[Staff Spotlight! Uncovering Treasures] "Tokyo Marble Chocolate" - Original love story by Naoyoshi Shiotani, director of "PSYCHO-PASS Psycho-Pass

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Naoyoshi Shiotani's first film as a director, an original love story

PSYCHO-PASS: Psycho-Pass," a near-future suspense series in which human crimes are measured and judged by the "crime coefficient" of the "sibula system," aired its first season in October 2012, followed by a new edited version in July 2014 and a second season in October 2014. And in January 2015, a new film version was released, which is expected to feature the missing Shinya Cunningham.

Naoyoshi Shiotani has been the director throughout the series. In the direction of the future police anime aimed by general director Katsuyuki Motohiro, he has visualized the dystopian worldview presented by the story's original director, Gen Urobuchi, and portrayed the drama carried by the fascinating characters originally conceived by Akira Amano, bringing them together into a single entertaining work. He has even created key visuals himself, such as the paintings of the character Wang Ryo Ryoichi and the "interior" of the sibula system, to point out the direction of the work. In the second season, Ubukata Tow was invited to compose the series, and a new story in the same series has been developed.

Director Shiotani's first film was "Tokyo Marble Chocolate," produced in 2007. This anime original pure love story (original story by Production I.G) is set in "Tokyo" where two towers stand, and depicts the feelings of a pair of men and women, Yudai and Chizuru, and their differences.

Although "PSYCHO-PASS" is set in Tokyo, the atmosphere of the work is so contrasting that it could be described as "black" and "white" in color. However, Director Shiotani's immersive and hands-on approach to his work is no different in "Tokyo Marble Chocolate. In this work, too, Director Shiotani is in charge of "miniloba design, art setting," and layout, as well as his own drawing work.