Characters / Bungo Stray Dogs Armed Detective Agency

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Armed Detective Agency | Port Mafia (Chuuya Nakahara) | The Guild | Rats In The House Of The Dead | Government and Gaiden | Hunting Dogs | Decay of the Angel | Dead Apple | Others | Beast

(...) A band of detectives that specializes in dangerous cases where neither the military nor the police can be relied upon. An armed group that manages twilight - the time between the worlds of the day and night...

They stand at the precipice of twilight. ^note  From left to right: Tanizaki Junichirou, Tanizaki Naomi, Dazai Osamu, Nakajima Atsushi, Fukuzawa Yukichi, Edogawa Ranpo, Kunikida Doppo, Yosano Akiko, Miyazawa Kenji. Not pictured: Izumi Kyouka.

Facts
Leader: Fukuzawa Yukichi
Second in command: Kunikida Doppo
Base of operations: Yokohama
First appearance: Chapter 1/Episode 1

Character sheet for the Armed Detective Agency of Bungo Stray Dogs. Characters on this page all have their names listed in Western order— given names followed by surnames.

The Armed Detective Agency (武装探偵社, Busoutanteisha)'s members have supernatural powers. They primarily take on cases that the police or the government are unable to handle, but they also do regular detective work. Their director is Yukichi Fukuzawa, but most of their day-to-day business is managed by Doppo Kunikida.

Spoilers up to the end of the Cannibalism arc are unmarked.

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In General

• Badass Crew: Don't screw with them. They will and can kick your butt into next week, should you anger them and/or target one of them or someone under their protection.
• Foil: To the Port Mafia. They both tend to recruit young members and both of them work to protect the city. However, the Port Mafia works in darkness and the Agency in light.
• The Good, the Bad, and the Evil: The good to the Port Mafia and Hunting Dogs's bad and the Guild (although formerly), the Rats in the House of the Dead and the Decay of the Angel's evil.
• Good Thing You Can Heal: Yosano's healing Ability means that the Agency members (minus Dazai, see Logical Weakness under his entry) can take on serious injuries and then be back on their feet within a few chapters. Additionally, regeneration is part of Atsushi's Combo Platter Powers.
• Putting the Band Back Together: In the plot of the Hunting Dogs arc, Atsushi and Kyouka try to get the other members back.
• Ragtag Bunch of Misfits: A Classical Anti-Hero orphan who just happens to be a weretiger, a recovering Sociopathic Hero (who's also an ex-mafioso), a Control Freak Only Sane Man with a list of 58 ideals in his notebook, a Great Detective who's initially in denial about his status as the The Team Normal, a Combat Medic with sadistic tendencies regarding patients, a naive country boy with Super-Strength, a Master of Illusion who goes from a Nice Guy to downright terrifying when his sister is threatened, and a Broken Bird reformed mafia assassin. All led by a Perpetual Frowner who remains stoic even when experiencing Cuteness Proximity.
• Secret Test of Character: Each prospective member is required to pass one in order to join.
• True Companions: For Atsushi and Kyouka.
• Two Girls to a Team: Yosano and Kyouka are the only female members of the main Agency (meaning not counting the office staff).

Yukichi Fukuzawa

Yukichi Fukuzawa

Voiced by: Rikiya Koyama (Japanese), Daishi Kajita (Japanese, child), Jamieson Price (English)^{Foreign VAs}Erick Selim (Latin American Spanish), Franck Daquin (French), Daniel Welbat (German), Dláigelles Riba (Brazilian Portuguese)

福沢諭吉 - 人上人不造 ^note Hito no Ue ni Hito o Tsukerazu

Literary references: He is named after Japanese author Yukichi Fukuzawa, and his ability is a reference to one of the texts from Fukuzawa's essay collection An Encouragement of Learning.

Personalia
Age: 45
Height: 186 cm
Blood Type: B
Birthday: January 10
Zodiac Sign: Capricorn
First appearance: Chapter 2/Episode 2

The director of the Armed Detective Agency, his ability, "All Men are Equal," lets him suppress the abilities of his subordinates.

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• Benevolent Boss: Cares for his subordinates and will always put their welfare first.
• Big Good: Head of the Armed Detective Agency, dedicated to fighting crime and saving innocent lives.
• Childhood Friends: In his childhood, he was the best friend of Fukuchi prior to parting ways during the Great War.
• Coat Cape: He wears his haori over his shoulders like a cape.
• The Comically Serious: Serious at all times, even when dealing with his workers' antics and trying to pet a cat.
• Cuteness Proximity: Hires Kyoka on the spot after she makes a cute face. Fukuzawa is also very fond of cats.
• A Father to His Men: To everyone, but especially Ranpo. He orders Kunikida to find Atsushi's whereabouts and rescue him, even after Kunikida states that they were too short-handed to help Atsushi. In addition, he says to the group of assassins to target only him and that he would snap the necks of anyone who tried to harm his subordinates.
• Fights Like a Normal: He's an expert martial artist and his ability doesn't help him in combat.
• Foil: Fukuzawa is a foil to two certain people:
  • Ougai Mori, his mirroring arch-rival. Both of them are the leaders of their respective organizations that keeps Yokohama in balance and prior to meeting Yosano for recruitment (which is the reason why they became arch-rivals), they were involved in the Tripartite Framework under Soseki Natsume. As indicated with the "Sun and Moon" dynamic, Fukuzawa fights criminals for justice while Mori goes the other way around by committing terrorism.
  • Ochi Fukuchi, his childhood best friend-turned-archenemy. Asde from the fact that they share the same first kanji of their last names, Fukuzawa and Fukuchi were trained under the same dojo in their youth. Years later, however, they parted ways during the Great War, with Fukuzawa becoming the Lone Swordsman who committed murder while Fukuchi decided to go in the warzone without his best friend, which is the big reason why the latter plotted conspiracy on the Armed Detective Agency by framing them for revenge.
• Historical In-Joke: Fukuzawa is a powerful figure in Yokohama, and is the first Japanese person Fitzgerald speaks to. The real Fukuzawa was a key figure in the intellectual changes Japan got when it opened up to other countries.
• Iaijutsu Practitioner: He's frequently seen holding his sword like this and he claims that he can draw it at the speed of sound.
• Kind Hearted Cat Lover: He likes cats so much that he keeps treats for them in the sleeves of his yukata.
• Kimono Is Traditional: He is always seen wearing a yukata.
• The Leader: Of the Levelheaded variety.
• Living Emotional Crutch: He's the entire reason why Ranpo can act as a functional human being. Before he met Fukuzawa, Ranpo felt disconnected from society because of his extraordinary deduction skills and it was until Fukuzawa told him he was an ability user that Ranpo became comfortable with himself.
• Meta Power: Director Fukuzawa's ability, "All Men Are Equal", lets him suppress the ability of anyone in the Armed Detective Agency. Effectively, this means that anyone with Power Incontinence who joins the Agency will find themselves able to better control their ability, as seen with Atsushi (whose Involuntary Shapeshifting became Voluntary) and Kyouka (who became able to personally control her Demon Snow, whereas before, other people could control it against her will with a cell phone).
• Mirror Character: Fukuzawa, the leader of the Armed Detective Agency, and Mori, one of the leaders of the Port Mafia, are benevolent leaders of opposing organizations that care for their subordinates and inspire their loyalty. Their organizations, while very different on their motifs and priorities, are required as equal matches to balance each other out and bring balance to Yokohama.
• Parental Substitute: He has an especially close relationship with Ranpo and looks after him like a father figure. Ranpo helped Fukuzawa figure out who killed one of his former clients in the light novel detailing originally how they met. Fukuzawa realised that because of Ranpo's genius this would happen again and created the Agency so that Ranpo would have a place to belong.
• Perpetual Frowner: Almost never seen smiling.
• Power Limiter: What his Ability does. 'All Men Are Equal' can also help his subordinates control their Abilities.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: Fukuzawa is the coolheaded, stoic Blue Oni to Fukuchi's boisterous, energetic Red Oni.
• The Stoic: Fukuzawa is a serious man and rarely expresses anything but calm authority.

Agents

Atsushi Nakajima

Atsushi Nakajima

Voiced by: Yūto Uemura (Japanese), Max Mittelman (English)^{Foreign VAs}José Ángel Torres (Latin American Spanish), Olivier Prémel (French), Sebastian Fitzner (German), Diego Marques (Brazilian Portuguese)

中島敦 - 月下獣 ^note  Gekkaju

^{Click here to see his full tiger form}

Literary references: He is named after Japanese author Atsushi Nakajima, and his ability is a reference to Nakajima's most famous short story, "The Moon Over the Mountains", in which a man transforms into a tiger.

Personalia
Age: 18
Height: 170 cm
Blood Type: AB
Birthday: May 5
Zodiac Sign: Taurus
First appearance: Chapter 1/Episode 1

The series' main protagonist, a orphan who ends up with the agency after being kicked out by his orphanage. Convinced over his life that of being worthless, he dedicates himself to his new friends and comes into conflict with Port Mafia. His ability, "Beast Beneath the Moonlight," allows him to transform into a tiger with regenerative abilities.

