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guess who finished a major paper and now is setting aside time on Sunday and Wednesday to finally catch up on all the posts she promised to make

#it’s me I’m that person #me: promises to post over spring break #my comm theory professor: lol. lmao even. #long story short he decided that spring break doesn’t apply to him #and announced the day before spring break started this absolutely massive paper that was due DURING spring break #That took most of the break to write #Now my class is complaining to his department head because that’s very much not allowed #anyway I’m back and I’m still alive and still gonna post

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i absolutely ADORE this blog. ive seen it in passing but am just now taking the time to read through it and oh. my. gosh.

ITS AMAZINGGGGGVFGG !!!!

i myself like dazai, love him, even. but this blog nitpicking just how much of an asshole he really is just, genuinely makes my day

cus, while yes i do really really like dazai as a character, he’s a HUGE asshole and it’s so nice to finally see someone taking the time to go through and explain each incident IN DETAIL.

you are absolutely AMAZING for creating this blog. all of your posts are so well written and easy to follow along (and this coming from a not-so-smart person :P), it’s obvious that you think through each and every one of your analysts and it’s just- oh my freaking gosh.

words really cannot explain how grateful i am that this blog exists just- thank u so much for being an awesome person !! :))

(sorry for the rant- im just fanboying over your blog)

Thank you so much for enjoying this blog!! I really appreciate that you took the time to read through most of my posts—I know there are a lot at the moment and they’re usually pretty long, so I don’t really expect anyone to make their way through that many of them.

I think people usually only read the ones that cover scenes they’re personally interested in (which is perfectly reasonable and I would do the same), so it really means a lot to me when someone goes through more posts than just the ones talking about specific characters.

Thanks again for enjoying this blog, and thanks for taking the time to send this ask!! It genuinely means so much to me when people send asks like this (I’m not great at expressing in words how much receiving asks like this affects me, but when I read this last night I did get a little emotional over it)

#anti dazai asks #I put in a lot of work into each thing I post #every anti-Dazai series entry takes at least two days #One day for analyzing and taking notes on the chapter #And one day for writing the entry #Specials usually take one day but they do take a few hours at least #Up to four hours depending on which special #So seeing that someone out there is enjoying what I post really really means so much to me #If even one person is enjoying it then it’s 100% worth it

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not gonna get around to getting an anniversary special up today but I will make one in the near future! regardless. Happy anniversary to the anti-dazai series,, thank you all for sticking around with me throughout my time of posting this!! I will continue the anti-dazai series for as long as possible, and I look forward to continuing slandering Dazai with all of you!!

#not gonna lie finals are making posting difficult #sure finals are in like a month #but it kinda seems like the professors haven’t figured that out

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I don’t think it’s a standard thing (and I don’t even know the anniversary of my main), but because of all the harassment I got right when I made this blog (which I now know is just from one person who harasses everyone, so it doesn’t reflect any larger opinions of the fandom) I feel the need to celebrate that I’ve made it this far and haven’t quit posting to the anti-dazai series or the anti-dazai blog

oh no this blog’s anniversary is in three days and I’ve planned nothing

#On the day I made this blog and only had one post up and no interaction with anyone That Person spammed me #And I wasn’t familiar enough with the fandom to know about them in advance so I thought the fandom just really wasn’t vibing with me #So I thought I’d end up discontinuing the anti-dazai series after one or two posts #But not only did I keep posting for (almost) two years now #But I now have a bunch of mutuals who enjoy insulting Dazai as much as I do #It just feels like sticking around is something worth celebrating #And I wanna post something special as a thank you to everyone for sticking around here with me

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blog’s anniversary is on Friday and I’m gonna make sure I get something posted. For real I’m gonna set time aside for making a special anniversary post

oh no this blog’s anniversary is in three days and I’ve planned nothing

#this semester is intense but I say that every semester #but it’s hard to set aside time when I spend so much time on campus #alternatively. I can maybe write stuff for this account while I’m on campus 👀 👀 #imagine sitting in the campus library with a word doc open titled Anti Dazai Series 38 #absolutely wild thought. Wild of me to think that.

