Pyscho Pass
22 Episodes in the first season x each 20 minutes = 440min= 7.3 hours so lets just say 7 hours of viewing.
A quick summary of this anime is that it is set in the future where the government determines whether someone is dangerous or not. They crime force is split into three positions inspectors, enforcers, and analysis officers. The inspectors are detectives with a clean psycho pass, enforcers and latent criminals who help the detectives, and analysis do the computer work. If someone has a certain psycho pass number they are determined as dangerous to society and are put away for therapy. There are readers all over the city and the inspectors have guns that can read it. When on duty the gun can read how high the psycho pass is and determines whether to disable the person or kill them.
Its scary to think that we could live in a world constructed like that. In one episode a woman was raped and they read her psycho pass and it was high due to the stress levels and the gun ended up killing her. I wouldn't like to live a world like this because you never know what could happen. One day you could just be stressed or upset over something and a detector will read you and send you to therapy or to be locked away forever.
I would consider this science fiction because it is futuristic scenario. It is all technological the way they do things. I really enjoy this show and it has made its way into my top three animes of all time.
Hi Karina,
ReplyDeleteYou've given a good synopsis here, but can you talk a little bit about at least one of the essential questions of the class? The questions are on p. 1-2 of the syllabus.
I, too, am a fan of anime. I've never heard of this but now I really want to check it out. I can't imagine a world where you could be killed on-site simply because you're stressed or having an nervous breakdown. It sounds like it reflects the therapies, such as shock-therapy, that we're used a long time ago on patients that had mental disorders. Simply because we, as a human race, were ignorant on the subject of mental illness.
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