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• All of the Other Reindeer: He grew up in an orphanage where everyone hated him and he suffered from severe abuse, both verbal and physical, from his caretakers, as well as bullying from the other children.
• Animal Motifs: His design was also supposed to look like a tiger, with the black and white color scheme and the belt dangling like a tiger's tail. In chapter 13, he also gets Clothing Damage that resembles tiger stripes. As he turns into a tiger (a large cat), it is only natural that the first person he ends up clashing with and keeps clashing with is named after a dragon who also has dog motifs.
• Animal-Themed Superbeing: He turns into a tiger.
• Astonishingly Appropriate Appearance: His hair is white, the same color as his tiger transformation (something Word of God says was chosen on purpose), and he wears an overly long belt that hangs behind him like a tail upon joining the agency.
• Awesome, but Impractical: Initially, his tiger form is this. Sure, being able to transform into a tiger with a Healing Factor sounds good and all, but not only does he have no control over when he transforms, he doesn't even have any memory of when it's active. This is somewhat deconstructed, as Atsushi is well aware of all of this, and because of it initially can't understand what use he could be to the Agency.
• Badass Adorable: Can really give some of the stronger villains a run for their money once he figures out how to control his ability. Doesn't stop him from still being a lovable dork, though.
• Bad Powers, Good People: His ability would make him a vicious killing machine if he ever went off the deep end. As shown in the BEAST timeline, he could easily slaughter an entire heavily-armed mercenary troupe with ease if not for his compassion and restraint. However, it's worth noting that even out of control, he only ever caused property damage and ate some livestock, and his self image is badly distorted by the abuse he grew up with, so this is a possible subversion.
• A Beast in Name and Nature: Downplayed with 'Beast Beneath the Moonlight'; Atsushi can't control it without the aid of Fukuzawa, and when exposed to moonlight during a conversation with Dazai, he went from being a nervous kid to a hungry monster in seconds.
• The Berserker: When he transforms into his tiger form.
• Big Eater: When chazuke is involved, he can pack away bowl after bowl of the stuff.
• Break the Cutie: Atsushi has several moments of being a victim of this:
  • His memories of being abused by the orphanage director.
  • Even more tragic from being abused in his childhood, after the death of the orphanage director, Dazai advises that he deliberately made him experience hell to form a strong will on the inside, and whenever people see their fathers' deaths, they tend to cry, much to Atsushi tearfully breaking down over the tragedy.
  • Realizing his fear of loneliness in battle after Fukuchi threateningly wondered if Atsushi is able to regenerate his head back after being decapitated.
• Chronic Hero Syndrome: He just can't turn his back on people he feels to be good inside, risking his life and livelihood on several occasions and handing himself over to the enemy in an attempt to keep his friends from getting hurt.
• Classical Anti-Hero: He starts out the show as a very unlucky boy with severely low self-esteem because of a very miserable life and lack of control over his ability. He eventually gets better.
• Closet Sublet: Kyoka moves into Atsushi's apartment after she joins the Agency. From then on, he sleeps in the closet because he's too embarrassed to sleep in the same room as a young girl.
• Combo Platter Powers: He's a were-tiger who happens to also have an amazing Healing Factor ala Wolverine.
• Comfort Food: Chazuke, a Japanese dish consisting of hot tea/water poured over rice, topped with various savoury foods like seaweed.
• The Conscience: After Kyouka joins the Agency, Atsushi frequently keeps her most ruthless and aggressive tendencies in check so she doesn't revert to the deadly assassin she was during her time in Port Mafia.
• Dark and Troubled Past: During his childhood he was shamefully singled out for the most mundane things and then tortured relentlessly for just existing. He is even forced to hammer a nail into his own foot (which he understandably couldn't do, but the Headmaster did it anyway). He was starved, bullied, and beaten until his self-esteem was crushed into fine powder. It's later revealed that the Headmaster did this in hopes of toughening Atsushi in preparation for facing the even crueler real world, but that doesn't erase the horrendous childhood Atsushi had. He still obviously suffers from some forms of PTSD and it worsens considerably after his encounter with Q.
• Desperately Looking for a Purpose in Life: After being told that he was a leech and worthless for all of his life, Atsushi is desperate to find some meaning in his existence.
• Distressed Dude: As there's a massive reward out there for his live capture, Akutagawa eventually manages to catch him off guard and take him away, but he escapes a few chapters later. He's later captured again by the Guild this time, but freed by Lucy. He's later captured by Teruko of the Hunting Dogs and left Strapped to an Operating Table.
• Doom Magnet: He believes himself to be this (due to having been continuously told it when he was a kid) to the point where he thinks his mere appearance causes other people to sacrifice themselves for him. While it's unclear how true this is, the aforementioned reward does attract a lot of problems, though.
• Endearingly Dorky: His sweetness, easily flustered personality, and compassion quickly endear him to the Agency. Dazai in particular takes him under his wing and fights to protect him, even taunting Akutagawa about how Atsushi is an even better partner than him.
• Fashionable Asymmetry: His unusual haircut.
• First-Name Basis: Always called by his given name rather than his surname contrary to the typical Last-Name Basis of Japanese culture.
• Friendless Background: He was raised in an orphanage without love, making it very hard for him to make friends without thinking he'll doom them.
• Good Thing You Can Heal: He's mutilated, impaled, and torn up throughout the series, only surviving due to his amazing Healing Factor.
• Great White Feline: Atsushi's Ability, "Beast Beneath the Moonlight", allows him to become a massive white tiger with a Healing Factor. The tiger itself is usually depicted as a wild animal separate from Atsushi, and the transformations happen without his consent, which combined with his existing trauma makes him wary and frightened of the tiger. However, after Fukuzawa gives him control over his power, Atsushi begins to make amends with the beast.
• The Heart: He arguably brings the group together by befriending Dazai and Kunikida.
• Healing Factor: Part of his Combo Platter Powers, though it only works when he's at least partially in tiger form.
• Heroic Self-Deprecation: He considers himself a magnet for bad luck and hates himself, believing that he causes calamity wherever he goes, causing him to constantly do good deeds and put others before himself in an attempt to make up for it.
• Honor Thy Abuser: Downplayed. Upon learning the headmaster of his orphanage was killed by a truck, Atsushi at first thinks he should feel relieved that the man who caused him so much pain and trauma is finally dead. That starts to change when he finds out the headmaster was on his way to congratulate Atsushi for defeating The Guild and saving Yokohama. After learning the headmaster had an abusive past of his own, Atsushi realizes the headmaster likely abused him so badly to prepare him for the harsh life he would lead because of his uncontrollable tiger form and wanted to make Atsushi hate him (the headmaster) instead of himself. Atsushi still doesn't feel he should forgive what the headmaster put him through, but Dazai acknowledges that harsh upbringing was what motivated Atsushi to save people in danger. In the end, Atsushi does shed some tears for his fallen torturer.
• I Need to Go Iron My Dog: He flusters and excuses himself from Tonan by claiming he has to 'go feed a chameleon' and runs off.
• I Want Them Alive!: People within the Mafia are willing to pay top dollar for his live capture.
• Involuntary Shapeshifting: He unwillingly and unwittingly transformed into a tiger at night before he was able to control his ability.
• Lightning Bruiser: With his ability activated, he moves way faster than a normal human can track and is a split second blur on security cameras at best. He's also strong enough to rip chunks of concrete out of the floor and toss them like frisbees, while his Healing Factor lets him survive incredible amounts of punishment before going down.
• Kind Hearted Cat Lover: Cats are listed among his likes. Admittedly, he is a cat himself...
• Living MacGuffin: There's a massive reward out there for anyone who can capture him alive. According to Fitzgerald, it's because Atsushi's ability is supposedly the key to finding a Reality-Writing Book.
• Magic Pants: Zigzagged. Atsushi's tiger form is much larger and more muscular than his normal, wiry self. So his sleeves, pants, and shoes are ripped to shreds whenever his limbs blow up in size while tapping into his ability. Curiously, when he transform into a full tiger, his clothes remain intact when he transforms back.
• Mystical White Hair: He has white hair to match his white tiger form and he's said to have a mysterious connection to the book that can rewrite reality itself. According to Word of God, it was made white upon deciding on a white tiger.
• Naïve Newcomer: As the newest member of the Armed Detective Agency, he is unfamiliar with the members of the Agency or how it functions. He also lacks information on the feud between the Agency and the Port Mafia. This requires his colleagues to explain things to him (and to the audience).
• Nice Guy: Played with. While he's a genuinely kind person at his core, his terrible self image leads him to make rash assumptions that everyone hates him and he needs to atone for his very existence.
• Not So Above It All: Is noted to be quite gullible, and very nearly accepted Kenji's way of dealing with a case as normal and acceptable.
• Oblivious to Love: He fails to realize Lucy has a crush on him despite the blatantly obvious signs of it. However, It's possibly subverted with Kyouka, as he realizes she interpreted his kindness as romantic and seems quite uncomfortable at the prospect.
• Oblivious Transformation: He wasn't aware of his transformations into a tiger, until he ran into some members of the Armed Detective Agency.
• One Head Taller: He tops Kyoka's height by a head and their relationship gets a lot of Ship Tease.
• Only Sane Man: Comes off this way sometimes, especially when dealing with his eccentric co-workers.
• Orphanage of Fear: Grew up in one; while he may have had it the worst, the children there were taught to blame others and fight amongst themselves to earn enough points to eat and shower.
• Perpetual Poverty: He's usually concerned about his lack of money. Justified, as he spent two weeks starving to death.
• Power Incontinence: At first, he has no control over his power and wasn't even able to remember what happened when he transformed. However, he gets over this as he's put into more and more life-threatening situations. It was later revealed that he gained the power to control his ability because he joined the Agency, which meant Fukuzawa was able to suppress it to a controllable level.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: The Blue Oni to Akutagawa's Red Oni. Atsushi is calm, meek and gentle, while Akutagawa is violent, ill-tempered and bloodthirsty. This is reflected by how their abilities are visually represented- Atsushi's is blue, Akutagawa's is red.
• Running Gag: He frequently ends up unconscious in a particular pose, where his head is slumped against the ground, but his butt is sticking up in the air. This gag isn't present in the manga.
• Scars Are Forever: He has a scar on the left side of his abdomen, caused by the torture he went through at the Orphanage of Fear.
• Shout-Out: His ability to turn into a tiger is a reference to author Nakajima Atsushi's Sangetsuki/The Moon Over the Mountain, in which the main character loses his touch with reality while following his ambitions of becoming a poet and transforms into a tiger.
• Spanner in the Works: Dazai is the strong, intelligent and excentric Big Good of the Agency...if he's not wallowing in depression and suicide attempts. So, when Atsushi comes to the Agency, free from prejudice and sticks with Dazai despite rendering himself as a Doom Magnet, he gives Dazai someone precious to fight for and thus, his motivation. Atsushi basically pulls Dazai from this behavior just by being a nice person.
• Supernatural Gold Eyes: His eyes take on Hellish Pupils and golden sclerae when using his powers.
• Technicolor Eyes: The upper half of his eyes are purple and the other is yellow.
• Tomato in the Mirror: The twist in the first chapter/episode is that the white tiger that had been stalking him and got him kicked out of the orphanage was really Atsushi himself.
• Trademark Favourite Food: Chazuke, a traditional Japanese Comfort Food that consists of tea poured over rice and topped with any number of things that's usually done just to make sure that there's no rice left sticking to the bowl.
• Unskilled, but Strong: His ability grants him great strength and speed along with a Healing Factor and the benefits of claws and a prehensile tail. However, he has little actual combat experience and thus relies on his wits and observations to get by, but generally resorts to plain old brute force.
• You Remind Me of X: Seeing a bit of himself in the young boy, in his twisted nature, the Headmaster sought to help Atsushi toughen up by doing unspeakable things to him to make sure he was able to make it out there in the cruel world. Seeing as Atsushi is introduced to the reader on the brink of death and hyping himself up to steal enough money to survive, this didn't work.

Osamu Dazai

Osamu Dazai

Voiced by: Mamoru Miyano (Japanese), Kaiji Tang (English)^{Foreign VAs}Miguel Ángel Ruiz (Latin American Spanish), Gauthier De Fauconval (French), Timo Kinzel (German), Diego Lima (Brazilian Portuguese)

^{Click here to see his Mafia outfit}

太宰治 - 人間失格 ^note  Ningen Shikkaku

Literary references: He is named after Japanese author Shuji Tsushima, who wrote under the pen name Osamu Dazai, and his ability is a reference to one of Dazai's most famous novels, No Longer Human.

Personalia
Age: 22
Height: 181 cm
Blood Type: AB
Birthday: June 19
Zodiac Sign: Gemini
First appearance: Chapter 1/Episode 1

The first member the Armed Detective Agency Atsushi meets. An extremely strange young man, he hopes to some day find a beautiful woman to commit suicide with. A former member of the Port Mafia, he has a history with Akutagawa and Chuuya. His ability, "No Longer Human," allows him to nullify other abilities through physical contact with either the ability or the user.

