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小説 PSYCHO-PASS サイコパス #1
小説 PSYCHO-PASS サイコパス
人間の心理状態や性格的傾向を計測した数値、通常“サイコ=パス”によって、理想の精神状態を保つためのメンタルケアが普及し、数値を指標とする最適幸福が追求できるようになった未来世界。
犯罪者も“犯罪係数”と呼ばれる数値によって事前に判別され、“潜在犯”として裁かれていた。都市の治安維持にあたるのは、高い犯罪係数を持つ潜在犯でありながら犯罪捜査の実動を担う“執行官”と、模範的社会性を持つキャリアとして執行官の監視・指揮を担う“監視官”のチームで活動する厚生省公安局刑事課。
一係に配属された新人監視官・常守朱は、配属初日から現場に呼び出され、犯罪係数を解析し断罪する特殊拳銃“ドミネーター”を手渡される。事件解決のため、執行官とともに犯人を捜し始める朱だったが―。
犯罪者も“犯罪係数”と呼ばれる数値によって事前に判別され、“潜在犯”として裁かれていた。都市の治安維持にあたるのは、高い犯罪係数を持つ潜在犯でありながら犯罪捜査の実動を担う“執行官”と、模範的社会性を持つキャリアとして執行官の監視・指揮を担う“監視官”のチームで活動する厚生省公安局刑事課。
一係に配属された新人監視官・常守朱は、配属初日から現場に呼び出され、犯罪係数を解析し断罪する特殊拳銃“ドミネーター”を手渡される。事件解決のため、執行官とともに犯人を捜し始める朱だったが―。
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First published February 4, 2013
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July 7, 2013GIVE ME! *tackles slow publishers* English version now!
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I might have gone overboard there but... I want! The show was awesome pure kick-ass. Now if you'll excuse me. *goes off to kidnap Akane, Kagari, and Makishima* TRIPLE THREAT!
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I might have gone overboard there but... I want! The show was awesome pure kick-ass. Now if you'll excuse me. *goes off to kidnap Akane, Kagari, and Makishima* TRIPLE THREAT!
February 7, 2017
HELL YES. That was AWESOME <3 I need to wath the anime now xD
February 10, 2020
看在編劇（之一）自己寫的份上，追第三季的同時借來瞄了下當複習，反正第一季劇情也快忘光了。
小說版補了一些動畫中比較不明顯的設定，還有少部分劇情是後來才在Extend裡動畫化的……
有意思的是，日本輕小說或影視小說常見的一行文這部倒是很少用，不知是翻譯有修飾還是原文即如此。
小說版補了一些動畫中比較不明顯的設定，還有少部分劇情是後來才在Extend裡動畫化的……
有意思的是，日本輕小說或影視小說常見的一行文這部倒是很少用，不知是翻譯有修飾還是原文即如此。
January 13, 2015
This dystopia predicts the dark future that human societies will be living in as a result of their persistent pursuit of perfectionism. The myth of beauty, which enacted the measurements of an ideally beautiful body, becomes applicable to the human mind in Psych-Pass. How is this goal achieved? Well, through scanning the minds of people with a computerized machine called "The Dominator". The human mind is reduced to a physical quantity that can quantitatively measured with numbers and immediately "beautified" or eliminated. Can you imagine how satanic and destructive this idea is?
Also, this manga focuses on the relationship between the mind and criminal behavior. I started to think, am I a latent criminal? Does committing a crime occur to me when I am distressed or anxious?
This series, in addition, opens up a can of worms as The Sybil, which manifests neutralized and objective science, cannot judge some unique individuals, while it deems some individuals with good intentions as evil threats to society. If you still assign absolute power to science, you should start questioning this.
Concerning the characters, what I love the most is that the borderlines between good and evil are blurred. For instance,Mika, who is supposed to bring about justice, still trusts the judgement of The Sybil system even though she knows it is made of criminal minds. On the other hand, Akane tries to outsmart The Sybil System to achieve justice after knowing the truth. However, the most mysterious character in the manga remains Shogo Makishima. He is willing to commit or encourage other people to commit insanely violent crimes just to shake the society off and reveal the evils that lie underneath The Sybil System. What I do not like about Shogo's character is that his uniqueness is a gift from nature that he knows how to take advantage of rather than wholly stemming from his free conscious and will, unlike the protagonist Kogami, a latent criminal who acts upon his free will and isn't afraid of the sequences. Like Hannibal in The Silence of the Lambs, you cannot help but sympathizing with the anti-hero, Shogo.
