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Oda Sakunosuke

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Character
Name: Oda Sakunosuke, Odasaku (nickname)
Occupation: Mafioso, Assassin (former)
Relationships: friend of Dazai Osamu and Sakaguchi Ango
Fandom: Bungou Stray Dogs
Other: Voiced by Suwabe Junichi [1] and Uemura Yuuto (young) [2]
Oda Sakunosuke wearing Yukata under the rain, with a book on his head and Sensei the cat on his shoulder.
Oda Sakunosuke on the cover of 天衣無縫 novel.
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Oda Sakunosuke, commonly known as Odasaku, is a character in Bungou Stray Dogs fandom.

Oda Sakunosuke first appeared in the light novel Dazai Osamu and the Dark Era as the narrator. The subsequent anime adaptation of said light novel brought a lot of spotlight to his character and made him fairly popular amongst BSD fans.

His friendship with Dazai Osamu is one of the most talked about topics regarding Odasaku's character, besides his canon death.

In Canon

Main Universe

As a child, Oda Sakunosuke is an assassin, aided by his ability to look around six seconds into the future. He encounters Fukuzawa Yukichi, is later imprisoned, and rejects Fukuzawa's offer to pull strings to make him free, instead asking for curry. Years later, after a brief meeting where Natsume Sōseki encourages him to become a writer, Oda swears off killing and becomes a Port Mafia errand boy while aspiring to be a novelist. He befriends Dazai, and the two befriend Sakaguchi Ango. Oda adopts five orphans, who he leaves mostly in the care of a restaurant owner.

André Gide, who has approximately the same ability as Oda, leads a group of Mimic soldiers seeking death in battle. He wants Oda to kill him, but Oda is under a vow never to kill. During the following conflict, Ango is unmasked as a PM mole in Mimic and a government mole in the PM, leaving Oda and Dazai feeling betrayed; Gide has Oda's children abducted and Oda is unable to save them from being killed by explosion; and Oda goes to kill Gide as vengeance, knowing he too will die. While he is dying, Dazai arrives, and Oda tells him that he will never fill his emptiness but that if good and evil are the same to him then he should join the side which helps people. Dazai takes his words to heart and continues to visit Oda's grave years later.

BEAST

Oda is a member of the Armed Detective Agency and is working on a novel. It is eventually revealed that Dazai, who never defected from the PM because Oda did instead of dying, has realized that there are alternate universes and this is the only one he could find where Oda is both still alive and working on a novel. Dazai chooses to die to bring together the Shin Soukoku fighting team for the safety of the world because he wants Oda, who hates him, to live.

Gakuen Mobile Game

Oda will be a high school Japanese language teacher in training.[1] Fans have said that this means there is at least one other universe where Oda is alive and has the potential to write a novel.

In Fandom

Discussions of Oda in fandom tend to center around his interactions with and influence on Dazai, with other popular topics being whether Oda is really as good a person as Dazai believes, his interactions with Ango, and the meta implications of his authorial aspirations.

Some fans have theorized, with varying degrees of seriousness, that Oda has reality-altering powers, is a godlike being, or even is the sole god of the BSD universe. This is sometimes simply due to the themes of writing books and Oda's aspirations of becoming a novelist.[2] A more complex variant of the theory is that the final book by Natsume, which he told Oda to write instead and which Oda thinks is wonderful and can be read endlessly, is the reality-altering Book; the Book, in turn, may be the BSD universe itself.

Fanwork Tropes

  • Oda loving curry, sometimes to an almost obsessive degree.
  • Angst
  • Deathfic

Fans Reactions

I like him but like some others said, he's a little boring. He's a good guy, does all the right things even if he's in the mafia. He even helps orphans. He's pretty much perfect but personally, I find Ango more interesting, being able to pull off being a triple agent for so long. But Odasaku is a good, well-written character. I'm just not interested in him. Lol.

