Ango Sakaguchi/Synopsis

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Dark Era Arc

 * Note: Incomplete

In the prologue, he meets Dazai and Odasaku in their usual bar, having come from a deal in Tokyo. He shows them the object of the deal, an antique watch. Dazai asks if he has a camera, which he does, and all three take a photo together. The next day, he was reported missing right after he bid farewell to his friends the night before.

Soon enough, Oda locates and saves Ango who was discovered as a spy and had been set up to be killed. It is soon revealed that Ango is also a spy infiltrating the mafia, having come from the ministry that worked for the Port Mafia to watch the mafia's activities. Mori had known about knew this and used him to spy on Mimic's movements overseas, making him a triple spy. This revelation creates a gap between him, Dazai, and Oda. Consequently, Ango takes his leave from their usual hangout, Bar Lupin.

The Guild Arc
During the middle of the three-way organization war, Dazai contacts Ango and meets with him at a carpark. Dazai initially greeted Ango cheerfully, but his real aim was the gun tucked in Ango's waist. Dazai immediately cocked the gun at Ango's head mockingly praising Ango for coming and asking if he actually thinks he has forgiven him. Ango pointed out that he was the one who cleaned Dazai's records, which allowed Dazai to join the Agency and owes him that. Dazai, with Ango's bodyguards aiming to kill him if he moves wrongly, concedes. Dazai also points out that Ango knew that that situation will happen, and so kept his gun without bullets. Dazai then proposes a ride around town in Ango's car, to which Ango agrees.

Ango and Dazai talk about the Guild, and Dazai subtly urges Ango to make a move on them, being the Department that handles Ability Users. Ango then reveals that the Department has been aware of the Guild's activities, along with other specifics regarding the organization, including the fact that each of the Guild members was given a diplomat's level of authority, and thus cannot be touched. Ango stops the car and asks Dazai to run and tell his subordinates in the Agency that they are in danger. At that moment, another car crashes with their car, crushing Ango's side of the car.

Ango is later seen when Dazai visits him in a hospital. Ango is severely injured, head covered in bandages and a cast on his right leg to his foot. Dazai then says that he brings good news: that Akiko Yosano will heal him from the injuries he sustained from the car crash, which turns out to be orchestrated by the Guild. Ango asks him what the price for that is, and Dazai plays innocent, pointing out that the Special Division for Unusual Powers and the Armed Detective Agency always help each other out. Ango catches on to Dazai's thought process: "The Special Division should also help out in this war." Dazai then says that the Agency wants to rescue Kyōka Izumi before the final showdown with the Guild. Ango says that, from what he's heard, Kyouka is being held in a UAV for isolating dangerous Ability Users.

Dazai asked for the Special Division to make the necessary arrangements. He asks Ango if it can be done. Ango confirms this but tells Dazai that it is only possible if Kyōka is a member of the Agency, which she isn't, as she hasn't passed the entrance exam. Ango then says that his authority is not enough to grant Kyōka, who is a mass murderer and not a member of the Agency, an amnesty; he instead offers assistance regarding the Agency's operations against the Guild. Dazai prepares to leave, but before letting him go, Ango reinstates their deal and says he won't go back on it then asks a question: "Is there a particular reason why the airbags on my seat were the only ones that malfunctioned when the car came crashing into us out of nowhere?" In reply, Dazai gives him a dark smile.

Following the crash of Moby Dick, Ango appears annoyed as the war will cause him a lot of stress and work. Ango approaches Herman who is sitting on a bench nearby, and asks him for his co-operation. Herman responds that he would like to watch the sea for a bit to which Ango agrees and that if he can give them info, it'll save him from arresting innocent Guild members like him. Herman wonders why Ango thinks that someone of a mere rank and filer have that power and knowledge. Ango replies that it is because Herman was actually a head of the Guild two generations back. Herman then tells Ango that youngsters are so eager to bring up old tales. Ango then shows him handcuffs and tells him that they won't be needing it. The two then leaves the scene.

The Guild Aftermath Arc
Ango is called upon by Murakoso about a break-in of the Special Division document transport vehicle, in which an attacker has stolen a document with code name I-75-81-A. He then wonders why a document with no possible monetary value is stolen.

