the codependent homoerotic teenage friendship/rivalry evolved to a weird psychosexual rivalry between two traumatized dudes with shitty coping mechanisms and even though they are technically ennemies they can’t help but trust the other wholeheartedly.
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Anyflip links to complete bsd light novels
dazai’s entrance exam - https://anyflip.com/gxcnw/vpeu/
dark era - https://anyflip.com/gxcnw/pcxl/
untold origins - https://anyflip.com/gxcnw/ghzd/
55 minutes - https://anyflip.com/gxcnw/ppxc/
dead apple - https://anyflip.com/gxcnw/wvkq/
beast - https://anyflip.com/gxcnw/vaqg/
fifteen - https://anyflip.com/gxcnw/msym/
stormbringer - https://anyflip.com/gxcnw/gbxf/
i got a hold of these while z library was still in it’s full glory and thought i’d share! the translation on these is by yen press, if you want a site where you can download them dm me, send any complaints to my ask box :3 i also recommend checking out @/bsd-bibliophile’s website for fan translations
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Ignoring Dazai's horrific actions in the past takes away from the importance of his redemption
I've seen a bunch of people who seem to not know (Or just choose to ignore) how incredibly brutal and terrifying Dazai was in the past.
Dazai is one of my favourite characters and definitely one of the best written in the series, and trying to pretend he wasn't that bad is really reductive for his character as a whole. This post is not some moral plea of why you shouldn't like Dazai because he was evil, he's fictional, but don't pretend a fundamental part of the character doesn't exist.
I'll start with a list of some of the things Dazai has done:
Nailed a guys feet to the floor with rebar, then stacked concrete blocks on his arms till they were about to break.
Imprison Q who couldn't have been older then 8 at the time in conditions that made Q want to destroy Dazai years later.
Mental and physically abuse Akutagawa to the point where he is entirely dependent on Dazai, and values Dazais approval over his own life.
He has never failed to break a victim in interrogation even when Kouyous division couldn't make then talk.
He was responsible for half of the mafias profits in the year before The Dark Era, which is completely insane.
He was able to make both Mori and Verlaine uneasy, two of the most dangerous individuals in the whole series.
"Miscalculation.
You misjudged the situation, you failed to find the optimum solution. You should not have chosen this child to help you. Dazai is unpredictable. He can be sharp but in a dark, twisted way. He's observant. He's cold and calculating with no equivalent in the mafia where most evil resides."
Dazai is a darkness so deep that no one in the mafia can fully see the bottom.
But that's what makes his redemption so powerful, surly if even that child, who has come to believe that he isn't even human, can find hope and safety, then anyone can.
Dazai is a product of his environment, he has infinite potential, and a talent for manipulation, but when he surrounds himself with good people he starts to reflect them and become better himself. First with Odasaku and Ango, then with the ADA. He is washing the black of the port mafia off himself, and that will take time, and it will take support, but its why his journey is so fantastic.
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