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I think I understand why Kunikida can handle Dazai
#bsd#bungou stray dogs#bsd spoilers#bungo stray dogs#bsd chapter 114.5#dazai osamu#Dazai#bsd kunikida#kunikida doppo#bsd katai#katai tayama#Kunikida and Katai's Magnificent Days#bsd light novel
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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!!
#bungou stray dogs#bsd#bungou gay dogs#bsd light novel#stormbringer#dazais entrance exam#osamu dazai and the dark era#dark era dazai#bungo stray dogs gaiden#bsd gaiden#bsd 55 minutes#dazai and chuuya fifteen#dazai and chuuya 15#bsd beast#beast live action#kunikida and katais magnificent days#the day i picked up dazai#bsd x chou chou alis special#bungo stray dogs anthology#bsd anthology#bsd wan#welcome to the hot springs#bungo stray dogs on stage#bsd on stage#my doc links 📘
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Katai got mega-million rich after busting organisations with his ability rightt out of his teenage rebellion years so Kunikida burns every single one of the capitalist books his parents send to him in the mail. They never discuss this.
#things ;)#kunikatai#what IS a devoted childhood friend if it isnt someone who steers you away from le capitalists??#obssessed with how katai is the most normal guy in kuni’s life while also being an agoraphobic bed-loving gifted kid burnout gamer#asnyways#kunikida and katai’s magnificent days#kunikida x katai#katai x kunikida#katai tayama#bsd katai#bsd kunikida#kunikida doppo#doppo kunikida#bsd#bungou gay dogs#bungo stray dogs#for context!!!: lesbiany-yosano’s posts on commie kunie
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[Bungo Stray Dogs, Chapter 41 / Kunikida and Katai's Magnificent Days translated by Maiple701 / I'll Stop by half•alive]
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that’ll be nice. plus, it wouldn’t be unbearable hot underneath yoshiko! i can get some balloons and party hats to really set the mood!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY DAY KUNIKIDA YAYYYYY !!!!!!!!!
✦ @yoshiko-and-the-hikikomori
THANK YOU !
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do you have any specific theory regarding kunikida’s backstory? i honestly never thought about how he might have met fukuzawa when he was much younger, always assumed it happened after he dropped out of uni, but this makes much more sense tbh. i’m huge on the idea of him coming from a military family (would explain how he could’ve met fukuzawa and why on earth he knows how to operate every fire arm in existence)
I have so many ideas about Kunikida! The idea of him coming from a military family is definitely interesting - it fits with the author irl and would explain a lot of his mannerisms. I'm partial to him having an estranged relationship with his family in general, because it's mentioned in Kunikida and Katai's Magnificent Days that eventually Kunikida grew to spend more time around Katai than he did his family, and because most of the ADA don't really seem to have family outside each other. No one they worry about being pulled into things when they're accused of terrorism or targeted by the Port Mafia back when they were still antagonists, etc. With Ranpo, Atsushi, and Kyouka we know their parents are dead; with Yosano, Dazai, the Tanizakis and Kenji we know that even if they're not dead they're not really involved in their kids lives enough to matter much at all. I'm inclined to think Kunikida's are similar; we know they exist, but I don't think he has a good relationship with them, if they're still alive (they could have died after he met Katai).
In terms of his past, I definitely think Kunikida had a violent past. Man is way too down with casually throttling people - between that and his extensive knowledge of weapons, as well as how good he is hand to hand combat wise, it makes me think he must have had a tumulus past.
I saw a fanfiction once where he was a child solider in the Great War alongside Yosano, making weapons for the army - while I don't think it's canon, or else it probably would have been mentioned when her backstory was, I think the idea of Kunikida being somehow trained as a child solider definitely has merit. Given how people with Abilities tend to be weaponized in the BSD-verse, how strict Kunikida is despite having a hatred of authority and a tendency to violence, it makes sense to me. It's canon he dropped out of college, but he was also working with the Agency by age 18/19 at a maximum, so I think it's possible he joined college while working there and dropped out.
Another option is him having been in some sort of high school gang. Blonde hair in anime is often used to denote delinquency - so I think it's a given Kunikida was a delinquent as a teenager (especially given his attitude). In this case, his familiarity with violence would probably come via brawls with other gangs and such. I've also seen ideas of him being something of a teen vigilante, which is also definitely possible - teenage Kunikida without a sense of direction for his moral compass, I could see going that route.
