Armed Detective Agency

Members of the VDA

Leader: Yukichi Fukuzawa. Members: Special Detective: Ranpo Edogawa. Detectives: Doppo Kunikida, Osamu Dazai, Atsushi Nakajima, Kenji Miyazawa, Kyoka Izumi. Doctor: Akiko Yosano. Agency Technician: Junichiro Tanizaki. Office worker: Naomi Tanizaki.

Yukichi Fukuzawa

Fukuzawa is a tall, adult man with a permanently stern expression. He has silver hair and gray eyes. Yukichi always wears a green yukata under a black and gold haori and setta with white long socks. Nickname: Silver Wolf. Age: 45. Height: 186 cm. Ability: All People Are Equal. Likes: Cats, VDA. Dislikes: The Guild, Port Mafia. Fukuzawa is (as expected from the director of the Detective Agency) a very serious and insightful person, able to keep his cool even in the face of danger. He is also a good leader.

Ranpo Edogawa

Ranpo's height is 168 centimeters, which is below average. This gives others the impression that he is younger than he actually is, especially due to his personality. Ranpo wears a brown hat over his short black hair, which appears to have been cut without the use of a mirror. His eyes are green in color and have an unusual, narrow shape. Around his shoulders, Ranpo wears a brown poncho that matches his hat and pants. Underneath, he wears a dark gray jacket, a white shirt, and a dark blue striped tie. Under his pants, he wears long white socks that are three-quarter length and plain black shoes. Nickname: The World's Greatest Detective. Age: 26. Likes: Logical thinking, fantasy horror movies, sweets. Dislikes: Common sense, useless knowledge. Due to being a genius, Ranpo is very proud of himself and often brags about being the World's Greatest Detective. He also showed a rather childish personality in Episode 5 when he teased the other members of the agency. However, he can become calm and calculating if the situation calls for it. He is incredibly intelligent, which is highly valued by the agency, even more so because he does not have the ability. Ranpo is a big fan of sweets. This guy loves to throw some candy in his cheek.

Kunikida Doppo

Doppo is a tall, young man of average build, with light hair and grass-gray eyes. His bangs are parted to the right, and his hair is tied into a long ponytail, although it still has some hair sticking out. He always wears glasses. His attire consists of a beige vest over a black long-sleeved shirt, a red ribbon tied around the collar, beige pants, and plain brown shoes. Nickname: Four-Eyes, Prime Minister of the Planning Country (by Dazai). Age: 22. Height: 189. Likes: His notebook, fishing, lightly fried mackerel. Dislikes: Surprises, power. Job: Math Teacher (Formerly), Detective, Internal Director. Ability: Doppo's Poetry, allows Kunikida to turn everything he sees into real objects while maintaining every function of them. Doppo appears to be a very serious, yet slightly hot-tempered young man. He has been documenting his entire life in a notebook. He does not recognize anything other than his small notebook. He is most likely a perfectionist.

Dazai Osamu

Dazai is a young man with partly wavy, short, dark brown hair and narrow dark brown eyes. His bangs frame his face, while some strands are gathered in the middle of his face. He is fairly tall and slim. He wears bandages all over his body due to injuries he received in battle, as well as the result of Dazai's suicide attempts. Dream: Double suicide with a beautiful lady. Age 22. Height 181 cm. Nicknames: "Demonic Prodigy of the Port Mafia" (formerly), "The Youngest Leader in the History of the Mafia" (formerly), "Double Black" (formerly, with Chuuya Nakahara of the Port Mafia), "Ghoul" (by Kunikida), "Heartless Dog", "Mackerel" (by Chuuya Nakahara of the Port Mafia), "The Agency's Coolest Detectives" (with Ranpo). Likes: Crabs, suicide, alcohol. Dislikes: Chuuya Nakahara of the Port Mafia, children, dogs. He has a very cocky and cheerful character, but is self-sufficient, and periodically attempts suicide. Dazai is a very mysterious person, his true motives will never be revealed unless he reveals them himself. Constantly tries to commit suicide, which causes inconvenience to his colleagues. Likes to joke about Kunikida. Ability: Inferior Human, nullifies any abilities.

