Psycho Pass

Studio: Production I.G

Where to Watch: Crunchyroll

What it’s About: Psycho Pass follows a group of police officers who use an advanced algorithm to scan citizen’s brains to predict whether they’re likely to commit a crime. Should the scan come back positive, regardless of whether the scan is a result of heightened stress or trauma, the system marks the citizen as a criminal beyond rehabilitation and subject to immediate execution. The dire state of this police state is made all the more distressing when newbie cop Akane Tsunemori discovers that the authorities they report back to aren’t who they initially seemed to be.

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While the anime’s follow-up seasons leave a bit to be desired—namely the absence of one of the first season’s protagonists, Kogami Shinya—overall Psycho Pass does stand the test of time as a harrowing and thought-provoking narrative about how people in positions of power rely too heavily upon technology devoid of sympathy, here going so far as to enact punishment for crimes that may never be committed. Have we learned nothing from Minority Report? The survey says yes.