#bsd 15 ln

[chuuya-fan-page]

chuuya was so real for this

[theproblemcallednight]

jus some 15 doodles :D

[starstuc]

i’ll never forgive bones for not animating dazais expression as he had forgotten how to breathe as he watched the storm that was chuuya decimate the battlefield BUT INSTEAD they made him emotionless. bones you will be dealt with.

[evilkaeya]

WE GOT THE ARAHABAKI IS ME SCENE

[sensitiveheartless]

Thoughts on the hc that Dazai has a glass eye?

I'm just imagining Dazai getting injured on a case on his blind side, and Kunikida berates him and drags him to Yosano.

And Yosano is like "Really, again? How did it happen this time?" And Kunikida says "Idiot wasn't paying attention."

Dazai "No I was, its just my blind side."

And they both freak out because why? How? Huh? But his eye looks fine?

Yosano: Well, I can schedule an appointment and we can see if we can get you surgery or something-

Dazai: Oh its unsalvagable, I'm blind on that side.

Kunikida: Why does your eye look fine then??? (He thinks Dazai is fucking with him)

Dazai just smiles, reaches up and pull the glass eye out. Kunikida screams.

- Goblin anon

Oh my gosh alsksjdjfjf honestly I think this hc is great just for that potential moment of screaming confusion on Kunikida’s part, Dazai absolutely would do that XD

I guess in general I haven’t thought much about the implications of Dazai bandaging that eye! I know I’ve definitely seen fics and stuff where his vision is off in that eye in one way or another (@feralrookie wrote a fantastic soulmate AU where Dazai’s soulmark is on that eye and it gutted me in the best way). I think it’s really fun to see where different people go with it :0

I do think it’s interesting that he swaps which eye he bandages in the Beast universe…that feels like it has Implications but I’m not sure what they are, I’m not very skilled at analysis lol —Although, slightly related, I do love the moment in the Dark Era where Oda pulls those bandages off as he dies, because it seems like a visual representation of how much Dazai was hindering himself in the mafia (seriously, if there isn’t anything wrong with that eye, that means the dude was shooting guns without precise depth perception seemingly just for the heck of it) and then Oda pulls them off as he tells him to go live in the light and just aaaaaaaaaaaaa I am never not going to be emotional about the dark era ;;

…anyway this got off topic, basically all this to say I think that I think it’s cool how many different interpretations of it there are, and you could definitely do a lot with the glass eye headcanon alskjdjdjd

[sad-emo-dip-dye]

And I’m so convinced natsume knows about the Book or has some connection to it

[leniisreallycool]

BSD canon

I realized this post wasn't going to fit in the comments lol @fishii28

When I think about all the different versions of canon, I just assume that it's all different timelines. So the differences between Dazai Osamu's Entrance Exam and the Azure Messenger arc of the anime can be explained by them being two different timelines. They're both still canon, but to timeline A and timeline B.

These won't be in chronological order, just the order they appear in the BSD wiki.

Light novels that are canon to each other:

LN #1 Osamu Dazai's Entrance Exam

LN #2 Osamu Dazai and the Dark Era

LN #3 The Untold Origins of the Detective Agency

LN #4 55 Minutes

LN #5 Dead Apple

LN #6 Dazai, Chuuya, Age 15

LN #8 Stormbringer

The Day I Picked Up Dazai

Kunikida and Katai's Brilliant Days

2. The Beast universe is canon to itself and is an AU of the original story. Basically Asagiri wrote fanfic of what would happen if Akutagawa was in the ADA and Atsushi was in the Port Mafia. These all have differences that separate them into different timelines of the same AU.

LN#7 Beast

Beast manga adaptation

Beast movie

3. BSD WAN! is also a separate canon that doesn't fit with any of the others.

WAN! manga

WAN! anime

4. The anthologies aren't canon, they're just fun oneshots written by other mangakas

5. The anime is all canon to itself (excluding WAN!)

S1

S2

S3

Dead Apple movie

S4

S5

6. The manga is another separate canon and doesn't have any differences within itself so it's fine to just read it in order

The thing to keep in mind is that it's all canon because BSD takes place in a multiverse. Chuuya's backstory in Stormbringer is really what happened, even in the anime and manga despite only being addressing in Stormbringer.

