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50 free Psycho-Pass trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Psycho-Pass imagines a Japan where a computer network reads every citizen's mind and decides who is dangerous before any crime is committed. Since 2012 the anime has grown into several television seasons and a run of films, and its questions about justice, free will and surveillance keep viewers arguing long after the credits. This quiz covers the whole franchise: rookie Inspector Akane Tsunemori and Enforcer Shinya Kogami, the hunt for Shogo Makishima, the secrets of the Sibyl System, the later seasons and films, and the cast and crew behind the series. Character questions sit beside plot twists, production stories and the works that inspired the show. It is written for fans who have finished the first season and want to test what stuck, and for anime quiz nights that need reliable questions. Every answer comes with a short explanation, so you learn something even when you miss.
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Q 01In Psycho-Pass, which hand-held weapons fire only when the Sibyl System approves the shot?
Dominators
Dominators scan a target's Psycho-Pass on the spot through built-in scanners. Inspectors may even turn them on their own Enforcers if those partners become a danger.
Q 02What is Psycho-Pass's Sibyl System secretly made of, as Shogo Makishima learns after his arrest?
Human brains
Human brains, taken from people the system cannot judge, are linked into one supercomputer network. Makishima is invited to add his own and kills the messenger instead.
Q 03Above what Crime Coefficient does Psycho-Pass's Sibyl System mark a citizen for arrest?
100
100 is the line: above it, Inspectors and Enforcers pursue the person, who is then arrested or killed. Even a kidnap victim's reading can climb through sheer trauma, as the first episode shows.
Q 04Which film villain did Psycho-Pass's director cite as a major inspiration for Shogo Makishima?
The Joker
The Joker, as Heath Ledger played him in The Dark Knight, was the model. Both are lawbreakers whose way of thinking the audience cannot quite call wrong.
Q 05What do Shogo Makishima's rioters wear in Psycho-Pass to copy bystanders' low Crime Coefficients?
Helmets
Helmets let the wearer borrow the reading of an innocent person nearby and slip past the scanners. Footage of the first killing spreads online and riots follow.
Q 06Psycho-Pass grew out of its studio's wish to make a successor to which earlier cyberpunk anime?
Ghost in the Shell
Ghost in the Shell and Patlabor, both Mamoru Oshii works, were what the studio wanted to follow. The chief director asked for nothing that could not be remade in live action.
Q 07Which country's Ministry of Culture blacklisted Psycho-Pass as one of 38 anime and manga titles?
China
China issued the ban in June 2015, saying the listed titles included violence, terrorism and crimes against public morality that could incite minors.
Q 08Which anime buzzword was banned from Psycho-Pass staff meetings to keep the show against the trend?
Moe
Moe was off the table because the staff admired dramas such as Mobile Suit Gundam and Patlabor, built on conflict between male characters.
Q 09Which veteran Enforcer in Psycho-Pass is revealed to be the father of Inspector Nobuchika Ginoza?
Tomomi Masaoka
Tomomi Masaoka is a former detective whose distaste for the Sibyl System's absolute judgments wore down his own Psycho-Pass. Father and son rarely mention the tie.
Q 10Enforcers in Psycho-Pass hunt offenders for the Bureau, but what are they themselves classed as?
Latent criminals
Latent criminals are citizens whose readings run too high, and Enforcers are drawn from them. They carry out an Inspector's instructions and may not move about freely.
Q 11In Psycho-Pass: The Movie, Akane Tsunemori leaves Japan to track Shinya Kogami to which region?
Southeast Asia
Southeast Asia is where a new superstate has begun importing Sibyl technology from Japan. Her search for a renegade colleague was modelled on war films such as Apocalypse Now.
Q 12Which screenwriter, also behind the anime Fate/Zero, wrote the first season of Psycho-Pass?
Gen Urobuchi
Gen Urobuchi insisted on a dystopia in the spirit of Philip K. Dick before work began. He has said that one of the central ideas of the series is fear.
Q 13What does Psycho-Pass call people like Shogo Makishima whose Crime Coefficient never rises?
Criminally asymptomatic
Q 21Which studio made the first Psycho-Pass series and returned for the third season and later films?
Production I.G
Production I.G wanted an heir to its earlier cyberpunk hits. Its president announced a second season himself at Anime Expo in 2013.
Q 22Which actor voices Shogo Makishima, then returns in Psycho-Pass 2 as Enforcer Sho Hinakawa?
