Sakunosuke Oda

Sakunosuke Oda, also more commonly known as Odasaku by his friends, a major protagonist in Bungo Stray Dogs franchise, serves as the main protagonist of a prequel story arc, titled Osamu Dazai and the Dark Era.
Oda was a member of the Port Mafia and a former hitman in the criminal underworld. After he received words of wisdom from a man named Sōseki Natsume about becoming an author, he quitted his bloodshed of a profession while at the same time, joining the Port Mafia as a low-ranking member and becoming drinking buddies with Osamu Dazai and Ango Sakaguchi. Before his death, his dying words to Dazai encouraged him to leave the Port Mafia and start a new life that involve saving people, hence Dazai joining the Armed Detective Agency. He is based off of the Japanese writer with the same name.
He is voiced by Junichi Suwabe in Japanese. Yūto Uemura voiced young Oda in Japanese. David Vincent voiced him in English (both older and young).
== Personality ==
Despite working for the mafia, Oda was a kindhearted and patient man. He was one of if not the only member of the Port Mafia who was against killing others. All that aside, however, when he's furious with his enemies, he is shown to have amazing and strong fighting skills, this was something that Dazai had warned his subordinates about. 
Oda's reason for not killing anyone was due to his dream of becoming a writer. The author of the books he was reading, Sōseki Natsume, told him that being an author of a book is like deciding how a person lives or dies. Those words made Oda realize that if a person takes a life, they shouldn't be responsible for another, and that drove him to a life without killing.
When it comes to the orphans he took care of, Oda acted as a playful father towards them while still keeping his trademark calm and straight face. He cared about them so much that they became his reason for living. When the orphans died at the hands of the criminal organization, Mimic, Oda was extremely heartbroken and devastated that he abandoned his dream of becoming a writer and went on a suicide mission for revenge against Mimic and their leader, André Gide. This act of revenge resulted in Oda successfully killing Gide, but at the same time, resulting in Oda losing his life as well. 
Oda can be a pretty perceptive person as well. That perceptiveness of his is allows him to have a better understanding of his best friend, Dazai. Dazai is someone who had grown tired of his existence but tried to find a meaning to live by surrounding himself with violence. It is Oda's understanding of Dazai's loneliness, as well as his regret of not being able to do anything about it, that prompted his dying wish that became the trigger for Dazai deserting the mafia in favor of carving a brighter path for himself as a good person, something that Oda wanted to do. 
== Biography ==
In his youth, Oda was a freelance hit man, doing contract assassinations and was ruthless in his line of work. One day, he was reading the first two volumes (out of three) of a novel he found in one of his victims' houses. A middle-aged man named Sōseki Natsume caught him reading the books and commented that the last volume is an atrocious piece of work and Oda should be happy that he only has the first two volumes. The man encouraged Oda to write his conclusion to the novel, and later gave Oda the last volume of the series but with the final pages missing.
The man told Oda "To write novels is to write about humans." Oda took the man's words to heart, and, believing that a murderer has no right to write about human lives, decided to never kill again in hopes of becoming a novelist eventually and writing his conclusion to the book in a room with an ocean view. He also strived to become a better person in general, after the Dragon Head Conflict, (a conflict between underworld organizations in Yokohama) Oda took in five kids who were orphaned as a result of the conflict. He mostly leaves the kids under the care of the owner of his favorite curry shop.
== Ability ==
Flawless - Oda's ability lets him see a few seconds into the future whenever his life is in danger, letting him draw up a quick plan to avert that future through his own skills. His ability, however, does have a downside to it. Since he can only up to six seconds into the future, if the time between triggering a trap and Oda realizing that he's in danger is longer than 6 seconds, his ability won't be too useful to evade the said trap.
== Skills ==
Marksmanship: Oda is a very skilled gun user, when he was framed by a president's secretary for killing a company president, he was able to shoot the man in midair while holding the gun underneath him. 
Oda's marksmanship skills were shown off when he was taking own Mimic by himself without any back up. 
== Trivia ==
* The real life Sakunosuke Oda, Osamu Dazai, and Ango Sakaguchi were drinking buddies. The three were known as the Buraiha or Decadent School. This is alluded to in the series, as the three used to meet occasionally at night in Bar Lupin outside their work.
* His ideal type is a quick-witted woman.
* Oda would have been 27 if he were still alive.
* His favorite food is curry.
* The real life Oda likes curry. He liked it so much that he wrote an article about it.
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