Interviews with Tow Ubukata, Makoto Fukami, and Ryo Yoshigami, writers of the TV anime "PSYCHO-PASS Psycho-Pass 3", have arrived!

PSYCHO-PASS Psycho-Pass 3", the third season of the TV anime currently airing on Fuji Television's "Noitamina" every Thursday from 24:55 to 25:55, has received interviews from the three scriptwriters who are working on the script, including Ubukata Tow, Fukami Makoto, and Yoshigami Ryo. The interview with the scriptwriters of the film, Tow Ubukata, Makoto Fukami, and Ryo Yoshigami, has arrived.

PSYCHO-PASS Psycho-Pass" is an original science fiction animation that depicts a police force that is called to justice in a near-future society where the psychological state of humans is quantified and managed.
The first season of the anime, which depicts the story of a near-future police force, aired from October 2012 to March 2013 on Fuji Television's "Noitamina" and other channels. The second season, which started in October 2014, was set a year and a half after the last episode of the first season, and a completely new story was depicted in the movie version released in January 2015, both of which became the talk of the town. The third season of the TV anime "PSYCHO-PASS Psycho-Pass 3," which began airing on October 17, 2019, tells the story of two new surveillance officers. Shinsuke Shaku and Jiong Mikhail Ignatov become detectives in the Public Security Bureau of the Ministry of Health and Welfare, and search for the truth in an ever-changing world.
⇒ PSYCHO-PASS Psycho-Pass 3" will air its first episode on 10/24! New cast members include Akio Otsuka, Junichi Suwabe, Mamoru Miyano and Atsuko Tanaka!

We have just received an interview with the three scriptwriters of this work, including Ubukata Tow, Fukami Makoto, and Yoshigami Ryo.
They talk passionately about behind-the-scenes of the script writing process, the appeal of the new characters, and their thoughts on the work, so be sure to check it out!

Official Interview

PSYCHO-PASS Psycho-Pass 3" Screenwriters' Roundtable Discussion
Ubukata Tow (Series Composition/Screenplay) x Fukami Makoto (Screenplay) x Yoshigami Ryo (Screenplay)

─ The script for "PSYCHO-PASS Psycho-Pass 3" (hereafter referred to as "PP3") is a collaboration between three writers, so how did you go about creating the script?

Ubukata: The producers and director Naoyoshi Shiotani gave us specific orders, such as making all the characters new and setting the timeline in the year 2120, six years after the second season. We then put together the structure of the series, and the two of you (Fukami and Yoshigami) wrote the scripts.

Fukami: Ubukata-san and director Shiotani worked well together. First of all, I felt that it was already completed within the two of us. The series structure that Ubukata-san put together was very precise. I've never seen such a detailed structure!　I had never seen such a detailed structure before! So, my first task was to "make pillars (themes for the episodes) out of that series structure, and write them into a box (to put together the specific elements of the scenes)".

Ubukata: What I thought was great about Fukami-san was that he would take the pitch I threw and bend it back (laughs). (laughs) Characters that weren't in the series structure would come back to me with additions. For example, Obata-chan (Senya Obata, a collaborator of First Inspector Koichi Azusawa) is a character that was born because of Mr. Fukami. Fukami-san's changes are interesting, so we bend them even further and return them to him.

Fukami: After seeing our scenario work, Ubukata-san rewrote the latter half of the series to make it even more interesting.

Ubukata: We would take our best opportunity to throw out some new ideas. I think we were able to work on the script in a good rhythm. It took a long time, though.

Fukami: I was surprised when I read the plot and the series structure that Ubukata-san had created. Everywhere you turn, it's a new "PSYCHO-PASS: Psycho-Pass". The appearance of Bifrost, the setting of the Inspectors. Everyone is a little bit involved in the case, and no one is aware that they are criminals, a trick ....... I think it's interesting.

─ ─ Mr. Yoshigami, you participated in the screenplay for the first time with "PSYCHO-PASS: Sinners of the System Case.1 Crime and Punishment" and this is your first participation in a TV series screenplay.

Yoshigami: I was in charge of the middle episodes, but everyone kept adding ideas and elements at the plotting stage, so the script ended up with a huge number of words.

Ubukata That's Yoshigami-san's habit, isn't it? No matter what he writes, he always manages to turn it into a huge volume.

Fukami Your scripts are more like novels.

Ubukata I understand!　I was the same way when I first started writing anime scripts.

Yoshigami: Mr. Ubukata would correct the script down to the smallest detail, and he trained me a lot.

──What kind of character is the main character, Shaku Shindu, Jion Mikhail Ignatov? What are the characteristics of the characters and what attracts you to them?

Ubukata: First of all, Director Shiotani and the producers asked us to change all the characters, and they asked us to come up with two "buddy" characters for the watchers. I think it was also decided from the beginning that the characters would be "buddies," that one of them would be an immigrant and the other would be a childhood friend, and that there would be a height difference between them. From there, I thought about the idea of having a psychologist and a combatant, and proposed the idea of a mentalist (psycho-analyst) and a person with military experience as a "buddy.

Fukami: When I participated in the first hon-reading (script discussion), Ubukata-san suddenly said to me, "I want to see Shinsuke Shaku and Jiong Mikhail Ignatov written by Fukami-san, so please write the first episode" (laughs). At first glance, Shaku looks flustered, but he is smart. He is a bit of a goofball, but he quickly finds the right answer and runs with it. It was difficult at first.

Ubukata: If you're not good at it, you end up becoming a jerk.

Fukami: Ubukata-san said that it's okay to look like a jerk at first.

Ubukata He's the kind of character who leads the conversation and gets things to go in his own favor, without even realizing it.

Yoshigami He's a people pleaser, isn't he? In that sense, he's probably the most like a detective.

