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Shūji Tsushima (津島 修治, Tsushima Shūji, 19 June 1909 — 13 June 1948), known by his pen name Osamu Dazai (太宰 治, Dazai Osamu), was a Japanese novelist and author.^[1] A number of his most popular works, such as The Setting Sun (Shayō) and No Longer Human (Ningen Shikkaku), are considered modern-day classics.^[2]

Osamu Dazai
太宰 治
Dazai in 1948
Born	Shūji Tsushima June 19, 1909 Kanagi, Aomori, Empire of Japan
Died	June 13, 1948 (aged 38) Tokyo, Allied-occupied Japan
Cause of death	Double suicide with Tomie Yamazaki by drowning
Occupation(s)	Novelist, Short story writer
Notable work	The Setting Sun No Longer Human Otogi-zôshi «Run, Melos!»
Movement	I-Novel, Buraiha
Japanese name
Kanji	太宰 治
Hiragana	だざい おさむ
Transcriptions Romanization Dazai Osamu

His influences include Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, Murasaki Shikibu and Fyodor Dostoyevsky. While Dazai continues to be widely celebrated in Japan, he remains relatively unknown elsewhere, with only a handful of his works available in English. His last book, No Longer Human, is his most popular work outside of Japan.

Early lifeEdit

Tsushima in a 1924 high school yearbook photo

Shūji Tsushima was born on June 19, 1909, the eighth surviving child of a wealthy landowner^[3] and politician^[1] in Kanagi, a remote corner of Japan at the northern tip of Tōhoku in Aomori Prefecture. He was the tenth of eleven children by his parents. At the time of his birth, the huge, newly-completed Tsushima mansion, where he would spend his early years, was home to some thirty family members.^[4] The Tsushima family was of obscure peasant origins, with Dazai’s great-grandfather building up the family’s wealth as a moneylender, and his son increasing it further. They quickly rose in power and, after some time, became highly respected across the region.^[5]

Dazai’s father, Gen’emon, a younger son of the Matsuki family, which due to «its exceedingly ‘feudal’ tradition» had no use for sons other than the eldest son and heir, was adopted into the Tsushima family to marry the eldest daughter, Tane; he became involved in politics due to his position as one of the four wealthiest landowners in the prefecture, and was offered membership into the House of Peers.^[5] This made Dazai’s father absent during much of his early childhood, and with his mother, Tane, being ill,^[6] Tsushima was brought up mostly by the family’s servants and his aunt Kiye.^[7]

Education and literary beginningsEdit

In 1916, Tsushima began his education at Kanagi Elementary.^[8] On March 4, 1923, Tsushima’s father Gen’emon died from lung cancer,^[9] and then a month later in April Tsushima attended Hirosaki High School,^[10] followed by entering Hirosaki University’s literature department in 1927.^[8] He developed an interest in Edo culture and began studying gidayū, a form of chanted narration used in the puppet theaters.^[11] Around 1928, Tsushima edited a series of student publications and contributed some of his own works. He also published a magazine called Saibō bungei (Cell Literature) with his friends, and subsequently became a staff member of the college’s newspaper.^[12]

Tsushima’s success in writing was brought to a halt when his idol, the writer Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, committed suicide in 1927 at 35 years old. Tsushima started to neglect his studies, and spent the majority of his allowance on clothes, alcohol, and prostitutes. He also dabbled with Marxism, which at the time was heavily suppressed by the government. On the night of December 10, 1929, Tsushima committed his first suicide attempt, but survived and was able to graduate the following year. In 1930, Tsushima enrolled in the French Literature Department of Tokyo Imperial University and promptly stopped studying again. In October, he ran away with a geisha named Hatsuyo Oyama [ja] and was formally disowned by his family.

Dazai (right) and Oyama Hatsuyo (second from left)

Nine days after being expelled from Tokyo Imperial University, Tsushima attempted suicide by drowning off a beach in Kamakura with another woman, 19-year-old bar hostess Shimeko Tanabe [ja]. Tanabe died, but Tsushima lived, rescued by a fishing boat and was charged as an accomplice in Tanabe’s death. Shocked by the events, Tsushima’s family intervened to drop a police investigation. His allowance was reinstated, and he was released of any charges. In December, Tsushima recovered at Ikarigaseki and married Hatsuyo there.

Soon after, Tsushima was arrested for his involvement with the banned Japanese Communist Party and, upon learning this, his elder brother Bunji promptly cut off his allowance again. Tsushima went into hiding, but Bunji, despite their estrangement, managed to get word to him that charges would be dropped and the allowance reinstated yet again if Tsushima solemnly promised to graduate and swear off any involvement with the party. Tsushima accepted.

Leftist movementEdit

In 1929, when its principal’s misappropriation of public funds was discovered at Hirosaki High School, the students, under the leadership of Ueda Shigehiko (Ishigami Genichiro), leader of the Social Science Study Group, staged a five-day allied strike, which resulted in the principal’s resignation and no disciplinary action against the students. Tsushima hardly participated in the strike, but in imitation of the proletarian literature in vogue at the time, he summarized the incident in a novel called Student Group and read it to Ueda. The Tsushima family was wary of Dazai’s leftist activities. On January 16 of the following year, the Special High Police arrested Ueda and nine other students of the Hiroko Institute of Social Studies, who were working as terminal activists for Seigen Tanaka’s armed Communist Party.

In college, Dazai met activist Eizo Kudo, and made a monthly financial contribution of ¥10 to the Communist Party. The reason why he was expelled from his family after his marriage with Hatsuyo Oyama was to prevent the accumulation of illegal activities on Bunji, who was a politician. After his marriage, Dazai was ordered to hide his sympathies and moved repeatedly. In July 1932, Bunji tracked him down, and had him turn himself in at the Aomori Police Station. In December, Dazai signed and sealed a pledge at the Aomori Prosecutor’s Office to completely withdraw from leftist activities.^[13][14]

Early literary careerEdit

Tsushima kept his promise and settled down a bit. He managed to obtain the assistance of established writer Masuji Ibuse, whose connections helped him get his works published and establish his reputation. The next few years were productive for Tsushima. He wrote at a feverish pace and used the pen name «Osamu Dazai» for the first time in a short story called «Ressha» («列車», «Train») in 1933: His first experiment with the first-person autobiographical style that later became his trademark.^[15]

However, in 1935 it started to become clear to Dazai that he would not graduate. He failed to obtain a job at a Tokyo newspaper as well. He finished The Final Years (Bannen), which was intended to be his farewell to the world, and tried to hang himself March 19, 1935, failing yet again. Less than three weeks later, Tsushima developed acute appendicitis and was hospitalized. In the hospital, he became addicted to Pavinal, a morphine-based painkiller. After fighting the addiction for a year, in October 1936 he was taken to a mental institution,^[16] locked in a room and forced to quit cold turkey.