Atsushi Nakajima

Atsushi has silver hair, pale skin, and yellow eyes with a violet tint. His hair is short on the right side of his face and long on the left side with a noticeable black stripe. He is of average height and thin. In the beginning, he wore the clothes from the orphanage: a gray jacket and pants, black pumps. After joining the Armed Detective Agency, he began wearing a white shirt with elbow-length sleeves, a black tie, black pants, boots, fingerless gloves, suspenders, and a belt combined with a long sash that dangles freely from the buckle. When he partially transforms into a tiger, his eyes become like a tiger's eye and he gains tiger stripes. If he completely transforms, his limbs turn into tiger limbs and a tail appears. Age 17. Height 170 cm. Likes: Ochazuke, cats, chameleons, Yokohama. Dislikes: Himself, the orphanage he grew up in. Due to the abuse he suffered at the orphanage, Atsushi has no self-confidence at all, and even hates himself. He is fixated on the past, and has made many bad decisions throughout the story due to his low self-esteem. The agency had a strong impact on Atsushi, breaking his previous life principles. He was shocked that there were people in the world who needed him. Nickname: "Kid" or "Babe" (from Kunikida), "Atsushi-san" (from Kenji and Naomi), "Puppy" (from Kouyou of the Port Mafia), "Tiger Man" (from Akutagawa of the Port Mafia), "Tiger Boy" (from Hirotsu of the Port Mafia), "Fool" (from Akutagawa of the Port Mafia), "Tiger Cat" (from Lucy of the Guild), "Tiger Boy", "Matasaburo" (from Vern of the Port Mafia), "White Reaper". Ability: Moonlight Beast, gives Atsushi the ability to transform into a white tiger, instantly regenerate.

Kenji Miyazawa

Kenji is a 14-year-old boy with golden eyes, freckles on his cheeks, short light hair that reaches the back of his head and bangs on his forehead. He wears light blue overalls, under which he wears a beige shirt with torn sleeves up to the elbows and a black tank top with sleeves that end just below the elbows. Kenji also wears a straw hat around his neck. He usually goes barefoot, but sometimes wears sandals. Height: 158 cm. Age: 14. Likes: Music, Tensobu, Mitsuya cider. Dislikes: Poverty. Nickname: Ken-chan. Ability: Not Yielding to Rain, gives him superhuman strength, allowing him to do things that no ordinary person could ever do, such as easily lifting a car or pulling a road sign out of cement. Kenji comes from the small village of Ikhatovo. He is simple, carefree and hospitable, always greeting people with a smile on his face, so he is quite popular in the city. He has an optimistic outlook on life. Kenji believes in the innate sincerity of others, no matter what they say or do. His inattention to danger may be due to his rural upbringing.

Kyouka Izumi

Kyouka is a small girl with long dark blue hair tied into two low ponytails with white flowers. Before meeting Atsushi, her eyes were dark, but when she joins the "Armed Detective Agency" her eyes become lighter, clearer. She always wears a red kimono with a pattern of flowers and a yellow ribbon tied around her waist. She also wears long white socks and sandals. The girl's phone has a tiny white rabbit keychain, her favorite animal. Height 148. Age 14. Likes: Rabbits, tofu, hydrangeas, ghosts. Dislikes: Dogs, lightning, flies. Ability: Snow Demon, allows her to materialize a katana-wielding phantom that carries out orders from the girl's phone and does not fulfill her own desires. Kyoka's personality is doll-like. She is indifferent and ruthless when carrying out tasks. After meeting Atsushi, Izumi became more real, like a teenage girl. She easily fell in love with all the little things. Despite her young age, she is distinguished by a frightening professionalism. At the same time, she also has childish character traits.

Josano Akiko

Akiko is a young woman who takes care of her appearance. She has short black hair with straight bangs and a golden butterfly clip on the side. In the manga, her eyes are dark gray, but in the anime, they are purple. Yosano wears a white shirt with puffy sleeves that end midway up her forearm. Her shirt is tucked into a simple black skirt that ends just above her knee. She wears black gloves and a black tie, dark tights, and red heels. Ability: Don't Give Up Your Life, a very rare healing ability. The condition for this ability to be used is that a non-fatally injured person cannot be healed until they are at death's door. Age 25. Height 166. Likes: Flowers, wagashi (Japanese sweets), eel, sake. Dislikes: Male chauvinism, weak men. Nickname: Doctor, Miss Angel (Formerly), Angel of Death. Yosano is a woman who carries herself with great grace and dignity. She prides herself on being a strong woman and a capable doctor, so she does not take too kindly to those who belittle her in either regard. She is a feminist who believes that now is the time for equal rights for men and women. Akiko is almost always portrayed as calm and reserved, but when she gets angry, she is shown to be a very strong girl to fight against. She is prone to sadistic and aggressive actions, which are further exacerbated by the condition of her powers. As a result, most of the Agency's personnel will flee when she appears and avoid even minor injuries as much as possible in order to circumvent her unique method of "treatment". As the Detective Agency's only doctor, she values ​​human life highly and is greatly opposed to senseless deaths and killings. She will persistently counsel those who think differently, and is very willing to do so without much hesitation. Out of the Armed Detective Agency, she seems to be the closest to Rampo, as he was the one who brought her to them.