Rewatching this series has allowed me to notice the quite frankly hilarious exchange between Kunikida & Jun’ichirou during Atsushi’s entrance exam.
Jun’ichirou is trying to act tough with threatening Kunikida until he—out of nowhere, says this shit:
And Kunikida, understandably, is like excuse me??
Now, you can see the exact moment Jun’ichirou realizes he fucked up. Idk how much improv experience Tanizaki has, but I doubt he intended to make his demand that kinky, and it shows.
But it’s too late to change his bad boy act now, so he doubles down.
At this point, you can tell Kunikida takes a moment to lower his blood pressure, before he just resigns with a “this may as well happen” sort of face.
Like IMAGINE. You tell your colleague to pretend to be a psycho bomber and he asks you to do THIS shit??? Like Tanizaki do you have something you wanna share with the class?
You gotta hand it to Kunikida for keeping a straight face the whole time though, goddamn. He may be a tightass, but he committed to that role.
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On Jun'ichiro Tanizaki--
You know, a lot of people dispel the theory of the Tanizakis having some dark horrific past or hiding secrets because of Jun'ichiro in the light novels consistently talking about in the fact that he's "just an average guy, with no dark past or horrific trauma. just a normal guy."
Thing is, he states it a biiit too much. Plus we know that canonically, his entrance exam for the agency was "so horrific and traumatising that he buried the memories in his subconscious", so even with just that, we know he's not exactly being truthful about having "absolutely no trauma".
Other thing is, the irl counterpart of Jun'ichiro Tanizaki had quite the penchant for unreliable narrators. AKA, the narrators of his stories were, a lot of the time, unable to be fully counted as truthful due to the warped nature of their own minds/reality, for one reason or another.
And now, wouldn't you say that Jun'ichiro could be counted as an unreliable narrator?
I mean, it's common for trauma survivors to lock away the memories of traumatic experiences, not only of what happened during them but also sometimes that they even happened at all. And he already has an account of doing so, as mentioned just previously.
Another thing though, not just the trauma but the "average guy" bit too, he was referred to by the CREATOR OF BSD as "the character closest to evil" in the ADA?????? Like,,,, there's an ex-mafia executive with HOW many listed crimes (AND THOSE AREN'T EVEN COUNTING THE STUFF ANGO ERASED)??? And you're telling me passive soft-boy ginger over here is WORSE?
And if you know about the eye symbolism in the manga,,,, HIS EYES GET DARKER THAN DAZAI'S SOMETIMES.
Tanizaki has absolutely NO moral code - like literally has the moral code of DAZAI. Tanizaki strives to do good PURELY because of his sister, but even with that if he has even a half-decent reason to throw all good intentions out the window, he will do it with NO hesitation.
Let's bring up the Higuchi encounter right at the start of the series. He flips his fucking shit the second Naomi gets hurt, and gets around Higuchi with his ability and attacks her from behind, trying to strangle her.
But how does he try to strangle her, specifically?
Generally, when strangling someone, the usual thought is just to squeeze their neck, kinda unspecifically, ya know? But when Tanizaki did it, he went straight for her windpipe.
He fucking pressed his fingers down on her windpipe specifically. On the sides of the neck are veins, so when choking someone safely as a sexual thing, you go simply for the sides of the neck to block blood flow and get your partner light headed without actually ensuring they'll get hurt by it and making sure their breathing isn't obstructed. But the windpipe is where you go to kill a person. He did not want to just choke her out, he wanted to fucking murder her.
May I add that this wasn't even self defense by this point? She wasn't even really threatening Naomi at this point, he went to do that for revenge.
And I bring up next the guild arc. While the two from the guild had Naomi and her friend, as well as Tanizaki and Kunikida, captured, they threatened to take Naomi and Tanizaki used his ability to get the two guild members hit by a truck. But why I bring this up is because he hasn't even just hurt the attackers this time. That driver did not get out uninjured. Who knows if he even got out at all.
In that moment, Tanizaki attempted to kill 3 people, 1 of which was a completely innocent driver who had nothing to do with the situation.
Then if we wanna talk about the cannibalism arc,,,, woo boi.
During the cannibalism arc, he got held captive by the fucking Port Mafia's Black Lizard, and when they threatened his sister he went "I'll fucking kill you all, don't test me." He was basically at their mercy, and still threatened and genuinely scared them.
He managed to SNEAK UP ON and SCARE Gin. Just, yk, the BEST ASSASSIN IN THE ENTIRE PORT MAFIA
In fact, he managed to SNEAK AWAY and get ALL THE WAY TO THE BOSS' ROOM WITHOUT BEING CAUGHT. He stood over the guy's fucking bed with a knife ready to plunge it into the guy's heart without hesitation or guilt - not even self defense, just because "someone has to die, and I've decided it's going to be him". He only failed in doing so because Kouyou showed up, and might I say it took a fucking EXECUTIVE to stop him from assassinating Mori.
Mofo went "alr, i bought time for the others to escape………………………………imma go try to kill mori now lol"
His ability "isn't suited for fighting", my ass. Just an "average guy", huh? He has absolutely no actual combat training that we know of.
Plus he's just so mentally unstable. The guy's teetering on the edge of his sanity the entire goddamn series. Guy heard "I don't want to join the Port Mafia" and went "Why? I'll do it"
Our Jun'ichiro "self-proclaimed average guy" Tanizaki played a terrorist bomber scarily well in like the first episode or two.......
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Hc that the ada bathrooms' stalls are full of drawing and writing, both in women's and men's (and gender neutral if they'd have that) like in school. And it's mostly made by Dazai, Yosano, Ranpo and Naomi (sometimes Junichiro and Atsushi).
Like in the men's bathroom it's mostly horrendous shit like creepy ass drawings and the most cursed ass quotes so sometimes you hear giggling from one of the stalls-
And for the women's it's either psychopath, horrific ideas or cute, aspiring, thoughtful quotes and butterflies.
(Ranpo and Dazai write weird ass stuff there, and sometimes they have deep weird convos, and they draw creepy shit to go along with it and scare the other members who go take a shit.
Atsushi and Juni draw cute stuff and write meaningful quotes. Same for Naomi but she also draws cats and sometimes writes the most psychopathic stalker shit. And as for Yosano, she writes sadistic ass stuff all the time and they look great next to Naomi's butterflies.)
Sometimes sneaky clients write them if they have to go to the bathroom, sometimes even Lucy or Poe, maybe even Aktugawa and other mafia members so it's really just a thread between everyone-
I need a fic abt this pls
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“The Black Lizard’s sharpshooter was sitting in his kitchen, on a counter, eating Nutella by the spoonful, at hell knows what ungodly hour.”
based on Nutella Thieves and Fridge Goblins by RandomAxolotl
I like the idea of Tachihara just breaking into Tanizaki's dorm to hang out and steal food even if Jun tells him to fuck off bc they're gonna get in trouble.
Naomi gets whatever she wants in reparations, too. She'll take advantage of Jun's mafia boyfriend, he has two paychecks, he can afford this shit ψ(`∇´)ψ
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