#TPN Reference

[thathilomgirl]

After more than a year of work on this, @0hana0fubuki0 and I are finally able to present our translation of the Religion chapter featured in the TPN Western Literature Analysis book by Kei Toda!

Disclaimers: 

The translations aren't perfect and the wordings picked might not match the desired nuance of the author, as the main translator is not a native Japanese speaker. If there are things that are unsure by the translator, they will be addressed later at the bottom. 

From what I can remember, this book was published at least a few weeks/months before the Mystic Code fanbook and 3rd light novel got released (and based on Part 3, also possibly finished before the last few chapters of the manga were out), so certain observations written here may or may not have been made obsolete by any new information revealed in these specific sources.

Names and terms used within the series follow the Viz English translation, and mentions of the manga’s timeline are double-referenced with the fanbook. 

The ESV translation is used for the Bible verses mentioned in-text. 

Another thing to note is that Kei Toda is looking through this topic as a Western literature/culture scholar, and not necessarily as a theologian.

[flustered-earl]

The mothers are not mothering this arc

[thathilomgirl]

Unfortunately, I couldn’t find any floor plans of GF House’s second floor, but if it’s any consolation, we could possibly make guesses based on the first floor’s plan from the art book:

The inner cover of the Mystic Code fanbook also shows a partial idea of where the second floor’s rooms are in relation to the first floor

TPN Fandom! Do we know how big Grace Field’s Library is?

[pawphin]

hi,

[fullscoreshenanigans]

Ray TPN

KLJDFKLVDK HIM THOUGH??

(S1 Episode 6 | Chapter 181.1 | Chapter 93 | Chapter 119 | banana_slug_army's A Bizarre Proposal | 2020 Exhibition Interview)

[sepiamestus]

My beloved she turns -10 today

[gay-poet-gabriel]

Ello

TPN!!!!!!!!! FIREIIFEI FIRE!!1

[ctrl58]

Daily dose of Emma !!

it’s rushed cuz i had to go to school earlier 2day. good enough !! 😚

[chidoroki]

August 22nd - Happy Birthday Emma - ft: her tvtropes

[questiontocertaintyofreality]

Bungou Stray Dogs just feel extremely connected with The Neverending Story. In Neverending Story, stories create stories and actually nothing have a end. Connected with it nothing have a start if they don't have story. Stories cause stories so its imposible to finish a story if you live in Fantasia. (The universe in Neverending Story)

There was endless universes endless possibilities endless characters endless situations. The book. Fantasia have a book which everything happen in Fantasia writing in it. Fantasia's book can't search a living creature just can found it . Book written by Old Soul Of the Wandering Mountain. (I can't directly translate it to English because i read it turkish)

Michael Ende (writer of Neverending Story and fascinating fantastic books , his books live forever in my brain) would be a great bsd oc. Michael Ende as a bsd character, ımagine...

People who live in world we know- and world we think we live- can come in to Fantasia. For example Shekespeare describe as a Fantasia traveler. I wonder Howard Philips Lovecraft ever go there ?

So in Fantasia humans who have a brain to understand fantasia's world can travel Fantasia every bsd author and port have a brain to this. Bungou stray Dogs is a theory born in Fantasia's endless meadows, forests, houses. Neverlands

Nikolai Gogol's stories, evenings from a farm near Dikanka, from Ukrania mountains, Fantasia have a visual look to people who look at it.... Ohh

[thecreditsroll]

Emma's appearance during the survival arc

[sleepyhouzuki]

This is not meant to diss or hate on any ships.

Just because I don't like a ship doesn't mean I'm going to go bashing everyone who ships it. If you like it and it makes you happy, go for it!! Ship the rarepair, the characters that barely interacted or never met, or the ship that may make zero sense to others 🤷‍♂️😎

But

Do ya'll ever see a fanart of a ship and you're like "nooooo where is (certain character)???"

me with Norrayemma right now

seeing exclusive Noremma art hurts my soul a bit, never liked it so it kind of did but now it definitely hurts because like... where is Ray?

Of course respect to the artists who draw Noremma, Rayanna, any other ship that I don't care for much but my heart hurts so bad

I like exclusive Norray the most out of the three separate (this hurts) Norrayemma ships (NE, RE, NR) but looking at like, my most recent Norray fanart (one with the fall colors and Lilly) it's just like "Ok Emma must have been taking that picture because WHERE IS SHE?? WHERE IS THEIR WIFE??"

TLDR: I don't like seeing Norrayemma separated, even when it comes to Norray. All or none at this point ☹️ (no hate to ships)

[marzthealien]

Bubble and Abbi

Bubble is Anna and Abbi takes the role of Gilda along with Lana.

[officersnickers]

🔗💫🪩 𝐻𝒶𝓅𝓅𝓎 𝐵𝒾𝓇𝓉𝒽𝒹𝒶𝓎, 𝒥𝒶𝓂𝑒𝓈! 🪩💫🔗 𝟣𝟣/𝟥 🔗💫🪩

[thathilomgirl]

TPN References in Cipher Academy and Tenmaku Cinema

[fullscoreshenanigans]

The little bow of reflection and smile Ray makes as he briefly soaks in the last morning Emma and Norman will be able to carry out their routine as usual knowing the horror they'll endure before night's end.

He knows they'd both prefer the harsh truth over a pretty lie, would hate to think about other siblings suffering the same fate as Conny, Hao, Sadie, Susan, and so many more before them if there was even the slightest chance of being able to do something about it. It's part of what he loves about them; where he had the tendency to give up after years of learned helplessness and self-loathing, they would resolutely say "no" and escape the system they had been born into.

(they are better, they are deserving, unlike him)

He loves them so much he can't help but let some of his fondness show on his face as he savors Emma's reaction to seeing him and Norman, because if that isn't so incredibly her, to love so effortlessly and uninhibited, to live so unabashedly authentic.

It's part of what got him through a life he cursed and part of why he has faith if anyone will be able to do this, it'll be them.