Ubukata He's a good detective who gets along well with criminals, gets them to talk a lot, and then arrests them.

─ ─ How interesting is it to be a part of the "PSYCHO-PASS" series?

Fukami: I've always been a big fan of Ubukata-san's novels. The "Mardock" series, the "Spiegel" series, and the period piece ....... Just being in the company of someone like that is very stimulating. I don't want to sound like a smart person, but he's a very smart person (laughs). When I have a meeting with Mr. Ubukata, I have to turn my own head fully. After these meetings, I think it was a very stimulating site that changed the way I looked at the script.

Ubukata: Being on the set of "PSYCHO-PASS: Psycho-Pass" makes me think that "all creators are crazy" (laughs). (laughs) Of course, that's a compliment, but even Mr. Gen Ufuchi, who worked on the first season, Mr. Fukami, and Mr. Yoshigami are all somewhat out of the ordinary. I think that's why they are able to create something enjoyable.

Yoshigami: I have loved the works of Ubukata and Fukami since I was a teenager. They have influenced me a lot. It was a great opportunity for me to grow as a person, and as Fukami-san said, it changed the way I read scripts. It was a site where I could say to myself, "Look at this, everyone! It was a site where I could say with certainty, "Everyone, watch this!

＜Profile> Ubukata
Ubukata To: Novelist, manga author, screenwriter. Member of the Science Fiction Writers' Club of Japan. He was in charge of the series composition and screenplay for "PSYCHO-PASS: Psycho-Pass 2. He won the Japan Science Fiction Grand Prize for "Mardock Scramble" and the Yoshikawa Eiji Literary Newcomer Award and the Honya Taisho Award for "Tenchi Meisatsu". He is also the series director and screenwriter of the anime "Ghost in the Shell: ARISE" and the original story writer and screenwriter of "HUMAN LOST: Ningen Shikkaku".

Makoto Fukami is a novelist, manga author, and screenwriter. He made his debut as a screenwriter for the first season of the TV series "PSYCHO-PASS Psycho-Pass. Since then, he has been involved in many animation works as well as novelist. He was in charge of the series composition of "revisions". He is also in charge of the series composition of the anime version of "Magical Girl Special Battle Asuka," for which he wrote the original manga.

Ryo Yoshigami is a novelist and screenwriter. Member of the Science Fiction Writers' Club of Japan. He is also a member of the Japan Mystery Writers Association. He made his debut as a writer with "Panzer Crown Faces. In the "PSYCHO-PASS" series, he wrote the spin-off "PSYCHO-PASS ASYLUM" (2 volumes) and "PSYCHO-PASS GENESIS" (4 volumes), which depicts the past of the series. He published a new work, "Mud Bullets".

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PSYCHO-PASS Psycho-Pass 3

＜Broadcast Information
Broadcasting will begin on October 17, 2019 on Fuji TV's "Noitamina" every Thursday from 24:55 to 25:55 in the expanded slot.
The first broadcast will be a special program, and the first episode (total of 8 episodes) will air from October 24.
Exclusive distribution on Amazon Prime Video in Japan and overseas.
Episodes 2 onward: Each episode will be available from one hour after the Fuji TV broadcast starts.
The special program will be available only in Japan after the Fuji TV broadcast.

<STAFF> Director: Naoyoshi Shiotani
Director: Naoyoshi Shiotani
Series Composition: Ubukata Tow
Screenplay: Makoto Fukami, Ubukata Tow, Ryo Yoshigami
Character Planning：Amano Akira
Character Design / Chief Animation Director：Naoyuki Onda
Color Designer: Makiko Suzuki Art Director: Shuichi Kusamori
3D Director: Kazuya Oya
Director of Photography：Sakiko Murai Visual Effects：Eiji Arai Editing：Yoshinori Murakami
Music: Yugo Kanno
Sound Director: Miwa Iwanami
Opening Theme: Who-ya Extended "Q-vism" (SME Records)
Ending theme: Co shu Nie "bullet" (Sony Music Associated Records)
Animation Production: Production I.G

CAST＞＜CAST
Shinsuke Shaku: Hiroki Kaji
Jiong Mikhail Ignatov: Yuichi Nakamura
Sho Hinagawa: Takahiro Sakurai
Hatsurokugi Tenma: Akio Otsuka
Irie Itsuzu: Junichi Suwabe
Mao Kisaragi: Kaori Nazuka
Karanomori Shion: Sawashiro Miyuki
Mika Shimotsuki: Ayane Sakura
Dominator: Noriko Hidaka
Hokkarashiki Shizuki: Mamoru Miyano
Haruhi Daigin：Hiroshi Naka
Kaeko Kajonji：Atsuko Tanaka
Karina Komiya:Yoko Hikasa
Round Robin: Tomoyuki Morikawa
Azusaizawa Koichi: Horiuchi Keno
Chiya Obata: Sayuri Yahagi
Shinya Cunningham: Tomokazu Seki
Nobumoto Ginoza: Kenji Nojima
Teppei Sugo: Hiroki Higashiji
Rokugozuka Yayoi: Shizuka Ito
Frederica Hanashiro: Takako Honda
Akemi Tsunemori: Kana Hanazawa

<Synopsis>
"Justice" opens up a new world.
In the near future, people's security is maintained by the Sibylla System, a huge surveillance network that quantifies souls. In the year 2120, Japan is about to undergo a revolutionary change by opening its borders to the rest of the world. In this ever-changing world, detectives with the "Dominator," a gun that measures the "crime coefficient," a numerical value related to crime, are in pursuit of "potential criminals" before they commit a crime. Where will they end up?　The world has been waiting for "PSYCHO-PASS: Psycho-Pass" and a new era is about to begin.

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