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[bsd-beast-zine]

Dead of the Author - A Bungo Stray Dogs BEAST Zine

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Death of the Author is a Fan-Zine for the Bungo Stray Dogs BEAST Universe and will center around the characters and themes of the BEAST Light Novel, Manga & Movie.

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[kiqilinn]

Anyflip links to complete bsd light novels

dazai’s entrance exam - https://anyflip.com/gxcnw/vpeu/

dark era - https://anyflip.com/gxcnw/pcxl/

untold origins - https://anyflip.com/gxcnw/ghzd/

55 minutes - https://anyflip.com/gxcnw/ppxc/

dead apple - https://anyflip.com/gxcnw/wvkq/

beast - https://anyflip.com/gxcnw/vaqg/

fifteen - https://anyflip.com/gxcnw/msym/

stormbringer - https://anyflip.com/gxcnw/gbxf/

i got a hold of these while z library was still in it’s full glory and thought i’d share! the translation on these is by yen press, if you want a site where you can download them dm me :3 i also recommend checking out @/bsd-bibliophile’s website for fan translations 

[etrevil]

side b & side a

vers. 2

[fyoyaswifties]

THE DAY I PICKED UP DAZAI | ILLUSTRATIONS

[anticidic]

What particularly gets me about BEAST isn't just the fates of certain characters or the lives both changed and ruined through a butterfly effect, but how melancholic it paints the future for everyone in the ending. Gin's spared and the entire plan to execute her had been a ruse, but she's never heard from again. Atsushi's fired from the Port Mafia and suddenly finds himself out on the streets in a similar parallel to his self in the original world until he meets Mori at the orphanage. Kyouka, presumably, disappears without a trace because she only came back and stayed in the mafia for Atsushi, and now has no loyalty to the organization. And, of course, there's Chuuya who's overcome with grief from Dazai's death and gets thrown in prison. It feels like...very give-and-take for all those involved in the world. Akutagawa met up with his sister, but had to face rejection and now she's gone missing but he's still pursuing her. Atsushi was freed of his shackles to the mafia, but now he must find himself again and contend with his past. Kyouka's freed, too, by proxy, but now she's a fourteen-year-old entirely alone on the streets. Dazai's wish to preserve a world where Oda lived happens, but at the cost of destroying Chuuya and having it ripple through the mafia. Mori takes in Atsushi as his son until Atsushi finds himself, but also at the cost of not being able to save Dazai.

And then Elise says this to Atsushi, and I feel like it applies to almost the entire cast. Akutagawa wants to live for the agency and his sister and refuses to give up on her because he still has that hope. He has something to hope for when so many others lost that hope and are just drifting—not dying, but not really living. Akutagawa aches not just for his sister, but for those around him, knowing they seem to have nothing to live for and just merely exist. He killed many in his quest, seeing people as obstacles in the past, and then chose to spare Atsushi of all people. Along with witnessing Dazai's death, Akutagawa got a good look at how broken someone can truly be.

[cryptid-juzou]

Appreciation post for Akutagawa and Kenji's dynamic in Beast

Finally read the Beast LN and watched the live action. I see a lot of people losing their minds about skk and sskk in Beast, which fair, I too am absolutely feral for them. But why do I not see more people ranting about the wholesome, pure dynamic between Akutagawa and Kenji (platonic). It's one of my favourite parts, so endearing.

Akutagawa being exposed to Kenji's unwavering optimism, god knows he needs actual good people in his life. Kenji telling Akutagawa that nature works in halves, 'night will fall, and morning will break, Spring will come, then Autumn.' And Akutagawa recalling those words at the end of the LN.

Them working together to plant a bunch of rice crops, and Akutagawa respecting the hell out if it because he has a deep respect for food. Akutagawa continuing to work in fields with Kenji at the end of the LN, they are legit buddies by the end of it, actual friends.

Them talking about eating bugs to tell if the soil composition is good and Kunikida's surprise when he noticed they were getting along.

Now all I want is for main timeline Akutagawa and Kenji to interact, it's what Akutagawa deserves after only having terrible influences in his life before Atsushi.

[caldera1000-7]

Bungou Stray Dogs BEAST has SO many relations/friendships/comrade/sibling bonds that happen with Akutagawa or even Atsushi and Kyouka no matter how dark it is - it has such tragic and wholesome moments.

It is also interesting to see how he manages to get along with almost everyone in the ADA and even PM Atsushi...

And Oda taking care of him or treating him to some food is one of the small yet great things to notice. Considering he would have way better living conditions and training than in the mainline manga and being in the port mafia...

[tinyperson00]

I was reading the beast light novel a bit ago, then switched to read some manga to give myself a break, and while I was reading I noticed something..

In number 10 of the manga Akutagawa calls Atsushi's face fava bean colored, then I remembered seeing somewhere while I was reading the novel that he said he disliked Fava beans

This might not be much honestly but it's kinda funny to me that Aku calls Atsushi a food that he hates

Also I'm noticing more and more than number 10 has a lot of aspects that got added to beast as well, mainly Atsushi's interaction with the headmaster

please read number 10 of the manga! The anime leaves SO MUCH of it out istg

[arangora]

Google doc with all the bungo stray dogs links :

Contains:

-All the light novels

-All the mangas and spin offs (gaiden, beast, wan ect)

-beast live action

-anime s1-4

-welcome to the hot springs CD

-stage play

-official art archive

Note : most of these are illegal websites and might have dangerous files, I do check these every once in a while but I might miss some. If you have the links to anything missing please send it my way so I can add it 💗 have fun reading / watching!!