Either way, I think he met Fukuzawa young. I've theorized at age 15, to mirror how Chuuya met Mori at 15, but I definitely think he met him before adulthood. I think Fukuzawa was the one who gave him his Ideals notebook, both the physical thing and the direction Kunikida needed to develop that sense of morality and desire to save people we see in canon. I think Fukuzawa had to be instrumental for him - like, why would Kunikida, who dislikes authority and is rude to basically everyone, respect and defer to Fukuzawa so much? Why is Fukuzawa one of the first people we see him use honorifics for? What would cause that type of a relationship?
So yes, I think meeting Fukuzawa was a huge turning point for Kunikida, however it may have been. Maybe he gave him a sense of direction and a way to harness his idealism via the Agency; maybe Fukuzawa was the one who taught him how to help people with his abilities all together. Either way, I can't see someone like Kunikida having such a deep deference and respect for Fukuzawa without him being deeply linked to who Kunikida is as a person, at age 22.
I also wonder if however Kunikida and Fukuzawa met, if it was originally negative or antagonistic. By the time Dazai's Entrance Exam rolls around, Kunikida clearly knows well what Fukuzawa is talking about when he mentions testing Dazai, so Dazai's clearly not the first one to go through that. Given we know neither Yosano nor Ranpo had to pass an entrance exam to join the Agency, our choices are down to either Kunikida or Katai as the first people to take one, which... if it was Kunikida, why would Fukuzawa want that? Why would he want to make sure this guy, specifically, was a good fit for the Agency morally, given Kunikida's such a moral character? What was it that made Fukuzawa want to test Kunikida, if that was what happened?
#thanks for the ask!#kunikida doppo#fukuzawa yukichi#bsd#bungo stray dogs#bsd kunikida#bsd fukuzawa#doppo kunikida#yukichi fukuzawa#bsd analysis
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✦BSD and black butler media resources plus other miscellaneous links under the cut ✦
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BUNGO STRAY DOGS
some of these links are from someone else's post that I had copied and pasted into my notes app, so I don't remember the original person sorry!!
main manga:
link won't work but mangadex works well
Beast:
Dead apple:
Light Novels:
Osamu Dazai’s Entrance Exam: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Cok_EHgfCFSaTeEHt3QWGgm5ICN4Ffrk7jjvJP_m4Vo/edit?usp=sharing
Osamu Dazai and the Dark Era: https://nkhrchy.tumblr.com/masterpost
The Untold Origins of the Detective Agency: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xI4H0f9n6nj6cF4hGv-vEtZpigZ5tyA1esUhsvqdg2M/edit?usp=sharing
Gaiden: Ayatsuji Yukito VS. Kyōgoku Natsuhiko: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1yX7SihaXlKW0zab7j_yVvyeQ91PcIdZJWmMWDT_25vQ/edit?usp=sharing
55 Minutes: Part 1: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_LfOxLImRLJIy11tiwKhmkAERjXlzVPxke9ADUayMxk/edit?usp=sharing
Part 2: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qBi8RH-Q89WlgxplEdTckfeKIWR4A5jd3ZaLV0WWIX8/edit?usp=sharing
Part 3: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1k7sSJzPTExIdMZmCS09CThII7j9hntKJQxDgxa-GZR8/edit?usp=sharing
Part 4: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1nLKFAheJOBHa1T6NjpWG64HpjuWKXollm8nNMHCrI5M/edit?usp=sharing
Part 5: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1JiCadasyjUxs90r3NQsObifMj6poEsZt26P0vfi9WOo/edit?usp=sharing
Fifteen: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1BUeLF4RMe7n0HcBhFcANs6vWx9PWFZ7g_vE0IW9vSxE/edit?usp=sharing Beast: https://www.wattpad.com/story/278511752-beast-akutagawa-white-atsushi-black-ln-5-english
Stormbringer: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1T0w12ru4gron-FT97JKt1MxEahrWtEPHxXRcG9mOip8/edit?usp=sharing
Kunikida and Katai’s magnificent days: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1K1VvlWZtHPtneCOwkODft47LWClRFD1pPYhqivpL8Bs/edit?usp=sharing
Gakuen: https://popopretty.tumblr.com/post/679830861288505344/gakuen-bungou-stray-dogs-the-first-half-part
The Day I picked up Dazai: Side A: https://popopretty.tumblr.com/post/672880123726495744/the-day-i-picked-up-dazai-spoilers-1
Side B: https://popopretty.tumblr.com/post/673480216055889920/the-day-i-picked-up-dazai-side-b-1
Anyflip links to some of the above (thanks to @kiqilinn):
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/
Stageplays:
