DDS 101
Welcome to chapter 4 of this fic, and after posting the three top sections of DDS, I decided to post in this chapter where the teachers and staff members of this famous detective school.
Yeah, yeah…you're already familiar, but I'm adding some info in related to the fics that I've wrote, such as Principal Dan having a younger brother who bears a grudge at him, and that a new teacher is working at DDS.
Not quite as long as last chapter, but I'm hear to provide you readers some "fun time" to read on, so here it is…the DDS staff!
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Morihiko Dan
Born in 1936, Morihiko Dan is the founder and principal of Dan Detective School, and a famous detective who has solved many cases, and is the only private detective in Japan who is licensed to hold a gun. Morihiko Dan was a former police officer who resigned to open up a private detective company of his own, Dan Detective Company (DDC), the parent company of DDS. He was assisted by a young boy named Satoru Renjo, who acted as his partner, assistant, and apprentice. Together they helped build DDC and DDS into a top level detective company and school (some of the top-level detectives at DDC and instructors at DDS were the first generation students of DDS). Among many criminals they fought, the most powerful one was the crime organization known as Pluto (冥王星, Meiosei). Although Pluto was finally thought to apparently have been destroyed, it wasn't without cost. Satorou Renjo, Dan's most prominent apprentice and heir-apparent was killed, and Mr. Dan was forced to be in a wheelchair for the rest of his life. Years later, there are signs that Pluto was being resurrected. Realizing that his days were numbered due to his old age, Morihiko Dan decided to open a new, special class called the Class Q, consisting of several extremely talented persons. He would train them, analyze each one of them, and appoint the best student of this class to be his successor.
Subsequently, they managed to learn more about Pluto courtesy of Ryu, who was framed for murder. Along the way Ryu and Principal Dan learned that it was Hades and Anubis who killed Ryu's parents, and that Hades was Principal Dan's old friend from elementary school.
He managed to persuade Ryu not to kill Hades and Anubis out of passionate anger, but Ryu did it anyway to save Dan's life.
In Koudoutai trilogy fics, it is revealed that Morihiko had a younger brother named Ichigo, but Ichigo was seemingly passed over by his parents in favor of his older brother Morihiko, thus Ichigo bore a grudging hatred towards his older brother.
Morihiko then came under threats from a new enemy in the form of the Zodiac, unaware that Ichigo was among the attackers under the guise of Sasoriza (Scorpio in Japanese). Morihiko had suffered a setback when DDS was toppled to ruins due to the attack, but was approached by the headmistress of CLAMP School and came into an agreement to hold classes there while DDS undergoes reconstruction.
In Koudoutai Part 3, Morihiko finally deduced who Sasoriza is, and managed to persuade Ichigo to stop his attack and talked him into settling the dispute peacefully, but Ichigo saved Morihiko as Tenbiza (Libra in Japanese) appeared.
In the end, Zodiac was defeated and DDS was finally repaired and moved back in.
He played a minor role in the next fics, Rise Of The Orphenochs and Paradise Lost, and is currently doing moderate roles in Round ZERO: The Four Card Symbols.
Shino Katagiri
The loyal assistant of Morihiko Dan, she assisted Megumi, Kyu and Kinta in getting admitted to DDS, having met them during a case, featured in the first episode of the anime series.
She plays a good teacher and giving indoor and outdoor lectures to the five Class Q students in most of the time.
She was kidnapped along with Morihiko Dan by Pluto and was rescued at the last minute before the DDSunrise exploded.
She and the rest of the DDS staff members and students were among the ones who survived a toppling of their school by the Zodiac organization (see Koudoutai).
After Koudoutai ended, she usually played mostly minor roles in the succeeding fics (see Rise of the Orphenochs, Paradise Lost and Round ZERO: The Four Card Symbols).
Shintarō Maki
DDS's head of forensics, Shintarou Maki is both a skilled teacher and doctor, and is quite intelligent in his knowledge of medical and forensic science.
Kōtarō Nanami
Nanami is another loyal righthand of Morihiko Dan. He's very skilled in the art of disguising, and is often ordered by Dan to watch the Class Q in cases by disguising as one of the suspects. Nanami's very carefree, as he loves to show his new tricks (which Ryu despises) to the Class Q, but he can be extremely serious when he needs to be. His favourite disguise is that of a cactus, which is also occasionally accompanied by a flashy, brightly patterned sombrero or Mexican outfit. This usually appears when he is under stress, such as when he had to take Dan-sensei's place as head of DDS during Dan-sensei's hospital stay.
In the Koudoutai trilogy, he seemingly gets along well with Class C's Digimon partners, and played a minor role in Rise Of The Orphenochs.
As of this writing, Nanami is currently in DDS waiting for orders as Class Q has just discovered a shocking breakthrough in their case regarding the F-4 (see Round ZERO: The Four Card Symbols).
Tatsumi Hongō
A DDS teacher, and just like Nanami and Katagiri, Hongou is very loyal to Morihiko Dan. He can appear to be cold and harsh, and handles cases professionally. He often argues with Nanami on how a detective should behave; he criticizes Nanami's easygoing way of teaching, and believes that a true detective has to be firm and serious.
He played a big role in Koudoutai trilogy, as well as in Rise Of The Orphenochs.
Currently he is accompanying Daisuke and Takeru after their Class C classmates were hospitalized due to an attack from a mysterious enemy (see Round ZERO: The Four Card Symbols).