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• Above Good and Evil: As observed by Oda, Dazai cares very little for the conventional ideas of good and evil. It is heavily implied that he did monstrous things as a Port Mafia executive, yet he treats cruelty as nothing but a means to an end instead of something he actively participates in for his own pleasure. He also has no problem pulling a complete Heel–Face Turn and fully dedicating himself to the cause of 'helping people' once Oda urged him to become a better person, even if he still uses somewhat questionable (but far less brutal) ways of achieving his plans.
• Ambiguously Bi: He flirts with women left and right, but many people in the fandom suspect he may have been in love with Oda Sakunosuke, whom he affectionately refers to as "Odasaku", with Oda being noted as the only man who saw through his depths and understood him. Atsushi once finds Dazai at Oda's grave and asks if it was someone he was in love with. Dazai looks surprised for a moment and then smiles wistfully.
• Animal Motifs: He is commonly associated with foxes in the franchise, as he is smart, cunning and sometimes acts cryptically and dubious to let others question him. He was dressed as a Kitsune in one Youkai related merch and this official Haregi artwork also shows him with a fox (more specifically, an Inari fox, who are the deity's messengers). The depiction of foxes differs greatly depending on culture - from benevolent messengers and tricksters to being murderous and manipulative, a juxtaposition that much resembles Dazai himself. In this official art, he is shown wearing a traditional kitsune head mask. The nail in the coffin is his dislike of dogs akin to them being a way to fend off Kitsune.
• Anti-Hero: Bordered on outright sociopathic prior to meeting Oda. While he's gotten better post Heel–Face Turn, he still has his moments.
• The Atoner: Shows shades of this, though whether he genuinely regrets the things he did as a member of the Mafia or simply wants to distance himself from his past for Oda's sake is left ambiguous.
• Badass in a Nice Suit: During his mafia days.
• Badass Longcoat: He wears a long trench coat and we already know that he's badass.
• Bandaged Face: When he worked for Port Mafia, he wore bandages over his right eye.
• Big Brother Mentor: He's the closest to Atsushi and is willing to help him however he can.
• Blessed with Suck: His ability is most useful in combat situations, but it's always active except in very specific extreme circumstances, which means Dr. Yosano can't easily heal him using her ability if he gets too banged up.
• Boring, but Practical: His ability isn't very flashy, dramatic, or interesting compared to the abilities of his colleagues in the Agency and former colleagues in the Mafia, but it's extremely useful in fights, has few known drawbacks, and allows his allies with dangerous or hard-to-control abilities to make more effective use of them.
• Brilliant, but Lazy: Not as bad as Ranpo, but good luck getting him to actually do his paperwork.
• Broken Ace: Whenever he actually gets to do something, he's smart, talented and strong, and there aren't many people who at least begrudgingly accept him. He is also a Stepford Smiler who tortures himself with the memories of his past failures and his lost friend.
• Bunny-Ears Lawyer: Despite his odd hobbies, Dazai is actually a very competent detective. His deductive abilities aren't too shabby and he possesses an extremely useful ability that gives him an advantage against other ability users.
• Captured on Purpose:
  • He deliberately gets captured by Kyouka so he can look for the archives of Port Mafia and find out who offered the money for Atsushi's kidnapping.
  • He lets the Hunting Dogs arrest him so he's sent to the same top secret prison Fyodor is currently at with the intention of keeping an eye on Fyodor's movements.
• Cheshire Cat Grin: Dazai rarely stops smiling, and his smiles get very unsettling in serious or darker moments, frequently also dipping into Psychotic Smirk territory.
• The Chessmaster: Purposely manipulated events so to ensure a new duo of Atsushi and Akutagawa would rise to eventually combat an evil (implied to be Dostoyevsky.
• Child Prodigy: Was the youngest person in Port Mafia history to become an Executive.
• Chivalrous Pervert: Seen flirting with women on multiple occasions, although he does this by offering to commit double suicide with them. He's never less than a gentleman though.
• Cloudcuckoolander: Dazai is a rather eccentric man that enjoys researching and trying out various suicide methods for fun.
• Consummate Liar: He is very good at lying. He appeared to have the vital signs of a sleeping person when Adam used his lie detection function on Dazai, making it impossible to tell whether or not he was lying.
• Cool and Unusual Punishment: Downplayed. As punishment for helping Verlaine, Chuuya hangs Dazai upside down and spins him around until he vomits. Justified in that Chuuya had wanted to go with something harsher, but anything else would have incapacitated Dazai who was still necessary for defeating Verlaine, so they decided to save time by doing a punishment that was gentle enough that Dazai could still explain the plan while being subjected to it.
• Cruel and Unusual Death: Discussed. While preparing himself to die in Meursault, Dazai complains about how awful the scenario is, as the detective is in severe pain from his wounds; Dostoyevsky will win when he dies; and, to add insult to injury, Chuuya is set to be Dazai's executioner. Of course, both Dazai and Chuuya were faking it, but the point still stands that this was Dostoyevsky's intent.
• Curtains Match the Window: He has dark brown hair and eyes.
• Death Seeker: Maybe. Played straight during his mafia days. He is said to have grown bored of the world, and is seeking out something that could defy his expectations and hopefully kill him in the process. It is ambiguous whether he still thinks that way or not after leaving the mafia, but his proclamations of suicide since joining the detective agency have been a lot more lighthearted when compared to his genuine desire for death in the mafia, and happen less and less often as the series goes on. Crosses over a lot with Desperately Looking for a Purpose in Life.
• Deuteragonist: Easily the most important character after Atsushi, to the point that you'd be forgiven for thinking that he's the main character at times.
• Drives Like Crazy: The first light novel shows that Dazai is a terrible driver.
• Dull Eyes of Unhappiness: An interesting spin on this. There is confirmation that Dull Eyes of Unhappiness indicate a villain. Dazai is a good guy, but his eyes tend to cloud over now and then. For example, when he is pointing out Mori's Klingon Promotion, his eyes are magnificently dead◊. Notably, when he was in the mafia, his eyes were almost permanently like that, except when talking to Odasaku.
• Everyone Has Standards: While preparing to fight Guivre the Beast, Dazai refrains from simply ordering Chuuya to use Corruption, despite it being their best bet at destroying the monster. Instead, he takes his partner aside and ensures Chuuya is aware that using Corruption will mean never finding the answers to his past. Dazai then gives him some time to make up his mind while coming up with a backup plan in case Chuuya decides against it. This is fairly significant given Dazai's typical inclination towards amoral plots and his hatred of Chuuya.
• Faking the Dead: Given that Dazai planned his own arrest to keep a watchful eye on Fyodor and remotely protect his allies, he used Chuuya (disguised as a vampire) to "kill" him with a pistol to let Fyodor believe that the latter win the escape game until he was checkmated to death.
• Fights Like a Normal: Dazai himself doesn't fight much, preferring to stay on the backlines providing tactical support, but his ability inflicts this on enemies who rely on their combat-enhancing abilities.
• The Gadfly: He likes providing "useful tips" for Kunikida only to say that he's messing with him. He also likes needling his former partner, Chuuya.
• Good Counterpart: To Fyodor, being another intelligent and enigmatic Manipulative Bastard with odd tendencies and few qualms about what he'll do to achieve a goal. However, unlike Fyodor, Dazai fights on the side of the heroes and works with others while Fyodor is a villain who treats everyone as a potential pawn.
• Good Costume Switch: Trades in his black suit and coat for a beige trench coat and khaki slacks when he quits the Mafia.
• Good Is Not Nice: He's generally upbeat and personable and dedicated to helping people, but has warped views on ethics and morality and tends to take a pragmatic approach to the cases he works on.
• Guile Hero: His areas of expertise are strategy and reading people, and he used to specialize in interrogation when he was in the Mafia. As a result, blackmail and manipulation are some of his favorite tactics.
• Harmless Luminescence: The anime portrays Dazai's Ability as emitting a bright, white light upon initially nullifying another Ability. No one ever seems to have any issues seeing whenever this occurs.
• Heel–Face Turn: Formally was an Executive of the Port Mafia, now a member of the Armed Detective Agency. He quit the Mafia after Oda's death and began trying to improve himself out of a desire to honor Oda's memory and final wishes.
• Heroic Sacrifice: In Meursault, he and Sigma attempt to use an elevator to escape, but are caught by Fyodor, who activates the security protocol, flooding the elevator and later dropping it. Dazai decides keeping Sigma alive is the most important thing in that moment and pushes the other man out to safety while he goes down with it. He survives with a broken leg, but Fyodor quickly sends someone to kill him.
• Hidden Depths: Dazai generally presents himself a lazy and carefree man who prefers to push his paperwork off on others, but he's extremely knowledgeable about Yokohama's criminal underworld, exhibits Chessmaster tendencies, and can be surprisingly poignant at times.
• Hiding Behind Your Bangs: Back in his days as a member of the Port Mafia, he kept his bangs over the bandaged right side of his face.
• Historical In-Joke: More than any character, Dazai has a habit of attracting these:
  • His Death Seeker habits are an obvious reference to RL!Dazai's multiple suicide attempts. Dazai is even introduced attempting to drown himself (the way RL!Dazai successfully did himself in) and his wish to die with a beautiful woman is a nod to attempting suicide twice with a lover (one of which being the successful attempt).
  • Dazai is implied to have been brought into the Port Mafia from a young age and left because of personal reasons. In real-life, Dazai was the son of a rich family, and was ultimately disowned due to his political leanings.
  • Dazai mentions at one point to having done a rather disturbing self-portrait, which is a Shout-Out to No Longer Human, where the narrator (a blatant Author Avatar) does the exact same thing.
  • His relationship with Ango and Odasaku is a nod to the Buraiha, a group of authors dissatisfied with the then-current Japanese government.
• Improbable Age: Dazai was considered for the position of Port Mafia executive before he was 16.
• Indispensable Scoundrel: Dazai's unique power to nullify most other Abilities through touch and near-superhuman intelligence ensures his plans are always successful. During his mafia days before making a Heel–Face Turn, he was known for employing any number of horrific tactics to ensure victory, giving him a terrifying reputation and allowing him to become an executive by sixteen. Since joining the ADA, Dazai's still has a poor grasp of morality, often does questionable things for his plans and also drives people up the wall for his own entertainment, but is considered an invaluable resource.
• Irony: While in the mafia, Dazai was sociopathic and feared by everyone, seen as a demon rather even though he was very much human, while his partner, Chuuya, was more emotional and got along with people, and was not viewed as a monster despite being Ambiguously Human.
• Jerkass to One:
  • As Akutagawa's mentor, he beat the younger man frequently. He doesn't hesitate to taunt Akutagawa with the fact that he (Dazai) has never seen him as strong, knowing how sensitive Akutagawa is to that particular topic. It could be a case of Tough Love instead, though.
  • He tends to play the trope straight around Chuuya, often doing unnecessarily cruel things to upset his former partner. As teenagers, he tricks Chuuya's friends into trying to kill him and as adults Dazai gets himself captured for the secondary purpose of degrading the other man.
• Kick the Dog: He is willing to allow all of Yokohama to be razed by Guivre the Beast because he decides that being killed by it would be an epic way to die, given it would be instantaneous, painless and mess-free, even blatantly ignoring Mori's orders to prevent that. Dazai is only motivated to fight because dying would mean indirectly committing double suicide with Chuuya.
• Let's Get Dangerous!: He's eccentric, lazy, and is depicted in a Super-Deformed art style in the anime more often than any other major character, but he's also highly competent at his job when the situation calls for it or things get serious, and stops teasing Kunikida whenever the two are at an important point in a case.
• Logical Weakness: No Longer Human requires Dazai to make physical contact, so it's ineffective against abilities that don't have a physical form if he can't get close enough to touch the user. Obviously it also does nothing against opponents who don't have an Ability. Lastly, it's always active as long as there's blood flow in his brain, so Yosano's healing Ability can't affect him, except in a very small time frame in extreme circumstances.
• Major Injury Underreaction: He doesn’t fear death but hates pain, and therefore tends to treat even serious injuries as frustrating inconveniences.
• Manipulative Bastard:
  • He's not above manipulating his own coworkers if it means accomplishing his goal.
  • Discussed. Dazai points out the difference between him and Fyodor is that, for all his manipulation, Dazai still trusts others act on their own, while Fyodor will only work with pawns.
• Mysterious Past: He's introduced as being a man with an unknown past who's quickly revealed as a former Port Mafia member. While the second light novel gave a number of details, much of his life prior to meeting Oda is still shrouded in mystery.
• Not So Above It All:
  • As a teenager, Dazai was rather grim and stoic, being a feared mafia prodigy with little reaction to seeing a man die in front of him. However, around Chuuya he would frequently engage in exceedingly stupid and childish arguments with lots of Hypocritical Humor.
  • In Storm Bringer, he decides that allowing the rampaging Verlaine to kill him would be a good death and refuses to comply with Mori's orders to stop the beast. Mori then points out that if Dazai were to die in this case, he would automatically be taking Chuuya with him and technically be committing double suicide with his partner. Dazai laughs at this and denies that it changes anything, but the second he hangs up he immediately screams in outrage at the prospect of dying with Chuuya.
• "Not So Different" Remark: Both Dazai and Fyodor acknowledge they are a lot alike. The two are extremely intelligent, manipulative and strategic, with strange personalities and very few qualms over what they will or won’t do. This is heavily Lampshaded while they talk in prison, as Fyodor points out they can relate to each other in ways no one else can, being practically able to read each other's minds as they engage in a battle of wits.
• Obfuscating Stupidity:
  • He may not seem like the brightest bulb at first, but he's one of the smartest members in the agency. For example, despite not being a deductive genius like Ranpo, he manages to figure out a good chunk of the murder mystery in episode 5 on his own.
  • He drives Sigma up the wall in Meursault, suggesting they take a tour of the prison and forcing the other man to dance with him despite the two competing against Fyodor to escape, the prison being littered with deadly security measures, and Dazai having injected himself with a poison designed to kill him in thirty minutes. Nevertheless, he displays he had an entire plan the entire time and manages to put Fyodor on the ropes.
• Odd Friendship: Is Vitriolic Best Buds with Kunikida, the stern, idealistic Control Freak.
• O.O.C. Is Serious Business: Drops his perpetual smile when Higuchi tells him that Mori's released Q from his confinement.
• Perpetual Smiler: He's generally seen with a smile on his face, in stark contrast to his partner Kunikida.
• Pet the Dog: In Storm Bringer, despite knowing Corruption is likely their only shot at defeating the rampaging Verlaine, Dazai is oddly respectful and gives Chuuya time to decide whether or not to use it, knowing his partner will be giving up his only shot at knowing who he really is. Furthermore, the choice is genuine and Dazai starts coming up with a backup plan in case Chuuya refuses to activate Corruption.
• Photographic Memory: His memory capacity is inhuman. When imprisoned with Dostoyevsky, they develop a code on the spot that can’t be decrypted by anyone other than them. Why? It assigns symbols and letters from various alphabets to words from their past conversations.
• Playing with Puppets: In one of the stage plays, after Chuuya faints from using Corruption, Dazai takes advantage of the other man's unconscious state to drag him around and pose him like a 'rich girl', before dropping Chuuya and leaving.
• Pointless Band-Aid: He had an adhesive bandage on his left cheek when he was part of Port Mafia.
• Power Nullifier: No Longer Human allows him to nullify other people's powers.
• The Power of Hate: Downplayed. Mori points out that if Dazai follows his plan to allow Guivre the Beast to kill him, he would also be ensuring Chuuya's death and effectively committing double-suicide with his enemy. This is enough to motivate Dazai to fight with everything he has and start shouting in anger.
• Pragmatic Hero: He tends to take a very "means to an end" approach to his job and is the Agency member most willing to get their hands dirty if it means solving a case or getting crucial information.
• Precision F-Strike: In the English dub, Dazai said the F-word after getting shot by the vampiric Chuuya (which turned out to be an act to outsmart Fyodor in the very end).
• Red Oni, Blue Oni:
  • As a member of the ADA, Dazai is the calm and suave Blue Oni to Kunikida's hotheaded and strict Red Oni.
  • As a member of the Port Mafia, Dazai was the detached and cold Blue Oni to Chuuya's volatile and reckless Red Oni.
• Reformed Criminal: Dazai used to be one of the most dangerous and feared men of Port Mafia. After the death of his best friend Odasaku, he abandoned the life of organized crime to pursue a job where he could help people in need at Odasaku's dying request.
• Rescue Introduction: Dazai first appears drowning at a river and Atsushi jumps in to pull him out. Instead of thanking his savior, Dazai complains about his suicide attempt being ruined. Doubles as Interrupted Suicide.
• Slumming It: While working for the mafia, rather than live in an apartment or house, he lived in a shipping container.
• Suicide as Comedy: How his constant talk about suicide is played. It's especially morbid given he's named after an author who drowned himself.
• Sociopathic Hero: An Above Good and Evil Manipulative Bastard ex-mafia Anti-Hero with the closest thing to a moral compass being a friend's dying request.
• Sour Outside, Sad Inside: In his mafia days, he appears to be an arrogant loner who seems to be treating everyone but his friends like shit in order to intimidate them. That is, until he breaks down when Odasaku loses the orphans and decides to go alone into Mimic's base. He reveals that he adapted this persona to cope with the life in the mafia.
• Stepford Smiler: Behind his laziness, benevolent smile and optimism, Dazai is someone who is still very damaged by what happened in his younger years. He is on bad terms with Mori, who he holds responsible for it, and his appearance is the foremost happenstance when his smile turns into a Slasher Smile. This behavior matches the protagonist of No Longer Human to the letter.
• Taking You with Me: Discussed and subverted. Mori convinces Dazai to fight against Guivre the Beast instead of letting the monster kill him by explaining that were he to do that, Chuuya would have no hope for survival and Dazai would be effectively committing double-suicide with most hated enemy.
• Took a Level in Cheerfulness: He was closer to being The Stoic before he left Port Mafia, in sharp contrast to his lively and playful personality as a member of the Agency.
• Torture Technician: His specialty in his Mafia days was interrogation and he bragged to Kouyou before questioning her about the Mafia's interest in the Guild that there wasn't anyone he couldn't get to spill everything.
• Tough Love: While his treatment of Akutagawa is pretty horrible, it may have been Dazai's way of toughening him up to become a respected member of the Port Mafia, and to better himself.
• Vitriolic Best Buds: With Kunikida. Most of their interactions involve Dazai messing with Kunikida, and Kunikida throttling him. They still manage to work well together despite this.
• Weak, but Skilled: Described more or less as such by Chuuya. He's a piss-poor martial artist for an ex-mafia, but he's good at strategizing and his ability makes him indispensable in fights.
• We Used to Be Friends: His relationship with Ango back when Dazai was with the Port Mafia was great, the two being good friends with Odasaku. After Odasaku died and Ango revealed he was a Double Reverse Quadruple Agent working for the Government as a spy in the Port Mafia and Mimic, Dazai holds Ango responsible for Odasaku's death and only uses him as an Information Broker, even though Ango has little to do with the incident. By contrast, Ango still greatly respects Dazai and wants to befriend him again, even expunging his record of being with the Port Mafia so he can make an honest living.
• What, Exactly, Is His Job?: Before everyone figured out he used to work for the Mafia, it was a game among the Agency members to try to figure out what Dazai's old job was.
• Would Hurt a Child:
  • His method of training Akutagawa when the latter was a teenager was extremely brutal, and Dazai was not afraid to punch the boy in the face and fire a gun at him multiple times.
  • After an incident in the past, Dazai was responsible for locking up Q, and threatens to kill them someday.
• Young and in Charge: He was the youngest Port Mafia executive in mafia history.

