A kamui is a spiritual or divine being in Ainu mythology,a term denoting a supernatural entity composed of or possessing spiritual energy.
Gen Urobuchi is a Japanese novelist,visual novel writer and anime screenwriter. He is known for being the co-creator of the highly acclaimed and commercially successful anime series Puella Magi Madoka Magica,which earned him the Tokyo Anime Award for Best Scriptwriter,as well as the writer of the 2003 visual novel Saya no Uta,the 2012 anime Psycho-Pass,the light novel and anime Fate/Zero,and the 2013–2014 tokusatsu show Kamen Rider Gaim. He currently works at Nitroplus and Nitro+chiral. Anime written by Urobuchi that have won the Newtype Anime Awards have been Puella Magi Madoka Magica in 2011,Fate/Zero in 2012 and Psycho-Pass:The Movie in 2015.
Psycho-Pass is a Japanese cyberpunk psychological thriller anime television series produced by Production I.G. It was co-directed by Naoyoshi Shiotani and Katsuyuki Motohiro and written by Gen Urobuchi,with character designs by Akira Amano and featuring music by Yugo Kanno. The series aired on Fuji TV's Noitamina programming block between October 2012 and March 2013. Set in a dystopia of Sibyl System's governance of Japan,the plot follows the young woman Akane Tsunemori. She is introduced as a novice Inspector assigned to Division One of the Public Safety Bureau's Criminal Investigation Division,in charge of solving crimes with latent criminals,Enforcers.
Psycho-Pass is a Japanese anime television series produced by Production I.G,directed by Naoyoshi Shiotani and Katsuyuki Motohiro,and written by Gen Urobuchi. It is set in the near future,when it is possible to instantaneously measure a person's "Psycho-Pass":their mental state,personality,and the probability that they will commit a crime. The series follows Akane Tsunemori,a new member of Unit One of the Public Safety Bureau's Criminal Investigation Division,and her involvement in the crimes her group investigates.
Akane Tsunemori is a protagonist of the anime series Psycho-Pass. She is introduced as a novice Inspector assigned to Division One of the Public Safety Bureau's Criminal Investigation Division. Over the course of the series,Akane examines the social and ethical underpinnings of the Sibyl System's governance of Japan and her own idealistic values. Akane is noted for her remarkable psychological fortitude,which keeps her Psycho-Pass score consistently low in the face of extraordinary challenges. In addition to the anime series,Akane appears as the protagonist of the continuation film Psycho-Pass:The Movie (2015),and the manga and novel adaptations of the series.
Shinya Kogami is the protagonist introduced in the 2012 anime series Psycho-Pass. A police officer in a cyberpunk dystopia,Kogami becomes obsessed with murdering Shogo Makishima,a criminal mastermind responsible for the death of one of Kogami's former allies. The character has also appeared in manga and novel adaptations of the series,a prequel manga series,a stage play and the films Psycho-Pass:The Movie (2015) and Psycho-Pass:Sinners of the System Case.3 On the Other Side of Love and Hate (2019),which focuses on Kogami's life after the events of the first anime season. He reappears in the third television season,Psycho-Pass 3, as a supporting character. Additional novels and manga explore Kogami's work as an Inspector years before the start of the television series.
Shogo Makishima is a fictional character who was introduced as the main antagonist in Production I.G's anime series Psycho-Pass. Makishima is responsible for several crimes,and the main cast,the Public Safety Bureau officers,are in search of him. He advocates the destruction of the futuristic society created by the Sybil System,in which people are treated according to their stress level rather than free will;Instead Makishima values past societies where people used to express themselves more. In his quest to destroy the Sibyl System,Makishima stands against multiple detectives,most notably the protagonist,detective Shinya Kogami,whom he also relates due to both sharing the same hatred for the current opressed society. Makishima appears in most of the series' print adaptations,and makes cameo appearances in the films Psycho-Pass:The Movie (2015) and Psycho-Pass:Sinners of the System (2019).
Psycho-Pass:The Movie is a 2015 Japanese anime science fiction crime film that was produced by Production I.G. It features the voices of Kana Hanazawa,Tomokazu Seki,Hiroshi Kamiya,Ayane Sakura,Kenji Nojima,and Shizuka Itō. Set in a dystopia,The film focuses on inspector Akane Tsunemori,the Public Safety Bureau's Criminal Investigation Division Inspector,who finds a picture of Shinya Kogami who left Japan in the television series Psycho-Pass. As Kogami has trained criminals,the inspector travels to the Southeast Asia Union (SEAUn) to investigate and arrest him. Psycho-Pass:The Movie premiered in Japan on January 9,2015.
