#bsd twilight goodbye

[phynally]

**BSD spoilers**

[Image description 1: A scene from Bungou Stray Dogs season five depicting Fukuzawa Yukichi swinging a sword at Fukuchi Ouchi as sakura petals fall artistically in the background. End description.]

The sakura petals...

[Image description 2: Fukuzawa's eyes widen in shock as he advances toward Fukuchi. End description.]

The shock on Fukuzawa's face and warm smile on Fukuchi's...

[Image description 3: Fukuchi gently smiles at Fukuzawa in the brief moments before the latter's strike connects. End description.]

Why do I get the feeling Fukuchi's goal all this time was to die at Fukuzawa's hand?!?!

[smellypire]

Why is no one talking about the ending 😭 Wtf is that ending, what is that thing attacking Akutagawa and Atsushi? Why does Akutagawa look like that? I have so many questions..

[chuuya-fan-page]

Ok so I've been thinking about whether Dazai would have heard Chuuya's "vampire" screech thing and I think that he could've heard him through the radio but I'm sure we'll find out in either an after note thing or a helicopter ride over to the airport because I'm assuming we have a corruption scene coming up. Big fight for sskk sometimes means corruption for skk and I am hoping and praying for one.

[corruptdexe]

Thoughts and critique of S5E11 BSD :)

Spoilers ahead ! Duh !

I’ll start off with saying that I found the episode okay. I just think that it was too predictable and cliche. I’d prefer something different, so here we go. My notes, criticism, thoughts and ideas for the last episode of season 5!

Let’s start with the revelation that Dazai isn’t dead. As any Dazai fan, I’m glad he isn’t, sure, however the reason behind it kind of sucks? The fact that Dazai and Chuuya had this planned all along caused it to fall flat. It feels shallow and underwhelming. There were no stakes, it was all just solved with Dazai laughing in Fyodor’s face, being like ‘L bozo this was my plan all along’.

Not only the stakes disappeared, but so did the heavy emotions and the tension. Dazai realizing it’s actually Chuuya helping Fyodor and attempting to drown him? Chuuya shooting him in his vampire state? Jokes on you! It’s gone! It was the plan all along!

The Meursault arc looked pretty cheap due to the revelation. Fyodor is written out to be highly intelligent and despite whatever point Dazai was making about manipulation and people blah blah, I find it VERY hard to believe that Fyodor fell for the act so easily. Even if Chuuya’s acting was top tier great, I doubt he wouldn’t notice the contact lenses or the fake teeth.

If Sigma is actually dead (because at this point, who can tell lol), then that’s genuinely upsetting to me, on both emotional levels and storytelling ones. Considering how he was brought to their world with The One Order and he had no idea who he was and shit. Him joining the ADA after this was over was honestly something I would really love to see. Especially if Dazai died and he had to deliver the news along with the information he learned about Fyodor to the ADA? ABSOLUTELY FUCKING GOLD PIECE OF PLOT.

Turn off your Dazai bias now. Of course, it won’t be the same without him, and I am aware that the story can’t go on forever, however, this could be absolutely amazing in terms of storytelling. Even if they wanted to conclude the story with this, let Sigma join the ADA because of Dazai. I think I’d be pretty neat if Dazai would help Sigma find his ‘light’, the way he helped Atsushi, the way Oda wanted him to do.

Arc where Chuuya would have to deal with whatever emotions he would feel (confusion, or perhaps guilt or regret?) for killing Dazai while he was infected with vampirism? No matter if he hated him, killing someone you knew for so long must have left him feeling SOMETHING. I personally feel the manga portrays their relationship better than the anime, but I’m not going to go into that right now.

Where Sigma found himself? Where Atsushi had to navigate life without his ‘mentor’? Where everyone had to process the loss while having to move forward? That is something I would LOVE to see. Dazai didn’t have to die, he just had to be left injured in my opinion. Just not totally okay, but in a state where he at least needed time to recover or otherwise need help. Chuuya could have still stopped the bullet to his head, maybe as Aya pulled out the sword he would regain his senses or something. Sure, still lazy, but I wanted to see Chuuya panic over Dazai’s body, dead or alive lmao.

In conclusion, I am really hoping this was just Bones being silly stupid and this isn’t what Asagiri actually did, and if it is, he better has something devastating for us up his sleeve. Because Bones tends to be very silly and stupid, like we all learned. Other people already talked about this in depth so I won’t go into that here, I don’t care about that right now.