Doppo Kunikida

Doppo Kunikida

Voiced by: Yoshimasa Hosoya (Japanese), Patrick Seitz (English)^{Foreign VAs}Carlo Vázquez (Latin American Spanish), Nicolas Matthys (French), Christian Rudolf (German), Fábio Azevedo (Brazilian Portuguese)

国木田独歩 - 独歩吟客 ^note  Doppo Ginkaku

Literary references: He is named after Japanese author and poet Tetsuo Kunikida, who wrote under the pen name Doppo Kunikida, and his ability is a reference to Doppo's Poetry, a compilation of some of Kunikida's poems.

Personalia
Age: 22
Height: 189 cm
Blood Type: A
Birthday: August 30
Zodiac Sign: Virgo
First appearance: Chapter 1/Episode 1

Dazai's partner. A straight-laced man who manages most of the Agency's operations. His ability, "Doppo's Poetry"^note "The Matchless Poet" in the official Yen Press translation of the manga, enables him to create anything he writes down in his notebook, as long as he understands the object's form and function and it's smaller than the notebook.

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• An Arm and a Leg: He has both of his hands amputated after his last ditch effort to defeat the Hunting Dogs by himself. However, it's averted after they're restored by Yosano's ability.
• Big Good: He's the in-charge manager of the Agency. Fyodor's (and the Hunting Dogs') strategy is basically to render him immobile by provoking him psychologically so they don't have to fight him, as fighting against someone who manages the daily business of the local Badass Crew is just asking for the entire city to hunt them down.
  Ranpo: Kunikida, you’re the strongest and most virtuous of us in the Agency. That’s why the enemy tried to break you first.
• Big "NO!": Kunikida refused Jouno's decision to kill Yosano first before she can heal her comrades.
• Break the Badass: As an idealist who greatly values human lives, seeing the lives of many people lost in front of him, especially the little girl who died from detonating a grenade strapped on her neck, makes it worse for him every time. To make matters even worse between Kunikida and the Hunting Dogs is Saigiku Jouno's cruel choice of words about him, causing the former to suffer from a mental breakdown to the point of imagining his worst-case scenario to come true when people and his comrades (including Yosano) die before his eyes.
  Jouno: You have an interesting pulse. Perhaps, it's because you're still such an idealist, Kunikida. You're relieved right now, aren't you?
  Kunikida: What do you mean?
  Jouno: I read up on you. Your ideals are as lofty and large as a hot-air balloon. But a hot-air balloon... inevitably runs out of fuel and returns to the ground. You've lived in fear of when that day would come.
  Kunikida: Stop it.
  Jouno: I'm really happy for you, Kunikida. Starting tomorrow, you'll be free!
• Childhood Friends: He's stated to have been friends with Katai for ten years. Given that they're in their early twenties, it means that they first met when they were in middle school.
• Comically Serious: His usual reaction to Dazai's or basically anyone's antics besides freaking out.
• Control Freak: Kunikida does not like it when his carefully laid out plans are disrupted, especially by Dazai.
• Crazy-Prepared: His ability is effectively a weaponized superpower version of this.
  • He also gets around his ability's main Logical Weakness by carrying around slips of paper with the names of objects he frequently creates already written down.
• Curtains Match the Window: He has blond hair and yellow eyes.
• A Day in the Limelight: Kunikida gets his main focus in the "Walking Alone" OVA, which takes place after The Guild arc in Season 2.
• Early-Installment Weirdness: Early into the series, he states he was a math teacher before becoming part of the Agency. This was retconned later to a part-time job as an algebra lecturer when it was insinuated that he was one of the early members of The Agency and most likely joined as a teenager.
• Expressive Hair: In the anime, his ponytail becomes a jagged zig-zag when he's particularly angry.
• Fights Like a Normal: His ability isn't combat-oriented and he uses it to create conventional weapons, like pistols and stun guns, to supplement his martial arts skills.
• Heroic BSoD:
  • For comedic effect when he finds out Dazai used to work for the Mafia.
  • Played for drama when Kunikida is forced to kill a child in order to save a crowded passenger train. Fyodor takes advantage of this later and invokes another BSOD on Kunikida by influencing a child to kill herself in front of Kunikida's eyes.
• Heroic Sacrifice: A non-fatal example as lampshaded by Fukuzawa with his ability. Kunikida sacrificed himself to fight Tecchou mid-air, so Yosano, Tanizaki, and Kenji can escape with Chuuya in the helicopter smoothly.
• Hot-Blooded: Kunikida has a very bad temper and is always shouting at the top of his lungs. Especially when he is angry with Dazai's suicidal antics.
• Improbable Age: Stated early on to have been a math teacher prior to becoming a detective, later retconned into a part-time side job as an algebra lecturer after it was implied he joined the Agency in his mid-late teens, which is still a bit unlikely for a 22-year-old.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Kunikida is, at best, gruff and stern to his fellow detectives and Atsushi. He's not very tolerant of disruptions to his plans and doesn't like those who would disturb his carefully laid schedules (AKA Dazai). That said, he is actually a very idealistic man that strives to live up to his own expectations. He will do anything he can to complete a mission and protect his colleagues.
• Knight in Sour Armor: Although rather grumpy and cynical in disposition, Kunikida will always try to do the right thing according to his ideals.
• The Knights Who Say "Squee!": The only time Kunikida is seen with an excited expression is Master Carlyle, the legendary artisan who was admired by the former for creating his notebook.
• The Leader: While he is not officially the leader of the Agency, when trouble occurs making Fukuzawa unable to be leader, he is often the appointed leader, due to his intelligence and sensibility.
• Logical Weakness: He can't use his power if he's separated from his notebook (unless if he uses a written notebook page remotely from anyone who possesses it), he runs out of pages, or his hands are restrained or cut off.
• Long-Haired Pretty Boy: He has long hair tied into a low ponytail and appears quite attractive.
• My Greatest Failure: Blames himself for the death of 5 detectives in the Azure King incident. Kunikida provides Rokuzou, the hacker son of one of the detectives, with jobs and looks out for him out of guilt. In the aftermath of the Cannibalism outbreak, Kunikida also blamed himself for being unable to save the girl with a grenades strapped on her neck (in truth, Fyodor planned to not only torture Kunikida psychologically by giving him a Sadistic Choice, but to also frame him for child murder).
• Not So Stoic: Despite being the first to remind his coworkers that it's often not feasible to save everyone, he's deeply uncomfortable when a mission involves casualties and is visibly shaken by the resolution of the Azure Messenger incident.
• Number Two: Of the Armed Detective Agency. He handles the day-to-day minutiae of running the Agency, with the President only making rare appearances. It is explicitly stated at one point that the next director of the Agency will be Kunikida because he has all the qualities to do so. He's named acting president by the rest of the Agency when Fukuzawa is put into an ability-induced coma.
• Odd Friendship: Is Vitriolic Best Buds with Dazai, the cheerful former Mafia executive.
• Only Sane Man: At times. He is mostly intolerable to the other characters quirks, such as Dazai's constant suicide attempts.
• Perpetual Frowner: In contrast to Dazai, Kunikida is usually seen frowning.
• The Power of Creation: He can create any object by writing its name in his notebook, as long as he understands the object's form and function and it's smaller than the notebook.
• Pragmatic Hero: As the most logical member of the Agency, Kunikida is usually the one to consider what's most practical for any given situation. As such, his assessments can be rather cold-hearted at times. For example, he tells Atsushi to hand Kyoka over to the police, stating that her status as a wanted murderer would sully the Agency's reputation. When Atsushi protests, Kunikida asks Atsushi if he has the resources to protect Kyoka, suggesting that Atsushi should be more worried about himself.
• Reality-Writing Book: Thanks to his ability, his notebook is a minor type 3 example. His ability, The Matchless Poet, allows him to create objects by writing them down in his notebook, as long as the object he's trying to create is smaller than the notebook.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: Kunikida is the hotheaded and strict Red Oni among two of the Blue Onis:
  • Dazai, a nonchalant suicidal maniac who has no problems of teasing his partner often.
  • Katai, his Childhood Friend who tends to shut himself inside his apartment surrounded with technology.
• Ridiculously High Relationship Standards: Kunikida has 58 conditions for an ideal partner, which spans eight pages and 15 topics written on the section titled "Spouse" in his notebook.
• Sadistic Choice: Fyodor manipulated events to put him in a situation where he has to choose between saving an innocent child with bombs strapped around her neck or a train full of passengers.
• Schedule Fanatic: He is almost never seen without his notebook in which he apparently written the schedules for his "ideal" life.
• The Scream: Kunikida let out a tearful scream after witnessing a little girl who committed suicide as part of Fyodor's plan to Break the Badass. While he was held custody by the Hunting Dogs, he let it out once again after Jouno beared the shocking news of Yosano's scheduled execution, in which the former is unable to save her because of his hands being cut off.
• Stoic Spectacles: Kunikida is professional and likes to organize and schedule every little detail to the point that it becomes a Running Gag. He also has the long hair and the ponytail.
• Straight Man and Wise Guy: The serious bussines to Dazai's tomfoolery.
• Team Dad: Kunikida acts the part of a stern and grumpy father to his friends in the Agency, particularly evident in his interactions with Atsushi and Dazai. Kunikida scolds and yells at them for small things all the time, but he's always looking out for them.
• Thou Shalt Not Kill: Being the morally just idealist, Kunikida has his own ways of giving mercy on his opponents by having them in custody by the police rather than letting them die.
• Undying Loyalty: To the Armed Detective Agency and his own ideals, as Kunikida refused Jouno's offer of joining an elite military squad that involves inflicting psychological and physical harm on wanted criminals, which is a literal red flag.
• Vitriolic Best Buds: With Dazai. Most of their interactions involve Dazai messing with Kunikida and Kunikida throttling him. They still manage to work well together despite this.
• Western Zodiac: A Virgo, and a textbook example of one.
• Writers Cannot Do Math: A victim of this. He somehow found time to go to university, study to become a math teacher, work as one for a while, and then work for two different law enforcement agencies. He's only 22 years old.
• Younger Than He Looks: Despite what his appearance and behavior imply, he's actually 22, making him a good four years younger than Ranpo.

