#bsd beast novel

[dicksoutforakutagawa]

bsd link masterpost

links to bsd instalments in english! some of these link to pdfs i have uploaded to google drive. if you have problems accessing or downloading them, let me know!

mangas

main manga

beast manga

novels

55 minutes novel

beast novel

dazai and chuuya fifteen novel

dazai and the dark era novel

dazai's entrance exam novel

dead apple novel

stormbringer novel

the day i picked up dazai (side a only)

untold origins of the detective agency novel

[monstersqueen]

Once again, I’d shot myself in the foot. As always. At this point, it had become a bad habit I just couldn’t shake, so all I could do was accept it. What I needed to do now, however, was worry about the new recruit, since he was a hundred times more messed up in the head than me.

odasaku is such an unreliable narrator when it comes to himself.

he says he solved the azure messenger case via beginner's luck, and then describes innocuous things about the city that not everyone would notice. those are unappealing things and then he says he can't bring himself to hate this place. he calls himself messed up and yet, that's not it ?

i'm basically going 'i love odasaku so much' right now

[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 

[cawslew]

Ok, so I may or may not have seen @venelona's Beast Swap AU and went kinda bonkers over it for hours on end, so I drew them….

[mitalon39]

Everyone cries when their father dies

[etrevil]

side b & side a

vers. 2

[fyoyaswifties]

THE DAY I PICKED UP DAZAI | ILLUSTRATIONS

[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.

[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.

[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

[monstersqueen]

Four and a half years ago. I joined the Mafia four and a half years ago.”

“Four and a half years ago…?” Akutagawa narrowed his eyes. “What made you join?”

so that's the timeline for atsushi joining the mafia and akutagawa not joining the mafia in beast, so it's probably the timeline for akutagawa joining the mafia in canon.

which means in dark era he's been in for half a year.

[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!!

[kyouka-supremacy]

Yeah having infinite alternative universes where the same two people love each other no matter the world no matter the time is nice but have you considered dedicating your entire existence to find the only universe where your loved one is happy, even if they're going to hate you in that universe, even if you yourself have to die in that universe, because their happiness always came before everything else? Because you never mattered as long as they were happy? Have you considered it??????

[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]