#Bsd chapter 120.5

[c7arisse]

120.5

[whathorselegs]

Aku's thoughts throughout this chapter

[poniio]

He’s so pretty

[anticidic]

To think this is all happening because he just wanted some damn chazuke

[sh1nsoukoku]

omg… bae you okay?

yee yee i’m good jus give me a min…

[iwritenarrativesandstuff]

Essentially, Fyodor wants to pin blame on ability users, which is what I was afraid the outcome to this arc would be since the very beginning; a scheme to unite humanity through shared hatred and disgust towards an out-group. A scapegoat. Terrorism, two trusted ability user organizations (the ADA and the Hunting Dogs) being uprooted and believed to be criminals, an ability based pandemic-like outbreak; it all leads to an erosion of trust and paranoia.

If you can’t unite everyone under an “us” then create a “them” for “us” to unite against, is the logic here. Allegedly.

But this logic is, quite frankly, terrible. Fukuchi’s plan is, in the long run, indeed doomed to fail. People form in-groups, outcasts always exist, and conflict will always arise; this is inevitable. But this kind of mass hysteria will not unite humanity for very long at all. People will turn on each other and regard their neighbours with suspicion. The only thing Fyodor will accomplish in this way is reinstating the sentiment that led to the witch trials. After all, the “enemy” could be anywhere.

But maybe that doesn’t matter to Fyodor. I have to doubt that peace is truly the goal. Maybe Fyodor simply doesn’t understand humans as well as he thinks. Maybe there is a personal grudge towards ability users that this is a cover justification for.

Maybe all that matters to him is simply that ability users bear the weight of humanity’s sins, and hang the rest.

[thisisparnianagain]

Atsushi is trying his absolute best to not go insane with all these deaths and to find a solution and his grounding thought is always "Dazai-san... what would he do?" I love it, I love this detail so much, it happens every time Atsushi is alone and facing a crisis and it always pushes him forward. At this point I don't remember when was the last time Atsushi had a flashback of the headmaster.

This is growth. The stakes are high so you can't see it, and Fyodor is pushing all the buttons to break him, but Atsushi keeps getting back up, falling apart, pulling himself back together and god it's beautiful.

"If Dazai-san were dealing with this... what would he do?!"

[anythinganother]

Atp i ain’t believing that Asagiri has plot planned in advance, bro is cooking on the fly 💀

[xvxblahhhxvx]

You know, for as much as bsd has spiraled, I don't think Fyodor's motivations have really changed all that much since we first met him.

He's always hated ability users. A fact which I think a lot of people tend to forget is that most regular people don't know that much about them, except that they were part of the war. They know they exist, but in contexts like the Port Mafia and vaguely aware of the Agency's existence. They're not people who are liked, they have to be watched by the government, and Fyodor's always hated them.

He wants to rid the world of ability users, because he believes they are a sin (despite him being one himself). We don't know why, and I don't want that Tragic Backstory™ because I'm happy hating him as he his now, but that's been the case ever since he tried to have the Agency and Mafia defeat each other. Ever since the movie where he was willing to team up and cause a Gifted Genocide via Gifted Suicide. Also, he's kinda right about Fukuchi's plan being flawed like...yeah, world domination has never worked out well in the past. So him wanting a war against all Gifteds and manipulating Fukuchi to do it actually makes tons of sense, considering what we know about him. He thinks that peace will come as soon as the Gifteds are done with.

[cryptid-juzou]

Atsushi looks so distraught and stressed in every panel of the latest chapter...he has been forced to watch one friend die after another

But unlike ch.118 when he was ready to give into despair and let himself be killed...he hasn't given up, he's still trying. Seeing Akutagawa and now Fukuzawa stand strong and face off against impossible odds, how can he not try and do the same himself. How can he not try and get the page that can save everyone he loves.

I'm hoping next chapter we get to see Atsushi lose his shit and go all out, especially if he's thinking about what Dazai would do...because Dazai would stop at nothing to achieve his goals

[unicornpopcorn14]

Just got back home dying to read the chapter bUT I CAN'T OPEN MANGADEX IT SAYS IT'S TEMPORARILY DOWN????

[whathorselegs]

If I had a nickel for every time a black haired, purple eyed anime boy wanted to start a war in the name of creating peace, I'd have two nickels, which isn't a lot but it's weird that it happened twice.

[wiwiurikawa]

bsd fukuzawa

translation:

Bubble tea time!

Sorry atsushi, no bubble tea for you...

[anticidic]

yeah, we might all be suffering right now, but at least we can count on Akutagawa to continue KILLING it with his looks

[sh1nsoukoku]

when ur dog gets too rough when playing so u gotta pull this move

[iwritenarrativesandstuff]

I really really hope that Fyodor is actually a human and just acts like he isn’t because he thinks he’s above everyone else. Or was human at one point and is no longer.