Satoshi Kon
During the makings of his previous three films ("Perfect Blue", "Millennium Actress", and "Tokyo Godfathers"), "Paranoia Agent" creator Satoshi Kon was left with an abundance of unused ideas for stories and arrangements that he felt were good but did not fit into any of his projects. Not wanting to waste the material, he decided to recycle it into a dynamic TV series in which his experimental ideas could be used.