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Psycho-Pass SS Anime Trilogy's Trailer Previews Theme Song

The official website for the three-film Psycho-Pass SS or Psycho-Pass Sinners of the System project began streaming a trailer for all three films on Monday. The video previews the trilogy's theme song "Abnormalize" by Ling Tosite Sigure. The song is a remix of the first anime's first opening theme song, remixed by Masayuki Nakano.

For the first film Psycho-Pass Sinners of the System Case.1 Tsumi to Batsu (Crime and Punishment), the film stars:

• Kenji Nojima as Nobuchika Ginoza
• Ayane Sakura as Mika Shimotsuki
• Saori Yumiba as Izumi Yasaka
• Sachie Hirai as Takeya Kukuri
• Hiroe Oka as Kyōka Tsujichō
• Rikiya Koyama as Rodion Matsuki
• Kimiko Saitō as Aiko Gentaku
• Youhei Tadano as Kōji Noto
• Keiichi Nakagawa as Akira Karasuma
• Kana Hanazawa as Akane Tsunemori
• Hiroki Touchi as Teppei Sugo
• Takahiro Sakurai as Shō Hinakawa
• Shizuka Itou as Yayoi Kunizuka
• Miyuki Sawashiro as Shion Karanomori

The staff includes:

• SS Story Concept/Director: Naoyoshi Shiotani
• Screenplay: Ryō Yoshigami
• Chief Animation Director: Satoru Nakamura
• Animation Directors: Ryota Niino, Ryōta Furukawa, Shunji Suzuki, Fumi Morita, Satoru Nakamura, Tetsurō Moronuki
• Technical Directors: Tomoyuki Kurokawa, Yasuhiro Geshi
• Director of Photography: Eiji Arai
• 3D: Sublimation
• Color Key Artist: Emiko Ueno
• Art Director: Shuichi Kusamori
• Sound Director: Yoshikazu Iwanami
• Music: Yuugo Kanno
• Character Designs: Naoyuki Onda, Kyoji Asano, Hisashi Abe (Chobits, Berserk)
• Series Story Concept: Gen Urobuchi
• Character Design Concept: Akira Amano
• Animation Production: Production I.G
• Distribution: TOHO Visual Entertainment

The film will open on January 25.

For the second film Psycho-Pass Sinners of the System Case.2 First Guardian, the film stars:

• Hiroki Touchi as Teppei Sugo
• Kinryuu Arimoto as Tomomi Masaoka
• Masumi Asano as Risa Aoyanagi
• Masaki Terasoma as Itsuki Ōtomo
• Sayaka Ohara as Rin Ōtomo
• Tomokazu Seki as Shinya Kōgami
• Kenji Nojima as Nobuchika Ginoza
• Akira Ishida as Shuusei Kagari
• Shizuka Itou as Yayoi Kunizuka
• Miyuki Sawashiro as Shion Karanomori
• Takako Honda as Frederica Hanashiro
• Kana Hanazawa as Akane Tsunemori
• Ayane Sakura as Mika Shimotsuki

The staff includes:

• SS Story Concept/Director: Naoyoshi Shiotani
• Screenplay: Makoto Fukami
• Chief Animation Director: Hisashi Abe
• Animation Directors: Satoru Nakamura, Ryōta Furukawa, Hisashi Abe, Tetsurō Moronuki
• Technical Directors: Yasuhiro Geshi
• Director of Photography: Eiji Arai
• 3D: I.G3D
• Color Key Artist: Emiko Ueno
• Art Director: Shuichi Kusamori
• Sound Director: Yoshikazu Iwanami
• Music: Yuugo Kanno
• Character Designs: Naoyuki Onda, Kyoji Asano, Yasuhiro Aoki
• Series Story Concept: Gen Urobuchi
• Character Design Concept: Akira Amano
• Animation Production: Production I.G
• Distribution: TOHO Visual Entertainment

The film will open on February 15.

For the third film Psycho-Pass Sinners of the System Case.3 Onshū no Kanata ni ____ (In the Realm Beyond Is ____), the film stars:

• Tomokazu Seki as Shinya Kōgami
• Sumire Morohoshi as Tenjin Wangchuck
• Tomoyuki Shimura as Kinley Dorji
• Tsutomu Isobe as Guillermo Garcia
• Wataru Takagi as Tshering Gurung
• Satoshi Tsuruoka as Jean-Marcel Belmondo

The staff includes:

• SS Story Concept/Director: Naoyoshi Shiotani
• Screenplay: Makoto Fukami
• Chief Animation Directors: Naoyuki Onda, Hisashi Abe, Satoru Nakamura
• Animation Directors: Miyuki Nakamura, Ryōta Furukawa, Chikai Takeuchi, Hisaki Furukawa, Miho Ichikawa, Kazuchika Kise, Hisashi Abe, Tetsurō Moronuki, Ryota Niino, Satoru Nakamura
• Technical Directors: Toshiyuki Kono, Hirotaka Endo
• Director of Photography: Eiji Arai
• 3D: Sublimation
• Color Key Artist: Emiko Ueno
• Art Director: Shuichi Kusamori
• Sound Director: Yoshikazu Iwanami
• Music: Yuugo Kanno
• Character Designs: Naoyuki Onda, Kyoji Asano, Hisashi Abe
• Series Story Concept: Gen Urobuchi
• Character Design Concept: Akira Amano
• Animation Production: Production I.G
• Distribution: TOHO Visual Entertainment

The film will open on March 8.

Case.1's ending theme is "Fallen," remixed by Masayuki Nakano. Case.2's ending theme is "All Alone With You," remixed by Masayuki Nakano. Case.3's ending theme is "Namae no nai Kaibutsu" (Nameless Monster), remixed by Masayuki Nakano.

The original Psycho-Pass anime premiered in 2012 and ran for 22 episodes. The 11-episode Psycho-Pass 2 television anime series then premiered in October 2014, and the Psycho-Pass movie opened in Japan in January 2015. Funimation released all three anime on home video. The franchise has inspired several manga adaptations and spinoff manga, as well as the Psycho-Pass: Mandatory Happiness game.

Sources: Psycho-Pass SS official website, Comic Natalie

Images © Psycho-Pass Production Committee