#in his own dazai way

[inamagicalhallucination]

usually atsushi is at the office early (orphanage habits go brr) and he'll pick up coffee (hot chocolate for both of them usually becuz they dont like bitter things but atsushi lies and says its coffee becuz dazai likes to lie and say he drinks coffee black) and breakfast for dazai too- (in the morning when dazai's only coming in late like 10-20 minutes, when he goes to get a snack when dazai's coming in late a few hours - he can tell when dazai is heading to the office via smell) but the few times he's made it on time (so not late but also not early) dazai's figured it out and awkwardly made his way to the office just before so he can buy atsushi coffee (hot chocolate) and breakfast and he kinda loiters like a sad puppy waiting for it's owner to come back until atsushi shows up, on time ofc, and gives it to him and before atsushi can even say thank u he bolts

#he is trying to show affection #and he's succeeding #in his own dazai way #do u want a kunichuuzai version too #or a all ada version of dazai showing affection via food #becuz ill probably have something to say for them too #pushing my pathetic wet cat dazai agenda #atsushi nakajima #bungo stray dogs #bungou stray dogs #bungou stray dogs atsushi #bungou stray dogs dazai #dazai bsd #dazai atsushi #dazai osamu #bsd dazai

[spoksstuff]

Home 🏠❤️‍🩹

all credits to the original artist @zaerxa on X, ig & tumblr

#bsd #bungou stray dogs #bsd fanart #dazai osamu #chuuya nakahara #bsd chuuya #bsd dazai #soukoku #skk #skk fanart #dazai x chuuya #I think that this is dazai's flat but chuuya has made it his own too bc he loves how safe it feels being surrounded by dazai's scent #so much so that it easily lulls him to sleep #but even the other way around would work so well #dazai going to chuuya's apartment to check on him hoping to find him home and maybe already asleep on the couch looking all small and cute

[chrxnicdaydream]

skk holding their younger selves excuse me while i sob 😭

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adding Kyouka under the cut because i love her & she is just too cute 🥺😭

and here’s the rest of them <333

#BABIES #if these aren’t released as dolls i will be diying my own. I NEED THEM #the way Chuuya is holding his help 😭💀 #bsd #bungou stray dogs #soukoku #skk #bsd dazai #bsd chuuya #bsd kyouka #dazai osamu #nakahara chuuya #kyouka izumi #bsd armed detective agency #bsd port mafia #bsd official art

[lotus-pear]

do you ever think about the tragic fact that odasaku's dying words to dazai were to become a good man, to be on the side that saves people.....which leads to the creation of the beast universe as dazai, in his grief and denial, finds the book and alters reality with the mentality "then....that means saving you too, right?"

#THE WAY THE TIMELINE SPLITS OFF JUST WITH THOSE LAST WORDS #how in the main timeline dazai is able to find the strength to move on with oda in his heart #but in another he is unable to bear the crushing weight of oda's death and finds the book to alter TIME and give oda a happy ending #beast is dazai's utopia. written exactly so that everyone whom he believes he wronged gets a second chance. a happy ending. #yet dazai himself is not present in his ideal world #there is just something so inherently fucked up about him having to kill himself in his own Eden #anyway i'm crying myself to sleep now goodnight sorry if i made anyone depressed w this #bsd #bsd beast

[originalartblog]

Good morning~

#chuuya just scooted over to Dazai's side during the night. stole his pillow and everything #vee (@videogamelover) started sending me pictures of orange and black cats and saying they were skk (and co) #and of course there was a picture of two cats cuddling and it's been proven that it's the easiest way to make me draw cuddles #bsd #bungo stray dogs #bungou stray dogs #bsd fanart #bsd chuuya #bsd dazai #bsd nakahara chuuya #bsd dazai osamu #skk #soukoku #nawy's art #me drawing chuuya's legs: harukawa this is 4 u #featuring my (correct) opinions on what chuuya's living space would have in it #which are mostly music-related and some trinkets/pictures to remember people by #that guy is 22 and didn't have his own space + the will to make it his own until he was like 16-17 i will not accept 'fancy' designer looks #it's 2 sound systems some collector edition guitar mounted on the wall a vinyls collection and general punk/rock vibes all around #no he can't actually play any of the instruments in his home

[dazais-guardian-angel]

Chapter 110 is 13 pages long welcome to hell!!! so in a lot of ways this is just more fuel for a theory that I've had for a few weeks now, that's only gotten stronger with each recent season 5 episode, which is that the last episode of the season is gonna end on 110, and that Asagiri/Harukawa and Bones have been collaborating to make this happen, specifically because it's a major turning point that would be the only good place to end the season on.