Takahiro Sakurai
Takahiro Sakurai said he did not know what fate awaited the villain until the finale's script arrived. One reviewer called his delivery creepily soothing.
Q 23Which rock band performed Abnormalize, the opening theme of the first eleven Psycho-Pass episodes?
Ling Tosite Sigure
Criminally asymptomatic people read as harmless whatever they do, so the Bureau's guns will not fire on them. Makishima puts it down to feeling that his crimes are normal.
Q 14What is the colour-coded part of a citizen's Psycho-Pass reading called, which clouds under stress?
Hue
Hue is the colour reading that sits beside the numeric Crime Coefficient. It is said to clear when a person's state improves and to cloud as it declines.
Q 15Which Philip K. Dick film adaptation did Psycho-Pass's director compare very closely to the series?
Blade Runner
Blade Runner was the closest match for director Naoyoshi Shiotani, who also named Gattaca and Brazil among the films that shaped the series.
Q 16Which Japanese voice actress plays Inspector Akane Tsunemori in the Psycho-Pass series and films?
Kana Hanazawa
Kana Hanazawa has voiced Akane from the start, with Kate Oxley in the English dub. In the first film she delivers many lines in English, which one reviewer found her entirely comfortable doing.
Q 17Which joking young Enforcer in Psycho-Pass was marked by the Sibyl System when he was only five?
Shusei Kagari
Shusei Kagari is the one who stumbles on what Sibyl really is. The Bureau's chief kills him to keep the secret and makes it look as if he escaped.
Q 18Which Psycho-Pass Enforcer played guitar in a punk rock band before the Sibyl System flagged her?
Yayoi Kunizuka
Yayoi Kunizuka loved Rina, a musician turned anti-Sibyl militant, and unwittingly helped the Bureau track her. She joined up so that others would not end the same way.
Q 19Whose gruesome murder cost Shinya Kogami his rank as an Inspector before Psycho-Pass begins?
Mitsuru Sasayama
Mitsuru Sasayama, the Enforcer working under Kogami, was closing in on a mastermind when he was killed in the same manner as the victims. Kogami skipped therapy to keep hunting.
Q 20Which engineered crop behind Japan's food supply does Shogo Makishima target in Psycho-Pass?
Hyper-oats
Hyper-oats are his target: ruin the harvest and Japan would be forced to open its borders for food. He kills the professor behind the crop to learn what he needs.
Ling Tosite Sigure got the job when the staff, stuck for an opening theme, were handed some of the band's music. The group returned for the second season and the 2015 film.
Q 24Which duo, formed for Guilty Crown, sang both ending themes of the first Psycho-Pass series?
Egoist
Egoist recorded three versions of the first ending so the staff could match each episode's close. The duo was back for Psycho-Pass 2 and the film Providence.
Q 25Which Psycho-Pass schoolgirl from Oso Academy later joins Unit One as a rookie Inspector?
Mika Shimotsuki
Mika Shimotsuki lost friends to the academy's killer in season one. As an Inspector she looks down on Enforcers and often argues with Akane over procedure.
Q 26Which Psycho-Pass 2 villain can the Sibyl System not see because he is built from several people?
Kirito Kamui
Kirito Kamui is in the end recognised by Sibyl as a collective mind rather than a single person. He also makes medication that keeps his supporters' readings low.
Q 27Which Public Safety Bureau chief in Psycho-Pass is really a cyborg controlled by the Sibyl System?
Joshu Kasei
Joshu Kasei appears as an elderly woman, but the system speaks and acts through her as its avatar. She orders Makishima taken alive because his immunity interests her.
Q 28How does Akane Tsunemori stop Shinya Kogami from killing a kidnap victim on her first mission?
She shoots him
She shoots him, with her weapon set to paralyse rather than kill, and he wakes up in hospital. He later thanks her for stopping what could have been seen as murder.
Q 29With what does Shogo Makishima try to kill a trapped Nobuchika Ginoza late in Psycho-Pass?
Dynamite
Dynamite is his threat as Ginoza lies pinned under a container. Ginoza's father, a fellow member of Unit One, gives his own life to save him.
Q 30The first names of Psycho-Pass rivals Shinya Kogami and Shogo Makishima are opposite kinds of what?
Times of day
Times of day set them apart: Shogo sounds like the Japanese word for midday and Shinya like the word for the dead of night, a contrast the director intended. Their clothes repeat it in white and black.