If that's not coherent I can try to explain it better

[bluemooniegif]

the chronological order of the BSD light novels

anon asked: hi! i think you've said before that it doesn't really matter what order the light novels are read in, but i plan to read them chronologically, instead of publishing order but i'm a bit confused about what the exact order would be. i know fifteen would be before stormbringer and i believe dark era after that? and beast can be read at any time, i assume? i was just wondering if one were to read them as chronologically as possible, if you knew what exactly that order would be? i hope that makes sense and i apologize if this is an inconvenient or silly question! thank you!

this is one of my favourite things to talk about so don't worry! also, something you need to be aware of is that a lot (like the majority) of these lns depict parts of the timeline that are really far removed from the main story being discussed! but it'd be really counter-productive to say something like 'read pages 16-52 of x novel and then begin y novel and then go back to x' so salijfsall

anyway, here's the chronological order: 

volume 3 (The Untold Origins of the Detective Agency) this novel begins with an excerpt from the present 

volume ?? (The Day I Picked Up Dazai) currently not available in English, but you can read the fan translation on BSD Bibliophile! Side A is set in the canon universe and Side B is set in the Beast universe

volume 7 (Dazai, Chuuya, Age 15)

volume 8 (Stormbringer) has flashbacks to ~ the same time as Untold Origins

volume 2 (Osamu Dazai and the Dark Era)

volume 1 (Osamu Dazai's Entrance Exam) again, this novel begins with an excerpt from the present

volume 6 (BEAST) this novel is set in an alternate universe, but appears to take place at the same time as season 1

volume 4 (55 Minutes) & volume 5 (Dead Apple) both these novels take place in the present, sometime after the Guild Arc

volume ? (Bungou Stray Dogs: Another Story) this also hasn't yet been translated into English, but is available on BSD Bibliophile- and the manga is being translated into English, too. the timeline is a little unclear, but it must take place well after Dazai joins the Agency I hope this helps!!

[Smile or comment on the answer here](https://retrospring.net/@bluemoonasks/a/112088195064598460)

[the-gayest-sky-kid]

DAZIA

First Impression: hes like. okay? funny definitely. chuuyas my favorite concept wise because hes what i was introduced to bsd for and ranpos my favorite characterwise. dazais just there like everyone else i guess! ←he did not know

Impression Now: GRGRGEGGEGHSJJRHRRHHRGGRGRGRGEJSHSHRHRHRHRHGRHR BITES YOU BITES YOU BITES YOU i want to take him out on a nice date and then take him home and watch tv and make dinner and and and cries sobs explodes

Favorite Moment: DUNGEON SCENE- (i am assassinated immediately). to be normal though god i really love the 15 LN fight. i am not immune to that. his conversation with kyouka at the end of the guild arc, when shes on the moby dick. thats so everything. any time hes with atsushi. does that count. entirety of hoshikawa 15 adaptation. if you let me keep talking i will literally list every time hes on screen.

Idea For A Story: usually i would have many but actually thinking about things on purpose shuts my brain down fhfbdndn recently ive been thinking of persona 4 style shadow confrontations and i think sending dazai into one of those would be insane for him. otherwise uhm reaction fic. I love reactions. well detailed reaction about dazai in his entirety not a moment left uncovered.

Unpopular Opinion: everything i say about him is unpopular going by the shit im exposed to via YouTube. everyone but me and my mutuals are wrong about dark era and mori and chuuya and akutagawa and atsushi and the ada and his mental health issues and- actually speaking on that i dont think hes ever WANTED to kill himself. especially including pm dazai, who joined to find a Reason To Live. and i dont think hed have like. very obvious panic attacks??? which is smth me and the ao3 and gacha girlies very heavily disagree on apparently. he feels like the type to pace around for an hour on the edge of one. he absolutely can and will cry also. the stage plays understand me in this.

Favorite Relationship: wow i wonder what itd be hm checks list ME X DAZAI THATS RIGHT YOU'VE BEEN BAMBOOZLED ‼️‼️‼️ TRICKED ‼️ okay but actually yeah obviously very clear soukoku girlie here but i have a VERY soft spot for souheki but only in my specific way. nobody else gets them.

Favorite Headcanon: moles and freckles and curly hair. his hair is darker and flatter in the pm because he doesnt shower and its greasy. he needs glasses but doesnt wear them. tboy swag (beastzai is also but doesn't address it. to me). aroace but not processing any of that yet. autism. points at him hair twirling stim 🫵.

[kyouka-supremacy]

Sorta continuation of this, here's some observations on how the bsd anime adaptation rate (average of number of chapters adapted per episode) changed every season:

Season 1: 10 plot episodes + 2 ln adaptation. Adapts up to chapter 16. Average of chapters adapted per episode: 1.60

Season 2: 8 plot episodes + 4 ln adaptation. Adapts chapters 17-37 (21 chapters). Average of chapters adapted per episode: 2.63 (+1.03)

Season 3: 9 plot episodes + 3 ln adaptation. Adapts chapters 38-39 & 41-53 (15 chapters). Average of chapters adapted per episode: 1.67 (-0.96)

Season 4: 10 plot episodes + 3 ln adaptation. Adapts chapters 54-77 (24 chapters). Average of chapters adapted per episode: 2.40 (+0.73)

※ I opted out of counting the Hitori Ayumi OVA this time around, reasoning that the factors that play into conditioning the season episodes adaptation rate wouldn't have influenced the OVA given its nature of stand-alone episode.

