Why did you only choose students within this school for your works of art?
This academy is a girls' boarding school.
What do you think of their education policy, Mr. Makishima?
We were so close.
Rikako Ouryou has already been put on the wanted list.
It's just a matter of time.
She'll disappear.
What?
Come with me. I wanna talk to you.
What is it? If you have a problem with me, just spit it out.
I'm sorry.
It was me who got emotional. He wasn't your delusion.
Don't worry about it.
If you took everything Enforcers say seriously, you'd be a poor Inspector.
That's how it is, right?
But...
It feels like my prey's tail just brushed the tip of my nose.
For the first time in a long while, I'm feeling pretty good now, Gino.
My head is overflowing with thoughts I can't allow anyone to know about
I've strayed into a world void of even mistakes
It's being rubbed in so deep it's hard to believe
This "world" that holds only what the eye can see
Can I flush out the truth?
Plastic Tac Tic, no one can go crazy anymore
You, too, are in a plastic beautiful world
In a world with too much beauty, for some reason I can't see the light
My bursting heart is an eternal reflection
Secret remains for you
Don't expose these false colors and futures
fake's plastic world keep it secret motion
#09 Paradise Fruit
Okay.
Have you decided?
Yep.
Put this outfit combination in my "favorites."
Roger!
Oh! Do you have a date?
I-It's not like that!
Holo team! Use the pattern that we discussed yesterday!
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Advanced Medical Treatments of the Future that Will Change Your Life
Okay!
Hmm... I'm not sure...
Isn't it a little too flashy? People might feel it's tacky instead.
Well then, we'll try some other patterns, too.
How about getting a present for your date?
Also, I could coordinate a bouquet...
I said it's not like that, didn't I?!
Cancel! Delete memory!
As you wish. Speculation circuit will be reset!
Candy, turn on some news.
The Ministry of Welfare uploaded a recommended video.
Then play that one.
Today, we have Mr. Toyohisa Senguji, a pioneer of whole-body cyberization
and the Chairman of the Teito Network Construction Corporation,
a company that works on underground redevelopment.
Chairman of Teito Network Construction Corporation Toyohisa Senguji
Thanks for having me.
The use of cyborg technology for medical purposes is now commonplace.
However, it's still rare to see someone like Chairman Senguji,
who, except for his brain and nervous system, is entirely cyborg.
It's a mystery to me
why other people haven't given up their limiting bodies.
Limiting, you say?
Plato said that our souls were imprisoned in our bodies.
You seem to be in a bad mood already, Mr. Kogami.
When I tried to smoke, that thing tried to bite me.
What's your problem?!
What was that about? Geez...
Sorry.
Hm?
Well, please don't worry about it. I'm curious, too, so...
I'm finding new pleasures in my life all the time.
I never expected that overcoming aging would lead to such happiness.
Unless you embrace a cyberized body, you won't understand it.
But even with the latest technology,
it is estimated that the brain's lifespan is about 150 years.
I hear that we're still quite a ways away from complete cyberization of the brain.
If I tax my brain to its limits, I can squeeze a bit more life out of it.
So I'm counting on them to find a breakthrough in the meantime.
I see. If that actually happens, then...
That's right. The era of immortality will have arrived.
It's said that God created man in his own image.
Isn't it about time for us humans to be a little more like God?
What do you think about gaining eternal youth and immortality
by becoming a cyborg?
I'm not interested.
Life as a latent criminal isn't the sort of thing you'd want to go on forever.
But... if the social system is more developed one day,
the rights of latent criminals may improve.
No wonder your Psycho-Pass tends to stay so clear.
According to a survey,
it seems that a majority of people have answered
that they feel reluctant to be more than 50% cyborg.
I do understand the reluctance that those people feel.
In the end, it's a matter of degree.
For example, you...
You're quite the cyborg, too.
But I don't use artificial arms, artificial legs, or artificial organs.
But you do have some form of portable information terminal, right?
Well, yes... but doesn't everyone?
A costume device, too?
Of course.
And, at home, you probably have home automation and an AI secretary.
Yes.
What would happen to you if all the data in those devices was lost
due to a disaster or accident?
Well...
I wouldn't be able to do any work until it gets restored.
When you entrust so much of your everyday life to those electronic devices,
the argument that you aren't a cyborg isn't very convincing.
To you, those portable terminals are already your second brain.
Isn't that right?
It can be said that the history of science is
a history of the expansion of the human body's functionality,
in other words, the history of man's cyberization.
That's why it's a matter of degree.
Private Property No Trespassing
Yes?
Hello. It's me, Kogami.
Oh, hold on a sec.
