#The book bsd

[literatureloverx]

I believe some viewers have noticed how Dazai often breaks the fourth wall in the anime.

A separate, symbolic moment happens in the final scene of the second season when Dazai raises his champagne and toasts, “To the stray dogs.”

This gesture connects to the title of the “book” within the story, which is also called Stray Dogs. While this may already be a common theory, I think the Bungo Stray Dogs universe itself exists within that book, which explains why everything written in it becomes reality. Whatever Asagiri writes, materialises in their world.

This idea would also bring a new dimension to Dazai’s nihilism and depression, as it suggests he’s fully self-aware.

Imagine knowing you’re just a character in a book, subject to the whims of an author who could rewrite your life at any moment. It would deepen Dazai’s existential struggles, knowing he is powerless in a story that could change at any time.

[thelesbododo]

I really like the idea of the book being in Dazai's possession or at least him having some sort of attachment because the idea of Chuuya being being the vessel for the god of destruction and Dazai having a book that's sole purpose is to create is just something that I find so appealing

[seaskate]

I love how in BSD every au and fanfic that someone makes could be true.

Person A came up with a pirate au, cool let's write it into the Book and see if Odasaku lives in this one or if Dazai decides to stop being a pirate and go join some other sea faring crew instead. Magic and Mystery? Sure why not? The aus where Dazai and Chuuya got to UA? That too.

There is a book that can create countless alternate realities, which means that any of them and every of fic technically has the chance to be true in one of them.

[asagirisfavpen]

I was talking to my sister about bsd and I told her that Dazai shouldn't even be able to use THE book because he would have to touch it and then his ability would activate and he wouldn't be able to use the book. And the only way for him to use it is if his ability would be deactivated aka someone else uses their ability to nullify his ability. In which case the said someone would touch them which Dazai nullifies their ability so long story short they create a singularity. And I was yapping about this and explaining singularities to her and crap and her answers? She said "Why does the fandom think so much? He just has to tell Atsushi what to write in the book and it's done."

[m1ss-n0mer]

Holy shit holy fuck holy fuck fuckity fuck.

So, bsd chapter 118, right?

Mind blown, but for more reasons than one might realise.

So, Fyodor saves Atsushi at the end, right? This is most likely because, since the beginning, there's been a bounty on Atsushi's head because apparently he's some kind of lead to the book.

In the chapter really early on (like, chap. 13 or sth) where Atsushi and Akutagawa are fighting on that ship, we see that Fitzgerald, Fyodor, and Agatha are the intended recipients of the weretiger, and the ones trying to find the book.

Fyodor is so close to that goal now, so I'm thinking Agatha Christie (and potentially the rest of the Order of the Clock tower or whatever they're called) are going to get involved.

[yokai-girlie]

au where this is the book they are after in bsd

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[warmingbears]

‼️‼️BUNGO STRAY DOGS THEORY ‼���‼️

What if the book is actually the bungo stray dogs novel and as we know all bsd characters are based off of IRL writers so Asagiri could very much exist in their universe. It could be that Asagiri is an ability user who can write novels and his novels become an alternate universe. That would also makes sense as to why BEAST Dazai can know his other alternate universe self as the book is an ability. It could also be related to Dazai's lack of feeling human. He knows he's just a character in a novel and knows his destiny is already made so he struggles to find worth in living.

[bsdisawesomesauce]

Istg I thought that the universes in BSD were like already inside the book. People are always doing that Dazai wrote the universes into existence to find one that Oda was alive in but I thought that the universes already existed, in my understanding of the book.

Like to my understanding of how the book works, the universes had already existed inside the book, being more of like a "what could happen" and when someone writes in the book, a universe comes into reality while the original universe becomes, a universe inside of the book, something that could have been, which is why the book needs to follow a story to work because it has to go along with one of the universes that it has. Like Sigma, he didn't just come out of no where, he was a human being that existed in one of the universes and the universe that he existed in was switched with the original so he was brought into the original (or at least that was kinda my understanding of it??)

And while that was my understanding of how the book and the universes existed a lot of people say that Dazai wrote the universes using the book and I'm just really confused idk if im just being slow or smth but I'm confused now someone pls explain what the Dazai writing the universes is about cuz so many gacha reacts say that and i completely thought the book worked how I thought it did

[fyozaibrainrot]

ASAGIRI-SENSEI IS THE BOOK THEORY!!!

Heya, people who are not good with living! I have a theory to share with y'all. I don't know if anyone ever did this theory before, but I haven't seen it, so I did.

⚠️ MANGA SPOILERS WARNING IN ADVANCE ⚠️

Now, why did I think the author himself is the book? It's exactly because he's the author writing a story with characters inspired by authors. It wouldn't be surprising if he becomes a character in bsd.

It's like in MXTX novel SVSSS and the kdrama W. (If you guys don't know what I'm talking about, I'm sorry, but I can't help you.) But in bsd, there's no need for Sensei to transmigrate, because as we all know the characters in bsd are based on authors and he's an author.

Asagiri-sensei as a character is of course going to be special. Atsushi level kind of special. What makes Atsushi special? Being the protagonist and the bookmark. What will make Asagiri-sensei special? Being the creator and the book.

Let's get to the information we currently have:

The book is titled “Stray Dogs"

Chief Taneda thinks that the book is created by an ability user

Fyodor said that the book is their origin

Dazai said that the book is an empty novel

Ranpo thinks that the book is not a simple ability

Sensei's pen name is “Kafka Asagiri"

Fyodor said that the book is their origin and Atsushi is its bookmark. Meaning, the book is something divine, like a God, that created them. The book is their beginning. We, the readers (watchers), knows that they are characters in Bungou Stray Dogs and we're following the progress of the story through the protagonist, Atsushi. Atsushi is acting as our bookmark.

