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finishing the first ln and now I understand kunikidazai so much better I'm speechless
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worlds normalest polycule
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Are they, you know…?
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Kunikida canonically thinks that Dazai has 'somewhat handsome features'.
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Why would you as a MAN not mind being shot by another MAN.
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Why was Kunikida against rescuing Kyouka?
Will mention some minor spoilers for Dazai's Entrance Exam light novel.
The way Kunikida reacts to Atsushi trying to save Kyouka is so so important to his character and how he has developed (even before the series actually starts).
The way he acts about Kyouka (discouraging Sushi from helping her) feels conflicting with his ideals. We see him trying to help kids in bad situations so often. I’m talking partially about Aya and kids with bombs literally strapped to them, but I’m also talking about kids going down a bad path. I mean, the whole reason that bomber guy in the Aya episode was obsessed with getting revenge on him was that years ago Kunikida saw this high schooler who was hurting and being very fucked up about it (I think he was planning to bomb his school?) and tried to help him in the way he knew how (pushing his ideals onto him).
But the more direct example is Rokuzo, the hacker guy in the Azure Apostle/Messenger arc. I think it’s more clear in the light novel, but the kid was going down a bad path after the death of his father, he was hacking the ada, getting into illegal stuff, and instead of getting him in legal trouble, Kunikida lowkey blackmailed him to use his skills for them. But this was because this gave him a connection to try and help him!!! To be a figure in his life and lead him right! (He specifically says he had no intent of actually releasing the evidence on him.) That was his whole goal there! And we all know how that went.
The whole Azure Apostle/Messenger arc was designed to make him question his ideals (as are many of Kunikida's best moments), and it certainly does.
"Was it right for her to be shot and killed?! Is this the ideal world I seek?!" Pg 172, Osamu Dazai's Entrance Exam
"Miss Sasaki is dead, and so is Rokuzo. 'All I've found in my search for righteousness within myself is a sense of hopelessness.'" Pg 173, Osamu Dazai's Entrance Exam
And then, after that, after his ideals fail him and lead to that kid's death, Atsushi, the new hire that he must feel at least a little (maybe unwillingly) responsible for (because who else is gonna be responsible for him, Dazai?), meets Kyouka. And Kunikida knows how this goes. Atsushi is naive. He will throw so much of himself into saving this kid, just like Kunikida did. It will end in tragedy and it will break him. Kunikida went through this already and he doesn’t want that for Atsushi.
In the anime, we meet Kyouka so soon after the Azure Apostle/Messenger arc. In general, I think changing the timing of Azure Apostle/Messenger ruined a lot of the adaptation, but in this specific instance, it adds something because it makes Kunikida's reaction to Kyouka feel more like a direct result of what happened there.
So we see Kunikida trying to protect Atsushi, the kid who he can help, and sort of try to go against his ideals. He is actively struggling to go against what he feels is right, and in the end, he succumbs to it anyway. We have seen Kunikida try not to follow his specific ideals or general moral code in the name of being logical and it doesn't work. In the end, he lets Atsushi's hope infect him and power his ideals once again, and it pays off!
I adore him <3
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Light Novels Masterlist
Osamu Dazai’s Entrance Exam:
Doppo Kunikida is an idealist and a straitlaced detective at the Armed Detective Agency, an organization that takes on dangerous jobs even the police won't handle. Everything in his life is going just as he's planned...until one day, he's paired up with the agency's newest hire: a suspicious, eccentric, suicide-obsessed man named Osamu Dazai. Their first case together turns out to be far more complicated than Kunikida anticipated — and it looks like the detective agency's sworn enemy, the Port Mafia, is somehow involved, too!
Set two years before the events of the manga series, this is the tale of how two seemingly incompatible personalities end up forming the partnership that has made them one of Yokohama's top detective duos.
Disclaimer - Epigraph - Prologue - Chapter 1 - Chapter 2 - Interlude 1 - Chapter 3 - Chapter 4 - Interlude 2 - Epilogue - Afterword
Osamu Dazai And The Dark Era:
Before joining the Armed Detective Agency, Osamu Dazai was the youngest executive with the Port Mafia, the most notorious underground crime syndicate in all of Yokohama. When one of their colleagues suddenly goes missing, Dazai and fellow Port Mafia member Sakunosuke Oda are tasked with conducting an investigation… and at last, the reason why Dazai parted ways with the Port Mafia is revealed!
