Makoto Fukami

Makoto Fukami (**深見真**) is the author of the Magical Girl Spec-Ops Asuka manga who also worked on the anime.

## Career

Fukami is best known as a screenwriter on the popular anime franchise Psycho-Pass. He started writing light novels in 2005. His first manga, Wild Diamond, released in 1999. The Torture Club, another one of his mangas, got a drama adaptation in 2014.

In anime, he also provided the series composition for the third season of YuruYui, the 2016 remake of Berserk, and revisions. After Magical Girl Spec-Ops Asuka aired in 2019, he provided the series composition for the 2019 remake of Blade of the Immortal.

After the ending of Magical Girl Spec-Ops Asuka, Fukami has been working on Deep Insanity for Big Gangan, which already has an anime and a RPG video game despite being a new franchise, Succubus and Hitman with Seigo Tokiya, a mature-rated manga licensed by Seven Seas in English, and the anime Black Rock Shooter: Dawn Fall, which is set to premiere in spring 2022.

## Magical Girl Spec-Ops Asuka

Inspired by the American comics *Watchmen* and *Kick-Ass*, Fukami had the idea to create a portrayal of how magical girls would fight in real life. He entered a manga contest sponsored by Square Enix in the early 2010s and won, leading to the release of *Magical Girl Spec-Ops Asuka*.

Fukami wrote these episodes of the anime:

* Magical Girl Operations Development Unit
* You'll Surely Be A Wonderful Magical Girl
* Each Of Their Deadly Battles (with Naoya Tamura)
* If This Battle Ever Ends...

## Trivia

* As Fukami is a screenwriter as well, he worked on the anime adaptation, writing the scripts for four episodes.
* He is noted to have strengths in portrayals of action and lesbian love.
* He is a fan of American comics and action movies and frequently posts about them on his Twitter.
	+ He was inspired by Wonder Woman (2017) to keep working hard on Magical Girl Spec-Ops Asuka.
* He is a fan of Donnie Yen, as revealed during a 4koma at the end of the first volume of Young Gun Carnaval.
* Real-life international events also inspire Fukami's work on the manga.
* Fukami's favorite characters are Kurumi Mugen and Nozomi Makino.
* Due to the success of Magical Girl Spec-Ops Asuka's manga, Fukami started writing two new manga: 'Deep Insanity ' for Big Gangan, and 'Succubus and Hitman ' with Seigo Tokiya.
* Fukami participated in 2 internet memes with references to Magical Girl Spec-Ops Asuka:
	+ During COVID-19 lockdown, he played the game Animal Crossing with an avatar of Rapture.
	+ In January 2020, he edited the cover of NEO, a Japanese children's encyclopedia, with photos of Asuka and Kurumi. While replying to a fan who remarked that children would be traumatized by episode 1, he joked that "all the cruel depictions may have been cut".
* When VTuber Mito Tsukino mentioned the franchise, Fukami was pleased, as he is a fan of hers.
* While flipping channels once, Fukami "fell in love" with the children's cartoon Paw Patrol. This is ironic because Shizuka Ishigami, the voice of Nazani, voices a dog in the series, and Nazani acted like a dog in episode 12 of the anime.
* If Fukami was a YouTuber, he would like Naoya Tamura to play Call of Duty and review the military accuracy of it.
* Fukami hates shiitake mushrooms.