Anime seems immature or a fan service when there is some mature content that is close to the violence or nudity. There are some anime that can be considered the masterpiece of the depiction of human psychology like paprika and Paranormal Agent but these kind of anime are not as popular among the fans as they should be. It won’t wrong to say that most of the psychological shows do not make any sense or are lewd and extremely gore inorder to show the real story that could make us feel it’s real. Winter 2020, gave these three anime that are surprisingly worth watching psychological anime.
Magia Record: Puella Magi Madoka Magica Side Story
The anime is set in the world of Madoka Magica, Magia that tells the story of the Iroha who is a young girl with magical powers and goes to Kamihama city after getting the information about magical girls being saved there. But on the contrary, she remembered her sister that she forgot and was the one she needed to save. Iroha joins a complex group of magical girls in order to find out about her sister in this city. In this spinoff series there is not much depth in the characters which is not something we saw in original Madoka series. But the anime has done a great job in diving into much complex and dreadful feelings of kids who combines excessive power.
ID:INVADED
Mizuhanome System is a secretive technology used by Investigation Unit which helps the great detectives to get inside the mind of criminals called id well but these detectives have all been killers. Narihisago is one of these detectives who once was a cop but ended up being a killer. After getting in to the minds of killer, things like weaknesses, their backgrounds and their next move and victims can be explored.
Nothing in this anime is pointless and every piece of information is a clue from one perspective. The same cognitive information shows in a different way that can only be comprehended by the one of the same mindset. The directions and construction of these id wells are differs from in different people and the part where one has to deconstruct the fragmented information is the most captivating part of the anime. Morals are questions, no relationship remain same and as the characters developed in an odd way as the explore the id wells while exploring about things about themselves.
Pet
Some humans have the ability to navigate the human psyche and even exploit some precious and ugly memories. There are many things that can be manipulated or ruined with the manipulation of the memories like morals grounds and relationships. The Company hires those who have such capabilities. It hires them as infants and raise them into faithful employees. When one such worker is imprisoned by endless memories due to uncontrollable powers, a skilled and qualified worker invents a peak for them to get out of it and a valley to capture their unsolicited feelings.
The ability of being able understand the feelings closely paves way to various strengths and weaknesses. It depicts both irrational devotion and unconditional abhorrence for someone that can be triggered by ‘saving’ some one else. Pet is also bold enough to show an unusual love between men who ended up having these feelings for one another in result of created dependency which is not comical or indicating peculiarity. It is set in an intriguing way and is more than just a good a bad side making use of the usual certain people and tools. It is a felonious organization that make people do something for their benefits which is not easy to control and rather complicated.
Self-analysis can be entertaining. The three anime mentioned above including ID:INVADED, Magia Record and Pet offer some different setups, the causes and effects that can be close to our real life situation making us ponder over our own certain situations of life. When we analyze how human mind process and how visions and symbols become apparent in such a peculiar but entertaining way is what encourage us to watch these though provoking anime that you should watch when you can. Would you like to get in some one’s mind and how would you like to do that?
