Psycho-Pass
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Cover of the first home media Psycho-Pass release depicting protagonists Akane Tsunemori and Shinya Kōgami.
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PSYCHO-PASS サイコパス (Saiko Pasu) |
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| Genre | Dystopia, Crime fiction, Cyberpunk |
| Anime television series | |
| Directed by | Naoyoshi Shiotani Katsuyuki Motohiro |
| Produced by | Koji Yamamoto (Chief) George Wada Kenji Tobori Wakana Okamura |
| Written by | Gen Urobuchi |
| Music by | Yugo Kanno |
| Studio | Production I.G |
| Licensed by | |
| Original network | Fuji TV (Noitamina) |
| Original run | October 12, 2012 – March 22, 2013 |
| Episodes | 22 |
| Manga | |
| Inspector Akane Tsunemori | |
| Written by | Hikaru Miyoshi |
| Published by | Shueisha |
| Demographic | Shōnen |
| Magazine | Jump Square |
| Original run | November 2, 2012 – October 4, 2014 |
| Volumes | 6 |
| Light novel | |
| Written by | Makoto Fukami |
| Published by | Mag Garden |
| Demographic | Seinen |
| Original run | February 4, 2013 – April 4, 2013 |
| Volumes | 2 |
| Manga | |
| Inspector Shinya Kogami | |
| Written by | Midori Gotou |
| Illustrated by | Natsuo Sai |
| Published by | Mag Garden |
| English publisher | |
| Demographic | Shōnen |
| Magazine | Monthly Comic Blade |
| Original run | June 30, 2014 – present |
| Volumes | 4 |
| Anime television series | |
| Psycho-Pass 2 | |
| Directed by | Naoyoshi Shiotani Kiyotaka Suzuki |
| Produced by | Koji Yamamoto (Chief) Akitoshi Mori Masaya Saito Fumi Morihiro Kenji Tobori George Wada |
| Written by | Tow Ubukata |
| Music by | Yugo Kanno |
| Studio | Tatsunoko Production |
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| Original network | Fuji TV (Noitamina) |
| Original run | October 10, 2014 – December 18, 2014 |
| Episodes | 11 |
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Psycho-Pass (Japanese: サイコパス Hepburn: Saiko Pasu?, stylized as PSYCHO-PASS) is an anime television series that was produced by Production I.G, directed by Naoyoshi Shiotani and Katsuyuki Motohiro and written by Gen Urobuchi. The series was aired on Fuji TV's Noitamina programming block between October 2012 and March 2013. The story takes place in an authoritarian future dystopia, where omnipresent public sensors continuously scan the mental states of every passing citizen. Collected data on both present mentality and aggregated personality data is used to gauge the probability of that citizen committing a crime, the rating referred to as that citizen's Psycho-Pass. Authorities are alerted whenever excessive ratings are detected, and officers of the Public Safety Bureau are dispatched with weapons called "Dominators", energy pistols that modulate their power in response to the target's Psycho Pass. The story follows Akane Tsunemori and Shinya Kogami among other members of Unit One of the Public Safety Bureau's Criminal Investigation Division.
Psycho-Pass originated from Production I.G.'s interest in making a successor to Mamoru Oshii's achievements. The series was inspired by several live-action films. Chief director Katsuyuki Motohiro aimed to explore psychological themes in society's youth using dystopian storylines. Multiple books and movies influenced Psycho-Pass with the most notable being the 1982 American science fiction film Blade Runner.
The series was licensed by Funimation in North America. A second season began airing in October 2014, with an animated film released in January 2015. A manga adaptation has been in serialization in Shueisha's Jump Square magazine and several novels, including an adaptation and prequels to the original story, have been published. An episodic video game adaptation called Chimi Chara Psycho-Pass was developed by Nitroplus Staffers in collaboration with Production I.G. New novels and another manga were serialized in 2014.
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