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[yozora-bunko]

Bungō Seichi Junrei, Asagiri Kafka

On June 19, 2020 - Bungō Seichi Junrei (『文豪聖地巡礼』) was released.

• Bungō -> great writer

• Seichi Junrei -> pilgrimage

As you might know, in Bungō Stray Dogs the relationships between the characters are very different from the irl authors' relationships, while it stays accurate in Bungō to Alchemist.

I thought that it could be interesting to translate the correlation tables that were in Asagiri Kafka's book so here you go:

Chapter I « KŌRO JIDAI »’S GREAT WRITERS SEEN BY IZUMI KYŌKA

Chapter II NATSUME SŌSEKI AND THOSE GENES

Chapter III KAWABATA YASUNARI AND COMPANIONS OVERCOMING GENERATIONS

Chapter IV NAKAHARA CHŪYA AND « BURAI »’S GREAT WRITERS

Chapter V BIOGRAPHIES OF ECCENTRIC WRITERS

If you can read Japanese, please support Asagiri Kafka by buying his book! I might translate some more pages in the future but definitely not the whole book. Feel free to DM me or comment which chapter you would like to read, or about which author you would like to know more!

9/01/2023: updated the slide for chapter III -> @haganeproductio rightfully nitpicked about the "shinkan kakuha" which should be romanized shinkankakuha. (or shin kankaku-ha but this romanization is a lot less used)

[konjaku]

小菫[Kosumire] Viola japonica

小[Ko] : Small

菫[Sumire] : Violet

On a day after the midnight rain, while strolling through a wooded area where the sky became brighter than in autumn, I found violets blooming among the fallen leaves, which had darkened in color with moisture. As looking around, I saw them growing here and there, and almost all of them were in bloom.

The leaves were much larger than those in the spring and were not uncommon for the leaves to be well over ten centimeters in length. So finding them was easy, but on the other hand, identification was a bit of a struggle.

Blooming when it is not in its natural season, or unseasonable blooming, is called 狂い咲き[Kurui-zaki](lit. wrong blooming), but this is not the case, since they are all blooming at the same time, it is 返り咲き|帰り咲き[Kaeri-zaki](lit. returning blooming) or 二度咲き[Nido-zaki](lit. twice blooming).

Kaerizaki is called 帰り花[Kaeri-bana] in haiku and poetry, and was also called 忘れ花[Wasure-bana](lit. forgetting flower) in earlier times.

木枯に 匂ひやつけし かへり花

[Kogarashi ni nioi ya tsukeshi kaeribana] I wonder if that Kaeribana aromatizes the cold wintry wind By 松尾 芭蕉[Matsuo Bashō]

春の夜の 夢見て咲くや かへり花

[Haru no yo no yume mite saku ya kaeribana] Kaeribana, are you blooming while having a dream of a spring night? By 加賀 千代女[Kaga-no Chiyo-jo]

小春日に 菫も返り 咲きにけり

[Koharubi ni sumire mo kaeri -zaki ni keri] Violet flowers are also returning in an early winter day that feels like spring By 室生 犀星[Murou Saisei] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murō_Saisei

[ancienttimecrows]

saisei murou

[honorableintentions]

[nebyura]

[bungaku-tenshi]

I absolutely adore these three fuckin dorks  look at em theyre so cute  god an egotistical sensei, an occult master and a chair-swinging disaster gotta love em

[holespoles]

1938 (Showa 13) booklet "Yotsuba (four leaves)", a supplement to the April issue of Shojo no Tomo.

Illustrated by Junichi Nakahara.

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The Seagull poem and "lily of the valley(Suzuran)" by Saisei Murou.

[honeysucklescans]

Bungo to Alchemist: Shinpan no Haguruma

Original Work: DMM Games Artist: changes each chapter

Scanlation Status: completed

A spinoff manga based on DMM Games' PC and smartphone game "Bungo to Alchemist" in commemoration of the anime debut, with a new artist and new characters every week!