The treatment lasted over a month. During this time Tsushima’s wife Hatsuyo committed adultery with his best friend Zenshirō Kodate.^{[citation needed]} This eventually came to light, and Tsushima attempted to commit double suicide with his wife. They both took sleeping pills, but neither died. Soon after, Dazai divorced Hatsuyo. He quickly remarried, this time to a middle school teacher named Michiko Ishihara (石原美知子). Their first daughter, Sonoko (園子), was born in June 1941.

Dazai and Ishihara Michiko at their wedding

In the 1930s and 1940s, Dazai wrote a number of subtle novels and short stories that are autobiographical in nature. His first story, Gyofukuki (魚服記, «Transformation», 1933), is a grim fantasy involving suicide. Other stories written during this period include Dōke no hana (道化の花, «Flowers of Buffoonery», 1935), Gyakkō (逆行, «Losing Ground», 1935), Kyōgen no kami (狂言の神, «The God of Farce», 1936), an epistolary novel called Kyokō no Haru (虚構の春, False Spring, 1936) and those published in his 1936 collection Bannen (Declining Years or The Final Years), which describe his sense of personal isolation and his debauchery.

Wartime yearsEdit

Japan entered the Pacific War in December, but Tsushima was excused from the draft because of his chronic chest problems, as he was diagnosed with tuberculosis. The censors became more reluctant to accept Dazai’s offbeat work, but he managed to publish quite a bit regardless, remaining one of very few authors who managed to get this kind of material accepted in this period. A number of the stories which Dazai published during World War II were retellings of stories by Ihara Saikaku (1642–1693). His wartime works included Udaijin Sanetomo (右大臣実朝, «Minister of the Right Sanetomo», 1943), Tsugaru (1944), Pandora no hako (パンドラの匣, Pandora’s Box, 1945–46), and Otogizōshi (お伽草紙, Fairy Tales, 1945) in which he retold a number of old Japanese fairy tales with «vividness and wit.»^{[This quote needs a citation]}

Dazai’s house was burned down twice in the American bombing of Tokyo, but his family escaped unscathed, with a son, Masaki (正樹), born in 1944. His third child, daughter Satoko (里子), who later became a famous writer under the pseudonym Yūko Tsushima (津島佑子), was born in May 1947.

Postwar careerEdit

In the immediate postwar period, Dazai reached the height of his popularity. He depicted a dissolute life in postwar Tokyo in Viyon no Tsuma (ヴィヨンの妻, «Villon’s Wife», 1947), depicting the wife of a poet who had abandoned her and her continuing will to live through hardships.

In 1946, Osamu Dazai released a controversial literary piece titled Kuno no Nenkan (Almanac of Pain), a political memoir of Dazai himself. It describes the immediate aftermath of losing the second World War, and encapsulates how Japanese people felt following the country’s defeat. Dazai reaffirms his loyalty to the Japanese Emperor of the time, Emperor Hirohito and his son Akihito. Dazai was a known communist throughout his career, and also expresses his beliefs through this Almanac of Pain.

Alongside this Dazai also wrote Jugonenkan (For Fifteen Years), another autobiographical piece. This, alongside Almanac of Pain, may serve as a prelude to a consideration of Dazai’s postwar fiction.^[17]

In July 1947, Dazai’s best-known work, Shayo (The Setting Sun, translated 1956) depicting the decline of the Japanese nobility after the war, was published, propelling the already popular writer into celebrityhood. This work was based on the diary of Shizuko Ōta (太田静子), an admirer of Dazai’s works who first met him in 1941. She bore him a daughter, Haruko, (治子) in 1947.

A heavy drinker, Dazai became an alcoholic^[18] and his health deteriorated rapidly. At this time he met Tomie Yamazaki (山崎富栄), a beautician and war widow who had lost her husband after just ten days of marriage. Dazai effectively abandoned his wife and children and moved in with Tomie.

Dazai began writing his novel No Longer Human (人間失格 Ningen Shikkaku, 1948) at the hot-spring resort Atami. He moved to Ōmiya with Tomie and stayed there until mid-May, finishing his novel. A quasi-autobiography, it depicts a young, self-destructive man seeing himself as disqualified from the human race.^[19] The book is considered one of the classics of Japanese literature and has been translated into several foreign languages.

Dazai and Tomie’s bodies discovered in 1948

In the spring of 1948, Dazai worked on a novelette scheduled to be serialized in the Asahi Shimbun newspaper, titled Guddo bai (the Japanese pronunciation of the English word «Goodbye») but it was never finished.

DeathEdit

On June 13, 1948, Dazai and Tomie drowned themselves in the rain-swollen Tamagawa Canal, near his house. Their bodies were not discovered until six days later, on June 19, which would have been his 39th birthday. His grave is at the temple of Zenrin-ji, in Mitaka, Tokyo.

At the time, there was a lot of speculation about the incident, with theories of forced suicide by Tomie. Keikichi Nakahata, a kimono merchant who frequented the young Tsushima family, was shown the scene of the water ingress by a detective from the Mitaka police station. He also speculates that «Dazai was asked to die, and he simply agreed, but just before his death, he suddenly felt an obsession with life».^[20]

