#episode 4 akutagawa tw

[kyouka-supremacy]

(person whose tags you reblogged on that ask about the anime here lol) I think what a lot of Bones defenders don't seem to realize is that this isn't just a case of us whining because we don't get what we want, like us complaining about like "they didn't draw this panel Exactly How It is In The Manga, how dare they!!!", we're not being nitpicking for the sake of nitpicking; these kinds of supposedly minor complaints probably wouldn't bother me in another show, because no adaptation is perfect and there will always be differences in how the panels are adapted, but in specifically BSD it bothers me because of the bigger picture, which is the fact that all of these tiny blunders are a direct result of them not understanding what kind of series BSD is and the tone and feelings each scene in the manga is meant to convey -- they see it as a shounen and adapt it as such, like you said. It's not about these moments in of themselves that are the problem, but because there's SO MANY of them, and they all add up, and they speak to the aforementioned much larger problem. I also just think that's kind of ignorant to just act like a season(s) with a downgrade in art quality, so many reused frames and animations, and disturbingly long static frames sometimes is in any way acceptable as a finished product??? This isn't about me and what I want, this is about the fact that they CLEARLY suffered to get this out and that is NOT OKAY. THERE ARE SO MANY GLARING PRODUCTION ISSUES (have been since season 3) AND THAT IS NOT OKAY. Not for the people who were forced to work on it, not for BSD as a story, and not for Asagiri and Harukawa! And not for the fans either, of course, but I emphasize the first three the most. It's just pure laziness and greed on the part of the Bones higher-ups who wanted it to be like this, and that will never be acceptable, for anyone. The quality of the anime has been significantly better the last few episodes (literally the instant Akutagawa kicked the bucket...) — by which I mean, they're doing the bare minimum for an adaptation, which is better than they usually do! — but I sure couldn't tell you why...! It's left me ecstatic, happy, and excited to watch lately, which is such a relief from constant sadness, outrage, and feeling insulted, but that still doesn't change the fact that it should have been this good THIS WHOLE TIME, and that there's absolutely NO REASON other episodes had to be sacrificed for the better ones: they should have been given enough time to do all of it justice (again, as much justice as Bones can ever do with BSD lol, but still. Season 2 is still so dear to me for a reason, and it's not just because of the nostalgia I have from watching it in 2016). Sorry for rambling more about this in your inbox asldjgflds, but tl;dr I just feel like our complaining comes across as bitching about scenes not being a perfect 1-to-1 panel recreation to a lot of people, when it's so much more than that — it's about BSD as a whole not getting the treatment it really, truly deserves, and how heartbreaking that is to see. It is heartbreaking to me to see how much Asagiri apparently loves the anime, from what he said at Anime Expo, when his story deserves so, so much better than he seemingly is even aware of. And I will always give Bones due credit when they've earned it, like I have the last few weeks, so I'm not even always constantly ragging on them, but even that praise comes with the caveat of "there's no explanation for why the quality is suddenly better now, or why it's so inconsistent in general, and I shouldn't even have to praise it so much, because this level of quality should be a given."

Yeah I agree that Bones has repeatedly demostred a very faulty understanding of the manga tone and even of the themes it carries on– even though there's also a chance that the shift in tone was intentional. They saw that undemanding shonen sold better than seinen (which may now seem easy to disprove, but the same probably wasn't as evident back in 2015 when the bsd anime was announced), so they made the marketing choice to declinate bsd so that it could cater to a shonen audience too, and stuck with that decision. That would make sense although in the end, as you said, it resulted in a series that feels deeply disconnected in tone and themes to its original, all while the narrated events stay the same.