Either way, that’s all, I think. Feel free to argue with me and share your own opinions! This is just what I personally think, I love to see the perspectives of others :)

[pupperish]

It's bungover

[rachi-roo]

BSD Spoiler? Just my thoughts on that last bit, I won't say what happened but-

TWO HOURS??? JUST TWO HOURS TO CATCH THEIR FUCKING BREATH!?!?!

My poor babies! LET 👏 THEM 👏 SLEEP 👏 😭

They can't keep doing stuff!!! They all need to go home! And drink water! And heal mentally! 😭😭😭😭😭

[blueclownsworld]

I will post writing about Bsd soon, go vote on my earlier post if you want to decide on it !!

[kaurwreck]

If you're considering when Dazai noticed Chuuya wasn't a vampire, keep in mind that if Chuuya were a vampire, he wouldn't have killed the guards in Meursault. He would have turned them into more vampires.

Also, if you think that it cheapens the scene in which Dazai drowns Fyodor and Chuuya for Dazai to have known Chuuya was human: it doesn't. Regardless of whether Dazai knew Chuuya would survive (he did; see his explanation of how he would kill Chuuya in Fifteen, the light novel, and further how he approached Verlaine in Storm Bringer):

Imagine how fucking miserable it must have been to do that to someone he loves and trusts. Imagine how difficult for Dazai to lean into and trust Chuuya to be okay, not only after Dazai drowned him, but in such close proximity to Fyodor, whose ability is touch-based. Imagine Dazai recalling that when he was 16, his botched timing meant that Chuuya was tortured. Imagine Dazai reminding himself that Chuuya suffered then because Dazai didn't trust him, didn't let him in on what he was doing, thought only he could pull the strings up until he was too late— and yet Chuuya remained okay anyway. Imagine Dazai considering how time and time again he's received Chuuya's unadulterated trust and choosing to reciprocate with unequivocal faith. Imagine Dazai being unable to express any of this to Chuuya typically, except for in moments when the demands of the circumstances and Chuuya's inability to respond together loosen his inhibitions and his tongue.

Further, usually when Dazai's batshit machinations are exposed, his eyes flatten, his voice slickens into condescension, and he palpably slips into a version of himself that even unnerved Mori. But, in Twilight Goodbye/ep 61, Dazai's eyes were honeyed and light, his voice playful, and his mannerisms bright and animated. Those were not his typical machinations, because rather than attempt to control the variables, which he admitted he couldn't, he responded to what happened as it unfolded, and trusted those he loved to do the same.

He trusted Chuuya, Chuuya trusted him. Because of that, everything was okay. It's not cheap that Chuuya was never a vampire, nor would it be cheap if Dazai knew as soon as Chuuya tore through Meursault that he wasn't really a vampire. Angst is not the source of Bungou Stray Dogs' intensity; hope, faith, and love are, and they're just as heady.

[fyodorloveclub]

you think he practiced this in the mirror or smth

[imtiredmandontquestionit]

EPISODE 11 RANT

OKAY WHAT THE FUCK WAS THAT.

SIGMA IS DEAD OR IN A COMA

FUKUCHI IS DEAD

FYODOR IS DEAD

IDK WTF HAPPENED TO TACHIHARA OR JOUNO

AKUTAGAWA SAVED AYA

WE GET PERMANENT BRAM AND AYA DUO BUT WE LOSE FYOLAI??? IS IT SELFISH TO WANT BOTH???

FUKUZAWA IS LIKE THE LEADER OF THE WORLD NOW??

CHUUYA WAS NEVER A VAMPIRE WHICH MAKES HIS HORSE NOISE MUCH FUNNIER

BUT MAN. I WANT FYOLAI BACKKKKKKK

ALSO WTF WAS THAT ENDING?? FUKUCHI IS A GOD OR SMTH?? I WAS CRYING THEN I SEE FUKUCHI FLYING AROUND AS A GOD OR WHATEVER LIKE HUHHH???????

AND WHAT'S GONNA HAPPEN TO NIKOLAI?? FYODOR AND SIGMA ARE DEAD, BRAM IS GONNA DO BRAM STUFF (and hopefully be Aya's new dad) FUKUCHI IS DEAD, HE'S ALL ALONE IN THE DOA NOW. HE'S NOT THE TYPE TO GO REDEEM HIMSELF, HE DOESN'T HAVE ANY MORE FRIENDS, WHAT'S GONNA HAPPEN TO HIM???

