Amnesia's heroine actually is an epitome of a silent main character. In the game, the heroine is not given any default name and does not have any single line in order for the player to be himself/herself while playing the "Amnesia" game. (Which I think kind of half-hearted attempt of breaking the fourth wall, because the character has a default face and body, and there is no attempt to hide the girl's faces in the two-shot CGs). The two manga adaptations, if you read it too, the main character is not given any name at all. So I was kind of confused how they are going to personalize the heroine in the anime. Based from their original attempts to erase any personalities and lines from the heroine; I think the anime did quite a well good job. And they are trying to put the heroine inside every single routes in the game for the anime; i found it kind ambitious too but very well-planned.
On the Psycho Pass depiction of society; I think Urobuchi and Fukami wants to show the future of Japanese society through this anime. As in currently, Japan is a very safe place to most of its citizens; there's a term here called 平和ボケ (heiwa boke/peace-addiction) which kinds of reflect that. People are indifferent towards conflict. The most micro examples you can see are getting out of their house not bothering to lock the door (or sleeping inside their apartments/houses without locking the door), walking outside with their bags wide open; there is some phenomenon although not yet in realized by whole, of people feeling safe. If you see other fictions, or at least seinen mangas; you see scenes of gun-shooting in the current Japan but people only watch and smiled thinking that it is a filming going on; because they think it's impossible to think there's a gun-shooting happening in the middle of the road in Japan. So I don't feel all surprised seeing that scene in Psycho Pass, because there is the potential of this society going that way. That also explains why there is only 5 years since the application of Psycho-Pass/CC/Dominator/Sybil system, but everyone becomes so "used to" this peace state in the area... IMO though.
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Date: 2013-02-04 08:36 am (UTC)Amnesia's heroine actually is an epitome of a silent main character. In the game, the heroine is not given any default name and does not have any single line in order for the player to be himself/herself while playing the "Amnesia" game. (Which I think kind of half-hearted attempt of breaking the fourth wall, because the character has a default face and body, and there is no attempt to hide the girl's faces in the two-shot CGs).
The two manga adaptations, if you read it too, the main character is not given any name at all. So I was kind of confused how they are going to personalize the heroine in the anime.
Based from their original attempts to erase any personalities and lines from the heroine; I think the anime did quite a well good job. And they are trying to put the heroine inside every single routes in the game for the anime; i found it kind ambitious too but very well-planned.
On the Psycho Pass depiction of society; I think Urobuchi and Fukami wants to show the future of Japanese society through this anime. As in currently, Japan is a very safe place to most of its citizens; there's a term here called 平和ボケ (heiwa boke/peace-addiction) which kinds of reflect that. People are indifferent towards conflict. The most micro examples you can see are getting out of their house not bothering to lock the door (or sleeping inside their apartments/houses without locking the door), walking outside with their bags wide open; there is some phenomenon although not yet in realized by whole, of people feeling safe. If you see other fictions, or at least seinen mangas; you see scenes of gun-shooting in the current Japan but people only watch and smiled thinking that it is a filming going on; because they think it's impossible to think there's a gun-shooting happening in the middle of the road in Japan. So I don't feel all surprised seeing that scene in Psycho Pass, because there is the potential of this society going that way. That also explains why there is only 5 years since the application of Psycho-Pass/CC/Dominator/Sybil system, but everyone becomes so "used to" this peace state in the area... IMO though.
JOJO, amajing.