I don't see much environment Holo being used here.
He doesn't like that kind of stuff.
It's been a while, Professor Saiga.
Stop calling me professor. How many years do you think it's been since I quit?
So that young lady is...
I'm Akane Tsunemori, an Inspector at the MWPSB. Nice to meet you.
Thank you for seeing me today.
Come in. I welcome you.
Is coffee okay?
Yes.
Ah, yes.
Well, coffee's all I've got, so...
Inspector Akane Tsunemori...
Yes?
Are you from Chiba Prefecture?
Yes, I am.
Your athletic ability isn't bad, and yet...
I wonder why...
Yeah...
...you can't swim.
What?!
Both of your parents are still alive.
They're worried about their only daughter not finding a boyfriend.
Uhm...
They were opposed to you working at the MWPSB, too.
And, your grandfather or grandmother...
It must be your grandmother.
She treated you with great affection.
It seems that you are quite the grandma's girl.
It's often true that the longer you spend time with the elderly in your childhood,
the better the relationship you can establish
with Holo Avatar AIs in your adulthood.
You fit that pattern, Ms. Tsunemori.
Uhm...
You're as sharp as ever, Mr. Saiga.
How... did you do that?
Through simple observation.
People manifest all sorts of signs unconsciously.
Once you get the knack of it, you can easily read those signs.
Mr. Jouji Saiga...
Your expertise is clinical psychology.
As I worked as a psychiatric examiner and assisted in investigations and such,
my main focus shifted to crime research before I knew it.
I have two favors to ask you today.
Ask me anything.
First, I'd like you to give this Inspector an intensive short course.
Things like profiling...
They say it's an outdated method, but I'm very interested in it.
Or rather, I became interested recently.
I'm a hermit. I actually feel grateful for the opportunity to teach you.
So, what's the other one?
I'd like to see the list of past course attendees that you keep with you.
Is that a request from the MWPSB?
No... it's a personal request.
If it was an order, I would've turned it down.
Who are you looking for?
I think this guy is the worst criminal since the creation of the Sibyl System.
What do you mean?
He's a high-level intellectual criminal
and is probably fit and in good health, too.
He's someone with unique charisma.
He rarely kills people with his own hands.
He controls other people's minds and influences them.
Much like a music conductor, he orchestrates one crime after another.
Kogami, explain what charisma is.
I used it to mean the nature of a hero or a ruler.
I'd give that answer... twenty points.
Charisma has three elements.
The nature of a hero or a prophet,
an ability to simply make you feel good when you're around them,
and the intelligence to eloquently talk about all sorts of things.
Of those, which elements does this guy you're looking for have?
I think he has all of them.
This is Yukimori Shibata, an art teacher at Ousou Academy.
Well, that's who he's supposed to be,
but it turns out that he's actually an old man in a nursing home
who has nothing to do with the academy.
His background profile was altered
and this guy used it when he pretended to be a teacher.
It's malicious and clever of him not to completely fake his background.
But to think that he worked as a teacher, which put him in the public eye...
Is he daring or a fool?
Well, about that...
...all the video data was destroyed.
All we were able to salvage was a short sound file.
There are only two methods left:
Creating a traditional photofit picture and drawing a composite sketch.
Of course, we tried both methods.
From the sound of it, they didn't work?
Right.
After all, the only lead we have is the blurry picture Sasayama took, huh?
Did it help you at least a little?
Y-Yes, it helped a lot!
He's an incredible teacher.
I don't understand why his lectures are not in the MWPSB's archive.
They wouldn't possibly put them in the archive.
Did something happen?
This was around the time that
both the Sibyl System and the university system existed at the same time.
Mr. Saiga's special courses were set up for the MWPSB's investigators.
But one day, a big problem came to light.
The course attendees' Hues got clouded and their Crime Coefficients rose.
Well, not everyone's did, though.
A one-on-one lecture like the one you had today is okay.
Besides, it's hard to cloud your Hue.
But...
...to think that just listening to lectures raises your Crime Coefficient...
Say there's a dark swamp and you can't see the bottom.
In order to check the swamp, you have no choice but to jump in.
Mr. Saiga is used to it since he's dived in to investigate it so many times.
But it's not like all his students can come back safely after diving into the swamp.
There are gaps in their abilities and simply their suitability, too.
You seem like someone who'd dive deep... and yet come back safely.
Well, I don't know about that.
At least, the Sibyl System decided that I couldn't come back.
Which animal do you think is most cunning and does not risk extinction
no matter how many are hunted and killed?
That must be humans.
I guess it was too easy, huh?
These days...
...they no longer issue hunting licenses under normal circumstances.