I do wholeheartedly agree that if you need so many reused frames and to resort to static frames that drag on for several dozens of seconds, then your season simply isn't ready for release. C'mon, seriously, an original op and ending are the bare MINIMUM. The only reason why they didn't postpone the season release is greed. Not to mention (very much needed to mention), it's harmful for the animators twice: on one hand, because it necessarily puts them under a lot of stress and overworking conditions in order to churn out an entire season in such a short timespan; but I also feel like we shouldn't overlook the other aspect that is just... How extremely saddening and disheartening it is to not be able to dedicate the time you'd want to your art product, and seeing it published in a way that looks rushed and unfinished. I think it's important to acknowledge the frustration animators are likely to experience when that happens, especially because most times it's people who love their job of artist and of course work hard so that the result is the best it can be. But yeah the thing is: it's important - no matter how unpleasant - to say, it's not okay, because otherwise a low quality product is only going to become the norm.

I agree there was a noticeable quality improvement in the last three episodes (4-6), and I may be wrong, but I think it's reasonable to believe it's because the first three episodes had to be prepared in advance in order to be ready for the pre-screening that took place on the 8th of July in Japan. That may explain why the later episodes have been so much better compared to the first three: they simply had more time to work on them, and it's possible they're keeping working on the episodes even as they're airing. But I do agree... It's very saddening to see. Like of course, I agree, I *AM* happy the last episodes have been good (the last one was especially enjoyable!), but there really is that big ache given by thinking about what the Fukuchi vs. sskk fight could have been if only it was given the time and care it deserved. Sigh. It was just a very unfortunate coincidence for everyone, because, bias aside, it was really a pivotal moment in the whole manga... I mean. C'mon. Atsushi is the protagonist, but is yet again not treated as one because of, once again, marketing choices. It's a bit saddening. With season 4, I was dreading for when the season would have ended; with season 5 I regretfully must admit that I found myself again and again just hoping it would end already. Because even now that the animation has improved significantly, I can't stop thinking of what episode three should have been - what it had the right to be, as no less important than any other episode -, and I feel like my enjoyment of the season is just ruined.

One last note, and I know it's not what you meant when referring to panel-by-panel adaptations, and feel free to consider this my own pet peeve, but. Studios should be able to notice when they're working with the most iconic panel of the entire manga and should treat it accordingly. I'm cool and chill but what they did to the chapter 88 Akutagawa panel is unforgivable and I will resent them forever because of it.

[kunikidas-lost-glasses]

BSD college!AU headcanons pt.4

TWS.: Very slight mention of abuse, mention of depressive episodes, mention of alcohol

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Most people who know that Chuuya has an overprotective older brother clearly didn't imagine him as the very tall, very well trained/muscular and pretty young man so when they saw him the first time when he visited Chuuya on his birthday party they were pretty dumbfounded. 

Verlaine owns a bakery 

Arthur is a scientist and has a pretty high rank in his lab

Dazai is probably the biggest "The Smiths" fan Chuuya knows. And he knows a bunch of people 

Nikolai once accidentally set the fire alarm of the college off when he tried to cook something in the small kitchen of their dorm. 

It's not like he can't cook. He can actually. He's just very chaotic in the kitchen and often zooms out instead of focusing on cooking

Dazai is terrified of Verlaine. Like. Actually terrified. 

He's taller than him, stronger than him and Dazai knows that Verlaine dislikes him a whole damn lot. He's probably only still alive because Verlaine wants Chuuya to be happy and since he's happily in love with Dazai, he didn't strangle him yet

Also Arthur probably told his husband to give Dazai a chance so he probably owns Arthur is life

After Atsushi started dating Akutagawa, he started to listen to Bands like MCR and also started listening to Phonk songs. Gin, on the other hand, saw Akutagawa listening to much softer songs sometimes

If Bram isn't sleeping or in his dorm, he can be found in the small café in the town or in a library 

He sometimes walks with crutches 

And he uses them to smack people

Aya often secretly sleeps in Bram's dorm since she doesn't get along well with her dorm mate in boarding school

He let's her read every book he owns and makes her tea or hot chocolate while she recommends him new songs he could listen to or shows him songs

They definitely gossip about people a lot

Bram is definitely the type of person who judges people a lot

Jouno is nearly always seen with noise canceling headphones

Jouno swears that he hates Tecchou but they are always seen together

Also only one bed of their bunk bed gets used for sleeping and the other one serves as a filing for their military training uniforms, bags, books and whatever else they toss onto it when they are too tired after lectures and training to put it away properly. 

