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amethystroselily · 2 years

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Hey, do you think Dazai is actually mentally and emotionally healthier in the ADA than he was in the mafia ? Or is he just pushing through for Oda's sake ? There's a theory that in the canon manga too, Dazai will get hold of the Book (and even maybe planned all his actions towards that goal) and use it to rewrite the world so Oda lives, probably jeopardizing others and ADA members like he did in Beast. Do you think that's possible ?

And please only answer at your conveniencr

I used to think he was doing about the same mentally, but after reading stormbringer he’s definitely doing better mentally in the ADA. I think the only reason he joined them in the first place was bc of Oda, but I think he’s doing much better now that he’s there in a less traumatizing environment and has been given a purpose. He’s not exactly mentally healthy, but he’s mostly stable now. Like I’m sure he has bad moments where he wants to give up and I’m sure Oda’s his main motivation to keep going when that happens, but I do think he’s generally doing better in the ADA. Although I do feel like prison might have done some damage there…

The relationships he has in the ADA on the other hand? They feel a bit, idk, fake? Shallow? Unfulfilling? Distant? Idk. Like it feels like he cares about all of them, but it’s more related to what they represent than them as actual people. The only two people in the entire ADA it actually feels like he’s close with are Atsushi and Kunikida. And he’s not really open with any of them. But I think that’s just because he got so thoroughly betrayed by like three people he opened up to in dark era that he just developed even worse trust issues than he already had.

I do think the Beast AU ending is still very plausible though. I kind of feel like that is how the series is going to end.

Well I’m kind of torn. Because on one hand he genuinely seems to want to be better, but on the other hand he was doing that for Oda in the first place and he has seemed very willing to completely screw over anyone and everyone he knows to reach his goals since day one. And like I’m not entirely sure we even know what his goals actually are. Presumably it’s to save the world, but he’s secretive and shady enough that it’s possible he has ulterior motives we don’t know about. Or, maybe he thinks resetting the universe and saving is what’s best for everyone.

Wait! Holy fuck! I just had an epiphany. The beast light novel never got to the current arc. Maybe Oda’s ability is the one thing that could beat Fukuchi’s stupid fucking time traveling sword? Maybe? I don’t really know what I’m talking about. But it’s all coming together! Maybe those two goals can coexist, and maybe that timeline really was the best one in the long run. (I haven’t actually read Beast yet but I know about most of the plot and how it ends.)

Or maybe it’ll be a last minute desision made on a whim. Or maybe that timeline and the canon one can coexist? Because the way the timelines work in bsd is very confusing to me, but it kind of made it sound like the timelines can coexist when Akutagawa and Atsushi were shown to have escaped but then we were shown a different timeline (the one the story is currently following) and the whole vampire apocalypse happened instead. I didn’t explain that well, but I hope you know what I mean.

#I wrote like a quarter of this one day and the rest of it a different day #so I may have not said everything I originally meant to say and just said different stuff instead #bsd #bsd dazai #bsd manga #bungou stray dogs manga #bungou stray dogs #dazai osamu #odasaku #oda sakunosuke #bsd Oda #bsd beast #bsd fukuchi #asks

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rouge476 · 3 years

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The colors of soukoku

Finally the clothing analysis or commentary that i promised like a year ago, yay!

NOTE: So firstly because i don't know how to add the "read under de cut" this will seem kinda long, you can just scroll down if you are not interested, thanks and sorry for that.

There is a lot of rich symbolism in bungou stray dogs, either hidden or in plain sight in every single feature of the product, this time i'm going to analyze a very distinctive area in the design of the characters and that is: their clothes and colors. This post will separate itself in 4 areas for better comprehension: fifteen, sixteen, eighteen (dark era), 22 (modern era) and beast.

I could go on with everyone from the cast, sure, but i'm going to start with soukoku because they are the ones with the most changes in their clothing through the series (mostly chuuya, fashion king) with that covered let's start.

Fifteen

The age of changes and revolution, and also when the duo first met and continued to grow together, as we're going to see in their clothing:

See, layers and boton ups can be as well as some awesome fashion sense choices, a good metaphor for emotion, clothes help us show the world who we are and how we feel, let's start with chuuya:

Green leather jacket with a lot of zippers, a gray zipped sweatshirt and a bright red shirt under, black trousers with a cimarron head belt referencing the sheep and him being the king since he has he horned one, remember what i was saying about layers? Since the story also covers the unraveling of chuuya's secret being arahabaki, it makes sense that all this zipped layers are closed since he's keeping it a hidden through all the novel as well as his hands, onto the colors:

Acording to color psychology, green is the color of temperance, hope, peace, and freshness, is an earth color, but also combined with black or blackened can also mean ambition, seriousness and destruction, puting the green as principal color is showing sheep leader chuuya among all, ambitious with his protection and leader skills, template until enraged and serious.

Light Gray is the color of neutrality, estability, wisdom and moral neutrality, again we are seeing here sheep chuuya.

Bright red is the color of power, dynamism, passion, and often than not, danger, this is trademark chuuya color, but we dont see it in fifteen until the last layer of clothes, he was hiding his true personality in order to be a good leader for the sheep.

Black here is the color of elegance and mystery, the unknown, dark and even malice in some way, this color wraps up the entire scheme of meanings in chuuyas clothing while also making the outfit not straining to see.

As for the material, the first jacket is thick leather while the rest may be light cotton, another metaphor for auto protection.

Now onto dazai:

Here we have fifteen mafia dazai, unmotivated and wanting to die, but still young at the end of the day, he's wearing formal clothes and a monochrome color scheme, aside from the trademark bandages in the eye and the gauze what i find interesting here is the percentage of color in the design, we see a lot of black, yes, but also a large chunk of visible white in the shirt, very visible even under the coat that in the arts of the novel it mostly is fying in his shoulder and not bloking the white shirt, white is the color of purity, innocence, infantiliy, and even harmony and in this design, it shows us that he is, even in mafia black, still a kid at the end of the day.

Another thing i noticed while analyzing this design is that the underside of the cloack is light gray, so the ambiguous morality is there too, as for the material, i don't realky know but visually is a little stiff while soft, so it helps the feeling too.

Thanks for reading all this nonsensical analysis, in the next post, we will be exploring sixteen y/o soukoku with the addition of stormbringer design!

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