Bungo Stray Dogs Characters

An eighteen-year-old orphan, thrown out of his orphanage and close to starving, who pulls a stranger out of a river and finds it is Osamu Dazai. Dazai works out that the white tiger troubling the city is Atsushi himself and recruits him into the Armed Detective Agency. Years of abuse from the orphanage director have left him certain he is worthless, and much of the series is about him learning otherwise. A ¥7 billion bounty drags him into the Guild war, and his uneasy partnership with Akutagawa becomes one of the show's main threads.

Atsushi's mentor at the Agency and, on the surface, its least reliable member: he skives, teases Kunikida and talks constantly about wanting to die. Underneath, he is the best strategist in the series. Four years before the story he was a Port Mafia executive, until his friend Sakunosuke Oda died telling him to be on the side that saves people. Dazai arranges the alliance with the Mafia that wins the Guild war, and in seasons 4 and 5 lets himself be locked up in the prison Meursault so that he can take on Fyodor Dostoevsky directly.

Dazai's long-suffering partner and the most orderly member of the Agency. He runs his life from a notebook he treats as his ideals, plans his day down to the train he catches, and believes nobody should die in front of him — which is why the death of a child during the Cannibalism arc nearly breaks him. In season 4 he leaps from a helicopter onto a Hunting Dog with a grenade to let his colleagues escape. Fukuzawa has already chosen him as the Agency's next president.

The Agency's star detective, who names the culprit in seconds with what he calls Super Deduction — and who has no supernatural ability at all. Fukuzawa met him as a jobless teenager at a crime scene, handed him a pair of ordinary glasses and told him they kept his power under control; the Agency was founded so that Ranpo could work as a detective. He is childish and helpless at everyday tasks, yet in season 5 it is Ranpo who rescues his framed colleagues one by one and works out who Kamui really is.

The Agency's doctor, cheerful and alarming in equal measure: she can only heal people once they are nearly dead, and seems to enjoy getting them there. Her ability made her a weapon as a child. During the war Ogai Mori brought her to the front as a medic so that wounded soldiers could be sent straight back to fight, and one soldier she kept saving came to call her an angel of death. Fukuzawa and Ranpo took her in, and she joined the Agency for her kindness rather than her power.

A fourteen-year-old who was used as a Port Mafia assassin, killing thirty-five people in six months through a phantom that obeyed whoever spoke into her phone. Atsushi refuses to give up on her, and she earns her place in the Agency by steering the drone she is chained inside into Moby Dick. Later she learns that her parents died protecting her and that the phone had been her mother's: Demon Snow, the thing she hated most, turns out to be their love for her.

The founder and president of the Armed Detective Agency, a quiet swordsman once known as the Silver Wolf, the government's leading assassin. He set up the Agency after meeting the young Ranpo, with help from his old mentor, Soseki Natsume. His history with Ogai Mori runs deep: they once fought side by side, broke with each other over Yosano, and are forced into a duel to the death in the Cannibalism arc. In season 5 he faces his childhood friend Ochi Fukuchi.

A Port Mafia enforcer and Dazai's former apprentice, who measures his whole life by whether Dazai will ever acknowledge him. He meets Atsushi as an enemy and resents him for taking Dazai's attention, but the two are forced together again and again — against Fitzgerald, then Goncharov — until Dazai names them a new Double Black. He has a lung disease, a younger sister, Gin, in the Black Lizard, and a promise to Atsushi not to kill for six months. In season 5 he is killed by Fukuchi and raised as a vampire.

A Port Mafia executive and Dazai's former partner in Double Black, who cannot stand him. At fifteen he led a group called the Sheep and was searching for the truth about Arahabaki, which turned out to be himself, before Mori recruited him; the hat he wears was Arthur Rimbaud's. Proud and quick to anger, he is also loyal and perfectly reasonable when nobody is provoking him. Pushed far enough, he can release Corruption, a rampage that only Dazai's touch can stop.

The boss of the Port Mafia, who passes himself off as a mild doctor fussing over a little girl named Elise. He was an underground doctor and, before that, an army medic, who used the child Yosano's healing to keep soldiers fighting. He became boss by killing his predecessor, with Dazai as witness, and runs the Mafia on cold calculation. He and Fukuzawa were once allies under Natsume's Tripartite Framework, the arrangement that keeps Yokohama in balance.

A Russian strategist who leads the Rats in the House of the Dead and stays a step ahead of almost everyone except Dazai. He seizes control of Moby Dick, lets the Port Mafia capture him so that he can steal its list of ability users, and sets the Agency and the Mafia at each other's throats with Pushkin's virus before Dazai has him arrested. From inside Meursault he keeps pulling the strings of the Decay of the Angel, and the season 5 jailbreak game against Dazai pits the series' two sharpest minds against each other.

The captain of the Hunting Dogs, a celebrated war hero, a heavy drinker and Fukuzawa's childhood friend. In season 5 Ranpo exposes him as Kamui, the hidden leader of the Decay of the Angel and the man who framed the Agency. His aim is to command the world's armies through the Army of Mankind and the sealed weapon One Order — by his own account to end war for good, after his sword showed him a world war still to come.