Disclaimer - Epigraph - Prologue - Chapter 1 - Chapter 2 - Chapter 3 - Chapter 4 - Epilogue - Afterword
The Untold Origins Of The Armed Detective Agency:
Over a decade before the events of the manga series, a chance encounter leads professional bodyguard Yukichi Fukuzawa to begrudgingly take an arrogant boy genius named Ranpo Edogawa under his wing. Their first job brings them to a local theater on high alert after receiving a bizarre death threat — a challenge that will require both Ranpo's brains and Fukuzawa's experience. The aftermath spurs Fukuzawa to establish the Armed Detective Agency, an organization that takes on dangerous jobs even the police won't handle!
Plus, get a glimpse of the agency the night before Atsushi Nakajima joined the team!
Disclaimer - A Day At The Detective Agency - The Untold Origins Of The Detective Agency (Part 1) - The Untold Origins Of The Detective Agency (Part 2) - The Untold Origins Of The Detective Agency (Part 3) - The Untold Origins Of The Detective Agency (Part 4) - Afterword
55 Minutes:
The Armed Detective Agency's latest case brings them to a strange island off the coast of Yokohama called ‘Standard Island,’ but what awaits them turns out to be far more complicated than expected: a bomb, time travel, a mysterious skill user named H.G. Wells... Will this incident spell the end of Yokohama itself?!
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Dead Apple:
Power users around the world are suddenly committing suicide one after another, in all cases after a strange fog appears at the scene. At a request from Ango Sakaguchi, the Armed Detective Agency head out to investigate Tatsuhiko Shibusawa, a power user who calls himself ‘Collector,’ and a man suspected of being tied to the incident.
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Beast:
What if the Port Mafia's Hellhound, Ryunosuke Akutagawa, had joined the Armed Detective Agency? Likewise, what if Atsushi Nakajima belonged to the Port Mafia? In the parallel world of Bungo Stray Dogs: Beast, fledgling detective Akutagawa's desperate mission to rescue his younger sister from the Port Mafia's clutches brings him face-to-face with the organization's fearsome White Reaper…a.k.a. Atsushi Nakajima. What does fate have in store for the two beasts in this alternate tale of darkness versus light…?
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Dazai, Chuuya, Age Fifteen:
Not long after Ōgai Mori takes the reins of the Port Mafia, his accomplice Osamu Dazai has a dreadful run in with Chūya Nakahara, a boy known as the Sheep King who is capable of manipulating gravity. But when strange rumors about the mysterious being Arahabaki start spreading throughout Yokohama, the duo must put aside their differences and get to the bottom of things.
Before they achieved infamy as the fearsome pairing Twin Dark, Dazai and Chūya were just boys. Was their first encounter a harbinger of hope, or an ill omen of things to come…?
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Strombringer:
It's been roughly one year since Chūya Nakahara joined the Port Mafia, and he's got his sights set on an executive position. But as he makes plans to move up, a man by the name of Paul Verlaine—claiming to be his younger brother—appears and vows to assassinate everyone he cares about! Now, Chūya must team up with Adam, a European A.I. investigator, to stop this lunatic before the storm swallows Yokohama once again…
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#Bungo Stray Dogs#Bungou Stray Dogs#Bungo Stray Dogs Light Novels#Light Novels#Armed Detective Agency#Port Mafia#The Guild#The Hunting Dogs#Decay Of Angels#Kafka Asagiri#Sango Harukawa#Osamu Dazai's Entrance Exam#Osamu Dazai And The Dark Era#The Untold Origins Of The Armed Detective Agency#55 Minutes#Dead Apple#Beast#Dazai Chuuya Age Fifteen#Strombringer
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Every time Dazai smiles in the entirety of the light novels (the official translations) Part 1.
Don't ask me why I did this. I wanted an excuse to read all them again, ok? I'm deathly afraid of the manga, but ln are my comfort space. With as much context as I can provide, behold the smiles and giggles of the one and only: Osamu Dazai.
Volume 1: "Osamu Dazai's entrance exam."
