#bsd season one

[zestylemonsz]

Flashback to when Atsushi said "if you die, you're really dead"

[lotus-pear]

lore accurate teen soukoku. the worsties ever

[hesbianyaoi]

thank goodness for bsd wan and the existence of teacher dazai. where would i be without you

based on a real-life conversation that happened with me and my students when i was a kindergarten teacher. very small children are some of the most ruthless and funny people i've ever met. it's an absolutely lawless land in the classroom (they were very sweet though!)

[sskk-manifesto]

It's Shin Soukoku Starting

[sableeira]

sure ango may have betrayed every organization under the sun but tachihara put in the effort to build up the perfect stereotypical gangstersona and act his silly little heart out for the perfect plot twist so we all know who deserves the award for best port mafia betrayal

[originalartblog]

1 year and 4 months later: ANIME EDITION (x)

[daz4i]

you ever run into a post and can immediately envision which anime screencaps you’ll paste it on later

[dazaistabletop]

You're telling me Aya has a pet vampire now

[etrevil]

when there's I love you but bsd says-

[sad-emo-dip-dye]

Oh god I can’t do this again

[kyouka-supremacy]

Again the sickness speaking but here's something that has been going through my mind since forever:

I feel like a good way to mitigate a lot of discontent with the doa arc ending and in general the whole Dazai-being-flawless issue bsd has going on is by comparing bsd to Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle. Please bear with me for two minutes.

When Sherlock Holmes was being published, people were intrigued and enamoured by Holmes' brilliant and charming, crimes-solving figure. People read the stories for the pure joy of being left gaping at his superhuman wits again and again; they didn't want to see him fail, they wanted to be shocked and amazed by his genius. When Holmes died and then came back, nobody lamented it being unrealistic, because realism was not what people were reading the books for! They were reading to be impressed, to cheer for the hero and then take satisfaction in seeing him turn out victorious. That's the author-reader deal that was made there: to impress and to enjoy being impressed.

As of recently I feel like we've been asking from bsd something it never promised us in the first place. Maybe it's just not that kind of series! Maybe it's more about surprising the reader with how the hero is going to make it and less about highlighting his flaws and insecurities. And like, that's okay! That's why Dazai getting away with it isn't it him getting away with it “again”, it's just how bsd is; in a way, it's what makes bsd bsd.

I think it really clicked with me like it never did before when I watched the last episode of season 5; because the arc ending felt so shocking and unpredictable, very deus-ex-machina trope, a little underwhelming in its lowering the stakes that were there the whole time, and yet so extremely on brand with bsd, I didn't even have it in me to be disappointed. It was so similar to the Guild's arc ending and even more to the Cannibalism arc ending, and maybe it really is just a pattern, maybe it really is what bsd aspires to be, and that's okay too.

Also, I can't stretch this enough: if it's not your cup of tea, that's fine. I can't say it's mine either. But I feel like criticizing bsd now for how it's always been falls quite short, because it really feels like demanding from it what it never promised to deliver in the first place. That's just as far as my current perception of the series goes, though, so feel free to disagree with me on this.

[gojosbf]

someone check on satosugu and soukoku shippers

[i-eat-mold]

OH MY FUCKIN GOD this page is SO much funnier now that we know it was all staged. THIS WAS SO PERSONAL.

[kcuf-ad]

Curious what you thought about Junichiro during the Cannibalism arc?

Lowkey, I knew that Hirotsu was cooked the moment he said "You have a sister, am I correct?" like bro, you can beat him up, break every limb in his body, make his organs look like jelly and he still wouldn't have been more bloodlusted if you didn't bring up his sister.

Wasn't expecting him to use his Light Snow as a decoy so that they could run away, was absolute shocked that he almost killed Mori if Kouyou didn't step in and he had a pretty good fight.

Now I see how he is the most bloodlusted dude in the Agency. He makes Dazai and Yosano look like innocent children in comparison.

[sskk-manifesto]

People weren't kidding btw they did unapologetically use all of this season budget on the old men yaoi

[no-brain-just-akutagawa]

Ango watching his plan go to shit

[ID: An edited disappointed man meme. Ango with his arms akimbo stares into spaces with disappointment. End ID]