The manga would be more twisted if Akane and The Chief are not one-dimensional.
The atmosphere of the comic was perfectly crafted to serve these gloomy and sophisticated themes. As the illustrations show, People die in gross violent ways and others are put under a terrible psychological torture because they have to witness and deal with all of this killing. Also, most of the killing occur in closed and underground settings, which adds more gloominess and mystery to Psycho-Pass.
Also, this manga focuses on the relationship between the mind and criminal behavior. I started to think, am I a latent criminal? Does committing a crime occur to me when I am distressed or anxious?
This series, in addition, opens up a can of worms as The Sybil, which manifests neutralized and objective science, cannot judge some unique individuals, while it deems some individuals with good intentions as evil threats to society. If you still assign absolute power to science, you should start questioning this.
Concerning the characters, what I love the most is that the borderlines between good and evil are blurred. For instance,Mika, who is supposed to bring about justice, still trusts the judgement of The Sybil system even though she knows it is made of criminal minds. On the other hand, Akane tries to outsmart The Sybil System to achieve justice after knowing the truth. However, the most mysterious character in the manga remains Shogo Makishima. He is willing to commit or encourage other people to commit insanely violent crimes just to shake the society off and reveal the evils that lie underneath The Sybil System. What I do not like about Shogo's character is that his uniqueness is a gift from nature that he knows how to take advantage of rather than wholly stemming from his free conscious and will, unlike the protagonist Kogami, a latent criminal who acts upon his free will and isn't afraid of the sequences. Like Hannibal in The Silence of the Lambs, you cannot help but sympathizing with the anti-hero, Shogo.
The manga would be more twisted if Akane and The Chief are not one-dimensional.
The atmosphere of the comic was perfectly crafted to serve these gloomy and sophisticated themes. As the illustrations show, People die in gross violent ways and others are put under a terrible psychological torture because they have to witness and deal with all of this killing. Also, most of the killing occur in closed and underground settings, which adds more gloominess and mystery to Psycho-Pass.
April 27, 2013
Novelisasi yang sangat memuaskan, itulah komentar singkat saya tentang buku ini.
Saya tidak akan mengatakan buku ini lebih unggul dari animenya, tapi yang pasti, membaca buku ini setelah menonton animenya memberikan BANYAK sekali penjelasan yang membuat saya lebih memahami setting Psycho Pass. Mengejutkan bahwa yang dipaparkan dalam anime ternyata hanya 70% dari setting yang ada.
Khas novelisasi (atau dalam kasus ini, karena awalnya ini disusun seperti novel), tentu saja ada perbedaan di sana-sini. Yang langsung saya sadari adalah isu yuri yang sangat ditonjolkan di novelnya. Yah, namanya juga Fukamin, malah aneh kalau sudah ada bahan tapi tidak dimasak dengan mantap.
Lainnya, mungkin terlihat betapa karakter yang terkesan seperti sampingan di animenya, di sini diberi peran sendiri. Kagari bahkan mendapat cerita pendek tentang kehidupannya sebelum jadi Enforcer, serta pendapatnya tentang para anggota Divisi 1.
Beberapa detail lain yang terkesan seperti info-dump sering terlihat, tapi kalau dibaca lagi, menurut saya itu memperkuat setting. Jadi, tidak akan mengganggu. Apalagi, yang disebut info-dump itu hanya memakan dua halaman kurang. Jauh berbeda dengan beberapa novel yang memasang SEPULUH halaman penjelasan belaka. Ini setidaknya dikemas dalam situasi yang mendukung plot.
Kalau ada ketidakpuasan, itu hanyalah karena gambar ilustrasi dalam buku ini SANGAT KURANG, dan digambar ala animenya.
Kenapa sih tidak sekalian saja pasang gambar Akira Amano? Beliau terkesan cuma makan gaji buta kan jadinya.
Saya tidak akan mengatakan buku ini lebih unggul dari animenya, tapi yang pasti, membaca buku ini setelah menonton animenya memberikan BANYAK sekali penjelasan yang membuat saya lebih memahami setting Psycho Pass. Mengejutkan bahwa yang dipaparkan dalam anime ternyata hanya 70% dari setting yang ada.
Khas novelisasi (atau dalam kasus ini, karena awalnya ini disusun seperti novel), tentu saja ada perbedaan di sana-sini. Yang langsung saya sadari adalah isu yuri yang sangat ditonjolkan di novelnya. Yah, namanya juga Fukamin, malah aneh kalau sudah ada bahan tapi tidak dimasak dengan mantap.
