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asagiri this is too far [continues to consume bsd] my suspension of disbelief can only take so much [continues to consume bsd] you're going off the rails with this plot [continues to consume bsd] it's so weird i don't understand a single thing [conti

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get booped!!!!! 🐾

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bsd anthology 5 – ch. 7: an unexpected find by otakumi (part 1)

raws: @kyouka-supremacy ~ translation & typesetting by me

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PROPAGANDA

John

This fella is Fascinating. just trust me on this he deserves to be here

He tried so hard to do the right thing, he feels bad and says things would be better if he was never born. He thinks he should've just stayed acting like a monster and continued to act threatening.

(LONG PROPAGANDA INCOMING)

John. Milgram. Here's a short description of the fortunes and misfortunes of the guy. It gets worse before it gets better (probably).

While MILGRAM is a prison that judges a bunch of sympathetic killers, it doesn't consider him to be one – it didn't even exactly know he existed until too little too late, when it got its grabby hands on the brain of prisoner 009, who claimed to not know anything about any murder he'd have committed. Then, footage from his brain was extracted, as MILGRAM does, into a music video, and… that was MeMe. Ninth prisoner, Kayano Mikoto, was revealed to have DID, and what obviously who do you think actually Killed Someone?

Enter John. Well. Mikoto is half deeply unaware half subconsciously scared of his existence, so the MV painted him in a rather. Deeply disturbing way, bathing in bloody baths and all that (not a blood bath though! easy mistake). Adding to that him showing up in the first Voice Drama for five seconds to punch the "protagonist" and yell for a bit, and the result wasn't. Assuring. The fandom proceeded to treat him like a cardboard cutout and variously dunk on MILGRAM for having a cliché "evil" character w/ DID despite the overall well handling of complex characters.

Two years time skip: second season ending. We get to prisoner 009 again. The protagonist Finally gets to chat with John: and voila, he's admitting to the crime, he's apparently "killed a bunch of people because they annoyed him", which means, as he's saying, Mikoto has nothing to do with the crime at all! And he, as per the judging system, should be forgiven, right! Well, he's so full of shit. The music video immediately reveals how protective he feels of Mikoto (and well, he definitely doesn't rebuke That one), that the events of murder were somehow tied in to Mikoto's job at a black company, his continuous overworking and him being mentally on the brink of breaking; that any committed violence was For The Sake of Mikoto and that John feels deeply horrible for messing up his life in any way. By making himself into the image of a "monster" he's trying to make Mikoto look good in comparison and be forgiven and all. He also mentioned if Mikoto is voted innocent he's gonna try to go dormant since he's The Issue, right, and the audience/protagonist hates him, Right, and Mikoto Also Hates him, Right?

I'm underselling the sheer devotion of this guy tbh.

Yeah, the fandom results were kinda mixed on that one. Lots of people immediately started to love him dearly and kinda forgot any people were maimed or killed with baseball bats; lots also got sold on him "messing up Mikoto's life" and actually voted Mikoto innocent Specifically because of John's promise to eventually "disappear". There's more of the babygirlifying kind in the English side of the fandom that I've seen, to be fair. And that's around where we are!

Dazai Osamu

He did bad things in the Mafia. He's trying to get better. He abused people but he also saved other people. Fans portraying him as an unforgivable abuser are WRONG. He perpetuated an abused cycle on Akutagawa thinking he was right to do that, because of trauma, before he could leave. But he left. He's still treating Akutagawa wrong because he's trying to be a better person but doesn't realize that it will not erase what he did and that he can't just ignore the past. Fans portraying him as a pure angel who didn't know what he was doing because he was sad are WRONG TOO. He abused Akutagawa. He was traumatized but it doesn't give him the right to traumatize innocent people. He's trying to be a better person but he can't keep ignoring Akutagawa. He needs to apologize. And even that won't erase what he did. Dazai is a complex character in a complex situation. He left the abuse cycle and tries to be a good person but did unforgivable things while he was still in this cycle and refuses to aknowledge them. He's not a monster but he's not innocent either.

Dazai used to be a mafia executive until his best friend (a former assassin who remained in the mafia but refused to kill) died. As the friend was dying he told him "I know you don't care about whether you're a good or bad person, so if it doesn't matter to you, be on the side that saves people." Despite that, I've seen countless people insisting that Dazai is a good person/trying his best to be a good person when he really only changed sides by joining a detective agency, while still continuing to do the same things he did while in the mafia (including but not limited to: harassing his coworkers for fun, manipulating people, killing people instead of just trying to incapacitate them, and even torturing an innocent man in one of the side stories). That being said, he's not evil either. Even when he does cruel things, it's not for the sake of being cruel (even when he harasses his coworkers he still has limits), it's just a means to an end. I think most of the confusion comes from a scene where he's talking to a young girl, another former mafia member, who asks if he thinks people can change and he assures her they can, but what the anime left out was that he was thinking about his former assassin friend during that discussion, not himself. The entire series is themed around gray morality, to the point where it's even reflected in the main protagonist and antagonist's designs (mainly white with a bit of black, and mainly black with a bit of white), so I feel like insisting that he's a good person now completely misses the point of the story.

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awkward helicopter ride back home

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Unlucky

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can u imagine tumblr in the BSD universe. i think Haruno would run a popular straycatj/pangur and grim-esque blog about mii-chan and. could u imagine the drama of “popular beloved internet cat turns out to be some guy with an ability”

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cinnamoroll and fyodor

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What if Jesus and Dostoevsky were something more than oomfs…

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disintegrating in your arms

(abandoned pose ref study WIP)

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Fukuzawa and…

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your honor who gives a fuck. like for real

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I said it wasn't nice to ghost people...... :'(

@ititfjcmkkd ????

is it something I said? :(

You’re nothing like dazai humble yourself

OMG YOU'RE BACK??????

you didn't reply to my questions :[. that's mean, you know... to just ghost someone like that...

here's the questions again, so please respond!!

they're in the tags. maybe you just didn't see them? an honest mistake, I'll forgive you it's ok :]

idk if you get notified when your asks get answered so I'll tag you too just to be safe

@ititfjcmkkd @ititfjcmkkd @ititfjcmkkd @ititfjcmkkd @ititfjcmkkd @ititfjcmkkd

(unless that previous anon isn't you...? well. then that would make this kinda awkward. but I guess if you're not the same person you can still answer the questions! I doubt I'll see that anon again, so I can just hand the same proposal to you instead.)

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You’re nothing like dazai humble yourself

OMG YOU'RE BACK??????

you didn't reply to my questions :[. that's mean, you know... to just ghost someone like that...

here's the questions again, so please respond!!

they're in the tags. maybe you just didn't see them? an honest mistake, I'll forgive you it's ok :]

idk if you get notified when your asks get answered so I'll tag you too just to be safe

@ititfjcmkkd @ititfjcmkkd @ititfjcmkkd @ititfjcmkkd @ititfjcmkkd @ititfjcmkkd

(unless that previous anon isn't you...? well. then that would make this kinda awkward. but I guess if you're not the same person you can still answer the questions! I doubt I'll see that anon again, so I can just hand the same proposal to you instead.)

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yosano for a dtiys prize (@/sableeira !!) she was soo fun to draw :)

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All I see is a black cat