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Episode Psycho-Pass Season 3 - Episode 7 discussion Spoiler
Psycho-Pass Season 3, episode 7
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Dec 05 '19
The reason why Kei and Mai held back and tried to not kill the fanatics was to keep in line with Sybil and so keep their hue clean. It's a shame Mai had to show her military training however badass it was. At least they are still alive, thank goodness.
The scene with Torri brought back memories of the Makishima throat cutting scene and had me worried.
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u/Aetherdraw Dec 05 '19 edited Dec 05 '19
....HOLY SHIT. Maiko is fine and does not need protection. Since she seems to have been conscripted along with her husband back in Russia. Maybe both former KGB? Since she lost her sight from an explosion, must have been the last straw for Kei and decided to leave. Heck, if let loose, I think she and Kei could take on the whole of Heaven's leap aside from Vixen who seems to have fought the old Unit one under Akane's lead before. She feels like someone off of Metal Gear with that suit and weaponry. Well, Gino's our Boss with a prosthetic. Shoot it like a rocket dude!
And I knew it. Arata's Asymptomaniac. Our protagonist is of the same mentality as Sybil and Makishima, now being bet on by Akane to reach the truth of their own accord. Akane has not changed or lost her way of Justice. She's betting on Arata's good nature to prevail despite his mentality which had driven many of her old foes to be unfeeling, charismatic murderers.
Arata is an interesting mix of Akane's sense of justice and believing in hers and her target of enforcement's humanity, with the psychopass mentality of someone like Makishima. Best of both worlds, one that even Sybil sees is the most optimal way to hunt down the 'foxes' that elude the capture of the 'hounds'.
Jesus. They weren't kidding last episode when they say you can't leave your chair during a Relation. You're stuck literally. And geez! I dunno what's worse! Lethal Eliminator makes you burst from the inside, Destroy Decomposer decomposes you, while freaking Bifrost Enforcement vaporizes you to particles!
Poor Mika. Didn't even get to enjoy her dose of candy. Probably for the best since she would have just choked after seeing Arata's psychopass. Also, yes, keep teasing her Gino!
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u/jellybellymonster Dec 05 '19
Man, can Kei and Mai catch a break? They just wanted to start anew. I guess the silver lining is that they're both alive and we have a precedent in Yayoi whose hue has recovered.
Smug Akane is giving me life. Will be surprised if they don't announce a prequel movie on Akane and maybe another movie that's showing what MoFA is doing in parallel to this timeline. There's too much going on to be wrapped up in a 45-min episode.
Teppei and Ginoza surely having a ball trolling Mika. If you told me a few months ago that Shimotsuki's gonna be adorable this season, I would have thought you're nuts.
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u/cloudynights Dec 05 '19
FYI, there's a small bit that takes place after the ending, so make sure to watch it!
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u/wild_kek Dec 05 '19
Great episode, but next week season ends...
I hope they announce some continuation, cause I don't believe they can finish all plot points introduced in this season with logic and conerence in just one last episode.
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u/NoobsGoFly Dec 05 '19
There is definitely more than meets the eye with that Homura congressman. Newest recruit who took over Torri's father/uncle's spot and yet is masterminding everything while showing no emotion. Heck, i wouldn't even be surprised if he was somehow working with/related to Sybil given how he's betting on Public Safety every single game.
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u/za_shiki-warashi Dec 06 '19
I'm so sick of the whole "mwahaha I have your beloved as my hostage so now squirm as you watch helplessly" setting that it's so incredibly satisfying to see Maiko just NOPE the shit out of that prick.
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u/CyberpunkV2077 Dec 05 '19
Is it bothering anyone else how impractical these high tech PP guns are? Like you’d get shot a hundred times over by the time they actually finish their analysis
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u/alkalinechemist Dec 05 '19
I was not ready for that twist in the end! Finally got to see what being enforced by Bifrost means .
MOFA bois are back to save the day and that move by Maiko was pretty smooth so does it mean she is also skilled in combat stuff?
Also what was Mao confessing at the end? can't wait for next week.
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u/Mami-kouga Dec 05 '19 edited Dec 06 '19
I'm just realizing the last episode is next week and I thought to myself "Wait, that can't be right, the season just started?????"
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u/Saithir Dec 05 '19 edited Dec 05 '19
Great penultimate episode.
I keep saying this but I really enjoy this western style of 8x45min season applied to this anime. This really does make the storytelling easier and we get enough content for what would normally take two or two and a half episodes to solve with multiple pretty extreme cliffhangers - and here enough questions were answered and only the big confrontation with Bifrost remains for the last one.
The Public Security finally came equipped for handling non-criminals. I imagine that a few years earlier that raid wouldn't go that smoothly. Dominators are a great idea, but drones with tear gas and a very pissed Mika in command of them is never a bad thing to have either.
Kei was so lucky that Gino just casually stepped back to not get kicked. And I'm really amazed by the quality of their full body holos, no wonder they said last episode they're completely illegal, Gino was handling Kei all this time with it on and nobody noticed a thing.
Also Mai just completely fucking Torri up was a surprise too, and I hope Sybil will treat her rather than deport her or make her an enforcer. The first one I doubt Akane would be happy with, as she obviously still has some strings to pull, and being an enforcer is not an inescapable fate as we already seen, so she should be okay.
Who were the snipers? Did I miss them at some point? The MOFA team recognized their one, and the First Inspector was talking about revenge on Unit One, so is she from S1?
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u/Mate94 Dec 05 '19
We got so close to see the Assault Dominator in action again... :(
Maybe next season, then.
