Merry Christmas Eve! Or Merry People are all over the streets, stores, and everywhere else day. XD I have been trying to clean up the house for the festivities tomorrow. Gotta clean and make things sparkles for the day. I think all the Christmas related stuff is done and just some minor things here and there need to be taken care of. So basically I might be ready to eat, be merry, and unwrap presents since I don't drink.
This probably won't end well....
As for anime land...here is an episode weee! Psycho-Pass episode 11 to be exact. Spoilers for all my screenies sucking because this episode was shot in the dark.
Good thing we are not going to go and help him directly.
Episode Summary: Ginoza is not pleased that things are going so poorly. So he decided that he will make things go even worse by sending the oldest and youngest member of the team to look for Shinya while he and the other two who never get screen time go look for the jamming device. Everyone notes that this situation must be serious if Shinya is asking for help. Akane and Tomomi head off alone and note the area looks like a war zone. Shougo warns Senguji that the popo are on their way and that this will no longer be a game but life or death...for Senguji. Senguji reloads his gun while telling a story about how he used to work in hostile areas of the world for cash. One day rebels came and blew his friend's head away. But the story is positive because as all the brain matter and blood dripped off his face he felt so alive. Being in that situation made him feel alive and like a real person. Being told that he is in a life and death situation now makes him feel alive despite being in a fake body. Besides Senguji knows that Shougo only sticks around for the shows and Senguji will put one on. Shinya races around and tries to dodge all the bullets that are coming his way. It is very cat and mouse like with dramatic music. Senguji thinks that he is tracking Shinya but it was really Yuki being bait. Shinya blows Senguji away but not before some bullets hit his body.
Can't even die in peace.
Shinya collapses as Yuki goes on and on how he has to live so she can become a latent criminal and be with him. Thankfully Shougo arrives to take away Yuki so Shinya only has one crazy girl to deal with. Just as they are no longer useful Akane and Tomomi arrive. Akane magically forgets all her medical training so she is the one to go after Shougo instead of Tomomi. Shinya isn't happy that Akane the dumb has taken off without him and Tomomi has to restrain him. The others eventually show up but way too much time has passed for it to help anyone. Akane does find Shougo who introduces himself to Akane. Akane is like I AM THE LAW and you will listen to me. To Akane's surprise her Dominator shows that Shougo has a very low crime number and it drops the more Shougo talks about killing people and what not. As he cuts Yuki up a bit he explains his hue has never clouded and the system has never flagged him. He talks a bit about how the system may read people's souls but he can read them better and how he lets people like Rikako fulfill their darkest desires. He continues to talk about how weak Akane is and throws her down the shotgun. He says he will kill Yuki unless Akane shoots him with the gun, making the decision on her own since the system has failed her. Akane continues to check with the Dominator while holding the shotgun. She eventually shoots but was aiming at nothing. Shougo says he is disappointed in Akane and kills Yuki. Outside Shinya is being taken away but not before he sees Akane. He is wheeled over as she says she is at fault for Yuki dying and that she met the legendary Shougo, Shinya's enemy. THE END!
Why are you always causing problems?!
Totally called it. Yuki died and it was Akane's fault. Of course I thought the method was going to be a little different and I was almost right about that. Oh and blaming Akane might not be fair. But given the society they live in now being fair might be a thing of the past.
are going to go off and do other things. Have fun dying.
Oh Ginoza. Ginoza Ginoza Ginoza. It was like you were disappointed that you couldn't blow away Shinya so you just gave up on the rescue mission. Like psht whatever maybe if I send in Akane he will die anyway. While I agree that going off alone would be a bad idea I am not sure why they sent more people to unjam the system instead of going to rescue Shinya. If he never asks for help and sounds worried....why pick today to be a bunch of redshirts? GO TO THE RESCUE!
Maybe he should be the boss.
While Akane might be a pile a special I like that Tomomi is trying to take her under her wing despite the fact she only sees in Shinya vision. Maybe it is because Tomomi and has seen more that he actually can stop and try to protect Akane. They lost Shinya as an Inspector and given how Akane runs off at a moment's notice...she needs a lot of watching. Maybe she reminds Tomomi of Ginoza but I like him. Surely that means his head will be blown off.