Stormbringer [subbed] and the main stageplay [unsubbed]: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1hLGdwa0SopuSec2-GG_6E-CHgdgcZQ9g?usp=sharing
Dazai, Chuuya, Fifteen Years Old [unsubbed]: https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV18B4y1472j/?spm_id_from=333.788.recommend_more_video.1&vd_source=e780c03823f99ec899dad85ffbc29538
Dead Apple [unsubbed]: https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1GF411e7fN/?spm_id_from=333.788.recommend_more_video.1&vd_source=e780c03823f99ec899dad85ffbc29538
Bsd omakes:
BLACK BUTLER
Manga
manga arcs guide
MISCELLANEOUS LINKS
base64 string:(aHR0cHM6Ly9tZWdhLm56L2ZvbGRlci9NQTB4aElZSSNQX3BqNl82SkxkaFdCcl9odllqSm13) and put it into the converter at https://www.base64decode.org/ to get all the major adobe programs for free! that would be a crime! (worth 500 dollars)
some sources and resources as of april 2024
tv/cinema (streaming)
fmoviesz dot to
soap2dayx dot to
anix dot to (for anime)
flixtor dot to
hdtoday dot to
myflixerz dot to
swatchseries dot is
if one of the sites i already use doesn't have what i'm looking for, i use duckduckgo to search for alternatives (as opposed to google which always gives me way more bullshit results)
skip paywalls
12ft dot io (doesn't always work)
books and academic articles
libgen dot is
sci-hub dot se
audiobookbay dot is
annas-archive dot org
forum dot mobilism dot org (also hosts mobile apps)
video games
myabandonware dot com (not technically piracy!)
torrent source
1337x dot to (pretty much the only source i use nowadays)
piracy guides
my (very quick) torrenting guide
easyussr.neocities.org/torrenting
edit: apparently necessary disclaimer that everyone and their mother knows about these websites, they can be found through any major search engine, and not talking about them on tumblr dot com won't keep them "secret" because the feds are already more than aware of them.
get past pay walls
#popcorn rambles#bsd resources#bsd media resoucres#black butler resources#black butler media resoucres#blog intro#popcorn asks#popcorn art#popcorn games#popcorn face 🫢#popcorn fic recs
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my theories on kunikida’s childhood/backstory *·˚ ༘♡
kunikida is my favorite character (world shock) so i wanted to share my thoughts of it are taken from aspects i have annotated about him/he has said. these are theories!!! nothing confirmed. pd: i have taken some info from doppo kunikida’s irl life, asagiri has taken a lot of details of his life so i doubt he won’t now. please enjoy! :) i also apologize for any misspellings, english is not my first language.
1) kunikida & his family:
kunikida is one of the few characters that have confirmed families (as said in the mini novel kunikida & katai’s magnificent days), so the possibility of being an orphan is eliminated. it’s not mentioned if he has parents or not but he has a family. here are my options/theories abt his family
his dad/his mom (or both) work for the military/government. usually the “stick” personality is associated with having a military family, kunikida’s character trope (istj, moralist) fits in the “military family” stereotype and considering bsd has a lot of topics around the military (like the current arc), it’s a high possibility. this also explains kunikida’s hate of authorities (we will get into this later), and even if they’re not from the military they’re probably people with high prestige/on the traditional side (ex: the zenin’s in jjk).
on the opposite side, kunikida’s family are anti govt (anarchism). again this is mostly related to his authority hate. this also can be linked to the azure king (if you want me to elaborate please let me know!)
these are my main ideas. important to note that irl’s stepdad worked for the ministry of justice and was an ex samurai (which could connect him to one of the fukus). other small things i have noted:
kunikida cares a lot about reputation. maybe this need for the ada’s reputation to stay intact is a reflection of his family.
kunikida used to pass a lot of time with katai (more than with his own family) so they are probably busy people/weren't really present in his life
kunikida has a “motherly” behavior yet he has a strong personality that is usually linked with a strong patriarchal figure. i personally link this to the fact that kunikida’s household could have been more matriarchal. with this, kunikida could have conflicts with his mother possibly related to his idealism.
kunikida is the youngest child. don’t debate me on this.
kunikida’s family dedicates to save people’s lifes/bring justice to them. so he followed their footsteps in his own way.
