Shion Karanomori

Voiced by: Miyuki Sawashiro (Japanese), Lydia Mackay (English)

A latent criminal employed by the Public Safety Bureau's Analysis division. She provides backup in most of Division 1's cases by analyzing data, samples and evidence. It is hinted she is close to Yayoi.

• The Constant: She is the only member of the team who has been present in the franchise since the first season who continues to appear regularly and whose role has never changed. In a period spanning 8 years of both in-universe and real life time, Shion is still the same systems analyst she's always been while everyone else from the Division has either been promoted, demoted, or is otherwise no longer part of the bureau. She also is the only member of the cast from the first season whose outfit has never changed.
  • This actually becomes a Discussed Trope in First Inspector when she admits to Komiya that she has grown too comfortable doing the same old thing for years in the Bureau watching everyone else taking action while sitting behind a desk, and that even though her Psycho-Pass is on the road to recovery and she may be able to leave the Bureau soon, she is scared of what to do in the outside world. In the ending of the movie, her Psycho-Pass has cleared up enough that she is discharged and moves in with Kunizuka.
• Could Say It, But...: Variation, she tells Shinya in Episode 18 that he shouldn't take Makishima's helmet and that he was taken off the Makishima case. Shion says this as she turns off the security features guarding the helmet and then adds that maybe she isn't sure that he was taken off any case.
• Hackette: Also performs hacking duties for the Bureau when needed, such as in the second season when she had to break into the Ministry of National Defense's servers. In "First Inspector", her hacking skills also give the PSB the momentum to win against Azusawa after he and Obata hijacked their headquarters and servers.
• The Lab Rat: She's in charge of analyzing evidence and never goes out in the field since she's also a latent criminal who isn't allowed to leave the PSB headquarters without permission from those in charge.
• Lady in Red: Wears a red and black dress under her white lab coat.
• Lovable Sex Maniac: The only thing she had to say to Shinya before he left? "Wait, I haven´t slept with you, have I?
• Mission Control: Asides from analyzing evidence, she relays information to the team when they need help in tracking down the suspect.
• Ms. Fanservice:
  • First time we saw her onscreen, she's putting her pantyhose back on. In episode 6, she's betting her bra. Ookay...
  • There's a scene of her discussing the fate of her former teammates with Yayoi in episode 22, after having sex with both of them naked. Happens again in season 2's episode 7.
• Relationship Upgrade: At the end of the events of "First Inspector" both Yayoi and Shion agree to move in together.
• Smoking Hot Sex: In Episode 22, while in bed with Yayoi.
• Smoking Is Cool: She's very fond of smoking. You rarely see her without a cigarette on her hand or mouth.
• The Tease: She’s a Ms. Fanservice and will use it to joke with the guys.
• Unknown Rival: To Chiyo Obata in First Inspector due to being both skilled hackers. After Shion programmed her pillbug to destroy all of her drones, Obata is completely pissed to the point that she calls her a hag.

Jyoji Saiga

Voiced by: Kazuhiro Yamaji (Japanese), Michael Federico (English)

There are times when you can't solve the problem by following the manual.

A former professor in criminology and social psychology who is also an expert in criminal profiling. Shinya Kougami is one of his former students. He lives secluded from society and dislikes the Sibyl System. In Season 2, he's now part of the Public Safety Bureau as an analyst.

• Brutal Honesty: He doesn't sugarcoat things and is quick to point out that there are situations don't need to be resolved systematically.
• Chekhov's Gunman: Appears early on to help Shinya and Akane with their investigations, and again to help Shinya deduce Makishima's plans on how to make the Sibyl System obsolete after Makishima's first attempt to destroy the Sibyl System failed. In Season 2, he's recruited by Akane into the Public Safety Bureau as an analyst.
• Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: His last appearance is in the 2015 movie; though it was hinted that he's on the verge of recovery which might explain not appearing in the later materials. Though, he finally makes his return in the Providence film only to end up getting killed off.
• Cool Teacher: He's friendly to Shinya and is willing to teach Akane in a crash course on profiling.
• Foreshadowing: Both the script and the camera place a huge deal of attention, during his interactions with Kougami in episode 20, to the fact that he grows his own real food rather than relying on processed hyper-oats like most Japanese. Incidentally, by the end of the episode he and Kougami correctly conclude that Makishima's master plan involves destabilizing Japanese society by sabotaging the hyper-oat crops that everyone depends on.
• It's All My Fault: A minor one. He thinks it's his fault that Shinya went rogue and left Japan after killing Makishima which is why he turns himself in to the bureau. When Akane asked for his help for the Kamui case, he's a little hesitant at first until Akane reminded him that he helped her become a better detective.
• Luxury Prison Suite: His cell in the isolation facility, as shown in Season 2 after he turned himself in. It even has a coffee maker.
• Must Have Caffeine: You could frequently see him brewing and drinking coffee in most of his scenes.
• Nice Guy: Though he has a sour expression often, he is always willing to help Shinya and gives his advice to anyone who comes to him. Same with Akane in the second season.
• The Professor: Before the Sibyl System was established. But now, he's out of the job.
• The Profiler: He used to be one before he took up teaching.
• Sherlock Scan: One look at Akane, a person he'd never met before, and he could tell everything about her from her relationships to her inability to swim. In season 2, it's also how he identifies that Representative Masuda is an imposter.
• Supreme Chef: While the extent of his skills is never outright confirmed, the mere fact that he insists on doing all of his own cooking from real ingredients he grows by himself appears to make him quite exceptional by 2110's standards.
• Undying Loyalty: Despite that Shinya is just his former student, he knows that telling him how to find and understand Makishima will make it so that if he ever gets scanned by the Sibyl System again, he will either be jailed or killed. He helps Shinya anyways, and ends up jailed for it in season 2.