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Idk if he counts as non popular, but I think poes pretty neat

I think Poe counts as unpopular— sure the ship Ranpoe is popular, but I don’t see a lot of content of just Poe alone

I love Poe (I love Karl more but shhhhh 🤫)— I know I mention it often but his ability is severely underutilized— what do you mean abilities don’t exist within his books? Why not just use his ability as makeshift nullification when Dazai’s not around? We should recruit him into the agency so that the next time Dazai’s arrested they’ll still have a way to nullify ability-related threats to Yokohama

#Also Karl could be the agency’s therapy dog #Therapy raccoon #But tbh he’s probably already Poe’s emotional support animal #I guess Atsushi’s gotta get back to being their emotional support cat #Poe bsd #bungo stray dogs #bungou stray dogs

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oh no this blog’s anniversary is in three days and I’ve planned nothing

#I’m gonna check that poll I made last year for what my other options were for last anniversary

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(I’ll get to the rest of the character asks after school! and feel free to send more even though I won’t see them until I get home)

#Such I fun little game I love hearing about your blorbos

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Kenji

He’s so blorbo-shaped and it’s sad that he’s not more people’s blorbos.

iirc he mentions (in the anime at least) that his village worked solely on a barter system and he wasn’t introduced to the concept of money until he moved to Yokohama which is just incredibly fascinating to me. I’d really love to read a thorough analysis of finances and different character’s relationship with money in bsd, because What do you mean Dazai is broke, where’s his old mafia money? What do you mean Chuuya is rich, how did he learn how to properly save and invest money?

As for Kenji, he’s the only character who’s currently in an adjusting process of going from a barter system to a cash-based economy— and it’s outright mentioned—and yet it’s never explored.

I’m probably just in School Mode right now since I just finished up with my homework, but I would totally read a twenty page dissertation on what the most likely path of adjustment would be for all the characters who experience a drastic change in financial situations.

#his ability is not my thing tbh super strength just doesn’t do it for me #But him as a character? Love him. Would love to hang out with him #He’d be such a positive influence #Spend half an hour with him and you’re leaving as a better person #kenji miyazawa #bsd #bungo stray dogs #bungou stray dogs

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I love Motojirō Kajii 🍋 First of all, his theme song is a bop. Second I love how stupid his ability is, literally how did he figure it out?? Makes me ponder about how the whole ability system works. And last he's just entertaining to watch, it's fun to watch a silly guy do his thing ✨

100% he is a very silly guy!!

tbh I’m really not a fan of his introduction— why was he bombing that train? What was he trying to accomplish? It’s not consistent with what he does throughout the rest of the manga (jobs that he’s sent to do by the PM).. but maybe the PM people just weren’t watching him too closely that day and he got bored. It’s ok he could be a little silly and do a few shenanigans. as a treat.

#kaiji motojiro #you’re so right though he is such a silly guy #Wish he was in the plot more :( #I wanna see what he does in his day to day life #I wanna see how he spends his off time #I refuse to believe that his whole life revolves around lemons #One sec lemme pull up his character sheet #nevermind I straight up cannot find his character sheet #So I’m gonna go off of what the wiki says #Oh so he likes opera #Good for him good for him #I wanna see him go to an opera in his free time #He hates main streets #I wanna see him purposely avoiding main streets #Taking a long zigzagging route #Bsd #bungou stray dogs #bungo stray dogs

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send me asks with what non-popular bsd characters you like and tell me a fun little rant about them (specifically non-popular— meaning Dazai, Chuuya, Atsushi, Akutagawa, Ranpo, Fyodor, and Nikolai are off the table)

#And any other popular character I forgot #I nearly forgot about Atsushi when listing popular characters so actually if you really love him feel free to rant about him in my asks

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thank you thank you, I’m glad that you’re not getting harassed because of me (it still sucks that you’re getting harassed though) and I’m glad you like my beautiful artwork of us enjoying Dazai

hi it’s me @anti-dazai-blog— sorry you’re getting harassed because you interact with me. I drew a picture of us being friends on a post-it note (please ignore how horrendous anime boy dazai looks here— I cannot draw anime faces)

omg hi! also dont worry about it shes just using that as "proof" i secretly hate dazai or something, if it wasnt interacting w/ you itd be something like a hc of mine thats not making dazai out to be a saint

also wdym horrendous thats a masterpiece worth at least 10 billion

#You’re right it is a masterpiece #Thank you for appraising my artwork for me.—I woulda sold it for ten cents instead of ten billion

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I see you’re getting harassed for booping me so I’m gonna boop you back.

Infinite boop attack🐈🐾🐈🐾🐈🐾🐈🐾🐈🐾🐈🐾🐈🐾🐈🐾🐈🐾🐈🐾🐈🐾🐈🐾🐈🐾🐈🐾🐈🐾🐈🐾🐈🐾

you’ve been booped.

most of my mutuals don’t have the boop feature turned on so. just know that I’m booping you. always.

