#author dazai osamu

[rainiiis]

WHY DID NO ONE TELL ME????? THAT MY FAVOURITE BOOK EVER, NO LONGER HUMAN BY OSAMU DAZAI. HAD A PREQUEL. BY THE SAME AUTHOR. ABOUT THE SAME GUY. CALLED THE FLOWERS OF BUFFOONERY ????

anyways I ordered it I'll update

it better break me as hard as No Longer Human did ifstg

[adisuniverse]

“it occurred to me that perhaps there is a splinter of divinity in each of us after all”

Early lights from Self portraits, Dazai Osamu

[kyouka-supremacy]

From Asagiri’s “Reception of Modern Literature” lecture at Chuo University’s Hakumon Festival. It's quite interesting, so sharing it here. It's confirmed that there'll be more arcs after this one is finished!

[eddheadweirdo]

The wildest thing about soukoku is people asking left and right "is that canon?" And then it being canon.

Like what do you mean Dazai pushed chuuya into his lap after they both risked their lives knowing the other would save them? What do you mean Dazai admited 3 times that for his 7 years of knowing Chuuya, he thinks about Chuuya when he's bored. What do you mean they're confirmed soulmates? What do you mean Dazai put saving the entire world on hold just so Chuuya could have the choice of finding out if he's human or not? What do you mean after everything, Dazai believes with his entire being that Chuuya is human? What do you mean that the reason he waited to escape from the mafia dungeon was so he could tease Chuuya and make him do something embarrassing to celebrate their reunion? What do you mean in an alternate universe they escape the mafia together?

But yeah, soukoku isn't canon guys.

(???)

[gstoabn]

i made this for a literary magazine, do you like it ?

[amber-sekio]

Relationship Headcanons

Fandom: BSD -Bungo Stray Dogs

TW: none? I think? 

DAZAI 

I said it in my Soukoku fic, Dazai wouldn’t know affection if it slapped him in the face ten times 

Like he might realize when someone is showing interest in a sexual kind 

And he would probably notice if someone is crushing on him 

But like, if he likes them back? 

No 

Man is blind 

He’s too busy panicking over read denying his own thoughts and feelings over you to analyze your actions 

He’s busy trying to think of anything but how pretty you are when he sees you -thank you very much 

No joke though, this can be applied to pretty much anyone he cares about 

I mean he practically had a heart attack when Atsushi gave him flowers 

Anyways if he finally admits to himself that he likes you then I could see him trying to push you away if I’m being brutally honest 

He doesn’t want to lose you and he believes that anything he wants that he obtains, will be striped from him sooner or later 

But…, in a perfect world he would eventually work up the courage to ask you out 

He would probably avoid directly asking you but this is Dazai so he could defiantly figure out some round-about way to ask 

As for the relationship? 

He would still be his teasing self 

But he would tone it down 

Not because he doesn’t want to annoy you but more so because he actually lets some of his masks down when alone with you 

He defiantly is very clingy to you 

Man has been touch starved for a long time and he fears attachment too much to be touchy with the ADA members 

But now he has you, who not only tolerates him but has decided to stay with him? 

Of course he’s not going to let this chance slip from his grasp before all this inevitably ends (he’s still in denial) 

He never cared much for holidays like Christmas or Valentines 

But now he wants to experience them, with you 

He’s always thinking, plans and outcomes racing through his mind, what ifs and regrets  

But like, if you ruffle his hair, his brain just stops. 

Like no thoughts, he short circuits 

When his brain returned to him the first time it happened he panicked 

Like, who gave you that amount of control? 

After that first time he continued to try and get you to do it without asking 

He needed his brain to shut up every now and then, and now he has a reliable source 

Anyways, he likes to be a spoiled princess 

No one can change my mind 

For all his predictions he will never be able to predict your love and kindness for him 

CHUUYA 

Someone give this poor man a hug 

Ugh, my heart 

I can‘t imagine him wanting to date a normal citizen, too much of a risk 

So you’d probably have to work in the Mafia 

Even then, dating you would still be placing a huge target on you 

He would actually take you out on dates before asking you out 

Dates with him would be romantic 

Like dinner by candle light vibes 

He’d be strategic on where you guys sit 

No need to be precarious on what you order, it’s all on him 

When he does ask you out he would be slightly flustered but it just makes him adorable 

Say yes, he doesn’t deserve to be hurt any more 

He would spoil you to no end 

If you want it, you can have it 

You’re the only one allowed to call him short 

He might get flustered from PDA in the start but will gradually warm up to it 

Nothing clingy, just hand holding, a hand around your waist, a quick kiss here or there 

But if he sees some guy hitting on you? 

Down right possessive, arm snug around your waist, shoulder to shoulder 

And if he’s drunk? Even worse 

Like he’s pulling you onto his lap just to make sure that asshole knows your taken 

If you do work in the mafia with him, he likes going on easier missions with you 

And while he knows that you can handle yourself just fine, he can’t help but imagine something bad happening to you when he isn’t there to save you 

He’s lost too many people in his life, please, don’t leave him as well 

He loves when you rest your head on his chest and listen to his heartbeat 

And while you do that he’ll run his fingers through your hair 

Chuuya loves to spoil you rotten as I stated, it’s his love language 

So sometimes he’ll just hand you his black card and let you go shopping with friends or something 

In fact, he encourages you to buy what you want 

FYODOR 

Honestly? Where do I start with him? 

