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Character sheet for the Armed Detective Agency of ''Manga/BungouStrayDogs''. Characters on this page all have their names listed in Western order-- given names followed by surnames.

A detective agency whose 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 chapter 37 / episode 24 are unmarked.'''

For the other characters, click [[Characters/BungouStrayDogs here]].
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[[folder:In General]]
* BadassCrew: 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.
* TheGoodTheBadAndTheEvil: The good to the Port Mafia's bad and the Guild's evil.
* GoodThingYouCanHeal: Yosano's healing Ability means that the Agency members (minus Dazai, see LogicalWeakness 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 ComboPlatterPowers.
* SecretTestOfCharacter: Each prospective member is required to pass one in order to join.
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!!Director


[[folder:Yukichi Fukuzawa]]
-->Voiced by Creator/RikiyaKoyama (Japanese), Creator/JamiesonPrice (English)
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-->'''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''.

The head of the Armed Detective Agency. His ability, "All Men are Equal," lets him suppress the abilities of his subordinates.
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* BadassInCharge: He's a skilled martial artist and Kunikida's master to boot. Kunikida has never been able to beat Fukuzawa in a fight and Fukuzawa can fight off a group of assassins with ease.
* BenevolentBoss: Cares for his subordinates and will always put their welfare first.
* BigGood: Head of the Armed Detective Agency, dedicated to fighting crime and saving innocent lives.
* CoatCape: Normally seen with a green one.
* TheComicallySerious: Serious at all times, even when dealing with his workers' antics and trying to pet a cat.
* CutenessProximity: Hires Kyoka on the spot after she makes a cute face. Fukuzawa is also very fond of cats.
* DaChief: A traditional Japanese equivalent (right down to the [[KatanasAreJustBetter katana]]!) to the Agency, especially to Ranpo.
* AFatherToHisMen: 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.
* FightsLikeANormal: He's an expert martial artist and his ability doesn't help him in combat.
* KindHeartedCatLover: He likes cats so much that he keeps treats for them in the sleeves of his yukata.
* KimonoIsTraditional: He is always seen wearing a yukata.
* TheLeader: Of the Levelheaded variety.
* ParentalSubstitute: He has an especially close relationship with Ranpo and looks after him like a father figure. [[spoiler: 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.]]
* PerpetualFrowner: Never seen smiling.
* PowerLimiter: What his Ability does. 'All Men Are Equal' can also help his subordinates control their Abilities.
* TheStoic: Fukuzawa is a serious man and rarely expresses anything but calm authority.

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!!Agents


[[folder:Atsushi Nakajima]]
-->Voiced by Creator/YuutoUemura (Japanese), Creator/MaxMittelman (English)
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-->'''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 Mountain."

The series 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 [[HealingFactor regenerative abilities]].
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* {{Adorkable}}: He [[http://www.mangareader.net/bungou-stray-dogs/9/29 flails around adorably]] as he tries to take Kyouka out to make her feel better.
* AllOfTheOtherReindeer: 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.
* AmbiguouslyGay: In Bungou Stray Dogs WAN. In one story, his chibi counterpart was quite eager to marry a prince until he found out the Prince in question was Fitzgerald. In another, he's confused over his feelings for Dazai, and eventually buys him a bouquet of flowers. Dazai faints from the shock.
** More AmbiguouslyBi in the parent series. See ShipTease below.
* AnimalThemedSuperbeing: He turns into a tiger.
* AndIMustScream: And scream he did. A whole lot. 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 suffered for so long under the Headmaster and his tyranny until he was finally kicked out. Although it is later revealed that [[spoiler: the reason for the Headmaster's inhumane actions were in Atsushi's best interests]], 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.
* BadassAdorable: 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.
* BigEater: When chazuke is involved, he can pack away bowl after bowl of the stuff.
* ChronicHeroSyndrome: 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.
* ClassicalAntiHero: 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.
* ComboPlatterPowers: He's a were-tiger who happens to also have an amazing HealingFactor ala ComicBook/{{Wolverine}}.
* ComfortFood: Chazuke, a Japanese dish consisting of hot tea/water poured over rice, topped with various savoury foods like seaweed.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: Was abandoned as a infant at an orphanage where was repeatedly bullied and abused. Chapter 39 focuses on this, complete with him being often starved and [[spoiler: forced to hammer a nail through his foot]].
* DesperatelyLookingForAPurposeInLife: 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.
* DistressedDude: 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.
* FashionableAsymmetry: His unusual haircut.
* FingerlessGloves: He often seen wearing black ones.
* FirstNameBasis: Always called by his given name rather than his surname contrary to the typical LastNameBasis of Japanese culture.
* GoodThingYouCanHeal: He's mutilated, impaled, and torn up throughout the series, only surviving due to his amazing HealingFactor.
* HealingFactor: Part of his ComboPlatterPowers, though it only works when he's at least partially in tiger form.
* HeroicAlbino: The main hero of the show, coming with light gray hair and pale skin.
* HeroicSelfDeprecation: 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.
* IWantThemAlive: People within the Mafia are willing to pay top dollar for his live capture.
* InnocentCohabitation: He and Kyoka become roomates after he saves her from Port Mafia. He's very uncomfortable with it, but she doesn't mind.
* InvoluntaryShapeshifting: He unwillingly and unwittingly transformed into a tiger at night before he was able to control his ability.
* LightningBruiser: 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 HealingFactor lets him survive incredible amounts of punishment before going down.
* KindHeartedCatLover: Cats are listed among his likes. [[FridgeLogic Admittedly, he is a cat himself...]]
* LivingMacGuffin: 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 RealityWritingBook.
* MysticalWhiteHair: It's given a beige-tinge in the anime though.
* NaiveNewcomer: 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).
* NiceGuy: He's pitifully nice at times, to the point of putting the lives of complete strangers above his own.
* NotSoAboveItAll: Is noted to be quite gullible, and very nearly accepted Kenji's way of dealing with a case as normal and acceptable.
* ObliviousTransformation: He wasn't aware that he was the the tiger, until he ran into some members of the Armed Detective Agency.
* OnlySaneMan: Comes off this way sometimes, especially when dealing with his eccentric co-workers.
* PerpetualPoverty: He's usually concerned about his lack of money.
* PowerIncontinence: 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.
* RedOniBlueOni: 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.
* RunningGag: 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.
* ShipTease: With both Kyouka and Lucy, as well as Dazai.
* ShoutOut: 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.
* SkunkStripe: In the manga, Atsushi has a stripe of black in his otherwise white hair. The anime leaves it out, though most of the promo art featuring Atsushi includes it.
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Chazuke, a traditional Japanese ComfortFood 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.
* TechnicolorEyes: The upper half of his eyes are purple and the other is yellow.
* UnskilledButStrong: His ability grants him great strength and speed along with a HealingFactor 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.
* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: His hair is light purple.
* YouRemindMeOfX: [[spoiler: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 [[ToughLove to make sure he was able to make it out there in the cruel world.]]]] Surprisingly, Atsushi did.

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[[folder:Osamu Dazai]]
-->Voiced by Creator/MamoruMiyano (Japanese), Creator/KaijiTang (English)
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-->'''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''.