Director Joushuu Kasei

Voiced by: Yoshiko Sakakibara (Japanese), Linda Leonard (English)

The Director of the Public Safety Bureau who fully believes in the Sibyl System but still trusts the Enforcers and Inspectors to enforce the law. As Makishima becomes more and more of a threat, she gets more involved and leads the Enforcers and Inspectors to stop Makishima's plan. She also allows the Enforcers and Inspectors to use whatever means necessary to stop Makishima, seeing the threat he is becoming to society, as long as society is still standing.

In the second season, we find out that the Kasei body is modeled after an aged-up version of Misako Tougane, the first brain integrated into Sibyl.

• Bad Boss: More than willing to let Ginoza take the blame for Kagari's disappearance...which arguably she/the Sibyl System killed.
• Chekhov's Gunman: Appears in a few scenes to establish her position as the head of the Public Safety Bureau, then kills Choe and Shusei and is revealed to be a cyborg that shares similarities with the Dominator in terms of design motifs inside her cyborg body.
• Da Chief: The director of the Public Safety Bureau. Unlike most examples, she’s not exactly a Reasonable Authority Figure.
• Guile Hero: Quickly creates a counter-plan to Makishima's fake master plan. Her actions, combined with Shinya and Akane's action defeat Makishima anyways. Turns out she's not such a hero after all.
• He Knows Too Much: Kills Shusei as soon as he sees inside the Sibyl System.
• Hollywood Cyborg: With an inside similar to the Dominators, in terms of design.
• Iron Lady: Literally and figuratively.
• Killed Offscreen: A screenshot of a series of news articles in Season 3's second episode indicates that Chief Kasei was "killed" sometime before the season started. While the Kasei body has died before, this one somehow seems to be permanent since Mika reports to a new Bureau director named Hosorobi. However, this seems to be solely for public relations purposes: after the Hosorobi body "kills" itself to avoid being exposed by the Pathfinder mercenary, Sibyl activates another Kasei body to contact Shimotsuki upon locating Bifrost's hideout. In The Providence movie, it is revealed that it was Akane Tsunemori who shot her, thus leading to Akane's incarceration.
• Many Spirits Inside of One: She's not a real person, but rather the robotic avatar controlled by the many brains of the Sibyl System. Individual brains can speak through her as they please.
• Mouth of Sauron: While she's the director, she speaks in behalf of the Sibyl System when meeting people or we could say, she's literally a mouthpiece of the system depending on whose brain is residing in her body.
• Mutual Kill: Subverts this to Shusei's surprise, when her being a cyborg allows her to survive a point-blank shot (though her flesh comes off) and kill Choe with the Dominator.
• Neutral Female: Prefers to lead and give her employees support and tactical advice. Justified due to her age. Or maybe not, considering she is a cyborg capable of surviving Makishima's goons and a direct shot to her face.
• No-Sell: She brushes off all of Mika's concerns with Akane and reflects that Mika's own faults will probably end up getting her killed.
• Reasonable Authority Figure: Subverted, kills Shusei and has the audacity to blame Ginoza.
• Robotic Reveal: And a brutal one at that, see Mutual Kill.
• Screw the Rules, I Make Them!: She provides the only time in the series where a Dominator's trigger is unlocked and fired without registering the target's data when she kills Choe Gu-sung in Nona Tower's secret basement. Then when pointed at Kagari, the Dominator is overridden to change into Decomposer Mode when Kagari's CC should only be enough to warrant Paralyzer Mode. This almost happens again in episode 18 when she forcibly changes Ginoza's Dominator into Eliminator Mode to make him kill Kougami, but fortunately Akane paralyzes Kougami first before that can happen.
• Sharing a Body: The external "face" of the Sibyl System, she can be controlled by different brains/personalities that take turns inhabiting her.
• Spanner in the Works: If Joushuu had not shown up to kill Choe and Shusei, Makishima's plan to create societal breakdown and destroy the Sibyl System would probably have worked.
• Talking to Themself: There are several instances where she is alone in her office, but talking as if she is in a conversation. That means she's plugged into the interface in her chair and is consulting with the other brains in the Sibyl System.
• Walking Spoiler: See the spoiler tags?
• Well-Intentioned Extremist: This trait is shown when she talks about how the Sibyl System is not perfect, but steps "must" be taken to make people think it is perfect to keep order. She also seems to think that the truth must be hidden from people.Which probably ties into why she killed Shusei as soon as he saw what the Sibyl System really is.
• You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: Tries this on Shinya, but is thwarted by Akane.
• Younger Than They Look: Depends on which brain is using the body.