Major worksEdit

Year	Japanese Title	English Title	Translator(s)	Comments
1928	Mugen naraku	«Bottomless Hell»
Aware ga	«The Pitiable Mosquitoes»		Referenced in «Leaves.»
1930	Jinushi ichidai	“A Landlord’s Life”		incomplete
1933	列車 Ressha	«The Train»	McCarthy	Wins prize from Tōō Nippō newspaper.[21] In The Final Years.
魚服記 Gyofukuki	«Metamorphosis» or «Transformation»; also translated as «Undine»	O’Brien	In The Final Years.
思い出 Omoide	«Memories» or «Recollections»	Dunlop; Lyons; O’Brien	First published in Kaihyō;[22] In The Final Years.
1934	Yonosuke no kien	«Big Talk from Yonosuke»		Partially ghost-written piece published under Ibuse Masuji’s name.[21]
葉 Ha	«Leaves»[1]	Gangloff	In The Final Years.
猿面冠者Sarumenkanja	«Monkey-Faced Youth»		In The Final Years.
彼は昔の彼ならず Kare wa mukashi no kare narazu	«He Is Not the Man He Used to Be»		In The Final Years.
ロマネスコRomanesuku	«Romanesque»		Published in the first and only issue of Aoi Hana.[23] In The Final Years.
1935	逆行 Gyakkō	«Losing Ground»		First appeared in literary magazine Bungei.[24] Was submitted for the first Akutagawa Prize, but did not win. The story was judged by Yasunari Kawabata to be unworthy due to the author’s moral character, a pronouncement that prompted an angry reply from Dazai.[25] In The Final Years.
道化の華 Dōke no Hana	«The Flowers of Buffoonery»		In The Final Years.
Dasu gemaine	«Das Gemeine»	O’Brien
Kawabata Yasunari e	«To Yasunari Kawabata»
猿ヶ島 Sarugashima	«Monkey Island»	O’Brien	In The Final Years.
玩具 Gangu	«Toys»	O’Brien	In The Final Years.
陰火 Inka	«Inka» (Will-o’-the-Wisp)		In The Final Years.
1936	虚構の春 Kyokō no Haru	«False Spring»
晩年 Bannen	The Final Years		First collection of short stories.
1937	二十世紀旗手 Nijusseiki Kishu	«A Standard-bearer of the Twentieth Century»
HUMAN LOST	«HUMAN LOST»
1938	満願 Mangan	«Fulfilment of a Vow» or «A Promise Fulfilled»[2]	Brudnoy & Kazuko; McCarthy	First appeared in the September 1938 issue of Bungakukai. In Schoolgirl.
姥捨 Ubasute	«Putting Granny Out to Die»	O’Brien	First appeared in the October 1938 issue of Shinchō. In Schoolgirl.
Hino tori	«The Firebird»
1939	I can speak	«I Can Speak»[3]	Brudnoy & Kazuko; McCarthy	In Schoolgirl.
富嶽百景 Fugaku Hyakkei	«One Hundred Views of Mount Fuji»	McCarthy	First appeared in Bungakukai, February & March 1939. In Schoolgirl.
黄金風景 Ōgon fūkei	«Golden Landscape» or «Seascape with Figures in Gold»	Dunlop; McCarthy	First appeared in Kokumin Shinbun, March 2–3 1939. In Schoolgirl.
女生徒 Joseito	Schoolgirl	Powell	Novella which first appeared in the April 1939 issue of Bungakukai; also the title of a collection of stories in which it appears. Winner of the Kitamura Tokoku Award[26]
懶惰の歌留多	«Slothful Utaruta»		First appeared in the April 1939 issue of Bungei. In Schoolgirl.
Oshare doji	«The Stylish Child»
1940	女の決闘 Onna no Kettō	«Women’s Duel»
Zokutenshi	«Worldly Angel»
Anitachi	«My Older Brothers»	McCarthy; O’Brien
Haru no tozoku	«A Burglar in Spring»
Zenzō o omou	«Thinking of Zenzō»	McCarthy
Kojiki gakusei	«Beggar Student»
駈込み訴へ Kakekomi Uttae	«Heed My Plea»	O’Brien
走れメロス Hashire Merosu	«Run, Melos!»	McCarthy; O’Brien
1941	Tokyo hakkei	«Eight Views of Tokyo»	Lyons; McCarthy; O’Brien
新ハムレット Shin-Hamuretto	«New Hamlet»
Fukusō ni tsuite	«On the Question of Apparel»	O’Brien
1942	Hanabi	«Fireworks»		Censored by the authorities, but published after the war as «Before the Dawn» (Hinode mae).[27]
正義と微笑 Seigi to Bisho	«Righteousness and Smiles»
Kikyorai	«Going Home»	Lyons
1943	Hibari no koe	«Voice of the Lark»	Marshall	Published after the war in 1945 as «Pandora’s Box» (パンドラの匣 Pandora no Hako).[27]
Kokyō	«Homecoming»	O’Brien
右大臣実朝 Udaijin Sanetomo	«Sanetomo, Minister of the Right»
1944	Kajitsu	«Happy Day»		Filmed as Four Marriages Yottsu no kekkon).
津軽 Tsugaru	Tsugaru	Marshall; Westerhoven
Hin no iji	«A Poor Man’s Got His Pride»	O’Brien
Saruzuka	«The Monkey’s Mound»	O’Brien
1945	新釈諸国噺 Shinshaku Shokoku Banashi	New Tales of the Provinces
惜別 Sekibetsu	Regretful Parting
お伽草紙 Otogizōshi	Fairy Tales		Collection of short stories
Kobutori	«Taking the Wen Away»	O’Brien
1946	冬の花火 Fuyu no Hanabi	Fireworks in Winter		Play
Niwa	«The Garden»	McCarthy
苦悩の年鑑 Kuno no Nenkan	Almanac of Pain	Lyons	Autobiography
十五年間 Jugonenkan	For Fifteen Years		Autobiography
Haru no kareha	«Dry Leaves in Spring»		Broadcast as a radio play on NHK the following year.[28]
Shin’yu kokan	«The Courtesy Call»
Kahei	«Currency»	O’Brien
1947	Tokatonton	«The Sound of Hammering»	O’Brien
ヴィヨンの妻 Viyon No Tsuma	«Villon’s Wife»	McCarthy
Osan	«Osan»	O’Brien
斜陽 Shayō	The Setting Sun	Keene
1948	如是我聞 Nyoze gamon	«Thus Have I Heard»		Essay responding to Shiga Naoya’s criticism of his work[28]
桜桃 Ōtō	«Cherries»	McCarthy
人間失格 Ningen Shikkaku	No Longer Human	Gibeau; Keene	(2018 English Translation/Variation: A Shameful Life)
グッド・バイ Guddo-bai	Good-Bye	Marshall	incomplete
Katei no kofuku	«The Happiness of the Home»
19??	Chikukendan	«Canis familiaris»	McCarthy
地球図 Chikyūzu	«Chikyūzu»		Before 1937. In The Final Years.
Chiyojo	«Chiyojo»	Dunlop
Kachikachiyama	«Crackling Mountain»	O’Brien
Hakumei	«Early Light»	McCarthy
Sange	«Fallen Flowers»[4]	Swann
Chichi	«The Father»[5]	Brudnoy & Kazuko
Mesu ni tsuite	«Female»	McCarthy
Bidanshi to tabako	«Handsome Devils and Cigarettes»	McCarthy
Bishōjo	«A Little Beauty»	McCarthy
めくら草紙 Mekura no sōshi	«Mekura no sōshi»		«The Blind Book.» Title is intended as a parody of Makura no sōshi (The Pillow Book).[29] Before 1937. In The Final Years.
Merii kurisumasu	«Merry Christmas»	McCarthy
Asa	«Morning»[6]	Brudnoy & Yumi
Haha	«Mother»[7]	Brudnoy & Yumi
Zakyō ni arazu	«No Kidding»	McCarthy
	«Shame»[8]	Dunlop
Yuki no yo no hanashi	«A Snowy Night’s Tale»	Swann
雀こ Suzumeko	«Suzumeko»		Before 1937. In The Final Years.
Oya to iu niji	«Two Little Words»	McCarthy
Matsu	«Waiting»[9]	Brudnoy & Kazuko; Turvill

