#and yet here I always am with surprised pikachu face putting on my clown makeup 🤡

[dazais-guardian-angel]

Late rant about the last episode lmao but I have to get it off my chest

Originally I really thought they cut out the “hurry up and go” moment because I haven’t read these chapters in ages, and forgot that 87 cliffhangers with Aku being slashed before the actual line in 88 (but I mean... can you really blame me for considering that they might cut it...... the bar is on the ground lol).... but even knowing afterward that it’s technically accurate scene-wise, I’m still so disappointed with how they chose to frame it:

In the manga it’s a shocking moment, no doubt, but also very somber? I think I attribute that to Aku’s expression... he just looks so vulnerable. I would imagine this moment to be animated without any music, or if there had to be music, the ED. It also should have had a white background, imo. But instead, they made it very gruesome and gritty, and cliffhanger’d with Atsushi screaming his name and the heavy metal OP, so it felt like they were going for shock value and nothing else, with all the emotions stripped away. It felt like something straight out of an action movie or something..... and it’s just not the same tone at all to me. It has no weight to it, it just feels like any other injury the characters get in BSD, the only thing showing otherwise being that it’s at the end of the episode and the blood is much more detailed than usual.

The emotions were sucked out of most of the episode, like the scene where Aku reveals his illness, as well as Dazai’s present-day conversation with him; it was all thoroughly underwhelming and stiff, a lot of just talking and not showing, but this is nothing new lol it was to be expected 🫠 the entire fight scene has such a serious, sad, and poignant feeling in the manga, with Atsushi and Aku constantly being worried about each other and their injuries and situation increasingly becoming bleaker and more dire, but in the anime it just feels nothing but ominous and badass, and not nearly as dynamic or impactful.

This part was genuinely amazing though, the best part of the episode by far 🤌 I actually love the choice to have Dazai just be wearing nothing but his white dress shirt under the coat, instead of his suit; it makes him appear so much smaller like he really is, closer to Aku’s size, which makes the image hit even harder than it does in the manga panel. Also I’ll give them credit for how Fukuchi’s rewind was portrayed using the clock tower Order of the Clock Tower reference? 55 Minutes reference meant to make 55 Minutes readers go insane? YOU DECIDE; was actually pretty cool and clever, so kudos for that too

#bungou stray dogs #still kind of flabberghasted over how bad this episode mostly was #every week I know it's going to be bad and think I can't be any more surprised or outraged or disappointed #and yet here I always am with surprised pikachu face putting on my clown makeup 🤡 #they cut so many amazing expressions........ the panel of dazai and chuuya and THE PANEL WHERE ATSUSHI IS SUPPORTING AKU #AKA ONE OF THE BEST FUCKING PANELS #we all know this season was made on a time crunch; it's so painfully obvious #painful and sad to see #BSD deserves so much better and so do the people making it....... fuck bones higher ups for rushing this season out the door for no reason #anyway i am gently holding the baby dazai aku screenshots....... they are the only part of this episode. the rest does not exist.