Dokurō Onikōbe
He is a DDS staff member who has a rather strange hobby, being a skull-lover. He has a hundred skulls at his house and he can distinguish it one by one, and the one which pops up the most (his favourite?) is named Elizabeth, wearing a ribbon on the top of the skull. He is also the head of DDS's science project that makes every DDS tool, like the DDS watch, and many others. Ryu and Meg know him in the DDS research centre first before the other Class Q members, and they helped him solve a murder case.
Note: In the manga, it is revealed that Shino Katagiri, Nanami Koutarou and Hongou Tatsumi were the very first students of DDS, personally trained by Morihiko Dan and Satoru Renjo themselves. After the catastrophe following the destruction of Pluto (in which Satoru Renjo was killed and Morihiko Dan was crippled), these three ran both the school and the detective office until Morihiko Dan recovered. Thus, it's quite understandable to see their loyalty and devotion toward Morihiko Dan, DDC and DDS.Yomiko Readman
Also known as "The Paper," is a fictional character and the main protagonist in the Japanese novel series Read or Die and the manga and anime spin-offs of the books. She is also a major player (but not the main protagonist) in the sequel, R.O.D the TV. Though in appearance Japanese, she is in fact half-Japanese, half-English.
Yomi in her first name means reading in Japanese, while -ko (literally 'child') is a common suffix in Japanese female names; so her first name means Reading-woman, which has the same meaning as her surname Readman if neglecting gender differences.
Yomiko is a bespectacled substitute teacher and an introvert. A bibliomaniac, she prefers to bury herself in her books. She spends almost all of her income on books, and she lives in an apartment that is entirely stacked floor to ceiling with books. She resides somewhere in Jinbōchō, a neighborhood of Chiyoda, Tokyo known for its large amount of used bookstores.
She is also a secret field agent for the British Library. She is a Papermaster, a person with the ability to bend paper material to her will. She can make paper bulletproof or sharper than the sharpest sword. If she has enough paper, then she can construct a giant paper airplane that flies. The only limit to the effects she can create is her own imagination. It seems that she must have in her grasp of at least hands, teeth, or perhaps some other body part at least one piece of paper in order to use her powers, though eventually by the time of R.O.D the TV she appears to be able to manipulate paper by pure mental control.
Yomiko's code name for the British Library is "The Paper" (sometimes in English dubs, "Agent Paper" or "Miss Paper"), and she is the 19th person to serve the Library in this capacity. Yomiko often embarks on dangerous missions assigned by her director, codenamed "Mr. Joker." Because of her social awkwardness and occasional clumsiness, she would not seem to make a very good secret agent, and many times she allows her emotions to get in the way of defeating an enemy. However, if receiving the proper support (she is often paired with focused, effective agents like American mercenary Drake Anderson), she can actually be quite useful, with ninja-like reflexes and sharp wits in combat. She is considered one of the Library's top agents.
In the OVA, Yomiko goes into debt to buy a rare copy of a book called "die Unsterbliche Liebe" or "Immortal Beloved". The book is dusty and dirty, but has sheet music handwritten in its pages, in the margins and on the blank pages in the back and front. Almost immediately she is attacked by a super-human-like clone of Jean Henri Fabre. He tries to steal her book, but using her paper techniques she fights back and wins. Various superpowered clones or I-Jin of famous historical figures try to steal her book throughout the OVA. They are trying to use the sheet music in the book to reconstruct Ludwig van Beethoven's supposedly lost "Suicide Symphony," which causes anyone who hears it to commit suicide. Eventually, Yomiko, with the assistance of her friends Nancy Makuhari and Drake Anderson, helps in destroying the leader of the plot, a clone of Zen poet Ikkyu Soujun. Yomiko loses her friend Nancy in the conflict and, heartbroken, vows to take care of Nancy's "younger sister," her clone, who has suffered brain damage during the events of the I-Jin incident.
At the beginning of R.O.D the TV, Yomiko is missing in action, though she is referred to frequently from the first episode on. Novelist Nenene Sumiregawa, a close friend of Yomiko's (we see Nenene's notes to Yomiko in the OVA), has been looking for Yomiko for five years, and she is so distraught by her disappearance she has suffered a livelihood-crippling case of writer's block. Through Nenene's search, she meets the "Paper Sisters": Michelle Cheung, Maggie Mui, and Anita King and is surprised at their Paper Mastery, though is disappointed to discover none of them have heard of Yomiko. Nenene's adventures with the Paper Sisters eventually leads them to find Yomiko hiding in a secret apartment in the National Diet Library along with Nancy the Younger, and Yomiko and Nancy join the group in unearthing the sinister plots being hatched by the British Library and Dokusensha. Yomiko has been in hiding due to some rather drastic actions she took in order to protect Nancy from the British Library--in turn, the outing of these events inadvertently provide several revelations related to the past of young Papermaster Anita King. Yomiko struggles through the series to rebuild her friendship with Nenene, continue to protect Nancy, and set things right with Anita (in between trying to save the world, of course).
After the defeat of the British Library, She and the Paper sisters were embroiled in a fight to save humanity from a secret cult trying to resurrect a powerful demon who is bent to conquer the world (see Fetus Of God).
Then she met up with Morihiko Dan and is in the process of her getting a job at DDS, and she and the Paper Sisters assisted some of the DDS students during the Zodiac's rampage against their school (see Koudoutai trilogy).
She played a minor role in Rise Of The Orphenochs, but is now an official teacher in DDS, teaching English class to the DDS students (see Round ZERO: The Four Card Symbols).
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Hope you like this chapter. Yeah, I could've added more teachers and staff members, but that's all I could offer for this time. Other than that, enjoy!
Next chapter…Class R! And there you'll get to meet the new kids on the block!