#asagiri kafka

[dazaistabletop]

Asagiri: damn these spot the difference games are getting harder and harder

#same picture he is the donut the donut is him #bungou stray dogs #bsd #bungo stray dogs #bsd manga #dazai osamu #bsd dazai #bungou stray dogs dazai #bsd season 4 #dazai #osamu dazai #asagiri kafka

[aldebarangel]

bsd makes me so emotional about so many of its character relationships more than any other media has. ranpo calls poe 'ed'. kouyou sees herself in kyouka. atsushi loves dazai so much it makes me want to die. kyouka and atsushi. chuuya called akutagawa "my boy". mushitarou and yokomizo were childhood friends. dazai and chuuya trust each other despite everything. dazai and oda. akutagawa and kenji get along in the beast universe. fukuzawa and ranpo. the cycle of abuse. nikolai sees fyodor as a person. atsushi and akutagawa's development together. teenage ranpo and yosano. tecchou placed jouno above justice. somebody shoot me what the fuck i cant take it.

#bsd #bungou stray dogs #bungo stray dogs #asagiri kafka #ozaki kouyou #akutagawa ryuunosuke #bsd nakahara chuuya #edogawa ranpo #nakajima atsushi #bsd edgar allan poe #izumi kyouka #akiko yosano #bsd dazai osamu #soukoku #mushitaro oguri #bsd yokomizo #oda sakunosuke #miyazawa kenji #fukuzawa yukichi #suehiro tecchou #jouno saigiku #suegiku #bsd fyodor dostoevsky #bsd nikolai gogol #bsd mykola hohol #fyolai #ranpoe #fyogol #dostogogol #my post

[soupthatistohot]

BSD 109 Spoilers!!!

I will always always ALWAYS come back to this panel when talking about Asagiri’s storytelling.

At its very core, BSD is an absurdist text, Kafka Asagiri having been inspired by many absurdist authors. Franz Kafka, who he took his pseudonym from is one of them. Albert Camus, basically the most well-known absurdist is referenced with the Mersault prison, the name of which comes from a character in his most famous absurdist work, The Stranger. 

Absurdism is the belief that the world around us is irrational and inherently absurd and that explicitly seeking meaning is pointless. In his essay The Myth of Sisyphus, Camus explains, that there is value in the act of rebellion, though. Sisyphus, who has been doomed to roll a boulder up a mountain only for the boulder to tumble back down each time he reaches the peak, finds meaning in the act of continuing to push the boulder. Even though he will continue this cycle for all of eternity, he doesn’t just lay down and give up, he rebels against the absurdity of his situation by continuing to push the boulder, despite the seemingly futile nature of the act. 

As I said earlier, BSD is an absurdist text. All of the animanga’s main characters are on a journey of discovering their meaning in life, and their place in the world, and they do this by rebelling against its absurdity — especially Dazai. 

Dazai sees the absurd world for what it is, and when he was in the PM, he hated it. Thus, he sought suicide as a solution. I will note here that absurdists generally view suicide as a failure to rebel against the absurd, just giving up and giving into hopelessness. But ever since Dazai left the PM and took Oda’s advice, he’s been rebelling against this, doing good despite his inherent beliefs about morality and the world, and he’s absolutely gotten better for it. 

Other characters embody this idea of rebelling against the absurd, hell, that’s kinda what this whole arc is about. The world is literally ending, and things seem to be at their absolute worst, but someone like Atsushi still has hope that he can change the minds of the hunting dogs and save reality as we know it. He even has hope that he can get through to a vampiric Akutagawa when the guy is literally brainwashed and attacking him. Aya as the “last hope” right now embodies this, too, deciding that she can’t just sit around and do nothing and then trying to remove the sword from Bram even though the effort appears futile. 

But everything is going wrong right now. Fukuzawa is bleeding out, Dazai has just been shot through the forehead and appears to have died, Atsushi’s had his limbs ripped off and is at Akutagawa’s mercy, and Fukuchi is literally going to end the world! How can we have hope?!

Think about BSD. Think about the story that’s been told so far. Surely Asagiri isn’t killing everyone right now, surely the world isn’t gonna actually end. I’m not entirely convinced Aya’s plan is gonna work— but please consider that the point of absurdist storytelling is that even when everything seems to be at its worst, even when life seems completely meaningless, there is inherent meaning in still continuing to fight against this. 

