Liked Psycho-Pass? Watch Persona 5 The Animation!

• Episodes: 24
• Aired: Apr. 2018 - ongoing

3 Major Similarities Between Psycho-Pass and Persona 5 The Animation

1. Questions of Right and Wrong

Both Psycho-Pass and Persona 5 point out the questions of what is right and what is wrong in a world regulated by laws. The Inspectors and Enforcers in Psycho-Pass attempt to follow the Sibyl System’s rules as best as they can, with some characters breaking laws as they attempt to enforce their own morality. Likewise, Ren and the Phantom Thieves use their Personas to fight the immorality of the people with twisted desires, though it may not always align with the law.

2. Tragic Strangers Become Family

In both anime, the main characters find a group of strangers and gradually become a family after events tie them together. Though Akane Tsunemori is tied to her group because they are coworkers, she soon finds a strong connection with each one of them, often due to traumatic circumstances from their mutual job. And Ren’s unfortunate transfer to Shujin Academy allows him to meet and befriend several characters, all of whom share a tragic backstory of some sort that brings the group closer.

3. Technology Is Important

One of the biggest connections between Psycho-Pass and Persona 5 is the important role that technology plays in both anime. The Inspectors and Enforcers in Psycho-Pass use guns connected to the Sibyl System to catch those whose mental state has gone awry. In Persona 5, the Phantom Thieves are able to traverse to the other dimension via a mysterious app that appears on their phones, and they use cell phones to regularly communicate with one another, much like many teenagers today do!

Liked Psycho-Pass? Watch Caligula!

• Episodes: 12
• Aired: Apr. 2018 - ongoing

2 Major Similarities Between Psycho-Pass and Caligula

1. Ideal World, Yet Broken System

Psycho-Pass focuses on the Sibyl System, a ruling technological entity that governs all of the country, creating an ideal world free of crime. In the same way, Mobius is designed as the most perfect alternate world, where everyone continually goes through school life and only happy things happen. Yet both anime show how these utopian paradises are flawed and limiting, creating just as many problems as they generate happiness among the elite.

2. Rise Against the Machine

As in Psycho-Pass, technology plays a vital part of the world in Caligula, building up the façade that people are expected to accept. The students who decide to take back their freedom are rebelling against Mobius and its technological prison, following along with a common sci-fi trope of rising against the machine. The Inspectors and Enforcers from Psycho-Pass also face an intelligent tech that governs the people and must go against its wishes on a number of occasions.