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1bringthesun · 1 year

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what’s so scary about Fyodor isn’t that he’s a murderer, that he sees himself as something fundamentally different to normal humans, or that he doesn’t express any guilt about killing people.

it’s that ..

hehe. wasn’t that a good hook? don’t worry, i am here to talk about Fyodor, but rather than a deep character analysis, i just wanna talk about how Harukawa draws him (and let’s hope and kick and scream that this doesn’t in fact become too long like my last Mori post)

ahem.

so there are two confirmed things that Harukawa does when she draws “badness” in some form.

“Dark” eyes with little/no reflection (note that their eyes could be completely white and as long as the light isn’t bouncing off, i still count it as ‘dark’)

GIGANTIC pupils. i mean big. i’ll give an example

big pupils!

so anyway, what differences do these have? what do they mean? why does this relate to Fyodor?

well, the “dark eyes” happen usually when someone is surrounded by evil. for example, below, Akutagawa’s eyes are the “darkest.” notably, the only characters who have the sparkle to their eye are Dazai, Kenji, and Higuchi. is this because they’re happy?? no, it’s because Dazai is a liar and a faker, Kenji is… actually Kenji is probably happy, and Higuchi tends to keep a positive outlook on things, even when they’re Not Going Her Way.

also, the shine isn’t always there either. it’s usually to accentuate some goodness or rightfullness that’s being done. anyway, the shine in the eyes doesn’t have to be genuine to exist, and it also doesn’t have to be omnipresent to show that someone is good.

then what about the darkness?

it can be faked too, but it’s on a slightly less dramatic manner. sometimes when Dazai says something “evil” to someone else who is “evil,” his eyes will lose their shine to them, but it’s mostly because he’s reflecting their expression back at them.

Dazai is a big ol mirror but GODAMN IT i can’t get off topic now.

okay, so if the dark eyes show a submersion in evilness, what about the big pupils?

generally, they show when the wearer themself is feeling something “bad.”

see: Dazai getting himself imprisoned

see: Tanizaki being a little freak

so what about Fyodor??

the Fyodor we see … doesn’t have either of these.

“but… but tai,” you may ask, “then why in the name of mankind did i read so many of your uncoordinated badly communicated thoughts?!”

(don’t worry, i know you’re not that mean. .. i HOPE you’re not that mean)

Fyodor’s eyes are dissimilar to every other BSD character. sure, sometimes they may be drawn as white with pupils when he’s being a dramatic hellion. but when he’s just existing (and doing evil), his eyes… well, they’re blurry.

even when he’s being “evil,” his eyes are unchanging. they’re still dark with darker pupils lacking all light and reflection, and sometimes, fuzzy around the corners.

but why??

well, we can understand most characters. Dazai is someone without much purpose in life but a damn strong vitality (to his own irritation, probably) and damn strong will to do what Odasaku wanted him to do (and godamn it he looks better in the light) (he actually looks more attractive in the mafia because i’m a little maniac but like he’s doing better mental health wise), Atsushi is someone with a haunted past who’s doing his best to live unapologetically, Kyouka is a girl with a background stained mafia black who is slowly wiping away the tar, etc etc etc.

they all have their “oh crap” light-eyes-with-dramatic-pupil moments, the “evil” ones like Tanizaki and Mori have their big pupil moments, and the “dark” ones like Dazai have their shineless eye moments, but Fyodor is the only one who looks consistently “missing.”

i don’t really know what it means.

i could probably have thought up something cooler if i actually knew what i thought of Fyodor, but i’m bouncing between “he likes children and feels bad but does what he thinks is good for humanity” and “he’s totally gone and does what he thinks is good for humanity” and “he’s a maniac who feels no guilt and would do anything for what he himself has decided is good for humanity.”

take this post as you will, but i just think it’s interesting how Harukawa draws him as pretty normal (emphasis on the pretty because sheesh) apart from his constantly dark-but-not-dark and blurry eyes.