Prologue:
“Wait. Seriously? Wow, thanks.” He smiles bashfully, even though there’s nothing to blush about.”
“Well then, I think it’s about time we end this so I can go buy that book. We just need to slow him down, right?” Dazai breaks into a smile.
Chapter I:
“Oh, Kunikida! Good morning! Take a look at this! It’s incredible!” I’m suddenly greeted by a grinning Dazai on the threshold.”
“Good afternoon.” A man smiles from ear to ear as he enters the room.”
“I really hope we can get along, Kunikida.” Our new hire gives me a toothy smile, perhaps oblivious of my internal apprehension.”
“Ah-ha-ha. I kid. We’re going to investigate a haunted mansion, right?” His smiling face and casual demeanor cause me to scowl.
"He's a good kid" Dazai says with a grin as he looks up at the night sky.
“Thought so.” Dazai smiles, taking note of my expression.”
“You’re a real romanticist, you know that?” Dazai’s snickering comes out sounding like a sigh.”
Dazai’s sudden shrieking from up ahead causes my heart to skip a beat. He turns around, staring at me with his mouth opened wide. Then, after getting a good look at me, he slowly but surely begins to grin.
Chapter 2:
“Hey, don’t worry about it. I simply did what any gentleman would. Besides, I’m used to getting asked for things from people I’ve just met,” he replies with a smile.
“What a beautiful, misfortunate woman,” Dazai says with a smirk.
“Your treat?” Dazai asks, beaming with joy.”
Interlude:
“I mean, I’m not good at this electronic stuff.” He smiles faintly, his fingertips nimbly tapping the keyboard.
“…But I guess this isn’t something I can let others do.” He chuckles to himself in the dim car.
Chapter 3:
“So she’s available, Kunikida.” Dazai grins, gently elbowing me in the side.
I look at Dazai at my side. He’s smiling gleefully.
“Heh-heh.” Dazai smirks.
“So, Mr. Spy, what do you want in return for this information?” Dazai chimes in with a chuckle.
“Yeah, right. I dunno about Kunikida here, but I’m just a bit more cynical than that,” he replies with a grin.
“Looks like I couldn’t fool you. Too bad it’s just an ordinary fountain pen.” Dazai cheerfully grins.
“Shoot me.” He grins mirthfully from ear to ear. There’s tranquility in his smile.
His peaceful smile never once wavers. “Shoot me,” he says.
“I knew you would use that to shoot me, Kunikida.” Dazai grins, still on his back.”
Grinning, Dazai stands behind him with the bottle of liquor cracked in half in hand.
“…That hurt, y’know.” Dazai stands, and his lips curl upward—a fierce grin—as fresh blood drips down his cheek.”
“Wearing an unwavering smile, Dazai continues to close the distance.”
Afterword:
“DAZAI: “Hey, Atsushi. Just finishing up work for the day?” Dazai smiles cheerfully.
ATSUSHI: “D-did you…try to drown yourself again?” Atsushi makes a face.”
A total of 13 smiles, 9 grins, 2 smirks, 2 chuckles, 1 "beaming episode", and one snicker, that sounded like a sigh.
To be continued in the next one...
#bungo stray dogs#dark era bsd#entrance exam#osamu dazai's entrance exam#kafka asagiri#sango harukawa#osamu dasai#bsd spoilers#bsd volume 1 spoilers#bsd#dazai smiling#next up#the dark era#smiling through the pain#i dont even wanna talk about beast#im so tired#i want to unexist#whatever
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vote yes if you have finished the entire book.
vote no if you have not finished the entire book.
note: this poll is about the first Bungo Stray Dogs light novel, not about the manga.
(faq · submit a book)
#fantasy#太宰治の入社試験#Osamu Dazai's Entrance Exam#Asagiri Kafka#Bungo Stray Dogs#books#poll#result: no#l: Japanese
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Dazai being a sweety and source of strength to little Chiyo 🥺
#still wishing this got animated#osamu dazai's entrance exam#bsd light novel#bsd#bsd kunikida#bsd dazai
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I finally bought the light novels (Dazai Chuuya Fifteen, Osamu Dazai's Entrance Exam, The Untold origins of the Armed Detective Agency,) and the first three Dead Apple mangas.
