Panopticon is an original composition by cybermiso, a BMS producer affiliated with STRLabel whose work centers on electro and dubstep. The title derives from Jeremy Bentham's panopticon, a theoretical prison architecture in which occupants cannot tell whether they are being watched at any given moment. cybermiso deepened this surveillance theme with his CHUNITHM contribution Surveiller et punir, whose title references Michel Foucault's 1975 treatise on the modern prison system; the two songs are explicitly linked as companion pieces exploring the concepts of prison design and total surveillance. In maimai, Panopticon debuted on May 23, 2017 as the sixth Challenge Track in MURASAKi before entering the general rotation two weeks later. Its Re:MASTER chart arrived in MiLK PLUS and was initially gated behind the Survival Course "宴じゃ!乙姫の大盤振る舞舞コースじゃぞ!", requiring completion of the Re:MASTER course to unlock, before becoming freely available with the launch of FiNALE. Despite a relaxed 110 BPM, every upper difficulty of Panopticon is densely packed with notes, a design ethos it shares with fellow maimai original Our Wrenally, leveraging low tempo to fit more patterns per measure. The song's music video was produced by Photonskyto.