When we started getting especially long chapters again (like from 25-35ish pages, with the exception of 107.5, the last two being some of the longest we've ever had), at first I just assumed that Asagiri/Harukawa got freed up from some other obligations they'd been having to cause the extremely short/half chapters, like promotional stuff for the anime/Beast movie, or working on light novels. But then 109 happened, with the "supposed" death of Dazai, and heavy emphasis at the end on how literally everyone is at their lowest point right now, and I got to thinking. 11 episodes is a strangely specific number for an anime season -- why not 12, or 13, or even 10, like you'd usually see? Why have we gotten suddenly gotten two 35 page chapters out of nowhere, that's almost unheard of at this point? They're both beautiful chapters, don't get me wrong (as always), and maybe A/H simply just didn't want to cut them in halves because they felt like the full emotional impact wouldn't hit/that there were no good cutoff points in them, but you can't deny that it's surprising, after all the shorter chapters we've been getting. Why has the anime been going at such insanely breakneck pacing for the most part ever since around the Sunday Tragedy chapters, even more so than it has in the past? So much so that it feels dangerously close to overtaking the manga?

Well, maybe, just maybe, it's because..... Asagiri decided a long time ago that whatever happens in 110 is the only point that feels "season finale"-worthy enough, in an arc that still isn't anywhere close to being completely wrapped up, and so both the manga and the anime have been specifically coordinated to reach that part within 2 and a half weeks of each other?

I've seen a lot of people now think season 5 will end with 109, and as much as my sadistic side would find that hilarious, I honestly don't think they'd do that and realistically don't want it to happen; it'd be so cruel to cliffhanger the anime for years like that, and just doesn't feel like a season cliffhanger BSD would do, a series that is ultimately hopeful and uplifting. Seasons 2 and 3 had a positive, conclusive ending; the only reasons seasons 1 and 4 didn't was because they're technically not really full seasons of their own, and are more like the first cour of another "season" that also came out that same year (seasons 1 and 2 both aired in 2016, so they're more like one big season, and seasons 4 and 5 have both aired this year, so they're also more like one big season, again taking into account how episodes 12 and 50 are not satisfying finales like episodes 24, 37, and hypothetically, 61, are). I really can't see season 5 ending with Dazai and Fukuzawa's supposed deaths, Sigma being unconscious and maybe close to death, Atsushi being vulnerable and limbless again, everyone we love still vampires, and the entire world being basically doomed; that's just too depressing and not like BSD at all. However, having said that, if it doesn't end there, there really isn't any good place to end the season before that, either, that feels in any way satisfying or like a finale at all. And so, to me, that only leaves after 109: chapter 110.

I think things are really gonna turn around next chapter. Like I said, everyone is at their lowest point right now, it cannot possibly get any worse, the framing of Dazai, Fukuzawa, and sskk at the end of 109 is telling us that; this is the time for the heroes to finally start winning again, with Aya being so close to pulling out the sword, and for all the thematic reasons other people have talked about to death that I don't need to go into here again. This upcoming chapter being so short again makes a part of me wary of 110 being "the one", so to speak, I won't lie, but at the same time, it's very possible that it needs to be that short because that's all the final episode of the season will be able to reasonably fit in, since it's already gonna be VERY close if they do make it all the way to 109. And at the end of the day, I don't doubt at all that Asagiri and Harukawa can make these the most monumental and game-changing mere 13 pages ever if they wanted to; a chapter does not at all need to be extremely long in order to be an important and impactful one, even if short ones we've gotten in the past haven't felt the most important.

An additional thought I've had, though this is much more crack territory than all this already is, is that since we know from Anime Expo that a Stormbringer movie at some point is highly likely (judging from Asagiri's reaction when someone brought it up), it's possible that chapter 110 and thus the final episode will involve the long-anticipated return of Verlaine and/or Adam, or at least some other major reference to Stormbringer, that would naturally and smoothly lead into a Stormbringer movie to explain things to people who haven't read the novel. It would make a lot of sense, especially since the s4 OP has the Old World sign behind Chuuya, which might be a hint that this has been in the works ever since seasons 4/5 were first in planning with Asagiri. We also know that Dazai and Chuuya's voice actors apparently struggled to record their lines together this season, which probably relates to 101 and possibly 109, but it could be 110 too.... I could be very wrong, as I'm no expert on this kind of thing, but I kinda doubt they would bring Chuuya's actor in for just the vampire growls, and Asagiri placing heavy emphasis on Chuuya's importance this season in that one interview gives me the impression that he's talking about much more than just 101/109. But that's the least solid evidence I have, that's just mostly based on vibes I get.

