Shougo Makishima

Shougo Makishima is one of the main characters from the Psycho-Pass anime and manga.

Shougo is a criminally asymptomatic individual whose primary goal is to liberate Japanese society from the Sibyl System, as he believes that it is turning its citizens into non-thinking followers, instead of independent thinking human beings.

Appearance
Makishima is a tall young man with long white hair and amber-colored eyes. He wears a variety of outfits, ranging from a yellow and black jacket with gray trousers to a green pullover with a white shirt beneath. Despite the fact that he possesses a callous nature, his facial expressions depict a variety of emotions. He is physically agile and strong — a skilled fighter, as demonstrated during his first fight with Shinya Kogami who he defeats with just a few blows.

Personality
Makishima is a humanist on the dark side: someone hopelessly in love with cruelty, savagery and all the worst aspects of human nature with no qualms about witnessing or causing others' suffering. He has the ability to manipulate people to do his bidding, possessing both uncommon charisma and a true gift for persuasive speech. He has no compunction about dealing death to those who either stand in his way or those of whom he has grown tired, either with his own hands or through subordinates. He enjoys reading dystopian literature and Shakespeare, as well as having a thorough knowledge of the Christian Bible. He is often seen reading and even quoting texts from these works on occasion. The thing that truly separates Makishima from the rest of humanity, however, is the fact that despite his diabolical intentions and actions, his Psycho-Pass remains unsullied.

Makishima personally states that he wants to see "the splendor of people's souls" and outwardly disdains humanity's way of living, considering humans worthless due to their dependence on the Sibyl System. He aims to alert people to their false ways and to force them to examine their motives and to determine the direction of their lives based on their own will.

This adamant belief extends to the point where he is willing to die by the hands of someone "who has the will to kill".

According to Kogami, Makishima likely suffered hardships in the early stages of his life and because of that fact, his Hue and Psycho-Pass remained pure. Kogami also claims that being "unrecognized" by Sibyl left Makishima feeling like a non-entity, which may have started him down the path of criminality in his single-minded goal of taking down the Sibyl System. When Kogami confronts Makishima, it is shown that Makishima believes that isolation made him stronger.

Trivia

 * His birth date is speculated to be October 14, 2085, making him 27 years old.
 * Makishima and Kogami are the same height.
 * Makishima is a light sleeper and sleeps, on average, three hours per day.
 * Makishima's fighting style is Pencak Silat.
 * His favorite food is tomatoes, his least favorite is meat and eggs.
 * His hobby is reading.
 * He is adept at track and field, swimming, and martial arts.
 * Makishima's motto is "To live is not merely to breathe; it is to act" which is a quote by Rousseau.
 * His favorite saying is "Throw away your books and rally in the streets".
 * Makishima's favorite thing in his room is his beloved razor.
 * His strength is the art of persuasive speech and his weakness is simple work.
 * His favorite authors are Friedrich Nietzsche, Michel Foucault, William Shakespeare, George Orwell, Jules Verne, Arthur Conan Doyle, Jonathan Swift, Philip K. Dick, Marquis de Sade, Kenzaburou Oe, Junichirou Tanizaki, Shuuji Terayama and much more.
 * His favorite books are George Orwell's 1984[3] and Foucault's Surveiller et punir: Naissance de la Prison(English title: Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison) because they help him sort out which aspects of the Sibyl System dissatisfy him.
 * The first novel Makishima ever read is Sherlock Holmes.
 * He reads one book per day when there isn't a movement of associated crimes.
 * Makishima also owns manga by Osamu Tezuka and Fujio Fujiko, especially Fujiko's.
 * He has the lowest Psycho-Pass of all appearing characters and the cleanest Hue.
 * Under the alias Yukimori Shibata, Makishima is an art teacher at Oso Academy.
 * Sasayama is the only person who manages to track him down before getting killed. The blurry photo of Makishima, which had been left in his Dominator's terminal, is the only evidence that points to Makishima as the murder suspect.
 * Kogami hallucinates seeing him in the gekijo-ban.
 * He has the same seiyuu as Sho Hinakawa.
 * Makishima bears a physical resemblance to Mukuro Rokudo and to some of the traits of Byakuran from Katekyo Hitman REBORN!, a manga/anime which shares the same character designer as Psycho-Pass.