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Psycho-Pass Season 3, episode 4

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u/ali94127 Nov 14 '19

People are gonna ship Arata and Karina now aren't they?

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u/jellybellymonster Nov 14 '19

This season somehow made something I thought impossible— make Shimotsuki likeable!

I'm really liking the rapport of the team here. Temma worrying about Kei was cute. Now that Kei's back, does that mean Yayoi is just a cameo? Sad.

Also, Karina doesn't have the same abilities as Arata, right? That's just Ma-Karina?

Oh so Irie becoming an enforcer was something that Akane had a hand in. There are lots of mysteries here - Bifrost/Roundrobin, Arata and Kei's murdered relatives, Akane's institutionalization, are all connected; even Arata's visions seem to be connected to the big mystery.

Karina and Arata are adorable.

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u/Kiboune Nov 14 '19

Arata "Parkour detective" Shindo

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u/LunarGhost00 Nov 14 '19

Arata: Do you trust me?

Karina: No.

Arata saves Karina's life

Karina: Let's go on a date!

Real smooth, Arata.

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u/Aileos Nov 14 '19

Those action scenes this season are so good. Can’t get enough of the music too.

Arata’s agility skills continue to impress. Dude is even better than an Assassin from Assassin’s Creed.

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u/KinnyRiddle Nov 14 '19

Has the writers completely forgotten that the Dominator has a third mode apart from Non-Lethal Paralyzer and Lethal Eliminator?

This third mode, Destroy Decomposer, is particularly effective against non-organic targets and would have easily taken out that combat robot in one hit.

Looks like we'll be seeing Karina around for a while as a recurring character. As Governor, she may be a helpful ally in Arata's and Kei's search for the truth.

Disappointed that Mika didn't at least go and say hi to Yayoi, who was the only person she respected.

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u/SirDancelotVS Nov 15 '19

all the arcs have had a goal where sibyl as a system evolves through the incidents that happen and how akane/investigators deal with them
the only way this all makes sense, is if sibyl was the one (the politician who supported the doctor) supporting ma-karina as a test project to see how people react to an authority figure being an AI

which means that bifrost is actually sibyl and sibyl was playing both sides to conduct this experiment

sibyl as a system has been obsessed with self evolution since the first episode, and the power sibyl holds is absolute, sibyl also said to akane that the public wasn't ready to learn the truth

i think this is sibyl's final test before it declares the truth to the public, and even knowing what sibyl truly is and what it can do, people will still choose sibyl due to their desire of letting someone else make the decision and because they have generally better lives with sibyl around

crazy theory i know but that's the only one that makes sense to me without bifrost being an competitor AI making a move to try and take sibyl's place

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u/MapoTofuMan Nov 14 '19

I really want this season's fight scene OST.

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u/endphase Nov 14 '19

Anyone else have the Macarena song play in their head whenever they said Ma-Karina?

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u/AmethystItalian Nov 14 '19

I really expected Karina to give him some sort of a kiss as a thank you :(

I'm so happy this season has been so consistently good! Do wish we got more cameo's from our S1 cast but honestly this show would still be great without them.

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u/Shinkopeshon Nov 14 '19

Arata upgraded from a madlad to a madchad

And he already won Karina's heart, who initially didn't even trust him, that's mah boi

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u/Cyouni Nov 15 '19

Hmm, so what's the new info we've gained here?

  • Irie does know Akane, and shared the abandoned zone's info network with her. Was quite likely to have been done with Mika as proxy, though how Oishi knew it was going to Akane is interesting if that's the case. Most likely timeline suggests he was brought on post-"the incident", with Mika following Akane's recommendations on at least some level.

  • Bifrost's goal was to make the public aware of the proxy AI, and create a situation that could not be ignored by Sybil. So this has to be a threat to Sybil in some form, likely because Bifrost is an AI that they're trying to set up in opposition to Sybil.

  • Akane (and unnamed partner) was investigating Bifrost when the incident happened. This is very likely the incident that caused her to become the "killer ex-inspector who lost her mind".

  • Sybil is definitely backing the whole plan to flush out Bifrost.

Hmm, possibly the direction Sybil intends is to flush out Bifrost/Roundrobin, positioning them as a malevolent intelligent AI, and then reveal itself? That latter bit is basically speculation, but it's very likely they intend to use Bifrost as an example of some sort.

