#at least stormbringer soukoku will be animated soon

[ollieartss]

I have THREE bsd predictions and i feel as though they will all come true. if they do i am the bsd messiah.

Stormbringer will be animated into a movie between season 5-6 (dead apple style) so the manga can get ahead (I AM NOT READY)

Fyodor is 100% alive. We don’t know his ability yet and the Jesus line before he died was a telltale sign.

Bones will fuck up Stormbringer panels. Specifically the panel of Dazai smiling on the stairs as Chuuya goes to fight the equivalent of Godzilla. that one in particular. they absolutely will fuck it up.

See you bitches in 1-2 years when everything I say is correct 🏂🏂

[linklethehistorian]

Linkle's Mini-Handbook of Relevant Bungou Stray Dogs and General Fandom Terms You Might Want to Know (Part 1/3)

In light of the fact that my long-awaited article on Fifteen is going to be coming out soon, I have compiled for the less veteran fans of the series a small handbook of series-specific terms that tend to differ between the novel/manga and the animated series, as well as some of the most essential terms used in general fandom spaces, that have a chance of appearing in or being quite relevant to said work of mine.

If you are very savvy in the series or do not limit yourself to one medium or the other, you will probably already know most if not all of these words and their meanings, but in the event that you do not, I hope that this little guide might be of some help to you!

I will obviously be going into the greater detail of some of these story elements in the novel, but a quick pre-release primer surely cannot hurt.

Needless to say, there will be some spoilers to Fifteen in here so, if you don't want spoilers...come back later, please? If you don't mind the spoilers, though, then jump below the cut! ^-^

Bungou Strays Dogs-Specific Terms

1. Fifteen: The commonplace, shortened version of the title, “Dazai, Chuuya, Fifteen Years Old”, an officially canon light novel written by the series creator, Kafka Asagiri, of which the first editions were originally handed out in theaters during a specific week in March 2018 to movie-goers who were looking to see the animated film DEAD APPLE. It is this novel that a year later was (extremely poorly) adapted into the anime’s third season as a mini-arc. An expanded but otherwise unaltered second edition of the original novel was released in August of 2019, including a new a bonus chapter, an afterword, and several illustrations by Harukawa35. A direct sequel light novel, Stormbringer, will be releasing on February 27th of this year (2021).

2. Arthur Rimbaud: The true name of the ability user who goes by the alias of Randou throughout much of Fifteen; anyone who has read the novel or even fan posts made by people who have will probably already be aware of this, but seeing as his identity is never truly, properly, fully revealed in the anime, it is still something worth noting here, as I will be alternating between his different names quite a lot for variety’s sake.

3. Paul Verlaine: The name of Randou’s former partner prior to joining the Mafia — and Chuuya Nakahara’s alleged elder brother (literally) — whose identity was, as with many things, wrongfully cut from the animated adaption.

4. Gifted/Gift/Ability User/Ability/Special Ability: The catchall phrases for those with special supernatural powers in the series, “gifted” tends to be the word favored in the animated series whereas Ability User tends to be much preferred in the manga and light novels, but in this case neither are exclusive, as there are points when one is used in the other and vice versa. Likewise, “Gift” and “Ability” are terms used to describe the powers themselves, with “Special Ability” sometimes also working as an alternative to either — primarily in the manga and light novels.

5. Hyperspace/Subspace: The names that the light novel and the anime use for the pocket-dimension ability owned and used by Randou/Arthur Rimbaud, respectively. I may also alternate between these terms for variety, but I suspect I will be using hyperspace more often as it is the one I have always personally preferred.

6. Transcendental/Transcendent: A special type of ability user more powerful than all other gifted in the world, whose members number only in the tens. Arthur Rimbaud is one of them, and as such, is practically invulnerable to at least all others not sharing this status with him, if not all natural-born ability users in general. In fan translations, the term usually used is “Transcendental”, but the official English edition of the only other light novel to make mention of their kind simply calls them “Transcendent”.

7. Abilities Secret Service/Special Abilities Department/Gifted Special Operations Division: All commonly used names for the division of the Japanese government of which Ango Sakaguchi is a part, normally preferred by the manga, light novels, and anime, respectively. Chief Taneda Santouka is the organization’s leader.

8. Soukoku/SKK: Literally meaning and often translated in official English releases of various entries in the series as “Double Black”, Soukoku is the name given to Dazai and Chuuya as a duo whenever they worked together as partners in crime; however, in the fandom, it is also more often than not the name used to signify a perceived — usually romantic — relationship (or in fandom terms, simply “ship”) between the two. Other names used for this pairing include but are not limited to “Double Black”, “SKK”, “DaChuu”, “ChuuZai”, or just “Dazai x Chuuya”, although all of these except Soukoku’s shortened abbreviation, SKK, are far less common occurrences.

[Since apparently Tumblr has a lovely, lovely word limit to posts now, for General Fandom Terms, see the next post here. :)))))) Thanks.]