Saburo Murakami

Saburo Murakami (村上三郎) is a member of the Gutai Group, known for his brash but also supportive attitude. He is the unofficial second-in-command of the group.

He is a Talent user with the Talent named Laceration of Paper.

Appearance
Saburo is a tall and slim man with short hair with bangs that cover parts of his right eye. He has black eyes and wears black-rimmed glasses.

His outfit consists of a collared shirt with a brown coat and long brown pants, he often keeps a stock of paper under his coat and inside his pockets in his pants in case he needs to use his Talent. Ōi Katsushika joked that Saburo looks like a less attractive Rembrandt.

Personality
Saburo is a brash person, a complete contrast to the 'leader' of the group, Jiro Yoshihara. He hates being stopped more than anything else and described by his peers to have 'no moral compass'. But even with the lack of a moral compass and aggressive nature. Saburo has 'strong' emotions towards the other members of the Gutai Group especially Jiro seeing him as a naive person who lacks the backbone to get angry at injustices, although Saburo very rarely displays these kind gestures seeing them as a weakness.

Saburo's aggressiveness also made him short-sighted, rarely planning out his moves and going with the flow. He prefers to go in guns blazing rather than using more subtle techniques, an often argued subject between himself and Jiro. Saburo is also often seen as 'afraid' of women very rarely talking with Ōi and Yuko, at heart he wants to talk and show his less abrasive side of his personality but he is afraid of being teased by his peers for not being rough for once.

Talent
Main Article: Laceration of Paper

Laceration of Paper is a Talent which enables Saburo to control the properties of objects made out of paper. Using this talent, Saburo is able to remotely fold paper and modify its properties. Often Saburo would use the Talent fold paper into weapons such as knives or paper airplanes and modifying it to become extremely sharp, he can then change the properties of the paper to become extremely sharp.

Background
Saburo is the childhood friend of Kazuo Shiraga and classmates to Jiro Yoshihara and Yuko Nasaka a few years before the events of Gutai & the House of Wolves. Saburo was the last person among the four to join the Gutai Group, after much convincing from Jiro. He discovered that he owned a Talent while working on an intricate paper construct and eventually trained along with the rest of the Gutai group along with Hokusai Katsushika.

Once the group was found, he decided to professionally paint and using his Talent create intricate figures only using paper. He also often brags about him being an expert in making origami.

Beginning
Coming along with Jiro and Yuko to the murder scene, Saburo was somewhat bewildered at the sight. He expected this to be one weird day off and going back to regular work the next day. The rest, however, decided to go to Hokusai Katsushika's place to ask for help. Saburo hated this decision and complained constantly about Jiro's decision, he even had a verbal agreement with Rembrandt when he first arrived in Japan, the two eventually teamed up when facing Kyōsai Kawanabe which displays in full force his Talent in action. However, the confrontation ended horribly when Kyōsai ended up committing suicide.

Trivia

 * His real-life counterpart is a friend of during their university years, the both of them were part of an art collective known as Zero-Kai. The two of them, later on, joined the Gutai group.
 * Saburo's love for manga is in reference to his real-life counterpart's son, Tomohiko Murakami (村上知彦) being a researcher of manga and Japanese pop culture.