#ranfuku

[fukuranweek]

Fukuran boop

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Obsessed with the new Origins chapter. It's so beautiful - so much emotion on their faces, Fukuzawa looking so gorgeous as he falls in love with his manic pixie dream boy <3

Also: seeing Fukuzawa like this is giving me,,, thoughts

[enby-mori]

I love FukuRan because so many people have tried to control Fukuzawa, to get him on their side, and one little boy from the country does it without effort, with his inability to navigate a world that he could bring to its knees if only someone, anyone would teach him how.

[glamorouswizard]

i like it when i spent days drawing deep and meaningful art and then get too tired so i just dropped it and went for silly art

[skips-corner]

Comm for @flaresanimedump !!!

This was so fun and sexy to do

tysm for this honor ❤️‍🔥😤🙏

head to X for uncensored hehe 🍆 💦

[lucylouz]

Ok I've never done this before so question

I want to participate in the FukuRan February prompt challenge thing (I've never posted art online before so I'd be super excited for that even if my art turns out to be kinda-eh/bad or something) but I'm not 100% sure how things work around here because I lack experience with interacting with a fandom (or just posting in general), even after reading the rules. Do I just post whatever I draw for the prompts on each day for a month straight here, freedom to post late aside? Because that's what I'm getting and what I want to do if I can

And I just tag and @ them on all the works I post ('pinging' on Tumblr means @-ing someone, right?) Can I participate like a year after they posted the prompt calendar thing? Was it implied to be a 2024-specific thing? Should I not tag them, then? Nor put the fukuranweek tag in my posts? (In which case sorry for this post lol I can delete it if you want but I would like some answers please.) I wanna post anyway, it's just the details that escape me.

Oh and I think traditional art is allowed but jic, I'm asking if there's any expectations or standards when it comes to the art's quality or format, again, I've never done an art/fandom challenge before

I tried to look up the answers for some of these questions but it's still unclear to me, that's why I'm asking like this.

Should... should I just be asking them directly instead of posting in the tag and hoping someone who follows it sees it and tells me? I'm so lost on the etiquette -_-,,

[owarinaki]

Bungo stray dogs - Ranpo & President ‘s snack

[dracones24]

Thinking about Fukuzawa running out of suckers to content Ranpo with, in the transitional period where Ranpo would settle down on command mostly but on a particularly hyper day, just, sliding hid fingers into Ranpo's mouth. Eyes going wide and then settling shut, completely relaxed, swirling his tongue around and collecting the salt of his skin like a prize. Yukichi curiously curling his fingers, finding himself more hypnotized by the sight than he cares to admit, making Ranpo's throat seize around them for a moment until he fully relaxes it.

I spend an ungodly amount of time thinking about Ranpo & finger sucking I could probably write several fics exclusively about that

[xpiercedsoulx]

FukuRan / RanFuku Jealous Ranpo (based on that official art)

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You can't tell Ranpo doesn't care much about right and wrong until you can

God I'm a sucker for characters who are so utterly loyal to someone that they're completely unhinged. Characters who have no moral compass except their overwhelming devotion to whoever they've chosen to listen to. That's the good shit

[fukuranweek]

New official Wan 4koma!

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Why Fukuzawa is the Hottest BSD Character

*Cracks knuckles* ok here’s “what’s likeable about Fukuzawa/Why would Ranpo like Fukuzawa” because I saw that again recently

1) HAVE YOU SEEN HIM?!?!?

Twunks are agelessly hot. Don’t pretend you didn’t think movie stars 10+ years older than you were attractive as a teen. And everyone currently thirsting over BTS - he was the same age as they are when Ranpo met him.

2) You like strong, warm hugs where it feels like you’re swallowed up in the other person’s arms? You like the safe feeling it gives you?

What if those strong warm arms belonged to a bodyguard??

3) Ok now what if those strong arms belonged to a bodyguard who was also once a bad guy.

You know those hands can kill because they have before. But they’re gentle with you, careful. He’s on his way to being reformed but you’re seeing the good that was always there to start with, if only the world hadn’t pushed him into violence. This is Bungo Stray Dogs so just go ahead and briefly imagine this as a dog rescued from dogfighting that’s the absolute sweetest thing you’ve ever met. Now transfer that feeling to Fukuzawa, a man who was used by the government in a war Ranpo was too young to be part of, a rogue who’s learned the error of his ways and seeks to repent, a reformed bad boy with a heart of gold, you might say??? Incredible I’ll take 12.

4) Before we get into the long character analysis stuff I am going to try to impart to you the allure of an older man who isn’t a creep.

4.1) They’re wise and confident. They can offer help nobody your age can.