#Akutagawa #Dazai #Fyodor #bsd #bungou stray dogs #Tanizaki #thoughts #i don’t even know where i was going #do people genuinely draft their posts? i just write and write some more #Fyodor dostoyevsky bsd #dark eyes #big pupils #evil in bsd #asagiri kafka #harukawa35

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lune-legerement-ebrechee · 1 year

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#fyodor dostoyevsky bsd #bsd dazai #osamu dazai #fyodor dostoevsky #bsd #bungo stray dogs season 4 #bungo stray dogs #bungo stray dogs manga #harukawa35 #kafka asagiri #nikolai gogol #bsd sigma #nakahara chuuya

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pinkgirl94 · 1 year

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Asagiri & Harukawa’s Comment on BSD Volume 23

Trans: @/dazaiarchives

#asagiri kafka #harukawa sango #harukawa35 #harukawa 35 #bsd translations #bungou stray dogs

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chai-en-kaadhale · 1 month

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dear god i am relapsing relapsing

#bungou stray dogs #bsd #fuckin uhh #kafka asagiri #harukawa35

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the-gayest-sky-kid · 5 months

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we havent talked abt my wife lately have you seen my wife

#hes so gorgeous.........#mr stray dogs one chance please i will fuck it up so bad!!!!#i will be a disaster!!!!! it will be fun!!!!#sigh #kafka asagiri and harukawa35 said we are going to make a gorgeous man and then proceeded to make a gorgeous man #and then they handed him off to the world.....#and now i have 400 pictures of him #he makes me sick #my mouth. on his neck. now #i will treat him very nicely i promise #posting posting 💕

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aroacehanzawa · 1 year

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one of these days i'll find the inner courage to also drop the bsd manga btw. that one's an even worse hostage situation + stockholm syndrome though so it may be take a while

#sorry i lied i'm not done being a hater today #i need to get all of this out of my system #if bsd manga doesn't get Better i WILL be dropping it. i mean i practically have with how little i'm keeping up with the updates #but it's monthly compared to jjk's weekly releases so it's not like i'm super actively following it anyway #the problem is i've based my entire life and personality around 2012 manga series bungou stray dogs created by kafka asagiri and harukawa35 #so it would be like.. a betrayal to my self :/

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note-boom · 2 years

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I saw this manga panel and decided it was my new favorite meme format

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41n4v15 · 7 months

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A little comic I drew of Jouno being sick. I tried to replicate Harukawa35's art style ^^

I think I'm almost caught up with uploading my twitter works here

#bsd #文豪ストレイドッグス #bsd jouno #jouno saigiku #bsd tetchou #bsd tecchou #tetchou suehiro #tecchou suehiro #suegiku #saihiro #jouno x tecchou

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velvetbyrne · 11 months

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Bungou Stray Dogs Chapter 107.5 Translation

Chapter 107.5 is here!

Big thanks to the team: @dazaiyohane and @pengumi12 for the TL along with @peachy-jeans and Kyu for the PR!

Author's Comment

"The world has finally calmed down. It's been a few years since I last visited Sumida Aquarium so I went there again a few days ago. It was fun."

- Harukawa35

"""Bonus""" Panel

"I made this on the spot" -Velvet

Thanks for all the support!

#bungo stray dogs #bungou stray dogs #bsd #bsd chapter 107.5

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purrfectlycontent · 1 year

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new harukawa untold origins art!!

#my ramblings #bsd #bungou stray dogs #bsd untold origins #bsd ranpo #bsd fukuzawa #bsd oda #bsd natsume #harukawa35

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hopefull-mindset · 3 months

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Hello this is my main for @/dazai-on-my-mind I was going through your abuse post (have yet to finish it so forgive me if you've discussed this already) what are your theories for what lies under Dazai's bandages? The main fan theories that I've seen so far is that they're either covering self inflicted injuries or Mori experimented on Dazai at times during his Port Mafia days but again coming from your abuse post this theory seems highly unlikely. So I was wondering if you had any thoughts about that.

Hello! Sorry this took a bit. I saw your other ask, so I'll try to get to that. It's absolutely fine you haven't finished it. I'm personally surprised at how long it is myself. I actually haven't talked about what is under Dazai’s bandages, so sure! I also have some brief thoughts on the bandages itself.