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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* AboveGoodAndEvil: 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 HeelFaceTurn 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.
* AntiHero: Bordered on outright sociopathic prior to meeting Oda. While he's gotten better post HeelFaceTurn, he still has his moments.
* TheAtoner: 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.
* BadassInANiceSuit: During his mafia days.
* BadassLongcoat: He wears a long trench coat and we already know that he's badass.
* BandageBabe: They cover most of his body, and it's unknown what, if anything, they're covering up.
* BigBrotherMentor: He's the closest to Atsushi and is willing to help him however he can.
* BlessedWithSuck: 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.
* BoringButPractical: 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.
* BreakoutCharacter: Is by and far away the most memorable and well-liked character in the franchise for his quirky personality, mysterious past, and cool ability, appearing in even more promotional material than Atsushi, the protagonist.
* BrilliantButLazy: Not as bad as Ranpo, but good luck getting him to actually do his paperwork.
* BunnyEarsLawyer: 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.
* CheshireCatGrin: Dazai rarely stops smiling, and his smiles get very unsettling in serious or darker moments, frequently also dipping into PsychoticSmirk territory.
* TheChessmaster: Purposely manipulated events so to ensure a new duo of Atsushi and Akutagawa would rise to eventually combat an evil (implied to be Dostoyevsky.
* ChildProdigy: Was the youngest person in Port Mafia history to become an Executive.
* ChivalrousPervert: 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.
* CurtainsMatchTheWindow: He has dark brown hair and eyes.
* DeathSeeker: [[AlternateCharacterInterpretation 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 DesperatelyLookingForAPurposeInLife.
* DrivesLikeCrazy: The first light novel shows that Dazai is a terrible driver.
* FightsLikeANormal: 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.
* TheGadfly: He likes providing "useful tips" for Kunikida only to say that he's messing with him. He also likes needling his former partner, Chuuya.
* GoodCostumeSwitch: Trades in his black suit and coat for a beige trench coat and khaki slacks when he quits the Mafia.
* GoodIsNotNice: He's generally upbeat and personable and dedicated to helping people, but [[AboveGoodAndEvil has warped views on ethics and morality]] and tends to take a pragmatic approach to the cases he works on.
* GuileHero: 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.
* HeelFaceTurn: 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.
* HiddenDepths: 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 [[TheChessmaster Chessmaster]] tendencies, and can be surprisingly poignant at times.
* HistoricalInJoke: More than any character, Dazai has a habit of attracting these:
** His DeathSeeker 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 ShoutOut to ''No Longer Human'', where the narrator (a blatant AuthorAvatar) does the exact same thing.
** His relationship with Ango and Odasaku is a nod to the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buraiha Buraiha]], a group of authors dissatisfied with the then-current Japanese government.
* ImprobableAge: Dazai was considered for the position of Port Mafia executive before he was 16.
* LetsGetDangerous: He's eccentric, lazy, and is depicted in a SuperDeformed 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.
* LogicalWeakness: 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 [[ArtisticLicenseBiology as long as there's blood flow in his brain]], so [[http://looking-for-stray-dogs.tumblr.com/post/151316270644/ Yosano's healing Ability can't effect him, except in a very small time frame in extreme circumstances]].
* ManipulativeBastard: He's not above manipulating his own coworkers if it means accomplishing his goal.
* MysteriousPast: 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.
* ObfuscatingStupidity: 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.
* OddFriendship: Is VitriolicBestBuds with Kunikida, the stern, idealistic ControlFreak.
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Drops his [[PerpetualSmiler perpetual smile]] when Higuchi tells him that Mori's released [[TheDreaded Q]] from his confinement.
* PerpetualSmiler: He's generally seen with a smile on his face, in stark contrast to his partner [[PerpetualFrowner Kunikida]].
* PowerNullifier: ''[[IronicName No Longer Human]]'' allows him to nullify other people's powers.
* PragmaticHero: 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.
* SuicideAsComedy: How his constant talk about suicide is played. It's especially morbid given he's named after an author who drowned himself.
* SociopathicHero: An AboveGoodAndEvil ManipulativeBastard ex-mafia AntiHero with the closest thing to a moral compass being a friends dying request.
* TortureTechnician: 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.
* VitriolicBestBuds: With Kunikida. Most of their interactions involve Dazai messing with Kunikida, and Kunikida throttling him. They still manage to work well together despite this.
* WeakButSkilled: 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.
* WeUsedToBeFriends: Has this kind of relationship with Ango over Ango's role in the Mimic incident, and is hinted to have this kind of relationship with his former partner Chuya.
* WhatExactlyIsHisJob: 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.
* YoungAndInCharge: He was the youngest Port Mafia executive in mafia history.

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[[folder:Doppo Kunikida]]
-->Voiced by Creator/YoshimasaHosoya (Japanese), Creator/PatrickSeitz (English)
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-->'''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.

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[[/note]], 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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* ControlFreak: Kunikida does ''not'' like it when his carefully laid out plans are disrupted, especially by Dazai.
* CrazyPrepared: His ability is effectively a weaponized superpower version of this.
** He also gets around his ability's main LogicalWeakness by carrying around slips of paper with the names of objects he frequently creates already written down.
* CurtainsMatchTheWindow: He has blond hair and yellow eyes.
* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: 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.
* ExpressiveHair: In the anime, his ponytail becomes a jagged zig-zag when he's particularly angry.
* FightsLikeANormal: 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.
* HeroicBSOD:
** For comedic effect when he finds out Dazai used to work for the Mafia.
** Played for drama when [[spoiler: 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 [[spoiler: influencing a child to kill himself in front of Kunikida's eyes]].
* ImprobableAge: 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.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: 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.
* KnightInSourArmor: Although rather grumpy and cynical in disposition, Kunikida will always try to do the right thing according to his ideals.
* LogicalWeakness: He can't use his power if he's separated from his notebook, he runs out of pages, or his hands are restrained.
* {{Megane}}: Wears a pair of black-framed glasses.
* MyGreatestFailure: 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.
* NotSoStoic: 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.
* NumberTwo: 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. [[spoiler: He's named acting president by the rest of the Agency when Fukuzawa is put into an ability-induced coma.]]
* OddFriendship: Is VitriolicBestBuds with Dazai, the cheerful former Mafia executive.
* PerpetualFrowner: In contrast to [[PerpetualSmiler Dazai]], Kunikida is usually seen frowning.
* PragmaticHero: 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.
* RealityWritingBook: Thanks to his ability, his notebook is a minor type 3 example. His ability, Doppo's Poetry, 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.
* SadisticChoice: [[spoiler: Fyodor manipulates 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.]]
* StoicSpectacles: Kunikida is professional and likes to organize and schedule every little detail to the point that it becomes a RunningGag. He also has the long hair and the ponytail.
* TeamDad: Usually fills this role for the Agency.
* VitriolicBestBuds: With Dazai. Most of their interactions involve Dazai messing with Kunikida and Kunikida throttling him. They still manage to work well together despite this.
* WritersCannotDoMath: A victim of this. He somehow found time to go to university, study to become a maths teacher, work as one for a while, and then work for two different law enforcement agencies. He's only 22 years old.
* YoungerThanHeLooks: Despite what his appearance and behavior imply, he's actually 22, making him a good four years younger than Ranpo and Yosano.

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[[folder:Ranpo Edogawa]]
-->Voiced by Creator/HiroshiKamiya (Japanese), Creator/VicMignogna (English)
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-->'''Literary references:''' He is named after Japanese mystery author Taro Hirai, who wrote under the pen name Ranpo Edogawa.

