#ASAGIRI KAFKA WTF?!

[tulipe-rose]

SHE WAS A FUCKING BABY WHEN SHE WAS RECRUITED INTO THE MILITARY?? DOES THAT MEAN SHE'S CURRENTLY TWELVE?? AS IN YEARS SHE'S LIVED ON EARTH?

OH NO, YOU KNOW IT'S OVER WHEN THE BACKSTORY APPEARS

Nahhh is Asagiri getting influenced by Gege? :(

There's no way she's actually dead, right? I mean this IS BSD. No one really ever dies unless... they're Oda, or the Flags or maybe a bunch of orphans. Surely she'll come back...right? (not coping at all)

[totally-silly-artist-yep-stable]

this chapter is going to be the death of me

it make me want to shove a gun down my mouth

[flanfuk]

Fucked up theory.

So, Dazai and Atsushi are the main characters in the anime/manga. Akutagawa is chasing Dazai's recognition.

ALTHOUGH IN THE BIOGRAPHIES OF THE WRITERS EVERYTHING IS SOMETHING DIFFERENT: The writer Dazai Osamu greatly delighted Akutagawa Ryunosuke in his school years. When Ryunosuke committed suicide, Dazai became depressed, causing him to not concentrate on his lessons. This means that in the anime, the main character should have been Akutagawa according to logic, BUT this idea can be refuted: in the book No Human Longer the main character Yodzo (the prototype of the writer himself - Dazai Osamu) talked with his old friend about antonyms and synonyms. When it came to Crime and Punishment, Yodzo thought that the author, Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky, put them as antonyms (opposite things). IN THE MOVIE THE DEAD APPLE, Fyodor Dostoevsky said, “I am a crime, I am a punishment, did you know that? Crime and Punishment BEST FRIENDS.” And in Russian dub he said, “I am a crime, I am a punishment, did you know that? Crime and Punishment ARE EQUALLY SAME.”

Apparently, Asagiri Kafka decided to cast Fyodor's main enemy as Dazai. And Dazai would try to refute Dostoevsky’s lies about his ability.

(Sorry for grammar mistakes and English)

[bloody-vampires606]

When the bungos start to stray dog

but WHAT WAS THE LATEST CHAPTER???????

I love BSD with my whole heart and soul, but sometimes I cannot process anything going on.

Might need to reread the chapter again to try and figure out what in gods name just happened.

[clmosara484]

imagine Harukawa's reaction when he finds out what he's going to draw for the new chapter

[thedemises]

decided to read the recent chapter of BSD (ch. 114) and dOSTOYEVSKY IS STILL ALIVE AFTER ALL THIS SJIT??!?!?!? BRO DRANK POISON THAT WAS SUPPOSED TO TAKE EFFECT IN 30 MINUTES, GOT PLUNGED IN THE ABDOMEN, CRASHED INTO THE WALL ABOVE THE ENTRANCE OF THE PRISON HE JUST ESXAPED FROM, WAS SET ON FIRE AFTER THE HELICOPTER HE WAS IN EXPLODED INTO SMITHEREENS, AND-

how.

[panic-at-the-waffle-house]

If I’m not dead by next Wednesday consider it a miracle. Because wtf BONES. Why are they GOING SO FAST????? I swear if they make their own ending I will throw myself into Dante’s Inferno.

HELLO? CH 109 already being animated????

THE SSKK REUNION MAKES MY HEART BREAK. THE INTERNAL MONOLOGUE OF DAZAI AND ATSUSHI

SIGMA GET UP. HE DESERVES A DAMN BREAK

GIVE ME KYOKA WHERE THE FUCK IS SHE?????

RUDHEIDBEIDVDID

[huntermorgan]

I JUST FINISHED BEAST

I just got to the end of BSD Beast, and saw THIS. Asagiri just asked the fandom to write fanfiction???? And is this saying he reads BSD fanfiction??? What??? Am I crazy or is this real??

