There may still be multi-fan-read audiobooks for the Leagues and Legends trilogy by @ink-splotch in the works(?), and there are some chapters read by the author on Patreon, and hopefully there will exist many different glorious and powerful versions...
BUT because most of my many rereads of this series have been me reading aloud to people I love and because I would have made this for those people to have forever anyway, I figured I'd share it with the community at large:
(a very unofficial) beanstalk audiobook!
If you know of a good place to put this to be more accessible, let me know - hopefully it'll give people a way into (or a way back to) a world that so many of us adore <3
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Spoilers for Bungou Stray Dogs Manga and Anime
So recently one of my favorite anime reaction you tubers, Danny Motta reacted to episodes 3-4 of season five of Bungou. Also known as the episodes where Fukuchi fucks some shit up.
During this episode Danny was ranting and raving about how much he loved Fukuchi as an antagonist, and how cool space time sword was.
And while I think the space time sword is so ridiculous and overpowered it doesn't even deserve to be capitalized, I kind of see where he's coming from in term's of Fukuchi himself.
Because I hate Fukuchi in terms of how his actions effect some of my favorites. But from a writing perspective he's actually an amazing antagonist. Specifically for this story.
Bungou Stray Dogs has made a habit of having not necessarily bad antagonists, but I always feel like they're too easy to defeat. That or they end up switching sides.
The first two seasons are essentially just the ADA picking up random allies from organizations that are supposed to be antagonistic. The issue isn't that they make allies of enemies. It's how quickly it happens, how easily the supposed to be antagonists flip sides.
Then for season three, it was just kinda meh in my opinion. The antagonists were nobody's. Only Fyodor really matters in the grand scheme of it all, but this was mainly to set up bigger things between him and Dazai. Probably a foreshadowing(?) of their face off in Mersault. And then even now, he's really only effecting Dazai, sigma, and Chuuya
Then we have the Hunting Dogs. A step up as antagonists. They get two seasons that focus on them as a group, their motivations. So when Tetcho ends up befriending Kenji it feels more earned as opposed to when other enemies have become allies in the past.
But still with two of the four actual Hunting Dogs "gone" they're kind of in shambles. So while I think they're interesting, they aren't great antagonists currently.
Which leaves Fukuchi.
Now, I dislike Fukuchi because he keeps killing ("killing" let me be delulu) my favorite characters.
But writing wise, he's one of the best antagonists the show has presented.
He's actually decently strong. If we take Space Time Sword out of the equation, he's not unbeatable. But he's certainly not easy to defeat. Clear by how he did have to pull out his stupid hack sword to get him out of a pinch.
He presents Atsushi and the gang an actual challenge. Someone who won't just be beat over the course of a season. He has motivations personal to the main cast, and all of the things he's done have personal ramifications.
It's perfect. Plus he's easily hateable, making me certain there's no redemption for him. Only a lifetime in Jail or a bittersweet death.
So while he's definitely a frustrating character to watch, he works perfectly writing wise.
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