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 "[[SherlockScan Ultra Deduction]]," but he really doesn't.
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* AmbiguousDisorder: A lot of Ranpo's behaviour tends to imply something like autism or Asperger's syndrome. At times he has no common sense and he's not very good with everyday tasks that he views as being [[InsufferableGenius below his intellect]], but he is amazing and incredibly intelligent in what he does.
* BadassNormal: 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.
* BrilliantButLazy: 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.
* CerebusRetcon: His delusion over having an Ability is revealed in the third novel to have a much darker backstory behind it. [[spoiler: Twelve years before the series began, Ranpo was an orphaned TeenGenius 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.]]
* EyesAlwaysShut: Unless he's surprised or using his 'ability'.
* FirstNameBasis: Usually referred to by his given name.
* GeniusSweetTooth: The smartest character in the show and in all of his appearances in the anime so far, he has been seen eating or drinking something sweet.
* GreatDetective: He is known as one of the best detectives there are and he's proud of it.
* HistoricalInJoke: 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").
* IdiotSavant: 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.
* InsufferableGenius: He's not exactly humble about his talents.
* ItWasAGift: His glasses were a gift from Fukuzawa.
* NiceHat: He dons a deerstalker hat to give him a classical detective look.
* NominalHero: 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.
* NonActionGuy: Is never seen fighting, probably because he can't.
* NoSenseOfDirection: Needs a guide to get home after solving a case. He also can't figure out how to use the train.
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Loses his normal cheerful arrogant attitude once the need to find the culprit who by [[spoiler: 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.
* ProtagonistCenteredMorality: Exemplified by his motto, "all's well that's well for me!"
* SherlockScan: 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.
* TheSmartGuy: The smartest member of the Agency and the only one who can do real detective job in the matter of seconds.
* SmartPeopleWearGlasses: He puts on a pair of glasses when he uses "[[SherlockScan Ultra Deduction]]". He believes this is what activates his "ability".
* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Sometimes his first name is romanized as "Rampo".
* SuperIntelligence: Of the exceptional perception and advanced reasoning varieties.
* TheTeamNormal: The only member of the Agency to be a normal human with no ability. His "[[SherlockScan Ultra Deduction]]" still makes him one of the most valuable additions to the team.
* WellDoneSonGuy: Receiving Fukuzawa's praise is one of the few things that motivate Ranpo to work.

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[[folder:Akiko Yosano]]
-->Voiced by Creator/YuShimamura (Japanese), Creator/EricaLindbeck (English)
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-->'''Literary references:''' She is named after Japanese poet Akiko Yosano, and her ability is a reference to Yosano's poem "Thou Shalt Not Die."

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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* ActionGirl: The most qualified for this title out of the Detective Agency's women.
* AdaptationalComicRelief: Yosano's "medical treatments" on Tanizaki and Atsushi are portrayed as much more perverse in the anime, where she takes off her shirt as sensual saxophone music plays in the background.
* BagOfHolding: 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!
* BerserkButton: Do ''not'' treat death lightly. As a doctor, she's seen many people die because she was unable to save them. People that treat death like a game, like Motojiro Kajii, inspire her wrath.
* ChainsawGood: 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.
* CombatMedic: 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.
* DeadlyDoctor: 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.
* TheDreaded: 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.
* FightsLikeANormal: 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. Noticeably, she can swing her hatchet hard enough to smash the ground during her fight with Kenji against Chuuya.
* HairDecorations: Has a golden butterfly hairclip.
* HealingHands: 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.
* HealingShiv: 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.
* LabcoatOfScienceAndMedicine: Not part of her usual outfit, but she does don a labcoat in the story Poe writes.
* {{Meganekko}}: Again, she doesn't wear them usually, but she wears glasses in Poe's story. Ranpo uses them after her in-story death to activate his Ultra-Deduction.
* OldFriend: Is hinted that she has this relationship with Mori, of all people. [[HistoricalInJoke In real life]], Yosano Akiko and Ougai Mori were in the same poetry group, and she even asked him to name her twin daughters.
* {{Sadist}}: Played for laughs. Yosano seems to enjoy inflicting additional injuries to her patients.
* ThouShaltNotKill: 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!
* TwentiesBobHaircut: Even though this series isn't set in the '20's, she has the aesthetic, including the haircut.

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[[folder:Kenji Miyazawa]]
-->Voiced by Hiroyuki Kagura (Japanese), Creator/LucienDodge (English)
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-->'''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."

A cheerful and easygoing boy from the countryside. His ability, "Undefeated by the Rain," gives him super-strength when he's hungry.
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* BadassAdorable: He'll pick up cars and chuck them at you while wearing a cute, innocent smile the entire time.
* CareBearStare: More or less how he solves his cases.
* CountryMouse: 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.
* DoesNotLikeShoes: Usually goes around barefoot, although he does wear sandals at times.
* TheDreaded: Justifiably so, the terror he brings when his Ability is active is a sight to behold.
* {{Expy}}: It's hard to not see the similarities between him and Finnian from ''Manga/BlackButler''. They are both cheerful blond young boys wearing farmer clothes and a straw hat. Both of them also have SuperStrength.
* FriendToAllLivingThings: Easily befriends others, whether they be human or animal.
* FirstNameBasis: Since he's only fourteen, everyone in the Agency calls him by his first name.
* HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: Has blond hair and is a very optimistic and friendly boy.
* MoeStare: One of the reasons why people are so willing to cooperate with him.
* NiceGuy: ''Amazingly'' so.
* OutOfFocus: More often than not he's a background character and, compared to the other Agents, gets into few fights.
* OverallsAndGingham: Comes from the country and wears a pair of overalls. He even has the straw hat!
* PerpetualSmiler: Almost always smiling.
* PintSizedPowerHouse: Is the shortest and youngest male in the agency and also the strongest.
* SuperStrength: His Ability grants him superhuman strength, but only when he's hungry.
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Not as noteworthy as other characters', but he likes beef bowls. Cows are also his favorite animal. Atsushi points out the irony in this.
* UnskilledButStrong: There's no real technique to Kenji's fighting, but his SuperStrength makes up for it.
* YouthfulFreckles: Hard to see or not drawn in at times, but they're there.

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[[folder:Junichiro Tanizaki]]
-->Voiced by Creator/ToshiyukiToyonaga (Japanese), Creator/SpikeSpencer (English)
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-->'''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''.

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 illusions within a small area.
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* BewareTheNiceOnes: One of the nicest members of the Agency, second only to [[FriendToAllLivingThings Kenji]]. Also the most terrifyingly savage when his BerserkButton is pushed.
* BigBrotherInstinct: He gets ''pissed'' when Naomi is hurt.
* EmptyEyes: When his BerserkButton is pushed, or he otherwise gets serious, like when he's [[spoiler:trying to assassinate the Port Mafia's boss]].
* FieryRedhead: Averted... Until you hit his BerserkButton...
* HandHidingSleeves: Sometimes does this with his sweater in the manga.
* HairDecorations: Clips his left bangs back with a pair of white clips.
* HiddenDepths: In chapter 48, Tanizaki manages to [[spoiler:throw off a group of trained killers with his KillingIntent after they threatened to kill his sister, break out of his confines, and ''almost'' manages to kill the boss of the Port Mafia]].
* InTheHood: He usually keeps his hoodie tied around his waist, but he'll wear it properly when he needs to get serious or [[TheSneakyGuy sneak around]].
* KillingIntent: In addition to the incident mentioned above, after [[spoiler: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.
* KindHeartedCatLover: Cats are listed among his likes.
* KnightTemplarBigBrother: He states that things such as morality, ego, and pride do not matter to him compared to Naomi. To keep his little sister safe, Junichiro would let the entire world burn down in flames.
* MasterOfIllusion: His power, Light Snow, allows him to project illusions.
* NiceGuy: In general, Junichiro 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.
* NonActionGuy: 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.
** [[spoiler:{{Subverted}} in chapter 48. Tanizaki is shown to be able to wield a switchblade 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.]]
* NoodleIncident: When Atsushi asks him about his own entrance exam, Junichiro makes a horrified expression before responding that he doesn't (want to) remember.
* TheNondescript: He stands out the least out of the Agency members. This coupled with his [[MasterOfIllusion ability]] makes him good at reconnaissance.
* RelativeButton: Hurt Naomi, and you are dead to him.
* ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight: More of, Screw Morals, I'm Saving My Sister.
* TheSneakyGuy: His ability is well-suited for this role, so he often is assigned on reconnaissance.

