PSYCHO-PASS: Sinners of the System Case.2- First Guardian excels in characterisation.
Alright, after enjoying PSYCHO-PASS: Sinners of the System Case.1- Tsumi to Batsu, I had the itch to dive straight into the follow-up case. Interestingly enough, Case.2- First Guardian had a different writer than Tsumi to Batsu, with Makoto Fukami brought back into the series once again whilst Ryo Yoshigami wrote Tsumi to Batsu. Also of note, is the fact that it was seiyuu Kinryu Akimoto's final ever role before his unfortunate death due to oesophageal cancer. As a result, I've been thinking about dedicating this blog post to him, not that it's truly worthy of his wonderful career and tremendous performance as Tomomi Masaoka. Set prior to the events of the very first series of PSYCHO-PASS, in the Summer of 2112 in Okinawa, Teppei Sugo works in the military as a rather skilled pilot known as First Guardian, taking part in numerous military operations of the 15th joint task forces for the National Defence Forces. During an ill-fated mission code-named Operation Foot Stamp,...