Jun'ichirō Tanizaki/Synopsis

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Armed Detective Agency vs. Port Mafia Arc
Tanizaki poses as a hostile enemy with a grudge against the Agency, threatening to bomb everyone and having his sister pose as a hostage. This charade acts as Atsushi Nakajima's entrance exam into the Agency.

After the incident, Tanizaki apologized to Atsushi, saying that even if it was for Atsushi's exam, he was still rude to him. This fact shows off how much of a caring person Tanizaki can be. It was also when he had told Atsushi that he too worked as an assistant of sorts at the Agency.

He and Naomi later attend Atsushi's first major mission, assisting a woman claiming to be stalked. The mission ends in an ambush orchestrated by Port Mafia, and the woman violently shoots at the trio. Naomi saves Tanizaki's life by shielding him. Naomi's dire state makes Tanizaki snap, and he uses Light Snow to counter Higuchi's assault.

Just as he's about to crush her neck, Ryunosuke Akutagawa severely injures Tanizaki, leaving Atsushi on his own against Port Mafia's hellhound. Later, Dazai intervenes and cuts the fight, and Tanizaki makes a full recovery with the help of Akiko Yosano's ability.

While the Agency works on a request from a ministry officer, the Agency learns about Atsushi's kidnapping by the mafia. Though Tanizaki suggests they save him, Ranpo reasons out why they have no reason to do so. Worried for Atsushi, Naomi brings in the President himself to make a decision. In the end, Fukuzawa puts all work on hold and orders the Agency to help bring back Atsushi within three hours.

As they find the corporation that owns the vehicle that captured Atsushi, Tanizaki investigates their base, only to find all crew members slaughtered by Akutagawa. In the end, after Atsushi manages to defeat the latter, Tanizaki is among the members welcoming Kyōka Izumi to their team.

The Guild Arc
Following Port Mafia's failed kidnapping, the Guild makes its move to obtain Atsushi themselves. Once more accompanying Atsushi with his sister to investigate Kenji Miyazawa's disappearance, the trio breaks when Lucy Maud Montgomery's ability traps Naomi.

A panicked Tanizaki tracks Lucy down, but she quickly traps much of the public in her dimension. Despite his ruthless desire to save Naomi and Kenji, Tanizaki also falls victim to Lucy's ability. However, Light Snow creates a false door and tricks Lucy. Together with Atsushi, Tanizaki succeeds in freeing Naomi and Kenji along with the rest of the imprisoned civilians in the dimension.

After the incident, Tanizaki serves some baumkuchen to Naomi for breakfast. As Tanizaki reads the metropolitan police's records on Kyōka, he tells Naomi on how her parents were murdered.

The Agency later convenes at the Bankoudou Hall, where Dazai explains their strategy against the mafia and the Guild. To make up for their numbers, they shall split into various teams: one defense team and two offense teams. Tanizaki is partnered with Kunikida as one offense team; Dazai is paired with Atsushi as another offense team; and Fukuzawa, Ranpo, Yosano, and Kenji comprise the defense team. Dazai then finishes with their main objective which is to keep their base hidden as possible, after which Fukuzawa declares that they must survive the three-way ability war.

Eventually, the mafia comes up with a strategy of using the Agency clerks – Naomi and Kirako Haruno – as bait for the Guild, particularly for Steinbeck and Lovecraft. Upon learning of their tactic from Chūya Nakahara, Fukuzawa contacts Kunikida about the matter. Upon the President's advice, Kunikida then informs Tanizaki that open conflict with the Guild is imminent, heading out afterwards to save the clerks on time.

As they encounter the two Guild members on the road having trapped the clerks' escape vehicle, Tanizaki activates Light Snow for cover, allowing Kunikida to shoot Lovecraft and Steinbeck from behind. As Steinbeck inadvertently loosens his grapevines' grip on the clerks' vehicle, Tanizaki rescues the clerks and directs them to flee to a nearby passenger train.

After Tanizaki helps Naomi and Haruno escape from the car, Kunikida tries to buy some time for the clerks, only for Steinbeck to rid him of his pistol and restrain him. However, Kunikida manages to gain the upper hand by manifesting another pistol through a pre-torn page from his notebook, instantly subduing Steinbeck.

To their shock, Lovecraft stands up, seemingly unscathed from his earlier gunshots. Kunikida asks Tanizaki to activate Light Snow immediately, but Lovecraft's tentacles capture the two detectives at once. While they are restrained, Steinbeck locates the two clerks through his grapevines and successfully prevents their escape. Kunikida questions their means, to which Steinbeck responds how moralists like them would never understand their work.