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[[folder:Kyoka Izumi]]
-->Voiced by Creator/SumireMorohoshi (Japanese), Creator/CheramiLeigh (English)
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-->'''Literary references:''' She is named after Japanese author Kyotaro Izumi, who wrote under the pen name Kyoka Izumi, and her ability is a reference to Izumi's play ''Demon Pond''.

An orphan that was taken in by the Port Mafia. Her ability, "Demon Snow," summons a phantom swordswoman to attack. Unlike the others, her ability can only be controlled by orders given over a phone, initially by Akutagawa. She joins the Armed Detective Agency after Atsushi rescues her.
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* ActionGirl
* AnimalMotifs: Rabbits. She has a rabbit charm on her phone, has a [[GirlsLoveStuffedAnimals rabbit stuffed animal]] she uses as a comfort object, and wears her hair in long pigtails somewhat resembling floppy rabbit ears.
* BigEater: 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.
* BlessedWithSuck: 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. [[spoiler: Fukuzawa fixes this problem and allows her to use it normally after she becomes an official member of the Agency.]]
* CryCute: Her emotionless facade breaks down and she sheds tears as she claims to Atsushi that she doesn't want to kill anymore and attempts suicide.
* DullEyesOfUnhappiness: Has these when taking orders from Akutagawa. Loses them after Atsushi rescues her.
* EmotionlessGirl: Subverted. When she's first introduced, Kyoka'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, Izumi reverts back to a normal girl.
* ExactWords: Kouyou said Demon Snow killed Kyoka's parents. [[spoiler:However, she didn't say Demon Snow was in Kyoka's possession at the time.]]
* FirstNameBasis: She's fourteen, so most of the other characters call her by her first name.
* FlowerInHerHair: The hair ties securing her pigtails are decorated with flowers.
* ForcedIntoEvil: Kyoka has killed 35 people since being taken in by the Port Mafia. She really doesn't want to kill people, but can't control her powers and has nowhere to run.
* GenderBlenderName: She's named after a male author.
* GirlishPigtails: She has her hair tied into two low twintails.
* GirlsLoveStuffedAnimals: 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.
* GuardianEntity: {{Inverted}}. Her ability, Demon Snow, killed her parents. [[spoiler:Actually played straight. Her parents were affected by someone's body-controlling ability. Kyouka's mother, who possessed the Demon Snow ability at the time, ordered Demon Snow to kill her and her husband so they wouldn't hurt Kyouka. Afterwards, Demon Snow became Kyouka's ability.]]
* HairDecorations: Wears a white hairband. Her [[GirlishPigtails pigtails]] are decorated with [[FlowerInHerHair white flowers]].
* HairIntakes: Her hair has a pair of intakes that vaguely look like cat ears.
* IdiotHair: Has a very long one that curves out and downward.
* InnocentCohabitation: She starts living in Atsushi's apartment after he saves her and she joins the Agency.
* InterruptedSuicide: 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.
* InTheBlood: [[spoiler: Both of her parents were assassins.]]
* KillingIntent: {{Inverted}}. When she tries to kill Kouyou, Kouyou comments that she had been almost unable to sense her killing intent.
* KimonoIsTraditional: Wears a red kimono, unlike most of the other characters, who wear clothes straight out of the 20's.
* LittleMissBadass: Killed 35 people prior to joining the Agency. Continues to use her experience with assassination in order to help the Agency.
* MoralityPet: To Kouyou Ozaki, who cares deeply about Kyoka despite her betraying Port Mafia. Kouyou [[spoiler: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.
* PowerIncontinence: Can't easily control her ability until Fukuzawa suppresses it to a manageable level.
* PowersDoTheFighting: Mostly relies on Demon Snow when she gets into fights.
* RapunzelHair: Her twintails go all the way down to her waist.
* SelfMadeOrphan: Kouyou reveals that Demon Snow killed her parents. [[spoiler: 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.]]
* TheStoic: She's usually very calm and unemotional. However, she has plenty of NotSoStoic moments.
* SugarAndIcePersonality: She initially appears cold, emotionless and ruthless. After she starts opening up to Atsushi, Kyoka is revealed to be a curious, playful and very cute girl.
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: 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.
* TwoFirstNames: Her last name is commonly used as a first name in Japanese.
* {{Tykebomb}}: She was raised as an assassin by Port Mafia. Kyoka hated killing people, but she would be killed if she didn't and she had nowhere else to go.

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!!Clerks
[[folder:Naomi Tanizaki]]
-->Voiced by Creator/ChiakiOmigawa (Japanese), Creator/EricaLindbeck (English)
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-->'''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.

Junichirou's sister, who works part-time as an office assistant at the Agency. She doesn't have an ability.
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* BeautyMark: She has one under her left eye.
* BigBrotherAttraction: She has a huge crush on her brother.
* DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale: Her constant sexual harassment of her non-consenting brother is treated as humorous.
* FirstNameBasis: The other characters call her by her first name, likely to distinguish her from her brother.
* HiddenDepths: 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.
** [[spoiler: She notices the correlation between Mii-chan's disappearances and incidents in Yokohama before Souseki's existence is revealed.]]
* LittleSisterHeroine: 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.
* {{Seifuku}}: Naomi's school uniform, which she wears while working part-time in the Armed Detective Agency.
* ShoutOut: She's named after the title character and antagonist of a novel written by the author that her brother is named after.
* TakingTheBullet: She shields her brother from Higuchi's gunfire, leaving her severely injured.
* ZettaiRyouiki: Grade C.

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[[folder:Kirako Haruno]]
-->Voiced by Mina (Japanese), Abby Trott (English)
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-->'''Literary references:''' She is named after a major character in Junichiro Tanizaki's novel ''A Fool's Love'', alternatively titled ''Naomi''.

One of the Agency's clerks, usually seen assisting Fukuzawa with paperwork. She doesn't have an ability.
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* TheAlcoholic: Possibly. Naomi comments that she once drank five bottles of wine in a single night.
* BadassNormal: Manages to keep her cool even while being pursued by [[EldritchAbomination Lovecraft]] and Steinbeck.
* DitzySecretary: 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.
* EarlyBirdCameo: 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).
* KindheartedCatLover: She has a pet cat named Mii-chan.
* {{Meganekko}}: Wears a pair of red-framed glasses.
* OfficeLady
* ShoutOut: 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."

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!!Former Members

[[folder:Katai Tayama]]
-->'''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''.

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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* CannotTalkToWomen: Has to look down the road when talking to Higuchi.
* ICallItVera: Downplayed with his futon called "Yoshiko".
* TheInformant: To the Agency.
* LazyBum: It appears that his power only works when he is relaxed. As such, he can only activate his Ability when wrapped in his futon.
* OldFriend: Of Kunikida.
* {{Technopath}}: 'Futon' allows him to control any electronics within view.

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[[folder:[[spoiler:Soseki Natsume]]]]
See ''Characters/BungouStrayDogs''.

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to:

Character sheet for the Armed Detective Agency of ''Manga/BungouStrayDogs''. Characters on this page all have their names listed in Western order-- given names followed by surnames.

A detective agency whose 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 chapter 37 / episode 24 are unmarked.'''

