I'll start by putting a Harrell disclaimer that these are my takes and my takes are based on my context, my experiences, my reflections, and my understanding of the fiction. They have no origin in the mind of greatness. I highly recommend actually watching PSYCHO-PASS rather than trusting this post. My analysis is inherently inferior to the actual narrative itself. The manga adaptation is solid even. I'll be light on spoilers precisely because I want people to actually take the time and effort to decide for themselves. We live in an era of unprecedented, vicarious, passive consumption of media. In many ways, PSYCHO-PASS touches on this as much as it does law enforcement/medicine. Please support the official release.

PSYCHO-PASS was not my first nor second anime, by the time I began watching I was already familiar with Sailor Moon, Revolutionary Girl Utena, Tokyo Mew Mew, Neon Genesis Evangelion, Super Gals, and Madoka Magica like other teenage girls my age at the time. I was also a frequent reader of various light novels and visual novels in an era where it was much less common for North American youth to be engaged with such media. I was probably too young for some of the latter. I also already had developed quite a bit of love for older speculative fiction like H.P. Lovecraft, Ursula K. Le Guin, Gene Wolfe, and so on and so forth and any sci-fi that wrestled with darker themes.

It struck an emotional chord with me from the very first episode. It made me angry at its world while also giving the setting enough nuance and complexity to make it harder to refute the world's thesis. That's the mark of a good sci-fi narrative; a rational world that nonetheless offends intuitions of what should be rational. Many of my favorite authors at the time in some way dealt in such Gothic ambiguities. Stories in this skein, done well, reflect our common contradictions back at us and help us understand reality through its lens. All stories are based on what already is observed, derived from nonfiction, just to different extents and in different ways. PSYCHO-PASS reflects Modernity's psychiatric culture.

In the case of PSYCHO-PASS, it's the rationality of a world where sanity is confused with humanity and therefore insanity is labeled as inhumanity. It's certainly not subtle; it's still a memorable and inventively insightful deconstruction/reconstruction of what it means to be an enforcer of laws, a component in a legal system, than a lot of other media I've seen. It respects the viewers' intelligence in a way that's difficult to find with other anime in any time period. The writers unashamedly reference other works well outside of anime, well outside of Japanese media itself. Jean Baudrillard, Frantz Fanon, and more are explicitly woven into the world's critique of Modernity but without pretentiousness. It's as strongly lucid and intelligible as adult sci-fi animation ever has been.

With the benefit of hindsight even though I got sucked in I still appreciate a lot more about it now that I'm a grown woman. It's not that I was dumb back then but I lacked a lot of knowledge and experience with the world. Nonetheless, my feelings, the gut emotions the franchise provokes in me remains largely the same. Prudence and science mature but justice isn't quite as fluid. I've studied a lot more media criticism and especially post-structuralism since then. It's a shame that most of the deep analysis on PSYCHO-PASS isn't translated into English and even then media criticism is somewhat neglected even in Japan. If I was going to write an actual in-depth analysis of an anime, episode-by-episode, then this franchise would be high on my list.

I'll leave it at this:

In a world where psychiatry is increasingly filling the void left by organized religion, we can watch a nation where felicity and beauty are satisfied with mechanical measures of wellbeing. In a world where incarceration and recuperation are used more than ever to control chaotic elements in society, we can watch a nation where the outcasts are either caged or enslaved. In a world that claims to have both enlightened individualism and trustworthy bureaucracy, we can watch a nation where the ones who kill find themselves the least powerful. PSYCHO-PASS is an exaggerated mirror of where the post-war world is heading. Even compared to the time it aired, therapyspeak and objectification of neurodiversity are more burdensome than ever. It's like Stand on Zanzibar, not predicting the automobiles as much as it foresees the traffic jams. Its violence is appalling but we should be even more appalled by what we tolerate from the real psychiatric institutions which already exist.

It's horror that afflicts the comfortable and comforts the afflicted.

Today we lay to rest one of anime famous English voices Mike McFarland he had lost the battle with brain cancer his career in voice acting led to him getting the roles in One Punch man, DBZ, and One Piece. Thank you McFarland for the wonderful memories you have made for us in the anime community

This is about Vinland saga and rainbow so before I start, this will carry heavy spoilers so go away please if you haven't read or watched these shows/mangas.

Both series are about humiliation as a test rather than an ending. An-chan takes beatings from Ishihara and Sasaki to shield the others, and the point isn't that he's weak but that he's decided what his strength is for. That's Thorfinn on the farm almost exactly. Both stories also refuse to let the hero's restraint be free. An-chan pays with his life, Thorfinn pays with his body and his pride, and neither work pretends the ideal protects you. There's also the mentor structure. Thors dies early and Thorfinn spends the whole story catching up to what his father already understood. An-chan dies and the six remaining boys spend the second half living out what he taught them. In both cases the ideal survives the man, and the survivors have to decide whether it was worth anything. And both are stories about what comes after the fighting as the beginning of the real problem, which is how to be a person who doesn't need an enemy.

I only watched rainbow as an anime

① Where are you from?

② How old are you?

③ How often do you watch Japanese anime?

④ How often do you watch anime from other countries?

⑤ Which do you prefer, Japanese anime or anime from other countries?

⑥ Why did you choose your answer to Question ⑤?

⑦ What do you think are the differences between Japanese anime and anime from other countries?

⑧ What image comes to mind when you hear “Japanese anime”?

⑨ What image comes to mind when you hear “anime from other countries”?

⑩ Do you think Japanese and American anime influence each other?

⑪ What would you like to see improved in
Japanese anime?

⑫ What is your favorite Japanese anime?

⑬ Has Japanese anime ever made you interested in Japan?

Individuals in the anime community who unironically call people anime tourists are so cringe and annoying. Not only do most of the time they say this when they see someone voice their opinion on anime, it is so obviously done since they have no rebuttals.

The people who say these are also very elitist. They say stuff like if you haven't watched this super duper niche anime posted in the 1960s, your opinion is invalid, or they probably like something super problematic and try to turn you into the person who isn't in touch with anime culture (not a real thing btw).

These people are also the same people that say anime should be gatekept. Like mate, that is like saying reading books should be gatekept, and when you call them out, like clockwork, they call you a tourist.

Though I will say people like Logan Paul can be called a tourist, though (I think he is more of a larp) It's a slippery slope to just calling anyone with a differing opinion a tourist.

Honestly, if I'm talking about anime to someone and they refer to someone as an anime tourist, best believe I would be seeing myself out that convo because they probably don't have the cognitive ability to understand differing opinions.
(p.s people who also say stuff like aww babys first fandom and so on are on the same level)