Provoked with how the Guild puts Naomi in harm's way, Tanizaki retorts that he shall gladly burn the world and discard his morals for Naomi's sake; he uses Light Snow on an oncoming truck driver to have it crash onto Steinbeck and Lovecraft. Upon doing so, Tanizaki and Kunikida are released from their restraints and successfully retreat to the woods.

After Atsushi and Dazai stop the rampage of the cursed Yokohama citizens, Tanizaki accompanies Fukuzawa to a secret meeting with Mori and his entourage. As the two leaders briefly clash, Tanizaki reveals Fukuzawa to have been his projection. The real President later arrives, and the meeting concludes with the two parties declining to form an alliance.

Later on, Tanizaki and Atsushi head to the library, where Atsushi learns from Tanizaki that Kyōka is yet to become an official Agency member, since she has not yet passed an entrance exam similar to how Atsushi and Tanizaki himself both had. They soon arrive at the library and are greeted by a government agent who directs them to the Night Crow, the Special Division's light attack helicopter. As they anxiously fly towards Moby Dick, Tanizaki activates Light Snow to hide their presence, allowing Atsushi to successfully enter the aircraft.

Later, Tanizaki is among the other Agency members who proudly witness Kyōka pass her entrance exam. Eventually, Tanizaki and the other Agency members welcome Kyōka as their newest member. During the party, he sees Atsushi apologize to Naomi and Haruno about the Q incident. He then looms behind Atsushi and asks why he has never heard of anything about the incident, much to Atsushi's uneasiness.

The Guild Aftermath Arc
Following the battle with the Guild, Tanizaki and the other drained Agency members are updated by Atsushi about criminal organizations eyeing the Guild's alleged fortune. The next day, he and the others find Café Uzumaki ransacked and learn that the gang responsible were looking for them. They instantly locate the gang's hideout, where Tanizaki helps them slip through security cameras. As they return to the café, Tanizaki wonders about the Guild's fortune, which Dazai thinks must have already been slyly collected. They are later introduced to Lucy, the café's new waitress.

Later, Tanizaki and Atsushi investigate an apparent traffic incident of a 40-year-old man, who is later identified as the director from Atsushi's orphanage. Tanizaki tries to console him, but Atsushi is quite relieved on the matter. Eventually, Tanizaki finds out that the director might have come to Yokohama to find and praise Atsushi for his victorious feat against the Guild, but Atsushi shuns him away. Tanizaki worries for him, but Dazai, from the side, urges him to give Atsushi some time alone.

Some time later, Tanizaki informs Kunikida about reports of someone handing bomb-rigged briefcases to a passersby and detonating them on the streets. Eventually, when Kunikida takes his leave, Tanizaki remarks on Dazai's evil schemes of trying to obstruct Kunikida's schedule. Kenji asks for the Agency's second-in-command, whom Tanizaki thinks to be Ranpo (though he rejects such title) or Dazai (who is occupied on thinking how to disrupt Kunikida). In the end, he and Kenji learn from Dazai that the Agency's next president is Kunikida.

Cannibalism Arc
As Fukuzawa is attacked by a masked assassin, Tanizaki and the others rush to the President's side, where they find him get afflicted with a virus that even Yosano cannot accurately diagnose nor treat. Tanizaki wishes to kill Mori, the other host of the mutually-destructive virus, but Kunikida anxiously ponders on the best possible course of action to avoid an all-out conflict. As the mafia arrives at the hospital where the President is taken, Ranpo encourages them, especially asking Kunikida as their interim director to issue his comrades with his orders. As such, Tanizaki and the rest of the Agency guard Fukuzawa's room.

As they face off with the mafia's main forces led by Chūya, the Agency members begin to dissipate, revealing it as Tanizaki's illusion. In truth, Kenji had blasted through the wall and carried the President out to safety with the others to rethink their strategy in their escape. Tanizaki surrenders to the mafia, believing in Ranpo's plan.

When the appointed time for their bargain ends, Tanizaki tries to negotiate with the Black Lizard that Ranpo has yet to deliver a new message. However, instead of disposing of him, Ryūrō Hirotsu plans to turn Tanizaki as a mafia spy. Tanizaki calmly refuses, but he instantly turns vicious upon the mention of threatening Naomi. Michizō Tachihara further threatens him as someone who can merely disappear, but Tanizaki manifests a switchblade as remotely activated through Kunikida's ability.

