#bsd s5 ep7

[kyoukamybeloved]

the mental illness strikes again

[jounosparticles]

maybe i’m biased but honestly the kenji vs tetchou fight may be my favourite in all of bsd (which is a hard choice since there are so many good ones)

first off, the animation of it was easily the best i’ve seen in the anime. it looked really intense and i absolutely adore it. the sound design was also great as well as the line delivery.

story wise, i think the fact that they both made sure nobody was around before fighting to keep people safe was very in-character for them both. you could also tell neither of them initially wanted to fight but tetchou attacked because the book makes the agency appear guilty no matter what. yet he was still kind when talking to to kenji and kenji was kind back prior to and after the fight.

tetchou was also clearly distracted by jouno being gone to the point where he pushed justice (the thing he pretty much always prioritizes) aside in favour of helping jouno. that shows how much he cares and how worried he was. that puts a heavy emotional impact on the fight, the fact that tetchou was clearly desperate to save jouno quickly with literal justice on the line.

in contrast, kenji went up against the man who had already stabbed him numerous times before and was still kind and listened to him talk first. kenji is probably the nicest character in the entire series, he offered to help the man who tried to kill him and his friends. the fact that he could calm his anger after and still be completely willing to help tetchou shows a lot about kenji as a person. for a 14 year old, kenji is extremely mature and gentle for being willing to help after all of that.

they both could have easily fought until one was dead, but tetchou admitted his mistakes and offered his life to kenji because he realized he had failed. yet kenji seen the sincerity of that and offered to help him despite the fact that they were on the verge of killing each other.

they ended up bonding at the end. it genuinely made me so happy to see this animated, both admitting they had made mistakes and agreed to help each other. which means tetchou has likely broken the writing of the book by thinking clearly, much like how ranpo said the police could do in the first episode of season five.

i really hope we get to see them searching together soon, the two have very close morals and i could see a good friendship form between them. i feel like they’d make an insanely powerful duo in the future as well, i would love to see tetchou mentoring kenji.

"kenji. to have learned that name…was my greatest accomplishment of the day."

[rampo-obsession]

MAD KENJI HAS BEEN AWAKENED

I REPEAT MAD KENJI HAS BEEN AWAKENED

RUN RUUUUN

[lyloneliness]

Couldn't help but edit a cat making chuuya's noise in that new episodes after reading @inamagicalhallucination 's post!

(Sorry, apparently we can't post a video while rebloging (T^T))

Am I proud of it? Yeah, very much.

I don't know if that's a good thing x)

[cffeine]

an elbow for a dance… worth it. dazai lovers we won (sigma & sigzai ship lovers included)

[lyloneliness]

Huuuaaarruagh!! *weird ass vampire noise but with chuuya's intonation*

This Gifted intruder... manipulates gravity! It's Nakahara Chuuya!

[lyloneliness]

Am i the only one that was bugged by chuuya's 'huuaaawuarrgh' in today's episode?! (; ∇ ; )

I literally twiched and paused the episode and put my face in my hands while letting out a cringes laugh and waited for the startle to fade! (´∩ω∩)

Then I played 10 seconds back to be sure I really heard what I actually heard... And did it again before watching the end of the episode (￣∇￣)

And after that I just listed to it again and again while laughing endlessly of how it's @/!x_92lwq!!! And decided I NEEDED it to be my notification sound cause it's so funny...

Now every five minutes I hear chuuya's vampire sound and can't help giggling while my brother is just cringed by this!! 😹😹😹

[dinosaur-mayonnaise]

update: one episode in. 8 minutes, 35 seconds down. gotta admit guys, i don't think they can pull this one off.

(i do appreciate though that when nikolai told fyodor that 5 minutes were up, it actually had been 5 minutes)

ykw. i am going to time the meursault scenes we have for the rest of this arc. i'd really like to see if it's actually possible for them to animate dazai and fyodor's entire still ongoing poison field trip in 30 minutes or less.