Cyberspace: Commu-Fields take forums to their natural conclusion. People seem to dive into the cyber network in the form of their avatars. Reused Character Design: Akira Amano, know for her Reborn! (2004) manga, reused the designs of her characters from her manga for the characters in the anime. The Dominators are the standard-issue weapons for the Public Safety Bureau, but conventional gunpowder weapons are still used, though they're rare in the setting. Of special note is the over-under double-barrel shotgun used by Toyohisa Senguji, a Browning Citori . Much later in the series, Masaoka points Kougami to a secret stash from his old police days to help him obtain a Ruger SP101 revolver. note The shotgun is actually Truth in Television as the only factory in the world that manufactures the Citori is found in Japan. Masaoka having an SP101 is a little unusual as while Japanese policemen do use revolvers, they typically carry Smith & Wesson or New Nambu models instead.

Aratas mentalist abilities could be used to trace a suspect's motives and thoughts through a process called "Mental Tracing". When Inspector Ginoza first meets Tsunemori, he assigns Kogami and Masaoka, the two Enforcers he trusts best to work as a team, to assist Tsunemori in her first mission. [2] At the outset, Ginoza and Tsunemori appear to merely tolerate one another. Over time, Tsunemori learns that Ginoza's abruptness stems from his fear of seeing yet another Inspector/friend/family member demoted to Enforcer status. This explains his keen interest in Tsunemori's state of mind and stable emotions. [15] As Tsunemori develops as an Inspector, Ginoza begins to trust her and earns her trust, in return. Tsunemori is a female of average height and a slender, but fit build in her 20's. She has brown eyes, short brown hair and a pale complexion. She is seen in various types of garb throughout the series. She has had the same haircut since she was eleven years old and some might mistake her for a boy [1]. However, at the beginning of the manga adaptation, Inspector Akane Tsunemori, her hair is long.On the Inspector side of things, Akane and Risa get to see some action as well. Mika gets her moments after her Character Development starts to really show. The final episode of the New Edit opens with a scene where Makishima muses on how surreal it is that people are so apathetic, nobody's ever attempted to bring down the Sibyl System before him. After spending time with the members of Division 01, Tsunemori develops into a full-fledged detective, albeit tempered by her personal sense of justice. An example of this is when she is unable to kill Shogo Makishima not once, but twice: the first time leading to the death of a friend and the second time preventing her from avenging said murder. Yet, she still tries to bring him in alive instead of exacting revenge. Following Crime and Punishment, Ginoza transfers into the MFA Operations Department's SAD where he reunites with Kogami. He acts as a behind-the-scene resource in their joint mission to uncover the truth. Two Lines, No Waiting: As of Season 2 episode 5, we have two plot lines going: the main case to find Kamui, and Mika's private investigation of Enforcer Tougane, who is much more than what he seems.

Her hobbies are video gaming, net surfing and chatting with friends. While in prison, she spends her time reading investigation material and learning the art of self-defense and arrest training. Bolivian Army Cliffhanger: Season 3 ends with Yayoi being on a "car accident" which was arranged by Asuzawa. Some instances, such as Rikako getting blasted in the face with Senguji's shotgun at point-blank range in season 1 and Kamui orchestrating the deaths of all the corrupt politicians who covered up the Season of Hell and kept the Sibyl System in power in season 2.

At the end, the dead include many antagonists including Senguji, Rikako, Mido, Touma and Choe; along with Akane's friend Yuki and her old classmate Spookie Boogie; Professor Kudama (who was killed in the episode he was introduced, to boot); Shusei and Masaoka. In the last episode, only one person dies, Shogo Makishima. Unlimited Wardrobe: The logical conclusion of the clothes-altering technology. Anyone can wear pretty much anything they imagine.

With the exception of one major incident (the city-wide riots) and the finale, the first season focused on individual murders. The second season ups the stakes by starting off with a string of terrorist bombings across Tokyo, and introduces an antagonist who is even more dangerous than Makishima. In just two episodes of season 2, more people are killed than the entirety of season 1.Also in season 2, there's loads of this between Kamui and Shisui. From the almost-erotic way he makes her bite his finger, to the moments when they hug tight and whisper into each other's ears, capped off with her line "I don't mind if you use my body in any way you see fit" which can't be anything but Double Entendre. Not to mention that starting with the second half of the series, they're always seen together. Private Military Contractors: The "Pathfinders" in Season 3. Two members work for Azusawa as his private mercenaries, and the group as a whole is the main target of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs' investigation. It is hinted that the Pathfinders are the remnants of the Peace Monitoring Group from Sinners of the System as they hold a specific grudge against Kougami. Post-Cyberpunk: There's some of it in the series, though the show mainly focuses on crimes so it is much more Cyberpunk. Some examples are that holograms are incorporated into everyday life providing numerous people access to an Unlimited Wardrobe and there are advanced online chat rooms allowing people to live out digital lives in a vast digital world. There's even cyborg technology sold by a company to help replace limbs or let some people become full-body cyborgs. Though the person in charge of the cyborg limb company is a psycho. Awful Truth: The Sibyl System is composed of numerous brains of criminally asymptomatic individuals (read: sociopaths and/or serial killers, who read as normal people under the System) connected to each other and the Internet, controlling every aspect of society as a collective. This revelation is enough to make Choe believe revealing this would shatter society, due to their reliance on the Sibyl System. It also horrifies Shusei. Shaggy Dog" Story: Episode 4 of Season 2. After being held hostage along with many others by an insane man who had been beating them to death one by one, Aoyanagi gets the upper hand on him and opened the closed emergency doors and was planning to shoot him with her dominator, saving the remain hostages. However, her and everyone else's psycho-passes had escalated greatly during situation, and the team waiting outside killed her and all the hostages, making everything she did pointless.

The opening for the second series features Chief Kasei lifting a dominator in front of her face, only for the image to change to that of new Enforcer Sakuya Togane holding the dominator, with one glowing eye. Turns out, Togane is Kasei's son, and he is downright evil. The ending credits update and change some details depending on the episode. This is easily visible in Episode 6, where the usually bored Akane gets replaced with a more vivid illustration.Here We Go Again!: The end has a Naïve Newcomer join the force, and having to deal with a crime on her first day of the job, just like Akane did in the first episode. But Akane introduced the enforcers as 'humans just like us', whereas Ginoza said 'don't think of them as human beings'. Kaname Shinjo - Tetsuya Hyodo - Tsubaki Aikawa - Takayuki Haga - Koichi Hatano - Mai Momota - Ayaka Takami - Nariaki Ikoma - Jyojiro Takasu - Naoto Kurata - Hina Amari - Tsubasa Torii Villain with Good Publicity: The Sybil System has a blind spot, where some individuals have a flat, positive score that won’t meaningfully change regardless what they do. Those who exploit it in a villainous way, automatically becomes this. Acceptable Feminine Goals and Traits: Discussed in Episode 8, where Rikako observes that the idea of a "lady" is an archaic idea in the world of 2112, but one that still has value to rich men, so Ohso Academy still exists to teach antique virtues to young women and turn them into proper Yamato Nadeshiko to be sold off into marriage. Jesus told them another parable: The kingdom of Heaven is like a man who sowed good seed in his field. But while everyone was sleeping, his enemy came and sowed weeds among the wheat, and went away."