ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the interplay of law and justice in Psycho-Pass, a neo-noir cybercrime drama about a near future in which law has been unshackled from the courts and legislature alike. It discusses how this anime seeks out the consequences of demanding emotional and rational thresholds of ordinary people through constant surveillance and enforcement. The chapter examines how the series queries the paradoxical status of imposing a construction of mental health, and then using the spectrum of people who deviate from such an ideal benchmark as agents of law. It deals with a critical assessment of the post-coloniality of anime more broadly, and what this means for the politics of cross-cultural analyses. In Psycho-Pass the Sibyl System is a hive-mind artificial intelligence that is composed of the excised brains of people who have an involuntarily high psycho-pass reading although they themselves are not given to or engaged in criminal behaviour.