BSD has never been a story where the villains win, and I don’t think it’s gonna start being one. I think, as usual, Asagiri wants to scare us, to make us feel hopeless about the situation, only for someone to pull through and completely turn the tides.

Dazai laying down and accepting his death at Chuuya’s hands is not going to be the end of his story, because it goes against everything Asagiri seems to stand for. Dazai wouldn’t just give up in his fight against Fyodor, because he needs to prove he’s right about what he says in this panel:

"The ones who actually make the world turn are those who scream within the storm of uncertainty and run with flowing blood."

I think this reflects Asagiri's own beliefs and is also the reason why he is not going to let Dazai die like this, because in a way, that would be proving that Fyodor is right. From a storytelling perspective, it’d be saying “everything I’ve communicated up to this point actually means nothing and life is truly hopeless!” 

Dazai has cheated death before, as has basically everyone else in danger right now. I promise you, something is going to happen and they’re all going to survive, because BSD is not trauma porn, for lack of a better term. It’s a story about how a group of people fight against the absurdity of their reality, even when everything seems completely and utterly hopeless. 

There’s a lot of theories circulating about how things could work out, especially Dazai’s “death,” and I’m not here to repeat all of them, but I will say that a lot of them have credence, especially because Asagiri isn’t the type of author to make mistakes, every single detail has a distinct reason. 

So even though I don't know how things are going to work out, I have full faith that they will, including Dazai's current situation. None of these characters are done just yet, they've got too much fight left in them to just give up.

[original twt thread]

#bsd #bungo stray dogs #bungou stray dogs #bsd 109 #bsd spoilers #bsd manga spoilers #bsd meta #kafka asagiri #asagiri kafka #soup rants #being a hashtag camus girlie has its merits!!! #bsd absurdism analysis

[sorcerersandskillusers]

Very important message form Asagiri, DO NOT DISMISS THE ANIME! THERE ARE THINGS IN THE ANIME THAT ARE NOT POSSIBLE IN THE MANGA SO DON'T ACT LIKE IT DOESN'T MATTER!

This is from an interview asagiri did here

There is a lot of anime hate going on rn so just a reminder that even though there is stuff from the manga that isn't in the anime, there is also stuff in the anime that you can't find in the manga. DO NOT DISSMISS EITHER OF THEM.

Consume both with an open mind and enjoy them as much as possible! :)

#bsd #bungou stray dogs #bungo stray dogs #bsd anime #anime #bsd manga #asagiri kafka #asagiri bsd #kafka asagiri #bungou stray dogs manga #bungou stray dogs anime #bsd meta #bsd fandom

[thegeekcloud]

#bsd #bungou stray dogs #bungo stray dogs #asagiri kafka #kafka asagiri #dazai osamu #chuuya nakahara #bsd dazai #bsd chuuya #soukoku

[popopretty]

“The desperation of an ordinary man”

Honestly speaking, Asagiri the author loves Sigma. I am truly happy as a writer to be able to create such an enemy character. I like him so much I ended up putting him in Mersault, which is not my original plan. That I feel a little sorry. Anyway. “If I become desperate, I wonder what I could do?” - is there anyone who has never once thought about that? No one. I’m sure we all have that thought. “Maybe if I put my mind into it, even someone with no talent like me could break through all the walls of this world.” Sigma is the one who took on this statement and faced a huge wall by himself. As a character on the enemy side on top of that.

<Bungou Stray Dogs Chapter 75 - Translation by akai-koutei>

If Sigma had been a protagonist on the side of justice, it would have been a beautiful story that ends with something like, “That’s right. Even an ordinary person can defeat a huge enemy.” However, since Sigma is an enemy character, it is possible to dwell on the question “What is the actual truth?” in the end. The brutal truth. I want you to see what lies at the end of the path he has shown us, and the outcome of his vow to “definitely win” here. And I want you to try and think about the “desperation” that will gush out of you one day and about how it will end.

<Asagiri Kafka’s comment on Sigma’s character in the BSD expo 2023>

#bsd #bungou stray dogs #bsd expo #bsd exhibition #asagiri kafka #sigma

[chaos-of-the-abyss]

Listen. LISTEN. “A life in which you have someone to say goodbye to is a good life. If your farewell to that person is very painful, there is nothing more to say.” The fact that it’s Dazai of all people saying this strikes me. Dazai is someone characterized by the fact that he does not see the value in living life. He does not find anything in the world to be worth living for. He’s tried to commit suicide time and time again because, to him, life simply offers nothing substantial enough to justify the experience of living it.