For the other characters, click [[Characters/BungouStrayDogs here]].
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[[folder:In General]]
* BadassCrew: 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.
* TheGoodTheBadAndTheEvil: The good to the Port Mafia's bad and the Guild's evil.
* GoodThingYouCanHeal: Yosano's healing Ability means that the Agency members (minus Dazai, see LogicalWeakness 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 ComboPlatterPowers.
* SecretTestOfCharacter: Each prospective member is required to pass one in order to join.
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!!Director


[[folder:Yukichi Fukuzawa]]
-->Voiced by Creator/RikiyaKoyama (Japanese), Creator/JamiesonPrice (English)
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-->'''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''.

The head of the Armed Detective Agency. His ability, "All Men are Equal," lets him suppress the abilities of his subordinates.
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* BadassInCharge: He's a skilled martial artist and Kunikida's master to boot. Kunikida has never been able to beat Fukuzawa in a fight and Fukuzawa can fight off a group of assassins with ease.
* BenevolentBoss: Cares for his subordinates and will always put their welfare first.
* BigGood: Head of the Armed Detective Agency, dedicated to fighting crime and saving innocent lives.
* CoatCape: Normally seen with a green one.
* TheComicallySerious: Serious at all times, even when dealing with his workers' antics and trying to pet a cat.
* CutenessProximity: Hires Kyoka on the spot after she makes a cute face. Fukuzawa is also very fond of cats.
* DaChief: A traditional Japanese equivalent (right down to the [[KatanasAreJustBetter katana]]!) to the Agency, especially to Ranpo.
* AFatherToHisMen: 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.
* FightsLikeANormal: He's an expert martial artist and his ability doesn't help him in combat.
* KindHeartedCatLover: He likes cats so much that he keeps treats for them in the sleeves of his yukata.
* KimonoIsTraditional: He is always seen wearing a yukata.
* TheLeader: Of the Levelheaded variety.
* ParentalSubstitute: He has an especially close relationship with Ranpo and looks after him like a father figure. [[spoiler: 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.]]
* PerpetualFrowner: Never seen smiling.
* PowerLimiter: What his Ability does. 'All Men Are Equal' can also help his subordinates control their Abilities.
* TheStoic: Fukuzawa is a serious man and rarely expresses anything but calm authority.

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!!Agents


[[folder:Atsushi Nakajima]]
-->Voiced by Creator/YuutoUemura (Japanese), Creator/MaxMittelman (English)
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-->'''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 Mountain."

The series 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 [[HealingFactor regenerative abilities]].
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* {{Adorkable}}: He [[http://www.mangareader.net/bungou-stray-dogs/9/29 flails around adorably]] as he tries to take Kyouka out to make her feel better.
* AllOfTheOtherReindeer: 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.
* AmbiguouslyGay: In Bungou Stray Dogs WAN. In one story, his chibi counterpart was quite eager to marry a prince until he found out the Prince in question was Fitzgerald. In another, he's confused over his feelings for Dazai, and eventually buys him a bouquet of flowers. Dazai faints from the shock.
** More AmbiguouslyBi in the parent series. See ShipTease below.
* AnimalThemedSuperbeing: He turns into a tiger.
* AndIMustScream: And scream he did. A whole lot. 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 suffered for so long under the Headmaster and his tyranny until he was finally kicked out. Although it is later revealed that [[spoiler: the reason for the Headmaster's inhumane actions were in Atsushi's best interests]], 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.
* BadassAdorable: 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.
* BigEater: When chazuke is involved, he can pack away bowl after bowl of the stuff.
* ChronicHeroSyndrome: 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.
* ClassicalAntiHero: 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.
* ComboPlatterPowers: He's a were-tiger who happens to also have an amazing HealingFactor ala ComicBook/{{Wolverine}}.
* ComfortFood: Chazuke, a Japanese dish consisting of hot tea/water poured over rice, topped with various savoury foods like seaweed.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: Was abandoned as a infant at an orphanage where was repeatedly bullied and abused. Chapter 39 focuses on this, complete with him being often starved and [[spoiler: forced to hammer a nail through his foot]].
* DesperatelyLookingForAPurposeInLife: 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.
* DistressedDude: 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.
* FashionableAsymmetry: His unusual haircut.
* FingerlessGloves: He often seen wearing black ones.
* FirstNameBasis: Always called by his given name rather than his surname contrary to the typical LastNameBasis of Japanese culture.
* GoodThingYouCanHeal: He's mutilated, impaled, and torn up throughout the series, only surviving due to his amazing HealingFactor.
* HealingFactor: Part of his ComboPlatterPowers, though it only works when he's at least partially in tiger form.
* HeroicAlbino: The main hero of the show, coming with light gray hair and pale skin.
* HeroicSelfDeprecation: 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.
* IWantThemAlive: People within the Mafia are willing to pay top dollar for his live capture.
* InnocentCohabitation: He and Kyoka become roomates after he saves her from Port Mafia. He's very uncomfortable with it, but she doesn't mind.
* InvoluntaryShapeshifting: He unwillingly and unwittingly transformed into a tiger at night before he was able to control his ability.
* LightningBruiser: 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 HealingFactor lets him survive incredible amounts of punishment before going down.
* KindHeartedCatLover: Cats are listed among his likes. [[FridgeLogic Admittedly, he is a cat himself...]]
* LivingMacGuffin: 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 RealityWritingBook.
* MysticalWhiteHair: It's given a beige-tinge in the anime though.
* NaiveNewcomer: 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).
* NiceGuy: He's pitifully nice at times, to the point of putting the lives of complete strangers above his own.
* NotSoAboveItAll: Is noted to be quite gullible, and very nearly accepted Kenji's way of dealing with a case as normal and acceptable.
* ObliviousTransformation: He wasn't aware that he was the the tiger, until he ran into some members of the Armed Detective Agency.
* OnlySaneMan: Comes off this way sometimes, especially when dealing with his eccentric co-workers.
* PerpetualPoverty: He's usually concerned about his lack of money.
* PowerIncontinence: 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.
* RedOniBlueOni: 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.
* RunningGag: 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.
* ShipTease: With both Kyouka and Lucy, as well as Dazai.
* ShoutOut: 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.
* SkunkStripe: In the manga, Atsushi has a stripe of black in his otherwise white hair. The anime leaves it out, though most of the promo art featuring Atsushi includes it.
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Chazuke, a traditional Japanese ComfortFood 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.
* TechnicolorEyes: The upper half of his eyes are purple and the other is yellow.
* UnskilledButStrong: His ability grants him great strength and speed along with a HealingFactor 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.
* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: His hair is light purple.
* YouRemindMeOfX: [[spoiler: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 [[ToughLove to make sure he was able to make it out there in the cruel world.]]]] Surprisingly, Atsushi did.

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[[folder:Osamu Dazai]]
-->Voiced by Creator/MamoruMiyano (Japanese), Creator/KaijiTang (English)
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-->'''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''.