Ranpo Edogawa

Ranpo Edogawa

Voiced by: Hiroshi Kamiya (Japanese), Vic Mignogna ^note Seasons 1-2, Landon McDonald ^note Season 3-present (English)^{Foreign VAs}Alan Fernando Velázquez (Latin American Spanish), Alessandro Bevilacqua (French), Asad Schwarz (German), Raphael Ferreira (Brazilian Portuguese)

江戸川乱歩 - 超推理 ^note  Chou Suiri

Literary references: He is named after Japanese mystery author Tarou Hirai, who wrote under the pen name Ranpo Edogawa.

Personalia
Age: 26
Height: 168 cm
Blood Type: O
Birthday: October 21
Zodiac Sign: Libra/Scorpio cusp
First appearance: Chapter 1/Episode 1

An intelligent and highly praised member of the Agency. He's well-known for his amazing deduction abilities, which he often uses to help the police solve crimes. Convinced that he has an ability that he calls "Ultra Deduction," but he really doesn't.

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• The Ace: Not on the same level as Fukuzawa, but his valuable intelligence compensated his lack of fighting skills very well as the most beloved master detective. According to Dazai, Ranpo is dubbed as "The Detective Agency's Strongest Man" for his capability to outsmart his enemies by rescuing all of his captured comrades in one piece while Fyodor is under the watchful eye by Dazai in prison.
  Dazai: Keeping an eye on you was about all I can do. But as long as I'm doing that, he can move freely.
  Fyodor: Who do you mean?
  Dazai: Isn't it obvious to you? It's the superhuman who exceeds, even the Gifted, the strongest in the Detective Agency.
• The Baby of the Bunch: Inverted since Ranpo is the oldest member from the Agency (aside from Fukuzawa), and due to his non-ability that keeps the active status of the organization, his comrades greatly admired him. This is also downplayed because while he is a Manchild with no common sense of taking the train or bus alone, Ranpo is capable of confronting his enemies (Mushitaro, for example) on his own.
• Badass Bookworm: Ranpo is one of the most intelligent characters in the series, capable of solving thousands of cases since the foundation of the Armed Detective Agency. Despite being a Non-Action Guy, Ranpo uses Poe's novel as a weapon to capture his enemies inside it.
• Badass Normal: Unlike the rest of the Agency he doesn't actually have an ability and thus gets by with his amazing skills of deduction and observation.
• Blackmail: He gets Mushitarou to turn himself in and undo his evidence-destroying ability that he used to frame Kunikida by threatening to reveal the last page of the manuscript of his murder victim to the public, which Mushitarou can't allow because the authorities would find the tears he shed over the paper when he aided in his friend's suicide.
• Brainy Brunette: He's a black-haired supergenius detective.
• Brilliant, but Lazy: When not on a case, he's usually seen lounging around the office eating something sweet. When Atsushi is taken by Akutagawa, the Agency president needs to bribe Ranpo in order to get him to figure out where Atsushi had been taken.
• Bystander Syndrome: When Atsushi is kidnapped by Port Mafia, Ranpo insists the Agency has no reason to save Atsushi since they're not his bodyguards and they should have more important jobs to do. Even after Fukuzawa orders the Agency to make saving Atsushi their top priority, Ranpo refuses to cooperate until Fukuzawa bribes him with praise.
• Cerebus Retcon: His delusion over having an Ability is revealed in the third novel to have a much darker backstory behind it. Twelve years before the series began, Ranpo was an orphaned Teen Genius who Fukuzawa met when he solved the murder of Fukuzawa's client. Ranpo's deduction abilities however caused him to become severely disconnected, isolated from humanity and he was on the verge of a mental breakdown. "Super Deduction" was a lie Fukuzawa created to enable Ranpo to continue.
• Clear Their Name: The Perfect Crime arc starts with Ranpo looking for a way to prove Kunikida's innocence after he has been framed for the death of the little girl that was tricked into blowing herself up by Fyodor. This happens again later during the Kamui Revelation arc when the Armed Detective Agency was framed for terrorism by Kamui, leaving Ranpo to become the only one to prove everyone that the Decay of the Angel is responsible for plotting conspiracy towards them, leaving the police force split in half for their beliefs respectively.
• Eyes Always Shut: He keeps his eyes closed, unless he's surprised or using his "ability".
• First-Name Basis: One of the few members who is referred to by his given name.
• Foreshadowing: His "Ability" is the only one ^note  Counting at least 9 organizations and independant characters that's not named after a work of the author he's called after. When there came a sort of Defictionalisation, and Kadokawa put the likeness of the BSD characters on the books of the real authors, Murder On D Hill (Ｄ坂の殺人事件, D-zaka no Satsujin Jiken) was chosen for Ranpo, after chapter/episode 6.
• Genius Sweet Tooth: He's the smartest character in the series and snacks on something sweet whenever he has the chance.
• Great Detective: He is known as one of the best detectives there are and he's proud of it.
• Historical In-Joke: His relationship with Poe in the series is basically the reverse of their namesakes- the real Ranpo Edogawa greatly admired the real Edgar Allan Poe, to the point of basing his pen name off of Poe's name ("Edogawa Ranpo" is derived from the Japanese pronunciation of "Edgar Allan Poe").
• Idiot Savant: He's a brilliant detective capable of solving crimes in an instant, but can't figure out how to use the train for some reason.
• Insufferable Genius: He's not exactly humble about his talents. Turns out the origin of this behavior is Fukuzawa telling him to treat everyone else as an idiot because that was the only way he could get Ranpo to embrace his super deduction skills as something that made him superior to others to relieve his mental breakdown.
• Intelligence Equals Isolation: When he was younger, Ranpo knew his deduction skills made him different from others and he felt alienated to the point the only way Fukuzawa could help him continue functioning was to tell him a lie about his genius being the result of an Ability.
• It Was a Gift: His glasses were a gift from Fukuzawa.
• It's All About Me: Frequently prone to wondering aloud why no one is focusing on him. Doubles as Attention Whore.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: He gives the impression of being a lazy, rude and arrogant smartass, but he's incredibly loyal to Fukuzawa and his friends.
• Loved by All: His non-ability is the reason why everyone in the Armed Detective Agency admired him for his invincibility despite not having an actual ability like the others.
• Magic Feather: His naturally uncanny aptitude allows him to solve seemingly impossible mysteries but he needs to use a pair of glasses to "activate" this ability.
• Manchild: While he's a genius detective in his mid-twenties, Ranpo is usually very childish and throws tantrums when asked to do things he finds too bothersome, causing others to compare him to an elementary schooler.
• Manipulative Bastard: A non-villainous example. When he finds himself unable to logically turn Mushitarou in due to lack of evidence (which he always needs), he forces Mushitarou to do so by pointing out that if he doesn't do that, the greatest thing he cares about (the mystery of his friend Yokomizo), would be forfeit. This is explicitly likened to what Fyodor does.
• My God, What Have I Done?: Ranpo was scolded by Fukuzawa for making the former's calculations that led him to recklessly gamble with his life on stake as he was held on gunpoint by Officer Mitamura for refusing the offer to join V.
• Nominal Hero: He'll pretty much only do work if he's bored out of his mind or Fukuzawa bribes him with praise, and he doesn't really care one way or the other how things go as long as he and Fukuzawa are safe.
• Non-Action Guy: Fighting isn't his forte, so Ranpo chooses to stick to detective work.
• No Sense of Direction: Needs a guide to get home after solving a case. He also can't figure out how to use the train.
• Oh, Crap!: Has a massive Oh, Crap! moment when he figures out Fukuchi is Kamui while right in front of him, and at his mercy.
• Older Than He Looks: Ranpo doesn't look any older than his eighteen-year-old coworkers Atsushi and Tanizaki. He's 26 years old, making him the oldest agent of the Agency.
• Only Friend: Ranpo becomes this to Poe after their encounter in the Guild arc. Poe mentions no one ever calls him except for Ranpo.
• O.O.C. Is Serious Business: Loses his normal cheerful arrogant attitude once the need to find the culprit who by Fyodor's command puts Fukuzawa and Mori in a coma that will result in their deaths within 48 hours if either of the other party isn't killed, which is noted by Atsushi. This happens again when Ranpo warned his friends about a "request" from a government, as told by Mushitarou after turning himself in. With Kamui framing the Detective Agency as terrorists via the Page, Ranpo spends his own time setting up a plan of bringing his comrades back from the Hunting Dogs and other military police who perceived that they are terrorists.
• Parental Abandonment: Ranpo's supergenius parents, one who was a famous detective named "The Clairvoyant" and the other was a housewife, died in an accident when he was young.
• Pragmatic Hero: After the Cannibalism arc, Ranpo is willing to use any dirty trick he needs in order to protect his comrades, even if it means becoming a cunning demon like Fyodor.
• Protagonist-Centered Morality: Exemplified by his motto, "all's well that's well for me!"
• Red Baron: The title of Episode 51 refers Ranpo as "The Strongest Man", even Dazai calls him that for remotely outsmarting Fyodor.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: Without his childish behavior, the brainy Ranpo is the calm, non-action Blue Oni to the brawny Yosano's aggressive, action-oriented Red Oni.
• Sherlock Homage: A Great Detective who can solve cases in an instant through Sherlock Scans, wears a deerstalker hat and an inverness cape, and is an Insufferable Genius.
• Sherlock Scan: His "ability." He can quickly scan a crime scene and deduce exactly what happened in a matter of seconds. He can also quickly piece together the solution to nearly any problem, puzzle, or mystery, as long as he has some kind of lead.
• Shorter Means Smarter: He's the second shortest male member of the Agency and one of the most intelligent characters in the series.
• The Smart Guy: The smartest member of the Agency and the only one who can do real detective job in the matter of seconds. His high-leveled intelligence is what makes Dazai consider him "the strongest man."
• Smart People Wear Glasses: He puts on a pair of glasses when he uses "Ultra Deduction". He believes this is what activates his "ability" because of Fukuzawa's lies.
• Super-Intelligence: Of the exceptional perception and advanced reasoning varieties.
• The Team Normal: The only member of the Agency to be a normal human with no ability. His "Ultra Deduction" still makes him one of the most valuable additions to the team.
• Underestimating Badassery: On the receiving end of this from Deputy Inspector Minoura, who dismisses Ranpo as a Wrong Genre Savvy Smug Snake. Ranpo puts him in his place by solving the current case in precisely the amount of time he said he would (i.e. under a minute), thereby showing who the real Wrong Genre Savvy one is.
• "Well Done, Son" Guy: Receiving Fukuzawa's praise is one of the few things that motivate Ranpo to work.

