#maybe not the tanizaki

[calmlb]

dear everyone who believed Tanizaki & Naomi were actually siblings…

[telephonedear]

i see your “naomi is an illusion” theory and raise you: what if tanizaki is the illusion?

[steven-has-exploded]

okay ive looked over the last few chapters and the various amenogozen deaths after about a day of crisis and confusion, and ive noticed a couple things about junichirous death in specific that i think are more than worth noting

firstly, amenogozen seems to show some kind of pity for kunikida and his state of shock before it kills him, and even as its stabbing its sword into his stomach. it lets him attempt to pull it out with no resistance, albeit acting as if it makes no sense by saying it cant truly harm him- though this could potentially be seen as an attempt to "console" him

junichirou, on the other hand? nothing. amenogozen stabs the illusion he created of himself with no hesitation, and no words to spare. when it locates the real junichirou, it coldly stabs him through the brain and out the eye from behind, where he couldnt have even tried to locate its attack

under cut is further rambling, warning for that one page where junichirou gets stabbed in the eye + mentions of sexual abuse

narratively, this is definitely because of the explicit bloodlust junichirou expressed towards amenogozen; it attacked as quickly as possible with as little chance for him to fight back because he's obviously dangerous, and fyodor instructed it to kill all of the ada members there as soon as possible. but, in a more metaphorical sense, especially when comparing it to kunikidas "death" (hes not dead i dont believe any of them are like seriously) it gets. um. upsetting

considering the way it seemed to try and console kunikida as i mentioned earlier, comparisons can be drawn to that of an abusive parent, although ill just be saying its an unspecified authority figure for the sake of this rant. in this metaphor, junichirou seems to play the role of the "disobedient" victim; whereas kunikida was frozen in place and didnt do much to fight against amenogozen attacking himself specifically, junichirou was immediately aggressive and threatened amenogozen, prompting it to "punish" him as soon as possible

now, this on its own is far from groundbreaking; if you did a drinking game for every time a character was mentioned to have been abused by an authority figure in bsd youd be dead before episode 6, but its the specific imagery evoked in junichirous death scene that really gets to me

looking at this page more closely, especially in the first and third panels, brought up some EXTREMELY unsavory implications for me. the specific way that the action of him being stabbed is drawn, what with the blood oozing from around his whole eye and the way you can just barely make out what looks like the inside of the eye socket, all exacerbated by amenogozen practically pulling his hair to keep him in place and unable to fight back... look im not gonna pretend like this isnt based off my preexisting perception of junichirou and his trauma but oh my god this feels so much like an allegory for some kind of sexual exploitation, especially the fact it was the EYE in particular which is an already existing opening in the body kind of

could this just be me going insane? very much so, not gonna deny it. do i fullheartedly believe thats whats being pointed at here? yeah actually

and the worst part of it is that junichirou is just so dejected during this whole thing. he pointed out his location to amenogozen when it stabbed his illusion, phrased his request to atsushi as if it were last words, and was just in general so horribly unsurprised by the attack. whatever this is symbolizing, my personal interpretation or not, junichirou has grown so used to it he cant even bring himself to act like he really cares about it anymore. youre going to hell kafka asagiri

[wistfullywaiting2]

Multiple members of the agency stay on standby throughout their day and even at night. Here’s how I think it’d work and who’d willingly put themselves on standby.

(This is a headcanon, not canon information.)

Atsushi stays on standby and can be called throughout any point of the day, even when asleep. Almost every member of the agency understands not to call him through his work number unless it’s an emergency or during work hours. He agreed to stay on standby because he needed the extra money when he first started working at the agency and forgot to ever resign from that.

Ranpo stays on standby because nobody has the guts to call him unless its really important and if it’s really urgent then it’s more likely to be interesting. He also feels somewhat responsible for the agency and wants to make sure everyone knows to call him if something is genuinely wrong.

Yosano stays on standby because if she doesn’t someone could die. Most members of the agency are not stupid enough to piss her off by getting gravely injured late at night so she doesn’t get called in very often. Of course she also gets a break from being on standby quite frequently because being responsible for the lives of others is a very exhausting task and Fukuzawa tries to pay as much attention to her mental health as he can.

Junichiro is not on standby, he agreed to be on standby when he joined the agency for the same reasons Atsushi did but is usually a bigger problem than any threat worth calling him for if you wake him up so he was forcibly removed from standby by Fukuzawa himself after Fukuzawa called him past midnight for a rather important reason and received seven death threats in the span of twenty four seconds.

Kenji is technically on standby but everyone only calls his personal number because they feel bad waking him up.

Kyoka tried to volunteer to be on standby but Atsushi was so vehemently against it that it concerned the other members of the agency and nobody was willing to unpack that can of worms.

