| Conception of the Oracle | |
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| Episode Information | |
| Kanji | 巫女の懐胎<AA> |
| Rōmaji | Miko no Kaitai <AA> |
| Air date | November 28, 2014 |
| Opening | Enigmatic Feeling |
| Ending | Fallen |
| Episode Guide | |
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Conception of the Oracle is the eighth episode of Psycho-Pass 2.
Synopsis
Yohei Masuzaki explains to Analyst Joji Saiga how Kirito Kamui received body parts from the other 184 children who perished in the crash, including seven brains, resulting in an unreadable Psycho-Pass. He adds that Kamui's goal is to overturn the Sibyl System. Meanwhile, Mika Shimotsuki, who had been investigating the Togane Foundation's patents on the surgery, learns that Kamui has accessed the file just before her. Looking over Masuzaki's testimony, including how he killed people of influence and replaced them with imposters, Akane Tsunemori and the others deduce that all 184 children crash victims still exist as holos of Kamui's varied personas, while the replacement imposters were illegal immigrants. Shimotsuki discovers that the patents owned by the Togane Foundation were filed by Togane's mother, Misako Togane, who died fifteen years ago, believing that Kamui's goal may be to get revenge against the Foundation. Shimotsuki tries to file a negative report to Joshu Kasei about Tsunemori, saying she is a danger to the operation. However in the process, she tripped a trap left by Sibyl, designed to detect and assess people susceptible to expose state secrets. Kasei, revealed to be Misako Togane herself, decides to use her as a test subject and to show her the truth behind Sibyl.
Story
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Characters
List of characters in order of appearance:
- Mika Shimotsuki
- Yohei Masuzaki
- Joji Saiga
- Shion Karanomori
- Akane Tsunemori
- Sakuya Togane
- Kirito Kamui
- Yayoi Kunizuka
- Nobuchika Ginoza
- Joshu Kasei
- Shunji Uchikoga (photo only, one of Kamui's holos)
- Sho Hinakawa
- Akira Kitazawa (flashback only)
- Koki Mima (flashback only)
- Misako Togane (archives and symbolic only)
- Unnamed repairman
- Aoi Tsunemori (mentioned only)
- Akira Yamatoya (flashback only)
- Risa Aoyanagi (flashback only)
- Mizue Shisui (flashback only)
- Kaede Hasuike (flashback only)
- Kaname Shinjo (flashback only)
- Tsubaki Aikawa (flashback only)
- Tetsuya Hyodo (flashback only)
- Moe Suzuki (flashback only)
- Shuichiro Domoto (flashback only)
- Teppei Sugo (flashback only)
Trivia
- The episode contains many flashbacks, but most are merely here to illustrate Shimotsuki's comment, acting as a hidden recap of the previous episodes.
- Flashbacks during Shimotsuki's research in the archives of the Ministry of Economy's Patent Office:
- just before a bombing by Akira Kitazawa;[1]
- the barricade incident;[2]
- Shimotsuki searching Togane's apartments.[3]
- Flashbacks while Shimotsuki writes her report:
- Akira Yamatoya's corpse is removed;[4]
- Inspector Risa Aoyanagi's remains and the conclusion of the barricade incident;[2]
- Sakuya Togane and Tsunemori standing in front of a piece of "WC?" graffiti in Kamui's body parts storage;[3]
- Mizue Shisui shoots Kaede Hasuike;[5]
- Kamui eliminates Kaname Shinjo;[5]
- Togane measures Tsunemori crime coefficient with his Dominator;[3]
- The destruction of Division 03:[5]
- the death of Tsubaki Aikawa;
- Tetsuya Hyodo paralyzed;
- the death of Moe Suzuki;
- an injured Shuichiro Domoto trying to take cover.
- And Teppei Sugo in an ambulance.[6]
- Shimotsuki conducts her research through the IPDL (Industrial Property Digital Library).
- According to the connection log, Shimotsuki started her survey on November 26, 2114.
- According to the same log, one of Kamui's personas (Shunji Uchikoga) accessed materials regarding the Togane Foundation on August 10, 2114.
- The brand of nail polish Kasei uses is Christian Louboutin.
- According to Shimotsuki's report, the episode concludes on November 27, 2114.
- Kasei says <AA> equals "Apriori Acquit" (aka "a priori acquit"), meaning to possess a "criminally asymptomatic nature", such as those of Shogo Makishima and Sibyl's members.
- It can be approximatively translated from the latin as "supposed to be already acquired, known, possessed". So it describes the inheritance by birth of the criminally asymptomatic nature. But by extension, it now designates the possession of such a nature.
- When Sakuya Togane calls Kasei "mother", Shimotsuki recalls seeing Misako Togane's profile during her earlier research.
- When Togane grabs Shimotsuki just before they reveal Sibyl's true form to her, she loses her hair elastic.
Quotes
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References