Akane Tsunemori

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**Akane Tsunemori** is the main female protagonist from the *Psycho-Pass* anime and manga.

Akane is a rookie Inspector assigned to Unit 1. A well-meaning, idealistic young detective, she works well with the Enforcers but often clashes with her more uptight colleague, Ginoza.

In the TWA fics, Akane debuted in the Twisted World Animania - Psycho-Pass.

## **Appearance**

Tsunemori is a young woman with pale skin, short brown hair and large brown eyes. Her office uniform consists of a white blouse with a dark gray blazer and thigh-length skirt. Her operations uniform usually consists of a police jacket over her work attire, with *WPC* and *103* emblazoned on each arm. In 2114, Tsunemori is seen in a new office uniform consisting of a structured white top with a dark blazer and dress pants. She still wears her police jacket over her work attire. She often wears the same blazer and skirt but with a yellow blouse. Her casual clothes include a black woolen coat, a pink sports suit and a yellow bedgown. She also likes to wear various holo clothing over her suit.

## **Personality**

Akane appears to be shy and naïve at the time of her recruitment, as well as very wide-eyed and idealistic. As time goes on, however, she is revealed to be intelligent, compassionate and insightful as an Inspector. She agonizes over the purpose of her existence, which is an uncommon trait when compared to the other characters. She can sometimes be headstrong and gets angry or upset at people for doing things with which she heavily disagrees.

Akane is polite and respectful and after spending time with Shinya Kogami, one of her Enforcers, she develops into a full-fledged detective with a strong sense of justice, even to a fault. An example of this is when she is unable to kill the murderer Shogo Makishima not once, but twice: the first time leading to the death of a friend and the second time preventing her from avenging said murder. She is also shown to be humble, believing Yayoi was giving her way too much credit when she said she could put her life in her hands.

After being shown the true form of the Sibyl System, Akane is shown to be hateful towards it, but since she knows the current society cannot live peacefully without it, she agrees to maintain it, regardless of her own feelings. It gets to the point that she tries her hardest to bring in Makishima alive despite the fact that he had killed her friend right in front of her. She believes the system will be terminated in the future.

Years later, while Akane retains her kindness and patience, she is also cool headed and rational, which is shown when she calmly uses her negotiation skills to talk down a criminal who was using bombs to attack the PSB, which pushed his Psycho-Pass into the non-danger zone, allowing her to stun him and bring him in instead of killing him. Her compassion, however, has its limits, which is shown when said bomber commits another crime and this time kills over a dozen people with a bomb. She outright tells him that any sympathetic words she might tell him were now meaningless and she was ready to give the execution order had Inspector Aoyanagi not shot him first. She's also not against rebelling against Sibyl at times, such as when she attempts to bring in Kirito Kamui alive despite the System wanting him dead, so she can find out exactly why he's considered such a big threat.

Even after everything she's seen, Akane still maintains her healthy Psycho-Pass and is quick to recover from any traumatic event, such as the aforementioned death of her friend and the death of her grandmother. However, while people see it as a her being strong-willed (especially when you consider her job) and the Sibyl System deems her a "unique individual," Akane herself believes it means she's cold-hearted and unfeeling, and is actually disturbed with how quickly she got over those things.

## **Abilities**

**Powers and Abilities:** Detective Skills, Appearance Manipulation, Sound Manipulation, Electric Manipulationwith Stun Grenades, Hologram Manipulation, Memory Manipulation with Memory Scoop | Durability Negation, One Hit Kill, Electrical Manipulation, Explosion, Disintegration

**Attack Potency:** **Athlete level** physically, **Higher** with Equipment | **Unknown**with Dominator (Depending on the target´s Psycho-Pass, the Dominator can stun, explode and even disintegrate if deemed necessary by the Sibyl System, Akane can manipulate the Sibyl System to a certain degree because of her relationship with said system.), **Higher** With the Assault Dominator **The Dominator** ignores Conventional Durability

**Speed: Athlete level** (Can keep up with Kougami Shinya) | **FTL** (The Dominator has been stated to be work at this speed)

**Lifting Strength:** **Unknown**

**Striking Strength: Athlete Class**

**Durability:** **Athlete level** (Can go on after being hit by a Nail Gun in the leg, passed out after crashing a bus at high speeds and being kicked by Makishima Shougo)

**Stamina:** Very High (Able to keep on even after a lot of abuse)

**Range:** At least couple hundred meters (A single Stun Grenade can knock out a whole gang of rioters.), City Level with Drones.

**Standard Equipment:** Stun Grenades, Dominator, Komissa Appearance Holo, Communication Holo, Drones.

**Intelligence:** High (Got a 700 Point Score in the Sibyl Proficiency Test, Tomomi Masaoka confused her with Kougami Shinya while investigating.)

**Weaknesses:** The Dominator relies on the Sibyl System to work, the target must have a Psycho-Pass high enough for the Sibyl System to determine a proper method of action, but, Akane can manipulate the Sibyl System to a certain extent, The Sibyl system cannot identify asymptomatic people, The Dominator requires authentication and wireless connection to the Sibyl System to operate.

**Feats:** Knocked out Makishima Shougo while he was distracted, Comparable to Kougami Shinya in detective skills, Took out Kirito Kamui on her own.