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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* AboveGoodAndEvil: 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 HeelFaceTurn 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.
* AntiHero: Bordered on outright sociopathic prior to meeting Oda. While he's gotten better post HeelFaceTurn, he still has his moments.
* TheAtoner: 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.
* BadassInANiceSuit: During his mafia days.
* BadassLongcoat: He wears a long trench coat and we already know that he's badass.
* BandageBabe: They cover most of his body, and it's unknown what, if anything, they're covering up.
* BigBrotherMentor: He's the closest to Atsushi and is willing to help him however he can.
* BlessedWithSuck: 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.
* BoringButPractical: 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.
* BreakoutCharacter: Is by and far away the most memorable and well-liked character in the franchise for his quirky personality, mysterious past, and cool ability, appearing in even more promotional material than Atsushi, the protagonist.
* BrilliantButLazy: Not as bad as Ranpo, but good luck getting him to actually do his paperwork.
* BunnyEarsLawyer: 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.
* CheshireCatGrin: Dazai rarely stops smiling, and his smiles get very unsettling in serious or darker moments, frequently also dipping into PsychoticSmirk territory.
* TheChessmaster: Purposely manipulated events so to ensure a new duo of Atsushi and Akutagawa would rise to eventually combat an evil (implied to be Dostoyevsky.
* ChildProdigy: Was the youngest person in Port Mafia history to become an Executive.
* ChivalrousPervert: 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.
* CurtainsMatchTheWindow: He has dark brown hair and eyes.
* DeathSeeker: [[AlternateCharacterInterpretation 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 DesperatelyLookingForAPurposeInLife.
* DrivesLikeCrazy: The first light novel shows that Dazai is a terrible driver.
* FightsLikeANormal: 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.
* TheGadfly: He likes providing "useful tips" for Kunikida only to say that he's messing with him. He also likes needling his former partner, Chuuya.
* GoodCostumeSwitch: Trades in his black suit and coat for a beige trench coat and khaki slacks when he quits the Mafia.
* GoodIsNotNice: He's generally upbeat and personable and dedicated to helping people, but [[AboveGoodAndEvil has warped views on ethics and morality]] and tends to take a pragmatic approach to the cases he works on.
* GuileHero: 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.
* HeelFaceTurn: 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.
* HiddenDepths: 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 [[TheChessmaster Chessmaster]] tendencies, and can be surprisingly poignant at times.
* HistoricalInJoke: More than any character, Dazai has a habit of attracting these:
** His DeathSeeker 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 ShoutOut to ''No Longer Human'', where the narrator (a blatant AuthorAvatar) does the exact same thing.
** His relationship with Ango and Odasaku is a nod to the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buraiha Buraiha]], a group of authors dissatisfied with the then-current Japanese government.
* ImprobableAge: Dazai was considered for the position of Port Mafia executive before he was 16.
* LetsGetDangerous: He's eccentric, lazy, and is depicted in a SuperDeformed 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.
* LogicalWeakness: 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 [[ArtisticLicenseBiology as long as there's blood flow in his brain]], so [[http://looking-for-stray-dogs.tumblr.com/post/151316270644/ Yosano's healing Ability can't effect him, except in a very small time frame in extreme circumstances]].
* ManipulativeBastard: He's not above manipulating his own coworkers if it means accomplishing his goal.
* MysteriousPast: 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.
* ObfuscatingStupidity: 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.
* OddFriendship: Is VitriolicBestBuds with Kunikida, the stern, idealistic ControlFreak.
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Drops his [[PerpetualSmiler perpetual smile]] when Higuchi tells him that Mori's released [[TheDreaded Q]] from his confinement.
* PerpetualSmiler: He's generally seen with a smile on his face, in stark contrast to his partner [[PerpetualFrowner Kunikida]].
* PowerNullifier: ''[[IronicName No Longer Human]]'' allows him to nullify other people's powers.
* PragmaticHero: 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.
* SuicideAsComedy: How his constant talk about suicide is played. It's especially morbid given he's named after an author who drowned himself.
* SociopathicHero: An AboveGoodAndEvil ManipulativeBastard ex-mafia AntiHero with the closest thing to a moral compass being a friends dying request.
* TortureTechnician: 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.
* VitriolicBestBuds: With Kunikida. Most of their interactions involve Dazai messing with Kunikida, and Kunikida throttling him. They still manage to work well together despite this.
* WeakButSkilled: 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.
* WeUsedToBeFriends: Has this kind of relationship with Ango over Ango's role in the Mimic incident, and is hinted to have this kind of relationship with his former partner Chuya.
* WhatExactlyIsHisJob: 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.
* YoungAndInCharge: He was the youngest Port Mafia executive in mafia history.

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[[folder:Doppo Kunikida]]
-->Voiced by Creator/YoshimasaHosoya (Japanese), Creator/PatrickSeitz (English)
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-->'''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.

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[[/note]], 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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* ControlFreak: Kunikida does ''not'' like it when his carefully laid out plans are disrupted, especially by Dazai.
* CrazyPrepared: His ability is effectively a weaponized superpower version of this.
** He also gets around his ability's main LogicalWeakness by carrying around slips of paper with the names of objects he frequently creates already written down.
* CurtainsMatchTheWindow: He has blond hair and yellow eyes.
* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: 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.
* ExpressiveHair: In the anime, his ponytail becomes a jagged zig-zag when he's particularly angry.
* FightsLikeANormal: 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.
* HeroicBSOD:
** For comedic effect when he finds out Dazai used to work for the Mafia.
** Played for drama when [[spoiler: 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 [[spoiler: influencing a child to kill himself in front of Kunikida's eyes]].
* ImprobableAge: 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.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: 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.
* KnightInSourArmor: Although rather grumpy and cynical in disposition, Kunikida will always try to do the right thing according to his ideals.
* LogicalWeakness: He can't use his power if he's separated from his notebook, he runs out of pages, or his hands are restrained.
* {{Megane}}: Wears a pair of black-framed glasses.
* MyGreatestFailure: 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.
* NotSoStoic: 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.
* NumberTwo: 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. [[spoiler: He's named acting president by the rest of the Agency when Fukuzawa is put into an ability-induced coma.]]
* OddFriendship: Is VitriolicBestBuds with Dazai, the cheerful former Mafia executive.
* PerpetualFrowner: In contrast to [[PerpetualSmiler Dazai]], Kunikida is usually seen frowning.
* PragmaticHero: 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.
* RealityWritingBook: Thanks to his ability, his notebook is a minor type 3 example. His ability, Doppo's Poetry, 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.
* SadisticChoice: [[spoiler: Fyodor manipulates 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.]]
* StoicSpectacles: Kunikida is professional and likes to organize and schedule every little detail to the point that it becomes a RunningGag. He also has the long hair and the ponytail.
* TeamDad: Usually fills this role for the Agency.
* VitriolicBestBuds: With Dazai. Most of their interactions involve Dazai messing with Kunikida and Kunikida throttling him. They still manage to work well together despite this.
* WritersCannotDoMath: A victim of this. He somehow found time to go to university, study to become a maths teacher, work as one for a while, and then work for two different law enforcement agencies. He's only 22 years old.
* YoungerThanHeLooks: Despite what his appearance and behavior imply, he's actually 22, making him a good four years younger than Ranpo and Yosano.

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[[folder:Ranpo Edogawa]]
-->Voiced by Creator/HiroshiKamiya (Japanese), Creator/VicMignogna (English)
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-->'''Literary references:''' He is named after Japanese mystery author Taro Hirai, who wrote under the pen name Ranpo Edogawa.

