Random theory/thoughts I have after reading Bsd chapter 113
Spoilers for that
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Dazai said to Sigma that he needed him to use his ability to find out what Fyodor's future plans were.
Granted, he said he needed to do that to Fyodor's corpse, and Sigma uses his ability on Fyodor while he's alive. Fyodor holds his hand out and let's him.
But I'm assuming the original plan stays the same, find out Fyodor's plans. And we know Fyodor's plan revolves around getting the book.
So if what were seeing, fits that ideal that implies Fyodor's been looking for the book for a long time. Maybe part of the reason he's at Bram's castle is because he heard it was here.
Maybe.
So that begs the question, if the book is as old as Fyodor is being made out to be.... What about it's guide?
Now, I'm not saying Atsushi is that old. I'm saying the tiger might be. The tiger is the guide, so it stands to reason if the books that old than so is it.
A guide, maybe even a protector over the book that can rewrite reality itself. And we know abilities can be passed on when the user is dying or after death.
Perhaps the first user of Beast Beneath the Moonlight passed it onto their children, and so on and so fourth. Or the tiger itself picks who it believes is worthy.
Someone full of light who will guide the book and not use it for their own selfish desires.
Because of that Fyodor is always on the hunt for the next tiger ability user, world's longest cat and mouse game in history.
Maybe Fyodor found the previous weilder, or if they were one of Atsushi's parents.
And that's why he knew that Atsushi had the ability in the first place. Because he's been chasing the tiger for years.
The book could very well have bern the book Atsushi finds and quotes. Maybe Natsume, who's a whole other mystery found out and he took the book to Yokohama.
Realising Atsushi was just a child and not wanting him to burden him with the task just yet.
And also so that he can put his own plans into action, and gave one of its pages to the Special Division.
Whatever the case maybe, if this involves Fyodor's future plans I don't see how it couldn't be linked go the book. And if the book's involved, Atsushi will be too.
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Okay, so i thought long and hard about this, and i just thought that, this season can't end on a cliffhanger right?
Episode 10 ended halfway through ch 110; so if we think that the remaining .5 chapter takes a minute or two, so excluding op and ed we have 18-19 mins of anime only episode.
But then there isn't anything else remaining in this whole arc that they can leave the 11th episode on a cliffhanger and pick up in season 6 and have enough storyline to last that whole season (or even half). This whole decay of angels things is stretched thin as is, any more and it won't make any sense.
(I'm conveniently going to ignore the fact that the new episode is titled 'Twilight Goodbye'; theories aside, that shit sound terribly depressing. My soukoku heart cant take the possibility of it really being a goodbye...)
I also know that the whole mess getting magically cleared in one episode seems like a pipe-dream (unless the episode is 40-45 mins long); but spilling over next season to wrap this up in another two episodes seems weird anime pacing.
So i can only think that someone missing from the story till now is going to come in at this last moment to set things straight.
The only people still unaccounted for in all this mess are:
Yosano
Kyoka
Mori
Koyo
Verlaine (does he count if he isn't yet introduced in anime or main story?)
Katai
Naomi
Natsume sensei
Kajii (?)
the whole of Guild
I have a feeling that since Yosano was no where near the airport, or even in Anne's room, means she is away from this whole scene and possibly ready to jump in to save Dazai (i really hope) because the ADA members don't exactly need her there at this moment they can survive off the machines a bit longer, but Dazai needs to be saved.
Then we need someone to overpower Fukuchi if we are thinking of taking one order back from him...
Also, someone to outsmart Fyodor now...
All of ADA is down... So in a situation like this, i think the PM top brass (Mori, Koyo and Verlaine) coming through in the clutch would make more sense. The DOA marked them off in their first move, severely underestimated them...
Mori for all his vices is a very cunning man, he has an ability to be cool and calculating, and arrive at an the optimal solution without letting emotions interrupt his decision making. He is a war veteran, he knows how a war is fought and won and he is ready to take any means necessary, however ugly, to reach his end goal. With a bit of intel about the battle field, he can turn the tides in their favour. He already knew about Tachihara, so i don't think he will just sit back after knowing what dangers are just round the corner. He would have started planning then only, if not earlier.
I don't know how can one win over Fukuchi at this point, till the time he has that damn sword, he seems invincible (plot armour and all that crap included), but i think Natsume sensei will have seen him in his cat form, so i really hope he will have a plan to deal with that too...
We also don't know where the big hitters from guild are, Fitzgerald himself is a whole package and he even has eyes of god; something that was used against Fyodor before this... sooooo.....
OR the vampirism get's lifted and this time Shin soukoku finally beat the crap out of Fukuchi, i would love to see that...
Is there anything else that can happen?
