy some burgers.

We start with the image of the missing inspector from episode 1, Shisui waking up with her hands strapped around her own gun aimed for her face and the voice of a mild mannered man who introduces himself as the mythical Kirito Kamui, apologizing but he needed her eye. And that he desires to make her - nay, the whole world - Clear.

After the opening, we’re greeted with the usual bullshit from Miss Bitch Shimotsuki who insisted on calling Tsunemori insane and the usual stuff and ranting against Enforcers. How dare they do the job they were here to sent! The reason for them all being in the room is because Tsunemori discovered someone had been in her apartment - somehow - without her or anyone noticing, and scribbled “WC?” on her wall.

On their way back to the office, Tsunemori tells Shimotsuki to take a right turn and go to the Isolation Ward instead. Unfortunately it’s not to lock Shimotsuki up much to my dismay, but to have a chatty discussion with a man named Jouji Saiga. Realizing this person could probably talk her panties off, Shimotsuki suddenly declares that she is sick, that she’ll wait in the car and it’s most definitely not because she’s afraid of someone with a clouded hue!

Of course Tsunemori is here in order to bounce ideas and theories regarding how someone could had entered her apartment without anyone noticing, and barring the fact that it couldn’t been any cat person since the lack of clawed furniture speak against that fact, the most logical conclusion is that it can only had been a ghost. This prompts Saiga to speak the episode’s title of ‘The Devil’s Proof’.

The Devil's Proof, or as it's called in Latin Probatio Diabolica, means to produce the evidence of an impossible proof. In other words, while there may indeed be evidence for something to have occured just as the statement claims, there are no actual evidence to prove that it didn't happened. I'm jumbling it up here, but the point is a logical dilemma that can be summed up as: There is no evidence that denies the devil's existence, therefore one cannot deny the devil's existence.

Back at the Office, Tsunemori requests to the Chief that Division 1 will be in charge of this mystery case as well as all other things they’re busy with, and the Chief asks her to stay for some one-on-one discussion, mentioning the intriguing idea that Tsunemori could potentially be so insane that she’s actually sane and there would be no way to prove it - aside from catching her red handed I guess. She also claims that Sakuya Togane, one of their enforcers, have had the highest crime coefficiency in the history of ever and therefore she wants to hear everything about him if things crop up. You know, if he likes sugar in his hot chocolate and such.

While this is going on, we got some backstory from action girl ( Risa Aoynagi ) and Nobuchika Ginoza. Action girl talking about how her life is a mess so she focuses on her job because it’s all she has left, and how she put her emotions aside because it’s too much yet she enjoys killing criminals. It’s all pretty uninteresting but it serves a purpose for what’s to come. As she leaves, she gets a call from none other than Shisui.

Alarm, area stress event is going on inside a hotel so naturally the bitch decides that she’ll deal with it, prompting her to spout her usual nonsense of how Tsunemori is dumb AND I DON’T LIKE YOUR FACE EITHER, crap. Now the area stress warning is because it’s a fat politician talking about improving citizens’ lives and I mean, yeah that could get a rise out of everyone’s stress levels. He insists that there’s nothing wrong with him and that they should get Kamui here so he could talk to him and clear this misunderstanding up.

While this is going on, Action girl Aoynagi have arrived at the destination where Shisui .. I keep making typo’s of her name that I’m contemplating calling her Sushi by now instead... claims she was waiting. Which turns out to he a pharmacy because, why not meet your co-workers there! She observes an old man talking in a normal tone yet using upset language at a young clerk, and even still talking calmly as he starts to strangle the life out of the clerk, presumably because he had been running on his lawn, but as Aoynagi pulls out her gun on him, the gun doesn’t recognize him as being a Criminal, and she gets her face full of his protective robo-dog.

We get a brief scene where Tsunemori and crew talks about this oddity of a Bomb-Diffusing Drone that was found some distance away from the scene of the crime, and when it was sent into maintenance, they discovered a piece was missing from it - Impact Absorber, hmm. How peculiar.

The episode ends with the old guy having assaulted Action Girl and delivers a final punch to her face, hand bloody, face bloody, yet the old man looks calm. Yet this is only the calm before the storm.

This episode isn’t as interesting and I have to admit that I zoned out several times watching it. Perhaps it’s my intense dislike of Psycho Pass, or the episode is just kinda dull. Instead I found myself contemplating my inner thoughts about it and how I think it’s important to potentially first hate something, then go back and watch it again, and try to see it from a different perspective.

But the thing is, everything about Psycho Pass speaks against what I would describe my nature is. The whole system of Psycho Pass is simply about conformity in it’s rawest form, and I’m someone whom been called numerous of times as someone who refuses to conform, which isn’t entirely untrue but it’s more complicated than that, so when I look at Psycho Pass, I try to think - is there something deeper here? But no, there isn’t.

Either way, we’re only at episode 3, we still have some way to go.

Next time, it’s Episode 4, The Salvation of Job

... What?

