You know how “the moon is beautiful tonight, isn’t it?” is used as an expression for love confessions? It’s said that Natsume Soseki came up with it after overhearing a student translate “I love you” to Japanese in a very literal sense. While there is no source confirming that this exchange actually happened, I still think a scene referencing the expression with Natsume randomly appearing would be hilarious

i’ll never forgive bones for not animating dazais expression as he had forgotten how to breathe as he watched the storm that was chuuya decimate the battlefield BUT INSTEAD they made him emotionless. bones you will be dealt with.

Atsushi : Wow. I wish I had something like the both of you. What's more romantic than meeting the love of your life and living happily ever after?

Dazai : We met at a seafood restaurant waiting in line for the bathroom.

Atsushi : I bet it was love at first sight.

Chuuya : We both had food poisoning.

Atsushi : And love poisoning!

Dazai & chuuya : ...

For the sake of storytelling and NOT failing Chuuya’s arc it fit better for his humanity to have remained intact. If he REALLY had been vampire-ized it would have HAD to be addressed exactly because he struggled with his humanity so much through his arc.

maybe i’m biased but honestly the kenji vs tetchou fight may be my favourite in all of bsd (which is a hard choice since there are so many good ones)

first off, the animation of it was easily the best i’ve seen in the anime. it looked really intense and i absolutely adore it. the sound design was also great as well as the line delivery.

story wise, i think the fact that they both made sure nobody was around before fighting to keep people safe was very in-character for them both. you could also tell neither of them initially wanted to fight but tetchou attacked because the book makes the agency appear guilty no matter what. yet he was still kind when talking to to kenji and kenji was kind back prior to and after the fight.

tetchou was also clearly distracted by jouno being gone to the point where he pushed justice (the thing he pretty much always prioritizes) aside in favour of helping jouno. that shows how much he cares and how worried he was. that puts a heavy emotional impact on the fight, the fact that tetchou was clearly desperate to save jouno quickly with literal justice on the line.

in contrast, kenji went up against the man who had already stabbed him numerous times before and was still kind and listened to him talk first. kenji is probably the nicest character in the entire series, he offered to help the man who tried to kill him and his friends. the fact that he could calm his anger after and still be completely willing to help tetchou shows a lot about kenji as a person. for a 14 year old, kenji is extremely mature and gentle for being willing to help after all of that.

they both could have easily fought until one was dead, but tetchou admitted his mistakes and offered his life to kenji because he realized he had failed. yet kenji seen the sincerity of that and offered to help him despite the fact that they were on the verge of killing each other.

they ended up bonding at the end. it genuinely made me so happy to see this animated, both admitting they had made mistakes and agreed to help each other. which means tetchou has likely broken the writing of the book by thinking clearly, much like how ranpo said the police could do in the first episode of season five.

i really hope we get to see them searching together soon, the two have very close morals and i could see a good friendship form between them. i feel like they’d make an insanely powerful duo in the future as well, i would love to see tetchou mentoring kenji.

"kenji. to have learned that name…was my greatest accomplishment of the day."

I’ve been posting a lot about my thoughts on Dazai’s characterization and motivations but honestly I’ve been dedicating a lot more energy to trying to understand Oda. Dazai is an amazingly complex character but he’s a constant in the story and we know quite a lot about him, comparatively. Oda is incredibly mysterious and much harder to understand. My breakthrough earlier figuring out that Oda had the book has really helped me open my mind to another side of Oda I hadn’t yet considered.

The things is, authors have to be a bit cruel. Oda’s reasoning for not killing because he wanted to be a writer doesn’t make sense, we kill our own characters all the time. We put them through hell over and over for entertainment/to convey a deeper meaning. I think maybe one of the conditions of having the book is not killing directly, or maybe a certain level of removal from the storyline. Like, if you control reality and others lives with the book you’re giving up a certain amount of control physically in the moment.

Oda is a killer. He is friends with killers. And if I’m right about him being the author of the Dark Era he wrote the deaths of the kids. I think his reaction was genuine, I think he really felt like he shouldn’t have the book, that he didn’t deserve to be its author anymore, but I really think that he wrote the story to give Dazai the opportunity and the motivation to get a better life. I mean, I’ve made myself cry with my writing. The most compelling stories are full of tragedy.

