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Thinking about Psycho-Pass again (my all-times favorite anime) and about how Makishima, as genius as he is, fundamentally misunderstands Akane and dismissed her far too early. Akane is perhaps his greatest blind spot.

He mistakes her hesitancy to kill for weakness. For falling in-line with those he views as sheep, willing to give up free-will and ultimately humanity for the ease of letting a greater being (the Sybil system) make those hard decisions for them.

But Akane doesn’t hesitate to kill because she’s weak. She refuses to kill, even when her baser emotions and anger would drive a weaker person to do so, and that’s a big distance. Her refusal to kill is not weakness—it is conviction. From the very first episode we see this. Akane constantly takes free will into her own hands and plays these unfair games by her own rules—by her own morals.

But Makishima is a psychopath and lacks basic empathy. He fundamentally cannot understand a person like Akane and how she views and values human life. He has to rationalize the value of a human life, putting arbitrary metrics he decided are meaningful such as willpower and self actualization (which are not negative things to be fair! These are admirable traits!). But he is incapable of understanding Akane who sees intrinsic value in all human life. Akane does not fit into his worldview.

So he categorizes her and her actions in the only way he knows how—as the actions of sheep and chattel.

It used to bother me a lot how Makishima was so dismissive of Akane while obsessed with Kougami despite both officers being equally willful and strongly convicted people, willing to do whatever it takes, no matter how difficult, to realize their ideals.

But I realize now that this is just how it is. Makishima is so self-aggrandizing and charismatic that it’s easy to, even as an omnipotent audience looking in, fall for his bullshit. But he has blind spots. He’s a genius but he’s also not as knowledgeable and knowing as he believes himself to be and wants the world and audience to believe him to be.

And his relationship (or lack of thereof) with Tsunemori Akane is proof of this.

And it’s this blindness that ultimately makes him lose. And I think the most ironic part of it all is that Akane, whom he viewed to be sheep, was ultimately the first person to ever successfully begin to tear down the Sybil system just as Makishima has always wanted.

If he hadn’t been so blind of incapable of empathy, he and Tsunemori might’ve made for a very powerful team. He might’ve lived to see his plans succeed. But he didn’t.

This extends to the audience too. I think a lot of people get caught up in Makishima and Kougami’s convictions. The audience constantly underestimated and overlooks Akane as well. And that is very very interesting to me from a meta perspective of the story and characters.

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In another world, a kinder world, three odd people have created a tiny slice of heaven in the middle of a dystopian nightmare.

Thank you so much @nirapinus for this beautiful piece and for being my partner in deranged OT3ing! i’m obsessed with literally every aspect of this, the details are insane!!!

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Oh, my God @mmmixxa, you’re too adorable! The detail on this, the holos, the pink and the purple!! I love this too too much!! You even gave them the right clothes, so not only are you a great artist but also an attentive reader! Thank youuu!

Hot, wet Kogami likes this 👍

Fan art : Psycho pass fanfic {Dragnet}

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Thank you so much for reading Dragnet and for creating this beautiful piece of art! I’m honored!

Fan art from Psycho pass 's fanfic {Dragnet}

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i found a nail artist willing to indulge me, she did an awesome job

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starting a rewatch so here's a quick king daddy issues

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Solace

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— June 1, 1912 / Franz Kafka diaries

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Went down memory lane and watched PP The Movie again and finally caught on to something. Akane, please step up to the mic and tell us WHY your underwear matches the turquoise of Kogami's favored cigarette brand. You guys are KILLING ME over here!!!

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As an older Millennial I feel this in my bones. It’s exhausting.

Where Akane is brave, compassionate, learns from her mistakes, and refuses to compromise her integrity no matter the personal cost; Mika is cowardly, self-centred, hypocritical, and a perfect little toady who refuses to criticise the system even after learning its true nature.

Mika is the embodiment of 70% of the population and Corporate world, where seniors are insecure as fuck and instead of trying to grow themselves they project their insecurity onto subordinates.

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Love how Kogami is also depressed in this photo.

“I guess my runaway ass is finally going to jail.”

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Psycho Pass new official illustration ""Roomwear" theme .

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Still current.

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Kogami: My wife, my goddess, my religion, my compass, the one who holds my soul, the mother of my future children, my champion, my savior, the reason for my existence, the tears in my face, the blood in my body, the breath that gives me life.

Sem: Uh...

Kogami: Oh, shit. I just said all that out loud, didn’t I?

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This is how the mafia gets you children. Watch out.

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The unintended consequences of Arata’s mind tracing