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Medicinal warlock talks about a cosmetic SilverWolf owns but rightly doesn't want to pay for. Can I just say that header image looks badass? You're getting really good at making SFM images, the lighting and poses in particular Also new SPUF of Legend discussing Crimefest 2017, which ended yesterday with an AMA on reddit

If the Big Bang theory starts making Rick and Morty jokes, will the internet explode?

Finished Psycho-Pass 2 just now. Considering how much enjoyment I got out of the original Psycho-Pass, it pains me to say that PP2 is a poor sequel. Not in the sense that it paled in comparison to the original, but still managed to at least carry on the torch, but more in the sense that it was really just poor. The original Psycho-Pass was an entertaining and thrilling anime series centered around a futuristic, dystopian society in the year 2113, ruled by the utilitarian "Sibyl System" which values the collective happiness of society over the individual and enforces some rather harsh parameters in order to maintain public mental health. PP2 is the same, except all the good characters from the original season are sidelined to the extreme and speak maybe a collective 100 lines of dialogue throughout the anime. Instead new characters are pushed to the front of the show and unfortunately they're all exceptionally low quality. The only real returning character with any sort of respectable screentime is the protagonist of the original PP, Akane Tsunemori. A resolute Inspector of the Public Bureau of Safety (Which is essentially the FBI of this future society). Once again she picks up the mantle of the protagonist and thankfully she actually manages to be quite an interesting character throughout PP2, because she has actually grown and changed from her original self in the first PP. More confident, more stalwart and less afraid of taking action, Akane is easily one of my favourite anime protagonists. Unfortunately, while she has changed from PP > PP2, within the duration of the sequel, her character does not grow at all. She remains static, which considering the events that take place in PP2, is quite impressive if not downright unbelieveable. New characters to the series include Sakuya Tougane, an Enforcer within the Public Bureau of Safety who is a lot more than what meets the eye and Mika Shimotsuki, a rookie Inspector who essentially fills the same role as Akane did in the original PP series. Tougane was initially my favourite new character and as the series progressed, he honestly became my overall favourite. Unfortunately, in the second half of the anime, the writers completely dropped the ball and Tougane's character completely shattered to a point where I was genuinely dumbfounded at their lack of creativity. That's not unique to Tougane however, as the series in general just took a dip in the second half and is the main reason why I consider PP2 a "poor sequel". As for Shimotsuki, it's clear that the writers intended for her to be some sort of poster-child for the Sibyl System. A citizen who is willing to completely leave her fate in the hands of the system, because she has never known anything else her entire life and change scares her. I can see where they wanted to go with her character, but unfortunately she just ended up being really damn annoying... All the time... In every single episode. There is nothing likeable about Mika Shimotsuki and she never seems to apply any sort of logic or reasoning to anything that she does and sometimes you have to wonder if she's just plain stupid. Because of this, any development that she gets is pretty much overshadowed by the viewer's burning desire to slap her across the face. Also new to the series is the main antagonist, Kirito Kamui. I can't talk much about him without spoiling central points to the anime, but I will say that he is essentially just a watered-down replica of the villain from the first series. The original villain in Psycho-Pass was charismatic and interesting, whereas Kirito Kamui is just kind of the same character except with a lot less charisma and a lot less impact value, because all the shit that he does is shit we saw the original villain of PP do. He's boring and he possesses so many different skills that it becomes hard to understand just what exactly his character is supposed to be. And in the end, that is what PP2 boils down to. A less smart, less interesting and less original COPY of the original. The plot is in its essence centered around the same thing and the various issues which the Public Bureau of Safety face are in their essences, the same issues they faced in the original PP. Because of that, PP2 kinda stops being interesting around episode 7, when you come to the realization: "Oh, I've seen this before". Not to mention that the directing is constructed a lot worse in PP2, to the point where one scene (Which is supposed to be emotional and shocking) ends up being laughable, simply because it is over-dramatized to the extreme. Worse characters, worse plot, worse resolution. In all aspects Psycho-Pass 2 fails. Had the original season been of this low quality, I would never have recommended it to anyone. As it stands, if you're interested in Psycho-Pass, watch the first season and enjoy yourself, because it is genuinely good. Watch PP2 only if you want to bear witness to a trainwreck.