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From what I've heard it's a prequel, not a sequel. Which is better, yet worse.
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why. I'm out of understanding. Or are we now getting Ogami's Book Club? The original series kinda fell flat on its face toward the end as I recall, so I don't really have motivation to get hyped for a new season...or a movie. Christ, +90 minutes of P-P? In one sitting? They'd better write it damn well or it'll be renamed Disaster.
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I saw that this was airing and I decided to watch the first seven minutes or so before posting here:
Psycho-Pass S2: So the second season is airing. I still have other things I will want to circle back around first and finish. (ILYA! Also Barakamon and quite a few others.) But Psycho-Pass S2 is at least something I want to give eight episodes of my time before I decide whether to drop it or not. Why so negative? Because here's the thing: seven minutes in and I just can't take it seriously. Spoiler: show Thing is, nearly everything I have complained about is the sort of problem that can be solved within a couple of episodes. Or heck: even solved by the end of this episode. So I don't want to write off Psycho-Pass Season 2 just yet. I'm just saying: I have my concerns. :\ EDIT: The episode picks up in the end. I'll just say that this feels, so far, more like A than like B:
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Since I didn't want to watch any more new anime episodes today before I get caught up on a number of posts -- shows for which I am writing my typical posts, that is -- but since I also felt like watching something, I went ahead and watched the second episode of Funi's Psycho-Pass Season 2.
It wasn't too bad. It still feels like a fanfic sequel and one which only too conveniently ignores the major societal issues on whose note we left Season 1, but it's still an entertaining whodunit and it's interesting to meet some of the new characters. (spoilers for S1; weak spoilers for S2) Spoiler: show So far, two episodes in, it's a lot less recommendable than Season 1 was. I'd only recommend it to fans of the original, and even then I wouldn't do so strongly. Hopefully that position will change for the better as I watch more episodes.
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Double post. Episode 03.
The story improves in a general sense this episode but there are several acute insults imo to the memory of the original. It makes for mixed feelings. Spoiler: show On to Episode 04!
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Triple post. Episode 04.
Spoiler: show It's been a long time since I've gotten to quasi-marathon an anime like this. I love it. I may (may) keep it up and hop on over to OreGairu once I finish with Psycho-Pass S2. We'll see. EDIT: That moment when you realize that all of these posts could and probably should go in the official Psycho-Pass thread. Goddammit.
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While my intended long-style posts for other shows continue to languish in limbo, here I am with a shameless status update on my viewing of Psycho-Pass Season 2.
Currently through Episode 07 of the series, plus the first two minutes of Episode 08. With intent to finish it either today or tomorrow, I have enjoyed the series thus far and imagine that I will continue to enjoy it on up through the finale, but it remains as ever an inferior story to the one Gen wove for us in Season 1. The plot is a little sillier this time around. (Yes, even sillier than hyper oats. ) The protagonists feel more like characters played upon the stage by actors and less like actual people. Most of the emotional investment I have in the returning characters is carried over from Season 1 while there isn't much emotional investment I have in any of the new characters. And above all else, it still feels like a fanfic. The writer has fun exploring head-canon ideas for what certain S1 characters would say or do in the situations he now places them in, but even their very presence in such scenes feels out of place, feels somehow wrong, like a transgression against the original story. Which is strange, honestly -- because the opening credits remind us every episode that Urobuchi Gen was a project overseer for this series, so it's not as though the scenario writer didn't receive feedback from Gen. One has to imagine that he did, and more importantly that Gen's green light was required for certain ones of the biggest so-called transgressions to even take place. This leaves me a little confused and conflicted: is it the scenario writer who has fanfic'd the series up too much? Or is it Gen himself who has lost touch with his own universe? Is it even fair of me, a mere viewer, to suppose the latter when Gen is himself the series' creator? (Spoilers through the first few minutes of S2 Episode 08.) Spoiler: show
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Finished Season 2. In the end, it was like many a Hollywood sequel: entertaining but of decidedly less quality than the original. If you really loved Psycho-Pass Season 1 and want to revisit that universe with some never-before-seen tales, then sure, I'd recommend you check it out. But if the first season was only a 7/10 or worse for you, then you can rest assured that Season 2 would at best only be a 6/10.
Spoiler: show Time for scores. Plot: 5/10 (average) with mostly 6 and 5 moments and the occasional 7 but enough 4s or 3s to drag us firmly down to a 5. Characters: 6/10 (fair) Music: 5/10 (average) Animation: 7/10 (good) Replay Value: 3/10 (very bad) for me personally, but your mileage may vary OVERALL: 5/10 if we don't let it rest at all on S1's laurels, but 6/10 if we do and I'm in a good mood. For now I have it at a 6/10 on MyAnimeList but I'm really close to docking it a point in recognition that I'm probably being too soft on it.
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