#bsd 11

[lesbiankordian]

yall the og soukoku just dropped

[liyv]

everybody leaves + the only one who came back

...was thinking about how dazai was there for All Of That in chuuya's life and he still left him too. ahaha.

chuuya week day 3, found families :]

[diagonal-queen]

so many things happened and so few of them actually settled in. meme making is the only way i can process

[fynori]

back on my circus au bullshit

(you can read said fic of circus au bullshit here)

bonus live dazai reaction for those who were curious

[sableeira]

experimenting a bit with gradient maps, inspired by this awesome artwork

[doctors-tardis221b]

Chuuya consciously shooting Dazai right the moment his speech got emotional is just such a Soukoku thing. These damn lovable idiots...

[kyouka-supremacy]

Wow I can't believe Shiwasu Hoshikawa invented the color red

[zaerxa]

Dazai’s disastrous encounter 🐾

[justplaggin]

i am. unwell

[weretiger-be-my-horse]

so a while ago i read a theory on reddit (can't recall the user, sorry) that said that asagiri purposely shortened the manga chapters after season 4 was released so that the anime adaptation caught up to the manga. if you are a manga reader, you already know this is true and that season 5 episode 11 goes in fact beyond the manga plot.

this reddit user gave various reasons for this. one (and perhaps the most plausible one) said that it was to force manga readers to watch the season 5 finale. but i think i recall that another option may have been to tie up the manga and the anime, since parallel worlds have a special and pivotal role in bsd (we literally have the beast universe there) and therefore asagiri would be treating the manga and anime storylines as parallel worlds/universes.

and i can't help but worry because i was so relieved when dazai and fukuzawa came out of the conflict alright and everyone started to wake up. we got the detectives back, the hunting dogs (except for yosano, tachihara and jouno) and some port mafia members such as akutagawa and chuuya. both enemies (fyodor and fukuchi) were defeated AND killed. this puts the entirety of the fandom at ease.

the last few seconds of the episode show atsushi and akutagawa fighting against an ame-no-gozen wielder, who has fukuchi's scars and is also wearing a mask similar to the one he's wearing in an official art. so it's HEAVILY hinted that it's him.

now, the thing is, what if the manga takes another direction? what if that fukuchi is there because in the manga the ada loses and fukuchi/fyodor uses the book to jump into the reality where they don't win, which is the anime?

like now we manga readers are sort of relieved because the anime showed us how the arc ends, right? we just watched it. we will read that in the october chapter, right?

but what if

[chuuya-fan-page]

chuuya: forces his own grief down after the other flags died to keep albatross under the impression he saved doc so he died thinking someone survived (while albatross was dying in his arms)

the fandom: how did his acting (how did he) fool fyodor? it's unbelievable! 😡

-A

[lesbiankordian]

Why did Dazai put his hand on Chuuya's forearm?

(ID in alt)

because when someone's choking you, you grab their WRIST, to put the pressure from your throat, not their forearm. (wise words from this video. i actually did research for that. what's more is that at first Dazai did put his hand on Chuuya's wrist but changed it a panel later. he could've put it lower on the glove but he didn't do that and instead had it on his forearm until Chuuya punched him. also idc if he's not really choking Dazai bc even so for sb who hates pain this cannot be comfortable. also Chuuya why are you doing that if you don't wanna actually hurt him huh?).

and the way Dazai's touch can't even be called a grab bc it's so light... this man really just wanted to touch Chuuya's skin - otherwise he'd have gone for his wrist (which is gloved)...

(ID in alt)

and an additional thing that's probably me overanalyzing but oh well:

i know that in the 2nd pic, after their fight with Lovecraft, the touch was needed, but it's interesting how Dazai touches Chuuya at the very same place that he did in the PM's basements. let's say that's where he would touch him while nullifiying corruption most times. soo imagine that the Dazai from the PM prison scene touched Chuuya there - so lightly, as if checking if he can still do it - as a way of asking Chuuya if he still trusted him with corruption and their partnership. that touch holds memories of so many of the double black's battles and, most importantly, of the trust that used to be - and maybe still is, that's what Dazai's checking (and what will be confirmed during the fight with Lovecraft) - between them.

[frenchonionsoop]

very nervous to put this here but i present. a bsd animation meme I am working on

[homoesia]

[rash0mon]

y'all remember when asagiri said that akutagawa is the character that goes through an even bigger transformation than atsushi throughout the series? i think that's already reflective in his new design. and oh my am i excited for his further development

[grimeye-j]