Lainnya, mungkin terlihat betapa karakter yang terkesan seperti sampingan di animenya, di sini diberi peran sendiri. Kagari bahkan mendapat cerita pendek tentang kehidupannya sebelum jadi Enforcer, serta pendapatnya tentang para anggota Divisi 1.
Beberapa detail lain yang terkesan seperti info-dump sering terlihat, tapi kalau dibaca lagi, menurut saya itu memperkuat setting. Jadi, tidak akan mengganggu. Apalagi, yang disebut info-dump itu hanya memakan dua halaman kurang. Jauh berbeda dengan beberapa novel yang memasang SEPULUH halaman penjelasan belaka. Ini setidaknya dikemas dalam situasi yang mendukung plot.
Kalau ada ketidakpuasan, itu hanyalah karena gambar ilustrasi dalam buku ini SANGAT KURANG, dan digambar ala animenya.
Kenapa sih tidak sekalian saja pasang gambar Akira Amano? Beliau terkesan cuma makan gaji buta kan jadinya.
March 18, 2023
It's hard to say whether "Attack on Titan" or "Psycho-Pass" is my favorite anime. The story is set in a future version of Japan in which a form of AI exists that can scan a person's mental state, and on that basis decide whether or not they have the potential to commit crime. If the AI deems that they do, they are pre-emptively thrown in prison or killed. Society is built on the assumption that this AI is accurate. However, if hypothetically the AI were to somehow fail to identify a criminal, then they could act with impunity.
Back in fall 2022 I was looking for Chinese reading material and thought I'd try to find the Manga adaption of Psycho-Pass. I discovered that no such manga exists, but that the story has been put in novel form, available in Japanese as well as Chinese, but no other languages. The Chinese edition consists of a "Part 1 (上)" novel and a "Part 2 (下)" novel, each of which are a little over 300 pages. I've been chipping away at Part 1 for a few months, and finally finished last Sunday. That brings the total number of full length Chinese novels I have read so far up to five. I hope to double that number by the end of 2023, meaning I must read at least five more Chinese novels of a similar difficulty and length this year. I'm starting with 心靈判官 下, which I hope to make my way through faster than 上.
Back in fall 2022 I was looking for Chinese reading material and thought I'd try to find the Manga adaption of Psycho-Pass. I discovered that no such manga exists, but that the story has been put in novel form, available in Japanese as well as Chinese, but no other languages. The Chinese edition consists of a "Part 1 (上)" novel and a "Part 2 (下)" novel, each of which are a little over 300 pages. I've been chipping away at Part 1 for a few months, and finally finished last Sunday. That brings the total number of full length Chinese novels I have read so far up to five. I hope to double that number by the end of 2023, meaning I must read at least five more Chinese novels of a similar difficulty and length this year. I'm starting with 心靈判官 下, which I hope to make my way through faster than 上.
August 29, 2020
Había olvidado que tenía esto aquí. La verdad es que es una serie chula, pero no lo que estaba buscando.
Demasiado desarrollada la parte policiaca y poco la parte de sociedad distópica, aunque aúna las dos muy pero que muy bien, con girito hacia el final. Está entretenida.
Demasiado desarrollada la parte policiaca y poco la parte de sociedad distópica, aunque aúna las dos muy pero que muy bien, con girito hacia el final. Está entretenida.
September 13, 2016
優點和缺點都是和動畫太一致了，故事設定本身很引人深思，但建議先看書再看動畫，刺激感比較不疲乏。
March 27, 2019
The manga Psycho-Pass by Motohiro katsuyuki is about the story of the future when the psychological state and disposition of human beings can be numerically.At the beginning of the story, all kinds of monitoring cameras have been upgraded and networked to calculate the value of each mental state and personality tendency of human being. Therefore, people need to constantly ensure their index is in the normal range, otherwise it will be regarded as potential offender by the system and will be "corrected". The policemen under the supervision of policing are divided into arrests for the prisoners' operative officers and the "surveillance officers" who monitor the commanding officers. At the middle of the story, the members of the first division of the Security Bureau have their thoughts. Although they find that what they do often contradicts real justice, they have to continue to perform their duties under surveillance. At the ed of the story, in dealing with cases, they are gradually discovering and exploring the true system of human Sibyl System. The story tells us to be brave and loving.
