#don't question the “aku-kun” part. i don't know what happened there but it stuck

[madraleen]

Bungo Stray Dogs - Season 5 A Laughably Long Commentary but how could i not! how could i possibly not!

-'m very excited to start s5, but also not so excited because it's the last one for now -.-

-i'm sorry, kunikida lost his hands?! i wasn't expecting repercussions. oh wait, we have yosano, nvm

-AHAHAH nikolai wants to kill fyodor?? amazing

-the human exceeding the gifted is ranpo, isn't it. i love you, dazai

-IF THIS IS AN EXCELLENT DETECTIVE WOULD HE PUT HIMSELF IN THE WANTED LIST, RANPO I LOVE YOU

-ranpo looks like a pleased cat

-bb atsushi crying at seeing the agency, my heart

-i want the agency to go feral, to fuck shit up after all they've been put through. fuck up the decay of angels

-oh no, we're getting too campy, too whimsical, too light-hearted, i'm scared for the flip

-no. NO. NO SAY IT ISN'T SO, SAY KAMUI ISN'T FUKUCHI! FUCK YOU BUNGO STRAY DOGS

-ATSUSHI, DON'T STAND AND CHAT, FUCKING RUN!

-AKUTAGAWAAAA, OUR MAN, GO HELP TIGER BOYYY. not port mafia always saving our asses, lol <3

-side note, i think this is a wonderful way to let ranpo make a mistake without compromising at all his detective capabilities. it fits his personality, trusting fukuzawa so blindly and naturally that he wouldn't question fukuzawa's loyalties - after all, throughout all of their time together, look at the people fukuzawa has trusted; they're nothing but stellar. but fukuzawa isn't a do-no-wrong deductive genius, so his lack of knowledge becomes ranpo's oversight, and fukuzawa serves as his blind spot. wonderful framing.

-AKUTAGAWA AND DAZAI PAST BREADCRUMBS! i beg, where's that backstory?

-i really like that atsushi and akutagawa run very differently, lol

-FOR FUCK'S SAKE, AKU-KUN, DAZAI HAS ALREADY APPROVED YOU

-eh? EH?! aku is ill?! how short of a time are we talking about?! and i was thinking of that recently, what happened with that cough that he used to have. wait, can we fix him? yosano?

-let me say that i am not expecting ANYONE to die at any point, not for real, so if aku-kun is dead, i'll have a proper freak-out

-AHAHA BRAM. the "vampires" part of the fukuchi movies was true then! i half didn't believe it

-aku-kun will be a vampire?! what does that mean?! well, i guess there's his lung diseased fixed, yay?

-"i know what you are, senpai." "say it. out loud."

-oh okay. aku-kun is vampire-eating people now. that might as well happen. i'm not scared at all, what do you mean

-this is such a mess, on every level, what are we gonna do, it keeps building up

-i hate it when i rely on mori-san, but damn is he reliable

-YES, TACHIHARA, GO WILD (and be careful)

-you know, as far time-traveling mindfuckery goes, which i'm never fond of, they explain it very clearly

-yes okay ranpo my love, we're saving the agency, but also our bros in port mafia too, right?

-tanizaki has a "O_O" expression in this meeting, and you know what, i feel him

-i believe in jouno, he's a bastard, but i believe in him :"(

-...i mean, good for me for believing in jouno, but things ain't looking good for disintegration boy

-as far as i know, the bsd manga isn't ending any time soon, so it's amazing to me that the enemies are so damn tough and the stakes so widespread

-EVERYONE HAS VISIONS OF DAZAI in their darkest moments, this man haunts them!

-holy shit, something dazai ACTUALLY didn't expect. i'm scared (*getting teleported out of his bubble) 

-i think character designs are subjective, and whatever you vibe with, you vibe, and i personally really really like the bsd art. there's just something compelling about all of the characters

-i hate everything about nikolai's escape plan! i don't like us risking dazai's life and i'm sure fyodor won't die! well, dazai won't either, but I DON'T LIKE THIS. i am sigma and sigma is me in this situation

-why are bram and aya so sweet omg 

-sigma is a newborn in a word of demons (yes, i am including dazai in the demons, how could you not)

-imagine being sigma and being pointed at by dazai. you lose your shit, on the spot.

-yes, dazai, protect sigma please?

-NO! NO! CHUUYA IS A VAMPIRE?! NO!!! why?! NO! DAMN YOU! FUCK YOU FUCK YOU ASKJSFKS

-there's me watching bsd like a normal person, and then there's me rewatching dazai's scenes a couple times just to REALLY see them, you know.

-i really like the use of dimensions, even if it's frustrating when antagonists use them.

