Orikuchi Shinobu

**Orikuchi Shinobu** (折口 信夫, *Orikuchi Shinobu)* is a member of the Port Mafia and is also the main weapon maker of the Mafia. She is one of the six Executives of the Port Mafia. She has an ability named Between the Sea and the Mountain.

## Appearance

Shinobu is a slender young woman with waist-length, chestnut hair, and dull violet eyes. Her hair, which she prefers to let loose, ranges in ginger shades all the way from mahogany to auburn. Her hair color differs considerably in the anime (red) from the original VN (chestnut), though this is only in artistic appearance.

She has an unusual sense of fashion, with her outfit being composed of a white long-sleeved blue-rimmed dress shirt with a red necktie. Her shirt is tucked into a pair of black shorts on top of black tights, held up by a white belt with a gold buckle. Her red tie hangs loosely around her collar, and she wears a loose khaki jacket that covers her upper thighs, and has black and white straps at the end of both sleeves and the rim which are used to keep the entire jacket on her arms. She also wears a pair of black boots which are partially unzipped and folded down.

## Personality

Shinobu is calm and stoic, very laid-back and nonchalant person, especially compared to Chuya high-strung attitude and the overly playful Osamu.

Shinobu didn't appear to take any situation very seriously in general back then. Shinobu would openly smoke in public. Even after Osamu defected from the Port Mafia, Shinobu was able to have a casual conversation with him about what he did. She was totally comfortable asking Osamu about the accusations and even called him childish for sulking because no one understands him.

## Ability

**Between the Sea and the Mountains** (海やまのあひだ), help Shinobu can acquire information using sight outside the normal range of detection about an object, person, location, or physical event. Usually, she can also do so without the aid of her vision, allowing herself to act when she are unable to use eyes.

Shinobu also can "hitch-hike" other beings' senses and experience what happens as they were her. This power grants Shinobu with the ability to taste, feel, smell, see or hear from other senses. It allows she to experience the world as her target would.

## Skills

**Weapon Crafting:** With her talent in making weapons, she helped the Port Mafia in confronting other organizations and reaped great profits in the production of weapons. Therefore, she was targeted by many other underground organizations to take advantage of her.

**Immense Intuition:** According to Mori and Osamu, Shinobu's hunches are often accurate. Her feeling that Chuya regarding Arahabaki and the appearance of the previous Boss to be correct.

## Quotes

(To Osamu Dazai ) "Just pretending that no one understands you, makes me feel you like a child*."*

## Namesake

**Shinobu Orikuchi** (折口 信夫, *Orikuchi Shinobu*, 11 February 1887–3 September 1953), also known as **Chōkū Shaku** (釋 迢空, *Shaku Chōkū*), was a Japanese ethnologist, linguist, folklorist, novelist, and poet.

## Trivia

* Her hobby is drinking caffeine and sleep.
* Favorite dish: Caffeine.
* Least favorite dish: Sweet things.
* Cause of stress: Night shift.