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Manga/Anime
So many bullets to count in this picture, but who really cares?
- The fight during the Azure Messenger arc in the anime. Kunikida faces a boy with the ability to throw around anybody who bears a number. Kunikida, being a mid-range fighter, can't get close to the boy. Meanwhile, Dazai faces a strong guy who seems to be impervious. When Kunikida sees Dazai's fight, he is struck with a short bit of genius: he pulls off a Batman Gambit on the guy and the two switch places. As Dazai is immune to any Ability, he is able to beat the boy easily, as is Kunikida, taking over Dazai's enemy.
- Naomi of all people cutting through the bullshit on whether or not the Armed Detective Agency should rescue Atsushi by calling up Fukuzawa to make the decision. Which was to immediately go help their comrade. From her attitude, Naomi knew very well what his decision would be. By doing so, she set in motion the means for both Atsushi and Kyouka to be rescued.
- The Black Lizards pulling a Big Damn Heroes to save Akutagawa and help Higuchi. After chapter 68 came out, this moment becomes a lot more bittersweet.Michizou Tachihara: Kill anyone you don't know!
- During the Guild arc, Kajii singlehandedly destroying one of the Guild's bases.
- A special mention has to go to chapter 38. The Agency has just tackled the Guild arc, and they are all for Heroes Gone Fishing. There is a cafe on the first floor of the building the Agency resides in, in which they are found more often now. Then, the cafe gets overrun and the Nice Guy manager who always brews coffee for them loses a fingernail as he reveals there was a foreign gang who overran the place. The Agency strikes this creepy pose
◊ before we see how well their enemies secured their place. A hideout that changes every four days, security cameras, eighteen heavily armed guards, a door that doesn't yield to a bomb and vicious criminals ready to assist at just one call. Then, the Agency gets in...- Ranpo figured out the hideout within five seconds.
- Kenji is able to rip the door out easily.
- Tanizaki fooled the security cameras, as being a Master of Illusion.
- Atsushi and Kunikida were the Bash Brothers who defeated the guards.
- Apparently, the Agency is so vicious that the criminals who were supposed to assist pull a Screw This, I'm Outta Here on them.
- And, finally, Yosano gives the leader what he deserves.
- The showdown between Fyodor and Ace in chapter 42/episode 29. Ace has Fyodor imprisoned in a hidden cell on a cruise ship, which only he can access and only his men even know about. Fyodor challenges Ace to a game, but Ace manages to see through Fyodor's Ability to create a mental space and then reveals that he knows the secret of escaping: dying in the mental world wakes you up in the real world. Outsmarted, Fyodor watches his captor commit suicide in order to escape from his ability's grasp... but this all turns out to be a trick: turns out there is no mental world: whatever Fyodor's ability is, it had nothing to do with his plan. All of the "hints" he left to his ability's true nature were tricks on his part; most notably, he "cheated" at a game of "Higher or Lower" by memorizing the slight scratches on the back of each card in the deck! He managed to trick one of the smartest and most dangerous members of the Port Mafia into killing himself.
- Fitzgerald's comeback. He's willing to take a long way down by doing everything he can to prove Doctor Eckleburg's innocence, and succeeds at it. He rushes into the court a la Franziska von Karma and exposes the crime like no one else ever could. The best thing? He doesn't even care about finding Buchanan guilty; so everything that happens is a nice side thing. The reason why he does this is because of Buchanan's company; by the time that the scandal has been revealed, the stock of said company had been reduced to toilet paper. That was his plan from the start!
- In the Canniballism arc, Ranpo neutralizing Chuuya with Poe's help.Ranpo: (smirking) Do you like mystery novels?
- Ranpo using Fyodor's kind of manipulation on Oguri. More about that here.
- An offscreen example, when assassin Fukuzawa gets in a criminal nest to save Mori, the thugs ask how he could've gotten in because there were twenty guards outside. Fukuzawa replies with: 'Killed them all already'.
- Chuuya's battle scene in Episode 61.5. With the Hunting Dogs closing in and the Agency trapped, suddenly the enemies get cut down from above by someone using gravity manipulation...as Chuuya raises into the air and summons dozens if not hundreds of floating bullets, all with a smile on his face. Even with the knowledge of everything that happens afterward, this scene never fails to be awe-inspiring. This definitely counts as an awesome moment and is pictured above.
- The battle of wits between Fyodor Dostoyevsky and Dazai Osamu, specifically the part where in Chapter 74.5 you discover that neither had been speaking openly aside from the first time they had met in prison. They had been speaking in code the entire time, one which they had both improvised and only both they can understand with the words and phrases from past conversations being assigned like Street numbers, at least according to the decoder. Even their cipher was decided from the beginning. This entire time they had been talking in a code only they could understand, and it was improvised between the two of them without even coordinating how they would go about doing so.
- In Storm Bringer the fight against Verlaine, hands down- and for both sides! To defeat the assassin, Dazai brings in the entirety of the Port Mafia's forces, consisting of four hundred and twenty-two individuals including twenty-eight Ability users. He sets up fifty snipers to continuously take shots at Verlaine, giving him a Death by a Thousand Cuts before subjecting him to the combined forces of several new Ability users plus Kouyou who shows Verlaine why you don't mess with her subordinates. All this begins to finally wear down Verlaine, forcing him to activate Corruption, at which point he begins taking out forces left and right. However, this is all according to Dazai's plan as the attack was actually just a distraction for Adam and Chuuya to get the drop on the assassin and finish him off. The sheer amount of firepower it takes to actually do Verlaine in and the planning on Dazai's side is quite impressive.
- Chuuya and Verlaine's powers. Remember how Oda and Gidé created a Singularity due to their powers contradicting? It turns out Corruption is a self-contradictory Ability that creates its own Singularity without multiple Ability users, resulting in infinite power.