January 18, 2019
Fukami Makoto, who is famous for his work of GeNez and Young gun carnival, had produced a 2-part novel series that really drew me in to not only read the novel but to watch the highly praised anime. A crime and mystery novel set in a cyberpunk Japan, just the setting alone drew me into this story. A powerful network called the Sibyl System existed to measure the likelihood of citizens committing a crime and if it crosses a certain line, the "enforcers" must apprehend them. The relationship of the 2 protagonists Shinya Kogami and Akane Tsunemori really developed over the first novel, starting with Akane mistakenly firing her gun at Shinya, but accepted the mistake and grew closer. I can't wait to continue reading the 2nd book.
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September 5, 2017
La seguridad en el futuro depende de cómo den los niveles del "Coeficiente de Criminalidad", si son muy elevados, las personas pueden ser desde momentáneamente aturdidas hasta incluso eliminadas gracias al vasto sistema de vigilancia de colores y niveles del aura. Seguridad cuenta con Ejecutores que son ex criminales, siendo guiados por los Inspectores que dirimen las cuestiones (no las hay hasta que comienza el manga) morales si se deberá o no ejecutar a una persona.
Pensé por un momento que sería pasar un buen rato, no que me quedaría esperando ver la conclusión totalmente absorbida por la historia. Muy recomendable.
Pensé por un momento que sería pasar un buen rato, no que me quedaría esperando ver la conclusión totalmente absorbida por la historia. Muy recomendable.
January 31, 2025
I'm getting my hands on this if it was in english.
IM TACKLING THIS WHEN ITS IN ENGLISHDASJIODSNA
I just finished the anime with a dear friend of mine, and it was PEAK.
It was pretty good and tbh it's something I'd recommend anyone to watch this if you are into dystopian type of things, and this might even become true into the real world if you think about it more deeply.
The mc of this was actually a good mc unlike some others, she's very smart from the personality i've seen and just a OVERALL ALL 10/10 MC.
MWAH I LOVE THIS
IM TACKLING THIS WHEN ITS IN ENGLISHDASJIODSNA
I just finished the anime with a dear friend of mine, and it was PEAK.
It was pretty good and tbh it's something I'd recommend anyone to watch this if you are into dystopian type of things, and this might even become true into the real world if you think about it more deeply.
The mc of this was actually a good mc unlike some others, she's very smart from the personality i've seen and just a OVERALL ALL 10/10 MC.
MWAH I LOVE THIS
May 17, 2024
Psycho-Pass: Sinners of the System Case.3 - Onshuu no Kanata ni＿
December 31, 2017
Wow! No one does serial killers and mind-bogling villians better than Mangas and British Television.
Psycho Pass is a story about a world whose sole purpose is to reach Utopia where people are judged by their mental states, by their auras- the higher psycho pass, the more unstable you are.
The complete concept of Psycho Pass is unique, intriguing, captivating and intense. You want to hate the villian but you can't; it's so well written.
The protagonist Akane, a rookie by all intents and purposes, was smart. Hats-off to her ability to remain calm. She was like eye of the storm; calm in all the chaos around her.
The end was so unexpected- didn't see it coming from a light year away. I learned so many things from this manga; it's become my most favorite.
And I loved Shinya Kogami. He was absolutely sexy. ;)
Psycho Pass is a story about a world whose sole purpose is to reach Utopia where people are judged by their mental states, by their auras- the higher psycho pass, the more unstable you are.
The complete concept of Psycho Pass is unique, intriguing, captivating and intense. You want to hate the villian but you can't; it's so well written.
The protagonist Akane, a rookie by all intents and purposes, was smart. Hats-off to her ability to remain calm. She was like eye of the storm; calm in all the chaos around her.
The end was so unexpected- didn't see it coming from a light year away. I learned so many things from this manga; it's become my most favorite.
And I loved Shinya Kogami. He was absolutely sexy. ;)
October 22, 2015
I read Psycho Pass recently and it was great. The story is super unique and crazy good, and the characters are all connected and really well developed. The story takes place in future Japan, with crime on an all time low, due to the development of the Dominator weapon and the Psycho Pass. Everyone is tested to see what hue their Psycho Pass is, and it determines if they have committed a crime, are thinking about it, or are going to in the distant future. The person then receives help if they are found to have a darker, "clouded" Psycho Pass. The Dominators are a kind of gun the won't let the police shoot until they persons Psycho pass has exceeded 90. The most interesting part is the main antagonist, and his interactions with the characters. He has a Psycho Pass of 4 (Lower than some members of the police force) yet he can commit horrible crimes with immunity to the system. If your are a fan of crime or mystery you will love this book...also the anime's pretty well done.
July 22, 2016
Holy mother of sweet jesus! This is pure gold.
October 16, 2015
WOW! really awesome the story and characters
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