Terkuo loves to tease them about literally anything  

While other students keep a distance to Jouno and Tecchou out of respect and maybe a bit out of fear, the most students are absolutely terrified of Teruko 

Only Sigma dared to argue with her once after she pushed too many of his buttons and overstepped his boundaries way too much and it took Nikolai, Shibusawa and Fyodor to get them both to stop arguing

Nikolai, Fyodor, Shibusawa, Sigma, Dazai, Chuuya, Ranpo, Yosano, and Poe often study together after their lectures in a café or in the library. Sometimes Atsushi, Akutagawa, Kunikida and Mushitaro join them. 

That the latter two join them is rare but Atsushi and Akutagawa join them pretty often

Atsushi joins them because because he loves to study with other people and because he and Sigma are besties so if Sigma's there, Atsushi is probably there too

Sigma and Atsushi don't see each other super often due to different lectures and courses and due to Sigma's job where his shift starts in the evening so they use occasions like this to meet and catch up on how the other is doing

Dazai proceeds to laze around in Chuuya and his dorm in his cozy fluffy jumpsuit for a whole week after the exam phase ends

Ranpo actually has extremely heavy depressive episodes but nobody besides his boyfriends Poe and Mushitaro, his father Fukusawa and his best friends Dazai, Yosano and Nikolai know

Dazai and Chuuya met in kindergarden, kind of lost contact after kindergarden, met again in high school but grew a bit distanced since Dazai had changed so much under Mori's abuse and influence but stayed friends in someway and got together shortly after Chuuya called the police to their school after finding out that Mori abused Dazai and Yosano who went to the same school as them before kicking down the door to Mori's office in which Dazai was at this moment, bashing inside it and wanting to beat Mori up (Dazai held him back)

Both secretly think about marrying the other after college

Dazai still gets flustered often when Chuuya holds his hand, kisses his forehead, kisses his cheeks or gives him stupid cute nicknames

Fyodor and Dazai had a bet once who could drink more vodka. It was only once. They both regretted it.

It was one of these moments where they basically shared a single brain cell. 

Fyodor won though

Nikolai cheered on them

Mushitaro hates Dazai like, so much 

Dazai met Fyodor and Nikolai when the three of them were only teens and when the latter two could barely speak any Japanese

Lucy makes the best hot chocolate at the whole college

Sigma makes the best cookies at the whole college

[growling]

ep 3

for a moment I thought Kunikida was performing some really sus stuff on (TW: D*zai mention) Dazai but ah that's just his side. They should put me down

Atsushi changes lives. Every time I see him the world is bright and beatiful and I feel sane

"he's reallu not a bad person" pan to his little sister whom he fucks. it's VERY strongly implied. I can tell I have eyes and ears. Surprisingly I'm fine with this. It's just..... my bullshit tolerance is so high it just simply doesn't have an effect on me. I just accepted it tbh. I mean what's new.......

That being said! I do NOT want to be here currently. take it elsewhere. please. I'm not asking I'm begging and dreading unpausing

STOPPPPPPPPPPPPP FOR FOCKSSAKEEEEE

Hi Kunikida. Anyway, can't wait for the future episode in which Atsushi kills everybody in the agency and runs away with all their money I find it very hard to sympathize with any of them rn . i will wait chin on hands kicking my feet

d-word devil already harassing some poor retail worker woman mr electric disembovel this man

"dont bother asking for her help all the time"........ so it wasn't even the only time he did it????? ok mr electric have his organs torn out of his body

love how Atsushi IMMEDIATELY drops everything and bolts right up like a good little goon as soon as he hears of a "reward". the hustle is eternal

You could make him do anything as long as you promise any kind of monetary reward. look at him he's fucking hyperventilating

intro is back!!!!!! once again i feel like i need to say that again but I am DROOLING over that cunty looking ginger hair guy with the hat and gloves. Give him to me I will take good care of him and his arm skin flaps. Oh god. I think I hauve scurvy.