Akiko Yosano

Akiko Yosano

Voiced by: Yu Shimamura (Japanese), Erica Lindbeck (English)^{Foreign VAs}Ileana Escalante (Latin American Spanish), Mélissa Windal (French), Jannika Jira (German), Tatiane Keplmair (Brazilian Portuguese)

与謝野晶子 - 君死給勿 ^note  Kimishinitamoukotonakare

Literary references: She is named after the Japanese poet Shou Hou, who went by the name of Akiko Yosano, and her ability is a reference to Yosano's poem "Thou Shalt Not Die."

Personalia
Age: 25
Height: 166 cm
Blood Type: O
Birthday: December 7
Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius
First appearance: Chapter 1/Episode 1

The Agency's medic. Her ability, "Thou Shalt Not Die," allows her to heal anyone who has received a life-threatening injury.

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• '20s Bob Haircut: Even though this series isn't set in the '20's, she has the aesthetic, including the haircut.
• Adaptational Skimpiness: During Yosano's "medical treatments" on Tanizaki and Atsushi in the anime, she takes off her shirt as Sexophone music plays in the background.
• Action Girl: The most qualified for this title out of the Detective Agency's women.
• Animal Motifs: She's associated with butterflies, mainly related to the themes of death and resuscitation of her ability.
• Bag of Holding: Her doctor's bag shouldn't be able to hold half of the weaponry she stuffs into there, which include a hatchet blade as long as her arm.
• Because You Were Nice to Me: The reason why she's so attached to the Agency. Fukuzawa and Ranpo saved her from being used as a tool for war by Mori again. Ranpo also assured Yosano the Agency wouldn't abuse her ability like Mori did and they understood how much grief she suffered from seeing so many men die in the war.
• Berserk Button: During the Cannibalism arc, Yosano once said that she had a bone to pick with Mori, of all people from the Port Mafia, which suggests a connection to her traumatic past as a student medic recruited by the latter during the Great War. Finding a way to restore the Armed Detective Agency during the Hunting Dogs arc, Yosano angrily objects Mori's idea of transferring her to the Port Mafia from her side with Fukuzawa just to use her as a living immortality tool once again. Being exploited by the worst person imaginable for her healing ability didn't win the Great War, but it costed the soldiers to be healed and go to the front lines numerous times to the point they either die or suffer from a fate worse than losing their lives in the battlefield.
  Yosano: Don't give me that bullshit! I know you can help prove our innocence; you just don't want to until we've heard your terms!
  Mori: Correct. The agreement with President Fukuzawa was that we'd only help the Agency in exchange for transferring one of its members to the Port Mafia.
  Yosano: Transfer a member of the Agency?! You think you're being funny?! You just want me back in the Mafia! Isn't that really what's behind all of this?!
  Mori: And if that's the case, what of it? President Fukuzawa understood that when he made the agreement with me.
  Yosano: The president would never agree to that in a million years!
• Big Sister Instinct: After Kunikida sacrificed himself to let the remaining Agency members escape with Chuuya, Yosano made sure that Tanizaki and Kenji are safe and hidden from the Hunting Dogs' pursuing efforts.
• Blessed with Suck: Her ability can heal any injuries, but it doesn't work unless the person is at the brink of death. While it isn't played as seriously in the present plotline, her backstory shows this trope in full extent. Mori exploited her power by having Yosano heal the soldiers of a military troop. The soldiers were almost killed every day and weren't allowed to retreat because Yosano was there to heal them. Yosano came to blame herself for trapping the soldiers in a Fate Worse than Death.
• Chainsaw Good: Her preferred method of harming her injured coworkers to the point where she can heal them with her ability is to shackle them to her examination table and then introduce their torso to a chainsaw. On the other hand, in a notable example of writers doing their homework, Yosano doesn't try to fight with one (but does use it to intimidate people, which proves to be pretty effective).
• Combat Medic: She may be a doctor, but she's no stranger to violence. She kicks Motojiro Kajii's ass after fooling him into thinking that she was dead.
• Dark and Troubled Past: When she was 11 years old, Yosano was recruited by Mori as the medic for a small military base where the soldiers were fatally wounded every day. Yosano could always heal their physical injuries, but she could do nothing about their emotional and mental traumas. To make it worse, the soldiers weren't allowed to retreat the battlefield because Yosano was there. Eventually, Yosano wanted to stop healing them to end their suffering, but Mori wouldn't let her. Yosano finally had a breakdown when a soldier she was fond of hanged himself.
• Deadly Doctor: She doesn't kill people with her medical expertise, but the nature of her ability frequently requires her to injure her patients. To that end, she carries around a doctor's bag filled with weapons.
• The Dreaded: Hilariously enough, to her own colleagues. She's a valued member of the Agency, but her colleagues dread being injured because it means that they'll have to be treated by her. Treated far more tragically as part of her Dark and Troubled Past, where she was sent to the battlefield to constantly heal soldiers' injuries so they can be sent out into the field. While she could heal their physical wounds, the mental scars from the grievous wounds they suffered remained, sending them all into delirium from being sent into battle and nearly dying over and over. Several of them committed suicide to escape her and they branded her the "Angel of Death".
• Face of an Angel, Mind of a Demon: Played with and a very rare heroic example. Accurately enough, one of the Hunting Dogs wanted to kill her as the "Angel of Death" who committed crimes during the Great War, and she displays several moments of this, especially her battle against Kajii in a hijacked train.
• Fights Like a Normal: Her ability gives her the freedom to fight recklessly and try more aggressive tactics, but it doesn't enhance her combat skills beyond that. Any fighting she does is purely her own skill rather than her ability. Noticeably, she can swing her large hatchet hard enough to smash the ground during her fight with Kenji against Chuuya.
• Good Thing You Can Heal: Aside from severely injured patients, Yosano is capable of healing herself in combat.
• Grew a Spine: Given how much trauma she had as an exploited student medic from the Great War, Yosano angrily called Mori out for his decision to transfer someone from the Armed Detective Agency to the Port Mafia, and he also lied to her because Fukuzawa did not mutually agree to transfer his organization's valuable doctor. In other words, Mori would get his hands on Yosano to use her ability once again.
• Harmful to Minors: Yosano's backstory has her exposed to the horrors of War Is Hell when she was a medic to a small army at only eleven years old.
• Heal the Cutie: Yosano was a plucky 11-year-old girl who worked in a candy store until Mori took her to work as a military medic. She accepted the work because she wanted to use her power to save lives. What Yosano didn't know was that she was being used as a tool for a project to create an "immortal army". Slowly, the young Yosano was traumatized by seeing the soldiers getting fatally wounded and killed every day, feeling guilty because her healing power was the reason why they couldn't retreat. Eventually, a soldier she was attached to committed suicide, which caused Yosano to have a mental breakdown. As if the poor girl haven't suffered enough, Mori intended to force her into using her Ability to start a war against Port Mafia so he could take it over. The one who saved her from going through that hell again was Fukuzawa who took her into the Armed Detective Agency to keep her away from Mori's reach. Young Yosano was still terrified that using her healing Ability would only bring endless suffering and death to those she wants to save, but unlike the coldhearted Mori, Ranpo sympathized with Yosano's pain and knew that she was so sad because she didn't want any of those soldiers to suffer more than they needed to. It was then that Yosano was sure that she was being taken in by people who do care about her as a person instead of only wanting to take advantage of her Ability and that helped heal her broken spirit.
• Healing Hands: She can heal herself and others, but only if on the verge of death. If her patients are only slightly injured, then she needs to hurt them more until they're half-dead.
• Healing Shiv: Her "treatments" usually consist of hacking away at her patients until they're on the verge of death before using her ability to heal them.
• I Let Gwen Stacy Die: A soldier she liked committed suicide after being sent to the frontlines and almost killed every day because Yosano continued to heal him. Yosano shut down from the guilt until Fukuzawa and Ranpo took her in.
• Important Hair Accessory: Her golden butterfly hairclip. As he successfully rescued Yosano 11 years ago, Ranpo found her missing hairclip and gave it to her because, unlike Mori, he sought kindness in her more than her healing ability. Since then, Yosano reminded her hairclip of her past as a student medic in the Great War and how she joined the Armed Detective Agency in the first place.
• Improbable Weapon User: Subverted. In the opening animation of the anime's first season, she is shown wielding scalpels◊...which she doesn't even wield like that in the anime or in the manga. It might link her to the only other person who does wield scalpels as a main weapon...
• Labcoat of Science and Medicine: Not part of her usual outfit, but she does don a labcoat in the story Poe writes.
• Old Friend: Is hinted that she has this relationship with Mori, of all people. In real life, Yosano Akiko and Ougai Mori were in the same poetry group, and she even asked him to name her twin daughters.
• Out of Focus: Given that Yosano has a major role in Season 4 due to her backstory and connection with one of the Hunting Dogs (or rather the Port Mafia), her role was reduced down during the recent Vampire Infection Outbreak in Season 5.
• Please Kill Me if It Satisfies You: In chapter 68, Michizou Tachihara reveals himself as the younger brother of the soldier who was Driven to Suicide after being healed by Yosano too many times. He also reveals he's the fifth Hunting Dog and infiltrated Port Mafia to eventually take his revenge against Yosano for "killing" his brother. Once she hears this, Yosano does nothing to defend herself as Tachihara points a gun at her and tells him to do as he must. This becomes subverted when he spared Yosano's life despite his goal to go closer to her by infiltrating the Port Mafia armed with guns. Tachihara would've killed his boss Mori if the former finds out that he used Yosano as a living immortality tool that eventually caused his brother to kill himself.
• Purple Is Powerful: Her dark hair is tinted purple and is a badass Combat Medic.
• Precocious Crush: When she was eleven, she had a crush on an older man who made her butterfly hairpin. It didn't end well; the man hanged himself while blaming Yosano for healing him to be sent back to the frontlines of an unwinnable war over and over again.
• Red Baron: She was once known as the "Angel of Death" for her ability to constantly bring soldiers from the brink of death. But since she couldn't erase the memories of the wounds they suffered, all of her patients went insane from being sent into battle over and over after suffering any number of horrible wounds.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: Yosano is the aggressive and brawny Red Oni to Ranpo's calm and brainy Blue Oni.
• Sadist: Played for laughs. Yosano seems to enjoy inflicting additional injuries to her patients.
• They Died Because of You: Michizou Tachihara blames Yosano for the tragic death of his older brother who was Driven to Suicide because of Yosano's healing ability forcing him to continue fighting in an unwinnable war.
• Thou Shalt Not Kill: While she has no problems with grievously maiming her opponents (and allies) due to the nature of her ability, she refuses to let anyone die on her watch.
  Yosano: No matter how hard we doctors try, our patients still slip through our fingers. Death, the ultimate form of science? What a load of crap! I'll kill anyone who doesn't value life!
• Tragic Keepsake: Her golden butterfly hairpin was made for her by a soldier she healed during her time as the medic of a military station. That soldier hanged himself after she brought him back from the brink of death far too many times.
• Trauma Button: She freezes up at the sight of the dog tag that belonged to the soldier who killed himself after he broke from being kept in an unwinnable war by her healing ability.
• Unwitting Pawn: When she was younger, Yosano was used by Mori to create an "immortal" army by having her heal soldiers to send them back to the battlefield over and over again until their minds broke. Yosano had thought she had been brought there to save lives and it was too late when she realized her Ability had condemned those soldiers to a Fate Worse than Death.

Kenji Miyazawa

Kenji Miyazawa

Voiced by: Hiroyuki Kagura (Japanese), Lucien Dodge (English)^{Foreign VAs}Héctor Ireta de Alba (Latin American Spanish), Thibaut Delmotte (French), Felix Strüven (German), Lipe Volpato (Brazilian Portuguese)

宮沢賢治 - 雨ニモマケズ ^note  Ame ni mo Makezu

Literary references: He is named after Japanese poet and children's author Kenji Miyazawa, and his ability is a reference to Miyazawa's poem "Undefeated by the Rain."