As Murakoso wonders what kind of document it is, Ango tells her that it contains a record of the death of Kyōka Izumi's parents at the hands of Demon Snow, revealing that they were on the government's side as former assassins. However, given their identities, Ango states that the government concluded the incident as an ability gone berserk.

Cannibalism Arc
Upon being contacted by Dazai, Ango and the military police arrive at a café to arrest Fyodor Dostoevsky. As an operative touches the latter, he instantly dies despite Dazai's warning. As Ango warns the Russian not to do anything else, he surrenders and agrees to go with them.

Decay of Angels Arc
One month after the events of Cannibalism, unable to contact Dazai, Ango calls Atsushi and asks him to relay a warning to his comrades that there might be a spy within the government conspiring with the "murder association" known as the Decay of Angels.

Later on, Ango arrives at the government bank upon hearing that the Armed Detective Agency members, Atsushi Nakajima and Kyōka Izumi, who are currently wanted fugitives manage to infiltrate the facility. Ango immediately requests control over the security forces and begins to search the building. Mushitaro Oguri, upon discovering that the Special Division has surrounded the building, becomes terrified when he discovers that Ango is currently searching the building.

Oguri claims that he heard of Ango before, referencing Ango as a member of The Seventh Agency, a criminal organization created by the government. Oguri uses his ability in order to escape by putting stolen cash above their heads while activating his ability, thus concealing the three of them. They hide in a room and have Kyōka's Demon Snow to close the door of the room next door. This proven effective as Ango and the Special Division troops have fallen for the trick.

Ango examines the floor of the empty room using his ability only to discover there is no single trace of ability having been used. Just as the threesome about to escape through the sewer, Atsushi and Kyōka are struck with tranquilizing darts, leaving them temporarily incapacitated, therefore unable to attack. Oguri, looking evidently perplexed, asks Ango how he managed to discover the three of them. Ango explains about his ability and the fact that he extracts memory from the dropped cash that they have been using to conceal themselves.

But instead of turning them in, Ango pushes them into the sewer, helping them escape. Furthermore saying that Fyodor will think that they are against each other, while in fact, he and Dazai have been allies from the start. Upon Dazai's imprisonment, Ango has been acting as his middle-man ever since, decrypting the numerical code from Dazai's vital signs tracker that Dazai sent by manipulating his heart rate.

Ango then explains that he is not a member of The Seventh Agency and the rumors were in fact, one of Fyodor's lies that was told to Oguri to prevent them from seeing each other. In Anne's room, he then confesses about having employed the organization once to clear Dazai's crime records so that he can live outside the mafia and warns that the alliance of Fyodor and The Seventh Agency will be the worst possible alliance if they were to come together.

DEAD APPLE
Ango meets Dazai in front of Bar Lupin in the middle of work. Not long after that, two of his subordinates point guns towards Dazai, accusing him of having brought Tatsuhiko Shibusawa into Yokohama, the person responsible for the Dragon's Head Conflict, a tragedy six years prior the event. A moment later, clusters of fog start to rise around his feet as Shibusawa appears behind him, taking away Dazai.

Ango later contacts Doppo Kunikida, reporting that the fog has engulfed the entirety of Yokohama, disconnecting Yokohama from the outside world and confirms that only the gifted are present after he manages to locate each of them. The fog also causes the gifted to be separated from their ability, thus Ango warns Kunikida and the rest of the Agency to be careful. Ango also requests the Agency to eliminate Shibusawa as the mastermind of this incident and gives them Shibusawa's current location.

In order to defeat the Dragon, Ango calls upon Chūya Nakahara, which in turn decided to break into the walls of the government facility Ango's currently in. Chūya blames Ango and the rest of the government bureaucrats having employed Shibusawa six years ago in order to end all the city's conflict which ends up backfired, creating an even bigger conflict instead. Ango in his defense states that all he did was for the peace of the nation. In exchange for Chūya's assistance, Ango states that he wouldn't mind if Chūya wanted to take his life, Chūya agrees and proceeds to commence the operation.

After the incident finally sorted out, Ango is seen with his subordinate, Mizuki Tsujimura, pulling off their current day four of all-nighter marathon, writing reports upon the incident's aftermath. Tsujimura then asks Ango about his thoughts of the incident which then Ango replies that the incident fundamentally caused out of Shibusawa's isolation and loneliness, probably the results of his extreme intelligence and later states that he couldn't even imagine it to the already sleeping Tsujimura.