Tanizaki breaks free of his restraints and projects an illusion into the room. As he misleads each of the Black Lizard commanders with his offensive illusions, including attacking Tachihara and Gin Akutagawa and being blasted by Hirotsu, Tanizaki locks them inside and covertly heads to Mori's chamber.

As he prepares to assassinate the incapacitated mafia boss, Tanizaki is impaled by Kōyō Ozaki's Golden Demon, quickly projecting illusions for defense. When Kōyō slashes throughout the room in an attempt to strike the hidden detective, Kyōka arrives to Tanizaki's aid and escapes with him from the building. Mafiosi enter the room and shoots at Tanizaki and Kyōka, but Kōyō stops them in fear of hitting Kyōka.

When Tanizaki and Kyōka are fetched by the others, Fukuzawa himself issues an order not to fight the mafia, but Ranpo persuades them that it is inevitable to fight them after they tried and failed to catch the virus ability user. As such, Tanizaki and most of the Agency members, except Kunikida and Atsushi, agree to launch a frontal assault at the mafia.

As Kenji, Yosano, and Tanizaki head to the mafia headquarters, Kenji uses his brute strength to repel the mafiosi's attacks. They then charge at the mafiosi and manage to break through the first floor of the building. Eventually, a barrage of gunshots rain upon them, forcing them to go on the defense. Tanizaki later notices that the attacks have stopped, thinking it as their opportunity to retaliate. Yosano stops him upon noticing Motojirō Kajii; to their surprise, the mafioso launches his so-called Lemon Runway, paving the path he walks with lemon bombs. Yosano then calls Tanizaki and Kenji to retreat.

While updating Dazai regarding recent events, Tanizaki spots Haruno's cat wandering along the streets. He then tells Dazai that no one has yet found where the President went. Dazai wonders what he would do at such crucial time; to Tanizaki's confusion, Dazai refers to Sōseki Natsume, an ability user rumored to be the strongest in Yokohama.

In their search for Fyodor, Tanizaki and Kenji monitor the exits from above the Rats' hideout. He contacts Dazai about the activities happening, such as a horde of vehicles exiting the coal mine. Dazai asks them to ignore it, including the subsequent ones they see. Though Tanizaki panics upon why Dazai does not give the order, Dazai quips that they must not waste their manpower in capturing a demon. Tanizaki soon tells Dazai about a chopper near the site, while Kenji tells them of a lone man casually walking. Dazai orders to capture the lone man; to their dismay, their caught target is not Fyodor.

Eventually, Kunikida, the Agency, and the mafia confront Pushkin altogether at the end of the coal mine, leading the Russian to deactivate the virus. In the aftermath, Tanizaki and the Agency hold a banquet at a luxury liner given to them by Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald. Tanizaki worries about their punishment for disobeying the President, though Kyōka and Kenji are indifferent and rather thrilled given how he describes their situation. They then approach Ranpo after escaping Poe's novel, to which he tells them their punishment.

In the anime, Tanizaki and the others apologize to Fukuzawa. Kunikida speaks on their behalf, willing to accept their punishment for disobeying the President's order not to fight the mafia. Nonetheless, the President smiles at them and is grateful for their efforts.

Decay of Angels Arc
A month after the events of Cannibalism, the Agency is conferred the Shikyuu Award for their services in helping preserve the peace and order of Yokohama. Soon enough, Tanizaki and the others are briefed by Kunikida on a "murder association" known as the Decay of Angels responsible for four gruesome murders of government officials, which allude to the five signs that indicate the imminent death of an "angel" in Buddhism. Fukuzawa orders them to prevent a fifth murder from happening, but Ranpo refuses to take the case and storms out of the office.

Nikolai Gogol contacts the Agency holding government officials hostage. As a test solely for them, he challenges them to save the hostages being tied to chainsaw chairs before they activate within 30 minutes or before any external parties interfere. Outside the hostages' room, Tanizaki and his team plan their strategy. In that moment, as the chainsaws activate on the hostages, they instantly find themselves as the hostage takers inside the room. Amidst their confusion, they find Gogol tied up on a chainsaw chair, who later gets bisected along with the hostages. Justice Vice Minister Tonan contacts the military police and names the Agency as the Decay of Angels.

With Tanizaki using Light Snow to help them escape, they regroup with Kenji and blockade themselves in a room. They are contacted by Ranpo, who warns them about the Book's power spurring the current events. He asks them to avoid capture at all costs despite their innocence, but their conversation is cut short as Ranpo jumps off a building to escape from the police at his end.

