Akane Tsunemori

Tsunemori is a female of average height and a slender, but fit build in her 20's. She has brown eyes, short brown hair and a pale complexion. She is seen in various types of garb throughout the series. She has had the same haircut since she was eleven years old and some might mistake her for a boy. However, at the beginning of the manga adaptation, Inspector Akane Tsunemori, her hair is long.

Her work uniform consists of a dark gray blazer, white blouse, thigh-length skirt and brown loafers. Her field uniform adds the standard blue CID jacket over her work attire with WPC and 103 emblazoned on each arm.Her CommuField avatar is "Lemonade Candy" which lacks legs, as opposed to her holo suit avatar when she cosplays at Club Exoset. In 2114, Tsunemori is seen in a new uniform consisting of a dark blazer, white blouse and dress pants. She still wears her police jacket over her work attire but keeps it open.[5] She often wears the same blazer and skirt, but with different colored blouses (e.g. yellow). In the gekijouban, her work attire includes a gray suit, pink blouse and pearls. While in the field, she wears military-style cargo pants, a PSB white tee, a bullet-proof vest and gripper gloves. In 2120, while in custody, she is seen wearing a brown turtleneck, tan tunic, orange bolero and brown pants. When off-duty, she likes to don holo clothing, sometimes over her suit. She wears underwear when she sleeps because the air conditioning system in her apartment is too good.

She appears to be shy and naïve at the time of her recruitment, as well as quite idealistic. She agonizes over the purpose of her existence, which is an uncommon trait when compared to the other characters. As time goes on, however, Tsunemori reveals herself to be intelligent, insightful. patient and compassionate as an Inspector. Despite being generally polite and respectful, she can be headstrong, growing angry or upset with others for doing things with which she disagrees philosophically.[3] She is shown to be humble, as seen when she tells Yayoi Kunizuka she is being overly considerate when the Enforcer says she would put her life in her hands.[6]

After spending time with the members of Division 01, Tsunemori develops into a full-fledged detective, albeit tempered by her personal sense of justice. An example of this is when she is unable to kill Shogo Makishima not once, but twice: the first time leading to the death of a friend[7] and the second time preventing her from avenging said murder.[8] Yet, she still tries to bring him in alive instead of exacting revenge.[9]

Tsunemori develops a more detached approach to investigation, as shown when she calmly uses her negotiation skills to talk down a criminal using bombs to attack the PSB, pushing his crime coefficient under 300, thus allowing her to stun him in order bring him in instead of killing him.[5] However, when said bomber commits another crime and murders over a dozen people, she outright tells him that any sympathetic words she might tell him are now meaningless, and she is prepared to give the execution order when Inspector Risa Aoyanagi takes him down.

After having the true form of the Sibyl System revealed to her, Tsunemori is shown to be hateful towards it but agrees to maintain it, knowing that the current society cannot live peacefully without it. She tolerates its existence because she believes the system will be terminated in the future. She is, on the other hand, capable of contradicting Sibyl at times, as seen when she attempts to bring in Kirito Kamui alive despite the system wanting him dead, so she can learn why he's considered a societal threat.

Despite everything she has experienced, Tsunemori maintains a 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. While others view it as the result of a strong ego and the Sibyl System deems her a "unique individual," Tsunemori believes that it means she's cold-hearted and unfeeling, and she is disturbed with how quickly she gets over these events.[10]

She is seen in Psycho-Pass 3 as a calm inmate at a rehabilitation facility where she is being held while awaiting her trial and judgement for "endangering the public." From there, she monitors the progress of Inspectors Arata Shindo and Kei Mikhail Ignatov as they pursue a truth they all hope to reveal. By the end of First Inspector, Tsunemori is happy to be released and made a statutory Enforcer, once more working alongside several of her former colleagues, as personal aide to Chief Shimotsuki.