#and yes im aware bsd is more than just a battle between life and death and has too many themes and philosophical discourse

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No wait. But I love how Bungo Stray Dogs is a story in which a tragedy or a comedy could happen, and that I don't know what form a tragedy or comedy could take.

A happy ending where everyone lives? It could happen given the amount of characters who want to die, and how almost all of them struggle with their reason to live.

A happy ending where major characters in the ADA and Port Mafia die? Yes, given the way the narrative constantly tells us the tragedy of life a fatal ending could also be constructed as a happy one.

A tragic ending where life continues but also continues as meaningless and as a struggle? How nothing changes and it just keeps going and going?? Yeah, that sounds plausible. Zenki Soukoku and Soukoku are proof of the same doomed cycle of partnerships and betrayals and bitter partings.

A tragic ending where everyone dies? Yeah...they haven't found their goals yet. There are characters left to mourn them Rimbaud and Odasaku and the Flags style.

The point is that life is precious, as we see through the characters that die, Kunikida, Atsushi, Yosano, etc. Death is freedom, as we see through some of the characters still alive like Dazai, Fyodor, even Akutagwa to some extent, etc. And both come into intense scrutiny through all the characters. What's so freeing about death? What's so great about life? Is my reason to live worth enough? Is death really the ending I want?

I just seriously love how the manga is basically this intense battle between life and death framed through humanity's craving for purpose, their despair, their blindness or their clear sight and in this essay I will -

#i had to stop cause i wasnt making any sense #bsd #bungo stray dogs #bsd musings #bungou stray dogs #spitting nonsense #and yes im aware bsd is more than just a battle between life and death and has too many themes and philosophical discourse #it's strange though because i dont MIND what kind of ending this manga will have #life or death im good with both #both because of the themes and struggles and also cause this is a seinen and seinens are Messed Up #but i guess their all-over-the-place plots and messings with time etc are part of its weird charm #the genre is weird and the endings are always so...*vaguely waves hands* #anyway i signed up to this so i guess I'll have to see it through :| #rambling in the tags sorry