-kenji-kun <3

-tetchou and jouno though

-dazai at sigma: "you're pretty sharp for a three-year-old" LMFAO DAZAI NO

-oooh, he's THE ATSUSHI-TYPE, that's why i like sigma! that makes sense

-aha. i mean. dazai is communicating with ango by manipulating his heart rate through a sensor. and ango communicates with dazai via the frequency and duration of miss stopping time. and dazai/ango/miss stopped time presumably after the nikolai incident, so that dazai could pop out to incapacitate the guards and change the passcodes. okay. does poor ango ever sleep? i mean, it makes sense! it does! but you also gotta roll with it a little.

-a demon. a menace. that's dazai.

-AKUTAGAWA APPEARING AMONG THE AGENCY MEMBERS IN ATSUSHI'S VISION, ARGH <3

-you know what's stupid, dazai has a way of making everyone 80% more interesting than they'd be otherwise

-yes, fyodor, i'm also interested in dazai's "shallowness of bond with the gravity manipulator," i think there's more to that part.

-i love seeing dazai not have an answer or not having calculated something, even if it's for a second (and it’s usually just for a second).

-i hate fyodor so much but i love that. he's an excellent villain and foil to dazai. i don't want him gone but also i REALLY WANT HIM GONE, but also really not.

-i thought dazai would fucking kiss sigma to give him air wth

-we're taking sigma to the agency after this, right? if he wants.

-oh wait, dazai has bandages over his ankles too?

-ahahaha, atsushi going "akutagawa, it's me, don't you recognize me," as though aku-kun hasn't tried to kill him fifty times. oh atsu-kun <3

-i'm sorry what, dazai's leg's broken? and he's bleeding? no no no that's not the deal, DAZAI DOESN'T GET HURT, REMEMBER, WE'VE BEEN OVER THIS, REMEMBER

-"dazai wins control over me" sigma, once again we're the one and the same

-i'm sorry, fyodor just stabbed sigma and i'm like, i love fyodor. i hate fyodor, but i love him, he's so VILLAIN, he's so good as a villain

-WDYM "our fate isn't to be done here" DAZAI, YOU LITERALLY LET CHUUYA DROWN!

-OKAY, story time. when ep 10 aired, my twitter feed was swarming with distraught bsd fans, which was odd, because i wasn't following or liking anything related to bsd. at the time, i was very emotionally fragile fandom-wise, and i knew i'd eventually watch bsd, and the collective meltdown of the fandom scared me so much that i was like "NO! NO I CAN'T GO THROUGH THIS AGAIN, I NEED TO BE PREPARED! I NEED TO KNOW IF DAZAI DIES!" note, i had no idea who dazai was, i just liked his face. so i clicked on a few posts. my takeaways then: 1) at the time i thought chuuya and dazai WERE the agency and was like, "wait, chuuya is a bad guy?" 2) i saw atsushi and kunikida and  i was like "wait, there's protags in this show other than dazai and chuuya?!" 3) people having a major meltdown 4) people saying "there's no way they're dead" and 5) and i remember this comment very clearly, it said "aren't they immortal at this point?" and clueless me thought, "they're actually immortal? what are the stakes then?" to be clear, i went into the anime thinking they're immortal or would become immortal at some point. so. yes. i knew about this and i also knew they survive. but nothing more, no context. just the collective relief that followed. only, i actually remember seeing pics of atsushi and kukinida dead, which... it never happened, why do i have this memory? i probably mixed it all together at some point.

-FUKUZAWA, WHAT A CHAMP

-dazai-kun: has a stupidly convoluted plan to communicate with the outside. fyodor: i have accomplishes :3 eeeh, i don’t know. i don’t trust that he JUST had accomplices. It’s too easy compared to foil dazai, and also does it even make sense, and also would he even trust nikolai with such vital information

-LMFAO DAZAI WITH A LEG CAST and with clean face and bandages and clothes. WHEN. HOW. okay, hubbie, sure. this season is so deranged and preposterous and over the top, i love it

-bram would treat aya better than her own father, lbr

-CHUUYA ISN'T A VAMPIRE AND HE WAS WORKING WITH DAZAI ALL ALONG, HELP, HELP ME I LOVE THEM, HELP! THOSE IDIOTS! HELP!

-is someone actually dead? fyodor? and we'll never learn his ability?? idk idk, a hand doesn't make a corpse, and we did leave him with nikolai... iii don't buy it...

-DUDE the ending! the fukuzawa-fukuchi stuff, so sad, it got me, and then two hours later un-vamped aku-kun and atsushi fighting a new enemy?? who the fuck is that, what happened WITHIN TWO HOURS?! damn! i guess i'm migrating to the manga! good ending though, both a conclusion and a beginning.

-i'm so excited for all the material i've yet to discover though, like reading the manga and the spin-offs and so on, and eventually rewatching the show without the ASFKNKSLSG stress of the first watch. i'm excited.