Paranoia Agent
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妄想代理人 (Mōsō Dairinin) |
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| Anime television series | |
| Directed by | Satoshi Kon |
| Produced by | Masao Teshima |
| Written by | Seishi Minakami Satoshi Kon |
| Music by | Susumu Hirasawa |
| Studio | Madhouse |
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| Original network | WOWOW |
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| Original run | February 2, 2004 – May 18, 2004 |
| Episodes | 13 |
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| Written by | Satoshi Kon Yuichi Umezu |
| Published by | Kadokawa Shoten |
| Imprint | Horror Bunko |
| Published | May 2004 |
Paranoia Agent (妄想代理人 Mōsō Dairinin?) is a Japanese anime television series created by director Satoshi Kon and produced by Madhouse about a social phenomenon in Musashino, Tokyo caused by a juvenile serial assailant named Lil' Slugger (the English equivalent to Shōnen Batto, which translates to "Bat Boy"). The plot relays between a large cast of people affected in some way by the phenomenon; usually Lil' Slugger's victims or the detectives assigned to apprehend him. As each character becomes the focus of the story, details are revealed about their secret lives and the truth about Lil' Slugger.
The series and its themes have been compared to those recurrent in the filmography of David Lynch.
During the makings of his previous three films (Perfect Blue, Millennium Actress, and Tokyo Godfathers), Paranoia Agent creator Satoshi Kon was left with an abundance of unused ideas for stories and arrangements that he felt were good but did not fit into any of his projects. Not wanting to waste the material, he decided to recycle it into a dynamic TV series in which his experimental ideas could be used.
In the case of a film to be shown at theatres, I'm working for two years and a half, always in the same mood and with the same method. I wanted to do something that allows me to be more flexible, to realize instantly what flashes across my mind. I was also aiming at a sort of entertaining variation, so I decided to go for a TV series.
Tsukiko Sagi, a shy character designer who created the immensely popular pink dog Maromi, finds herself under pressure to repeat her success. As she walks home that night, she is attacked by an elementary school boy on inline skates. Two police detectives, Keiichi Ikari and Mitsuhiro Maniwa, are assigned to the case. They suspect that Tsukiko is lying about the attack, until they receive word of a second victim.
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