Sandayu Oda

Sandayu Oda is a cyberninja bodyguard employed by the Arasaka corporation, currently assigned to protecting Hanako Arasaka. Oda is a former pupil and good friend of Goro Takemura. He specializes in martial arts and mantis blades.

Early Life
Sandayu Oda was born in Japan. He was trained by Goro Takemura, they developed a good relationship and Oda respected his teacher and remaied loyal to him. Afterwards his skills were recognized by Arasaka and was rewarded by employment on the highest degree, as a personal bodyguard of Hanako Arasaka.

2077
In 2077, Oda travelled to Night City onboard the Kujira, he did not know of the ture intentions of the visit only that he was to escort Hanako Arasaka to the matsuri festival that she had been planning to host in Westbrook district's Japantown. Not long after their arrival, the unexpected murder of Hanako's father, Saburo, set the tone of the dashi parade to a commemorative one, and Hanako was to give a public eulogy in addition to her tasks.

Oda was later contacted by his old friend Takemura and asked him to meet with him to talk about his situation. He was conflicted as Yorinobu Arasaka made it clear Takemura was the person behind Saburo's murder. Becuase of his loyalty and friendship he agreed to the secret meeting. Contrary to expectation, Oda showed respect and moral values beyond Arasaka training, he arrived to the meeting alone, by car rather than camouflaged, and was willing to listen to what Takemura and his witness a mercenary named V had to say. He promised that he would not discuss the details of the meeting to anyone else, once V knew they could trust him they explained the events of the Konpeki Plaza. Oda did was angered from the claims of Yorinobu being the murder and warned them that they should not speak to him again.

Just before leaving, he issued his second and final warning – while being courteous at present, he would not show such leniency in case of meeting either of them again.

Oda was well aware of the event's underlying complications, as well as the curtains being pulled to prevent clarifying the story behind the murder, but stayed out of the Arasaka family theatrics. Instead he focused strictly on his job of keeping Hanako safe.

The night of the parade, all of Oda's concerns seem to have been realized as the chaos took place and security showed no sign of improvement. Talking to the head of Night City's Arasaka security, Adam Smasher, he expressed outrage over the lack of proper safety measures and directly questioned the choices made by Yorinobu Arasaka. Eventually, he had to leave Hanako's side and deal with the disturbances himself. He discovered V had been disabling security and took out the netrunner, he confronted them and kept his promise of not showing leniency on their second meeting as he began to fight.

The battle between Oda and V was a long and difficult one as he showed his stills in combat. V had received help from Takemura as he expressed how they could get the upper hand against Oda. Eventually Oda was defeated and his fate was left in V's hands - Takemura pleaded them to spare Oda and show him mercy that he did not need to die.


 * V killed Oda as Takemura expressed his anger of their decision and that he would remember this.


 * V spared Oda and left him to finish their mission with Takemura. Afterwards he was taken to get medical treatment, his wounds were easy to heal, however his pride in the losing the fight was hurt.


 * Oda was instructed by Hanako to meet her and Takemura at Arasaka Tower with the rest of their forces. Upon waiting for Hanako, he was surprised to V as they walked outside the elevator with her. Oda did not wish to work with V but reluctantly proceeded due to Hanako's orders. The group made it to the meeting with the members of the board and faction leaders so that Saburo Arasaka could confront them and they could learn the truth of Yorinobu's betrayal. During the meeting Yorinobu began a military coup of the corporation killing all members of the board except Hanako and Michiko Arasaka. Oda stayed with them to keep Hanako safe as Takemura and V stormed the upper echelons of Arasaka Tower to dethrone Yorinobu Arasaka's tyrannical reign.
 * Oda was instructed by Hanako to meet her and Takemura at Arasaka Tower with the rest of their forces. Upon waiting for Hanako, he was surprised to V as they walked outside the elevator with her. Oda did not wish to work with V but reluctantly proceeded due to Hanako's orders. The group made it to the meeting with the members of the board and faction leaders so that Saburo Arasaka could confront them and they could learn the truth of Yorinobu's betrayal. During the meeting Yorinobu began a military coup of the corporation killing all members of the board except Hanako and Michiko Arasaka. Oda stayed with them to keep Hanako safe as Takemura and V stormed the upper echelons of Arasaka Tower to dethrone Yorinobu Arasaka's tyrannical reign.

Database Entry

 * Hanako Arasaka's bodyguard who also happens to be a cyberninja trained by Takemura. He was supposed to be the key to solving V and Takemura's problems, but only ended up as one more threat among many. During their secret meeting at the docks, he declined their plea for help and gave them one last chance to leave the city. He's never further than a step away from Hanako, so it'll be difficult to reach her.

Associated Quests

 * Down on the Street
 * Play It Safe
 * Totalimmortal (dependent)