Read on Mangadex

Read on Cubari.moe

Read on Imgur (each chapter listed):

Chapter 0 - Story & Author Intro Chapter 1 - Akutagawa Ryuunosuke & Dazai Osamu Chapter 2 - Tokuda Shuusei & Shimazaki Touson Chapter 3 - Dazai Osamu & Nakahara Chuuya Chapter 4 - Oda Sakunosuke & Sakaguchi Ango Chapter 5 - Hagiwara Sakutarou & Murou Saisei Chapter 6 - Mushanokouji Saneatsu & Shiga Naoya Chapter 7 - Shiga Naoya & Akutagawa Ryuunosuke Chapter 8 - Dazai Osamu & Dan Kazuo Chapter 9 - Kume Masao & Hori Tatsuo Chapter 10 - Akutagawa Ryuunosuke & Kikuchi Kan

[leenaevilin]

[Update]  舞台「文豪とアルケミスト」綴リ人ノ輪唱 (butai bungou to alchemist tsuzuri hito no kanon)

visuals update under the cut^^

Cast:

Hirano Ryou as Dazai Osamu (太宰治)

Satou Hisanori as Kitahara Hakushuu (北原白秋)

Mitsuya Ryou as Hagiwara Sakutarou (萩原朔太郎)

Shiina Taizou as Murou Saisei (室生犀星)

Fukazawa Taiga as Nakahara Chuuya (中原中也)

Wagou Shinichi as Edogawa Ranpo (江戸川乱歩)

Kubota Hidetoshi as Akutagawa Ryuunosuke (芥川龍之介)

Yoshida Metal as Chief Librarian (館長)

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[pkjd]

A new key visual for the "Bungou to Alchemist: Shinpan no Haguruma" TV anime has been unveiled. Its broadcast is scheduled to begin April 2020. 

-Synopsis-

“You are in a world where you can meet famous Japanese historical writers. With a party composed of other writers, you delve into tainted books to purify them, unlock secrets, and gain new allies.“

-Staff-

Director: Toshinori Watanabe

Series Composition: Jun Kumagai

Character Design: Atsuko Nakajima

Music: Hideki Sakamoto

Studio: OLM

-Cast-

Ryunousuke (CV: Junichi Suwabe)

Osamu (CV: Yuuichi Nakamura)

Saisei Murou (CV: Ryota Osaka)

Naoya Shiga (CV: Tomoaki Maeno)

Saneatsu Mushanokouji (CV: KENN)

Kan Kikuchi (CV: Shinichiro Miki)

Masao Kume (CV: Hiroyuki Yoshino)

via: anime-bungo-alchemist.com

[blackwindowcat]

室生犀星と「火鉢猫」こと愛猫「ジイノ」＝室生犀星記念館提供。

Japanese novelist and poet, Saisei Murou watching his cat warming up his paws on Hibachi.

[leenaevilin]

[Update]  舞台「文豪とアルケミスト」綴リ人ノ輪唱 (butai bungou to alchemist tsuzuri hito no kanon)

the show will be running from September 10th, 2020 to September 22nd, 2020 (Tokyo) @ 品川プリンスホテル ステラボール  (Shinagawa Prince Hotel Stella Ball) & September 25th, 2020 to September 27th, 2020 (Kyoto) @ 京都劇場 (Kyoto Gekijou)

Cast:

Hirano Ryou as Dazai Osamu (太宰治) Satou Hisanori as Kitahara Hakushuu (北原白秋) Mitsuya Ryou as Hagiwara Sakutarou (萩原朔太郎) Shiina Taizou as Murou Saisei (室生犀星) Fukazawa Taiga as Nakahara Chuuya (中原中也) Wagou Shinichi as Edogawa Ranpo (江戸川乱歩) Kubota Hidetoshi as Akutagawa Ryuunosuke (芥川龍之介)

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