Frederica Hanashiro

Voiced by: Takako Honda (Japanese), Erin Kelly Noble (English)

Assistant Officer of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs' Suppressing Action Department (SAD), under the Overseas Coordination Bureau, and temporary Assistant Inspector of the Ministry of Welfare's Public Security Bureau. She first appears in Sinners of the System: Case 2 - First Guardian and plays an important role in Case 3 - Beyond Love and Hate.

• Action Girl: Being a MOFA SAD officer has her on the frontlines commanding other SAD officers in cases involving foreign-based criminal and terrorist elements.
• Conveniently Unverifiable Cover Story: She claims that she arrives in Tibet to find Japanese citizens who are unable to return to their home country because of the implementation of the Sibyl System. She further supports it by saying the system is only accepting those with good Hues. Kougami is able to see that this is a cover story because he knows that the system is going to execute him for Makishima's death and Frederica just lets it roll and tells him that she's actually recruiting him to join her team.
• Friendly Sniper: She mainly uses a Barrett M90 anti-materiel sniper rifle during the Tibet-Himalayan conflict.
• Hero of Another Story: In Season 3, she and her teammates are working together with Mika's Division 1 on the case connected to Bifrost.
• Ms. Fanservice: Case 3 shows her attractive, nude body when she's taking a bath.
• Nice Girl: She's friendly and willing to help the refugees who are affected by the conflict.
• Phenotype Stereotype: Judging by her appearance and name, she's half-Japanese who is blonde and white.
• Sherlock Scan: She's able to read Kougami's body language and correctly guesses what he's thinking, much to his astonishment. Being a former student of Professor Saiga's really helps.
• Small Role, Big Impact: Despite her minor role in the movies, her presence shapes up what's coming in Season 3: she's looking for people who have law enforcement or paramilitary backgrounds to join her team as Special Investigators. So far, she extended an offer to Sugo who initially chooses to stay with the Bureau for a while before eventually joining, and Kougami who decided to go back to Japan with her. Ginoza somehow joins her too between the movies and Season 3.

Karina Komiya

Voiced by: Yōko Hikasa (Japanese), Alexis Tipton (English)

A former idol singer who used to be a member of the Sibyl-approved idol group, Existence, which was disbanded after most of its members ended up becoming latent criminals. She became a solo artist and a celebrity in the fashion industry who also advocate mental health. After her music career hits sky high, she pursues a career in politics by seeking elections to win the seat of Governor of Tokyo under the Affirmation Party.

• Alliterative Name: Karina Komiya
• Badass Bureaucrat: After becoming governor, she's very willing to aid Division 1 whenever she can. This is more evident in First Inspector where she personally rescues Arata after he was kidnapped by Azusawa and lets Division 1 use Ma-Karina to trick the Pathfinders and Azusawa.
• Chekhov's Gun: Her A.I., Ma-Karina, which she used for her election campaign, ends up being very instrumental in defeating Bifrost in First Inspector. She and Division 1 used it to trick Azusawa into thinking she was killed by the Pathfinders. Then, Kei uploads her data to Homura, who uses it against Shirogane, giving him the upper hand to win the game and letting the Sibyl System to shut the Roundrobin system for good.
• Idol Singer: A former one but even after the elections, she still performs as a means to increase the public's Hues.
• I Did What I Had to Do:
  • She admits that she's willing to take advantage of other people to further her goals. This is her reason for using Ma-Karina so she can win the elections despite the possible public backlash for using an A.I. to impersonate her. But eventually, the Sibyl system approves Ma-Karina as an individual.
  • She does warn Ignatov to back away from her close protection detail and has told Arata that she laid off En. Justified that AP members have (behind the scenes) pressured her to not allow immigrants to be with her 24/7 due to concerns about her hue/withdrawal of support since the AP is publicly known to be an pro-isolationist party. This was in contrast to her views that immigrants have a place in Japan.
• Nice Girl: Arata thinks there's something dark about her. But after the elections, he sees her as a nice person despite her political position and her claims of being evil.
• Reasonable Authority Figure: She's very willing to serve the people as a public servant. During First Inspector, she apologizes to Ignatov for relieving him of his post and eventually trusts him of his protection from the Pathfinders. In Season 3, she also told Arata that she'll do everything to help Maiko leave the rehab center.
• Tsundere: Ever since after Arata saved her, she acts harshly towards him but deep down, she cares for him.

