Makoto Fukami
Description
Makoto Fukami is a Japanese manga artist, novelist, and screenwriter born in Kumamoto Prefecture on August 5, 1977. He began his career in 1999 by creating the manga Wild Diamond, which won the Famitsu Entertainment Award for manga that same year. His first major novel series, Young Gun Carnaval, was launched in 2005. Fukami expanded into anime screenwriting in 2012 with his work on the series Psycho-Pass, marking the start of a long association with that franchise. He has also served as a professor at Musashino Art University.
Fukami is credited as the original creator behind several manga series that have been adapted into other media. His manga The Torture Club received a live-action film adaptation in 2013. He is the writer of Magical Girl Spec-Ops Asuka, which he created with illustrator Seigo Tokiya. The series was serialized in Square Enix's seinen manga magazine Monthly Big Gangan from June 2015 to February 2021, and it received an anime television series adaptation in 2019. Another of his manga, Ōsama-tachi no Viking, was nominated for the Manga Taishō award in 2015.
His work as a screenwriter is extensive and includes series composition and scriptwriting for numerous anime television series. Beyond Psycho-Pass, he has served as series composer for the third season of YuruYuri, the 2016 adaptation of Berserk, Revisions, Black Rock Shooter: Dawn Fall, and Tengoku Daimakyō. He also contributed scripts for Gakkō Gurashi! and worked on the series composition for the 2019 remake of Blade of the Immortal. For film, he wrote the screenplay for Resident Evil: Vendetta and its sequel Resident Evil: Death Island, in addition to multiple Psycho-Pass films.
Fukami has also worked as a novelist, adapting several series into prose. He wrote novelizations of Psycho-Pass and its first film, as well as Berserk: The Flame Dragon Knight, an original story set in the world of Berserk that was illustrated by the series' creator, Kentaro Miura.
A recurring aspect of Fukami's artistic identity is his focus on realistic action, particularly involving firearms and martial arts, an interest that extends to Chinese martial arts. His works often blend genre conventions with grounded, military-style tactics, as seen in the combination of magical girls with special operations in Magical Girl Spec-Ops Asuka. He has continued to create new manga series, including Deep Insanity: Nirvana, co-written with Norimitsu Kaihō, and Succubus & Hitman, a mature-rated action series again illustrated by Seigo Tokiya.
Fukami is credited as the original creator behind several manga series that have been adapted into other media. His manga The Torture Club received a live-action film adaptation in 2013. He is the writer of Magical Girl Spec-Ops Asuka, which he created with illustrator Seigo Tokiya. The series was serialized in Square Enix's seinen manga magazine Monthly Big Gangan from June 2015 to February 2021, and it received an anime television series adaptation in 2019. Another of his manga, Ōsama-tachi no Viking, was nominated for the Manga Taishō award in 2015.
His work as a screenwriter is extensive and includes series composition and scriptwriting for numerous anime television series. Beyond Psycho-Pass, he has served as series composer for the third season of YuruYuri, the 2016 adaptation of Berserk, Revisions, Black Rock Shooter: Dawn Fall, and Tengoku Daimakyō. He also contributed scripts for Gakkō Gurashi! and worked on the series composition for the 2019 remake of Blade of the Immortal. For film, he wrote the screenplay for Resident Evil: Vendetta and its sequel Resident Evil: Death Island, in addition to multiple Psycho-Pass films.
Fukami has also worked as a novelist, adapting several series into prose. He wrote novelizations of Psycho-Pass and its first film, as well as Berserk: The Flame Dragon Knight, an original story set in the world of Berserk that was illustrated by the series' creator, Kentaro Miura.
A recurring aspect of Fukami's artistic identity is his focus on realistic action, particularly involving firearms and martial arts, an interest that extends to Chinese martial arts. His works often blend genre conventions with grounded, military-style tactics, as seen in the combination of magical girls with special operations in Magical Girl Spec-Ops Asuka. He has continued to create new manga series, including Deep Insanity: Nirvana, co-written with Norimitsu Kaihō, and Succubus & Hitman, a mature-rated action series again illustrated by Seigo Tokiya.
Works
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