The episode opens with Inspector Tsunemori being naked in the shower, contemplating on the meaning behind the message of “WC”, thinking back on the events of discovering the bloody mess from the hostage scene.

After this short flashback, we see them all back in the office. Tsunemori is doing computer stuff when Inspector Shimotsuki comes up and asks her to submit her report to the chief, all the while looking like she’s got a huge rod up her ass, and it turns out that she does. Enforcer Ginoza informs her that this report is a piece of shit, only throwing dirt on Tsunemori for no valid reason, but Shimotsuki isn’t taking any of his rhetoric because he’s just an Enforcer and therefore lesser than her. She’s momentarily taken aback when Enforcer Yayoi tells her to take that rod out of her ass because Ginoza used to be an inspector himself, but she quickly pushes it further and deeper in and proudly declaring that’s exactly why she refuses his opinion, because he lowered himself from the elevated status of Inspector to that of the criminal scum known as Enforcers.

Just as all hope seems lost on convincing her, Tsunemori does in her usual stereotypical-main character way, says that it’s a good report and she’ll submit it. This comes to the shock of absolutely no one except Shimotsuki who snaps the rod in her ass in half because she was clearly expecting a confrontation but was denied it, thus only furthering her disdain for Tsunemori.

After delegating work to the crew, such as giving main authority to Shimotsuki, Tsunemori proceeds to go and question the suspect Akira Kitazawa on how he managed to keep his hue from clouding, but they don’t get any concrete answers out of him except the reference to a mysterious “he”, a supposed accomplice. Tsunemori discusses this with Risa Aoyanagi, also discussing the whereabouts about the disappeared Inspector Shisui, but Aoyanagi only confirms that Shisui’s Dominator is active and occasionally shows the GPS location and therefore whatever Shisui is doing is approved by the Sibil System. Tsunemori however, proposes a third possibility, namely that of a person who is able to avoid Cymatic Scans and even the Sibil System itself.

It’s at this point Aoyanagi says something that is so profoundly stupid my head immediately started to ache, firmly proving that this has to take place in the same universe as Demolition Man with how in that movie, Police weren’t trained in how to handle violence, while as in this series, characters such as Risa will repeatedly deny logical conclusions and basic fucking investigation 101. It is so stupid in fact that I chose to post it, in it’s entirely, in this picture right here. You’re welcome.

Meanwhile in the other room, Enforcer Ginoza says what everyone who watched the show immediately thought of when they read the word “WC”, namely - Water Closet. Or in other more sensible words for those whom never heard the term Water closet but have heard WC - The bathroom. Inspector Shimotsuki immediately berates him by saying that most people would assume World Cup, and then continues to berate him by insinuating that he needs to take a piss, thus firmly proving that the rod is still up her ass.

We then cut to Tsunemori eyeing Enforcer Sakuya Togane with the expected level of hormonal balance as he make a meek suggestion to do less watching and more sweating if she wants to lose stress. After talking a bit with him, Hinakawa comes running in to tell them that this Holo-stuff is the coolest shit ever, so they hurry back to the office so he could explain why it’s so cool and Karanomori starts tapping her computer for people this holo is ripping off. Getting nowhere with that though, they determine that it must have been a dead person and they are entirely right - Just that the person happened to be like 8 years old when she died in an accident. Therefore the person had used a program to determine how this young girl would had looked like 15 years later as an adult instead and formed the basis of the holo disguise on that appearence. That’s when the news comes in - Kitazawa’s crime co-efficiency has dropped so low that they’re no longer allowed to contain him. Something that’s absolutely impossible and yet it has happened.

They interrogate him on how this was possible but he’s talking like someone’s whose high about this mysterious accomplice again and how he came and made him clear, yet the only person whose visited him was a therapist. Tsunemori and Ginoza goes to talk to the therapist in an amazingly crappy scene that leads absolutely nowhere except showing how easily manipulated Tsunemori can be. In the end, they transfer Kitazawa to a medical facility regardless, Tsunemori goes home while Aoyanagi go to interrogate him.

At her home, she contemplates if it’s enough that she just gets some second hand smoking on her clothes as opposed to actually smoking to reduce her stress while her AI tells her that smoking is bad. Anyone with two brain cells would know not to start in the first place, but then again I don’t hold much hope for humanity considering how people are telling kids to not smoke, and they still start smoking. So for Tsunemori to turn into a smoker to deal with the stress of her job despite never looking stressed a single time is not surprising. But I’d have to say that it is bad writing. Anyway, her AI discovers that there’s some scratches on the wall which confuses her since, she’s not in the habit of scratching her walls. At least not to her knowledge - she’s probably not had that much action lately aside from job otherwise she’d not be needing the smokes after all.

Disabling the holo emitters in her room to see what these scratches are allows her to see that someone has etched into her wall “WC?”, thoroughly terrifying her as it should. At the same time, the call comes in that Kitazawa has escaped. That with a completely clear hue when he was going to show Aoyanagi where he made the bombs, he instead pulled out a knife that was hidden in the apartment, cut her, and fled with bombs he had already prepared. Aoyanagi being complete in disbelief how anyone with a clear hue could commit a crime.