Personalia
Age: 14
Height: 158 cm
Blood Type: O
Birthday: August 27
Zodiac Sign: Virgo
First appearance: Chapter 1/Episode 1

A cheerful and easygoing boy hailing from the countryside. His ability, "Undefeated by the Rain," gives him super-strength when he's hungry.

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• A Day in the Limelight: After being the most sidelined Agency member for much of the series, he gets some time in the spotlight during the Vampire Infection Outbreak arc, where his backstory is finally revealed, and he gets to absolutely wipe the floor with Tetchou, thus making him the first Agency member to decisively defeat one of the Hunting Dogs.
• Animal Motifs: He's often associated with a cow, because his favorite animal is a cow, he's strong but has yet to show if he's smart, stubborn and capable of great violence but is actually soft-hearted. He is also featured on the Lunar New Year message of 2021 (the Year of the Ox/Cow).
• Badass Adorable: He'll pick up cars and chuck them at you while wearing a cute, innocent smile the entire time. In chapter 38, he rips a steel door out of the wall with a :D expression.
• Beware the Nice Ones: According to Kunikida, the unwritten law in Yokohama states that people, including the Hunting Dogs, must never make Kenji angry for any reasons such as his friends being in danger.
• Care-Bear Stare: More or less how he solves his cases.
• Country Mouse: Hails from the countryside, which can make him rather naive to several urban concepts. He doesn't really understand things like money and usually relies on his country instincts.
• The Dog Bites Back: With Kenji being stabbed twice by Tecchou, the former singlehandedly fought the Hunting Dog back with brute force.
• The Dreaded: Justifiably so, the terror he brings when his Ability is active is a sight to behold. When the gang members see this young boy casually lift up a car with a smile on his face, they are...quite frightened.
  • As it turns out, his unbelievable strength is so well-known and feared that there's an unwritten law in Yokohama to never make Kenji angry. Tetchou ends up being the person to see firsthand what, exactly, ensues when that happens.
• Dumb Blonde: Downplayed. While he knows what's good for his allies and the citizens of Yokohama, Kenji, as a country boy from a rural farming village in the Tohoku region, doesn't have any comprehensive knowledge with urban concepts such as money.
• Friend to All Living Things: Easily befriends others, whether they be human or animal.
• First-Name Basis: Since he's only fourteen, everyone in the Agency calls him by his first name.
• Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: Has blond hair and is a very optimistic and friendly boy.
• Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: Of all members of the Armed Detective Agency, Kenji is the one who got stabbed in the guts by the Hunting Dogs a few times. However, Yosano is able to heal him every time, except the last time when he fought Tecchou at the airport.
• Nice Guy: Amazingly so... Unless you make him angry.
• Out of Focus: More often than not, he's a background character and, compared to the other Agents, gets into few fights, especially against one of the Hunting Dogs single-handedly. Along with Tanizaki, he has little to no screen time during the Sky Casino arc and the Kamui Revelation arc. Kenji himself said that he works at his own family farm and at the Armed Detective Agency on the side, which Aya implies that his second job is a "side-gig".
• Overalls and Gingham: Comes from the country and wears a pair of overalls. He even has the straw hat!
• Perpetual Smiler: Almost always smiling, in contrast to his angry self when it becomes clear when Beware the Nice Ones very much also applies to him.
• Pint-Sized Powerhouse: Is the shortest and youngest male in the agency and also the strongest.
• Shout-Out: The rural place he is from is called Ihatov, which is a fictional place in his namesake's works.
• Super-Strength: His Ability grants him superhuman strength, but only when he's hungry.
• Trademark Favorite Food: Not as noteworthy as other characters', but he likes beef bowls. Cows are also his favorite animal. Atsushi points out the irony in this.
• Unskilled, but Strong: There's no real technique to Kenji's fighting, but his Super-Strength makes up for it.
• Youthful Freckles: They're hard to see or not drawn in at times, but he has freckles on his cheeks.

Junichirou Tanizaki

Junichirou Tanizaki

Voiced by: Toshiyuki Toyonaga (Japanese), Spike Spencer (English)^{Foreign VAs}Emilio Treviño (Latin American Spanish), Brieuc Lemaire (French), Nils Rieke (German), Adrian Tatini (Brazilian Portuguese)

谷崎潤一郎 - 細雪 ^note  Sasameyuki

Literary references: He is named after Japanese author Junichiro Tanizaki, and his ability is a reference to Tanizaki's novel Light Snow, alternatively titled The Makioka Sisters.

Personalia
Age: 18
Height: 179 cm
Blood Type: A
Birthday: July 24
Zodiac Sign: Leo
First appearance: Chapter 2/Episode 2

A member of the Armed Detective Agency around Atsushi's age. Often seen in the company of his little sister, Naomi. His ability, "Light Snow," projects realistic illusions within a small area that can move and even inflict pain on others.

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• Beware the Nice Ones: One of the nicest members of the Agency, second only to Kenji. Also the most terrifyingly savage when his Relative Button is pushed.
• Big Brother Instinct: He gets pissed when Naomi is hurt, even a single thought of her being treated as a criminal after the Agency was framed by the Decay of the Angel. He's also this to Kenji when the latter was attacked by the Hunting Dogs a few times.
  Tanizaki: Damn! We can't be stuck here! Right now, they might be treating Naomi like a common criminal!
  Kunikida: Common criminals... huh.
• Empty Eyes: When his Relative Button is pushed, or he otherwise gets serious, like when he's trying to assassinate the Port Mafia's boss.
• Fiery Redhead: Averted... Until you hit his Relative Button...
• Hidden Depths: In chapter 48, Tanizaki manages to throw off a group of trained killers with his Killing Intent after they threatened to kill his sister, break out of his confines, and almost manages to kill the boss of the Port Mafia.
• In the Hood: He usually keeps his hoodie tied around his waist, but he'll wear it properly when he needs to get serious or sneak around.
• Killing Intent: In addition to the incident mentioned above, after Kouyou foils his attempt at killing Mori, Kouyou comments that while she may not be able to see Tanizaki, she is able to feel his bloodlust.
• Kind Hearted Cat Lover: Cats are listed among his likes, and we already know that he's very kind and shy.
• Knight Templar Big Brother: He states that things such as morality, ego, and pride do not matter to him compared to Naomi. To keep his little sister safe, Junichirou would let the entire world burn down in flames.
• Master of Illusion: His power, Light Snow, allows him to project illusions. Said illusions are incredibly lifelike, to the point that Mori (someone who had seen it earlier) could not see that the Fukuzawa he was fighting with in chapter 31 was fake. Tachihara has notable hardship with Junichirou's illusion attacks, as he can also produce duplicates of himself. The trained killer goes around shooting all the illusions, until Hirotsu calls him to stop, because he and Gin also changed positions.
• Mundane Utility: In WAN, he uses his snow to complete the Christmas decorations.
• Nice Guy: In general, Junichirou is a humble and amiable guy that gets along well with others. He's quick to apologize to Atsushi for the bomb incident in episode 2.
• Non-Action Guy: Light Snow is a useful ability, but ill-suited for fast-paced combat, and he has no martial arts training. Most of his work in the Agency involves gathering information, scouting locations, and tailing suspects.
  • Subverted in chapter 48. Tanizaki wielding a switchblade quite effectively, and, coupled with his ability, uses it to escape from a roomful of trained killers. Hirotsu even comments that Tanizaki's Ability is suited for assassinations, as the illusions he makes are not purely illusionary - they can perform powerful melee attacks. This is exemplified when he makes an illusionary Fukuzawa, who is able to go toe-to-toe with Mori.
  • Happened for the second time when he and his comrades are on the run from the Hunting Dogs after they are framed by the Decay of the Angel.
• Noodle Incident: When Atsushi asks him about his own entrance exam, Junichirou makes a horrified expression before responding that he doesn't (want to) remember.
• The Nondescript: He stands out the least out of the Agency members. This coupled with his ability makes him good at reconnaissance.
• Out of Focus: Tanizaki has no screen time during the Sky Casino Arc and the Kamui Revelation arc, as he and Kenji were out to find a safe shelter where they cannot be seen by the Hunting Dogs.
• Relative Button: Hurt Naomi, and you are dead to him.
• Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right!: More of, Screw Morals, I'm Saving My Sister.
• The Sneaky Guy: His Ability is well-suited for this role, so he often is assigned on reconnaissance.
• Those Two Guys: Tanizaki is often paired up with either Kunikida or Kenji in missions.
• Stealth Pun: In Junichirou's own words, his ability transforms the affected area into a screen, which is used to project the illusions onto, and his Ability's color is light green. In other words, a literal green screen. Made a bit more meaningful if you know that his namesake also wrote scripts for movies, and some people say that to understand his career, you'll have to understand his background in movies.
• Trauma Button: Played for laughs regarding his memories of being healed by Yosano with the involvement of weapons for his special treatment.

Kyouka Izumi

Kyouka Izumi

Voiced by: Sumire Morohoshi (Japanese), Cherami Leigh (English)^{Foreign VAs}Verania Ortiz (Latin American Spanish), Elisabeth Guinand (French), Sarah Madeleine Tusk (German), Priscila Franco (Brazilian Portuguese)

泉鏡花 - 夜叉白雪 ^note  Yashashirayuki

Literary references: She is named after the male Japanese author Kyotaro Izumi, who wrote under the pen name Kyoka Izumi, and her ability is a reference to Izumi's play Demon Pond.

Personalia
Age: 15
Height: 148 cm
Blood Type: B
Birthday: November 4
Zodiac Sign: Scorpio
First appearance: Chapter 7/Episode 4 (cameo), Episode 8 (actual)

An orphan who used to work for the Port Mafia. She was taken in by the Agency and became an official member after being saved by Atsushi. Her ability, "Demon Snow," summons a phantom swordswoman to attack. Unlike the others, her Ability could only be controlled by orders given over a phone, initially by Akutagawa.