#Sorry you’re dealing with that person #I honestly think the best thing to do is to ignore or block #But it’s entirely up to you. so. use your judgment for whatever’s best to do #but your mental health is important so if it starts becoming exhausting to respond you might wanna stop responding

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most of my mutuals don’t have the boop feature turned on so. just know that I’m booping you. always.

#yes this is a threat #please take it as a threat #you’ve now been booped #virtually #by me

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happy april fools day!!

#please click the link please #please trust me on this

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Hi, recently discovered your blog, love it <3

I started reading the manga around the Kamui Reveal, and back then already worried about the entire arc. Personally, the Dazai-vs-Fyodor-Setup felt undirected and predictable (back then and yet again at its end).

To me, it’s been already pointed out how Asagiri might have a hard time deleting the original cast from the story, which I don’t fault him for. (He likes creating and writing characters and you can tell, I actually love it.) My problem would just be that he needs to change stakes to the plot, it’s getting in the way of immersive storytelling (because he seldomly pulls through with the stakes long-term regarding the original character cast.)

You can actually write a story with good stakes that are consequential to actions without killing characters off; if you do it well, not having death threats hanging over every characters heads won’t take away from the story. (However, with a setting and worldbuilding like bsd it’s a little unrealistic to not have death as side effect/consequence or characters die.)

Back to the arc that’s been going on for years, it feels weird (unplanned), because that’s opposite to how the previous arcs (and especially the light novels) felt and it’s one of the longest arcs; I would have assumed Asagiri had something in mind for a proper (plot)conclusion (it’s a personal opinion that this arc is not properly concluded (currently)).

When we had chuuya drowns and dazai gets shot scenes, I wasn’t for one second thinking they actually died, I was thinking, how is Asagiri gonna write himself out of these scenes (because to me it felt like he didn’t have a solution, reviving the characters, prior to their death scenes), which is a pretty non immersive experience as a reader.

And it’s really weird to me, because I can’t think of a good reason of how all this happened.

Asagiri is not a bad writer, that’s established and the (i think) last „side“ project Stormbringer was exceptional (personal opinion (and I was still baffled(slight negative connotation) at Verlaine being kept alive (who knows wether he will play a role in the future)), it’s really weird thinking about Stormbringer and this arc being written out at a similar time. (I personally have a theory as to why the light novels are so good: He likes writing snd creating characters, but having them interact in this huge cast and series is understandably difficult, whereas the light novels can be seen as a backstory/part of a character, something he is incredibly good at constructing.(He also doesn’t really struggle killing off people here, because the consequences don’t affect the main story.))

He doesn’t „pander“ to people either I think, or at least it wouldn’t make sense. Bsd might possibly have attracted a shounen audience, but it got popular because of seinen themes and characters (which affects the plot) in the first place, so changing things towards to a shounen lane would be dumb, and also not something like Asagiri would do.

I’ve also skimmed across my rant here and I sound like I hate the arc or his writing, but I actually don’t haha, I actually liked a lot of this arc, themes and characters and still have faith in him as an author and this series, it’s just these particular things that kinda hugely scratch my opinion on this arc and how what’s currently happening feels like a non-answer to everything that came before it.

I’m interested in hearing your opinion on this, if you want to take the time for this huge complaint rant (I’m not mad if you don’t haha), in which ways you agree/disagree/could possibly educate me further.

You blog overall is really cool, love your analyses; lots of love <33

Thank you for the ask, I’m so glad you’re enjoying this blog!!!

You’ve summed up the current arc’s issues perfectly— it seems to be out of place when compared to everything else Asagiri wrote in both the previous arcs and the light novels. It came across as aimless— as if Asagiri himself wasn’t sure where he was going with it and was as taking it chapter by chapter.

That being said, I do believe that it might just be a matter of personal taste—maybe Asagiri’s tastes in storytelling has changed over the years, and the current arc is the type of stuff he’d be more interested to write about going forward. I’d be a bit disappointed if that’s the case (and as far as I could tell, I won’t be the only one), but he might form a new fanbase that this current type of story is more catered to.

Either way, I still have hope that future bsd arcs might revert back to how bsd used to be four years ago.

#anti dazai asks #I started watching bsd in 2021 and back then the manga arc didnt feel so different from the overall tone of the beginning anime arcs #It started getting weird in 2022 I think

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👀 👀 not ignoring your asks, I’ve been busy lately but I’ll get to them before April

#Had midterms #And as soon as midterm ended i caught the flu #Literally the day after midterms #did not even get to enjoy being done with them :(