Apparently the day his friend died was his best day ever!
It seems last episode when I could decide if Senguji was pissed at Shougo or happy. Well this week I can safely say.....happy. Very, very happy. Case in point Shougo tells him he is in danger and Senguji's response is to tell a lovely story about him and his friend. Also Senguji is super way old but that is probably not the point. But yes the story. Running around and making money off what sounds like struggling countries....good to know that Senguji is a people person. Why this story makes him happy even though it ends with his friend being killed. I understand what he was saying, that it takes a funeral to make you feel aliiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiive. But the way he went about it after the fact was a bit....you know illegal and evil. I guess if someone can't care enough to mourn their friend after the fact you can't expect them to care about strangers.
"Fun" folks.
So Senguji is not going to run away folks. Because finally the game has become fun. The prey has been given a weapon and maybe an upper hand. Something that Senguji hasn't had up until now. So he is off thanking Shougo. Or maybe he knew deep down that Shougo was not the best person to do business with. Something about how everyone else Shougo works with ends up dead. That might have been a tip off. But since Senguji is a crazy person it is hard to understand how they work. You go on living that way Mr. Crazy Person. How do you feel now?
Well that was slightly traumatizing wasn't it?
Well probably dead since you are plastered all over the place. I thought there was going to be a bit more cat and mouse going on that what we saw. But I guess last week there was a lot of that. When Senguji got shot the first time it wasn't much fun as he is made of metal and not blood and flesh. But then the second time he got blown away it was a bit more magical. Especially the creepy way he smiled. Like thanks for giving my wish buddy. And he did manage to hit Senguji despite having the “weaker” weapon so...yeah. Don't know where I was going with that one.
Can we save the crazy for later oh wait....
Shougo was bleeding on the ground there and apologizing to Yuki for using her as bait and homegirl lost her mind. Um you just saved her life. Granted it did but her in danger but looking around all I see is danger. Plus Yuki was too busy wanting to jump Shinya's bones because HELLO he is hot and saved her life. Maybe that was the crazy talking but at least she wasn't registering as a latent criminal yes? But maybe next time we should check to make sure the person shooting at you is acting alone okay?
Time to hire more people!
Are there any other people on the police force other than the ones we have seen? I know other red shirts show up from time to time but are there any other Enforcers or Inspectors? Because.....yeah can we get some more people coming to the rescue or something? This is getting kinda sad. Akane running off to save her friend alone... a dumb and dangerous move but I understand it under the circumstances. Maybe if there were bigger teams Tomomi wouldn't have to pick between protecting Akane and saving Shinya.
Entertain me for I am bored!
Shougo....he is a bored little person. I know he is testing Shinya but I didn't think that Akane was on his radar. But now that I think about it maybe he was trying to give a message to Shinya. And since Shinya is currently unable to walk he set the message via Akane. That and maybe Shougo likes to smash the hopes and dreams of everyone he comes across.
SHOOT HIM!
At first I was really, really pissed at Akane. Shot the damn asshole already. Your friend is in danger and he is the one causing it. Your weapon is not working. Pick up the other gun with BOTH hands and blast off his head. Why is this so hard? I mean...if this was my best friend and she was hesitating so I would be pissed even if she did save me in the end. Well if I was dead guess I couldn't be pissed but still.
Unable to think for herself in this situation.
But one has to remember how Akane has been raised and how she has been trained. Hue colors and criminal numbers are everything. And Shougo was practically a saint according to her gun. It was probably going against all reason in her head thus the multiple trigger pulls and the sad face when things were just not working out for her. She so wanted to believe in the system, believe that her job was one that did the right thing and Shougo splat all over that as well as killed her best friend. Even though she should have shot him and become a latent criminal with Shinya.
Is he the only one or are there others?
So Shougo can't be the only one the system doesn't work on correct? They are going Minority Report on us now, showing that there are flaws in the system. Perhaps Shougo wasn't directly involved with the other crimes as his hands were doing the actual killing but he did kill Yuki here and nothing showed up. A flaw in the system or a flaw in Shougo? Either way I am sure he will be the one to bring the system down and will probably be worth more alive than dead which will probably piss off Shinya. Shougo and his crazy reasoning about destroying the system may be right but obviously he is going about it the wrong way. I look forward to Akane telling her other friend what happened next week. What a hot mess that will be.