(Edit: that was not brief, it turns out I had a lot of thoughts)

It's an average topic with this fandom, so I don't know how much I can add really!

We do know he has scars from what Oda said in Dark Era:

And we also get this tidbit from Harukawa talking about designing Dazai:

The special thing about this series was that apart from the settings from Asagiri, the characters probably should have certain aspects of the authors they were based on, but I tried to draw them based on the character settings first when doing up the initial drafts. […] For Dazai, I wrapped him up in bandages because of his suicide mania, and took note with other items.

—Harukawa35, Behind The Scenes of The Character Design!

Of course, the intent behind what the bandages are and what is behind them can change over time when they get to know their own characters better! They look like they're implying two different things, but I'd argue it's the exact same thing, even if they come from different places.

Out of all the assumptions, what's under there is probably scars he gained while throwing his life away in the face of danger, even when he doesn't need to. It's no different than the average suicide attempt by him. I wonder if he has a scar from the Old Boss’s scythe, that'd be sick. This is what sounds most likely to me, but I’ll entertain other ideas for the sake of it being too short of a note to end on.

You can obviously tell I don’t dig the idea of Mori committing medical malpractice. Not only is that an insane idea to come by, how does he even benefit from that thought process? The only type of stuff happening is Mori forcing him to take his vaccinations and taking drugs Dazai got from his medicine cabinet out of his young hands. I also think people think this way because of what he said about Mori telling him the shots won't hurt in The Day I Picked Up Dazai Side A.

A doctor is telling a child his shots won't hurt… ??? Sounds pretty normal.

I know people won't like it when I say this, but that was typical teenage Dazai childishness. He does genuinely not like pain of course, so it could be that he's overexaggerating because that's what it felt like to him haha. That scene is meant to be comedic, so this sentiment shouldn't be that serious in context. It's not like this is idk Black Butler.

I remember in Side B that Dazai says pain is what reminds you that you're alive. Maybe that's why he doesn't like it, even if he was a torture specialist. To understand death, you have to understand what it is to be alive because life is both of those things. Dazai prefers the state of being dead rather than the process, but also thinks the attempt is easier than actually committing. Dear god, your commitment issues don't need to go this far.

As for self-harm, it's pretty 50/50 with enough arguments on both sides to make a case. Dazai doesn’t like pain, but people don't usually do it because they like the feeling of the pain itself. They could do it to punish themselves, the feeling of it afterward, etc. I think Dazai putting himself in those situations like I mentioned earlier counts enough as self-harm (you can even count his implicit drinking habits too if you'd like), but this specifically on what I know you mean just depends on whether you think Dazai would do so.

I can't imagine it from Dazai, but if people think so, there's nothing stopping them from it. There's nothing implying he wouldn't, suicidal people don't always resort to this. I’m personally just tired of people using it for their whump narratives, in all fandoms actually.

I don’t care much for it if that’s what they’d like to do because I understand, but it’s not something I like being depicted in weirdly graphic detail for no reason other than the character to suffer. Besides that, there no harm in it. I don’t want to get all “you shouldn’t write this stuff because I said so”, that’s stupid.

(-150 points if it’s for white knighting ship content)

Now I hope you don’t mind me rambling off a bit! It’s been on my mind since last week to talk about the bandages.

Symbolically, the bandages can mean a couple things. All very similar things haha. It’s like what Chuuya’s gloves are to him and how personal it is to take them off outside of Corruption, or how he said he used to put his hands in his pockets because he wanted to protect his humanity while fighting.

Core things they can mean are:

A thin barrier to separate and hide himself from others (including from himself)

To minimize skin contact from his ability aka himself (not as literal as it sounds)

Abilities in Bungou Stray Dogs are apart of the user. No matter if you move your ability on to your child (Kyouka and her Mother), have it be mutilated into something unrecognizable (Verlaine, Chuuya), or to naturally be imbedded into you, you cannot separate it from your humanity. It’s still you, as Atsushi had to eventually accept this fact.