[bsd-beast-zine]

Zine Schedule

Contributor Sign ups open: January 3rd Contributor Sign ups close: February 10 Acceptance Letters Sent: March 1st First Check-in: April 15th-20th Second Check-in: May 15th-20th Third Check-in: June 15th-20th Final Submissions: July 15th-20th Formatting: August-October Pre-orders: August 10th - September 30th Production: October (TBD) Shipping: November (TBD)

Please note that this schedule is tentative -- any changes will be communicated with plenty of notice.

[junewi02]

Oda and Dazai do not have a father/son relationship

After reading Dark Era and the other two light novels where their relationship is expanded upon, I took some time to think about why exactly Dazai valued his friendship with Oda so much.

I think that because Dazai has this extreme immunity to the human experience, his friendship to Oda was something extremely special to him. Not because he saw him as a father figure, not owing to the fact that he saw him as someone who was on his level of intellect, or because Oda knew and understood everything about him. He was his friend, simple as that.

Dazai is someone who can't be understood and in return he is someone who can't connect to the world around him. In my opinion, having this normalcy of just talking to someone and not even necessarily being 'best friends' or 'soul mates' was a blessing to Dazai. This is also why I firmly believe calling it a father/son relationship would be a mischaracterization.

In an Interview, Asagiri noted that he described Dazai as "an unworldly being with a mental age of 2000 years." to staff working on BSD. I think a bond, that can situationally be as shallow and, to Dazai, as meaningless and abstract as a familial bond is something that he can't experience in a way that others would.

Friendship, in that sense, is less defined and I think it better describes their relationship as a whole

[etrevil]

[crowscadence]

No matter how many times I read BEAST, the scene where Atsushi kills the director and sees the watch stabs me in the gut

[anticidic]

who needs fluff and happy endings when you can have your heart ripped out and stomped on by the entirety of BEAST and cry your eyes out and love it all the same

[asofspades]

I've seen a lot of people trying to get into the BSD light Novels and quite frankly you can read them in order but I do have a recommendation about the order I think makes more sense chronologically regarding the story.

So:

1. LN 3. The Untold Origins of the Armed Detective Agency.

2. LN 1. Osamu Dazai's Entrance Exam.

These two take place prior to the beginning of the main timeline and are actually a great way of understanding Ranpo and the partnership between Dazai and Kunikida (also recommend LN 1 to anime only watchers because they mixed the first chapters of the manga with Dazai's entrance exam which takes place 2 years prior to the manga and they royally screwed up on Kunikida's characterisation by doing that)

3. LN 7. Dazai, Chuuya, Age Fifteen

(the manga was good but I feel like you might understand Dazai and Chūya's dynamic and the difference of their relationship to both Mori and the Mafia once you read this)

4. LN 8. Stormbringer

(you might actually understand Chūya as a character after you read this one, dives a bit deeper into his relationship with Dazai, explains who Verlaine actually is and talks about stuff that's mentioned afterwards in the manga, like singularities)

5. LN 9. The Day I Picked up Dazai side A

(this happens at some point between LN 7 and LN 2, and helps you understand Dazai and Oda's relationship prior to reading LN 2, how Oda ended up in the Mafia and also a bit more dive into Dazai's character)

6. LN 2. Osamu Dazai and The Dark Era

(better than shown in the anime, allows you to see how Oda sees Dazai since it's written from his pov, a good dive into Dazai's character while in the mafia and why he actually left )

Once you finish The Guild arc

7. LN 4. 55 Minutes

8. LN 5. Dead Apple

(so, the first one is a bit crazy but actually dives a lot into Atsushi's character, explains weird phenomena in BSD regarding singularities and how Dazai isn't affected by certain abilities even without touch, how Yosano can actually use her ability on Dazai and I find it quite interesting, HG Wells is an interesting character as well)

(Dead Apple is entertaining and dives once again into characters and their abilities but also explains weird singularities again, also the bond between Dazai and Chūya, it also gets a bit weird towards the end in regards to things happening that might be hard to understand but the rest is easier to understand than in the movie adaptation)

9. LN 9. The Day I Picked up Dazai side B

(it's set in the alternate universe of LN 6. Beast and a great point to understand Dazai's actions and motivations in said light novel)

10. LN 6. Beast

(it should come with a warning that it's going to ruin your mental health for a while, an alternate universe of BSD, brings in the Book so you might one to read this during/after the cannibalism arc because it kind of explains a bit what the book does or how it kind of works, definitely needs a bit more explaining but it is good info before starting with the vampirism arc and all that stuff, the book is important and there's talk about singularities again. It's also cool to see how the same characters adapt to a different lifestyle, Akutagawa in the ADA, Atsushi in the PM, kyouka in the PM but with Atsushi, Dazai if he stayed in the PM, the ending will fully rip your heart out if the rest of the novel hasn't done it before that and I really recommend the manga adaptation of it because the art style is *chef's kiss* and heart wrenching)

Done with my rant now, you can still read them in their publishing order this is just my recommendation. Also, LN 9 is not out on paper yet and I think we only have fan translations online but it is definitely worth it, @popopretty has a really good translation of it.

And LN 7 is getting a manga adaptation which is also looking really good so you can check it out.

LN 5 has a manga adaptation as well as being a film and this one is not written by Asagiri but is still canon so you have that.