"While it's versatile and highly valuable, it doesn't quite exceed the realm of convenience. That's because if I needed something, I could simply bring it with me before I went out." |
The Matchless Poet (独歩吟客, Doppo Ginkaku?) is the ability of Doppo Kunikida.[2]
Description[]
The ability allows Kunikida to materialize objects by writing them in his notebook, ripping out the page, and willing them into existence.[3] However, he cannot produce objects larger than his notebook. He can also produce a replica of an object just by getting a good look of it and understanding its mechanism and the way it works.[1]
To activate his ability, Kunikida highly relies on Ideals (理想, Risō?), a notebook crafted by Master Carlyle[4] which Kunikida uses to manifest or create his weapons and needed items. However, Kunikida can also utilize a pre-torn page from the notebook for emergency and extreme purposes. In such instances, various weapons are already written on the notebook's page rather than requiring Kunikida to write them down.[5]
Kunikida remotely manifests a switchblade through Tanizaki.
At some point, Kunikida improves the range and extent of his ability, allowing for remote materialization without him having to hold his notebook or a page of it himself, having pre-written some conventional items to materialize in times of emergency.[4] Eventually, other people with a page from his notebook can also trigger Kunikida to activate his ability from a very distant range, allowing them to materialize the item written on the page in their possession.[6][7]
As with other abilities, The Matchless Poet can be nullified by Osamu Dazai. For instance, when Kunikida manifested a pistol from his notebook and shot Dazai using it, the bullets created from his ability alongside the pistol reverted back to the notebook's paper upon making contact with Dazai. Furthermore, when Kunikida tossed said pistol to Dazai, the weapon almost instantly transformed back into paper.[1]
Thus far, Kunikida has been shown to have materialized the following materials:
- Flashlight[1]
- Stun grenade[1][8] (also activated remotely through Shōsaku Katsura)[4]
- Stun gun[1]
- Flash grenade[1]
- Wireless jammer[1]
- Pistol[1][9]
- Wire gun[1][10]
- Police notebook[1]
- Release key[1]
- Tear gas bomb[11]
- Switchblade (activated remotely through Jun'ichirō Tanizaki)[6]
- Glasses[12]
- Encrypted walkie-talkie[13]
- Hand grenade[14]
- Glue and putty (activated remotely through Kyōka Izumi)[7]
- Grenade[15]
Appearances[]
- Chapter 2 - A Certain Explosive
- Chapter 23 - The Grapes of Wrath Ripen in His Eyes, Part 1
- Chapter 40 - Walking Alone
- Chapter 47 - Mutual Destruction, Part 1
- Chapter 48 - Mutual Destruction, Part 2
- Chapter 58.5 - Sunday Tragedy, Part 2.5
- Chapter 59 - Dogs Hunt Dogs, Part 1 (offscreen)
- Chapter 62 - Dogs Hunt Dogs, Part 4
- Chapter 63 - Enemy of Society (offscreen)
- Chapter 78 - To Threaten God, Part 1 (mentioned)
Vampire Infection Outbreak Arc
- Chapter 94.5 - At the Portway to the Sky, Part 4.5 (offscreen)
- Episode 2 - A Certain Bomb
- Episode 6 - The Azure Messenger
- Episode 7 - Love for the Disease Called Ideals
- Episode 19 - Will of Tycoon
- Episode 34 - Cannibalism (Part 1)
- Episode 44 - Dogs Hunt Dogs (offscreen)
- Episode 45 - You, a Child of Sin; I, a Child of Sin
Derivation[]
Doppo Ginkaku (One of Doppo Kunikida's pen name)
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Animated GIFs[]
Trivia[]
The Matchless Poet's "Compromise" notebook.
- During the Yokohama fog incident, The Matchless Poet's notebook has the kanji "妥協" on its cover, which means "compromise" (dakyō). This is a direct inverse to Kunikida's "Ideals" notebook and his very ideals, such that making compromises opposes following ideals.[17][18]
References[]
- ↑ 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 1.11 Bungo Stray Dogs: Osamu Dazai's Entrance Exam.
- ↑ Bungo Stray Dogs Manga and Anime: Chapter 1 and Episode 1.
- ↑ Bungo Stray Dogs Manga: Chapter 2.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Bungo Stray Dogs Manga: Chapter 40.
- ↑ Bungo Stray Dogs Manga: Chapter 23.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Bungo Stray Dogs Manga: Chapter 48.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Bungo Stray Dogs Manga: Chapter 63.
- ↑ Bungo Stray Dogs Manga: Chapter 58.
- ↑ Bungo Stray Dogs Manga: Chapter 23.
- ↑ Bungo Stray Dogs Manga: Chapter 2.
- ↑ Bungo Stray Dogs Manga: Chapter 47.
- ↑ Bungo Stray Dogs Manga: Volume 14, Omake.
- ↑ Bungo Stray Dogs Manga: Chapter 59.
- ↑ Bungo Stray Dogs Manga: Chapter 62.
- ↑ Bungo Stray Dogs Manga: Chapter 94.5.
- ↑ 国木田独歩. Wikipedia (in Japanese).
- ↑ Bungo Stray Dogs: DEAD APPLE (Film).
- ↑ Bungo Stray Dogs: DEAD APPLE (Light Novel).