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so i just read this post and realized that they’re kinda right, someone has the book right now or at least knows where it is. and i have a theory that i needed to rant about so here it is
an analysis on what the hecc the book situation is because nobody else wants to talk about it
because we’re all too busy talking about soukoku and shin soukoku
🔺spoiler warning for the manga, the Untold Origins light novel, and Beast🔻
my theories are epic novel-length posts so there’s a tldr below the cut that summarizes everything into a paragraph
heres my "this post is literally the length of an epic novel" summary: none of the organizations seen within the manga have the book in their possession. using context clues from both the manga and the light novels, there's proof of this. my personal theory is that Sōseki Natsume at the very least knows where the book is due to context from his main role in the plot of bsd (creating the Tripartite Framework), and details from the Untold Origins light novel.
we’re ignoring the typos in the translation okay this was the only image i could find
i’m going to start with who we know doesn’t have the book
The Order of the Clocktower, the Guild(old and new), and the Decay of the Angel
why am i so sure? we saw 2 of the groups here in the beginning of the Guild arc in the manga in a meeting discussing how they were going to retrieve the book in Yokohama: the Guild (duh) and the Clocktower the anime omits this scene and it makes me so angry bcuz it’s important context. the third group comes in because Dostoy was also part of this meeting while being the leader of the sewer Rats (in the house of the dead), and the DoA needed to steal the government’s book page for their master plans. so boom 3 birds with one stone (book?). we also know the new guild doesn’t have the book as the only member we see is Steinbeck, who is currently busy doing who knows what since the last time we saw him was chapter 44… presumably he’s rebuilding the Guild, but i personally doubt he’ll come back into the story again anyway.
let’s move on to the groups who are in a grey area…
the Armed Detective Agency, and the Special Divisions (and the Transcendents and the Seventh Agency?)
ok so i’m going to start with the ADA, and focus on the one character who talks the most about the book in the entire agency: Dazai. he seems to be the only agency member (besides Ranpo) who knows what this book is, what it does, AND how to use it. there’s a specific scene i also want to mention, and that’s when Dazai meets Dostoy in the alley after Dostoy stabby stabs Mori and Dostoy declares why he wants the book, and Dazai basically just dares him to try doing it. he doesn’t say it won’t work, he doesn’t seem surprised/shocked at all (which we see Dazai express while talking to Dostoy in prison) Dazai just says to try it if he can. this leads me to believe that Dazai either 1. knows where the book is, and that it’s near-impossible to attain or 2. knows that writing this in the book won’t work because the book may be someone’s ability, and writing a world with no gifted would create a singularity since it would be the only world with no book in it (there is a book in Beast is my proof) so the world wouldn’t be created, since the book seems to need to exist for the world itself to exist. i could also just be completely wrong on both of those fronts and Dazai was just being his usual self by antagonizing Dostoy with this line, but since Dazai is basically talking to a mirror version of himself intelligence-wise, Dazai probably didn’t just say this line for nothing.
the SD is in the grey area because they had a literal page that was ripped straight out of the book itself. i see this kind of has 2 possible explanations:
1. they have the book in their possession, somewhere. the where isn’t important, but the fact that they have a page that they were experimenting with means that it’s possible they are the ones with the book itself as well. do i think this is highly unlikely? yes, but we’ll get there.
2. they know who has the book, and got the page from them in exchange for something. this theory, in my own opinion based on the information from both the manga and the light novels, makes the most sense to me. they only had the one page, and after it got stolen, nothing was mentioned about procuring a new page to continue working with, nor was there anything said about the book in general really. Ango is really our only window into the SD, and he’s working with the ADA to get the page back and defeat Dostoy and the Hunting Dogs, but we don’t really even see much of him in the story tbh *cries*
the only reason why i mentioned the Transcendents here is because we’ve seen absolutely nothing about them so far in the manga, and the only light novel stuff about them is in 55 Minutes, and it’s still only a passing mention of them. Verlaine was/is? a member, but still nothing is talked about and we haven’t even seen Verlaine in the main manga series. he’s the only executive who’s listed in the official wiki who we have yet to see in the main story, despite his importance in Chuuya’s history. i guess we could also count the “Colonel” as another executive who we never see either, but he died during the Dragon’s Head Conflict so 🤷♀️
i mention the Seventh Agency for the same reason. we know nothing about them except they’re a secret government organization that works to literally just erase crimes. but, i also don’t believe they have the book either because they’re part of the government and the government seems to only have the single page. this would also make sense when we find out that the DoA stole the page using their government connections. one would think that if the government had the whole book, they would go for that instead of the singular page, so this leads me to believe that the government doesn’t have the book
ok, my final point is the longest point so let’s just move on to who i think has the book or at least knows where the book is in Yokohama
Sōseki Natsume
why, you ask? well, good frickin question tbh because we see a total of like 5 panels of him not being a cat in the entire manga but just hear me out okay?