is Dazai just gonna be refusing to leave any woman alone for the remainder of the show or is it just this episode. Because right now I need to hurt him in some way. "would you be willing to join me in a double suicide" now that's just even more gross teruteru wannabe point and laugh and shoot and stab and punch and

Kunikida earning a lot in my eyes lately. you have still committed a slight against my guy Atsushi (which is unforgivable) but maybe you can even it out with even more slights against Dazai- HE'S ACTUALLY BEATING HIS ASS LMAO???????? +5 points to Kunikida aksdjfhghfuddfcndseyrh justice served balance restored

I love how my previously irrational hatred of Dazai just got actually severly validated this episode. I feel so correct for doing it before it got cool

"waaaaaahhh there's scary foreign poor people loitering around my company bplease I need evidence they're committing crimes to put them in jailllll" nvm fuck her too actually

ok ummmmmm one guess for Dazai's former job...... he got affiliated with the port mafia somehow?? Maybe killed people. Since he's looking like he doesn't wanna be here during this conversation. Hunch

I like the. scary murderbender vampire looking mafia boss guy. he's kinda cute like this .

also, the name Akutagawa sounded kinda familiar but idk if it's been said already in the former episodes or if I caught a whiff of him from some posts. Either way that's literally everything I know I am going into this anime literally like 99% blind except for some of the character's looks (theres this.... white-purple hair guy, dazai, an thats it) and Dazai Osamu's name

EVIL WOMAN MOMENT????? :333333

Banger theme

She's so cool I need her. not necessarily sexually I mean I could use a bodyguard or something to pull me out of oncoming traffic my cognitively impaired ass occassionally wanders onto blissfully unaware of anything that's happening around me. And then shoot people.

I FEEL BAD FOR LAUGHING BUT. SHE GOT HER!!!!!!!!! ONE DOWN WE DID IT BLONDE WOMAN WHOSE NAME I FORGOT INCEST IS NO MORE IT ENDED

*shrek 4 kid voice* do the tiger .

ginger hair guy's whose name i forgot's ability is fine too I guess. Love how many bullets the blonde woman just has loaded she looks so goofy spinning around like that .......

TWO DOWN!!!!!!!!!! I HOPE

Sorry I know this is serious but Atsushi's fucking face angle I'm sorry I can't

*shrek 4 kid voice* do the tiger .

banger theme back!!!!! or it was there the whole time?? can't remember that was whole minutes ago i can't reach that far

Akutagawa noooo please respect women do this for me :(((((((( you can hit me instead if you want please please PLEASE PLEAS

he looks like a vampire, and calls Atsushi a weretiger. match made in hell. I need to imagine them fucking unsafe insane nonconsensual style for a moment this won't take long we'll get back to it eventually let me just.......

THE HEAD ANGLE AGAIN

ok so he's a stand user. got it <- has not watched a single episode of jojo either

*shrek 4 kid voice* do the tiger .

ok Akutagawa. so your creature devours anything and everything. ok. one question. can you even control it or do you just pretend to?

YESSS LEG REMOVAL!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Should .... Should I be that happy about this??

womp womp

HE DID THE TIGER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! FINALLY!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

aw goddamn it he gets to keep the leg ://///

The Tiger is stronger or at least equal in power as Akutagawa's creature???? inch resting

Stating this again, or for the first time, since I don't remember and don't wanna scroll up: I am sexually attracted to Akutagawa and want him to perform a live vivisection on me with zero anaesthetic.

rip Atsushi I guess . roll credits anime's over go home

(Akutagawa really coughs a lot hmmmmmm)

oh that wasn't Atsushi huh. ok. yay <3 thank you ginger hair guy whose name i forgot for managing to do something beneficial to society

thanks for helping Dazai I gue- OH MY FUCKING GOD STOPPPPPPPPPPPPP I'M GONNA KILL YOURSELF

Oh so it's for me money. they want the weretiger for a bounty. lol. lmao. go get that bag Akutagawa go get it!!!