Omoide

«Omoide» is an autobiography where Tsushima created a character named Osamu to use instead of himself to enact his own memories. Furthermore, Tsushima also conveys his perspective and analysis of these situations.^[30]

The Flowers of Buffoonery

«The Flowers of Buffoonery» relates the story of Oba Yozo and his time recovering in the hospital from an attempted suicide. Although his friends attempt to cheer him up, their words are fake, and Oba sits in the hospital simply reflecting on his life.^[31]

One Hundred Views of Mount Fuji

«One Hundred Views of Mount Fuji» shares Tsushima’s experience staying at Misaka. He meets with a man named Ibuse Masuji, a previous mentor, who has arranged an o-miai for Dazai. Dazai meets the woman, Ishihara Michiko, who he later decides to marry.^[32]

The Setting Sun

The Setting Sun focuses on a small, formerly rich, family: a widowed mother, a divorced daughter, and a drug-addicted son who has just returned from the army and the war in the South Pacific. After WWII the family has to vacate their Tokyo home and move to the countryside, in Izu, Shizuoka, as the daughter’s uncle can no longer support them financially ^[33]

No Longer Human

No Longer Human focuses on the main character, Oba Yozo. Oba explains his life from a point in his childhood to somewhere in adulthood. Unable to properly understand how to interact and understand people he resorts to tomfoolery to make friends and hide his misinterpretations of social cues. His façade doesn’t fool everyone and doesn’t solve every problem. Due to the influence of a classmate named Horiki, he falls into a world of drinking and smoking. He relies on Horiki during his time in college to assist with social situations. With his life spiraling downwards after failing in college, Oba continues his story and conveys his feelings about the people close to him and society in general.^[34]

Good-Bye

An editor tries to avoid women with whom he had past sexual relations. Using the help of a female friend he does his best to avoid their advances and hide the unladylike qualities of his friend.^[35]

Selected bibliography of English translationsEdit

• The Setting Sun (斜陽 Shayō), translated by Donald Keene. Norfolk, Connecticut, James Laughlin, 1956. (Japanese publication: 1947).
• No Longer Human (人間失格 Ningen Shikkaku), translated by Donald Keene. Norfolk, Connecticut, New Directions Publishers, 1958.
• Dazai Osamu, Selected Stories and Sketches, translated by James O’Brien. Ithaca, New York, China-Japan Program, Cornell University, 1983?
• Return to Tsugaru: Travels of a Purple Tramp (津軽), translated by James Westerhoven. New York, Kodansha International Ltd., 1985.
• Run, Melos! and Other Stories. Trans. Ralph F. McCarthy. Tokyo: Kodansha International, 1988. Tokyo: Kodansha English Library, 1988.
• Crackling Mountain and Other Stories, translated by James O’Brien. Rutland, Vermont, Charles E. Tuttle Company, 1989.
• Self Portraits: Tales from the Life of Japan’s Great Decadent Romantic, translated by Ralph F. McCarthy. Tokyo, New York, Kodansha International, Ltd., 1991.
• Blue Bamboo: Tales of Fantasy and Romance, translated by Ralph F. McCarthy. Tokyo and New York, Kodansha International, 1993.
• Schoolgirl (女生徒 Joseito), translated by Allison Markin Powell. New York: One Peace Books, 2011.
• Otogizōshi: The Fairy Tale Book of Dazai Osamu (お伽草紙 Otogizōshi), translated by Ralph F. McCarthy. Fukuoka, Kurodahan Press, 2011.
• Blue Bamboo: Tales by Dazai Osamu (竹青 Chikusei), translated by Ralph F. McCarthy. Fukuoka, Kurodahan Press, 2012.
• A Shameful Life: (Ningen Shikkaku) (人間失格 Ningen Shikkaku), translated by Mark Gibeau. Berkeley, Stone Bridge Press, 2018.
• «Wish Fulfilled» (満願), translated by Reiko Seri and Doc Kane. Kobe, Japan, 2019.

In popular cultureEdit

Dazai’s literary work No Longer Human has received quite a few adaptations: a graphic novel written by the horror manga artist Junji Ito, a film directed by Genjiro Arato, the first four episodes of the anime series Aoi Bungaku, and a variety of mangas one of which was serialized in Shinchosha’s Comic Bunch magazine. It is also the name of an ability in the anime Bungo Stray Dogs and Bungo and Alchemist, used by a character named after Dazai himself.

The book is also the central work in one of the volumes of the Japanese light novel series Book Girl, Book Girl and the Suicidal Mime,^[36] although other works of his are also mentioned. Dazai’s works are also discussed in the Book Girl manga and anime series. Dazai is often quoted by the male protagonist, Kotaro Azumi, in the anime series Tsuki ga Kirei, as well as by Ken Kaneki in Tokyo Ghoul.

See alsoEdit

• Dazai Osamu Prize
• List of Japanese writers
• Osamu Dazai Memorial Museum

ReferencesEdit

SourcesEdit

• O’Brien, James A., ed. Akutagawa and Dazai: Instances of Literary Adaptation. Cornell University Press, 1983.
• Ueda, Makoto. Modern Japanese Writers and the Nature of Literature. Stanford University Press, 1976.
• «Nation and Region in the Work of Dazai Osamu,» in Roy Starrs Japanese Cultural Nationalism: At Home and in the Asia Pacific. London: Global Oriental. 2004. ISBN 1-901903-11-7.

External linksEdit

• e-texts of Osamu’s works at Aozora bunko
• Osamu’s short story «Waiting» at the Wayback Machine (archived December 11, 2007)
• Osamu Dazai’s grave
• Synopsis of Japanese Short Stories (Otogi Zoshi) at JLPP (Japanese Literature Publishing Project) (in English)
• Osamu Dazai at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
• Works by Osamu Dazai at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)  

Osamu Dazai (太 (だ)宰 (ざい) 治 (おさむ), Dazai Osamu^?) is a member of the Armed Detective Agency and former executive of the underworld organization, the Port Mafia. He has the Ability named No Longer Human.

Appearance

Dazai is a young man with mildly wavy, short, dark brown hair and narrow dark brown eyes. His bangs frame his face, while some are gathered at the center of his forehead. He is quite tall and slim in terms of physique.

For his attire, Dazai wears a long sand-colored trench coat, the belt of which he leaves untied. Under it is a black vest over a striped dress shirt that is light blue in hue. He wears a bolo tie, which is held by a brown ribbon and a turquoise pendant. He also dons beige pants, dark brown shoes, and has bandages wrapped around his entire body; only his face, hands, and feet are left uncovered.

