#trickster edogawa ranpo shounen tanteidan

[ghostscrown]

Being a Bungou Stray Dogs fan AND a Trickster : Edogawa Ranpo "Sounen Tanteidan" Yori fan is so wild because like. I understood both all of the references to the original Shounen Tanteidan in BSD, and the similarities that weren't necessarily in Shounen Tanteidan in the first place, since I watched Trickster first – maybe, I don't remember which one I watched first tbh (super powers detectives agency, guy who fails to kill himself again and again, literal Edogawa Ranpo, ykwim). But BSD season 5 ? The SECOND Fukuchi said "they call me the man of a Hundred Faces" I immediately knew where this was going, I was like "how THE HELL didn't I understand sooner this guy was the BSD equivalent of Twenty Faces when I knew Fukuzawa is literally the equivalent of Akechi Kogoro" ???

This was so insane from my POV you have no idea, the parallels in my mind when Fukuchi tried to manipulate Akutagawa (just like Twenty Faces tried to manipulate Hanasaki), the war flashbacks with Fukuchi and Fukuzawa (just like Twenty Faces and Akechi) when Atsushi was trying to talk to manipulated-vampire Akutagawa (just like Kobayashi talking to manipulated Hanasaki) the twisted motivations of Fukuchi (just like Twenty Faces), EVERYTHING. I was insane watching this season, this was not the same but so similar it feels like parallel universes istg, and no one is talking about this since Trickster is like completely unknown to everyone except a few people

(And that's another Twenty Faces anime guy to add to the list ig)

[jamsofdeath0]

Trickster is objectively kinda bad but I'm rewatching it and I can really see why the first episode gripped not only me but so many people.

It has a really strong start.

[jaykinarts]

More old artt but bringing back my bois because I miss them

[blvcklizard]

You know what, I'm gonna say it. Trickster is objectively speaking mediocre at best, but the way they handled Kobayashi's powers in the epilogue was amazing.

His powers didn't disappear. Whether he wore shoes because he had to (the barrier growing weaker) or wanted to, he was facing forward, he had hope for the future. He found a place to belong, a purpose in life, a boyfriend and friends, and he was happy.

And despite all that, he still wanted to die.

His powers didn't just disappear completely. And like, of course they wouldn't, but it's so rare to see media actually show that. From what I've seen, if a character's suicidal tendencies are relevant to the plot, they'll either forget about it completely once their journey is over, die, or the story ends before anything is resolved and leaves it up to interpretation what happens next.

But Kobayashi? After everything that happened, his powers were still there. And it would have been so easy to drop this detail, to show that Kobayashi's powers are gone or even just leave it open, but they didn't.

I've seen many people complain about the ending of Trickster, but actually I think it's one of the best things in the whole anime.

[ash-edits]

Trickster AMV

Anime : Trickster : Edogawa Ranpo "Shounen Tanteidan" Yori

Music : Fall Out Boy - The Phœnix

[ash-ooz]

Kobayashi, again-

(Scene of the final episode)

[kaicons]

★ yoshio kobayashi icons ☆

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[anim-u-world]

[kagehinataboke]

Edogawa Ranpo: Shounen Tanteidan Yori [Trickster] appreciation gifset

[the-insanity-of-mojiru]

I did not take a single good picture of myself this entire con.

Meme version

[onigiriico]

Me messing around with Blingee bc it’s a great way to procrastinate homework ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[blvcklizard]

Small list of villains my mind has compared to him for more or less obscure reasons so far:

Fukuchi from BSD

Tsubaki from Servamp

Mashiro from Kumichou Musume to Sewagakari

[thatdambingewatcher]

I’m bringing back trickster memes for you @exdeath-chan

[kuronashiro]

[musicinanime]

combination - Yuki Hayashi

Anime: Trickster