Naoyoshi Shiotani came up with the idea of making
Sinners of the System after productions of the series' 2015 film,
Psycho-Pass: The Movie, was made. The director claimed the franchise should use new characters for the sequel
Psycho-Pass 3 and
Sinners of the System was created to fill gap between the movie and the third television series. The trilogy was also a test case for
Psycho-Pass 3 in terms of production. For
Psycho-Pass, Shiotoani tried to portray the human drama thoroughly with an hour-long episode each, to make it like a live-action overseas drama. Each
Sinners of the System was about 60 minutes each episode, but it was a hard challenge for the staff to make it instead of the usual 30 minute-episode of the television anime series. Production I.G had to put a lot of stuff together in terms of story composint the films, but despite the difficulties they had, they felt it was doing all the work since they moved forward on two sides at the same time by also using its production as a test case for third television series. The films were first announced in Japan by
Fuji TV in March 2018. Shiotani returned as the film's director, having already worked in the previous
Psycho-Pass series. Novelist Ryō Yoshigami wrote the first film's script while the second one was written by
Makoto Fukami. Shiotani spent time on pre-production. He wanted to combine the drama that the scriptwriter Fukami and Yoshigami wanted to draw with the drama that he had envisioned, so Shiotani asked them to write a lot of plots and screenplays. Tsunemori was noted by the fanbase to be noticeably absent from the films despite her high importance in the previous works. Shiotani joked that while
Sinners of the System uses other characters as protagonist, he still decided to use Tsunemori's image instead to make a crossover collaboration with the 2018 film
Godzilla: City on the Edge of Battle. The first two movies had a prescreen in the Film Festival from late 2018 where Shiotani explained to the fans that the third title was still in development. Seki explained the voice acting for the third movie was completed in June 2018 though but still told the audience from the festival that he could break their expectations. Seki felt honored when reading the script from his movie, something which Nojima agreed with. The staff explained an idea they wanted to explore in the films was the long distanced friendship between Ginoza and Kogami as the two have been friends before the events of the first television series. Natsuo Sai also wrote a
manga based on the first two films. A concert,
Psycho-Pass, was made in January 2019 in Shibyua in order to promote the trilogy while featuring tracks from
Yugo Kanno and portrayal of the franchise's characters by the original voice actors. Two novels were also written in 2019, adapting the story from the trilogy.
Cast • Voice actress
Ayane Sakura believed Mika Shimotsuki was now more fitting for the role of a heroine thanks to her experience in the second television series where she was the youngest main character. Once the first movie premiered Shiotani commented the trilogy would "broaden your perspective [the audience's]. They're those kinds of movies". Sakura found that Shimotsuki displayed a more gentle behaviour during the narrative, feeling it would display a more mature take.
Cherami Leigh voices Shimotsuki in the English dub. •
Kenji Nojima (Ginoza) had a similar reaction to Sakura's role in regards to a more upbeat trait than in
Psycho-Pass 2. Following recording of the film, Sakura believed the trilogy was amazing to her due to Sakura's
character arc. Nojima mentioned that as Ginoza's hairstyle changes along with his values with Sakura seeing his personality of the second film and the first television series to remind her of the antagonistic Shimotsuki in retrospect.
Jessie James Grelle voices Ginoza in the English dub. •
Kinryū Arimoto voiced Tomomi Masaoka. It was Arimoto's final performance before his death. The actors described Masaoka's role in the franchise a fatherly figure not to only his son Ginoza but also Kogami. The actors expressed grief in regards to having no more Arimoto.
Jason Douglas voices Masaoka in the English dub. •
Hiroki Touchi voices Teppei Sugo. Touchi referred to his story as a drama story that might appeal to both male and female demographics. He further stated how people might enjoy the trilogy as each movie tells a different that, despite being set in the future, revolves around the detective genre.
Robert McCollum voices Kogami in the English dub. •
Sumire Morohoshi voices Tenzing Wangchuk. The director felt that Morohosh's work would be fitting to fit with Seki's work as Kogami, something the actor agreed.
Bryn Apprill voices Wangchuk in the English dub. •
Kana Hanazawa as
Akane Tsunemori Kate Oxley voices Tsunemori in the English dub. •
Akira Ishida as Shūsei Kagari Kyle Igneczi voices Kagari in the English dub. Igneczi replaced
Scott Freeman who originally voiced Kagari in
Psycho-Pass. •
Hiroe Oka as Kyōka Tsujichō Brian Mathis voices Garcia in the English dub. •
Yoshiko Sakakibara as Jōshū Kasei ==Release==