s1 rewatch ep3
Yokohama Gangster Paradise.
Tanizaki’s apology: he really sounds like he thinks Atsushi is going to kick his ass. Maybe it’s just that everyone at the Agency is insane…
As that’s going on, check out the background. Dazai is rocking side to side, cooing something in a singsong voice that I can’t decipher. But it irritates Kunikida into sticking a foot into Dazai’s side. What is he doing? Flirting with the waitress? (At least he has an ass in this shot)
And the studio wasted no effort in making it clear what the Tanizaki siblings’ issue is.
But just to be sure, there’s this scene…
Kunikida gets the siblings to chill out some. Just in time to look back and see Dazai flirting with the waitress. “Would you strangle me with these fragile, delicate hands?”
Dude, no wonder Dazai is loopy. How many times does he get hit in the head per day?
And then strangled? The expressions are gold.
Kunikida being reminded that he was a math teacher (at a cram school?) Another winner expression.
And Dazai doing the “innocent, harmless” look. LIAR. He even blushes.
Reward?!vDazai's expression, and Mamoru’s voice acting with it. So done with this.
700 thousand?! Apparently that was enough to get Atsushi into the butt-up position.
I had to remind myself that “boo” is the japanese equivalent of “bzzt” in english.
Silly and cute. "Actor?" "Wrong. But that's so flattering." He's blushing again. Atsushi already has had it with the Cute and Innocent act. [Dazai's kinda like the tshirt my friends made for me: Pure evil and Innocent of murder]
During interview with Higuchi
Holy crap, she used her real name. No wonder Dazai made her so fast. The funny look he has when they all gather up to meet her is him thinking.
Then he propositions her for lovers’ suicide and Kunikida beats his ass.
Turn up your headphones and listen to what the VAs are yelling. It’s hysterical. As Kunikida steps back out of the machine room, a thoroughly beaten Dazai grovels on the floor, groping towards Higuchi and whimpering, “Ee shinjuu ware…” [Good/nice double suicide with me]
Dazai facedown on his desk with the headphones on after Kunikida beat the snot out of him.
Kunikida gives advice: don’t run into this guy. Apparently Dazai’s not too damaged, because he pops up and joins the conversation. No one knows much about the mafiosos, except Dazai (and he's not saying anything)
It’s not an accident that they give us a good look at Dazai being pensive when they talk about how dangerous this guy’s skill is. What’s his name? It’s Aktugawa.
Segue to Aktugawa dropping in at a police neighborhood station. To wreck the place.
Dazai stretched out on the couch, headphones on, singing a pop song about “You need two for a lovers’ suicide.” I love how even when he’s working, he goes out of his way to piss everyone off by acting like he’s doing nothing. “Poster child for Sloth” Kunikida calls him in one of the light novels. He tells Kunikida that he's "waiting for a message on high."
Oh look, he almost has an ass in this shot!
Atsushi still not understanding what he can do if he works with the Tiger.
And Tanizaki showing that he spends most of his time in denial.
Gotta explain everything this early in a series. Higuchi has time to drop her bag, unbutton her collar, put her hair up, her sunglasses on, get out her phone and call Aktugawa before any of the Agency fools think to move. I dunno about you, but I’d be outta there the minute she started saying, “ Sorry, I led you into a trap.” Yeah. Sorry, but I’m not sticking around to see what you had planned. Bye!
[ran out of pic slots. Continued next post]
14 notes
·
View notes