[osamid]

the problem with bsd, it's themes of abuse and it's cycles, and trying to critique characters actions while having empathy, is that asagiri doesn't actually think anything he's written is abuse. none of the abusive actions that occur in bsd will ever have consequences bc asagiri should never be allowed to have children.

[briebysabs]

Asagiri killed us with this chapter guys.

JUSTICE FOR SIGMA

[chuuyaxsupremacy9]

Who's the real mastermind of bungou stray dogs, you ask? Ofc, it's Asagiri Kafka! That dude's literally ruining my life and making it better at the same time

[shachihata]

it is almost 2 am nobody is awake i am GOING to talk about my cringe bsd ships and this is a limited-edition post this is the ONLY time im going to do it because i have deeply-rooted shame. anyway as i'm sure everyone knows at this point i have literal fyolai brain mold i am at asagiri kafka's door Begging him to elaborate on their fucked up relationship. which is more gay: being homosexual or whatever the fuck chapter 78 to threaten god part 1 "splendid. in opposition to god, you're fighting to lose sight of yourself" was. i feel crazy thinking about them for real like are you kidding me. themes of being seen, themes of free will, friends -> lovers -> enemies, are you fucking KIDDING me nikolai's "he was the only person who understood me and i felt so attached and emotional about it i have to literally kill him now" Was That Not A Love Confession. shut the fuck up. i need to lie down. im plugging myself actually read me and you and the devil makes two by recryption on ao3 right now to get a glimpse at wtf is going on in my head when i think about fyolai they are so fucked up i need to go bite rocks. wait i was supposed to talk about more than one ship

[idealsought-blog]

Write a meta about Kunikida :)

Dang there’s so much to write about. So I’ll just talk about what I had come to notice one day—

So heres my theory on Kunikida’s notebook and his incessant need to fulfill a schedule he laid out for himself. 

A lot of people question this aspect a lot and maybe some people have already arrived to the conclusion that I have, but I have yet to see anything of the sort take off because Kunikida is an under appreciated character!! I think most people wrote it off as something he does for his ideals, and, often times, ideals are rather illogical and questionable.

Eons ago, I found a real nifty site here that had some very interesting things about the actual Kunikida Doppo.

There was a long essay I was reading through on that site, but of course, I need to start a trial the read the rest so I only read up to right before the good part! I was so mad, I wanted to hear what he had to say about the actual Kunikida’s failed first marriage… And the rest of his short life, I mean. Dude, I was in it to see how bad he got dragged by his first wife, ok?

ANYWAYS—

You can claim that his notebook serves as a visual reminder of his ability, “Doppo Ginkaku.” The book itself was essentially a compilation of Kunikida-sensei’s works after all. 

In fact, BSD!Kunikida’s ability to conjure up anything smaller than his notebook is a nod to Kunikida-sensei’s movement in Naturalism. In some very small phrases I have seen translated of his works, his descriptions of nature is insanely detailed and paints a very clear image in mind. It can be said that the descriptions are so detailed that you can actually visit a place you have never been to before and that’s impressive in a literary sense.

However, what really got me thinking was the fact that Kunikida’s notebook served more than just an accessory for his ability.

He wrote anything and everything in it from to-do lists to his ideals on to that notebook so I wondered about why he does that. I already knew that it was to reference something of the actual Kunikida’s works, but I had trouble trying to figure out why.

I’m not entirely sure about the purpose of his ideals, but Kunikida-sensei did feel that his movement is misunderstood and no one understands his ideology ( and thus he became good friends with Katai, who felt the same way nopeidontplaybungoutoalchemist ).

I’m somewhat certain his ideals to not want others to die in front of him came from the time the actual Kunikida went on to be a war reporter. It certainly made him rather depressed and numb to the world around him.

But his schedules— Why was he so adamant on pursuing it all the way down to a T?

The actual Kunikida didn’t seem like someone who was THAT organized from what I can gather so why?