Back when he was in the Mafia, Dazai wore a black trench coat that reached under his knees. He also wore bandages over his right eye and his right arm is in a sling—presumably products of his suicidal pastimes. At some point, he was able to regain the use of his right arm.^[11]

After the cannibalism, Dazai wears a formal suit during the Agency’s celebration.^[12]

During the Yokohama fog incident, Dazai wears a white waistcoat over black long sleeves and a brown tie, together with white pants. A lapel pin can be also seen attached to his padded overcoat.^[13]

After being arrested by the Hunting Dogs and taken to Meursault, Dazai is currently wearing white prison clothes.^[14]

Others

Personality

Dazai is a mysterious person, his true intentions are never revealed unless he reveals them. The person who got closest to the truth of his personality, as acknowledged by Dazai himself, was his friend Sakunosuke Oda, who recognized that Dazai shall linger in the darkness forever, as there was nearly nothing that can surpass his mind. Regardless whether he is on the side of killing people or saving them, Oda knew that no place in the world could fill Dazai’s loneliness, which Oda thought Dazai knew in himself.^[11]

In addition, Dazai kept an enigmatic and dark façade, whose endeavors in the Mafia were unrivaled and eventually earned him the status as the youngest leader in the history of the Mafia (歴 (れき)代 (だい)最 (さい)年 (ねん)少 (しょう)幹 (かん)部 (ぶ), reki daisainenshō kanbu^?).^[3] Because of his aptitude despite his youth, Dazai contributed to about half the Mafia’s profits for at least two years.^[11] Eventually, Dazai’s ledger became tainted; Ichiyō Higuchi describes his blood to be «dark as the Mafia itself».^[1] Even in his adulthood when he becomes an Agency member, when Kyōka Izumi showed remorse over having killed 35 people, Dazai remarked with a sinister face that such number is nothing.^[15]

As a saying in the Mafia went, «The greatest misfortune for Dazai’s enemies is that they are Dazai’s enemies», for Dazai was aptly described to be «practically born to be in the Mafia». He was extremely confident and was a terrific planner, coming up with long-run strategies to subdue his enemies. For instance, he was able to lure Mimic operatives, who were previously trained soldiers, to fall under his trap.^[11] Dazai is quite skilled in persuasion notably through his words, which he appeared to utilize in interrogations that broke targets who did not divulge anything under Kōyō Ozaki’s torture squad.^[16]

Behind this grim persona, Dazai admitted that he joined the Mafia to be exposed to death, violence, and people giving in to their urges and desires, expecting that—in this way—he would be able to see the inner nature of humankind firsthand in hopes of finding a reason to live.^[11] Following Oda’s demise, Dazai defected from the Mafia and went underground in order to heed Oda’s final request for him to «be on the side that saves people». Admittedly, he reckoned that people change over time^[1] where potential surfaces,^[15] which apparently seems to apply to himself as well.

Upon joining the Agency, Dazai is usually called lazy, with Doppo Kunikida always scolding him for being unproductive and slacking off. Despite that, he has shown a sharp wit, deducing all the unlikely situations that led Atsushi Nakajima to believe he was being stalked by a tiger when he was the tiger in question.^[17] He has complete confidence no matter what type of situation he is dealing with, be it combat or simply bad situations he formulated in the first place.^[18][3]

In most occasions, Dazai is overly dramatic. He takes most of his actions as a joke, and, although they are very well-thought plans, he does not credit himself for most of what he has done. Dazai likes to tease anyone and everyone, especially if it means that he can get a laugh out of it.^[3] As a suicide maniac, he often attempts to commit suicide in comical manners, but he oftentimes fails^[6] or gives up on it when such methods are painful.^[19]

Dazai, in particular, wishes to commit double suicide with a beautiful woman;^[20][21][3] though he admits that he «likes all types of women», he possibly prefers the type who would die with him if he asked to.^[11] Kunikida once wondered why Dazai is quite popular with women and called him a menace to women,^[22] a sentiment Chūya Nakahara once used when he threatened to leak Dazai’s address to every woman he ever made cry, which Dazai soon asked him not to do.^[2] Dazai also once had a run-in with a bomb threat instigated by a woman whom Dazai figured was obsessed with him.^[22]

While his suicidal tendencies are initially comedic, they reveal a truly dark deep hole that Dazai has. Even as a teenage boy, Dazai questioned whether there was any value in life.^[9] Thus, he soon tried to fill this hole and find a reason worth living for, choosing to live a life surrounded by bloodshed and war, but his friend Oda with his dying breath convinced him to choose the good side. He understood that even though good and evil mean little to Dazai, he may become a slightly better person if he were to choose well.

In the past, while he was still suicidal, it was shown to be far less comedic. He even described the death as a way to free himself from the oxidizing world, but, strangely enough, he could not die no matter how hard he tried. Additionally, he was extremely brutal and methodical, setting up traps to catch captives alive to torture them for information, and he would often beat his then apprentice Ryūnosuke Akutagawa for disobeying orders and to push him to the limits to improve his abilities.^[11]

While in the present he is more lighthearted and comical, he still retains some of his darker personality. He is still able and proficient at coming up with long-run strategies, though he doesn’t inform his teammates what they are until the time is right.^[23] When he is able to see through the enemies’ schemes, no matter how complex, Dazai would sometimes plot to run along with a charade if he deems it necessary, which he did during his entrance exam in order to let Kunikida’s suspicions arouse over him as planted; in so doing, they were able to break free from their opponent’s ruse and eventually catch the mastermind behind.^[6]

Dazai is also willing to use dirty means to achieve his goals, such as purposely deflating Ango Sakaguchi’s car seat airbag when they crashed so Ango would get injured and force him to cooperate with Dazai for pardoning Kyōka in exchange for having his wounds healed.^[24]

Nonetheless, he does care for his teammates and watches out for them, especially Atsushi for whom he sees the greatest potential. Moreover, Dazai develops a sense of duty and utilizes his wit and intelligence to the Agency in their quest to help maintain Yokohama’s peace and order. As part of his various plans and well-calculated strategies, he even devised for Atsushi and Akutagawa to collaborate at times to become a new generation of Twin Dark who could take on the brewing evil lurking within the city.^[25]

Ability

Main article: No Longer Human

No Longer Human (人 (にん)間 (げん)失 (しっ)格 (かく), Ningen Shikkaku^?) allows Dazai to nullify others’ abilities on contact. It relies on skin contact and is always active. As such, he can nullify any ability even while restrained as soon as it touches him.