I GUESSED IT HAHA!!!!!!!!! I'M SO INCREDIBLY SMART!!!!!!!!! DAZAI WAS IN THE PORT MAFIA >:))))))))

i'm not watching the outro again. the intro....... we'll see. maybe. and so that's it :33333 woohoo

you know what. you know what. watching bsd since I heard so much about it (mutual osmosis (hi)) yet absolutely nothing at the same time. like who the hells this dazai guy and whys he kinda..... anyway episode 1

so sad how atsushi died of starvation in the first 5 minutes. guess show's over....exit theatre.

"you should kill yourself NOW" the hell did this guy do be declared public enemy number one of all orphanages. how many did he burn

atsushi's out for fucking BLOOD i wanna see him fail cringely and die of an infection curled up under a juniper bush. why does he run like that

is that the. dazai jumpscare

i knew this man for like 2 minutes and i desire him carnally

jesus fucking christ i need his pussy so bad. i am going to fuck the screen. i need to do unspeakable things to/for this dazai guy

not even listening to whatever they're saying im just hyperventilating over the prettyboy before me i could treat you so good dazai. i don't care about your morals or potential atrocities dazai pPLEASE just let me fucking hit. pick me. pick me. PICK ME

supernatural detectives AGAIN?

he did the =D !!!!!!!!

i don't think im in the right headspace to watch this scene while dazai backshots on my mind rotting my brain preventing me from forming critical thoughts or acknowledging reality. good lord this scene that should have been m

i too love bullying children for their subpar grind and googoogaga mentality

he did the

..........ooo is he the tiger. I also believed his story was questionable never trust an orphan

furry

although on further inspection..... oh no im sensing some vivia similiarities in dazai which might DRASTICALLY decrease his attractiveness to me if it keeps up..............

"im not into hugging men" oh fuck off ill fucking make you im going to make you die a crack addict and drop your corpse in a pigpen go fuck yourself guess im not allowed to have anything huh. my way or the highway boy pick one. this show fucking sucks i hate you

nevertheless. i will carry on as usual

dazai kill yourself

i will fucking stab you beat you or hurt you in some way. i will destroy your life i will render you unable to look another man in the eye ever again

go fuck yourself. not like i care. i don't care stop i don't know what you're talking about i DO NOT care im not. im not. im gonna break that dazai fucknut's femurs in a cold cruel non-erotic way he's not even that pretty im over it. im over us.

im gonna fucking shred him

[kunikidas-lost-glasses]

Masterlist for my BSD headcanons

The TWs for each headcanon are on the top of each post

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General Informations

BSD College!AU:

BSD College!AU headcanons pt. 1

BSD College!AU headcanons pt. 2

BSD College!AU headcanons pt. 3

BSD College!AU headcanons pt.4

BSD College!AU headcanons pt.5

Soft Soukoku College!AU headcanon - Massages (sfw)

Takes place before college: Arthur and Verlaine being like parents to Chuuya and raising him pt.1 - Calming Chuuya down after he had nightmares

Small BSD College!AU - Nikolai forgetting to put on his shoes before leaving the house

Dazai and Fyodor being childhood best friends

Bramcraft drabble - Aquarium dates

Kunichuuzai - Dazai having a heavy depressive episode

Study group on friday

Soukoku carpooling with Fyosiggol

What the BSD characters are majoring and minoring in

Fyolai:

Nikolai comforting Fyodor when he’s feeling empty and depressed

Sigma and Bram finding out about their relationship

Nikolai taking care of Fyodor when he’s overworked

Fyolai headcanon to the song никогда by руслан утюг

Nikolai treating Fyodor’s injured fingers after he bit them all bloody again and putting colorful band aids for kids on them

Fyolai high school!AU/College!AU - Sigma and Nikolai being childhood best friends and Sigma dealing with Nikolai being utterly in love with Fyodor

In addition to the post above: Nikolai dying his hair white at around 3am with the help of Sigma