So basically, I think a lot of factors -- the unusual episode count, how close the anime is to catching up to the manga with three whole episodes left, the seemingly arbitrary recent chapter lengths, and the climactic events of 109 -- can tell us that 110 might be a very, VERY big deal. Again, there's of course no way this arc is anywhere near close to being finished, with so much left to address and resolve, but since it is currently incomplete in the manga, unlike the previously adapted arcs, if the anime was going to adapt it at all, they'd have to find a place that feels satisfying enough to end this season, knowing there won't be more anime for a long time after this, and so I think they specifically planned for that, from both Bones' and A/H's sides. 10 episodes might not have been enough to reach that point, but 12 or 13 might have been too many it wouldn't have been if Bones actually decided to slow down and let the story breathe the way it needs to, but this post isn't meant to criticize the anime, so maybe 11 was just right. And maybe Asagiri and Harukawa specifically pushed to make recent chapters longer than usual, in order to make sure that the manga reached the story content in 110 the monthly release right before season 5 was to end.

Is this just copium? Absolutely. Am I going to look like an absolute clown in two days when this post ages like milk? Probably. But the evidence is There, so let me just enjoy my delusions until Sunday, okay 🥂🫡

#bungou stray dogs #seriously call me a clown and point and laugh at me if I'm proven wrong all you want #but I really feel like there's solid evidence for this #either s5 isn't gonna reach 109 at all (but I seriously cannot fathom where you would want to stop before then) or they'll go beyond it #if they really do end it with 109....... well i'll give Bones kudos for having the balls to do that ig lol #maybe i'm underestimating (overestimating???) them idk #also just to clarify I don't wanna make it sound like I think Asagiri let the anime/Bones dictate the manga's pacing #like I'm sure these were his/their (him and Harukawa's) own decisions first and foremost #not that (if this theory is true) the anime had a major impact on how the chapters were split and that it- #-would have been extremely different otherwise #i'm pretty confident in that Asagiri does not do anything with BSD he isn't comfortable with #and he doesn't let anyone tell him how to write his story #I just feel like he worked with Bones to make this near-simultaneous release happen #BUT if this is the case I don't feel like it had any major effect on the writing/final product that is the manga #like the last handful of chapters have been so incredible #so I at least am still perfectly happy lol #(i mean i'm devastated and a nervous wreck but u know 🫡 in a good way lmao) #anyway 110 in two days please let this theory be true because I need some fucking hope already #please let Oda show up as Dazai's guardian angel to help (see what I did there-) #it would be the perfect way to end the collective season that is 4/5 with s4 beginning with Oda and now ending with Oda #Asagiri are you reading me are you picking up what I'm putting down please please a ghost Oda is long overdue please- #Oda Verlaine Adam just GIVE ME SOMEONE ALREADY 😭😭😭 #MAYBE EVEN A TASTE OF THE FYODOR BACKSTORY TO TIE INTO HIM BEING IN ANIME UNTOLD ORIGINS. THE POSSIBILITIES ARE ENDLESS

[rinqueraa]

humanity from the point of view of 2,383 lines of code

(please read from right to left✨)

#skk #soukoku #bsd #have been wanting to draw a comic about chuuya affirming dazai's humanity in his own wacky ways for aaages #is it really a rinqueraa comic if there isnt at least one hand focus panel #storm bringer spoilers maybe #sorry for enjoying this flavour of skk where they are very weird about things and about each other

[ccarrot]

Okay i gave myself a heart attack over my (literally) starcrossed soukoku idea where chuuya is an astronaut who's ship been mysteriously abandoned in space and dazai is a ground control tech who makes contact with him after years of isolation and basically they (dazai and the other ada members who are a space agency in japan) are trying to get chuuya back to earth. Also the camera systems on chuuya's ship don't work so dazai and chuuya can only communicate through the audio channels and they only have each other's voice to give chuuya comfort+companionship / give dazai reassurance that chuuya's still alive. And and. GHHH i feel sick over this.

#ofc chuuya has his little doubt in his own humanity bc he's been isolated fr so long and he feels more alien than human #dazai also just wants to help others as a way to feel human too y'know. so chuuya was the perfect excuse but then uh oh #he's in love with the sad space boy he's never seen the face of. #bsd #skk #soukoku

[iwritenarrativesandstuff]

I have a question for you guys.

I was rewatching Yosano's backstory episode (and cried again. what of it?) but something this time caught my attention.

In the scene where Fukuzawa and Mori are fighting and Fukuzawa angrily tells him his plans "lack humanity"... is the word they both use... not "kokoro"?