No Longer Human (人 (にん)間 (げん)失 (しっ)格 (かく), Ningen Shikkaku?)
	Manga Debut:	Chapter 1
Anime Debut:	Episode 1
Ability:	Ability Neutralization

Skills

• Intelligence: Dazai’s intelligence is his primary source of expertise as a Mafia executive in the past and as a detective at present. Ōgai Mori, a proficient tactician himself, widely trusted and relied on Dazai’s intelligence, whom he claimed to be his most worthy right-hand man should he have stayed in the Mafia.^[26] Dazai is also recognized as one of the Agency’s sharpest detectives (双璧, Sōheki^?, lit. «Double Jade») together with Ranpo,^[4] who is proclaimed by others and himself as the world’s greatest detective. With his intelligence, he is able to go head-to-head against the formidable Fyodor Dostoevsky, an avatar of cunning who sees Dazai to be quite identical to him.^[27] Even Ranpo once subtly admitted that going up against Fyodor is like going up against Dazai,^[28] whom the great detective himself views to be quite an enigma even as his co-worker.^[21] Dazai has an aptitude for predicting outcomes,^[23][25] which he himself admits is one of his strong qualities, if not his strongest.^[3][2]
  • Negotiation Skills: Dazai is an adept persuader, able to negotiate with others and consequently acquire his required outcomes. He is able to convince Kōyō, a Mafia executive, into letting Kyōka get arrested and even to stay in the Agency as their captive;^[29][25] Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald, a former enemy, into collaborating with him to catch Fyodor;^[12] and even Akutagawa into tailing and potentially helping Atsushi—the latter’s sworn rival—before the outbreak of the Decay of the Angel’ terrorism plot.^[30] He also once presumably persuaded Naomi Tanizaki to work with him behind her brother’s back, who both were secretly tasked by Kunikida into tricking Dazai, only for this scheme to backfire once Dazai realizes their clandestine arrangement.^[22]
• Dexterity: Dazai is proficient in lock picking, such as prying locked boxes^[11] or handcuffs^[18][13] open. Moreover, he was able to implant a bug in Higuchi’s pocket without being noticed by the mafioso.^[31] He was also able to swipe Chūya Nakahara’s knife without even being seen.^[2] Kunikida also once described Dazai to be «frighteningly dexterous», knowing that Dazai can pick a lock to a bank’s safe with a needle or easily switch out slips of paper with fake ones.^[22]
• Physical Prowess: Dazai had fair-to-middling hand-to-hand skills among the Mafia as Chūya recalled, which his nullification ability made up for. Dazai was able to briefly hold his own against Chūya, the most physically gifted in the Mafia, by predicting and defending against his moves and timing which he had memorized, though he got backed up on the wall soon after.^[3] Dazai was also able to fend against a big man by utilizing his resources around him, albeit being overwhelmed later on.^[6]
• Heart Rate Manipulation: Using the device that monitors his vitals which is planted on him at Meursault, Dazai can vary his heart rate at will and digitize his messages in order to communicate to the outside world.^[32]

Background

During his time as a Mafia executive, Dazai held a record of 138 counts of conspiracy to murder, 312 counts of extortion, and 625 counts of assorted fraud, among other crimes.^[33] After he defected from the Mafia and went underground, this ledger was wiped clean by the Seventh Agency, who were employed by Ango.^[29][34]

Battles

Main article: List of Battles

Osamu Dazai is one of the main characters from the Bungou Stray Dogs anime and manga.

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.

In the AWA fics, Osamu is set to appear in a future AWA storyline.

Appearance

Dazai is a handsome male with mildly wavy, short dark brown hair and narrow dark brown eyes. His bangs frame his face, while some are gathered at the center of his forehead. He is quite tall and slim in physique.

For his attire, Dazai wears a long sand-colored trench coat, the belt of which he leaves untied. Under it is a black vest over a striped dress shirt that is light blue in hue. He wears a bolo tie, which is held by a brown ribbon and a turquoise pendant. He also dons beige pants, dark brown shoes, and has bandages wrapped around his entire body; only his face, hands, and feet are left uncovered. The reasons for the bandages are yet to be discovered.

Back when he was in the mafia, Dazai wore a dark trench coat that reached under his knees. He also wore bandages over his right eye and his right arm is in a sling—presumably products of his suicidal pastimes. At some point, he was able to regain the use of his right arm; the same arm he then used to aim and fire a gun at Akutagawathree times.

Personality

Dazai is a mysterious person, his true intentions are never revealed unless he himself reveals them. The person who got closest to the truth of his personality, as acknowledged by Dazai himself, was his friend Sakunosuke Oda, who said to him, «it can’t be found. (…) You should know this yourself. No matter whether you’re on the side of killing people or saving people, there will never be anything that can surpass your mind. There is no place in this world that can fill your loneliness. You will linger in the darkness forever.»

Dazai is usually called lazy as Kunikida always scolds him for being unproductive and slacking off. Despite that, he has shown a sharp wit, deducing all the unlikely situations that led Atsushi to believe he was being stalked by a tiger when he actually was the tiger in question. He has complete confidence no matter what type of situation he is dealing with, be it combat or simply bad situations he himself created in the first place. In most occasions, Dazai is overly dramatic, he takes most of his actions as a joke, and, although they are very thought out plans, he does not credit himself for most of what he has done.

Aside from his quick thinking, Dazai is the comic relief in the series and at times Dazai’s soft side can be seen.

He is a suicide maniac, often trying to commit suicide in comical manners but often times failing. He, in particular, wishes to commit a double suicide with a beautiful woman (a nod to his real life counterpart who tried to commit double suicide with various women multiple times). However, while his suicidal tendencies are initially comedic, they reveal a truly dark deep hole that Dazai has and believes he cannot fill. He believed he could fill this hole and find a reason worth living for if he lived a life of bloodshed and war, but his friend Oda with his dying breath convinced him to choose the good side. He understood that even though good and evil mean little to Dazai, he may become a slightly better person if he were to choose good.

In the past, while he was still suicidal, it was shown to be far less comedic. He even described death as a way to free himself from the oxidizing world but strangely enough, he could not die no matter how hard he tried. In addition, he was extremely brutal and methodical, setting up traps to catch captives alive to torture the of information and often beat Akutagawa for disobeying orders and in order to push him to the limits to improve his abilities. He was extremely confident and was a terrific planner, coming up with long run strategies to subdue his enemies. Oda once noted that there was a saying in the Mafia that the worst thing for Dazai’s enemies was the fact they were his enemies.