I read the dead apple ones (the art, the art, the art !!! I love it) and I'll probbaly start reading the Untold Origins tonight
#bungou stray dogs#bungo stray dogs#bsd#light novel#bsd light novel#dazai chuuya age fifteen#osamu dazai's entrance exam#the untold origins of the armed detective agency#dead apple#bsd dead apple
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Sasaki Nobuko's interpretation by some 'yass #girlboss' fans is such bullshit.
Dazai asks her why she didn't target crime lords instead of their insignificant minions if she wanted to make her dead bf happy by reducing corruption. 'Because I'm not an ambitious person.' So she only did this to sate her irrational feelings, not to make an actual difference and make her boyfriend proud.
'Oh I wanna make a person who is already dead happy so lemme shoot this innocent boy Rokuzou and traumatise my crush, his adoptive father.'
'Oh I devoted myself to a fucking suicidal terrorist and thought he'd prioritise me over his ideals.'
She represents what happens when grief drives you literally indiscriminate unempathetic revenge - hungry insane. That's why her actions are so ineffectual. She's a full - on yandere.
And Kunikida just has a supremely stupid hero complex to fall in love with someone who didn't really care about justice or morals. He wants to save everyone, she had a tragic life, she was like a fallen angel - so he dumbly clung to her.
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I want to talk about one of the most terrifying and interesting bsd characters who almost no fan remembers.
This character nearly tore down the ADA without ever getting involved herself, yet the entire fandom has ignored her because of her terrible anime adaptation.
Who am I talking about?
Nobuko Sasaki
If you haven't read Dazai Osamu's Entrance Exam, then you probably don't even know who this character is, in the anime she is watered down to the lovesick girlfriend of an actual villain, and you probably dismissed her immediately. But in the light novel, we get to see how dangerous and cunning she really is, to the point she nearly gets the better of Dazai and almost causes the ADA to be shut down. (Fukuzawa says he would have closed the agency if they hadn't caught her)
In terms of intelligence I'd put her on the same level as Mori, just slightly below the super human genius characters i.e. Dazai, Fyodor and Ranpo
The Azure Apostle
For those who don't remember, Sasaki was the Azure Apostle, a mysterious figure who challenged the agency with several horrifying cases, which would all lead to mass casualties if the agency failed to stop them. These were; uncovering an underground organ smuggling operation (which the agency failed to stop and which massively hurt their reputation) stopping a bombing of Yokohama port which could have killed hundreds of people, and preventing a commercial aeroplane from crashing into the city (this was not included in the anime)
Each of the people, who committed these crimes, had no Idea they were being manipulated and thought it was their own idea the whole time. There was no evidence that anyone else had been involved at all, and the agency had no way to connect her to any of the crimes. And she even makes the genius move of framing Dazai, the mysterious new member with suspicious knowledge of the underworld and a hidden past, as the true culprit.
In fact, she only made one mistake, challenging Dazai. If Dazai had been basically anyone else, they would have been cornered and arrested, but since Dazai's mind works on a level even master strategists can't imagine, he was able to turn the tables on her.
But even after Dazai sees through her plans, the ADA still has to act exactly the way she wants them too and stop the plane crash. Even when they know they're being manipulated, they still have to do exactly what she wanted.
Finally, after Dazai and Kunikida confront her and get her to admit to being behind all those crimes, even then they are powerless to stop her.
Even after being involved with so many massive crimes, Sasaki herself hadn't done anything illegal, so within the law the ADA is completely powerless to stop her.
They can't arrest her, and if they try then the agency will be put in even more danger as will many innocent lives. She has completely trapped the ADA, and even Dazai in a choice to follow the law and let her go or take justice into their own hands and prove they will stoop as low as she did.
In the end, there she has them in a perfect deadlock, let her continue her mission, or kill her themselves. Both are bad outcomes for the ADA.
In the end, Dazai has her killed by using a third party (Rokuzo) to shoot her, so the agency can't be blamed for her murder, though this ends her plans it deeply scars Kunikida and shakes his resolve in his ideals.
The trauma from this event still haunts Kunikida to this day, we see that when he is affected by Q's curse, Sasaki is who he sees.