4.2) They stay calmer under pressure. An island of serenity.

4.3) When they get mad they usually get shit done. Way less drama. Fukuzawa may be a slight exception because of his former boyfriends but he has done his best to kill them both himself so I stand by the statement.

4.4) They’re still very human. Fukuzawa specifically gets passionate and loses himself in emotion when he’s worried or afraid, but it takes a lot to crack his exterior chill. It’s extremely hot when you get a reaction you had to work for.

5) Fukuzawa is about the most dependable husband-type we have in BSD.

He built up a whole agency to support his and Ranpo’s life together (a lifestyle they both wanted to continue, as mentioned in 4th anime opening Shirushi) despite initially being bad at 90% of the skills required.

(Rough Shirushi lyrics in question below)

Fukuzawa's described as "afraid of strangers" and thinks to himself how everything about leading a company is something he could never do in Origins,

and then we see him 12 years later and he's worked really hard to be able to do it. We get all these hints about how connected he is now

and we see how good he is at leading the ADA but there are times when it's clear it's something he adopted and not what he was born for, like when Mori started asking about strategy books and he'd only read the most common one, or how he plays Go but was reading a book about the rules in one of the official arts set in present day.

Of course, Tsun Tzu isn't exactly light reading, but I don't think Asagiri would make the character based on the most notable proponent of education in Japan be less well read than his opponent if it wasn't core to Fukuzawa's character in BSD. He's worked so hard to be what the ADA needs and wasn't/isn't a genius at it but still does well, and he basically switched careers on a whim at 33 to support Ranpo. Imagine if somebody did all that for you. If Ranpo wasn’t in love with him before I think that would be the killing blow.

6) Even if Fukuzawa’s not a genius, he’s able to understand and accept others more than any of the "normal" people in Yokohama.

He thought Ranpo was amazing when everyone else thought he was annoying (Fukuzawa also thought he was annoying of course, but the amazing part won out in the end). He experienced the full brunt of Ranpo’s observation and felt bad that he got upset over it when literally every other person who’d encountered Ranpo over the course of 2 years had been angry, shouted, and in the case of the Police Academy dorm head and presumably Ranpo's classmates, beat him for it.

We can guess from the agency members Fukuzawa employs that he’s a freak magnet and it’s probably because of this trait of his. I’d say he has ‘clear vision’ in that he’s able to see if someone is good or bad beyond societal norms even though he is aware of them himself.

Basically, Ranpo doesn’t like “common sense,” and while Fukuzawa is familiar enough with it to function normally in society, he’s one of very few like that who aren’t governed by it.

7) Fukuzawa is a genuinely good, kind person.

He listened to Ranpo more than anybody but his parents would, took him in when nobody else would. He refused to become a soldier, to go and kill other soldiers with no power over the outcome of the war, in order to assassinate the officials actually responsible for continuing the war.

I’d argue that Fukuchi was trying to follow in his footsteps with his grand war-stopping plan – that he felt Fukuzawa’s decision to kill the fewest possible people to end the war was correct. And Fukuzawa made personal sacrifices to do that, letting his best friend go to the front alone, not knowing if he’d live or die. Losing friends and losing the respect of those who did come back when he quit.

But even though there’s a good chance that what Fukuzawa did saved a lot of lives, and even though the people we're aware he killed were unquestionably evil, he still felt that his feelings at the time put him in the wrong. He was still horrified at what he was capable of and quit once all the officials who could restart the war were dead.

There aren’t many characters in BSD with that kind of moral fiber. Dazai’s not trying to repent in the ADA, he’s just there to do good because a friend said he should. Ranpo’s not a bad guy but he’s not exactly caring or in possession of a strong moral compass.

Atsushi’s obsession with doing good is so tightly wound into his own self-worth it’s almost involuntary, which takes away some of his agency in his actions. We know Tanizaki is willing to commit murder without fear, Kunikida was fine with letting Atsushi be kidnapped, and everyone in the Port Mafia is morally gray at best. Even the Special Operations Division is governed by a “needs of the many over the needs of the few” mentality.

Arguably the only other characters who even come close to this level of humanity are Oda and Chuuya, but Oda's not in this essay and even Chuuya doesn’t care as much about collateral damage. The only characters in the cannibalism arc who drew a line to stop their groups from killing each other and anybody who got too close were Fukuzawa and Mori, and Mori’s morality would require another essay. So I’d argue that in a series where many are great, Fukuzawa is a very rare good man.