I really appreciate you, Makishima.
That's not ivory... is it...
I guess I haven't shown this to you before.
Excluding the mouthpiece, this pipe is made of Rikako Ouryou's bones.
I see...
When I'm touching it like this...
...my mind regains its youth.
The souls of my terrified prey give me energy.
You've overcome your body's aging.
All that's left is your mind?
Yeah, that's right.
You maintain a healthy and sound life...
...by sacrificing other lives.
But if people only seek youth for their bodies
and lose sight of the means to cultivate their minds,
naturally, it will only lead to an increase in the number of living dead.
How foolish, don't you think?
The energy that comes from thrills...
It's a dangerous reward that goes hand in hand with death, huh?
That's right. In hunting, the tougher your prey is,
the fresher the youth you can gain from it.
With all that in mind,
I think I can arrange for your next prey to be an exquisite one.
Oh?
It's an Enforcer from the MWPSB.
MWPSB!
His name is...
In the end, I guess checking Professor Saiga's lecture attendees list
didn't help much.
That's how it goes sometimes. But if Makishima is a living man,
he's left a trace somewhere for sure.
I heard that you brought Inspector Tsunemori to Jouji Saiga.
Yeah.
That's because I asked him to.
What're you doing? Are you trying to drag her into your problem,
making her a latent criminal who strayed from the right path, like you?
Wait a minute! Are you treating me like a child?
As a matter of fact, you are a child!
A brat who's confused about anything and everything!
Why do you think
we have the classifications of Inspectors and Enforcers?
It's in order to avoid the risk of having healthy people's Psycho-Pass
get clouded by criminal investigations.
We use latent criminals, who can never return to society, in our place.
That's precisely why you can fulfill your duty while protecting your mind!
That's not teamwork!
Solving crimes or protecting our own Psycho-Pass...
Which on earth is more important?!
Do you wanna throw away your career?
Are you going to sacrifice everything you've built so far?
It's...
It's certainly true that I'm new.
And you are a respectable senior to me, Inspector Ginoza.
But please don't forget that we're on equal footing in terms of our rank!
I'm managing my Hue just fine.
You may be senior to me, but I'd like you to restrain yourself from
questioning my ability at the workplace and in front of the Enforcers!
I can't believe he...
Where are you going?
I'm going to file a protest with the bureau chief.
Any chance of you passing on that, missy?
But...
Inspector Ginoza's father is a latent criminal.
What?
He was a child when the Sibyl System had just been put into operation.
Terrible misunderstandings and rumors about latent criminals
were common in those days.
If a family member happened to show a high Crime Coefficient,
that alone caused the rest of the family to be treated as if they were the same.
I'm sure he suffered quite a bit.
When a detective gets deeply involved in an investigation, in the end
the Sibyl System starts keeping an eye on them just like it does the criminals.
Committing a crime or cracking down on crimes...
Both sides face the same phenomenon called crime. There's no difference.
Now there are Enforcers, but before they created that position,
there were many detectives who were diagnosed as latent criminals like that.
Inspector Ginoza's father was one of them.
I didn't know...
That's why he can't forgive those who run a risk on their own.
And yet, Kogami, his former colleague, was also...
Yes, I know.
He feels he was betrayed twice. First by his father and then by his colleague.
That's why he acts like that towards you.
But even so...
You're right.
Missy, you do have a family and friends too, don't you?
If your Psycho-Pass gets clouded,
this time, those people will suffer the same hardships Nobuchika did.
In order to avoid that, we, Enforcers, are here.
Do you think Mr. Kogami thinks that way, too?
He used to.
But now...
...he might be oblivious to everything that's not related to that Makishima guy.
I won't capture him alive.
Is that really okay?
Of course. Why would you capture him alive?
It seems that you haven't noticed it yourself, so I'll tell you this.
Shinya Kogami... When you speak that name,
you look quite amused.
I'll give you your justice
Before you destroy and get destroyed
Pay karma's price, and let's go together
Monster without a name
Looks like the fairy tale died a moment ago
In a hospital ward made of bricks, I found it hard to sing
Red moon, come out on this foggy night
Now look at me, don't avert your gaze
I was born behind black iron bars
Wish for payback for the evil done
As you wish, I'll give you your justice
Before you destroy and get destroyed
Pay karma's price, and let's go together
Monster without a name
A world where humans' state of mind and the tendency of their personalities can be quantified. While all sorts of inclinations are recorded and policed, these measured numbers used to judge people's souls are commonly called "Psycho-Pass." This story is fiction. The names of all individuals and organizations that appear in the show are fictitious and have no relation to those in existence in the real world.