#All the overlapping between outside author and inside authors bsd has going on might be one of the most interesting aspects of this manga

[kyouka-supremacy]

As Oda is a writer, and we're learning this story through a media that was written by someone, I feel these lines to be so multilayered, like a metaphor within the metaphor of an author writing a story (“setting up a charade”) in order to have their character go through a determinate development (“so you could make me say that line”)

Besides, the line in question Akutagawa is referring to here is such an ironic one! It's the one that has Akutagawa say “Those who cast their anger aside and think rationally for the sake of the mission are the ones who end up surviving” which is strikingly opposite to Akutagawa's usual and characteristic behavior of breaking cutting everyone to shreds driven by his fury– which Akutagawa is going to do, again, in a matter of hours after this exchange takes place. I feel like it's fascinating the way this dialogue underlines how those lines, more than spontaneously coming from Akutagawa himself, are implied to be the result of Akutagawa being manipulated into saying them - in the story, by the writer Oda - or of Akutagawa being coaxed to say something so out of character - in real life, by the writer Asagiri - as an ironic hint to what's soon to happen. It's nice. It's also nice how Akutagawa, to an extent, is aware of the fact that he's just a character delivering lines, a role who's story is already written.

#All the overlapping between outside author and inside authors bsd has going on might be one of the most interesting aspects of this manga #On that note Hadestown is a brilliant example of characters fighting against the narrative I can't recommend it enough it's brilliant #ryūnosuke akutagawa #sakunosuke oda #bsd #bungou stray dogs #bsd beast #bsd analysis #A messy and short one but still #mine #q. #25/06/22 #Also this little humble line of Oda recognizing himself inferior / not as powerful as to create the narrative himself - #“I'm not that clever - that's nice too