Seasons 1-3 adaptation rate: 27 plot episodes, 52 adapted chapters. Average of chapters adapted per episode: 1.93

Season 4 adaptation rate compared to the average of all the previous seasons: 2.40 (+0.47)

Seasons 1-4 overall adaptation rate: 37 plot episodes, 76 adapted chapters. Total average of chapters adapted per episode: 2.05

That being said, let's try to guess how season 5 might play out taking in the previous four seasons adaptation rate of 2.05 as standard. Here's the fun thing: if season 5 is just 12 / 13 episodes of plot adaptation, that would mean adapting up to chapter 102 / 104. Coincidentally, chapter 104 (fukufuku flashback) is also the furthest in the manga plot that was shown in the last season 5 trailer. Feel free to draw your own conclusions, but as of now a new light novel adaptation seems positively unlikely and a Stormbringer adpatation basically impossible to make fit.

[chuuya-fan-page]

it's frustrating watching a bsd gacha vid about chuuya and they make it all about dazai. look dazai is cool, but when i watch a chuuya vid i want it to focus mainly on chuuya pls 😭

give me sb, give me 15 ln, don't make the majority of the vid dazai then you title your vid "bsd react to chuuya"

it's one thing if its about their partnership, but even then, most skk react vids focus more on dazai than chuuya.

and lets not even begin to talk about how horrible skk characterization is in bsd gacha reacts.

[jouno-s]

if its okay, can you rate these bsd ships and share your thoughts on them?

atsulucy

soukoku

fyolai

odazai

akuzai

sorry if its quite long, no pressure to answer btw

hello again!! no worries abt it being long!!

• Ats.ulucy — 10/10!! i love them! honestly my favourite atsushi ship. i love the way their backstories compliment each other and the way they genuinely care about each other makes me sob.

• Souk.oku — 10/10, probably my favourite ship of all time. a little bit cliché but idc! there’s too much to say without making a whole post about it but my absolute favourite thing about these two in particular is dazai’s insistence that chuuya is 100% human, and the way they subtly show their care and knowledge of each other. SB & 15 are my 2nd and 3rd favourite LNs respectively so these two have a special place in my heart both separately and as a pair

• Fy.olai — 7/10! i definitely don’t dislike this ship, and honestly i wish i cared about it that little bit more. they have a very interesting dynamic and i’m particularly fascinated by the way nikolai views fyodor!

• Odaz.ai — 0/10… probably expected but i just don’t like this ship. it’s just a bit too weird for me that dazai is a minor for most of the time he knows oda and even the idea of future-AUs where oda lives don’t sit right with me. platonically i think they’re cool though!

• Akuz.ai — 0/10 again… yeah, i really don’t like this one. akutagawa and dazai are both my favourite characters in the series and i just can’t get on with shipping them together knowing the way they canonically view each other. perhaps platonically if they ever confronted their issues i would be okay with it though!

[hoicacti]

I got the ln for bsd Another Story and the second volume of the 15 manga

[poseremo]

actually have beef with the bsd manga bc why do i have to read 5 light novels just to know why everyone cares about chuuya. this should be in the actual story not a side quest

first of all, i believe you actually only have to read 2. there's only 2 with him in them, and they're both very interesting so if you wanna know more about him i would stick to just those.

but overall i actually completely agree with this. i like chuuya hes a genuinely interesting character who is much more central to the grander story than the mangas story, but i totally agree that more depth should be given to him in the manga that is frankly never going to come. in the manga he is literally nothing more than Dazai's ex partner, hes basically just a plot device that shows up when the story calls for a Deus Ex. you can still get Glimpses of their profound bond in that but it just does not hit the same without the ln context and that truly truly bothers me. i think its bc the manga is about Atsushi, not Dazai, and Atsushi has... never even met Chuuya as far as i remember??? so hes just not as relevant.

there is the one thing i can give the anime credit for: although i dislike the order they adapted the mangas into, i do think the inclusion of 15 was not the worst idea in the world, because it gives context to his character that is... yknow... extremely important, and extremely lacking in the manga. i just have no idea why they added it before s3 given how little s3 has to do with soukoku at all. its a sskk arc and that is the point.

i actually have a lot of hot takes about the light novels in relation to both the anime and the manga. but im not sure the people are ready to hear them.

[silly-zai]

DAZAI'S EYES WHEN THEY'RE NOT COMPLETELY BLACK WITH THE HIGHLIGHTS

part 15

I had to check what part this was n got distracted also these little things feel like the afterword things in the bsd lns except they're not

VOLUME 17

Chapter 72 (that's it for the entire volume I think)

[koi0boi]

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The Sasaki and Miyano LN: First Years

The bsd LN: Dazai, Chuuya, age 15

Last Night at the Telegraph Club

Alice in Wonderland

Hirano to Kagiura (of which is an on going series)