Sakunosuke Oda

## Voices

**Sakunosuke Oda**  (織田 作之助,, *Oda Sakunosuke*) was a member of the Port Mafia. His ability name was **Flawless**.

## Appearance

He wis a tall man with dark brown eyes and short hair that has a reddish tinge and is slightly parted so that a small area of his forehead is visible. He also has light stubble similar to Ōgai Mori's.

His attire consists of a black-and-white pinstriped collared shirt that he wears loosely, whose collar covers part of a long-sleeved beige-brown Kevlar-woven coat with brown buttons on the cuffs. His pants are pale grey, whilst his shoes are light brown. Oda also occasionally dons a bulletproof vest beneath his shirt, particularly during his combat-related endeavors.

In his younger years when he worked as an assassin, Oda once wore a navy collared shirt, work pants, and leather shoes. He also wielded holsters where he kept two old pistols, his signature weapons during his assassination missions. Yukichi Fukuzawa also noted that his eyes were "frighteningly vacant" and almost devoid of any emotion.

## Personality

Oda is a man described as kind, despite working for the mafia, by Dazai. He has a nice temper, and so, was one of the few persons in the mafia who seldom killed. Nevertheless, when furious, he showed amazing and strong fighting skills that Dazai had warned Akutagawa about. Dazai called him "a man who has no ulterior motive". Oda means what he says, and sometimes mistakenly assumes that about other people—for example, when he gave serious responses to Dazai's joke explanations of how he got his various injuries.

However, he also has an incredibly perceptive side to him that allowed him to come the closest to understanding Dazai, whom he referred to as "his dear friend, who had grown tired of the world and is simply waiting to die." It is his understanding of Dazai's loneliness, as well as his regret of not being able to do anything about it, that prompted him to leave behind the last words that became the trigger for Dazai deserting the mafia in favor of carving a brighter path for himself, something that Oda wanted to do.

## Etymology

* The name **Sakunosuke** means "build" (作) (saku), "of" (之) (no) and "help" (助) (suke).
* The surname **Oda** means "weave" (織) (o) and "rice field" (田) (ta/da).

## Trivia

* If Oda were still alive, he would have been 27 years old.
* In real life, Sakunosuke Oda is often grouped with Osamu Dazai and Ango Sakaguchi 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.
* It is very likely that the book Oda was reading at the café was *Kokoro* (こゝろ or こころ, *lit.* "Heart"), which is split into three parts and was written by Sōseki Natsume.
* According to the second official guidebook:
	+ He thinks he has no particular strength and when it comes to weaknesses, compared to his friends he has no talent.
	+ His ideal type is a quick-witted woman.
	+ His favorite food is curry.
		- The real-life Oda liked curry so much he wrote an article about it. An autographed photograph of Oda hangs in the Osaka restaurant Jiyūken (自由軒). Jiyūken happens to be the name of the curry rice Oda favors; it is spicy curry rice with a raw egg on top of it (as what the anime showed).
	+ He dislikes dishes served during stiff dinner parties.
	+ He wants to go to a bookstore with his novels arranged there.
* According to the DEAD APPLE official guidebook:
	+ He recently finds it fun going for drinks with Port Mafia’s accountant.
	+ He's been recently worried about the increase in orphans due to the Dragon’s Head Conflict.
	+ His motto is "Limit to one curry meal per day."