En Owanee

Voiced by: Yuka Komatsu

A Japanese of foreign origin who worked with Karina back from when she was in the entertainment industry. She was laid off near the end of Season 3 and was used by Azusawa to frame her for his siege on the PSB building in the First Inspector movie.

• Frame-Up: In First Inspector, Azusawa plans to use En during the siege on the PSB building in order to drive up anti-immigration support and force Division 1 to get rid of her. Arata and Division 1 were able to foil his plans.
• Undying Loyalty: Not only does she put Karina's safey and well-being before her own, but she continues supporting her even when Karina is forced to lay her off due to the anti-immigrant policy.

Shouko Sugawara

Voiced by: Ayana Taketatsu (Japanese), Jamie Marchi (English)

A popular CommuField user and Avatar owner of Spooky Boogie. A former schoolmate of Akane's whom quickly falls prey to Mido.

• Cruel and Unusual Death: Throttled by Mido. And you get a Gross-Up Close-Up on top of that.
• Elegant Gothic Lolita: We see her dress like this in her one actual scene.
• Never Found the Body: That's because Makishima and Mido disposed of it.
• Shout-Out: Her avatar's name may derive from the song by Gentle Giant. Also combined with her CommuField, it may have derived from Oogie Boogie.
• Small Role, Big Impact: Her death gets the bureau more involved. Combined with Mido accidentally using another term than what Shouko said.

Yoshika Okubo

Voiced by: Ai Kayano (Japanese), Ashleigh Domangue (English)

A student of Ousou Academy, a private institute where the rich send their daughters to prevent their Psycho-Passes from becoming cloudy. She harbors an admiration for the School Idol, Rikako Oryo.

• Childhood Friends: With Mika Shimotsuki and Kagami Kawarazaki.
• Dark Secret: She confesses to Rikako that her stepfather is behaving lecherously towards her and has been going into her room when she's not there, but she can't do anything about it because her family needs his money to pay off a large debt, and the stress is causing her Psycho-Pass to darken.
• Dead Guy on Display: Rikako kills her and Kagami, turning their plastinated corpses into a gruesome work of art.
• Disappeared Dad: Her father died and left her family with a large amount of debt, and her stepfather is the only one with the funds to pay it off.
• Horrible Judge of Character: She isn't able to sense anything dangerous or off-putting about Rikako (to be fair, no one else can either, besides Mika), and isn't even disturbed when the other girl begins lovingly describing the gruesome murders in Titus Andronicus.
• Impoverished Patrician: Her family is (or was) rich enough to be able to send her to the upper-class Ousou Academy, but they're also suffering from a large debt that can only be paid off by her stepfather.
• Lipstick Lesbian: While not explicitly stated, she appears to be only into girls. She's attracted to Rikako, and her Hue matches very well with her friend Kagami.
• Off with Her Head!: Post-mortem, she and Kagami are made into an art installation with their heads severed from their bodies and held up by each others' hands.
• Victim of the Week: Is lured in by Rikako, murdered and turned into an art installation.

Kagami Kawarazaki

Voiced by: Aiko Kusumi (Japanese), Kristi Kang (English)

Another student of Ousou Academy, a childhood friend of Mika and Yoshika. She tries to investigate Yoshika's disappearance, with tragic consequences.

• Alliterative Name: Kagami Kawarazaki.
• Bound and Gagged: When she gets too curious about Yoshika's disappearance, Rikako knocks her out with a sedative, ties her up and takes her down to the basement. When she comes to, the first thing she sees is a glass tank filled with the plastination liquid, containing Yoshika's severed head.
• Childhood Friends: With Mika Shimotsuki and Yoshika Okubo.
• Dead Guy on Display: Rikako kills her and Yoshika, turning their plastinated corpses into a gruesome work of art.
• He Knows Too Much: Killed by Rikako for getting too curious about the whereabouts of her dead friend, though it's possible that Rikako always intended to kill her anyway for her artwork, and silencing her was just a bonus.
• Off with Her Head!: Post-mortem, she and Yoshika are made into an art installation with their heads severed from their bodies and held up by each others' hands.
• Victim of the Week: Rikako's fourth and final victim, made into an art piece along with Yoshika.

Roichi Oryo

Voiced by: None

A master artist and the father of Rikako Oryo. After the Sibyl System was instituted and he was no longer allowed to create art in his signature style, he lost sight of his artistic vision and then lost his reason to live.