Fukuzawa is technically on standby??? Nobody calls him at all but he’s technically on standby. Once asked kunikida why nobody called him after like three members of the agency were called out and Kunikida nearly pissed his pants. (Ranpo later told him that most members of the agency are intimidated by him and he tried to fix it by hanging out in the main office but he just scared them all a bit more.)

[baileyfox1999]

Astushi Junichirou Tachihara kenj and Akutagawa should all have a boys night where they do stupid shit and get into trouble

[callmekebs]

I’m reading bsd BEAST rn… Junichiro and Akutagawa need to kiss right NOW or I’m gonna lose it.

[nyxi-pixie]

i know some ppl dont ship skk and thats fine but im going to explode if i see one more person say theyre sibling coded

[rimbaudthursday]

so who is going to transfer from the agency to the port mafia

okok i thoughts they are not in any way coherent but im trying my best

first i think it depends on how the ada n pm are going about choosing.. is it just mori?? do the executives have a say??? unlikely but are other members like aku or the black lizard involved?? or is the agency choosing someone to send off?? is it fukuzawas choice?????

i may be biased as a tanizaki hater but i honestly hate the theory that it's going to be him bc the black lizard said he had a useful ability for assassination. he might have interesting interactions with the rest of the pm?? him n aku bc of their dynamic in beast is so!!

i doubt its going to be yosano, dazai, or kyouka. yh sure the angst is angsting but narratively it would feel so boring. nobody in the agency would let it be yosano so she's definitely out.

kyouka has potential to be interesting (especially since she has no canon interactions with gin((besides wan ithink???) n verlaine) but it would end up defeating the point of her whole arc. like ur telling me she put in all that work to leave the pm n accept her place in the light only to go back to the pm???? i can't see verlaine being happy about her rejoining either 0_o

dazai....... -_- again i think it would make a large part of his development redundant. don't even get me started on "dazais gonna join the pm n take it down from inside" IMM FOAMING AT THE MOUTH RN/NEG SO NEG

what would be the point in anyone trying to dismantle the pm??+?!!? its not like they're an active antagonist they haven't been since the guild showed up. there's no purpose in destroying the alliance NOT TO MENTION IT WOULD BE SO MF BORING IF THAT HAPPENDED WHAT we've seen the pm as enemies already then it stopped we're done just say you want it for the angst n leave

[tochugesya]

bored as hell so i put the ada members in college/their majors:

kunikida - depends. if we follow "the ada path" his (dumbass) would study politics and go to law school. if we don't, biochemistry in a research university.

yosano - medicine and female studies double major in a women's university.

tanizaki - culinary school with a scholarship.

kenji - horticulture in a small college in sendai.

kyouka: veterinary in a small college in sendai too. do not separate.

ranpo: criminal justice in the same university as fukuzawa

atsushi: social work. focused in children/broken families.

fukuzawa: japanese history in some private, old university.

dazai: physics in a research university.

[calitsnow]

So many things to say regarding the end of this arc of Bungou Stray Dogs but this is what I want to share the most, because I have been saving this for months

Don't forget, the ride is not over ...

I didn't the anime was going to overtake the manga, I was so surprised but oh boy what a ride to get here, so much pain

[the-port-mafia]

Can Atsushi get a break, please?

I swear, if he has to watch Tanizaki die too😭

[sskk-manifesto]

Atsushi's back in the game!!! ۶( ˆ o ˆ )

[silly-glamourous-gory-crafttime]

thinking abt who is going to be transferred into the mafia after this and while there is 0.001% chance it's kenji that would be soo interesting

[kauenelikha]

Will forever be mad at how canon absolutely WASTED the potential their sibling dynamics could've had. The Tanizakis? Sure sometimes we get Junichirou going apeshit over Naomi being threatened but. That's it? Beyond that there's only creepy jokes, no normal interactions. The Akutagwas? We see them together ONCE. And Gin's presence in that episode was more of a tool to introduce Katai. Where's the drama? The worry? They're both front liners for a strong and dangerous organisation. Hell Akutagawa almost died fighting Atsushi. Granted we didn't know at that point and Gin does swoop in to save him. Never do we see them talk after that episode.

Like look at BEAST. They did such a good job with it. Gin's an actual person too.

Imagine the parallels we could've had. How one pair interacts because they were brought up in the mafia compared to the other getting to live in a normal(ish) environment.

Maybe that wouldn't work so well given Noami's a non combatant but ugghhh.

[deeez-n]

hate actually giving a fuck abt side characters😭 "u just want to be different" no person willingly has made up lore abt naomi and the bible dude

[karmicpunishment]

can i be so real rn i really don't enjoy the "dazai will join the port mafia again" theories lol

like nothing against ppl who like 'em, obviously, i just think its. the least interesting route to take in this story and kind of goes against all the themes of the overall plot.

though i wouldn't mind a "dazai sets himself up to be transferred but the other agency members stop it" kind of plotline