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In the anime it shows clearly that Sybil is the one that judge if the target should be shot or not, the human holding the Dominator just allow the Sybil judgement. In other words the Inspector (I think that's what they called) never had any chance/experience to actually judge/weight the life of a human. This is why Akane can not just "shoot" because the weight of a life is just that "heavy".
The system also show dehumanization. I mean once you push the trigger, the criminal cess to be a human and become just a dangerous "thing/beast/object" that should be get-rid of. It is like in Video Game, where you shoot the target just to eliminated someTHING. So, as Makishima put it, the only time in this system when you truly use your “free-will” is when you are a criminal.
I like how the anime hit us (emotionally) right at the moment it mattered most. It’s about Akane’s feeling of utter uselessness without the Dominator making the decision for her. It was one of those perfect moments of ramping tension where I only realized once it had ended that I hadn’t breathed for the entire thing. The point where he slit her throat made my entire body wince and contract. I assume this is how Urobuchi Gen (the writer of this shown and Fate/Zero) wishes us a Merry Christmas.
Shougo is a bastard and coward and a big bad guy, heh. Even if Akane decided to shot using the shotgun, things would not end well for her. For as long as I know, shotgun has 'spread' bullets, as opposed to rifles. At such distance, she would end up killing her own friend before she can shoot Shougo. Thank goodness it got fired off at random directions because she's only holding it using one hand. I bet Akane can't aim a real gun properly too, because of the recoil. Their dominators seems to such high-tech guns which don't have any recoil.
Agree @Eternia, I thought the rifle thing made Shougo's point more academic than practical b/c if Akane hasn't used a rifle and she shoots at Shougo, odds are she kills her friend like what happened to 10-yr old Charles Bronson in Once Upon a Time in the West and 10-year old Sharon Stone in The Quick and the Dead.
And it was pretty unclear whether Akane did try to shoot Shougo and just missed everything. Probably it was just reflex and she wasn't meaning to shoot and it just served to illustrate how pitiable she was.
I'm kind of disappointed that Shougo has some random colorless hue, instead of some hellza disciplined mind. He didn't really choose to have free-will then either, he was just born lucky b/c he's free from judgment/consequence. In fact, if Akane gets some free will of her own through this whole crappy experience she will completely own Shougo b/c she will have earned it the hard way.
That having been said, I still love my Shougo and was just too happy for all the Shougo screentime this week.
Anonymous 1- I think it is easy for us (well me) to be screaming for Akane to shoot but deep down it was probably mentally impossible for her to do so. And this had to happen to Akane because had Ginoza done this well it would just be him being an asshole and Shinya really had nothing to lose being a latent criminal already. No it had to be Akane even if the friend factor was already pretty obvious.
That all being said I am not sure if Akane would have fired if the Dominator told her to make him into confetti. She was able to fire on Shinya when it was set on stun but we haven't seen Akane have to make any serious calls yet. But either way it shown how helpless Akane really was in this situation and makes one really wonder why Akane was chosen for this job.
Eternia- I kinda didn't factor in the idea that Akane how no idea how to use this gun. This is the future AND Japan so guns like that would be pretty foreign to her, something she read about in textbooks once. So either way the friend was going to die as the shotgun was going to spray the both of them. Not that it matters as it would still be "Akane's" fault.
Anonymous (2?)- I think it was also a reflex that the gun went off. Akane was clearly upset that something she was taught was not working. This man was the enemy and she was taught you can fire at the enemy once the gun says so. She might have thought she was pulling the trigger of the Dominator instead of the shotgun.
But in the off chance she was firing the shotgun on purpose she was only doing so halfheartedly. Like look I fired it let her go!
I too wish that Shougo was so evil he was off the radar. Not born into a magical clear hue like Akane. But maybe that is why he is like that, to show both sides of the coin, Akane good and Shougo bad. But I really thought he was doing something to cause this low number, not that it was luck. Still it was rather evil and I guess that is all that counts.
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