Fyolai celebrating their anniversary (request)

Random headcanons about characters

Bsd ships as seasons

Chuuya singing/screaming Taylor Swift songs at Night ft. Akutagawa being done with soukoku’s bs

Songs/Bands and Artists I like which I think some of my favorite BSD characters would listen to, mixed with some headcanons about them 

Kunikida finding out about several relationships from his Coworkers with people from enemy organizations

Random appearance hc’s for some BSD characters

Small Sigma headcanon - Why Sigma hates hot temperatures

Nikolai wearing dark red nail polish

Nikolai nail polish headcanon 1

Shibusawa crack headcanon

Asexual Ranpo hc

BSD Halloween headcanons

Sexuality headcanons for random BSD characters

Roblox games BSD characters would play

Siggol/Gogsig:

Nikolai’s favorite nickname for Sigma

Nikolai buying Sigma a galaxy projector

Siggol headcanons pt.1

BSD Mystery Trio/Perfect Crime Trio:

BSD Mystery Trio/Perfect Crime Trio headcanons pt.1

BSD Mystery Trio/Perfect Crime Trio headcanons pt.2

 Them in general/ Their vibe  

Poe’s Love Letters

Bsd Mystery Trio/ Perfect crime trio ft. Mushitaro's breakdowns at night

Bsd Mystery Trio as detectives in the late 1870s-1880s AU

The Perfect Crime Trio making gingerbread houses

Poly Decay (+Shibusawa):

Fyodor and Nikolai struggling with the cold ft. a part of their backstory 

Poly Decay (+Shibusawa) adopting Karma pt.1

Poly Decay (+Shibusawa) taking care of Fyodor when he catches the flu

Poly decay (+Shibusawa) dealing with Sigma's overworking

The favorite movie of them

Shibusawa’s rings

A take on Fyodor’s emotions and behavior in the relationship

Poly Decay ( +Shibusawa ) headcanons pt.1

Poly Decay (+Shibusawa) headcanons pt.2/ More Poly Decay (+ Shibusawa) headcanons

Nikolai and pink crocs

Poly Decay (+Shibusawa) adopting Karma - Karmas' nightmares

Poly Decay (+Shibusawa) - Dealing with Sigmas' anxiety at night

Cold rainy mornings (ft. Karma as their basically adopted child)

Decorating the Christmas tree together

Nicknames

Soukoku:

Dazai cheering up Chuuya after a bad day at work

 Cozy rainy days

Married!Soukoku headcanon pt.1 - Dazai not wearing his bandages around Chuuya for the first time

Soukoku and thunderstorms at night

Kunikida helping Dazai when he's struggling/at his lowest ft. Married!Soukoku

Staying at home on a snow day ft. Dazai refusing to let Chuuya get out of bed (Married!Soukoku)

Soukoku with upset Chuuya

BSD Kindergarden!AU:

BSD Kindergarden!AU headcanons pt.1

BSD Kindergarden!AU headcanons pt.2

Plushies I think the BSD characters would have in a kindergarden!AU

Poe, Ranpo and Poe playing detective

Soukoku Studio Ghibli!AU:

Summary of my soukoku Studio Ghibli!AU

More (character-) informations about my Studio Ghibli Soukoku AU pt.1

Shibufyo:

Fyodor keeping a strand of Shibusawa’s hair/ Fyodor after the events of the Dead Apple conflict

Bram/Lovecraft:

Why Bram/Lovecraft is actually a good ship

Bramcraft headcanons

Shin Soukoku:

Small Shin Soukoku headcanon - Sharing clothes 

Fyozai

Fyozai visiting an art museum in a abilityless AU

Small Playlists:

Small Gogsig Playlist

Small Fyolai Playlist

Small Fyolai Playlist II

Small Poly Decay (+Shibusawa) Playlist

Small Shibufyo Playlist

Small Fyozai Playlist

Rimlaine:

Rimbaud ranting accidentally in french

Higugin:

Small Higugin headcanon - 80s songs