• Body Horror: He created many paintings of girls' bodies twisted and contorted into strange and anatomically impossible forms. Rikako desires to do the same...with real people.
• Dull Eyes of Unhappiness: As a result of suffering from eustress deficiency syndrome, a condition of the brain shutting down due to lack of stimulation.
• Empty Shell: Eustress deficiency syndrome has made him essentially a living corpse, unable to do anything for himself.
• Flower Motifs: His paintings heavily feature flowers, particularly roses.
• Gone Horribly Right: It is implied that his condition is the result of the Sibyl System taking all stress away from him, both bad (distress) and good (eustress). Without either, his brain stopped receiving or processing any and all stimulation, causing his body to shut down.
• Mad Artist: He created gruesome paintings that featured girls' dead bodies contorted into bizarre positions and surrounded by flowers. Still, despite the disturbing nature of his work, he was a good man at heart, according to Makishima.
• The Voiceless: During what little screentime he has, he does not speak a single word. He might not be able to, considering his condition.

Yuki Funahara

Voiced by: Kotori Koiwai (Japanese), Alexis Tipton (English)

A therapist-trainer for a local gym and Akane's best friend.

• Book Dumb: Flashbacks indicate such, with Yuki bemoaning the liklihood of low test scores (of which turns out to be true).
• Cruel and Unusual Death: Makishima slits her throat^note after already cutting her arm while forcing Akane to watch, with poor Yuki (terrified) helplessly crying out for Akane to save her.
• Damsel in Distress: Makishima and Senguji kidnap her to lure Shinya and Akane into their "hunting game".
• Kill the Cutie: A generally friendly young woman and reliable friend. Makes her murder all the more heartbreaking.
• Sacrificial Lamb: The circumstances of her murder mark a crucial turning point for the series by showing the Sibyl System's inability to judge criminally asymptomatic individuals and giving Akane more reason to arrest Makishima.
• Those Two Girls: Normally seen with Kaori Minase, another of Akane's friends. Fittingly, both Akane and Kaori attend her funeral.
• Victim of the Week: Senguji’s for that matter.

Aoi Tsunemori

Voiced by: Ikuko Tani (Japanese), Kate Oxley (English)

Akane's paternal grandmother, who is bedridden and lives in a healthcare facility.

• Colorful Theme Naming: Her name can mean "blue" or "green", while Akane's means "red". How appropriate, considering the Arc Words of Season 2 are "WC?" ("What Color?")
• Defiant to the End: According to Togane, she put up quite a struggle before dying.
• Family Theme Naming: See above.
• Finger in the Mail: Kuwashima gives her severed ear to Akane in a box, trying to darken her Psycho-Pass.
• Nice Girl: She has a sweet, pleasant and caring personality.
• Significant Double Casting: In English, she shares a voice actress with her granddaughter.
• Strong Family Resemblance: Looks like an older version of Akane, with the same short hair and wide brown Tareme Eyes.

Maiko Maya Stronskaya

Voiced by: Risa Shimizu (Japanese), Naya Moreno (English)

A Russian immigrant who is married to Kei, her childhood friend. Like her husband, she was enlisted in the Russian army until she was discharged after losing her eyesight in an explosive fire.

• Badass in Distress:'The Heaven's Leap cult takes her as a hostage to force Kei to talk about the undercovered Foreign Ministry agents. Being an ex-soldier, Maiko is capable to hold on to her own and eventually kills her hostage-taker with his own gun.
• Childhood Friend: She met Arata and Kei when she was a young girl.
• Childhood Friend Romance: She marries Kei before the start of the show. Arata is the one who encouraged Kei to propose to her.
• Happily Married: With Kei. They maintain a strong and loving relationship despite how risky Kei's job is as an Inspector.
• Silk Hiding Steel: She maybe just a housewife but this woman is a war veteran.
• Violently Protective Girlfriend: Don't ever hurt or threaten her husband. Torii finds this out the hard way when she disarms him and fills him with lead.

The Sibyl System

Voiced by: Noriko Hidaka (Japanese), Stephanie Young (English)

The greatest happiness of the greatest number.

The system that monitors all data registered from Psycho-Passes. It turns out that they are composed the minds of criminally asymptomatic individuals.