And yet. By saying those words, he implicitly tells Oda that his life was a good one. Not just passable, not just alright, not just tolerable, but good. His life was a good one because Oda is the person that he has to say goodbye to, because saying goodbye to Oda like this is very painful to him. Even though, in this universe, Oda hates him, even though Oda considers him an enemy, even though Oda says he has no right to call him ‘Odasaku’ - Dazai still says his life was a good one, simply because Oda existed in it.

#dazai osamu #beast au #bsd beast #odazai #oda sakunosuke #bungou stray dogs #bungou stray dogs rambling #bungou stray dogs beast #bsd tag #dazai x oda #they're going to be my death #found dehydrated at 4am from too many tears #bsd #asagiri kafka

[nevermind-its-all-crap]

Dazai:

‘Oh? I think it's kinda cute, going to such lengths to plan another person's death. I never would've thought of doing that.’

Also Dazai:

‘I’ve been coming up with ways to kill chuuya for the past seven years.’

#Bungo stray dogs #bsd #skk #soukoku #double black #dazai x chuuya #dazai and the dark era #light novel #asagiri kafka

[pinkgirl94]

Check out the latest interview with Asagiri Kafka by Crunchyroll.

#asagiri kafka #bungou stray dogs

[shinsoukover]

sigma looks so distraught, I couldn't stop thinking about this

#the fact that sigma was not even supposed to be there originally but asagiri wanted to see his favourite boy 😭😭 #he could've done without the added trauma #bsd #bungou stray dogs #sigma bsd #dazai bsd #asagiri kafka #bsd s5

[thornedarrow]

most amusing thing about the mask that Asagiri-sensei wore to AX and his signing is that he had it made w the motifs of ellipses (…) and dialogue bubbles in mind. truly a fascinating person to me. (source: tweet caption)

#asagiri kafka #bsd #bungo stray dogs #post: eri #i didn’t see anyone talk about this but i thought it was funny #tn: eri

[a-preferable-alternative]

#bsd #bungo stray dogs beast #bungo stray dogs #bsd memes #bsd meme #kafka #kafka asagiri #asagiri kafka #anime memes #manga memes #bsd wan #bsd beast #bsd 15 #bsd manga #bsd anime

[rlherondale]

Dazai's speech being an act is like Kafka Asagiri oversharing to us all and then try to make it up by going 'lol just kidding'

But honestly tho, i feel like that speech maybe probably wasn't fake. Cause, we all know dazai isn't exactly an open person so the fact that they were acting is the reason dazai was able to say those words and mean it. If it were an actual situation he probably wouldn't have been able to say anything like that. It was the fact that he could say anything, pour his whole heart out even, and chuuya would just think he was acting, which makes him feel sort of safe to say anything he wanted to. Besides, i could just picture that nasty man laughing like a devil at the fact that chuuya is gonna walk away from the prison, wondering if dazai meant all the words he said or if it was pure acting

#bungo stray dogs #season 5 episode 11 #bungo stray dogs season 5 #dazai osamu #nakahara chūya #osamu dazai #chuuya nakahara #soukoku #dazai bsd #chuuya bsd #asagiri kafka #kafka asagiri #dazai is a lil bitch #slutty dazai #dazai is alive #dazai is a donut #nasty man dazai

[soupthatistohot]

I wonder if asagiri saw ppl making fun of akutagawa’s character design by saying he looks like a vampire and was like “u know what”

#bsd #bungo stray dogs #bungou stray dogs #akutagawa ryuunosuke #akutagawa #akutagawa bsd #kafka asagiri #asagiri #asagiri kafka #yes i already tweeted this shhhhh

[sorcerersandskillusers]

Asagiri is the most evil man on the planet

Interview link

#bsd #bungou stray dogs #bungo stray dogs #asagiri kafka #kafka asagiri #bsd chuuya #chuuya nakahara

[thegeekcloud]

#asagiri kafka #bsd #bungo stray dogs #bungou stray dogs #osamu dazai #bsd dazai #odasaku #sigma