As illustrated by his scene with Fukuchi and Teruko. Fukuchi is a great man willing to work himself to the bone and die for others, but he’s also willing to “curse” Fukuzawa, as Ranpo said in the finale, with the long-term burden of his plan, and to kill innocent people to make it all happen. Teruko is a great girl willing to carry out Fukuchi’s orders out of either devotion to him or to justice, but she’s willing to kill and frame a man she knows isn't a villain to do it. The ends justify the means.

(To be clear I think this makes her a great character, but not one whose allegiance is to simple good-ness.)

Fukuzawa isn’t willing to kill someone who isn’t evil. He WAS willing to kill his evil mad friend to save his other friends. We saw that when he first struck Fukuchi down, so it wasn’t the closeness of their relationship that stayed his hand after he understood Fukuchi’s plan. It was that he felt the ends did not justify the means.

Virtually every other character in this series would have done it, thus: Fukuzawa is a good man in a series full of great people.

And that is what I ultimately think made Ranpo attach himself to Fukuzawa and listen to him without question despite Fukuzawa being an idiot in comparison. Let's face it, Fukuzawa's a bit of a himbo. But Ranpo realized he could trust Fukuzawa to know right from wrong at the same time he realized he couldn't trust himself to know: when Fukuzawa shouted at him after his rescue in Origins.

Ranpo was in the process of doing exactly what all the other characters do: whatever it took to catch the bad guys/stop the bad thing from happening. He allowed himself to be kidnapped and accepted the risk that he might be shot in order to find the hideout of the men responsible for, so far, a murder and a kidnapping conspiracy with Very Bad implications for the peace in Japan (kidnapping Natsume is not something they would do JUST for a ransom).

Objectively, without considering the human element, this appears to be the correct choice. Ranpo being in temporary danger isn't a big deal when the grand scheme has such major red flags for national security. Many many more people were probably in danger, and we now know the group was somehow tied to Fyodor so yeah, he was on a Very Troubling Thread. But even without knowing Fyodor's connection it seems sort of brilliant and ideal.

The ends justify the means.

But Fukuzawa didn't see it that way. He didn't care about catching the bad guys, he didn't care about efficiency or Ranpo's plans or anything of the sort. He was the only guy in the city whose main focus was on the human element - on Ranpo. Fukuzawa presented a fundamentally different way of thinking that Ranpo and the majority of the cast just aren't capable of, and it's natural to him. And I think Ranpo understood that in a split second when Fukuzawa said he shouldn't put his life in danger and decided that even if Fukuzawa was essentially blind compared to him, Fukuzawa's decisions would always be better than his.

SO that's what I think Ranpo would like about Fukuzawa and what makes Fukuzawa attractive!! Also he's really sexy :D

[enby-mori]

biiiiig stretch

[glamorouswizard]

[flaresanimedump]

Thank YOU for doing me the honor of making it!!

Comm for @flaresanimedump !!!

This was so fun and sexy to do

tysm for this honor ❤️‍🔥😤🙏

head to X for uncensored hehe 🍆 💦

[lucylouz]

My (extremely late) Fukuran February submissions - Day 1

(Man I must be a nightmare for @fukuranweek because I'm posting everything I've got for Fukuran February the entire month late qwq I am so sorry. things didn't exactly go to plan. can I still tag it as Fukuran February? ._.,,,)

So, Day 1 - I did Magic AU because I felt that it would be the easiest to start with ((and boy was i wrong lmao)) (the other days were easier for me though, thankfully). I couldn't settle on anything except the basic idea so here's 3 different things I did for it. I'm still not 100% happy with them but oh well.

I did all of my Fukuran February art traditionally (though I do have two digital ones that I might post, depending on how much I hate them vs the traditional ones at the moment of posting). My sketches are very messy in general. This one's a compilation of ideas I got while thinking about the prompts, presented as little comics and scenes. I do try to clean my drawings up in the other Days. Oh and they were all scanned.

It's all cat Ranpo

(might've edited the images a bit to move the panels around so the panel order makes a little more sense)

(so I mention bakeneko Ranpo in two of these - that was before I saw the Mythical Creatures AU prompt lol. but i mean... he is magic... yeah this won't be the first time I question if I understood the prompt ._.)

And Fukuzawa's just some normal cat-loving dude he latches onto

I love the thought of Master Natsume and Cat!Ranpo having a dynamic. might dwell on that more

My later sketches, I think, get a little better because I felt like I was actively improving throughout the month, drawing almost every day, and the same goes for how I 'write' fukuran in the sketches, but eh idk. I've never shared my art with anyone

Should I be rambling about my ideas/thoughts related to the art in these posts? idk if that's annoying. :/ I'm going to keep doing that

Oh and maybe I shouldn't spam post all the drawings, maybe I should put them all in one post but I don't know if I'm supposed to- apologies in advance for the spam ig