• A Million Is a Statistic: In episode 10 of Season 2, when Kamui has taken hostage of the passengers in the subway, the system offers Akane to detonate bombs in order to eliminate him. When Akane points out that detonating the bombs will also kill the hostages, they explain that it's a necessity to get rid of Kamui once for all before he kills more people.
• Anti-Villain: Surprisingly enough, both Season 3 and First Inspector do a lot to paint the Sibyl System in a more benevolent light. It generally stays in the background to let the humans do most of the work, and even accepts their input to the point where they decide to honor Shindo's personal choice to continue to exist as an individual, no longer consider Yayoi and Shion as latent criminals, and release Akane from confinement and allow her to reunite with Kogami. It's even willing to recognize the rights of borderline self-aware AI like Ma-Karina.
• Above Good and Evil: The Sibyl System also sees itself as above the common notions of morality, and, according to its own logic, this is what enables it to judge other people.
• Awful Truth: The Sibyl System is composed of the minds of criminally asymptomatic individuals, turned into a Hive Mind that controls society via controlling the internet and everything that relies on it.
• Big Brother Is Employing You; Well, if you're working under the Public Safety Bureau, you're working for the Sibyl System.
• Big Brother Is Watching: They have the authority to scan a person's mental state, personality, and the probability that a person will commit crimes and judge them on the basis of that. They also have the means to suppress and regulate the media.
• Brain in a Jar: All that is left are the brains of criminally asymptomatic individuals who are in control of Sibyl.
• Character Development: Yes, surprisingly. In the Season 1 finale, the Sybil System laughed at Akane when she stated one day someone will come to Sybil to turn it off, with a better solution in hand. After Kamui's actions in Season 2 which led to a massive purge amongst the brains allowing it to be 'humbled', the System quietly agrees with Akane when she repeats her conviction after considering to join them in the future.
• The Chessmaster: The Sibyl System revealed itself to Akane because it correctly deduced that she would not reveal its true nature to the world. Despite allowing Akane to pursue Makishima on her own terms, it still successfully used Akane's own ideals against her.
  • In Season 2, they're fully aware about Kamui and the threat he imposes. Though they never disable Shisui's authority on the Dominator after she went rogue, they still let Akane continue the investigation while observing her and Kamui in the shadows.
  • In the movie, they manipulate everyone in order to take over SEAUn. This includes the implications that they let the terrorists into Japan in order to distract Akane with Kougami, replacing the SEAUn with a cyborg after Nicholas and Desmond have him killed, and killing Nicholas and all his men once they were no longer useful.
• Computer Voice: It has a female voice which is the same voice as the Dominator.
• Cyborg: Cyborg bodies are used to let some members go into society to perform certain tasks. Chief Kasei's body is one of their often used bodies.
• Cybernetics Eat Your Soul: Inverted, as being soulless monsters is why they were chosen to be cyborgs in the first place.
• Demoted to Extra: In Season 3, they're essentially on the background and the only time they become relevant is when they order Mika to hunt down Bifrost and converse with Akane about Arata's condition as criminally asymptomatic. This is because the new Division 1 members rarely use their Dominators and seldom question the moral implications of using the Sibyl System. Even the antagonists, who are hiding from them, never discuss their reasons for opposing them. However, they do play a prominent role in First Inspector where they reject Azusawa's offer to join them because he's not criminally asymptomatic.
• Deus est Machina: Touma has this view of the Sibyl System and implies the others in it do as well. Sibyl, as The Omniscient and the ruthless and totalitarian ruler of Japan, is also often compared to God, with Makishima as Satan.
• Everything Is Online: Including them, but they control everything through this trope.
• Evil Laugh: Combined with Kick the Dog, this is their response in the last episode to Akane's belief that humans will outgrow the Sibyl System and that humans always try to make the world better.
• Evil Versus Evil: Makishima (The Sociopath) versus them (an entire hive of sociopaths), this continues after they manage to arrest him since he denies joining them and escapes. Then Kamui in the second season, who is so dangerous they want him dead with no questions asked. In Season 3, they have Bifrost who are hiding from them and are considered as opposites.
• Eviler than Thou: They openly admit to Akane that a significant number of their members have committed more heinous crimes than Makishima.
• The Extremist Was Right: Regardless of their methods, Japan doesn't suffer as much war, terrorism, drug dealing, human trafficking, and other various organized crimes compared to the past, with the exception of individual crimes. Even Akane has to admit that they managed to keep the people safe and provided their essential needs. In the climax of the movie, they pointed out to Akane that if it weren't for them, the SEAUn would still be a wartorn country mired with violence, corruption, and discrimination.
• False Flag Operation: Providence puts much of the Sybil System's justifications for existing as a way to guarantee law and order in a new light, as it is revealed that it was Sybil itself that authorized the formation of the Peacebeakers black ops group to secretly stoke and escalate conflicts worldwide. It's heavily implied that SEAUn was in such a terrible state due to Peacebreaker operations, which made it easier for the local population to accept the Sibyl System's rule.
• Fatal Flaw: Pride. Given how much they rule Japan witn an iron fist, and are proud of what they have done for the country, they failed to foresee the amount of subversion and violence created by Makishima. And not to mention, they failed to convince him to join their cause since Makishima is too Genre Savvy which also results in his escape. And related to the below, one reason why they refuse to disable the Dominators Kamui obtains in the second season.
• From Nobody to Nightmare: This system started off as an automated job placement database build in the mid-21st century to match candidates with occupations that would ideally suit their strengths. It still continues to do this, but after incoporating sociopathic brains into itself to improve itself it has expanded its responsibilities to the point where it now controls the entirety of Japanese society.
• Gender Bender: Male brains using Joushuu Kasei's body. At any given time, it's impossible to tell what gender her brain is because she acts in a very androgynous manner.
• Hive Mind: Though some get to have individuality when they go in Cyborg bodies and into society briefly.
• Hobbes Was Right: They seemed to follow this, according to Touma. They believed that people are prone to commit criminal acts due to high levels of stress which is why they exist to regulate them to bring peace and order. In the 2015 movie, this is their reasoning for intervening the wartorn region of SEAUn and in fact, The Stinger reveals that their puppet double body of Chairman Han got reelected which further implies that they might be right all along.
• Hypocrite: Despite priding itself on being a flawless judge of human morality, Sybil is perfectly willing to forge an alliance with the Peacebreakers, who rogue soldiers at best and war criminals at worst. The reason they get away with it is due to brain implants that artificially suppress their Crime Coefficients, but Sibyl is willing to play along in order to regain a skilled unit of deniable foreign operatives. Upon finding this out, Akane is disgusted by the Sibyl System's blatant hypocrisy and is further convinced that an independent justice system is needed to keep Sibyl in check. And to do this, she kills Chief Kasei in broad daylight to force the Sibyl System to recognize its flaws that the human factor is still needed in the country's justice system..
• Irony:
  • The vast majority of citizens were told that the Sibyl System's computers were superior to human thought for judgment. Yet, the Sibyl System is mainly made out of human brains.
  • The criminally asymptomatic individuals that make up the Hive Mind of the Sibyl System highly value their individuality and believe their unique personalities and philosophies, according to Touma. Touma also says that they believe their uniqueness makes them better than the average citizen, and therefore, more fit to rule society. Yet, for all their love of uniqueness, they don't see the irony of them becoming a Hive Mind...until Makishima sarcastically points this out to Touma.
• Karma Houdini: Despite being outmaneuvered by Makishima and Kamui, they still remain standing and continue to rule Japan. Likewise, they got Mika wrapped under their finger as their new pawn and might not rely on Akane anytime soon. And since they’re expanding their control outside Japan, it might be difficult for the rebels to take them down because Kamui only helped them in getting rid of their defective brains.
• Logical Weakness: Sibyl's biggest, purely practical issues are that it requires a threat to enter its sights and then be subject to a scan that takes at least a few seconds to complete, and then for the scan to return a result that enables action. As such, subjects it has difficulty detecting or scanning, tricking the scans, EMP attacks and power outages, and indirect threats are all things the system can noticeably struggle to deal with. In particular, Bifrost proves difficult as they deliberately act within the system's blindspots and operate via "Foxes" operatives that themselves keep their Hues clear while employing proxies to act indirectly.
• Manipulative Bastard: In the movie. They tricked Akane into letting her think that Kougami had crossed the line by sending terrorists to Japan so they have her expose the Military Police's deception of hiding latent criminals with high crime coefficients which they're already aware of because they hired them in the first place.
• Master Computer: What it essentially is. But it's much more than just a computer.
• Mirror Character: Highly value their own "individuality", prideful, criminally asymptomatic, sociopathic, brilliant at manipulation, understanding of society and its effects on people...are we talking about Makishima or the Sibyl System? The only major difference between them is their ideologies, with the Sibyl System valuing order at any cost to others and Makishima valuing freedom at any cost to others, ultimately landing him in the chaos territory.
• Mole in Charge: They use cyborg bodies of Chief Kasei to do this to the protagonists in Unit 1.
• The Needs of the Many: Their philosophical belief is that individual sacrifices needed to be made in order to achieve a perfect and happy society.
  • Eventually, they are forced to accept that they are also subject to this philosophy, and in response to their own psychotic actions during Season 2, take neural pruning to another level. It's all to sustain the perfection of the system that keeps everything running, after all.
  • To a lesser degree, Kiroto Kamui is similar to them. Both are composed of a Hive Mind (at least Kamui views himself as one composed of the wishes of those who died due to Sibyl forcing a plane crash to save face), both go to extremes for their philosophies about judging others, both can't be judged by others until Kamui forces the Sibyl System to judge collectives like Kamui and the Sibyl System.
• Principles Zealot:
  • The major reason why they refuse to revoke Shisui's authorization to use a Dominator, even though it would cripple Kamui's plans if they did. If they do such a thing, it would be the same as admitting that their system is flawed and can be compromised, and this is something that Sibyl absolutely cannot allow anyone to think. As Kasei said in first season, it does not matter if Sibyl is perfect; what matters is that everyone thinks it is.
  • Played with in First Inspector, where they override the nonlethal paralyzer in Shindo's Dominator in an effort to force him to kill Azusawa. Arata then calls them out, pointing out the hypocrisy in entrusting Dominators to regular humans if Sibyl is going to try to override their decision to pull the trigger anyways. This causes Sibyl to reconsider its actions and reactivates the paraylzer mode. Though it should be noted that Arata is criminally asymptomatic, thus is qualified to join the Sibyl System.
• Rouge Angles of Satin: Despite that the correct spelling of the system is Sibyl as seen in its logo (see the page image), most fans would still spell it as Sybil. It doesn't help that there are even instances in the official Funimation subtitles that spell it like that.
• Screw the Rules, I Make Them!:
  • There are several occasions where they override the Dominators to change their setting, even if the target's true Crime Coefficient does not warrant the use of that setting.
  • Since they can't judge Kamui, they want him murdered extrajudicially to avoid having to create a collective Psycho-Pass.
• Shadow Dictator: Most people think the Sibyl System is an unbiased computer. The "unbiased" part is wrong, and the computer part is only partially right; as most don't know about the criminally asymptomatic brains controlling the Sibyl System and by extension, society.
• The Sociopath: An entire hive mind of them, in fact Sibyl only selects criminally asymptomatic individuals, as in people who can commit the worst acts of brutality without raising their emotional criminality coefficient, as members.
• Significant Double Casting: Shares voices with the Dominator (Noriko Hidaka and Stephanie Young) as a way of showing who runs the show.
• Too Dumb to Live: They finally manage to capture Makishima and put him under their custody. However, they don't bother restraining him or even have guards nearby in case he gets violent. Once Makishima realizes there's no serious security measures keeping him from escaping, he manages to escape Sibyl's custody in a matter of seconds, killing Touma in the process.
• Took a Level in Badass: Though the movie seemed to elevate them into this status, the Sibyl System is already known by the viewers to be manipulative. Justified that none of the movie antagonists have the same level of intelligence or charisma that Makishima and Kamui both possessed. Likewise, their critics, such as Kougami and Akane, have no idea of their true plans until the end.
• Took a Level in Kindness: By the third season and First Inspector, they've become more flexible in administrating Japan, differing more to their non-Sybil counterparts, acknowledging the rights of Ma-Karina, letting Arata, and most tellingly, they plan to reveal their true nature to the public in the very near future, even if it means the scope of their authority might diminish from it. However, it should be noted that these are also a case of Pragmatic Villainy rather than moral reasons. The latter three cases are tied to one another as Sybil considers it inefficient to continue to hide their nature to the public when the success of Ma-Karina shows that they potentially wouldn't care so long as the stability and prosperity of Japan is maintained.
• Totalitarian Utilitarian: The philosophy they claim to cling to. Their stated desire is the greatest amount of happiness for the greatest amount of people. Their actual results tend to vary.
• We Can Rule Together: They try to convince Makishima to join their cause. He's not interested: he might be a villain himself, but it doesn't necessarily mean that he has similar goals.
• Well-Intentioned Extremist: On paper, they did bring order and peace in the country despite that they degraded society into losing their free will and becoming emotionally stagnant and their methods are very morally and ethically questionable just to prevent others from knowing the truth about them. However, they become irrational and petty when Kamui came into existence. But once he's out with a bang, they extended their influence outside Japan. They even claim that their objectives, no matter how heinous their methods are, are bring peace and order to the SEAUn and not primarily for power.
• Wetware CPU: They are composed of psychopath brains kept in some form of liquid.
• You Have Outlived Your Usefulness:Does this to a lot of people but the most surprising time is when due to Kirito and Akane's manipulations, they are forced to do this to a minority of brains within their own system.