It would appear to be, from this manga translation. If that really is the choice of word, that's really interesting, because one of irl Natsume-sensei's most well-known books is the novel Kokoro.

What does this mean? Is Mori really following the plan Natsume laid out for them? Is he derailing from the initial plan with the exclusion of "heart/humanity"? Did Natsume intend for "heart" to be sacrificed in the name of defense? Or is this conflict, with "heart" at the center, exactly what Natsume needed for this plan to work?

And on Mori's end: this isn't his usual cold, impeccable logic. This is anger that Fukuzawa is getting in the way. More than that, it almost seems to me like Mori has a paranoid streak. Check this out here:

To be quite honest with you, Mori sometimes makes weird calls that imo aren't the best decisions - and they're all out of some fear he has, typically over the protection of the city and the country. Mori's takeover of the Port Mafia is seen as overall a good thing - because the previous boss grew increasingly paranoid and started ordering unnecessary violence, something Mori himself wishes to avoid whenever possible. Yet his projection onto Dazai causes issues during the Mimic incident - sure it was logically sound, but he lost Dazai for it. Was it really then the best solution there was? And what about Yosano - so caught up in what she could prove and what she meant for the war effort that he failed to consider her taking drastic action out of sheer despair? It's interesting that Mori, who advises others on not letting their fears and emotions get in the way of strategy, is prone to the same thing at times. Might he get worse at this kind of miscalculation? It'd be altogether kind of tragic if he messes up later in the story out of paranoia, considering his predecessor's legacy...

Edit: I changed the last bit, as it's left somewhat unclear if part of Mori's reasoning in the whole Mimic incident was to get Dazai away from him - in fact, it's likely that wasn't the case at all and Dazai was just saying this to intentionally get under his skin. Unfortunately I am a bit of dumbass who misinterpreted this line on first read, and now read it differently:

He's sticking with the logicality of it - one person's life for a gifted business permit is a worthwhile sacrifice, even if it drove away his right hand man. Either way, whether it's projection (Dazai is just like me, so he'll understand) or paranoia (he is going to inevitably kill me someday - which is still kinda projection imo) or some combination of the two - I think the original point still stands: maybe focusing all your efforts on ensuring you're always prepared for some eventuality or other means you overlook things you deem less important or irrelevant. Maybe removing heart from your decisions... isn't actually the best call in the end.

#bsd #bsd meta #i suppose? #bsd fukuzawa #bsd mori #does this make sense? i can't read #storyrambles #the updated version with me actually properly rereading this bit wheeeeee thank you nawy for pointing that out #i had always assumed it was both motives to some degree but now i'm inclined to think it isn't #either is intriguing in its own way to play with though #mori arranging the mimic incident thinking that dazai would agree with his logic and failing to consider his emotions: way more interesting #especially character wise (also more canon) #mori arranging the mimic incident to in part get rid of dazai only to immediately regret it two seconds later: WAY funnier #anyways sorry for my mistake here everyone i hope this clarifies it #also i hope this updated post actually shows up #sigh

[ssaraexposs]

Just Dazai playing with a dog

#it's honestly very cute #i didn't know about these panels #dazai's such a weird guy #but he's cute in his own way #is he missing chuuya that much #yeah sorry #i had to #dazai osamu #bsd #bsd manga #bungo stray dogs

[irritablepoe]

This is just an observation but. I think it's interesting that dazai is always doing his own thing and having his own little plans (an exception would be chuuya though ig?) while ranpo on the other hand is always eager to make the ada work together or to make acquaintances with people.

I think they're both often put into that genius trope pool but they do work very differently from each other. And while ranpo's trust was betrayed by fukuchi, he does make sure dazai can trust him in the moment he finally chooses to do just that and to not plan everything ahead.

#gladly add onto this btw #bsd #bsd dazai #bsd ranpo #ranpo isn't usually angry as well but he is visibly upset when he goes his own way after he warns the ada about the kidnapping case #-and they declined doing it his way (or well. not taking the case lol) #so apparently ranpo places a lot of value in trust #he wants to trust people

[karmicpunishment]

the ada goes out to a group bonding karaoke night and atsushi sends akutagawa increasingly drunk texts that culminate in a very shakey video of atsushi singing a song on stage dedicated to his "favorite rabid dog"

#the song is something stupid by the way #akuatagwa texts him back calling him an idiot but he's 100% blushing bright red as hes reading them #i hc that atsushi metabolizes alcohol quickly #so he gets drunk normally but sobers up faster #so he gets wasted #via his own choices or dazai's schemes or his coworkers antics or from free drinks cause hes pretty #and starts texting akutagawa #then he performs #passes out #wakes up and is absolutely mortified #atsushi nakajima bsd #atsushi nakajima #atsushi bsd #atsushi bsd hcs #akutagawa bsd #akutagawa ryuunosuke #sskk #shin soukoku #shin soukoku headcanons #sskk hcs #bsd #bsd hcs #the ada

