Osamu Dazai (Literary Stray Dogs)

Osamu Dazai, also known as Twin Dark, is one of the main characters from the Literary Stray Dogs series.
== Charactah Account ==
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.
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.
== Appearance ==
=== Anime ===
* Literary Stray Dogs
* Literary Stray Dogs 2nd Season
* Literary Stray Dogs 3rd Season
* Literary Stray Dogs 4th Season
* Literary Stray Dogs 5th Season
* Literary Stray Dogs Wan!
* Literary Stray Dogs: Dead Apple
* Literary Stray Dogs: Walking Alone
=== Light Novels ===
* Literary Stray Dogs
=== Manga ===
* Literary Stray Dogs
* Literary Stray Dogs Wan!
* Literary Stray Dogs: Beast
=== Video Games ===
* Literary Stray Dogs: Tales of the Lost
== Trivia ==
* The real life Osamu Dazai's birthname is Shuuji Tsushima.
* Dazai's past with Fyodor likely refers to the influence Crime and Punishment had on Youzou Ooba, the protagonist of the real-life Dazai's No Longer Human.
* Dazai's constant attempts to commit suicide with a beautiful woman could be an allusion to his real-life counterpart's attempted double suicides 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's multiple suicide attempts throughout the story, which is considered to be a reflection of Dazai's turbulent life.
* In real life, Dazai is often grouped together along with Ango Sakaguchi and Sakunosuke Oda as the Decadent School (Buraiha, lit. "school of irresponsibility and decadence"). This is often alluded in the series, because the trio's actual counterparts used to meet in the actual Bar Lupin in Ginza.
* 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 novels, which the real Dazai specialized in, typically used formal watashi pronouns over its variants.
* The book The Complete Suicide which Dazai owns in the series is a reference to The Complete Manual of Suicide written by Wataru Tsurumi published in 1993, filled with guides on methods of suicide along with the assessment of the pain it causes, preparation required, the appearance of the body and, lethality.
** In regards to suicide methods, Dazai have tried the following:
*** Slamming his head into the corner of a block of tofu.
*** Death by Poisoning: Mushrooms.
*** Asphyxiation.
*** Compressed death in a drum.
*** Cardiac arrest.
* According to the first official guidebook:
** He recently spends his time doing nothing.
** He has an irregular sleeping pattern and doesn't sleep much.
** He feels that he should think about new ways to harass Chuuya in case they got paired up again.
** He thinks that everything is his strengths
** His ideal type is any person who is willing to commit double suicide with him.
** His motto is "Have a pure, cheerful, and energetic suicide."
** According to him, there were no times when he thought he was dying the most.
* According to the second official guidebook:
** His favorite type of woman is a woman who doesn't ask any questions.
** His favorite motto is "Death is a part of life."
** What he felt about the title of youngest executive: "It wasn't something I was aiming for, so I didn't feel anything."
** His memorable experience at the bar "Lupin": "When the master remembered the three of us and our favorite drinks."
* Dazai is very bad at driving.
* Dazai seems to be unable to sleep if it is not completely dark.
== Gallery ==
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== External Links ==
* Osamu Dazai at Bungo Stray Dogs Wiki
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