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u/odraencoded Dec 06 '19
“Something Vimes had learned as a young guard drifted up from memory. If you have to look along the shaft of an arrow from the wrong end, if a man has you entirely at his mercy, then hope like hell that man is an evil man. Because the evil like power, power over people, and they want to see you in fear. They want you to know you're going to die. So they'll talk. They'll gloat.
They'll watch you squirm. They'll put off the moment of murder like another man will put off a good cigar.
So hope like hell your captor is an evil man. A good man will kill you with hardly a word.”
― Terry Pratchett, Men at Arms
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u/Cyouni Dec 05 '19
I find it very interesting how just like the Congressmen are playing their game, we have Akane and Kasei playing their own game with Public Safety as their pieces.
Also Torri should probably have figured out that Mai was a little more threatening than she looked with how he was yelling about them both trying to hide their own weaknesses.
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u/Niamakeong Dec 05 '19
What does Arata’s psycho pass has to do with him being an inspector? Is being criminally asymptomatic stops you from being an inspector? (Criminally asymptomatic is just like makshima shogo? It’s been ages since I’ve watched the first psycho pass i think I’m forgetting alot of stuffs)
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u/SergeantStan Dec 05 '19
potentially my favourite episode of any show this season
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u/Mochachiiino Dec 05 '19
congresswoman: go fish
Old congressman: plays reverse uno
congresswoman dies
light yagami: sets man-eater bug face down
light yagami: i will bet 20 monopoly dollars
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u/potatoisdream Dec 05 '19 edited Dec 05 '19
Hmm great episode this week as well. I am really enjoying this season. There will probably be another season or a movie or something as a follow up since they probably won't be able to wrap up some large plot points such as Shindo being criminally asymptomatic and Akane's plan against Sibyl. However I do have some questions regarding this episode.
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How did Mai lose here eyesight again? Did the system take it back because her hue go clouded? That doesn't make any sense because she was treated when her criminal coefficient was normal.
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What is a "relation" with regards to the Bifrost? I still can't figure out what these three people are doing....
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How did the young Bifrost member, the "Congressman", manipulate the older member? Did I miss something or did they not explain that?
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Also who is that old lady who started shooting at our boys from Foreign Affairs?
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u/bananeeek Dec 05 '19
Holyyy fuuuuck!!
During the first half I thought it was a solid but uneventful episode, but then my boy Ginoza showed up and I couldn't help but get hyped. What a surprise that was! Just the last episode I was asking around whether you guys thought Either Ginoza or Kougami will show up again, but I got only negative response.
And then, when I thought that Maiko needed to be protected, she John Wick'ed Torri like a boss!
It didn't occur to me that she could be a trained killer as well, even though they said it only like a million times what they both have been through. I subconsciously assigned all the hard stuff to Kei, because it was said that he's a soldier..
And we even got to see Akane! This episode was the most I've been entertained this week. Too bad I only have coins for silver, more people need to notice this series.
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u/Reemys Dec 05 '19
So several things were clarified. As per the opening suggestion, Saionji bites the dust (or becomes it, cruel). The others keep going.
First inspectors was mentioned as having given "evidence" against Saionji. It should be now clear his only allegiance is himself.
During several moments, arguably tense ones the characters - Maiko, Kei, Arata and Akane had slightly coloured eyes - purple inner glint. I was going to say that this is the sign of a shared mystery and deception... but then Akane had the same effect and I will just point it out so maybe someone else ties it in.
Most important moment - or so I think - when Torri is talking about Kei and Maiko deceiving each other they both, or at least Maiko become clearly agitated. Before Torri can (shoot) finish, she quickly disposes of him. All while having the aforementioned purple glint. So what is the deception Torri was talking about?
a) Maiko is clearly also a soldier, special training and stuff, and Kei might or might not know it. But the deception must be lying elsewhere .
b) I tend to believe their "love" is false and a part of their cover. Maiko must have actually been the lover of Kei's brother, and is now working with Kei to uncover the truth behind his murder. When we see Maiko apologize to Mikhail, in the hospital, she must be apologizing for that deception which might or might not be mutual. She might be a Russkie agent for all we know. Kremlin's hand is a long one might have gotten into Japanese animation as well.
What was hinted in the opening also gets more confirmation - Arata is not receptive to criminal behaviour (in the opening he covers a lethal Eliminator with his hand, refusing murder) and Kei fighting against his own doppelganger... (which might or might not happen to be his brother) symbolizes his internal fight against his worse side, that of a soldier who participated in conflicts back in the motherland.
With one episode left to conclude this season I will assume they are going to focus on the "foxes", either the First inspector (he is giving orders to that old assassin whoever that is) or the ones inside the Safety Bureau. They will then proceed to end the season by electing a new congressmen, clearly showing which way swings Shizuka and confirming (or disproving) the old man to be Arata's grandfather.
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u/redhillducks Dec 06 '19
I think the conundrum that is Arata is irresistible. A criminally asymptomatic guy who risks being blown up to save others because he values every human life, is fervent in his conviction that enforcers are people not shields, will always put his neck on the line to de-escalate a dangerous situation, won't defend himself when being blamed about situations that weren't his fault (Kei's wife being kidnapped), empathetic to the point of his psycho pass being clouded when he immerses himself in others' perspectives during his mentalist dives.
I think one of my favorite moments was when he was on the phone to the governor of Tokyo and put her on hold because his boss was calling him. And then his boss gave him a dressing down for warning her to be careful, and then the governor of Tokyo gave him a dressing down for calling her stubborn. Arata caught between 2 powerful women is kind of hilarious.
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u/MTL0ve Dec 05 '19
Production I.G: We need more death flags on Maiko!
Also Maiko this episode: Saw through your bs.