Joji Saiga

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Joji Saiga
TV1 TV2 Gekijouban
Vital statistics
Romaji Name	Saiga Jyouji
Kanji Name	雑賀 譲二
Gender	Male
Date of Birth	March 11, 2063 (PISCES ♓)
Height	5'10" (178 cm)
Weight	153 lbs (69.7 kg)
Blood Type	B
Status
Affiliation	Public Safety Bureau (former)
Status	Alive
Occupation	Analyst (former) Clinical psychology professor (former)
Relatives	Unknown
First appearance
Manga Debut	Chapter 10 Inspector Akane Tsunemori
Anime Debut	0109 Fruit of Paradise
Voices
Japanese	Kazuhiro Yamaji
English	Michael Federico

Joji Saiga (雑賀 譲二 Saiga Jyouji) is an former Analyst of the Criminal Investigation Department of the Public Safety Bureau. He formerly worked as Clinical psychology professor.

Appearance

Saiga is a male in his 50's of average height and build with brown eyes and short brown hair swept back. He is typically seen wearing a green sweater and woolen muffler, but also a white lab coat. He wears corrective lenses.

Personality

He is a very sharp man, able to learn facts about people through small details of what they do and how they respond to their surroundings. He is very knowledgeable, but prefers to live as a recluse, seldom leaving his home. He enjoys doing research and quoting famous people. Saiga dislikes the current society and prefers to live the old-fashioned way ‒ growing his own food, having a non-holo house, etc.

Personal Background

• Before his "retirement," Saiga works as a psychology professor, developing new Inspectors for the CID, including Shinya Kogami, Nobuchika Ginoza and Risa Aoyanagi.. Frederica Hanashiro was also trained by Saiga.

• It appears that when he worked there, Crime Coefficients rose.
  
  

Relationships

Shinya Kogami

Kogami is a former student who once impressed Saiga after asking a unique question. Kogami has great respect for Saiga and even calls him "Professor" long after the man's "retirement."

Akane Tsunemori

Saiga meets Akane Tsunemori for a special profiling lesson. Later, she visits him in the medical facility. Saiga is intrigued by Tsunemori's ever-healthy Psycho-Pass.

Trivia

• Kogami tells Saiga that if he is arrested, he should join the CID.
• Saiga is seen sitting in Joshu Kasei's office prior to becoming a regular character, foreshadowing his role in the series.
• His house is modeled after "Fallingwater," a Frank Lloyd Wright design.
• His birthplace is in the Mie Prefecture.
• His left eye has an eyesight of 0.3 and his right eye has an eyesight of 0.2.
• His hobby is reading, but sometimes studies the cases Akane Tsunemori brings to him.
• His favorite phrase is "To be a man is, precisely, to be responsible" by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry.
• His motto is "Awareness comes only through practice."
• His favorite author is Oscar Wilde.
• His favorite book is "The Portrait of Dorian Gray" by Oscar Wilde because it is easily read and easy to understand.
• The research subject that he is interested in (at one time) is Akane Tsunemori.
• The notice boards that he has been watching lately are :-E BBS.
• His name is alternatively romanized as "Jyoji," as seen in the end credit visuals of Anime Season 2.