There are multiple arms of this investigation, it seems!.
Earlier today, anime fans gathered at Tokyo’s TOHO Cinemas Roppongi Hills for the world premiere of the Psycho-Pass SS (Psycho-Pass Sinners of the System) anime project. During the show, the director and main cast for the project announced the core staff members, the main voice cast, the premiere date, and the key visual for Psycho-Pass Sinners of the System Case.2 First Guardian.
We break the details down below.
Key Visual
The image features Masaoka at the front, his jacket slung over his shoulder as he points a Dominator toward a camera. A pilot stands behind him, as a woman holding a Dominator stands by a chopper. A ghostly image of a hooded figure can be seen in the sky, at the top-left corner.
Staff
Naoyoshi Shiotani (Psycho-Pass, Blood-C: The Last Dark) will direct the project at Production I.G., with the team of Naoyuki Onda (Berserk: The Golden Age, Psycho-Pass: The Movie), Kyoji Asano (Attack on Titan, Psycho-Pass), and Hisashi Abe providing character designs. Makoto Fukami (Yuruyuri San Hai!, Berserk) is writing the screenplay.
Other confirmed crew members include:
- Chief Animation Director: Hisashi Abe
- Animation Director: Satoru Nakamura
- Animation Director: Ryōta Furukawa
- Animation Director: Hisashi Abe
- Animation Director: Tetsurō Moronuki
- Director of Photography: Eiji Arai
- Color Key Artist: Emiko Ueno
- Technical Directors Yasuhiro Geshi
- 3D CGI: I.G3D
- Art Director: Shuichi Kusamori
- Sound Director: Yoshikazu Iwanami
- Music: Yuugo Kanno
- Series Story Concept: Gen Urobuchi
- Character Design Concept: Akira Amano
- “SS” Story Concept: Naoyoshi Shiotani
- Original Character Design: Akira Amano
- Distributor: TOHO Visual Entertainment
Cast
The confirmed voice cast includes:
- Akane Tsunemori: Kana Hanazawa
- Frederica Hanashiro: Takako Honda
- Itsuki Ōtomo: Masaki Terasoma
- Mika Shimotsuki: Ayane Sakura
- Nobuchika Ginoza: Kenji Nojima
- Rin Ōtomo: Sayaka Ohara
- Risa Aoyanagi: Masumi Asano
- Shinya Kōgami: Tomokazu Seki
- Shion Karanomori: Miyuki Sawashiro
- Shuusei Kagari: Akira Ishida
- Teppei Sugo: Hiroki Touchi
- Tomomi Masaoka: Kinryuu Arimoto
- Yayoi Kunizuka: Shizuka Itou
Theme Songs
Masayuki Nakano will perform the ending theme song, All Alone With You. The main theme for the trilogy is Adnormalize, which will also be performed by Nakano.
Psycho-Pass Sinners of the System Case.2 First Guardian hits theaters open on February 15, 2019.
Psycho-Pass is an original anime project from Production I.G., which first aired in the Fall 2012 broadcast season. Katsuyuki Motohiro and Naoyoshi Shiotani (Blood+) helmed the first season as chief director and director, respectively. Kyoji Asano (Attack on Titan) provided character designs on the title, while Gen Urobuchi (Puella Magi Madoka Magica, Blassreiter) took charge of series composition.
A sequel show, Psycho-Pass 2 aired in Fall 2014. Naoyoshi Shiotani and Kiyotaka Suzuki (Infini-T Force) directed the series at Tatsunoko Production, with Kyoji Asano returning to provide character designs. Tow Ubukata (Ghost in the Shell: Arise, Le Chevalier D’Eon) took over for Gen Urobuchi on series composition.
A feature film project, titled Psycho-Pass: The Movie, hit Japanese theaters in January 2015. The film was helmed by Naoyoshi Shiotani (Blood+, Psycho-Pass) and Chief Director Katsuyuki Motohiro (Psycho-Pass) at Production I.G. The team of Gen Urobuchi (Puella Magi Madoka Magica, Fate/Zero) and Makoto Fukami (Fate/Zero, Psycho-Pass) wrote the screenplay, while Yuugo Kanno (Birdy the Mighty: Decode, Gundam Reconguista in G) scored the soundtrack. The team of Kouji Aoki, Kyoji Asano (Attack on Titan), and Naoyuki Onda (Berserk: The Golden Age, Ergo Proxy) provided character designs.
Funimation currently holds the domestic rights to the Psycho-Pass anime. They describe the title as:
Welcome to a world where just thinking about a crime is enough to enough to make you guilty. Bad intentions can no longer be hidden, and the police know exactly which tainted minds are about to cross over to the wrong side of the law. The great equalizer in the war on thugs is the Dominator, a futuristic weapon that can read minds and assess the risk that a citizen will turn criminal. Cops work in teams made up of Enforcers and Inspectors. Enforcers take out the bad guys, Inspectors stop their partners from going rogue, and the all-powerful Sibyl System keeps a watchful eye on us all. Society is paralyzed by its deepest, darkest desires, and trial by jury has been replaced by the wrath of the Dominator. Welcome to the future. How guilty are you?