Like congratulations if you meet him and make it out alive 

I don’t know if I should congratulate him taking an interest in you though 

I feel like he believe that the interest he had in you was purely innocent curiosity 

But I also don’t think he would try to delude himself for as long as Dazai does 

Eventually he would notice that something was different about his interest for you than usual 

And while he would hesitate to put a name to it so quickly he would eventually give in after realizing there was no stoping this feeling from festering in him 

After coming to terms with his romantic? Feelings and interest in you he would definitely begin to manipulate you into feeling the same way for him 

If you don’t already that is 

If you don’t confess then he’ll definitely do the same thing Dazai did 

And when you agree, he of course knew you would, he makes you move in with him 

He can’t let his dearest other slip from his finger now can he? 

I feel like before ever getting into a relationship, you would have been made aware of his ‘work’  

Please, make sure the man eats 

And takes his iron pill 

Nikolai is getting a little tired of that daily routine despite how much he loves to be around Fyodor 

Anyways, dates aren’t a very common thing in fact, very, very rare 

I mean… what did you expect? 

Man’s a literal terrorist 

That being said, from time to time he’ll leave his ‘lair’ to spend time with you 

If you ask, he’ll gladly play the cello for you 

If he snaps at you for ‘bothering him with pointless things’ when you bring him his iron pill or food just listen 

Don’t bother him with such things 

And then same thing the next day 

And after some 4 or 5 days he’ll stumble from his room 

Staggering as he tries not to collapse or faint from both his lack of energy and his iron deficiency 

And when he walks into the kitchen trying to get the iron pill bottle open? 

Let him stumble his way over to you and ask for help before you finally do as such 

And he realizes just how dependent on you he’s become 

It’ll happen again eventually 

But as of that moment, it’ll at least be awhile before the cycle repeats 

(That last part of Fyodor’s was based upon some fanfic I read for him. I'm not sure who it was by, but I’ll tag it if and when I do find it.) 

A/N: anyways, believe it or not, I love Chuuya just as much as I do Fyodor and Dazai 

I’m just not as confident in his character. Since I’m a lot like Dazai, he comes easy to me and by substitute, Fyodor does as well 

But Chuuya? Despite him being one of my 5 favorites along with Dazai and Fyodor, I just don’t resonate personally enough with him to write him really well

[sad-emo-dip-dye]

I love how Kunikida and Dazai are similar in the way that, yeah they both have moral compasses, but good luck figuring out what the hell they actually are

[chuuyafucks]

Dazais annoying ass will break all of his bones get injected with poison get shot 5 times including once directly in the head and still get up and say "Heh you thought that would kill me" LIKE YES BRO IT SHOULD HAVE

[rikushka]

I wanted to do a colour and lighting study :)

[sableeira]

Dazai has the most basic average anime character hair in all of bsd. But how is it so hard to get his hair to look right?!? If one streak is only a bit off he suddenly looks like every other Isekai protagonist, like asumu dazai from hit-isekai “I killed myself and now I’m reborn to suffer through another life”

[meebssketches]

during my presentation for orientation we asked the group what types of readings they liked and one kid was like 'my favorite book is by osamu dazai, its called no longer human' and the WAY i had to physically stop myself from reacting

[doalkaynaksuyu]

i might be diseased

[beans-beneath-moonlight]

The translator's introduction in No Longer Human got me feeling things

[seaskate]

Kinda love the idea of Odasaku having been in love with Ango but not saying anything because Ango is a mafioso and Odasaku is a former assassin and a father that will one day leave the PM and Ango dosent need to be dragged down by him.

The thing is though, Ango loves him too but never says anything because Odasaku is a mafioso and Ango is a spy and Odasaku doesnt need to be even more dragged down by his eventual betrayal then he already will.

They are both each other's what ifs in short time when Ango is revealed and the orphans hadnt died yet. They sit there at the bar with Dazai between them - Dazai who had seen it all and didnt know until too late that they wouldn't have more time - and feel their hearts breaking as Ango tries to salvage things. He tries to, but when Dazai pushes Ango away then Odasaku does the same, because he loves Dazau too (though in a different way) and is loyal to him rather than a man that risk killing them all if they meet each other once more like they were then.

Neither ever got to say goodbye.

Ango helping Dazai run is a love letter to a man buried by the sea that will never get to read it.

[kyoukalover]

right. I'm going to talk about Dazai Osamu (the author and by extension the gay anime twink). Specifically the book name "No Longer Human"

Something about the title always had me confused because the original Japanese title is:

"人間失格" (ningenshikkaku)

Which by direct translation is

"人間" - human

"失格" - faliure/disqualification

And kudos to the translators for coming up with something as poet as "No Longer Human" because "Human Faliure" certainly has less flare. However the title itself (which is my own interpretation - so take it with a grain of salt) would be "Faliure to meet the standards of being human" or something along those lines. Which sort of matches what actual book is about as the main character - Yozo - has felt not human for a long while rather than the process of the character becoming "No Longer Human".

So in conclusion to that I feel "人間失格" does the novel slightly more justice than "No Longer Human" but it certainly has a nicer ring to it AND it sticks.

But then when you apply the "Faliure to meet the standards of being human" then I feel that really does apply to Dazai (BSD) too. Because we can see he was already messed up even before meeting Mori and joining the Port Mafia so maybe he always felt like he wasn't human.

[kyouka-supremacy]

We should talk more about Akutagawa seeing Dazai in Atsushi and being revolted by him, that's such a juicy concept to explore