It was because of the Late Kunikida’s book, Azamaukazaru no ki ( can be translated as: “Records of an Honest Man” / yes the thing I was referencing ). That book was essentially his diary from some point of his life onwards till the day he dies. If I can math properly, he was probably around 18, more or less, when he got a diary to write on, where I base my theory that BSD!Kunikida didn’t notice his abilities until maybe around high school and why it is specifically confined to THAT notebook and can’t use his abilities on any other paper medium.

What really set this off was when I went on to read whatever has been translated of light novel one, which was essentially EP6-7 of the anime but modified to actually reflect the recent plot, on Dazai’s Entrance Exam.

Since Kunikida was around 20 at the time he ever met Dazai, the year of when he will meet his ideal partner was changed to 6 as compared to 4 in the anime. It then hit me that it was around the same time Kunikida-sensei married his second wife.

I thought about that some more, he actually talked more of his plans in the light novel than in the anime, such as what he did during the day, who he met, and what he did when he met those people.

What was the point of that?

Then it came to me that I read about Azamaukazaru no ki being the actual Kunikida’s diary.

Then the fact he wants to pursue his schedules down to the fine point is because IT HAS ALREADY BEEN WRITTEN DOWN. Those are things that has already happened.

Other things pertaining his anger towards things not going his way may also be a nod to the financial troubles the actual Kunikida faced ( which impeded him from pursing his dream of being a writer ) and the opposition to his ideology ( specifically met with when he became a teacher with a rather unorthodox teaching method / the strict and stern teacher ).

However, now that it’s established that his ideals are to mimic Azamaukazaru no ki then perhaps Kunikida might’ve planned his life all the way up till he was around 30, but due to the fact the writer died rather young, the rest of it past that age might be unwritten.

Will that mean BSD!Kunikida will die then or will it mean that he will eventually fill up those empty pages?

Just thinking that his life was already laid out before him was something I would think about on occasion. It also made sense why he has a insane list of requirements for an ideal partner, because it’s already written. It’s there. Also explains why he fell head over heels for Nobuko, despite the whole ideal partner thing ( even Nobuko said, “WTF DUDE THIS IS CRAZY” )

My only concern is that if Kunikida is to run the ADA in the future, what if something went wrong?

The actual Kunikida tried to run a publishing firm but didn’t work out so it CLOSED, so will that happen to the ADA?

So many questions and none of us will know cause Asagiri Kafka is an allusive guy when it comes to writing. But we do know that he isn’t afraid to kill off characters when needed, so we can only ask—

What will happen to Kunikida now?

Thank you for making it this far and I hope this enlightened you all in some way.

After taking that into account, Kunikida’s actions aren’t actually something unreasonable or made up as much as we are lead to believe. There’s still a lot of questions to consider but I noticed one of the biggest mysteries to Kunikida’s schedules was because of Azamaukazaru no ki. So it probably isn’t much but I figured something out on my own which was the point of the post!

If you have any other questions involving my thoughts about Kunikida, feel free to drop an ask! I don’t want to make this too long cause it’ll be REALLY long if I talked about everything else such as Kunikida’s struggle between reality and ideality.

Granted those aspects won’t be as directly informative as this one because it’ll probably be me trying to work my thoughts out and thus will sound repetitive.

This is just how I think about it so you are welcome to have your own opinions and thoughts! There’s certainly things I don’t know either and thus if you ask me to clarify, I might not know how to organize my own thoughts lmao

[bloody-vampires606]

Sorry to y’all here for OCs

I go crazy when the newest BSD chapter comes out

[clmosara484]

Asagiri you little shit-

[almightytrashcan]

the problem with remembering

BSD RarePair Day 7: ghosts/free day

My life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes. (L. M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables)

pairing: atsulucy (Atsushi Nakajima x Lucy Maud Montgomery) notes: mentions of ptsd, casually comforting each other disclaimer: bungou stray dogs belongs to kafka asagiri and harukawa35

ao3!!!

CAN YOU FUCKING BELIEVE IT’S BEEN MONTHS AND IT’S ONLY NOW WHEN I DECIDED TO FINISH THIS WOW WTF