Psycho-Pass:Sinners of the System,also shortened to Psycho-Pass SS,is a trilogy of Japanese anime films based on characters who appear in the Psycho-Pass television series. The trilogy was first announced in 2018 and the films were released by Production I.G in Japan in early 2019 full under direction of Naoyoshi Shiotani. The films stars the talents of Ayane Sakura,Hiroki Touchi,Kana Hanazawa,Kenji Nojima,KinryūArimoto,Tomokazu Seki among others.
Psycho-Pass 3 is a 2019 anime television series that serves as a direct sequel to the 2014 anime television series Psycho-Pass 2 and the de facto third season of the Psycho-Pass anime series. It aired in Japan's Fuji TV's Noitamina from October 24 to December 12,2019. It was first revealed in March 2019. Besides featuring characters from previous series,Psycho-Pass and Psycho-Pass 2,the anime focuses on new characters including Yūki Kaji's Arata Shindo and Yūichi Nakamura's Kei Mikhail Ignatov with Akira Amano having conceived their designs. Naoyoshi Shiotani returns to direct the series at Production I.G. Set in a dystopian future where society is overseen by technology known as the Sibyl System,the story focuses on Shindo and Ignatov,two policemen.
Psycho-Pass 3:First Inspector is a 2020 anime science fiction crime film produced by Production I.G and directed by Naoyoshi Shiotani. The film acts as sequel to the 2019 anime Psycho-Pass 3,the third season of Psycho-Pass series. It stars the talents of Yuuki Kaji,Yūichi Nakamura,Mamoru Miyano,Kenyu Horiuchi,among others. Set in a dystopia known as the Sybil System,the film explores the Inspectors Kei Mikhail Ignatov,Arata Shindo,among others who clash with the terrorist group Bifrost in a clash to take Tokyo governor Karina Komiya. The film released to theatres in Japan on March 27,2020.
Arata Shindo is a protagonist from Production I.G's 2019 anime television series Psycho-Pass 3. Shindo is a new Inspector working for Division 1 alongside his best friend,Kei Mikhail Ignatov. Shindo and Ignatov are in charge of their Enforcers who assist and protect them. Shindo often analyzes the situations he finds himself in using his mentalist skills known as a Mental Trace. Throughout the series,Shindo's team learns of a criminal organization called Bifrost. As the series explores varied encounters,Bifrost's influence becomes apparent with the outcome of Shindo's and Ignatov's investigation resolved in the 2020 anime film,Psycho-Pass 3 First Inspector,which was released for a theater run in Japan,followed by streaming release world-wide,in March,2020.
Naoyoshi Shiotani is a Japanese director who was worked into multiple works from the studio Production I.G. He is famous for directing all Psycho-Pass works. He was voted the third director in Newtype's anime awards.
Mika Shimotsuki is a fictional character,introduced in the anime Psycho-Pass by Production I.G. A minor character in the 2012 series,Shimotsuki's role has gained importance in the sequels,in which she becomes an inspector working in Unit One,an organization fighting crimes in a future where people live according to the will of the Sybl System. She has returned in following media,most notably as a protagonist in the first film of the Psycho-Pass:Sinners of the System trilogy. By Psycho-Pass 3,Shimotsuki has become the leader of Unit One,looking after the new cast. She is voiced by Ayane Sakura.
Makoto Fukami is a Japanese manga artist,novelist,and screenwriter. He started writing manga in 1999 and since has had multiple of his series adapted into other media. In addition to manga,he also did screenwriting for Psycho-Pass and its first film Psycho-Pass:The Movie in 2012 and 2015 respectively,both of which have been well received.
Kanshikan Tsunemori Akane is a Japanese manga series by Hikaru Miyoshi,based on the Psycho-Pass anime series. It was serialized in Shueisha's shōnen manga magazine Jump Square from November 2012 to May 2013,and later on the magazine's official website from June 2013 to December 2014.
Psycho-Pass:Inspector Shinya Kogami is a Japanese manga series written by Midori Gotou and illustrated by Natsuo Sai. The manga is a prequel to Production I.G's 2012 Psycho-Pass anime series,focusing on the younger days of Shinya Kogami,an Inspector working for Public Safety Bureau's Criminal Investigation Division in contrast to his darker characterization from the television series where he is recognized by the Sybil System as a latent criminal.
Psycho-Pass Providence is a 2023 anime science fiction crime film produced by Production I.G and directed by Naoyoshi Shiotani.
