Shogo Makishima

Shogo Makishima
Psycho-Pass character
Makishima as seen in Psycho-Pass
First appearance	Psycho-Pass episode 1
Voiced by	Japanese Takahiro Sakurai English Alex Organ

Shogo Makishima (槙島 聖護, Makishima Shōgo) is a fictional character appearing as the main antagonist from Production I.G's anime series Psycho-Pass. Makishima is a man responsible for several crimes and the main cast, Bureau officers, are in search of him. Makishima wishes the destruction of the society created by Sybil System in which people are treated based on their levels of stress and sees Enforcer Shinya Kogami as one of his nemesis. He is voiced by Takahiro Sakurai in Japanese while Alex Organ voices him in English.

Critical reception to Makishima has been highly positive. His role as a villain and personality earned praise with his actions generating similar response. Some of his actions praised involving his rivalry with Shinya Kogami. He also appeared in an official noitamina poll where he was well received by Japanese fans.

Shogo Makishima is the antagonist from Psycho-Pass whose rivalry against Shinya Kogami is seen from Akane Tsunemori's point of view. He prefers the company of old books to other people after he discovers that the words of the passionate dead are the only things that can make him feel human in a world of cold, purposeless convenience. He mourns the willful ignorance of a society that led to such a dystopian world. Makishima is commonly serene even during violent scenes as a result of lacking any sort of humanity. Series' writer Gen Urobuchi himself said that one of the series' central themes is "fear" as seen through Shogo Makishima's feeling of being out place. He believes Makishima could have found happiness had he been born in a normal world.

Shogo Makishima is a humanist on the dark side who is obsessed with cruelty, savagery, and all the worst aspects of human nature. A born evangelist, he possesses both uncommon charisma and a true gift for narrative. It is shown that Makishima may be the mastermind behind the many cases the Public Safety Bureau are investigating, including the one that led Shinya Kogami to become demoted from Inspector to Enforcer. Despite his murderous intent, his Crime Coefficient levels have never reached dangerous levels, rendering him safe from the Dominator. He himself claims this is because his own mind and body does not consider him killing people and committing crimes to be "wrong", but rather considers it to be completely "normal," which means his Psycho-Pass does not detect any abnormal or illegal behavior to report to the Sibyl System.