While the officers acted quickly, Tsunemori points out that there’s a sewer entrance nearby because every Dungeon Master knows that when you need one, you can just whip one out. Shimotsuki however shoots that down on the basis that it’s locked, and even if it wasn’t locked, they have cameras there so it’s impossible for him to get past there, period. As usual, she’s not very bright because at the same time, Karanomori reports that she just spotted him entering the sewers, because the door was unlocked.

Tsunemori, Togane and Hinekawa stops Kitazawa right before he could exit to freedom. He tells them to stop mocking him because his hue is clear and he has set bombs. Tsunemori attempts to get him to surrender but in response, he rerorero’s with his tongue before pressing the button, detonating a bomb. Still firmly believing that his hue is clear despite just blowing up several people. However, Tsunemori tells him that his hue, WAS clear, but now Togane’s Dominator displays that Kitazawa’s crime co-efficiency is up to 357 - target for lethal elimination.

In distraught despair, he apologizes to “Kamui” while seemingly disillusioned of where he currently is, asking metaphorically What Color he is now - right before he swells up about five times the normal size of a human and explodes into a gooey pile because Aoyanagi arrived and blasted him with her Dominator.

Meanwhile, up the sewer and on the other side of the door, we see this ‘Kamui’ lamenting on that Kitazawa’s hue could had been fixed, and how he hoped that Tsunemori would had understood that.

When it comes to Episode 2: The Creeping Unknown, I have a hard time formulating on what I think of it. It’s just so full of dumb mixed with scene jumping and poor character development. In between the events of Psycho Pass 1 to now, Tsunemori have apparently picked up smoking to deal with the stress of her job and yet, we never see her acting stressed at all. Her thought process regarding her smoking honestly strikes me as a teenager as well. That’s nothing to say about when they go to the Psychologist to ask him what kind of treatment he gave Kitazawa which apparently cleared his hue, and the whole scene amounts to him saying “You can see that on the surveillance recording”, followed by him completely leading the conversation while Tsunemori stands there like a complete idiot.

The only moderately good part is the revelation of WC although I personally believe it was handled all wrong. It’s not really a moment of clarity when it’s revealed, it’s “How come I was too stupid to not notice it?” and only becomes blatantly obvious in hindsight with the discussion of his hue being clear or clouded. If it’d been me, I am not sure if I’d revealed it in this episode, but I sure as hell wouldn’t have had a criminal spit it out like that, I’d have the viewer put two and two together, around the same time one of the main characters would had started to piece it together.

Like say for example, they have three suspects. All of them claiming their hue is clear and yet, at least one of theirs is fluctuation in different colors like blue, yellow, red and so forth while someone is still trying to decode the letters WC, and thus able to put two and two together that it stands for What Color, or something else, something similar like that. But that’s the problem with Psycho Pass, it doesn’t LET YOU. The show is absolutely terrified of you being smarter than it and that is Psycho Pass’ greatest failure.

Not to rant on it too long but, one of the issues with this episode’s logical path of thinking is that it assumes that clear and clouded are colors and meant to get the viewer to think of colors, but the issue is that if you tell some what is clear and what is clouded, they’re going to think about windows and transparency.

The only other characters to get any significant screen time this episode are Aoyanagi and Togane. Togane who runs after Tsunemori and asks her off-screen to be a part of the interrogation and then later on insinuating sex to Tsunemori in the gym and yes, I know it’s a gym and might as well been just regular workout but no. The way she fawns over his combat ability is screams exactly what the makers were thinking in that scene.

Then there’s Aoyanagi who says the absolute dumbest shit in this episode. Even outshining Shmotsuki’s idiocy by stating that, it’s not in her job description to search for ghosts simply because she can’t comprehend that the Sibil System could be flawed. She absolutely refuses to believe that, right as the evidence is spitting her in the face.

And Shimotsuki. I don’t know what fucking bird laid an egg up her ass but my god if there’s ever been a character I’ve hated more than her, I cannot think of anyone right now because she rubs me the wrong way, every time she’s on the goddamn screen. She’s a complete fucking idiot whose only goal seems to be to get Tsunemori fired because she doesn’t agree with her views, presumably because that’d mean that Shimotsuki would have to do ACTUAL THINKING.

She’s so fucking misplaced for the job that I have to fucking ask what the hell the Sibil System was thinking suggesting her to become an Inspector in the first place. Then again she IS suppose to represent a younger, inexperienced Tsunemori - But not even HER was as fucking stupid in the first episodes. Idealistic sure but not stupid.

I don’t know what’s worse in this episode. The Logically challenged Aoyanagi, or the rod-up-my-ass Shimotsuki.

When we return next to Psycho Pass, it’ll be for Episode 3, The Devil's Proof

Hopefully it won’t take as long until I get around to writing that review.