So thats the Azure Apostle, a terrifying master mind who nearly brought down the Armed Detective Agency, but now lets look at the other side of this character.
Nobuko Sasaki Herself
We know several things about Sasaki as a character and her history from the light novel. That she was a brilliant criminal psychologist and was internationally recognised despite being so young
,that she was the ex-lover of the Azure King and the real mastermind behind his plans, and that she had very little motivation of her own.
That's not meant to be an insult to the character, she says herself that she never really had much direction in life, even with her incredible intelligence she never really had anything she wanted to achieve.
But the Azure King was the opposite, he had powerful drive and strong ideals, he wanted to punish criminals who couldn't be touched by the law and when he failed to change the law as a bureaucrat, she offered him an alternative.
A very important thing here is that neither of them were manipulating or forcing the other into this path, as far as we see they genuinely loved each other, each providing something the other couldn't, Sasaki her mind and the Azure King his drive.
When the Azure king died, Sasaki had no path of her own to follow, so she simply kept following his, even though she doesn't seem to have really cared about his cause.
All of this creates a very unique character, you can't say she was driven by revenge, because she wasn't really driven at all. It's more like she was running on momentum, she had chosen a path to follow and could not stop even though there was nothing pushing her down it any more.
She's a perfect antithesis of Kunikida and was the best possible villain a light novel about him could have had.
A man who brings his ideals into reality with his own hands against a woman who uses others to enforce ideals that were never hers to begin with.
Anyway, I made this because Sasaki is criminally underrated in this fandom, If you haven't read "Dazai Osamu's Entrance Exam" I highly recommend it, I've only put a tiny fraction of the amazing story here.
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Dazai trying to pretend to be a nobody who knows nothing so his new colleague won't be too suspicious of him during his entrance exam is hilarious
#actually this scene is important and full of dazai bullshit but let me make fun of him before i have to yell#i saw like two mentions of dazai in the ada with a gun recently and remembered this part#apparently this is a kunikida week#bsd#bungo stray dogs#bungou stray dogs#bsd fanart#dazai's entrance exam#bsd dazai#bsd kunikida#bsd dazai osamu#bsd kunikida doppo#nawy's doodles#i know nothing about guns i just picked the first transparent result i found#bsd light novel
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everyone should read Dazai's Entrance Exam (the original Azure Apostle/Messenger arc) because the amount of changes they made when adapting the plot to fit it into 2 episodes in the present instead of the past cannot be covered without basically doing a full recap of the entire book.
The intrigue is built around the uncertainty of who the Azure Apostle is. Not in a "who could this person be?" way, but in a "oh no, could the azure apostle really be Dazai testing the ADA's limits?" way.
Dazai tagging along Kunikida during the investigation is his entrance exam. There is no trust established yet. Everyone is on edge. Dazai seems to know more than he should, but never shares. Fukuzawa gave Kunikida a gun and told him to shoot Dazai dead if Dazai turns out to be bad news and a danger to the ADA and the city.
You as the reader know Dazai will join the ADA. If you watched the anime you know the big lines and how things end. Or do you, really? So many things are different in this version, is the ending gonna be the same? Your knowledge barely settles your nerves.
Read it. It's good. It's honestly among Asagiri's best in terms of plot structure and foreshadowing. It's an actual mystery. You will like it.
#ps: sasaki is *kunikida's* weird love interest. dazai just likes drama. she's literally named after irl kunikida's first wife#bsdrewatch2023#<- you can choose to skip this post it's barely related#bsd#bungou stray dogs#bsd dazai#bsd dazai osamu#bsd kunikida#bsd kunikida doppo#dazai's entrance exam#apparently i talk sometimes
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no bc the fact that kunikida didn’t say those words out loud kills me like imagine if dazai knew what he was thinking of him in that moment that even when he believed that dazai had been lying to him all along he still thought of him so fondly and I hate that the anime didn’t include him saying this at all cuz it rlly waters down their bond and just how quickly they connected which is exactly why so many skk fans insist that his partnership w kunikida doesn’t compare to the one he had w chuuya and why he’s seen as genuinely hating dazai when there was so many moments in that light novel just like that one that show that that isn’t the case and-
the drive thru worker: can you please just order already I’m fucking begging you
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