#bsd s1 ep10

[m00nj3w3l]

Akutagawa. My boy. Therapy, now.

[anzadosara]

if y'all didn't know

he was blushing face-wide

[jounosparticles]

maybe i’m biased but honestly the kenji vs tetchou fight may be my favourite in all of bsd (which is a hard choice since there are so many good ones)

first off, the animation of it was easily the best i’ve seen in the anime. it looked really intense and i absolutely adore it. the sound design was also great as well as the line delivery.

story wise, i think the fact that they both made sure nobody was around before fighting to keep people safe was very in-character for them both. you could also tell neither of them initially wanted to fight but tetchou attacked because the book makes the agency appear guilty no matter what. yet he was still kind when talking to to kenji and kenji was kind back prior to and after the fight.

tetchou was also clearly distracted by jouno being gone to the point where he pushed justice (the thing he pretty much always prioritizes) aside in favour of helping jouno. that shows how much he cares and how worried he was. that puts a heavy emotional impact on the fight, the fact that tetchou was clearly desperate to save jouno quickly with literal justice on the line.

in contrast, kenji went up against the man who had already stabbed him numerous times before and was still kind and listened to him talk first. kenji is probably the nicest character in the entire series, he offered to help the man who tried to kill him and his friends. the fact that he could calm his anger after and still be completely willing to help tetchou shows a lot about kenji as a person. for a 14 year old, kenji is extremely mature and gentle for being willing to help after all of that.

they both could have easily fought until one was dead, but tetchou admitted his mistakes and offered his life to kenji because he realized he had failed. yet kenji seen the sincerity of that and offered to help him despite the fact that they were on the verge of killing each other.

they ended up bonding at the end. it genuinely made me so happy to see this animated, both admitting they had made mistakes and agreed to help each other. which means tetchou has likely broken the writing of the book by thinking clearly, much like how ranpo said the police could do in the first episode of season five.

i really hope we get to see them searching together soon, the two have very close morals and i could see a good friendship form between them. i feel like they’d make an insanely powerful duo in the future as well, i would love to see tetchou mentoring kenji.

"kenji. to have learned that name…was my greatest accomplishment of the day."

[sskk-manifesto]

BSD S1 EP03 | BSD S1 EP10

[thepartyishere]

extreme niche here for people into bsd and dndads but the cleric at bullywogs putting the ufc fighting kids back into the ring over and over (s1 ep10, when they just met paeden) reminds me of yosano in the war healing the soldiers and continuously putting them back on the battlefield

[omni-scient-pan-da]

Octagawa Akutagawa is really just out here dressing like a vampire for no reason

Like seriously, did he not have any other clothes??

[m00nj3w3l]

I think if there's one thing I'll never get over about BSD is how Dazai in this episode says "the main reason I came here is Atsushi" HELLOOOOOOOOOO

[m00nj3w3l]

I still remember when I first watched this episode at a party in 2016 cus I didn't know how to socialise and what to do and my classmate (who knew nothing of anime) that was sitting next to me went "WASN'T SHE DEAD?" when Kyouka picked Atsushi up again LMAO

[m00nj3w3l]

This is peak skk to me idc