The military police fires sleeping gas at them, forcing them to commit suicide as the operatives barge in the room. To their surprise, Yosano resuscitates her four comrades using her ability to take out the police altogether. They soon change into the operatives' riot gear and escape from the building.

With enough distance covered from the hostage situation site, Tanizaki and the others take a respite in the woods. He worries that Naomi is being made out as a criminal and worries for her. As each of them grasps their situation, Kenji gives them some rice balls and encourages them to push through their crisis and keep living, relating it to a similar experience that occurred in his hometown. Motivated, Kunikida announces that they must first escape in order to rebuild the Agency.

In order to outrun the military's expansion rate, they are given two options: either they take the northern train or hijack a car down the southern road. After deliberating, Kunikida suggests they go by car, so as not to affect other citizens on the train if the military were to catch up to them. They agree with him and set out southward.

Kunikida soon carjacks a theft-insured vehicle, driving to a secure location where they can hide and gather information. He soon hears three people at the backseat, where Tanizaki finds Saigiku Jōno seated between him and Kenji. The two try to overwhelm the Hunting Dog using Light Snow and Kenji's strength, only for them to get pulled out of the car and left behind.

When Tetchō Suehiro prepares to attack them, Kunikida runs him over with the car and retrieves Tanizaki and Kenji. They drive away from the Hunting Dogs, but Tetchō easily cleaves their vehicle in half from afar. As Tetchō prepares to kill Yosano, Chūya arrives and attacks the Hunting Dogs from a chopper with his ability and rescues the Agency; the payment, however, is to exchange an Agency member to the mafia. They soon find Kenji stabbed with Tetchō's sword, who continues his pursuit.

With no other choice left, Kunikida tasks Tanizaki to find the true criminal, jumps off the chopper to land on Tetchō mid-air, and detonates a hand grenade on the two of them. Eventually, they are welcomed by Ōgai Mori to the mafia's hideout. He tells them that he knows nothing of the Agency's situation, save for Dazai who was captured by the Hunting Dogs and is brought under the jurisdiction of the Department of Security, possibly to be sent somewhere unfortunate.

For their escape, Mori proposes to have them split up into hiding, but Yosano spites his idea and thinks that he merely wishes to get her. Hirotsu arrives with a radio, from which Fitzgerald greets them and has sent Atsushi to them, much to Tanizaki's and Kenji's relief. However, Mori thinks of his plot as a trap.

Later, Tanizaki and Kenji find Yosano leaving the hideout, thinking that she is planning on proceeding with Fitzgerald's plot despite its potential of being a trap. Seeing how Yosano harbors a seemingly deep hatred towards the mafia, Tanizaki volunteers to take her place in joining the mafia. Yosano asks him not to go through such lengths for her sake; she then narrates her and Mori's past and how she was eventually recruited by Ranpo to the Agency after the Great War, which ultimately dissolved the alliance between Fukuzawa and Mori.

As they reach the location for the deal, Tanizaki and the others spot the Black Lizard commanders arguing; Tachihara prefers striking down the Agency for looking down on Mori, but Hirotsu reminds him that mafiosi must simply carry out the boss' order to protect the Agency members. Later, when Kenji spots and opens the ambulance arriving, an explosion is triggered. The military police and and a hooded figure (whom they assume to be a Hunting Dog) surround them, in which Kenji gets stabbed by the Hunting Dog's sword. Tanizaki fails to pull it away, until Hirotsu blasts it away and instructs the others escape.

Rethinking their strategy as the mafia defenses collapse, Yosano urges Tanizaki and Kenji that they escape individually. Though they initially think they must not separate, Yosano advises them that her plan might yield to at least two Agency members' survival. In the end, Tanizaki and Kenji agree to her plan and go through Mori's prepared escape routes, holding on to their promise to give their best in reviving the Agency.

Plot
Tanizaki poses as a bomber holding a hostage inside the detective agency. He threatens to detonate the bombs and Akutagawa tells him to do it, acting on his threat, the bomber pushes the button. He was then pinned on the wall by Akutagawa after destroying the bomb. Later that day, he apologizes to Akutagawa and introduces themselves as Jun'ichirō Tanizaki and the hostage, his sister Naomi. Tanizaki and Kunikida have a mental conversation, thinking Akutagawa seems angry with Tanizaki as he is looking at him angrily. Tanizaki is asked by Akutagawa if Naomi is really his sister to which he confirms it. While at the cafe, it's up to Tanizaki and Kunikida to asses whether or not Akutagawa is truly able to take on the job since he has only been preliminarily accepted.