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 "[[SherlockScan Ultra Deduction]]," but he really doesn't.
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* AmbiguousDisorder: A lot of Ranpo's behaviour tends to imply something like autism or Asperger's syndrome. At times he has no common sense and he's not very good with everyday tasks that he views as being [[InsufferableGenius below his intellect]], but he is amazing and incredibly intelligent in what he does.
* BadassNormal: 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.
* BrilliantButLazy: 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.
* CerebusRetcon: His delusion over having an Ability is revealed in the third novel to have a much darker backstory behind it. [[spoiler: Twelve years before the series began, Ranpo was an orphaned TeenGenius 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.]]
* EyesAlwaysShut: Unless he's surprised or using his 'ability'.
* FirstNameBasis: Usually referred to by his given name.
* GeniusSweetTooth: The smartest character in the show and in all of his appearances in the anime so far, he has been seen eating or drinking something sweet.
* GreatDetective: He is known as one of the best detectives there are and he's proud of it.
* HistoricalInJoke: 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").
* IdiotSavant: 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.
* InsufferableGenius: He's not exactly humble about his talents.
* ItWasAGift: His glasses were a gift from Fukuzawa.
* NiceHat: He dons a deerstalker hat to give him a classical detective look.
* NominalHero: 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.
* NonActionGuy: Is never seen fighting, probably because he can't.
* NoSenseOfDirection: Needs a guide to get home after solving a case. He also can't figure out how to use the train.
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Loses his normal cheerful arrogant attitude once the need to find the culprit who by [[spoiler: 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.
* ProtagonistCenteredMorality: Exemplified by his motto, "all's well that's well for me!"
* SherlockScan: 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.
* TheSmartGuy: The smartest member of the Agency and the only one who can do real detective job in the matter of seconds.
* SmartPeopleWearGlasses: He puts on a pair of glasses when he uses "[[SherlockScan Ultra Deduction]]". He believes this is what activates his "ability".
* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Sometimes his first name is romanized as "Rampo".
* SuperIntelligence: Of the exceptional perception and advanced reasoning varieties.
* TheTeamNormal: The only member of the Agency to be a normal human with no ability. His "[[SherlockScan Ultra Deduction]]" still makes him one of the most valuable additions to the team.
* WellDoneSonGuy: Receiving Fukuzawa's praise is one of the few things that motivate Ranpo to work.

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[[folder:Akiko Yosano]]
-->Voiced by Creator/YuShimamura (Japanese), Creator/EricaLindbeck (English)
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-->'''Literary references:''' She is named after Japanese poet Akiko Yosano, and her ability is a reference to Yosano's poem "Thou Shalt Not Die."

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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* ActionGirl: The most qualified for this title out of the Detective Agency's women.
* AdaptationalComicRelief: Yosano's "medical treatments" on Tanizaki and Atsushi are portrayed as much more perverse in the anime, where she takes off her shirt as sensual saxophone music plays in the background.
* BagOfHolding: 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!
* BerserkButton: Do ''not'' treat death lightly. As a doctor, she's seen many people die because she was unable to save them. People that treat death like a game, like Motojiro Kajii, inspire her wrath.
* ChainsawGood: 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.
* CombatMedic: 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.
* DeadlyDoctor: 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.
* TheDreaded: 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.
* FightsLikeANormal: 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. Noticeably, she can swing her hatchet hard enough to smash the ground during her fight with Kenji against Chuuya.
* HairDecorations: Has a golden butterfly hairclip.
* HealingHands: 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.
* HealingShiv: 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.
* LabcoatOfScienceAndMedicine: Not part of her usual outfit, but she does don a labcoat in the story Poe writes.
* {{Meganekko}}: Again, she doesn't wear them usually, but she wears glasses in Poe's story. Ranpo uses them after her in-story death to activate his Ultra-Deduction.
* OldFriend: Is hinted that she has this relationship with Mori, of all people. [[HistoricalInJoke In real life]], Yosano Akiko and Ougai Mori were in the same poetry group, and she even asked him to name her twin daughters.
* {{Sadist}}: Played for laughs. Yosano seems to enjoy inflicting additional injuries to her patients.
* ThouShaltNotKill: 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!
* TwentiesBobHaircut: Even though this series isn't set in the '20's, she has the aesthetic, including the haircut.

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[[folder:Kenji Miyazawa]]
-->Voiced by Hiroyuki Kagura (Japanese), Creator/LucienDodge (English)
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-->'''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."

A cheerful and easygoing boy from the countryside. His ability, "Undefeated by the Rain," gives him super-strength when he's hungry.
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* BadassAdorable: He'll pick up cars and chuck them at you while wearing a cute, innocent smile the entire time.
* CareBearStare: More or less how he solves his cases.
* CountryMouse: 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.
* DoesNotLikeShoes: Usually goes around barefoot, although he does wear sandals at times.
* TheDreaded: Justifiably so, the terror he brings when his Ability is active is a sight to behold.
* {{Expy}}: It's hard to not see the similarities between him and Finnian from ''Manga/BlackButler''. They are both cheerful blond young boys wearing farmer clothes and a straw hat. Both of them also have SuperStrength.
* FriendToAllLivingThings: Easily befriends others, whether they be human or animal.
* FirstNameBasis: Since he's only fourteen, everyone in the Agency calls him by his first name.
* HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: Has blond hair and is a very optimistic and friendly boy.
* MoeStare: One of the reasons why people are so willing to cooperate with him.
* NiceGuy: ''Amazingly'' so.
* OutOfFocus: More often than not he's a background character and, compared to the other Agents, gets into few fights.
* OverallsAndGingham: Comes from the country and wears a pair of overalls. He even has the straw hat!
* PerpetualSmiler: Almost always smiling.
* PintSizedPowerHouse: Is the shortest and youngest male in the agency and also the strongest.
* SuperStrength: His Ability grants him superhuman strength, but only when he's hungry.
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Not as noteworthy as other characters', but he likes beef bowls. Cows are also his favorite animal. Atsushi points out the irony in this.
* UnskilledButStrong: There's no real technique to Kenji's fighting, but his SuperStrength makes up for it.
* YouthfulFreckles: Hard to see or not drawn in at times, but they're there.

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[[folder:Junichiro Tanizaki]]
-->Voiced by Creator/ToshiyukiToyonaga (Japanese), Creator/SpikeSpencer (English)
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-->'''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''.

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 illusions within a small area.
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* BewareTheNiceOnes: One of the nicest members of the Agency, second only to [[FriendToAllLivingThings Kenji]]. Also the most terrifyingly savage when his BerserkButton is pushed.
* BigBrotherInstinct: He gets ''pissed'' when Naomi is hurt.
* EmptyEyes: When his BerserkButton is pushed, or he otherwise gets serious, like when he's [[spoiler:trying to assassinate the Port Mafia's boss]].
* FieryRedhead: Averted... Until you hit his BerserkButton...
* HandHidingSleeves: Sometimes does this with his sweater in the manga.
* HairDecorations: Clips his left bangs back with a pair of white clips.
* HiddenDepths: In chapter 48, Tanizaki manages to [[spoiler:throw off a group of trained killers with his KillingIntent after they threatened to kill his sister, break out of his confines, and ''almost'' manages to kill the boss of the Port Mafia]].
* InTheHood: He usually keeps his hoodie tied around his waist, but he'll wear it properly when he needs to get serious or [[TheSneakyGuy sneak around]].
* KillingIntent: In addition to the incident mentioned above, after [[spoiler: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.
* KindHeartedCatLover: Cats are listed among his likes.
* KnightTemplarBigBrother: He states that things such as morality, ego, and pride do not matter to him compared to Naomi. To keep his little sister safe, Junichiro would let the entire world burn down in flames.
* MasterOfIllusion: His power, Light Snow, allows him to project illusions.
* NiceGuy: In general, Junichiro 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.
* NonActionGuy: 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.
** [[spoiler:{{Subverted}} in chapter 48. Tanizaki is shown to be able to wield a switchblade 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.]]
* NoodleIncident: When Atsushi asks him about his own entrance exam, Junichiro makes a horrified expression before responding that he doesn't (want to) remember.
* TheNondescript: He stands out the least out of the Agency members. This coupled with his [[MasterOfIllusion ability]] makes him good at reconnaissance.
* RelativeButton: Hurt Naomi, and you are dead to him.
* ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight: More of, Screw Morals, I'm Saving My Sister.
* TheSneakyGuy: His ability is well-suited for this role, so he often is assigned on reconnaissance.