Natsume is the creator of the Tripartite Framework, which is what keeps balance over Yokohama through the Special Divisions, the ADA, and the Port Mafia. why would he need to create this? to protect the book from enemy organizations. if you think about it, we still don’t really know why Natsume made this huge and incredibly thought out plan to have 3 insanely powerful organizations watch over Yokohama besides “to preserve balance and order”. what if it’s to protect both Yokohama, and by proxy the book (and the entire world), from enemy organizations?? this would make sense as a motive, since Natsume obviously can’t do it all by himself, and the SD is a government organization meant to protect gifted, they have like 3 gifted members and that’s it besides the Hunting Dogs (and oh boy did that not work out in the end), and have been shown to hold no power over gifted organizations like the Guild. and the Port Mafia, while strong by themselves, needed allies and also needed to be in some kind of agreement with Natsume and said ally organizations in order to function as protectors over Yokohama. this is where the ADA was created, with Natsume as the sole backer in procuring the Gifted Business Permit so that Fukuzawa could create the ADA, and Natsume did this after creating the partnership between Fukuzawa and Mori (which later backfired on a personal level, but they still work together despite their history).
this one is going to be a stretch… but paying close attention to conversations between characters is extraordinarily important in bsd. so here i am about to over-analyze a conversation that happened between Natsume and (none other than) Oda Sakunosuke. during the Dark Era backstory for Dazai, whenever i went back to reread this storyline, i found myself focusing on anyone BUT Dazai. after reading it a couple of times and breaking my heart every damn time, i realized the character i wanted to focus the most on was Oda and his interaction with Natsume. this became especially true after i read The Day I Picked Up Dazai, and learned that the novel Natsume gives Oda is missing the final pages, which according to Dazai, are the most important as it explains why an assassin stopped killing. i found this tiny fact extremely interesting, as Natsume tells Oda to write what happens next himself, referring to why the assassin stopped killing. it’s unclear whether Natsume knew who Oda was or not, but this alone is interesting because it’s implying that Oda should write about his own life. Natsume also says that writing novels is writing people, and it’s about their lives, which is exactly what the book is if you look at the context that was given to us by Dazai in the Beast world. we can assume the book works the same way in the canon (for lack of a better term) world as it does in the Beast world, except for one thing: Dazai in Beast refers to his canon self as the original Dazai, and says that the Beast world is capable of disappearing if the book is used, but he never once says that the original world is capable of disappearing. i think this piece of context is important because it implies that there was another world that got overwritten by the Beast world by someone using the book. i think Natsume is referring to this when he tells Oda that writing novels is writing about people’s lives, implying that he knows that other worlds, and therefore other lives, have been created with the book and exist within the book’s world so to speak
do i think Natsume’s ability has anything to do with the book? no, absolutely not. i have no proof and no context to believe that his ability is related to the book at all. except for that one panel of Ranpo saying that the book is “too powerful” to be someone’s ability. but, i do have one more point, and it’s a piece of information that comes from the light novel The Untold Origins of the Detective Agency. when Ranpo gets a hold of Natsume’s cane, it’s discovered that there’s witness protection technology hidden in it. this means he has a strong connection to the government, and he can remain invisible to the public eye. why would he, a random man in a suit with tri-colored hair and the ability to turn into a cat, be part of the witness protection program? because he knows where the book is, and gave the government a single page. and why would he agree to give the government a single page? to get a Gifted Business Permit for the ADA in exchange.
well, that's all the information i really have about this. so i guess i'll leave my book theory there (thank you for reading you're all greatly appreciated) and here’s a bonus Sigma-related theory
in the original post linked at the top of this one, it's about how Sigma is supposedly from the book itself. i think this is true, and the reason why, is still because of Natsume. since Natsume probably knows where the book is, he could potentially use it as well. and i think he did, to create Sigma. why? his gift. Sigma's gift is so oddly specific that i just couldn't ignore it. it's an information exchange gift, where Sigma touches a target in order to exchange information he wants to know, for information the target wants to know. why would a person with this gift be needed? the government wants it to exist. and how would they get Natsume to do this? well, he seems to know about Dazai at least a little bit (since he knew to give specifically him important information during the Cannibalism arc) so i think that in exchange for Natsume using the book, they would help erase Dazai’s crimes so he could join the ADA (which, need i remind you, is something Natsume helped create). unfortunately, i can't explain why Sigma was “born” in a desert and then picked up by the DoA, but this mini theory based entirely on my own speculation i think at least sheds some light onto how Sigma was created from the book itself instead of the page. it would also make sense in the context that the book requires things to be written in a certain way, so creating an entire person from nothing would undoubtedly require more than a single page or half of a page to create.
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