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PSYCHO-PASS: Mandatory Happiness Limited Edition

PS VITA
Also available on:PLAYSTATION 4
PSYCHO-PASS: Mandatory Happiness Limited Edition
NIS America9/13/2016Americas

The Sibyl System judges your mental state. This edition judges your commitment to the collection. PSYCHO-PASS: Mandatory Happiness Limited Edition for the PlayStation Vita brings the acclaimed cyberpunk anime series into visual novel territory with a package that treats its source material with the reverence it deserves.

The 72-page full-color softcover art book is dense with the kind of dystopian character art and world-building detail that made PSYCHO-PASS a modern classic. Three pencil boards featuring key art give you rigid, display-ready prints that look sharp propped up on a shelf. The original soundtrack on CD captures the tension and atmosphere of a world where your emotions can get you arrested, and the microfiber cloth rounds things out with a practical touch.

PSYCHO-PASS: Mandatory Happiness isn't a retread of the anime's plot. It introduces two new characters to Division 1, weaving an original story that expands the universe without contradicting it. That's the kind of thoughtful adaptation that earns a visual novel its place on a collector's shelf.

The Vita became the go-to platform for visual novels in the West, and limited physical editions from this era are getting harder to track down. This one sits at the intersection of anime fandom and Vita collecting, two communities that overlap heavily and drive demand in the same direction.