2. kunikida’s young years
2.1) his possible relation to the great war:
(spoilers for bungo stray dogs manga chapters 65 and 66)
when you think about kunikida's potential childhood, most people assume he had the most "normal" childhood out of all of the ada members. however, kunikida could have (sadly) been involved similarly to how yosano was or in other ways. this section will be divided in two sections: kunikida doppo's irl relation to the sino japanese war (with a connection to irl mori) and kunikida and the usefulness of his ability in the war context.
kunikida doppo and the sino japanese war: for a little bit of context, the first sino japanese war (1894-1895) was a conflict between the japanese empire and china because both countries were looking for being the dominant influence in korea. in this time, multiple authors that were bsdfied participated as war correspondants with the exception of (surprise surprise) ogai mori, who enlisted in the japanese army as an army doctor.
kunikida doppo worked as a war correspondant along with his friend katai tayama in the sino-japanese war. there is no information about where kunikida worked in, but katai worked in taiwan in the same division as mori; this war correspondency was vital for kunikida's career, he got extremely popular due to his war journalism). both kunikida's (doppo and his brother shuuji) were disciples of soho tokutomi, a japanese historian and journalist; it was under him where he became a war correspondant, learnt german (similar to mori) and worked in the newspaper "Kokumin no Tomo" founded by soho, and where mori published "the dancing girl".
kunikida had a involvement in the russo-japanese war, but it's insignificant compared to his work in the sino japanese war. i put this in the post because, as mentioned, asagiri puts details from the irl's life in the story; this is not the reason why i believe he was in the great war, but it makes a little bit more possible.
as i keep rereading this arc, i noticed something yosano said that caught my attention:
doesn't this sound a little similar to mr. idealist "no one will die in front of me"? because it does to me. even if they don't mean the exact same thing, the general idea is the following: keeping people alive.
yosano truly values human life
kunikida's ability and his usefulness in the war:
here's why i believe kunikida may have been involved in the great war; his ability. kunikida's ability "doppo poet" consists of being able to create anything that comes from the notebook. kunikida's ability, even if doesn't look like a threat at first glance, it's a tricky one; if he wanted, he could use a bigger notebook he could summon bigger weapons (such a b0mbs, bigger guns) but he stays with a smaller notebook (which yes it's practical, but why would he use grenades when he could summon better weapons?)
kunikida, with a never ending pile of paper, could summon multiple useful weapons almost at the same time; for the great war, having someone that could create weapons in an instant is convenient. it's also important to remember that ability users' were searched at that time (+ mori's plan, that is explained in chapter 65 or 66).
but besides his ability, and with the past section focused on yosano's trauma and response due to going to the great war, it's not difficult to assume he could have been in a similar situation. kunikida's constant creation of weapons that killed people, that he didn't not want to do because he was a child, in front of him, with no way to stop it because he was forced to create those weapons and because he was a child... he couldn't save them all, kunikida's own experience as a child soldier/weapon during the great war, in this context, is why he's so attached to them, because he sees his little self in them, and in general, it may be possibly the main reason of ideals' being born, so “no one will die in front of me” is kunikida’s reaction to the cruelness of war, just like yosano’s (panel attached below) plus, kunikida's reaction to death is very emotional and raw, which is something that is not seen a lot in bsd (and it's one of his most important characteristics), and has been a theme around for a looong time now.
i wish i'm wrong in this one (please)
2.2) kunikida the rebel
as the name says (lol) kunikida could have been a rebel in high school as well. kunikida does not care about breaking laws (except the ones where he acts like a normal citizen). this could be the aftermath of years of trauma; it's not linked to why he is the way he is but is... more of a way to show he's not that much of a "stick"
ps: between all this mess, he met katai. i don't have a theory abt their meeting but i know those two find each other in the moment they needed it the most. :) following the war timeline, i think katai's family were also involved and they met when it finished and... trauma bonded (to put in blantly).
3. kunikida and the past (why does he not want to talk abt it?)
i want to dive into the most interesting part of kunikida's conversation abt his backstory. he does not want to talk about it.
there are multiple reasons this could be such as shame and trauma; i don't have an elaborate reason why (there could be MULTIPLE) but here are the ones i feel that are the most likely:
as i said before, kunikida could have been from a family of politicians and military members. as he's an idealist, and the topic of politicians and corruption could fit perfectly, he would want to disassociate himself from them.
> this doesn't have to be only abt having govt affiliated family btw. but just the idea that he doesn't want to associate himself with his family because they don't have the same ideals.
he got disowned. not much to mention here
trauma. again not a lot to say here.
rocky relationship with his family. or maybe they are just shitty people and doesn't want to be with them anymore.
othe stuff i have thought about is that kunikida is a liar. not exactly something possible considering ranpo should know by now but it’s still… there. it’s possible.
that's it! i hope you enjoyed. sorry if it's too long i love kunikida. :)♡ let me know what you think as well!
