Yukichi Fukuzawa

Yukichi Fukuzawa (福沢 諭吉,) is the President of the Armed Detective Agency.

Appearance
Fukuzawa is a tall man who almost always has a stern expression on his face. He has long silver hair, which ends just above his shoulder, and metallic blue eyes, which appear to have wrinkles eyebags under them.

He is always seen wearing a green yukata under a black haori (a traditional Japanese thigh-length kimono-style jacket, commonly worn by men) with golden borders with a zigzag pattern, and zori (flat sandals) with white tabi (toe-divided socks).

Twelve years ago, before the Agency was founded and Fukuzawa was still under Sōseki Natsume's tutelage, he wore a black hakama (a pair of large, pleated, traditional trousers), a kimono underneath a longer haori and a small scarf with a circle pattern on it. His hair was also shorter, just reaching past the nape of his neck.

Personality
Fukuzawa is (as expected from the director of the Company) a serious man, capable of maintaining his calm expression at every time, even in front of an enemy. He is also a good leader.

It is revealed as well that he possesses a caring side, as seen when he orders all the personnel from the agency to focus on finding and rescuing Atsushi. Therefore, he seems to care about his subordinates a lot, and he completely trusts in them.

However, his caring side does not minimize his undisputed authority over all Agency members: a frightened Edogawa Ranpo drops the idea of finding a nice, interesting murder case to solve instead of saving Atsushi after Kenji warns him against Fukuzawa's wrath if he does so.

While Fukuzawa is emotionally reserved and impassive, he can display a scathing sense of humor: twelve years ago, while he was on his way to save Mori from low-level criminals, the criminals threatened to kill the doctor and Fukuzawa wished them to have fun doing so.

He's never seen smiling, although it's heavily implied he has a soft spot for cute things. After Kyōka makes a cute face, he hires her on the spot. It's also been shown that he loves cats to the point where he keeps treats for them in the sleeves of his yukata.

Ability
His ability, All Men Are Equal (人上人不造,), allows him to suppress the abilities of those in the Armed Detective Agency. According to Dazai, it can "adjust the power of their abilities so that they may be controlled." However, applicants have to pass an "exam entrance" (i.e. they have to display values compatible with the Agency's in perilous situations) to fall under the range of the ability.

Skills

 * Martial Arts: Fukuzawa proficiency in martial arts since a younger age are unmatched, as seen at his past before founding the agency. He possesses enough strength and reflexes to take on a group of assassins. As such, he is noted to have never lost a match to his mentee, Doppo Kunikida, and keep a intense combat against Mori even facing his unpredicatable fighting style.
 * Kote gaeshi - One of Fukuzawa's trademark defenses is kote gaeshi (小手返, lit. "forearm return"), a throwing technique in aikido that uses an opponent's momentum against them.
 * Seoi nage - Fukuzawa is also proficient in (背負投, lit. "shoulder throw"), a shoulder throw (throwing technique) in.
 * Iaido - Fukuzawa also has a mastery of
 * Swordsmanship Skills: Fukuzawa used to practice swordsmnship, trained at a government-run school of martial arts and was one of the greatest swordsmen in the government known as Goken.

Background
When Fukuzawa was young, he trained at a government-run school of martial arts. He was good friends with Fukuchi while in martial arts training. They had a friendly rivalry and spent time together after Fukuzawa took in Ranpo as well. Fukuzawa was a part of the Goken, the five greatest swordsmen in the government. He worked as an assassin who was tasked to kill war hawk bureaucrats and the leaders of foreign military parties who supported them towards the end of the Great War and earned himself the nickname of Silver Wolf as his skills were unanimously praised. He stepped down from this position after he realized that he was starting to look forward to killing his targets because of how simple and easy assassinations were to him. He was shunned for this decision, but he ultimately permanently laid down his sword and became a 'lone wolf'.

Appearances
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Quotes

 * (To Ranpo Edogawa) "You're free to flaunt your gift, and you can challenge your opponents with it! But you have to stop gambling with your life!"
 * (To Ranpo Edogawa) "A comrade is in danger. We need to rescue him. Is there some weightier logic in the world which trumps that?"
 * (To Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald) "A human life is priceless, and,in its own way, so is that license. That is the soul of our company. It contains the very heart and soul of Natsume-sensei who devoted his all to bringing that agency to our side. You noveau riche types, heads stuffed with bales of cash... you could never obtain one that easily."
 * (To Port Mafia assassins) "Go back to your master and tell him, "good try". Continue to target me and me alone. If you do anything to my subordinates, I will snap your necks, no matter what it takes."
 * (To his people) "Only one of the three organizations can survive. Our only course of action is to fight!"
 * (To Ōgai Mori) "And you still haven't grown past your habit of killing people with a scalpel, Doctor Mori. Are you still attracted to little girls?"
 * (To Ōgai Mori) "Because that's our sole similarity: that we love this city. As people of this city, as organizations that work to protect it, we cannot allow foreign gifted to raze it."
 * (To his people) "You mustn't fight with the mafia... you must protect the balance and peace of the city over my life!"
 * (To Ōgai Mori) "You have the same disgusting stench like me."
 * (To Armed Detective Agency members) "To us, praise and rewards are a light drizzle. Even if we were underground thieves with no honor, we must stake our lives to prevent this murder. "

Etymology

 * The name Yukichi means "warn" (諭) (yu) and "good luck" (吉) (kichi).
 * The surname Fukuzawa means "luck" (福) (fuku) and "brilliant" (沢) (sawa/zawa).

Namesake

 * Yukichi Fukuzawa (1835-1901)
 * A liberal ideologist, prolific writer, critic, philosopher, educator, and more. Fukuzawa is seen as one of the fathers of modern Japan. The ability "All Men are Equal" refers to "An Encouragement of Learning", a seventeen-volume series on how equal opportunities for education are vital to society. Fukuzawa's face appears on the Japanese 10,000 yen bill.

Trivia

 * Fukuzawa's nickname, Silver Wolf, finds its origin back to the time when he always worked alone as a bodyguard, hence acting like a "lone wolf"; it is also a nod to his hair color.
 * Much like his real-life counterpart, Fukuzawa is almost never seen wearing Western-style clothes, preferring traditional Japanese ones; the exception being during the awarding ceremony at the beginning of the Decay of Angels/Hunting Dogs arc.
 * Fukuzawa has never been seen smiling in the manga until chapter 80 . He is, however, in the anime, at the end of the Cannibalism events after he congratulated his subordinates for their work.
 * It is revealed that Fukuzawa is not married. Ōchi Fukuchi reminds Fukuzawa about a countryside woman named Kin while the President is in custody; it is implied that she and Fukuzawa knew each other in a way or another a long time ago. The woman is a direct reference to real-life Fukuzawa's wife, Okin.
 * Yukichi addresses Ōchi Fukuchi as Gen'ichirō, the birth name of the real life
 * He shares his birthday with Kōyō Ozaki, on January 10.