Oda was a child assassin. He was a writer. He was a mafioso. But most of all he was Dazai’s friend.

Wait! Holy shit idea!

Okay so Natsume had the book before Oda, but he was definitely following Dazai around before he got the book so we know there’s already a connection there. I’ve been wondering why Oda was so attached to Dazai. But Natsume wrote the story he adored, the third installment which Oda finished was The Book. But what did Natsume write about? What exactly were the books Oda loved? What if it was Dazai’s story? What if Oda knows Dazai so well because he read his life story over and over and yearned to give him a happy ending? What if his whole motivation was to finish the story in a satisfying way? And everything from the orphan’s existence to Ango’s betrayal was to create an open ended story in which Dazai could potentially have have a better life?

Oda is such an incredible character. He’s full of contradictions until you actually start thinking of him as an author. We authors have strange minds, we love our characters but we put them through so much. Because we wouldn’t love them if we didn’t make them struggle, make them realistic and deep and meaningful. Oda knew the kids were going to die, he wrote it. But he got attached like anyone would. But he was done writing the story, all that was left was for it to play out. So he passed ownership of the book to Dazai and went to play his role.

Fuck I’m getting emotional omg Odasaku is wonderful. I don’t even care if the entire theory is wrong, I’ve figured Oda out with the information I was given and filled in the blanks. Asagiri himself wouldn’t be able to make me give this theory up.

Oda isn’t a good person with strong morals the way he presents himself. He does that to fill the mentor roll for Dazai and to get Dazai to make the desired decisions. He just a fan who was given control of the story by the original author and basically used all the writing tools ever to create a story in which the character he loved but who was tragically doomed and seeped in darkness could find some happiness. Just like anyone writing a fix-it fic. Accept his fix is canon.

Holy shit I’m a genius.

Don’t come at me you have no idea how proud I am of this! Either I figured out the most confusing character ever written or I have created a genius explanation that nothing will ever top (for me anyway).

So was no one gonna tell me that THE Mamoru Miyano, VA of all pathetic fruity wet cat anime men, WAS THE VILLAIN OF THE PRECURE/PRETTY CURE 15TH ANNIVERSARY MOVIE?! AND THAT HE SAYS ALL THE GIRLS’ MOST FAMOUS CATCHPHRASES AND ATTACKS?!

YALL REALLY JUST LET ME GO INTO THIS BLIND HUH

IT TOOK HIM SAYING “GET” IN ENGLISH FOR ME TO PAUSE AND GO “IS THAT MY BITCH MAMORU MIYANO”

I couldn’t take the movie seriously anymore it was GLORIOUS

Mamoru Miyano got beat up by a pack of fruity colorful magical girls and I was CACKLING

I couldn’t stop imagining all his characters (mainly Dazai let’s be real) in his place getting beat up by a bunch of junior high girls with sparkle powers 😂😂😂

bsd killing potentially emotional scenes by pulling the “I knew everything all along and it was all according to plan” is the equivalent of marvel movies killing sincere moments with quips and one-liners.

(that's fine dw!!!)

i don't knowww, do u have any cat pictures :<

Of course!

not really into bsd but i've been meaning to draw the suicide man for a while now

Idk if it's just me, but I feel like today's bsd episode was probably the best episode in the series so far

also bsd confession maybe i was just extremely dense but i always thought aya was just a very small and quirky woman i didn’t realize she was actually meant to be like. 10. I thought she was just short and funny

Hmmmm I think people often forget that Mori is terrified of Dazai

Dazai antis: omg this dazai anon is crazy!! He’s a fictional character!!

Also dazai antis: YOU DONT KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT CHUUGLY FVCK OFF GO READ SH*TBRINGER AND DONT SPEAK ON HIM 😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡

You know me, I just hate Dazai, the lead protagonist of the show, and only watch it for a guy who gets like 6 secs of screentime a season. I hate the guy who is the person I cosplay the most and sketch the most. Golly gee, you got me, I guess I'll throw out his plush and the poster of him.

Some Dazai drawing/sketch I did today because why not. 😉

Qotd

Is there a fictional character you like? Who is it? It could be a comfort character or a guy you find silly