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"Mature Content Warning!" |
| “ | I am talking about seeing the naked splendor of people's souls. I want to see our precious lives played out on the stage of the world, but how can our souls be precious if they're not utilized? If we base our lives on Sibyl's Oracle and not our own free will, then can our souls have value? | „ |
| ~ Shōgo Makishima. |
| “ | Everyone is alone. Everyone's empty. We don't really need each other anymore. With so much at our finger tips, we can find a spare for any talent, any item, any piece of knowledge, any relationship can be replaced with a simple search and a click. I'd become bored of a world like that. | „ |
| ~ Shōgo Makishima. |
Shōgo Makishima is the main antagonist of the first season of the anime, Psycho Pass. A mysterious criminal that is hellbent on attempting to destroy the Sibyl System, he serves as the foil of Shinya Kogami and also a Wicked Cultured Philosopher who claims on liberating human race from the oppressive Sibyl System that erases them from expressing their own individuality. However, it was soon revealed that his goal is not as well-intentioned as it seems.
He was portrayed by Takahiro Sakurai in Japanese, and Alex Organ in English.
His Evil Ranking[]
What Makes Him Close to Being Pure Evil?[]
- While Makishima's Psycho-Pass is white and clear, he is not a saint because despite by all accounts he should not be committing crimes, he still commits them because he is so uncaring and guiltless over his crimes, he consciously processes them as if he was simply breathing and his mind deludes his body into believing he is a saint on his words.
- There are indications Makishima is the way he is due to him feeling rejected by the system due to his criminally asymptomatic nature, but not only is any sort of tragedy relying merely upon speculation so can't have actual weight, but Makishima seems to have embraced his loneliness and is only motivated by his twisted desire to "feel human", being that he feels humanity are all depraved monsters deep down and show their true face when acting on their darkest desires, scoffing at the thought of being reduced to just his past.
- While Makishima claims himself to be a freedom fighter seeking to free humanity from the Sibyl system, which are a system of totalitarian rulers, it all comes across as nothing more than empty rhetoric as he is just an anarchist who only wants to corrupt humanity out of his own dark misanthropic beliefs.
- For all his desires of "savoring his humanity", Makishima forms mostly superficial bonds and friendships with others, except for his hacker and right-hand Choe Gu-Sung, even then he reacts with only brief irritation and shock seeing his death before moving on.
- Acting as a corrupter, Makishima contacts multiple people, including Rikako Ōryō and Toyohisa Sengūji, with dark hues on their Psycho-Passes and has them embrace their bloodthirsty and twisted desires, having them commit killing sprees to attract the attention of the police for his own use. And whenever he no longer has any interest in their potential to him and have become liabilities to him, he has them all eliminated by cutting off any and all ways for them to escape the MWPSB and abandoning them to their deaths, or in Rikako's case, order Senguji to kill her. He even risks Senguji's life to test Kogami and doesn't even care about his death as a result.
- One of his clients he sponsored was Kozaboro Tōma, the mastermind of the Specimen Case. When Enforcer Mitsuru Saseyama closed in on Tōma's serial murder and actually found proof on Makishima being his secret benefactor, Makishima had him tortured for information, and when he refuses, kills him, rearranges his limbs to make a plasticinated statue to send a message to the MWPSB.
- Takes Yuki Funahara hostage to lure in Kogami for Senguji's sadistic fox hunts. Later on, he holds her at knifepoint, to threaten her best friend, Inspector Akane Tsunemori, in order to force her to use it to go against the Sibyl system's flawed judgement and kill him using Senguji's rifle. When Akane struggles to pull the trigger, Makishima cold-bloodedly kills Yuki in front of Akane as punishment and as a mockery of Sibyl's flawed judgement on who is good and evil.
- Orchestrates a series of city-wide riots that tear the entire city apart, killing countless people and threatens the destruction of huge swathes of the city.
- Sought to shut down the Sibyl system and plunge Japan into chaos and create a new world order where humanity is free to kill and destroy as they please out of his own nihilistic beliefs.
- In a final gambit to ensure the very toppling of the Sibyl system, Makishima attempts to destroy the Hyper-Oats factory, which as a result, will destroy Japan's main food supply in the process and cause a stew in latent criminality as a result of the stress imposed by the famine.
- Kills Kudama Nobuaki before cutting off his eyeballs and fingers so he can use them to bypass the security system of the Hyper-Oats factory.
- Forces Tomomi Masoaka to sacrifice himself to shield Nobuchika Ginoza (his son) from a grenade he threw at him so he can escape from their restraints.
What Prevents Him from Being Pure Evil?[]
- Ultimately has a genuine friendship with his right-hand, Choe Gu-Sung, he is unusually open with him unlike how he acts in all of his other allies. He has a genuine pause seeing the footage of Choe's death by the hands of SIbyl, which immediately transforms to a scowl as Makishima lays down all his contempt for the system, clearly not letting his death slide.
- He has a huge respect for Shinya Kogami, finding him a worthy opponent and having an understanding of him nobody else had. By the end of his life, he actually muses how easily replaceable relationships are and when Kogami states that he never wants anyone to be the next Makishima, he dies with a smile happy he at least formed an irreplaceable relationship with him as his archenemy while Kogami shoots him down.
- For the reasons described above, his death is played for sympathy, which is also emphasized by a monologue about his loneliness, along with melancholy music in the background.
External Links[]
- Shōgo Makishima on the Villains Wiki
- Shōgo Makishima on the Psycho-Pass Wiki
- Shōgo Makishima on the Magnificent Baddie Wiki