#kunikida doppo#bsd kunikida#bungo stray dogs#kunikida thoughts all day#kunikida headcanons#kunikida my beloved#💭theories
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kunikatai loml . They have a whole light novel . Kunikida and katai’s magnificent days (or smth along those lines) they are SO sweet and the boyfriends ever
REALLL THAT WAS MY FAV LN ONG‼️‼️ entrance exam who
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BSD canon
I realized this post wasn't going to fit in the comments lol @fishii28
When I think about all the different versions of canon, I just assume that it's all different timelines. So the differences between Dazai Osamu's Entrance Exam and the Azure Messenger arc of the anime can be explained by them being two different timelines. They're both still canon, but to timeline A and timeline B.
These won't be in chronological order, just the order they appear in the BSD wiki.
Light novels that are canon to each other:
LN #1 Osamu Dazai's Entrance Exam
LN #2 Osamu Dazai and the Dark Era
LN #3 The Untold Origins of the Detective Agency
LN #4 55 Minutes
LN #5 Dead Apple
LN #6 Dazai, Chuuya, Age 15
LN #8 Stormbringer
The Day I Picked Up Dazai
Kunikida and Katai's Brilliant Days
2. The Beast universe is canon to itself and is an AU of the original story. Basically Asagiri wrote fanfic of what would happen if Akutagawa was in the ADA and Atsushi was in the Port Mafia. These all have differences that separate them into different timelines of the same AU.
LN#7 Beast
Beast manga adaptation
Beast movie
3. BSD WAN! is also a separate canon that doesn't fit with any of the others.
WAN! manga
WAN! anime
4. The anthologies aren't canon, they're just fun oneshots written by other mangakas
5. The anime is all canon to itself (excluding WAN!)
S1
S2
S3
Dead Apple movie
S4
S5
6. The manga is another separate canon and doesn't have any differences within itself so it's fine to just read it in order
The thing to keep in mind is that it's all canon because BSD takes place in a multiverse. Chuuya's backstory in Stormbringer is really what happened, even in the anime and manga despite only being addressing in Stormbringer.
If that's not coherent I can try to explain it better
#bsd#bungo stray dogs#bungou stray dogs#bsd light novels#bsd anime#bsd manga#osamu dazai's entrance exam#osamu dazai and the dark era#untold origins of the armed detective agency#55 minutes#dead apple#dazai chuuya age fifteen#bsd stormbringer#the day i picked up dazai#kunikida and katai's magnificent days#bsd wan#wan manga#wan anime
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Just read Kunikida and Katai’s Magnificent Days and oh wow I am THINKIN about them
#childhood friends and also idiots to lovers#what do u mean they’ve know each other for more than 10 years?#and kuni regularly comes over without rlly knocking#and he gay panicked and invited him to join the agency#I love them#bsd#bungo stray dogs#bsd kunikida#bsd katai#kunikatai
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I’ve been trying and failing for so long to cohesivley articulate my Azure King + Kunikida thoughts to the point where this is going to be an incompetent mess but i really do think that the entire Azure King and Apostole Incident were like, the Defining moment for who Kunikida was, is and will be.
His character revolves so strongly around the Azure Incidents because its his fixed point in time, his two mini Dazai-Oda moments. Thinking about how his two light novels Magnificent Days and Dazai’s Entrance Exam were focused on the before and after of the Azure King’s death. And the novels themselves! “Kunikida and Katai’s magnificent days” Love and intimacy, a shared, sheltered world, a decade worth of friendship. The story takes place mostly with just Kunikida and Katai, inside one cozy house.
And after the Azure King’s death you have “Osamu Dazai’s Entrance Exam” like a work report title. Cold, militaristic. Missions, strict schedules. Beginning in death and ending with death.
The tone shift from the gentle, domestic Magnificent Days to Entrance Exam feels so daunting because you can almost sense how neurotic and hurt Kunikida is over even accidentally getting people killed. Its that loss of control that made him so stiff.
