In a future Japan, the Sibyl System scans every citizen and assigns a number measuring their potential for crime. Cross a threshold and you are arrested or shot, guilty of nothing yet. Production I.G and writer Gen Urobuchi build a cyberpunk thriller around a rookie inspector and the convicted criminals she commands as hunting dogs. The case she works pulls at the system's logic until the whole foundation starts to look monstrous. It is a procedural with a real argument underneath, asking what justice means once a machine measures the soul.
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