You can say a lot about the nature of abilities and 55 Minutes made some worrying discussion points about Abilities that I wish were touched on more by others, but let’s go with first thought process because it’s the one Asagiri let’s us off easy with.

No Longer Human, as Asagiri told us, is based off of the feeling he got when reading Dazai Osamu’s writing. Functionally, his ability is a bit horrifying to me as something born from himself. Maybe I just overreact, but when you translate what his ability mean functionally against every ability user we know, you can come up with interesting conclusions.

It’s not like how Atsushi can cut through abilities as a Tiger as I’m sure that was meant to imply something about his psychological breakthrough and combating other’s soul born abilities with his own. Dazai just straight up takes away other’s abilities. As long as he’s touching you, you have become a victim to his soul’s vacuum of searching for humanity or lack there of.

That’s not to say others who don’t have abilities aren’t human, I think the difference is that ability users are forced to put a part of their humanity up for show and scrutiny, which makes them appear inhuman to the average human being. Dazai is as paradoxical as his own ability. He’s functionally the average human being, but he also lacks something… human when you put him up against another ability user.

Sorta this middle ground in what to think and how he also tends to be. When I read No Longer Human, it popped out to me too often that Yozo Oba was incredibly human while putting himself in this position of inhumanity.

When Dazai’s ability is in effect, he takes away a piece of your humanity, making your less than who you were before. So when Dazai covers skin with his bandages, he’s covering up the metaphorical cavity that is his ability and inhumanity. When the bandages starts going everything when he’s using his ability, he’s swallowing that piece whole and embracing you falling to his level.

Am I overanalyzing a stylistic choice that usually only appears in official art? Yes, but it’s fun.

You can tell I skipped the first one, but that’s because it has to do with an example that’s been the reason I keep thinking about this and it sounded more fun to talk about. In the Onsen CD Drama, there’s two scenes I want to put emphasis one.

The first one being when Dazai says that they’re all getting closer because of them being in the hot spring, but Kunikida calls out the fact he’s still wearing his bandages. I could’ve passed it off as being not that significant because it’s a joke scene if it weren’t for the next one.

Atsushi wanted to wash Dazai’s back since Kunikida had been occupied and he wanted to help them like they did for him, but Dazai had already walked away. Later when they’re still awake while the others had slept, Atsushi tries again and actually gets the opportunity to do it. Only problem, Dazai still has his bandages on. Dazai just tells him it’s okay and to scrub anyway.

This made me feel… how do I say this… speechless? Not because Dazai was entirely insistent on them being apart of his body like the troll he is, but because of the simultaneous intimacy of the act and abruption of it with the bandages. You can pass it off as a running joke, but we both know Dazai absolutely heard Atsushi thank him and avoided that confrontation by playing it off as being sleepy.

I’ve said this a couple times to people I’ve talked to before, but Dazai is the type of guy who you would talk to every day, invite you everywhere, and always go out with a lot of people, but if you were to be asked what you personally know about him, you’d be able to say nothing but surface level stuff everyone knows.

With anyone and everyone, there’s always this level of personal separation between them and Dazai, and they know it. Even if you are closer to him like Oda and Chuuya are and Dazai had willing shared stuff usually wouldn’t (mind you, it took Mimic for Dazai to share more about himself to Oda and Ango), he doesn’t let himself be that vulnerable or let himself go.

I’m arguing that the bandage are a more literal barrier between him and the world. Either to protect himself or to protect others from what they’ll realize about him. He hides himself because of what he is…or something like that at least, I don’t know what goes though his head. Im still trying to figure out his perception on things thoroughly and if he really cares about it.

The eye bandage has been talked to death by now. Yes yes, Dazai left his eye covered for depth perception in the dark and Oda uncovering it for him to see the light as well. We all know it. Still, I think it’s quite meaningful that when he’s finally having an heart-to-heart with Odasaku, he’s the one to open up that bandage. It doesn’t fix everything, but he’s been opened up to that possibility.