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[[folder:Kyoka Izumi]]
-->Voiced by Creator/SumireMorohoshi (Japanese), Creator/CheramiLeigh (English)
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-->'''Literary references:''' She is named after Japanese author Kyotaro Izumi, who wrote under the pen name Kyoka Izumi, and her ability is a reference to Izumi's play ''Demon Pond''.

An orphan that was taken in by the Port Mafia. Her ability, "Demon Snow," summons a phantom swordswoman to attack. Unlike the others, her ability can only be controlled by orders given over a phone, initially by Akutagawa. She joins the Armed Detective Agency after Atsushi rescues her.
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* ActionGirl
* AnimalMotifs: Rabbits. She has a rabbit charm on her phone, has a [[GirlsLoveStuffedAnimals rabbit stuffed animal]] she uses as a comfort object, and wears her hair in long pigtails somewhat resembling floppy rabbit ears.
* BigEater: 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.
* BlessedWithSuck: 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. [[spoiler: Fukuzawa fixes this problem and allows her to use it normally after she becomes an official member of the Agency.]]
* CryCute: Her emotionless facade breaks down and she sheds tears as she claims to Atsushi that she doesn't want to kill anymore and attempts suicide.
* DullEyesOfUnhappiness: Has these when taking orders from Akutagawa. Loses them after Atsushi rescues her.
* EmotionlessGirl: Subverted. When she's first introduced, Kyoka'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, Izumi reverts back to a normal girl.
* ExactWords: Kouyou said Demon Snow killed Kyoka's parents. [[spoiler:However, she didn't say Demon Snow was in Kyoka's possession at the time.]]
* FirstNameBasis: She's fourteen, so most of the other characters call her by her first name.
* FlowerInHerHair: The hair ties securing her pigtails are decorated with flowers.
* ForcedIntoEvil: Kyoka has killed 35 people since being taken in by the Port Mafia. She really doesn't want to kill people, but can't control her powers and has nowhere to run.
* GenderBlenderName: She's named after a male author.
* GirlishPigtails: She has her hair tied into two low twintails.
* GirlsLoveStuffedAnimals: 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.
* GuardianEntity: {{Inverted}}. Her ability, Demon Snow, killed her parents. [[spoiler:Actually played straight. Her parents were affected by someone's body-controlling ability. Kyouka's mother, who possessed the Demon Snow ability at the time, ordered Demon Snow to kill her and her husband so they wouldn't hurt Kyouka. Afterwards, Demon Snow became Kyouka's ability.]]
* HairDecorations: Wears a white hairband. Her [[GirlishPigtails pigtails]] are decorated with [[FlowerInHerHair white flowers]].
* HairIntakes: Her hair has a pair of intakes that vaguely look like cat ears.
* IdiotHair: Has a very long one that curves out and downward.
* InnocentCohabitation: She starts living in Atsushi's apartment after he saves her and she joins the Agency.
* InterruptedSuicide: 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.
* InTheBlood: [[spoiler: Both of her parents were assassins.]]
* KillingIntent: {{Inverted}}. When she tries to kill Kouyou, Kouyou comments that she had been almost unable to sense her killing intent.
* KimonoIsTraditional: Wears a red kimono, unlike most of the other characters, who wear clothes straight out of the 20's.
* LittleMissBadass: Killed 35 people prior to joining the Agency. Continues to use her experience with assassination in order to help the Agency.
* MoralityPet: To Kouyou Ozaki, who cares deeply about Kyoka despite her betraying Port Mafia. Kouyou [[spoiler: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.
* PowerIncontinence: Can't easily control her ability until Fukuzawa suppresses it to a manageable level.
* PowersDoTheFighting: Mostly relies on Demon Snow when she gets into fights.
* RapunzelHair: Her twintails go all the way down to her waist.
* SelfMadeOrphan: Kouyou reveals that Demon Snow killed her parents. [[spoiler: 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.]]
* TheStoic: She's usually very calm and unemotional. However, she has plenty of NotSoStoic moments.
* SugarAndIcePersonality: She initially appears cold, emotionless and ruthless. After she starts opening up to Atsushi, Kyoka is revealed to be a curious, playful and very cute girl.
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: 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.
* TwoFirstNames: Her last name is commonly used as a first name in Japanese.
* {{Tykebomb}}: She was raised as an assassin by Port Mafia. Kyoka hated killing people, but she would be killed if she didn't and she had nowhere else to go.

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!!Clerks
[[folder:Naomi Tanizaki]]
-->Voiced by Creator/ChiakiOmigawa (Japanese), Creator/EricaLindbeck (English)
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-->'''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.

Junichirou's sister, who works part-time as an office assistant at the Agency. She doesn't have an ability.
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* BeautyMark: She has one under her left eye.
* BigBrotherAttraction: She has a huge crush on her brother.
* DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale: Her constant sexual harassment of her non-consenting brother is treated as humorous.
* FirstNameBasis: The other characters call her by her first name, likely to distinguish her from her brother.
* HiddenDepths: 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.
** [[spoiler: She notices the correlation between Mii-chan's disappearances and incidents in Yokohama before Souseki's existence is revealed.]]
* LittleSisterHeroine: 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.
* {{Seifuku}}: Naomi's school uniform, which she wears while working part-time in the Armed Detective Agency.
* ShoutOut: She's named after the title character and antagonist of a novel written by the author that her brother is named after.
* TakingTheBullet: She shields her brother from Higuchi's gunfire, leaving her severely injured.
* ZettaiRyouiki: Grade C.

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[[folder:Kirako Haruno]]
-->Voiced by Mina (Japanese), Abby Trott (English)
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-->'''Literary references:''' She is named after a major character in Junichiro Tanizaki's novel ''A Fool's Love'', alternatively titled ''Naomi''.

One of the Agency's clerks, usually seen assisting Fukuzawa with paperwork. She doesn't have an ability.
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* TheAlcoholic: Possibly. Naomi comments that she once drank five bottles of wine in a single night.
* BadassNormal: Manages to keep her cool even while being pursued by [[EldritchAbomination Lovecraft]] and Steinbeck.
* DitzySecretary: 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.
* EarlyBirdCameo: 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).
* KindheartedCatLover: She has a pet cat named Mii-chan.
* {{Meganekko}}: Wears a pair of red-framed glasses.
* OfficeLady
* ShoutOut: 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."

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!!Former Members

[[folder:Katai Tayama]]
-->'''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''.

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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* CannotTalkToWomen: Has to look down the road when talking to Higuchi.
* ICallItVera: Downplayed with his futon called "Yoshiko".
* TheInformant: To the Agency.
* LazyBum: It appears that his power only works when he is relaxed. As such, he can only activate his Ability when wrapped in his futon.
* OldFriend: Of Kunikida.
* {{Technopath}}: 'Futon' allows him to control any electronics within view.

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[[folder:[[spoiler:Soseki Natsume]]]]
See ''Characters/BungouStrayDogs''.

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* BigEater: When chazuke is involved, he can pack away bowl after bowl of the stuff.



* FirstNameBasis: Always called by his given name rather than his surname.

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* FirstNameBasis: Always called by his given name rather than his surname.surname contrary to the typical LastNameBasis of Japanese culture.



* LightningBruiser: 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 HealingFactor lets him survive incredible amounts of punishment before going down.



* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Chazuke, a traditional Japanese ComfortFood 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.



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* TortureTechnician: 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.

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* HealingShiv: 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.


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* ThouShaltNotKill: 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!
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