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Word list · PSYCHO-PASS サイコパス · Updated October 2026

Psycho-Pass Japanese vocabulary: 60 words from the first episodes

A rookie inspector joins a unit that hunts latent criminals in a future where a system measures everyone's mental state and risk of committing a crime. Formal workplace conversations use police vocabulary and terms related to the system.

About 57% of the words below are JLPT N5–N4, so Psycho-Pass is manageable once you have the basics down.

How this list was made: we went through the Japanese subtitles of the first 3 episodes, reduced every word to its dictionary form, dropped names, sound effects and grammar particles, and kept the words that come up most. Each word has one short line from the show.

JLPT N5 25 words · the first words any course teaches

JLPT N4 9 words · still beginner territory

JLPT N3 14 words · intermediate

JLPT N2–N1 3 words · advanced

Show and story words 9 words · not on the JLPT lists, but this series leans on them

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