#soukoku manga

[kurapipin]

Double Black

[shinkoxyagami]

NEW CHAPTER'S OUT AND ARE WE FREAKING OUT GUYS!

I figured out a very very important thing this chapter....

GUYS

Fyodor

FInaLY

ChAnGed

CLOTHES

He's borrowing from Bram but still it counts, right?😭😭

[m1zisua]

chapter 109. how we feeling everybody

[iztea]

meanwhile

[originalartblog]

Dazai take the fucking antidote

[etrevil]

Chuuya you're japanese

[unicornpopcorn14]

So we all know by now that Dazai is comfortable enough around Chuuya to show nervousness/worry.

Enough times for Chuuya to pick up on that pattern. The pattern, may I remind you, that doesn't have evident correlation to either nervousness or worry to most people. One that can even be interpreted as misplaced given the situation.

Which means that Dazai has done this in front of Chuuya so often, that Chuuya at first was hella confused, before he finally made a connection between when and why it happens. And still remembered that connection after four years of separation. Which gets us to my point:

What if this isn't the only emotion Dazai displays weirdly?

What if he has multiple unconventional patterns he displays for sadness, frustration, content, or disgust? The times he really feels them, and they become too strong for him to just deal with normally? What if these are the only times he's actually being genuine with his emotions?

And Chuuya is the only one who is familiar with them all?

Dazai would be jumping rope and Chuuya would be like, "quit sulking, let's get icecream"

Dazai hanging upside down on the couch and Chuuya going, "It's okay, mackerel. You can cry."

Dazai actually crying, full on heart-wrenching sobs, and Chuuya unironically going, "What, good news?"

It's just... comforting, for one person in Dazai's life to read him like a book. Everyone else would look at him like he's crazy, displaying wrong emotions/behaviors at the wrong time, but Chuuya knows that it's just how he processes feeling properly, and thus he's the only one Dazai can count on to put things into context and understand, which makes him display them even more openly.

Because Chuuya never shamed him for his quirks, as much as Dazai never did his.

[calmlb]

something about Dazai being comfortable enough around Chuuya to be vulnerable and let him see his genuine reactions (especially his genuine shock) as he processes out loud is SO SO IMPORTANT TO ME

plus Chuuya not being shocked to see the genius at work tells us this isn’t the first time he’s seen Dazai actively figuring things out in real time…

the way Chuuya knows Dazai's nervous habits— noticing that Dazai is worried, and subtly checking on him. the way Dazai drops his facade in favor of putting all of his focus into the mental game at hand is such an obvious sign of trust & closeness for someone like Dazai, whose facade is his main form of defense

how they interact with each other in the downtimes when there’s nobody watching…

all i can think is, look how far they’ve come since they were 16 when Dazai couldn’t trust anyone with his plans. how even now, Dazai is always putting up his “all according to plan” front, even with the agency. how Chuuya is the one person we’ve seen him truly drop the mask around, and Chuuya doesn’t bat an eye. even their banter is ongoing, but subdued.

soukoku and their subtle displays of intimacy will be the death of me 💔

[c7arisse]

mackerel & slug

part 1

[vivid-vices]

the way chuuya immediately looks down at his shoe with that curiously hopeful look on his face is the cutest thing in the world. "i don't care about dazai at all" chuuya, my guy, you want his approval of your fucking shoes

[elorieli]

they’re so stupid I love them

[karmicpunishment]

SSKK FANS WE WINNNNNNNN

[shinkoxyagami]

Umm, I think Kishu said something along the lines of:

If you see the fifth season *all the way to the end*, you'll see the depth of the bond between Dazai and Chuuya and like...

We are cut up with the manga and the anime will go further than the manga in the last episode and the last thing we saw of soukoku, was Chuuya shooting Dazai and....

I don't think *all the way to the end*, suggests their last scene to be that?

[cryptid-juzou]

They're so cute when they're pretending to hate each other.

You can't convince me this isn't them flirting.

[flamie-42]

I AM LOSING MY MIND AT THIS NEW OFFICIAL ART

THEY LOOK SO GOOD

[okifs]

Soukoku from Bungo Stray Dogs || art cr — @pleu_cas on X (@pleucas)