It seems to me that Fyodor and perhaps even Dazai, the two otherworldly geniuses who knows about the book, has some awareness of that. But that's beside the point.

With this bit of info, we can speculate that the book is the bsd itself and that the ability user, who Chief Taneda thinks created it, might be Asagiri-sensei because he's the creator of the bsd.

A little fun fact: the book's title is “Stray Dogs" and Oda was the one who first said it (dark era) and Asagiri-sensei's pfp is Oda.

So why did I come from “Asagiri-sensei being the creator of the book” to “Asagiri-sensei is the book"?

It's because of Ranpo and Asagiri-sensei's pen name.

Ranpo, unlike Chief Taneda, doesn't believe that the book was created by an ability user. It's another otherworldly phenomenon, like a singularity and tripolar singularity, that far exceeds a normal ability.

And then there's the pen name: Kafka Asagiri. There's nothing unusual with “Asagiri", it's a normal japanese name, but “Kafka” is not. I think it's a reference to the author Franz Kafka.

In Franz Kafka's most famous novel, The Metamorphosis, the protagonist transformed into an insect. How does that being Asagiri-sensei's pen name relate to the book being divine?

It's simple. Asagiri-sensei is like Gozen, (I find it cute when Fyodor called him that), a higher being that's not within the three dimension, he transformed and becomes the book itself. He's the origin of their world.

Dazai also said that the book is an empty novel, if the book is bsd shouldn't the story be written in it? The characters, as it is, seems to be freely writing their own story and can change the world using the book. The book is full of possibilities, it's something that transcends space and time.

I haven't thought about the specifics of how and why Asagiri-sensei becomes the book yet so we'll leave it at that. Is it a plausible theory or do I need to go to therapy?

[asiwassayingimnotgay]

How can we defeat Fyodor?

Contains spoilers for Bungou Stray Dog chapter 115 (114.5)

As we learned from the previous chapter: Fyodor becomes the person who kills him.

Now, with this information let's come up with possible ways we can kill him:

Dazai. He's the most obvious choice right now, he'll be able to cancel Fyodor s ability and will be able to kill him.

Suicide. This could lead to a Shibusawa incident 2.0. But it's also a way that we could kill him, after all, he can't take over the body that killed him, if the body is his... Right?

The Book. This could easily backfire, and make the writer of the book be taken over. But assuming that The Book grants you immunity to Fyodor's ability, you could easily just write in "Fyodor Dostovey never got his ability" if The Book doesn't grant you immunity you could easily write "(insert name here) is immune to Fyodor Dostovey's ability" and you can kill him.

Nature. If Fyodor dies in an earthquake or something, since there was no one trying to kill him, and because the vampire that killed him was seen more as a weapon leading him to take over Bram (ISTG IF YOU HURT MY SUBSTITUTE FATHER FIGURE... *ahem* anyways...) By being killed by nature, Fyodor's ability won't activate. (And let's face it, if it can activate and he becomes the whole ass Earth or something, I think we have bigger problems to worry about.)

Someone with no intentions or interest in killing him. This is extremely unlikely but, the vampire that killed Fyodor wasn't taken over because they were more similar to a "weapon" that killed him. The actual person who wanted to kill him was Bram. That's why he took over Bram. Well what if, there was someone who just stabbed him? No intent to kill, no orders to kill him, not even aware on what the just did, they just stabbed him for no reason. Would his ability affect them? (Probably)

Those are currently all my theories, the most probable ones are probably the Dazai, and Book one.

Also, I assume that Fyodor's probably immune to aging, because I'm 90% sure, that the person he used to be (before Bram) was the same guard who killed him almost 100 years ago.

[urmomsfboy]

“No beta we die like odasaku’s orphans 😝”

He had to watch his kids die twice.

Once with his ability, the second time right in front of him.

[kingovbats]

I just had a random thought/BSD theory

since tripolar singularity looks like a pen and abilities were created by the book I've seen many theories saying that Dazai is the book but hear me out

what if

What if Dazai was the eraser

like his ability cancels other abilities

[thelesbododo]

I find it interesting that Atsushi was said to be the guide to the book and one of the first people he met outside of the orphanage was Dazai, someone who is very likely connected to the book

[seaskate]

Ango never became a government worker agian.

We know that in Dark Era he went back to working for the government, the events of Dark Era itself were caused by that, but eventhough he worked there, Ango never became one of the agents again. And it's not just because he helped Dazai escape the mafia and the government that I'm saying this.

The book doesn't affect Ango, he believed in the Agency's innocence from the start. There was never a moment that he questioned it, even though he works for the government and everyone else was affected. He believed in their innocence, something that Tachihara couldn't do until he chose the Port Mafia over the Hunting Dogs. He helps Dazai with Mersault, and the Agency members as much as he can because Dazai asked.

He was loyal, just not to the government. But to the Stray Dogs (to Odasaku and Dazai). The fact that he dislikes disloyalty and yet is a traitor makes a lot more sense when you know that there are very few that he is truly loyal to.

[asagirisfavpen]

Wait. So, you know how according to Fyodor and Fitzgerald Sushi is the only one that knows where THE BOOK is, right?

And at some point (in season 2 episode 8), Sushi quotes a book he's read at the Orphanage and it turned out that irl Atsushi Nakajima wrote.

So at the Orphanage Atsushi had access to something from the real world.

And I think that THE BOOK is at the orphanage. I think it's there and that Atsushi knows where it is, but he doesn't realize it.

[koku-stars]

uh hand reveal ig :p

BUT YEAH I FUCKING DID IT LETS GOOOOOOO

i also added this detail since a single page is ripped out of the book so might as well

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