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Psycho-Pass Anime's 3rd Season Premieres in October
posted on by Crystalyn Hodgkins
The "Fuji TV Anime Lineup Press Conference 2019" event on Thursday announced that Psycho-Pass 3, the third television anime season in the Psycho-Pass franchise, will premiere on Fuji TV's Noitamina programming block in October.
The anime will star Yūki Kaji as Arata Shindō and Yūichi Nakamura as Kei Mikhail Ignatov. Naoyoshi Shiotani is returning to direct the series at Production I.G, and manga creator Akira Amano is returning as the original character designer.
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 also includes the newly released three-film Psycho-Pass SS or Psycho-Pass: Sinners of the System project. The first film, Psycho-Pass: Sinners of the System Case.1 Tsumi to Batsu (Crime and Punishment), opened in Japan on January 25. The second film, Psycho-Pass: Sinners of the System Case.2 First Guardian, opened in Japan on February 15. The third film, Psycho-Pass: Sinners of the System Case.3 Onshū no Kanata ni ____ (In the Realm Beyond Is ____), opened in Japan on Friday March 8.
The franchise has inspired several manga adaptations and spinoff manga, as well as the Psycho-Pass: Mandatory Happiness game.
Update: Embedded promotional video.
Source: "Fuji TV Anime Lineup Press Conference 2019" event livestream
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