#akutagawa showed up.

[emil1863]

he aint paid enough for this.

[whathorselegs]

I've had a thought.

I think Kyouka needs to join the fight against Amenogozen.

It's an established pattern that when Shin Soukoku end a conflict together Kyouka also has a hand in it.

She's with them in Dead Apple. She's the reason Atsushi even attempts to work together with Akutagawa during those events. And at the end of The Guild conflict, Shin Soukoku are the ones the defeat Fitzgerald, but Kyouka is the one that prevents Yokohama being destroyed.

Listen, maybe the answer to Atsushi's "With Just the two of us?" and Akutagawa's "Do we need any more than that?" is actually supposed to be yes, because when it was just the two of them Akutagawa died.

Shin Soukoku needs Kyouka.

[graciegrumps]

15 dazai's camera roll but it's just like......

Like that.... at that specific angle.......... just big, black eyes far too big for his skull and an overall off-putting vibe.

Oh! And there's also Chuuya 'cause when is there not Chuuya (affextionate)

....and Akutagawa

Ango...

Oda's in there too...

[dazais-guardian-angel]

Asagiri and Harukawa could not have delivered a scarier Halloween chapter if they tried because what the fuck was this—

[ssaraexposs]

Akutagawa: shows off his skills, OBVIOUSLY challenging Atsushi

Atsushi: HOLD MY BEER

[twinksintrees]

When Chuuya got the call Dazai had vanished from the Port Mafia, he had hung up with a smile.

The fucker did it, he got out. He got what he wanted, and Chuuya was happy for him.

Now, he was free. He could do what he wanted, live by his own rules.

He could grow and heal and do better, be better than he had ever been before.

He didn’t have to worry about Dazai ending it anymore. Now that he was out he knew he wouldn’t throw it all away, not after the years it took to get here.

Chuuya wanted the best for him, and now that he got it, he was over the moon.

Chuuya wasn’t worried about this being the end. Their paths would cross again, they were both too stubborn to let them not. Too tied together, bound by the hip, inextricably linked.

They were double black, afterall. Simply on a break, for now.

[rosalinesurvived]

I want to talk more about the shockwaves of horror that went through the Port Mafia when Akutagawa died. He was one of their strongest members. Commander of the Black Lizard, The Black-Fanged Hellhound, he��s been killing since he was a child. Even with what Mori says, Akutagawa’s always running off and causing trouble and in the end he contributes the most.

And then he’s murdered. And they don’t even know how. And they don’t even have his body to bury. And that means that it was Atsushi who had the burden of telling them, their enemy

And Higuchi lost her partner, the man she loved. And Chuuya lost another friend because of his own partner’s schemes. And Tachihara and Gin lose their brother–metaphorical and literal because bet my ass Gin remembered all of their murdered friends in the streets and bet my ass that Tachihara went into his battle with Fukuchi high on rage for losing another brother.

[inamagicalhallucination]

akutagawa, asleep: (ᴗ˳ᴗ)

atsushi, putting flowers in his hair: >:3

[sskk-manifesto]

Glad to know they immediately felt the need to clarify this is going to be the sskk season

[wtowingedtragicobsidian]

put this cutie in a dress, he'll do fine

[human-adjacent]

mf went and robbed a medieval museum display so he could make his grand entrance in style

[seri-tonin]

The thing about tachigin is that it doesn't really seem like it's all that deep at first but then u really think about it and it's like.... oughhhh

[kyouka-supremacy]

Asagiri: *slaps Akutagawa's head* this bad boy can fit so much objectification dehumanization and dog metaphors in it

[denkies]

Wanted to mention the lyrics to the BSD 5 opening and their significance to a specific scene

「立ち止まる事でしか見えない場所が」

A place that can only be seen by stopping [movement]

「行けない場所がある」

There are places you can't go.

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So when showing the rift between Atsushi and Akutagawa (life and death), the lyrics mention the afterlife. A place only Akutagawa can see, after death. Then, "there are places you can't go."

From Akutagawa's perspective, it would be "I am in a place only seen after death. You can't come to this place; you can't follow me."

From Atsushi's perspective, this would be "You are somewhere that I can't see, that I can't reach. You can't go there [you can't leave me]."

[Don't go where I can't follow]

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Edit: more detailed analysis about it here

[stargalaxyshooter]

Fuck you bones for erasing Akutagawa's smile, and instead showed him angry of all things. It's like they're committed into not showing his character development because even before this scene was Akutagawa telling Atsushi that he only has a limited time left before he dies due to his illness. Now this scene in the manga was very solemn and Akutagawa delivers this news in a very calm manner that conveys he's pretty much accepted his fate and is dedicated into fulfilling his goals before he dies. And Atsushi's expression also looked torn and muted in surpise at this revelation. Now compared to the anime where for some reason it's a side profile shot of Akutagwa looking angry when delivering this devastating news, which gives off a completely different vibe. The differences between the two was so off that I actually saw anime only's think that Akutagawa was lying about his disease when he confesses to Atsushi (in order to get a surprise attack against fukuchi) because of the way it was delivered. Akutagawa looks mad and uncaring as though he isn't talking about making the most out of his short life before he dies and atsushi looks like he doesn't wanna be here, like he doesn't care all that much about whatever aku is on about. They both were behaving like this is season 1 and not season 5, which is a shame since this arc is a culmination of the two's relationship and how much they've grown to not only care about the other but how they've also changed as individuals. So thanks bones for fucking up akutagawa's pivotal moment 🙏 I knew it was gonna be bad when they ended the episode when he first gets slashed across the neck and proceeded to speed run this moment in the next episode to go straight towards vampirism. Love y'all 🫶

[hermy-97]

“I’d say he’s sexy as hell” - very real quote from Osamu Dazai about beast Akutagawa