[aroacesigma]

sigzai hc that dazais suicide jokes make sigma rly worried and sometimes send him into a panic attack bc he doesnt want to lose dazai anf the stupid twink realizes it eventually (sigma refuses to say anything bc thats just how dazai copes and he doesnt want to somehow make it worse) and stops making as many self deprecating jokes/becomes more aware of how much he means to people . i dont even know they make me insane

i love them

#asks #autistic-ranpo #i love this headcanon very much actually #dazai is such a smart guy but he doesnt really think about how is actions might affect other people somtimes i think . #hes always thinkig in his twelves steps ahead chess mode but he neglects the little things sometimes #meanwhile sigma . he thinks TOO much about how what he does affects other people . see : the entire casino arc #he takes way too much about everyone else into consideration at his own expense #idk where im going with this but . theyre so very #i dont know how to explain it but a lot of those two are so similar yet so ridiculously far removed from each other and different . #does this make sense . probably not #arghrghrghrghh

[amethystroselily]

I’ve noticed Dazai still warns people in the mafia that something big is about to happen before he warns the ADA, and I think that’s fucking insane and so interesting.

Like how he skipped a company event to thank Hirotsu for helping him and then warned him about Dostoyevsky after the guild arc (which I’m pretty sure was the first time we hear Dazai talk about him), or how he told Akutagawa that he was probably going to prison but didn’t warn any of his coworkers.

#I honestly think Dazai did care about the mafia in his own way #he’s just angry at Mori and is fulfilling Oda’s dream and giving himself a purpose #Iwas writing a whole post about that but I lost my train of thought and haven’t finished writing it yet #bsd #bungou stray dogs spoilers #bsd manga #bsd dazai #bungou stray dogs #bsd hirotsu #bsd akutagawa #dazai osamu #port mafia

[the-gayest-sky-kid]

i hate it when people will like have no ships right they'll not include a ship in anything but will also like. delete the entire relationship too. like look here's a hyperspecific example that only i care about

venti and the traveler (aether in my case) are a ship that exists. i like aeventi a good bit. some people dont and thats cool. but venti and the traveler are also FRIENDS. they canonically care about each other a good bit, theres text and voicelines and cutscenes that like prove this 70 times over. and i find sacrificing that bit of canon just because you dont view them romantically odd

#like do you get it #even if you dont think these people are romantically involved to ignore the framework that made people view them that way is quite frankly #just how you get horrible characterization #like yeah i see them romantically but they could still be that close as besties. regardless of how you interpret them THEYRE STILL CLOSE TO #EACH OTHER. REGARDLESS #example that more of you will care about: even if skk arent gay for each other THEYRE STILL REALLY WEIRD ABOUT ONE ANOTHER #not viewing them romantically does not negate dazai being weird and abnormal about chuuya and thinking about him 24/7/365. in his own words #if they werent gay theyd be worsties. represent that #aeventi #aethers rants #cw rant #caps cw #sorry im done now

[incorrect-ikevamp-quotes]

Dazai, smiling a little too wide at Charles: Underestimate me. That'll be fun.

#ikevamp #ikemen vampire #ikevamp dazai #ikevamp incorrect quotes #i gotta say dazai popped off in his main story route #like the way he reads charles for filth???? #the way he deadass finds out about vlad after like 2 minutes of investigating #i know i joke around but he is more of a chad than most people give him credit for #honestly sometimes i think about the fact that vlad didn't go up against dazai because like #1. yes i don't think he was lying when he said he had no interest in dazai because his desire to live was low #and that basically gives vlad zero leverage because he can be like 'i'll end you' and dazai's like 'lmfao bet get in line after me' #(big mood king) #but i also think that part of it was that dazai cannot be swayed by vlad's hostility or his fabrications as to who he is #dazai is too sharp to be fooled; he was able to tell in seconds that comte bore no ill will to him and the mansion at large #and he was able to sense vlad's discordant and overbearing influence on charles in seconds too #for all that he has the flaw of overwhelming self-reproach #he has such a staggeringly clear view of others' flaws/shortcomings #which in its own way is genius--if he's that brilliant it's no wonder he's so hard on himself #he sees his own issues so acutely it weighs on him like an anvil #i didn't mean for that to become meta but tbh i am fascinated by the way he was written #will say i did also get hot under the collar when he gets cold and pissed/defensive #obsessed with his vibes lowkey #source: incorrect quote generator