ALSO WHERE TF DID YOSANO GO, WE SEE KYOUKA, TANIZAKI, KUNIKIDA, LUCY, RANPO, ALL THE ADA MEMBERS EXCEPT HER.

ALSO FYODOR IS NOT THAT STUPID. I REFUSE TO ACCEPT HIM BEING DEAD. ASAGIRI PLS FIX THIS!!

I DON'T KNOW HOW TO FEEL ABOUT THIS

[severaltuesdays]

SPOILERS FOR S5 EP 11

WOW

HOW ARE WE FEELING Y'ALL

IT WAS BUNGOVER BUT NOW IT'S BUNGONLY BEGGINNING

THATS SO CRINGEY BUT MY BRAIN IS FRIED

SO WHO THE FUCK WAS THAT WHACK ASS MOTHERFUCKER AT THE END HEY?????

OH ILL TELL YOU

ITS MOTHERFUCKING FUKUCHI

YEAH HE'S NOT DONE, HE'S STICKING AROUND (IN SOME CAPACITY)

NEED PROOF?????

HIS SCARS

HIS MASK

HIS HAIR

OKAY SO HERE'S MY THEORY

OBVIOUSLY AMENOGOZEN HAS SOMETHING TO DO WITH THIS; WHATEVER FUKUCHI HAS BECOME IS WIELDING IT AND HE HAS BEEN ONE OF ITS ONLY USERS, AND THE ONE WHO'S USED IT THE MOST.

WE ALREADY HAVE AN INSTANCE OF A SWORD BECOMING A PART OF SOMEONE (COUGH, BRAM, COUGH) AND MAKING THEM ABLE TO BE MANIPULATED. EVEN MORE SO, WE KNOW THAT THE HOLY SWORD THAT HAD ONCE CONTROLLED BRAM WAS ONCE A PERSON.

AMENOGOZEN COULD BE THE SAME, EVEN MORE, IT COULD BE SENTIENT.

FUKUCHI IS RECIEVING MESAGES FROM AMENOGOZEN, IT'S "SPEAKING" TO HIM

AND WHAT'S MORE

LOOK AT THAT

LOOK AT THATTTTT

DO THOSE NOT RESEMBLE ROOTS????

IT RESEMBLES HORNS MORE BUT STILL, ITS EMBEDDED IN HIS HEAD

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

IN CONCLUSION, MR MOON SWORD KNIGHT IS FUKUCHI AND HE'S BEING CONTROLLED BY AMENOGOZEN, THANK YOU FOR COMING TO MY TED-TALK

[smellypire]

Expectations: chuuya moping around on flags grave🥀🥀

Reality: cut to Mori supergluing the teeth

[cocktailjjrs]

Finally got time to watch the new episode!!!

And how the fuck are we already here!!!

Didn't we like agonize over this for years!!! Didn't our worlds just shatter to pieces for this episode to grind them into dust???

Why does it feel like it's been just yesterday that ch 109 was released but also feels like it's been eternity that we have suffered with the knowledge of Dazai's apparent death!!!

And where is my pretty boy and his pretty resigned smile and those last words!!!

And we still have one whole episode remaining for this season!!!

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The anticipation for the next episode is killing me!!!

[snows-2am-thoughts]

Spoilers for BSD season 5 episode 11

*SPOILERS*

Y'know I'm kinda glad that Chuuya was never a vampire to begin with because how in the ever loving fuck were they supposed to explain that the man who took down a dragon was taken off guard by a random vampire? Like I'm sure there's a logical way that Asagiri could spin it but I don't think there's ever gonna be an explanation that would've satisfied the type of interaction it would take to catch Chuuya off guard y'know? Like it would either end up seeming over the top or anticlimactic?

I am kinda sad that everything that was said by Dazai was under the pretense that he knew Chuuya was acting but honestly from the man who said "what a violent way of waking sleeping beauty" and "you used corruption believing in me? How beautiful" I have no hesitation in believing that Dazai meant every word. 

Also this just means that Chuuya DIDN’T go through another traumatizing event so win win.

AND the fact that his little high pitched vampire noise was a conscious decision makes that scene so much better.

[tablesalteddoe]

fyolai fans how are we feeling

[1seaweedbrain1]

every once in a while i remember that the last ~12 chapters were all in 30 minutes. like chuuya was probably still shaking water out of his ears when he went to go "kill" dazai