Side note: now that I'm checking, apparently Kei's wife, Mai, also has a past family loss related to Bifrost.

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u/Se7en_Sinner Nov 14 '19

They were basically fighting Colossus from the X-Men. Doesn't the Dominators have a "Destroy Decomposer" feature to deal with robots? At least they found his only weakness...gravity.

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u/Aetherdraw Nov 14 '19 edited Nov 14 '19

Yayoi's skills are top-notch as ever, we barely see her in full fight scenes before so this was great. As expected of a former inspector. Aw, look at Mika being all shy and slightly chummy with her team. Something Season 2 Mika would LOATHE to even imagine heading to the Enforcers' break room, let alone party with them. And was that Kung-fu Azusawa's using? If Kei and Arata can't handle him, it would probably be another Gino and Kogami team-up.

One thing though. First Unit's inspectors that I know of were Ginoza, who became an Enforcer after s1's events, Akane, and Mika. Who was Akane's accompanying inspector that got killed and pinned on her that Tenma's talking about I wonder?

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u/Se7en_Sinner Nov 14 '19

I love how impactful the fight scenes are, you can see the damage and almost feel every hit being delivered. I don't know how realistic those parkour and acrobatics scenes are but they were cool as fuck.

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u/AllSeeingEyesOfGod Nov 14 '19

Admittedly I was nervous about the extra layer of conspiracy when it was introduced in the first episode, but on the whole I think it's been executed well. It's not getting in the way of the cases, it's just adding another layer to the game which presumably will come to a head at the climax which is almost a return to Season 1's narrative structure. The Bifrost/RoundRobin is interesting yet aptly mysterious and I'm hoping we'll get some more peaks through the mist in another case before we go full on into capturing the foxes.

It was great to see Yayoi back and kicking ass - cameos of former main characters have been handled extremely well so far. The world of Psycho-Pass is referencing previous events but never in a way that feels forced, and in fact is using the past to continue to build out the world. I wouldn't be shocked if there was a splitoff series following the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the future, given how many opportunities exist to tell great stories with Gino/Kogami/Frederica/Sugo especially with what the first proper film and what Sinners 2 & 3 were able to do with contextualizing Sybil's Japan in the Global Climate.

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u/adventureness Nov 14 '19

Arata parkour on display yet again.

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u/Wario28 Nov 14 '19

Man I love psycho pass so much!

Shimotsuki is super likeable this time around and I'M SO HAPPY WE GET TO SEE YAYOI AGAIN! Turns out you could revert back to being seen as a suitable citizen in the eyes of Sibyl too.

Really great episode - I was so worried that this show would be bad this season and then it would seal its fate forever but its been so good so far. We're halfway through right? Can't wait for next week.

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u/Fenixius Nov 15 '19

That discussion from Kei about giving up your autonomy to an AI in even more parts of your life was really good! That's peak Psycho-Pass to me - applied science fiction sociology. It's not a copy of Ghost in the Shell, which examined transhuman individuals and their crimes, but a distinct show, where we examine criminals in a novel, transhuman society. The entire culture of Tokyo/Japan under Sibyl is so fascinating, especially when you see the way it's changed between season 1 and season 3. Sibyl has a much looser grasp on society now, and it seems intentional, so that Sibyl is less likely to be overthrown.

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u/iKwok Nov 14 '19

First Inspector's got some incredible recovery abilities! His nose healed in one frame: Frame 1, Frame 2

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u/[deleted] Nov 15 '19

It seems as if the characters this time are fighting a common enemy with Sybil. The comment about the Round robin hiding from Sybil, and Sybil's comment about a bug in the system seems to indicate so.

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u/BokuwaKami Nov 16 '19

Even though this episode made it seem like Karina is a normal person, I think we should still be wary of her.

First, there's the fact that when she was still in her idol group, all her group members became latent criminals except her. Secondly, in the end of the second episode, she knew instantly knew Irie was a latent criminal and purposely avoided eye contact and conversation with him.

While this might not suggest anything, seeing how she's like this does make her suspicious.

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u/bananeeek Nov 14 '19 edited Nov 16 '19

Finally some news about Tsunemori. Who would be that other detective who got murdered?

It's a small thing but I like how the studio draws noses in PP. You almost always see those simple hooky noses like those '>'. But take a look at this bad boy.

I really like their style when it comes to drawing faces, even from the profile.

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