Misako Togane

Voiced by: Kazuo Komiya (Japanese), Rachel Robinson (English)

Sakuya's mother who is a researcher and the founder of the Togane Foundation. She passed away prior to the events of the TV series. But she's actually criminally asymptomatic and her brain was one of the first ones (if not the first) to be integrated into the Sibyl System.

• Evil Matriarch: While she does loved her son, she's a terrible mother. Her way of raising Sakuya resulted to being what he is at present as an adult.
• Fatal Flaw: Pride. She's so proud that all of her work is for the benefit of society. Until Kamui showed up and everything went downhill.
• For Science!: Her experiments are considered unethical and yet, she keeps doing it for the benefit of society.
• Greater-Scope Villain: She's responsible for her son's "troubling" behavior and was in charge of Kamui's surgery which caused him much grief and led him to his Start of Darkness and mission to overthrow the Sibyl System. In addition to that, the brain-removal technology she invented was what allowed Sibyl to become the Wetware CPU it currently is.
• My Beloved Smother: Dear God, this woman forced her son to kill puppies when he was a kid just to see if he was criminally asymptomatic. And even when her son is all grown up, she expects him to be obedient.
• Nice Job Fixing It, Villain!: Nice going, doc! Now your former patient is hellbent in rebelling against the system that you're part of and finding your weaknesses by forcing the system to judge you.
• Posthumous Character: She died in 2099, years before the events of the TV series. It turns out that her brain was integrated into the Sibyl System.
• This Cannot Be!: She's shocked that a criminally asymptomatic person like herself got judged by the very system she's a part of.
• Truly Single Parent: Artificially created her son Sakuya Tougane.
• Villainous Breakdown: When Kamui's Dominator scanned her crime coefficient (which turned out to be 300) and shot her, she panicked and wondered how this could have happened before her head exploded.
  "You can't!"