While in the present he is more lighthearted and comical, he still retains some of his darker personality. He is still able and proficient at coming up with long run strategies though doesn’t inform his teammates what they are until the time is right. In addition, he is willing to use dirty means to achieve his goals, such as purposely deflating Ango’s car seat airbag when they crashed so Ango would have numerous broken injuries. This forced Ango to cooperate with Dazai for pardoning Kyouka in exchange for having his wounds healed. When Kyouka shows remorse over having killed 35 people, Dazai remarks with a sinister face that something like that is nothing. Nonetheless, he does care for his teammates and watches out for them, especially Atsushi for whom he sees the greatest potential.

Abilities

No Longer Human (Ningen Shikkaku, literally «Human Disqualification»): This allows Dazai to nullify others Abilities on contact. His Ability relies on skin contact and is always active. As such, he can nullify any Ability even while restrained as soon as it touches him.

Trivia

• Dazai’s past with Fyodor Dostoyevsky likely refers to the influence Crime and Punishment had on Ōba, the protagonist of No Longer Human.
• He, along with several other characters, made an appearance in the mobile game Love Heaven as a limited time character.
• He and several other characters also made an appearance in the mobile game Kimito Lead Puzzle 18 as a limited time character.
• He and several other characters made another appearance in the mobile game Yumeiro Cast as limited time characters.
• His constant attempts to commit suicide with a beautiful woman could be an allusion to his real life counterpart’s attempted double suicide with Shimeko Tanabe and Hatsuyo Oyama. His attempt with his lover Tomie Yamazaki was ultimately successful.
  • It’s also possible that his suicide attempts serve as a reference to No Longer Human‘s protagonist Ōba Yōzō’s multiple suicide attempts throughout the story, which is considered to be a reflection of Osamu Dazai’s turbulent life.
• He was the youngest Executive in Port Mafia history.
• In real life, he is often grouped together along with Sakaguchi Ango and Oda Sakunosuke as the Buraiha or Decadent School.
  • And on the series, this is often alluded, because the three used to meet in a certain bar, as seen in Dazai and the Dark Era and illustrated on the calendar.
• Dazai usually refers to himself by the gender neutral pronoun, «watashi,» rather than the more masculine pronouns like «boku» or «ore.» This is likely because of the format of traditional I novels, which the real Dazai specialised in, typically used formal «watashi» pronouns over its variants.
• Dazai is very bad at driving, as shown in the first light novel «Dazai Osamu’s Entrance Exam».
• His type is any woman who would like to commit suicide with him.

Gallery

External Links

• Osamu Dazai at Bungostraydogs Wiki

Osamu Dazai is one of the main characters from the Bungou Stray Dogs anime and manga.

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.

In the AWA fics, Osamu is set to appear in a future AWA storyline.

Appearance

Dazai is a handsome male with mildly wavy, short dark brown hair and narrow dark brown eyes. His bangs frame his face, while some are gathered at the center of his forehead. He is quite tall and slim in physique.

For his attire, Dazai wears a long sand-colored trench coat, the belt of which he leaves untied. Under it is a black vest over a striped dress shirt that is light blue in hue. He wears a bolo tie, which is held by a brown ribbon and a turquoise pendant. He also dons beige pants, dark brown shoes, and has bandages wrapped around his entire body; only his face, hands, and feet are left uncovered. The reasons for the bandages are yet to be discovered.

Back when he was in the mafia, Dazai wore a dark trench coat that reached under his knees. He also wore bandages over his right eye and his right arm is in a sling—presumably products of his suicidal pastimes. At some point, he was able to regain the use of his right arm; the same arm he then used to aim and fire a gun at Akutagawathree times.

Personality

Dazai is a mysterious person, his true intentions are never revealed unless he himself reveals them. The person who got closest to the truth of his personality, as acknowledged by Dazai himself, was his friend Sakunosuke Oda, who said to him, «it can’t be found. (…) You should know this yourself. No matter whether you’re on the side of killing people or saving people, there will never be anything that can surpass your mind. There is no place in this world that can fill your loneliness. You will linger in the darkness forever.»

Dazai is usually called lazy as Kunikida always scolds him for being unproductive and slacking off. Despite that, he has shown a sharp wit, deducing all the unlikely situations that led Atsushi to believe he was being stalked by a tiger when he actually was the tiger in question. He has complete confidence no matter what type of situation he is dealing with, be it combat or simply bad situations he himself created in the first place. In most occasions, Dazai is overly dramatic, he takes most of his actions as a joke, and, although they are very thought out plans, he does not credit himself for most of what he has done.

Aside from his quick thinking, Dazai is the comic relief in the series and at times Dazai’s soft side can be seen.

He is a suicide maniac, often trying to commit suicide in comical manners but often times failing. He, in particular, wishes to commit a double suicide with a beautiful woman (a nod to his real life counterpart who tried to commit double suicide with various women multiple times). However, while his suicidal tendencies are initially comedic, they reveal a truly dark deep hole that Dazai has and believes he cannot fill. He believed he could fill this hole and find a reason worth living for if he lived a life of bloodshed and war, but his friend Oda with his dying breath convinced him to choose the good side. He understood that even though good and evil mean little to Dazai, he may become a slightly better person if he were to choose good.

In the past, while he was still suicidal, it was shown to be far less comedic. He even described death as a way to free himself from the oxidizing world but strangely enough, he could not die no matter how hard he tried. In addition, he was extremely brutal and methodical, setting up traps to catch captives alive to torture the of information and often beat Akutagawa for disobeying orders and in order to push him to the limits to improve his abilities. He was extremely confident and was a terrific planner, coming up with long run strategies to subdue his enemies. Oda once noted that there was a saying in the Mafia that the worst thing for Dazai’s enemies was the fact they were his enemies.

While in the present he is more lighthearted and comical, he still retains some of his darker personality. He is still able and proficient at coming up with long run strategies though doesn’t inform his teammates what they are until the time is right. In addition, he is willing to use dirty means to achieve his goals, such as purposely deflating Ango’s car seat airbag when they crashed so Ango would have numerous broken injuries. This forced Ango to cooperate with Dazai for pardoning Kyouka in exchange for having his wounds healed. When Kyouka shows remorse over having killed 35 people, Dazai remarks with a sinister face that something like that is nothing. Nonetheless, he does care for his teammates and watches out for them, especially Atsushi for whom he sees the greatest potential.

Abilities

No Longer Human (Ningen Shikkaku, literally «Human Disqualification»): This allows Dazai to nullify others Abilities on contact. His Ability relies on skin contact and is always active. As such, he can nullify any Ability even while restrained as soon as it touches him.