How Kunikida can’t even wear blue because of it. How Sasaki still haunts him years down the line. How the anime made it a deliberate choice to have the Azure King looking similar to Kunikida. Red string of fate except it’s the blue of corpses. “Traitor to their country”
#katai and kunikida pre-azure king and dazai and kunikida post azure king#hmmmm#kunikida doppo#katai tayama#bsd kunikida#bsd rokuzou#bsd sasaki#sasaki nozomi#azure king#the azure king#so girlboss for sasaki ti be named but the azure king isnt lmao#he’ll go down in history as a domestic terrorist and she wont be remembered by anyone but her victims#kunikida and katai’s magnificent days#dazai osamu’s entrance exam#dazai osamu#bsd#bungou stray dogs#the azure incidents are the point where kuni changed irreversibly where he knows he cant go back
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heyy
i havent been able to find an updated version of the read order for all of bsd's (many) novels and spinoffs, would you have a recommended order?
have a good day!!
hey!
I would say that to some extent it’s personal preference.
You could read them in chronological order:
untold origins -> fifteen -> the day I picked up Dazai (not officially released in english) -> stormbringer -> heartless cur (bundled with volume 6 dunno if it’s in the official English release tho) -> dark era -> Kunikida and Katai’s Magnificent Days (not officially released in English also not sure about the placement on the timeline) -> entrance exam -> dead apple -> 55 minutes
But I’m gonna be honest I don’t think it makes too much sense to read them in that order as you won’t need knowledge of the books early in the timeline to understand the stories further down the timeline. You could also read them in the order of their release which is arguably the order in which the stories are intended to be experienced (although the anime messed with that order completely so who knows).
But I think it makes more sense to focus on which aspects of the story or which characters you want to explore.
Here is some silly little graphic I created (it probably won’t help a lot and is more a joke than serious but I thought it would be fun):
this graphic is a bit deceiving because when I ask “which characters are you interested in?” these characters aren’t necessarily the pov characters just very central characters to the story and there are so many crumbs for different characters in each story (e.g. some interesting backstory bits about Akutagawa in Dark era and Entrance Exam too).
If you are interested in stories that focus on ADA dynamics I would recommend Untold Origins, Entrance Exam and 55 minutes.
If you are interested in Atsushi and Akutagawa I would recommend 55 Minutes and Beast.
If you are interested in how dazai and chuuya’s teen years were going you could start with fifteen and stormbringer. I would recommend reading fifteen before reading stormbringer since Asagiri intended Stormbringer to be a sequel to fifteen.
As Beast is an AU so you can read it whenever. Although it probably hits different after reading Dark era as Dazai and Oda’s dynamic is very important in Beast (The day I picked up Dazai -> Dark era -> Beast for maximum emotional damage).
I have no idea about bsd Gaiden tbh I think you can read it whenever as well. But other’s are probably more qualified to talk about that.
Novels that received manga adaptions are Beast, Dead Apple, Gaiden and Fifteen (ongoing). Dead Apple is an interesting case as the manga is more of an adaption of the movie than novel (as the novel is an adaption of the movie as well it’s the only one not written by asagiri) and the manga actually has additional scenes so it probably makes sense to read the novel and the manga together for a complete picture of the situation. Wan and the Anthologies can be read whenever as well.
I feel like this is all over the place if anyone else wants to chime in and has a more definitive reading order that makes sense to them please feel free to add it!
I hope this is at least kind of helpful!
#asks#tldr: the reading order doesn’t matter too much u_u incredibly helpful…#but it’s also kind of the magic of bsd since there is so much to learn about the world and characters outside the mainline story#but it gets confusing very fast lol#also I really hope there aren’t too many false information in this answer ^_^#bsd
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check out @pinkgirl94’s light novel links for translations of every light novel published! (this may or may not be the way i read every novel before i get the hardcopies)
this is my favourite page to recommend because EVERY light novel/side story translation is linked here INCLUDING:
Kunikida and Katai’s Magnificant Days and The Day I Picked Up Dazai (both sides A and B) which have personally been So Hard to find good, reliable translations for
#so check it out >:(#thank you nina for your services!#i am unexplainably grateful#bungou stray dogs#bsd#bsd light novel
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pls go and read Kunikida and Katai's magnificent days if you haven't
#i read it very late at night and dont remember much#but there's a part. where Katai goes in a self depreciation spiral#and Kunikida is there listening. he understands what his friend has gone through. still he can't accept that his friend is isolating himself#like that. in one part he gets speechless. he has no arguments to convince Katai to go out#except “I think you should go outside” and in a whim he invites him to join the Agency#that novel shows how much Kunikida cares about his friends and their well being. he's such a good friend#story not novel#bsd#lazutxt
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Last updated September 24th, 2024
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