Sienne_ [3]

I like Odasaku's character, and how well written he is, but we cannot say that he's a totally good man, adopting orphans and helping them doesn't necessarily make u a good man, also, he is not the 'Best friend anyone could have' , To dazai, (in my opinion ofc) he did everything that a normal friend would do for the sake of his friend, not a best friend, not a close friend, just friend. In the end thats my opinion, feel free to share yours too :3

_loui93_ [4]

Honestly, I found his character to be a little boring. He’s likable. And he’s definitely the reason why Dazai didn’t end up just completely evil or dead. But I love most of the characters for their neurosis and their quirks. Oda kind of…oh god help me from this pun…a bit too flawless. cringes at self I appreciate him for his influence on Dazai the most.

Kanti13 [5]

I liked him very much he is a very will written character. He was one of the few if not the only one who perfectly understood Dazai, he was a good friend and a good father figure and he really had a goal in life to become a writer and for that he changed himself from a professional killer to someone who doesn’t kill despite his rare ability that gave him advantage on many other abilities, he preferred to be the lowest in the mafia until he could gain enough money to take the kids and free himself from all of this and follow his dreams. Odasaku, dazai and mori are the best written characters in BSD. Of course I like the other characters but these in my opinion are the best. I haven’t seen many odasaku haters except some people in pinterest who just hate him cuase They think he threatens their soukoku ship although I don’t understand why. 🤷🏻‍♀️

Striking-Flouder-97 [6]

Common Pairings

  • Oda Sakunosuke/Dazai Osamu: The most popular ship for Odsasaku and one of the top ten ships in the fandom on AO3.. Fans of this ship point to Odasaku's lasting influence on Dazai and how he drove him to be a better person in canon as well as their friendship. It is considered a tragic ship since in the canon universe, Oda dies young, and in BEAST, Dazai dies young; the only world in which neither dies is the Gakuen AU. This ship is highly controversial, given their five-year age gap and the fact that Dazai was a minor for most of their acquaintance.
  • Oda Sakunosuke/Sakaguchi Ango: The second most popular ship for Oda and most common ship for Ango, it is also heavy on angst, since Ango told Oda about Gide and may consider himself partially responsible for Oda's death. In fanfic AUs where Oda does not die and No Powers AUs, they frequently are married or in a long-term relationship, and Dazai sometimes is their son.
  • Oda Sakunosuke/Sakaguchi Ango/Dazai Osamu: Known as the Buraiha Trio, which is also the name of their friend group in works where the relationships between some or all of them are platonic.
  • Oda Sakunosuke/André Gide: A very controversial and often-hated ship, since Gide murders Oda's children. Some consider to have intentional homoerotic subtext in canon, especially on Gide's side, perhaps because Gide's real-life inspiration was known for his relationships with younger men. BSD Gide shows a high admiration for Oda, frequently telling Oda how perfect he is, and in the light novel, Oda considers Gide handsome.

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Meta

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References

  1. ^ Bungou Stray Dogs - Gakuen 2018 (part ONE) translation from an official Tweet in Japanese by @sweethell97: "My name is Oda Sakunosuke. But a friend calls me OdaSaku. I transferred here at the Academy as a practice teacher. I teach Japanese Language. With Dazai, because our houses are neighboring, before I go out, when I knock at the thin wall, we head towards school. Since he has trouble sleeping, then this is enough as alarm. Now that I think about it, moving here there is a thing I noticed...in this school there is a cat. A calico cat. I wonder if he is kept by someone. He is friendly and often he let me pet him. During chilly days, when I hold him up in my arms, since it’s warm, it’s helpful. But when I hold the cat in my arms, I notice that Principal Fukuzawa stares at me intently. I wonder what does that gaze means..."
  2. ^ "fuck but you know how the whole bsd is built on the metaphor of writing books, and we have a character who literally talks directly about how he wants to write a novel- Odasaku as the demiurge of the bsd universe? given that it's his image on Kafka's ava in twt, like ahahaa)))" --@yana-revers
  3. ^ "Sienne_ comments on What's Your Opinion on Odasaku?". 2023-03-05. Archived from the original on 2023-03-05.
  4. ^ "_loui93_ comments on What's Your Opinion on Odasaku?". 2023-03-05. Archived from the original on 2023-03-05.
  5. ^ "Kanti13 comments on What's Your Opinion on Odasaku?". 2023-03-05. Archived from the original on 2023-03-05.
  6. ^ "Striking-Flounder-97 comments on What's Your Opinion on Odasaku?". 2023-03-05. Archived from the original on 2023-03-05.
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