Trivia

• Dazai’s past with Fyodor Dostoyevsky likely refers to the influence Crime and Punishment had on Ōba, the protagonist of No Longer Human.
• He, along with several other characters, made an appearance in the mobile game Love Heaven as a limited time character.
• He and several other characters also made an appearance in the mobile game Kimito Lead Puzzle 18 as a limited time character.
• He and several other characters made another appearance in the mobile game Yumeiro Cast as limited time characters.
• His constant attempts to commit suicide with a beautiful woman could be an allusion to his real life counterpart’s attempted double suicide with Shimeko Tanabe and Hatsuyo Oyama. His attempt with his lover Tomie Yamazaki was ultimately successful.
  • It’s also possible that his suicide attempts serve as a reference to No Longer Human‘s protagonist Ōba Yōzō’s multiple suicide attempts throughout the story, which is considered to be a reflection of Osamu Dazai’s turbulent life.
• He was the youngest Executive in Port Mafia history.
• In real life, he is often grouped together along with Sakaguchi Ango and Oda Sakunosuke as the Buraiha or Decadent School.
  • And on the series, this is often alluded, because the three used to meet in a certain bar, as seen in Dazai and the Dark Era and illustrated on the calendar.
• Dazai usually refers to himself by the gender neutral pronoun, «watashi,» rather than the more masculine pronouns like «boku» or «ore.» This is likely because of the format of traditional I novels, which the real Dazai specialised in, typically used formal «watashi» pronouns over its variants.
• Dazai is very bad at driving, as shown in the first light novel «Dazai Osamu’s Entrance Exam».
• His type is any woman who would like to commit suicide with him.

Gallery

External Links

• Osamu Dazai at Bungostraydogs Wiki

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┃ :black_small_square: Вес

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┃ :black_small_square: Группа Крови и Резус-Фактор

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:arrow_right_hook: Группа крови Вашего персонажа

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:heavy_check_mark: Четвертая — АВ (IV) :heavy_check_mark:

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┃ :black_small_square: Лояльность

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:arrow_right_hook: Зло

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┃ :black_small_square: Семья//Друзья

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:arrow_right_hook: Семья: Неизвестно

:arrow_right_hook: Друзья: Одасаку Сакуноскэ; Анго Сакагучи

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┃ :black_small_square: Что любит?

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:arrow_right_hook: Самоубийства, алкоголь, крабов, MSG

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┃ :black_small_square: Что не любит?

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:arrow_right_hook: Собак, Чую Накахару

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┃ :black_small_square: Каноничность

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Канон

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┃ :black_small_square: Профессия

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:arrow_right_hook: Член исполнительного комитета портовой Мафии

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┃ :black_small_square: Организация

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:arrow_right_hook: Портовая Мафия

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┃ :black_small_square: Напарники//Ученики//Наставники

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:arrow_right_hook: Есть ли у Вашего персонажа напарник//ученики//наставник?

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Напарник: Чуя Накахара

Ученики: Рюноске Акутагава, Кимико Йокота (по сюжету ролевой)

Наставник: Мори Огай

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┃ :black_small_square: Название Способности

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:arrow_right_hook: Исповедь неполноценного человека(人間失格)

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┃ :black_small_square: Описание Способности

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:arrow_right_hook: Исповедь неполноценного человека (人間失格, Ningen Shikkaku) Эта способность позволяет Осаму, посредством физического контакта, нейтрализовать способности другого человека. Его способность опирается только на контакт с кожей, так что она не сработает на расстоянии, что является слабостью его способности.

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:black_small_square: Характер

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:arrow_right_hook: Обладает весьма задиристым и высокомерным характером, при этом самодостаточная, которая периодически принимает попытки суицида.

Дазай весьма загадочная личность, его истинные мотивы никогда не раскроются, если он сам не раскроет их.

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┃ :black_small_square: Внешность

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:arrow_right_hook: Дазай имеет слегка волнистые, короткие темно-каштановые волосы и узкие темно-карие глаза.Чёлка обрамляет его лицо, а некоторые ее пряди собраны в центре лба. Он довольно высокий и стройный телосложением.

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┃ :black_small_square: Биография

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:arrow_right_hook: Прошлое

До вступление в Детективное агентство Дазай был одним из пяти великих боссов мафии. За всю историю мафии он был самым молодым, кто удостоился чести быть им, из-за чего стал живой легендой. В последующие годы он в основном занимался руководством, принося мафии около половины её общей прибыли, из-за чего действующий босс — Мори Огай сказал: «Дайте ему ещё 4-5 лет, и я не удивлюсь, если он убьёт меня и займёт это место». Помимо руководства Дазай прославился ещё и своими пытками, как-то упоминая, что «не было ни одного заключённого, кто выдержал бы мой допрос». Помимо всего этого он применял жестокие методы обучения для Акутагавы Рюноске, и частно надругался над ним.

Толчком к тому, чтобы покинуть мафию стал его старый друг — Ода Сакуноске, исполнитель низшего ранга, который был убит во время конфликта Портовой мафии организацией «Имитаторы», которую подстроил Мори Огай, чтобы получить правительственную лицензию на существование Портовой мафии как официальной организации. Обезумевший от осознания того, что всё это время Одой управлял Огай, чтобы тот совершил атаку на вражеского командира, Дазай особенно близко принимает к сердцу его последние слова: «Стань тем, кто спасает людей! Обе стороны равноценны, так стань хорошим человеком. Спасай слабых, защищай сирот. Для тебя нет большой разницы между злом и справедливостью… но так будет правильно» — после этого Ода умирает, а Дазай решает уйти из мафии

По словам Акутагавы, он неожиданно прервал одну из миссий и дезертировал. Позже Дазай выследил человека по имени Танеда — капитана сверхъестественного подразделения японского министерства и попросил найти место, где он мог бы помогать людям. Танеда в ответ спросил не хочет ли Дазай вступить в Детективное агентство, но при условии, что исчезнет на два года, чтобы очистить своё прошлое. Неизвестно что он делал всё это время, лишь упоминается, что перед вступлением в агентство он По словам Акутагавы, он неожиданно прервал одну из миссий и дезертировал. Позже Дазай выследил человека по имени Танеда — капитана сверхъестественного подразделения японского министерства и попросил найти место, где он мог бы помогать людям. Танеда в ответ спросил не хочет ли Дазай вступить в Детективное агентство, но при условии, что исчезнет на два года, чтобы очистить своё прошлое. Неизвестно что он делал всё это время, лишь упоминается, что перед вступлением в агентство он был безработным и являлся частым посетителем баров, где без причины напивался.

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Член «Вооружённого детективного агентства», сотрудники которого обладают разнообразными сверхъестественными способностями. Сам он владеет способностью «Исповедь неполноценного человека», которая позволяет ему посредством физического контакта нейтрализовать способности другого человека. Обладает задиристым и высокомерным характером, при этом желает покончить жизнь самоубийством.