For Beast, Dazai having a bandage on the other eye can be seen as a misguided attempt of seeing everything with Oda in mind by seeing it all in the eye he uncovered, but still needing to cover the other to guide himself in the dark. He’s also a mirror image of the original Dazai if you’d like to see it like that.

In Side B, Dazai covers his whole face up. Ironically, while I called the bandages on his body a cover up for his inhumanity, the face bandages cover up his emotions, suppressant of himself. Dazai is not typically that emotional, but Side B Dazai is going through a lot when it comes to Odasaku… so while he’s covering his face to hide it from Oda, he is also hiding the overwhelming feelings he has.

In the ending of Side B where he takes off the dirty bandages, he’s so wracked with emotion he almost fails himself in his plans, and presumably forces himself to cover up his one eye again. When he falls to his death in the ending of Beast, bandages fall when he’s able to let himself go.

In the manga, Hoshikawa was evil and drew the bandages falling into Oda’s hands. Let’s say… they’re a symbol of his protect of Oda and remembrance of the scene where Oda pulls them off. You can even say they where still taken off with Oda’s influence!

OKAY ENOUGH, I’m talking you ears off. It seems I like the sound of my own voice and wanted to share as much as I could.

#/ discussion of self harm #bsd #bungou stray dogs #dazai osamu #bsd meta #bsd analysis #bsd beast #me writing this post: Dazai’s bandages mean *throws dart* …..*squints* the protection of his own disappointment against the face of the #world’s predictability and in turn being…?#okay let’s start over.. *picks up another dart*

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anne-bsd-bibliophile · 8 months

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So, I'm new to the fandom and ur blog has been a massive help. Thank you so much for your hard work!! I wanted to ask, what's the relationship between the abilities of the characters and the authors? Like, No Longer Human is BSD Dazai's ability coz of Dazai-sensei's book, but how does that make the ability a nullifier? What's the connection? Asking in general for all abilities, btw. If u already answered this b4 in someone else's question, sorry I couldnt find it.

I'm so glad that my blog has been helpful! It's hard to find information about Japanese literature on the English side of the internet, so most of the information I've gathered comes from physical books (I have a big bookshelf full of just Japanese literature now!). I hope my collection of quotes and facts can continue to be helpful for you.

I have a list of where the titles of the abilities came from you can find here, but it doesn't go into any detail about why the ability does what it does.

Japanese audiences are much more familiar with the authors and literary works referenced in BSD, so the abilities are usually more symbolic. Dazai's ability No Longer Human might be easier to understand with the Japanese title, Ningen Shikkaku. The word ningen means "human" and the word shikkaku means "disqualification, elimination, or incapacity" so the title translates to "disqualified from being human." BSD Dazai's ability is based on the word "disqualified" because he negates, or disqualifies, other abilities. Or you could think about it like he makes their abilities fail. Here is the definition if you want to check it out:

For most of the BSD Japanese authors' abilities you would have to read the work their ability is named after, know a famous line from it, or understand the author's life in order to know what the ability is referencing. Like how Fukuzawa Yukichi's ability "All Men Are Equal" comes from the opening line in his collection of essays An Encouragement of Learning: "It is said that heaven does not create one man above or below another man. This means that when men are born from heaven they all are equal." Or to understand Akutagawa's ability Rashomon you'd have to read the short story and pick up on little details in it, like when the main character steals an old woman's clothes, in order to understand where Asagiri Kafka and Harukawa35 might have gotten the inspiration for BSD Akutagawa's ability.

The abilities for Western authors in BSD are pretty straightforward in comparison. Like John Steinbeck's ability Grapes of Wrath is literal grapevines growing from his body, or Fitzgerald using money to become more powerful like Jay Gatsby in The Great Gatsby, or Herman Melville controlling a gigantic whale named Moby Dick. I've wondered if the abilities for the characters based on Western authors are more obvious because Japanese readers aren't as familiar with the authors' lives or the time and culture they lived in; kind of like how understanding the Japanese authors' lives and works isn't something most of us were familiar with until watching BSD.

#bungo stray dogs #bungou stray dogs #bsd

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