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• Action Girl: Kyouka can fight on her own even without Demon Snow. After all, she was trained as an assassin by Port Mafia. Transitioning herself from the Port Mafia, she is the second female member of the Agency (not counting the office staff) as of the end of Season 2.
• Animal Motifs: Rabbits. She has a rabbit charm on her phone, has a rabbit stuffed animal she uses as a comfort object, and wears her hair in long pigtails somewhat resembling floppy rabbit ears. It's a reference to the real Kyouka Izumi, who was born in the Year of the Rooster (the opposite sign of the Rabbit), but collected everything related to rabbits as a hobby.
• Badass Adorable: Don't underestimate her for her cute appearance. Her skills as an assassin are top-notch.
• Badass Driver: Despite being 14 years old, she is able to drive very well (bonus points for her Photographic Memory of the roads in Yokohama).
• Big Damn Heroes: Kyouka arrived in a perfect time to land a Non-Lethal K.O. on the military police and rescue Atsushi from being killed.
• Big Eater: Able to eat an astounding amount of boiled tofu, much to the detriment of Atsushi's wallet. She's able to eat a crepe right afterwards, stating that she has a second stomach for that kind of food.
• Blackmail: Using Ranpo's blackmailing strategy after the Perfect Crime incident, Kyouka used the word "manuscript" to trigger Mushitaro easily, so her and Atsushi's plan would set in motion to clear the Armed Detective Agency's name.
• Blessed with Suck: Her ability is very powerful, allowing her to rapidly fill her opponents full of holes. However, it only activates when receiving orders over her phone, and she can't control it unless she manages to grab somebody else's phone and use it to call herself. Fukuzawa fixes this problem and allows her to use it normally after she becomes an official member of the Agency.
• Broken Bird: She acted like an unfeeling killing machine to cope with the unbearable guilt over the deaths her Demon Snow caused, particularly her own parents. When Atsushi first meets her, Kyouka is ready to kill herself to avoid killing people again. Thanks to Atsushi saving her and the Agency taking her in, she starts to get better.
• Clingy Jealous Girl: She isn't very fond of Lucy, probably because of Lucy's obvious crush on Atsushi.
• Cuteness Proximity: She has a soft spot for rabbits, which happens to be her Animal Motif.
• Defrosting Ice Queen: In her first appearance, Kyoukai is borderline emotionless because of what Port Mafia has put her through by using Demon Snow for assassination. After Atsushi rescues her, Kyouka starts to open up because of his kindness.
• Dull Eyes of Unhappiness: Has these when taking orders from Akutagawa. Loses them after Atsushi rescues her.
• Emotionless Girl: Subverted. When she's first introduced, Kyouka's personality is similar to that of a doll. She lacks all emotions and appears ruthless when she is ordered to perform a duty. This is soon revealed to be a facade she puts up after being forced to kill by the Port Mafia. After being exposed to Atsushi and the real world, Kyouka reverts back to a normal girl.
• Exact Words: Kouyou said Demon Snow killed Kyouka's parents. However, she didn't say Demon Snow was in Kyouka's possession at the time.
• Expy: of Rukia Kuchiki from Bleach. Both are dark-haired short girls with big eyes and similar haircut, who love rabbits, wear traditional Japanese outfit, live with the main hero and are very skilled with blades.
• First-Name Basis: Just like Kenji, she's fourteen, so most of the other characters also call her by her first name.
• Flowers of Femininity: She wears white flower hairpins to tie up her Girlish Pigtails.
• Forced into Evil: Kyouka has killed 35 people since being taken in by the Port Mafia. She really doesn't want to kill people, but couldn't control her powers before Fukuzawa fixed it and had nowhere to run.
• Gender-Blender Name: She's named after a male author.
• Girlish Pigtails: She has her hair tied into two low twintails.
• Girls Love Stuffed Animals: Successfully retrieves a stuffed rabbit from a crane game machine. She's seen hugging it tightly afterwards. Too bad it gets covered in blood after Akutagawa attacks her and Atsushi.
• Guardian Entity: Double Subverted. Demon Snow only obeys the orders she receives from Kyouka's cellphone. Because of Kyouka's inability to control Demon Snow, she was used by Port Mafia to assassinate people. The first time Demon Snow appeared before Kyouka, she murdered Kyouka's parents. Eventually, Kyouka passes the test to join the Armed Detective Agency and she obtains control over Demon Snow thanks to Fukuzawa's Ability. Kyouka also learns her parents had actually ordered Demon Snow to kill them to protect Kyouka from them because their bodies were infected with a People Puppets ability. Demon Snow was originally Kyouka's mother's Ability and she passed it down to Kyouka to protect her.
• Hair Intakes: Her hair has a pair of intakes that vaguely look like cat ears.
• Heel–Face Turn: She used to work for the mafia, but after she is saved by Atsushi, she joins the Agency and eventually gets the courage to betray the mafia and be with the Agency. Downplayed in that she was never evil at heart anyway.
• Historical In-Joke: The author Kyouka Izumi was a pupil of Kouyou Ozaki. When the latter died, the former took on Ozaki's writing style. Sound familiar?
• Humanizing Tears: Her initial emotionless facade breaks down when she sheds tears as she admits to Atsushi that she doesn't want to kill anymore and attempts suicide.
• Idiot Hair: She has rather long one, but is by no means a fool.
• Implied Love Interest: Kyouka is the girl Atsushi has grown the closest to, his roommate and they're very affectionate to each other, but it isn't made explicit whether the two are romantically attracted to each other.
• Interrupted Suicide: After she admits that she's tired of being forced to kill for the Port Mafia, she jumps out of the train with an armed bomb vest. If Atsushi hadn't ripped the vest off, she would have died.
• In the Blood: Both of her parents were assassins, and Kouyou trained her to walk in their footsteps.
• Killing Intent: Inverted. When she tries to kill Kouyou, Kouyou comments that she had been almost unable to sense her killing intent.
• Kimono Is Traditional: Wears a red kimono, unlike most of the other characters, who wear clothes straight out of the 20's.
• Little Miss Badass: Killed 35 people prior to joining the Agency. Continues to use her experience with assassination in order to help the Agency.
• Morality Pet: To Kouyou Ozaki, who cares deeply about Kyouka despite her betraying Port Mafia. Kouyou was the one to secretly give her the file that contained the truth of her parents' death, as well as, in chapter 48, preventing her men from shooting at Tanizaki, for fear that they'd accidentally hit Kyouka.
• Non-Lethal K.O.: Happened a few times with Demon Snow inflicting non-deadly attacks on a group of military police and security guards shortly after the Decay of the Angel framed the Armed Detective Agency as terrorists.
• Out of Focus: For the majority of season 5, Kyouka doesn't have a larger role during the Kamui Revelation arc, nor the Vampire Infection Outbreak arc compared to the past seasons/story arcs.
• Photographic Memory: She can memorize people's faces and loads of information after taking a look at them just once. She can also memorize all of the roads in Yokohama.
• Power Incontinence: Can't easily control her ability until Fukuzawa suppresses it to a manageable level.
• Powers Do the Fighting: Deconstructed. Demon Snow doesn't answer to Kyouka's will and only cuts down people according to the orders she receives from Kyouka's cellphone while Kyouka can only stand and watch. Eventually, Kyouka gains control over Demon Snow thanks to Fukuzawa's Ability and now Demon Snow only attacks the people Kyouka wishes her to. Although, Kyouka complements Demon Snow's fighting abilities with her own in battle.
• Pragmatic Hero: Kyouka is a genuinely good person and hates the fact her Demon Snow has been used for killing people. That doesn't keep her from using her assassination skills to try and harm those who threaten her, Atsushi and the Agency.
• Purple Is Powerful: She has dark purple hair, and her inherited Demon Snow ability is colored light purple.
• Red Is Heroic: Her kimono is red, and she belongs to the Armed Detective Agency shortly after the Guild War.
• Relatively Flimsy Excuse: Fukuzawa drives away some policemen that were suspecting Kyouka of being part of Port Mafia by claiming she's his granddaughter.
• Self-Made Orphan: Kouyou reveals that Demon Snow killed her parents. Subverted in Chapter 43, when it's revealed that it was actually suicide and Demon Snow didn't belong to Kyouka until after her parents' deaths.
• Sixth Ranger: Is the latest addition to the Agency, and is already in full swing. Doubles as an Affirmative Action Girl aside from the office members.
• The Stoic: She's usually very calm and unemotional, and has a very...straightforward approach to missions. However, she has plenty of Not So Stoic moments.
• Sugar-and-Ice Personality: She initially appears cold, emotionless and ruthless. After she starts opening up to Atsushi, Kyouka is revealed to be a curious, playful and very cute girl.
• Superpowerful Genetics: Downplayed. Demon Snow was originally the Ability of her mother, and Kyouka herself is not shown having any powers as a child. Shortly before she died, Kyouka's mother learned of a method to pass Abilities down to blood relatives. However, the transference was imperfect, which resulted in Demon Snow only answering to orders from her cellphone.
• Sympathetic Murder Backstory: Port Mafia took advantage of Kyouka's lack of control over Demon Snow and forced her to work for them as an assassin. By the time she meets Atsushi, Kyouka has already killed 35 people and her guilt over it makes her suicidal. After being saved by Atsushi, Kyouka feels motivated to lead a life where she saves people instead of killing them.
• Trademark Favorite Food: Tofu, according to her self-introduction. More specifically, boiled tofu. She's also fond of crepes, stating that she has a second stomach for dessert.
• Tragic Keepsake: Her cellphone was a gift from her mother shortly before the latter was killed by Demon Snow. This is why Kyouka refused to get rid of it despite Port Mafia using Demon Snow through it.
• Two First Names: Her last name is commonly used as a first name in Japanese.
• Violently Protective Girlfriend: Not yet confirmed to be Atsushi's girlfriend, but don't ever harm the weretiger if you know what's good for you.

Clerks

Naomi Tanizaki

Naomi Tanizaki

Voiced by: Chiaki Omigawa (Japanese), Erica Lindbeck (English)^{Foreign VAs}Nycolle González (Latin American Spanish), Sophie Pyronnet (French), Alina Degener (German), Jussara Marques (Brazilian Portuguese)

谷崎ナオミ - ⬛⬛⬛ (痴人の愛)^note  Chijin no Ai

Literary references: She is named after the title character and antagonist of Junichiro Tanizaki's novel A Fool's Love, alternatively titled Naomi, said to be modelled after Tanizaki's actual sister-in-law.

Personalia
Age: Unknown
Height: Unknown
Blood Type: Unknown
Birthday: March 26
Zodiac Sign: Aries
First appearance: Chapter 2/Episode 2

Junichirou's sister, who works part-time as an office assistant at the Agency. She doesn't have an ability.

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• Big Brother Attraction: She has a huge crush on her brother.
• Double Standard Rape: Female on Male: Her constant sexual harassment of her non-consenting brother is treated as humorous.
• First-Name Basis: The other characters call her by her first name, likely to distinguish her from her brother.
• Foil: To Kirako Haruno. They're both clerks and have no Ability, but there's a great difference in their characters. While Naomi is spoiled, manipulative and willful, Kirako is refined and ladylike. This is because the real Tanizaki wrote them as such too.
• Hidden Depths: In the manga, she was shown to display a surprising amount of insight and cunningness when she and Haruno evacuated the safehouse, opting to escape with a car from the staff parking instead of the regular parking lot, where Steinbeck and Lovecraft were lying in wait. Haruno comments that were Naomi an ability user, she'd make a capable agent.
  • She notices the correlation between Mii-chan's disappearances and incidents in Yokohama before Souseki's existence is revealed.
• Little Sister Heroine: Strongly averted. While Junichirou does strongly love his sister, it is only in the normal sibling sense, and he very much dislikes the way she acts towards him.
• No Sense of Personal Space: Naomi gets too touchy-feely around her brother, to his obvious discomfort.
• Sailor Fuku: Naomi's school uniform, which she wears while working part-time in the Armed Detective Agency.
• Shout-Out: She's named after the title character and antagonist of a novel written by the author that her brother is named after.
• Taking the Bullet: She shields her brother from Higuchi's gunfire, leaving her severely injured.

Kirako Haruno

Kirako Haruno

Voiced by: Mina (Japanese), Abby Trott (English)^{Foreign VAs}Fernanda Robles (Latin American Spanish), Helena Coppejans (French), Rebeca Zadra (Brazilian Portuguese)

春野綺羅子 - ⬛⬛⬛ (痴人の愛) ^note  Chijin no Ai

Literary references: She is named after a major character in Junichiro Tanizaki's novel A Fool's Love, alternatively titled Naomi.

Personalia
First appearance: Chapter 22/Episode 18 (proper)

One of the Agency's clerks, usually seen assisting Fukuzawa with paperwork. She doesn't have an ability.

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• The Alcoholic: Possibly. Naomi comments that she once drank five bottles of wine in a single night.
• Badass Normal: Manages to keep her cool even while being pursued by Lovecraft and Steinbeck.
• Ditzy Secretary: She's calm, collected, and competent on the job and when in danger, but when she's not working she's lazy and obsessed with her cat.
• Early-Bird Cameo: She first appears in the second episode of the anime, much earlier than her manga introduction in chapter 22, and appears again in the episodes adapted from the first light novel (6 and 7).
• Kindhearted Cat Lover: She has a pet cat named Mii-chan.
• Office Lady: Her job.
• Shout-Out: Like the Agency's other ability-less office worker Naomi, she's also named after a character from Junichiro Tanizaki's novel "A Fool's Love."

Former Members

Katai Tayama

Katai Tayama

田山花袋 - 蒲団

Voiced by: Kenichi Suzumura (Japanese), Steve Staley (English)^{Foreign VAs}Nycolle González (Latin American Spanish), Antoni LoPresti (French), Roman Rossa (German)

Literary references: He is named after Japanese author Katai Tayama, and his ability is a reference to Tayama's novel Futon, alternatively titled The Quilt.

Personalia
Age: 23
Height: 175 cm
Blood Type: B
Birthday: January 22
Zodiac Sign: Aquarius
First appearance: Chapter 41

An informant for, and former member of, the Armed Detective Agency. His ability, "Futon," lets him control all electronics in view so long as he's relaxed.

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• Cannot Talk to Women: Has to look down the road when talking to Higuchi.
• Childhood Friends: It's not very touched upon, but it's stated that he and Kunikida have been friends for ten years. They're in their early twenties, so they would've befriended each other when they were in middle school.
• Hopeless Suitor: He never had a chance with Gin and he knows it.
• I Call It "Vera": Downplayed with his futon called "Yoshiko".
• The Informant: To the Agency.
• Lazy Bum: It appears that his power only works when he is relaxed. As such, he can only activate his Ability when wrapped in his futon.
• Love at First Sight: He fell for Gin's beauty after he saw her just one time. At a five-meter distance.
• Old Friend: Of Kunikida.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: Katai is the calm and lazy Blue Oni to Kunikida's hotheaded and diligent Red Oni.
• Technopath: 'Futon' allows him to control any electronics within view.

Soseki Natsume

See his folder on Bungo Stray Dogs Others.