Psycho-Pass: Providence

It's not that Psycho-Pass is factually bad, it's just that it reminds me too much of a time when Production I.G was still pushing out groundbreaking anime. No matter how you look at it, Psycho-Pass is a somewhat tepid Shirow derivative. Which wouldn't even be so bad if it wasn't made on the cheap.

In the middle of an important meeting, Akane Tsunemori gets a notification that something bad happened on a foreign ship. Together with her team, she goes to investigate the incident. When they get there, Foreign Affairs takes the case out of their hands. One of Tsunemori's invitees is found dead on the ship, so she won't be pushed aside that easily.

The plotting is interesting, as is the setting. It's a typical Shirow universe, where action, technology, and politics intertwine. But the film looks like an extension of the TV series. The animation is paltry, the CG is mediocre and when the film directly references Ghost in the Shell material (like the parade), it's just painful to see how much worse things got in two decades. Not a bad film, but this material deserved so much better.