**Notable Attacks/Techniques:**

* **Holograms (Interior Holo, Exterior Holo, Communication Holo)** - These Holograms let Akane disguise herself and vehicles at will, as a Police Officer, she has permisson to use the Police Car and Komissa holos if needed, this can be used to change her voice as well.
* **Dominator - Dominator Portable Psychological Diagnosis and Suppression System** or the **45MW.TRG Dominator** is the iconic firearm carried by enlisted Inspection and Enforcement officers. The gun is able to determine the identity of its holder, and requires authentication and wireless connection to the Sibyl System in order to operate. Each individual gun can only be heard by the user currently registered to it. When the Dominator is aimed at a target, it continuously reads and sends psychological data ‒ Psycho-Pass ‒ about the person on which it is focused to the Sibyl System for a calculation of their Crime Coefficient. When this value exceeds a certain level ‒ indicating that the target is mentally unstable and more likely to commit a violent crime, the gun will be able to fire. If the level does not exceed fixed levels, the muzzle will not open and a safety device will be activated to prevent the user from pulling the gun's trigger. The gun is unable to work when it is not linked wirelessly to the Sibyl System in most circumstances, While Fully charged, it can fire up to 4 shots.
* **Stun Grenade** - Self Explanatory
* **Drones** - These Drones are controlled by the Sibyl System but are at the Inspection and Enforcement Agency, can be fooled if they do not detect a Psycho Pass.
* **Assault Dominator** Part of the MWPSB's new armament, the Assault Dominator is an upgraded version of the normal Dominator. It is a large, intricate rifle that features a scope which allows for multiple targets and increased range, as well as a bipod which allows for a steady plane when the user is ready to fire. Unlike the normal Dominator, the glow of the mechanism within the weapon is red, rather than blue. However, when it switches to Lethal Eliminator, the color changes to blue. Additionally, it has the ability to fire through walls, ideal for when the use of the normal Dominator is hindered.

**Key:** **Base, With Equipment** | **With Dominator**

## **Trivia**

* Her ID as an Inspector is 00475-AECJ-30157-1.
* Her highest Crime Coefficient is recorded at 87.9.
* She is designated as Shepherd 2 and after Ginoza's demotion, she becomes Shepherd 1.
* Tsunemori is the top student in the training school. In Sibyl's estimation, her aptitude is the only one to exceed the Bureau's employment standards. She achieves an A ranking for 13 different ministries and agencies, along with six different companies.
* She used to be good at all science-related subjects at school.
* She cannot swim, as deduced by Joji Saiga. However, she is excellent at long-distance running.
* Saiga also deduced that her shoulders stiffen when she has to talk about sport and that she drinks coffee when she's nervous.
* Her hobbies are video gaming, net surfing, and chatting with friends; but nowadays, she dedicates her spare time to reading investigation material, learning the art of self-defense and arrest training.
* Her favorite food is any kind of noodles; her least favorite is mushrooms.
* She also drinks Kogami's favorite brand of bottled water ("Anterctic Dorops").
* It is suspected, but never seen, that she smokes Kogami's favorite brand of cigarettes ("Spinel").
* Her favorite item in her room is an alarm clock resembling a fish.
* Tsunemori's strength is her healthy Psycho-Pass; her weakness is her inability to swim.
* Tsunemori used to sleep six hours on average, but now it has reduced to about five hours.
* Her fashion style is "girlish casual, which isn't too sweet," and she usually wears some make up.
* Her favorite fragance is "Blue" by Hanatsubaki Dou Beauty Care.
* Tsunemori has better alcohol tolerance than Kagari.
* Her motto used to be "Faith strengthens people" in 2112, but as of 2116, it's "Protect the things you believe in till the end."
* Her favorite saying is "You must listen to others before you talk about yourself."
* She prefers reading books about game theory and statistics or books regarding Sibyl-governed law because they are useful for exams and essays. She usually reads only bestseller e-books, so she doesn't have a favorite author.

* She has had the same haircut since she was eleven and some would mistake her for a boy. However, at the beginning of the manga adaption, *Inspector Akane Tsunemori*, her hair is long.
* Tsunemori only wears underwear when she sleeps because the air conditioning system in her apartment is so good she will never catch a cold.
* Her CommuField avatar name is "Lemonade Candy." This avatar doesn't have legs, as opposed to her Holo suit avatar when she cosplays at Club Exoset.
* Tsunemori is inept at cooking with Kogami the only one who seems to like the results.
* As of July 2116, Tsunemori has moved to a new apartment where no holograms are used, meaning she no longer owns Candy.
* She likes the view from the terrace and that her new house possesses a training room with a sparring program.
* The best memory about her grandmother is when they went to the library together and her grandma told her about different books.
* When she takes a long vacation, she wants to obtain a license.
* The item she carries with her every day with no exception is her Candy strap.
* After defeating Makishima and Kogami's leaving, Tsunemori hallucinates about Funahara, Kogami, Makishima, Masaoka, and Kagari.
* The Kanji of her first name "Akane" roughly translates as "red," "scarlet," or "bloody," a reflection of her passionate personality.
* The Kanji of her surname "Tsunemori" roughly translates as "the usual state of things" or "protector," which describes her job as an Inspector which, despite her doubts about Sibyl System, she does well while hoping a better system can be found.
* Tsunemori bears a physical resemblance to Yuni from *Katekyo Hitman REBORN!*, both characters being designed by Akira Amano.