Sharing Some BSD Resources Here Because They're A Pain In The Ass To Get Their Hands On....

Found an English version of the Complete Suicide Manual :D You can read it here. Enjoy ;D

Edit: Saw someone bash me about this, so here goes the mandatory if you are seriously considering to harm yourself or worse, please seek out professional help. If that stuff is triggering for you, do NOT click on the link. I shared it for trivial purposes only.

Yes, it's the actual thing, and yes, it contains suicide methods that are described pretty graphically. However, it is not my intent, nor the author's, to show this stuff to encourage suicide by any mean. I know that some people are curious about what's in it, and so I simply wanted to do them a favour by sharing it here.

Dostoevsky's and Dazai's religious ideologies were like complete opposites and I was all for it when working on The Gospel.

I would've totally dug deeper into Dostoevsky but I haven't finished Crime and Punishment yet so everything on Dostoevsky's end is from my research, if any of you have read Crime and Punishment (or any of his works really), let me know if Google was correct.

So I'm thinking the reason why The Gospel is 130 whatever pages is because I'm digging in on an individual level, and then like I'm like also writing this as if someone doesn't know the entire plot of BSD. Well, ok, that was more necessary for like 15, Stormbringer, and the Dragon Head Incident just cause not everyone has read those, but I'm also using the manga for this analysis and I've noticed some differences between the anime and the manga so I'm coming across scenes that like I wasn't even aware of in the Prison Arc.

Also I try to differentiate when I'm talking about the real life author by calling the actual author by their last name out of respect and calling the anime character by their first name. So like with Fyodor I refer to the anime character as Fyodor but the author as Dostoevsky in my analysis. That's kinda hard to do with Dazai though so...you guys are just gonna have to figure out when I'm talking about real life Dazai and anime Dazai...sorry.

Anyway, quick update, enjoy these crumbs because I do have finals coming up so I won't be able to work as much as I want to on this. Progress will be slow and/or come to a complete halt in the next few weeks, but once I am free it is going to be WRITING time lemme tell you.

I'm about done with the Prison Arc, just covered Chuuya killing Dazai yesterday. Literally had to research the impact of bullet wounds in the shoulder thank you Chuuya. Then after that I actually plan on redoing the 15 arc completely just because my writing style really developed over the course of this analysis and I want to match that. Then onto proofreading and finalizing.

bsd wan 192: dazai, chuuya, age fourteen – if i had the power

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1,833 "Age Fifteen" Chuuya Nakahara Manga Icons

1,833 Chuuya Nakahara raw icons from the "Dazai Chuuya Age Fifteen" manga.

100x100 pixels, cleaned up of any text.

Some panel editing/clean-up for more use versatility.

100% free. You can credit me if you want but you don't have to, nor do you have to reblog or like this to let me know you're using them.

10 folders pre-sorted for easier searching and use ("Positive", "Neutral", "Negative", "From Behind", "Eyes", "Feet/Legs", "Hands/Arms", "Combat", "Gravity", "With Other Characters").

If you don't like the sorting, all icons are numbered 1 through 1833 and can be safely moved to a single folder without overwrites or naming conflicts.

Icons from entirety of the Age Fifteen Series (Vol.1 through Vol.4).

Download link here (google drive file).

from where do you read the manga?

I know this is not what you asked for, but here’s a masterlist of bsd resources I’ve used over the past year. Because every time I join a new fandom I always think “oh, I sure wish there was an all-inclusive masterlist that explained in detail how the material is divided and where to access to it instead of having to dig in myself”. So, this is for you January 2022 Kyotag, and for anyone else who might find this useful! I trust posting this on Tumblr is safe, but please do not share this outside of Tumblr in any way; it’s not for me, it’s for all the people who care to share. Specifically, do not share this on Twitter in any way or form. I will unleash a wild pre-promise Akutagawa after you if you do.

Edit: My biggest thank you to @amythedemisimp, who helped me expand and enrich this list. For your priceless contribution, thank you so much!!! Edit 2: Thank you so much u/barnacleunderthesea for reaching out and sharing new stage play subtitles!!! Check out their BSD English Content Archive here.

BSD resources masterpost

Before visiting any of the websites listed below, make sure to install and activate the uBlock Origin extension and to be using Firefox web browser.

Bungou Stray Dogs Story by Kafka Asagiri, art by Sango Harukawa. The original manga. Ongoing, monthly chapter release.

• MONTHLY CHAPTER FANTRANSLATIONS: translator 1 • Website 1: Official English translation of the manga up to volume 19 / chapter 83 (including all the extra volume contents and omakes) and fantranslations from chapter 84 upwards. It’s my favorite streaming platform for the manga as it grants easy access and download to most of the official translation (the quality is not the best, a sligthly blurry 900×1350px per page, but it is what it is). When visitng on mobile, there’s surges of adds on certain days for some reason, but overall it’s manageable. • Website 2: Official translation up to volume 20 (chapter 88), fantranslations after that. • Website 3: Official translation up to volume 23 (chapter 104), fantranslations after that. Lacks all the additional volumes content (and thus the first page of every volume since it’s in colour). Includes the Japanese raws up to chapter 104, so it’s useful if you need to quickly check the original. Denies download of the pages, and features a watermark. • Website 4: All the chapters fantraslated. Recommending it because it’s always nice to read different translations (and endearing too, at times. You wouldn’t want to miss “Dazai Osamu – Ability: Human Failure”), and because it’s for some reason the only website my university’s wi-fi allows me the access to, so shout-out to it. • Website 5: Raws from chapter 79 up to date. The image quality (1164×1618px) is generally better than the official manga English release.

Bonus chapter 1 • Bonus chapter 2 • Bonus chapter 3 • Bonus chapter 4 • Bonus chapter 5 /// (alt. translation)

DVD omakes

• DVD omakes English fantranslations masterlist • Vol 4 omake English fantranslation • Vol 9 omake • DEAD APPLE DVD omake English fantranslation • Folder with all the avaible omakes fantranslated in Chinese

Wan! Story and art by Neco Kanai. Gag spin-off manga. Ongoing.

• Link 1: Download link of the official English translation of the first four volumes of the manga • Link 2: Chapters 1-22; fantranslation. • Link 3: Masterlist of fantranslated chapters • Link 4: Various misc chapters fantranslations • Link 5: Various misc chapters fantranslations • Link 6: Various misc chapters fantranslations

Gaiden: Ayatsuji Yukito VS. Kyōgoku Natsuhiko Story by Kafka Asagiri, art by Oyoyo. Manga adaptation of a spin-off novel. Currently in unofficial hiatus (?).

• Link 1: Download link of the official English translation of the first two volumes of the manga • Website 1: Fantranslation of all the released chapters

DEAD APPLE Story by Bungo Stray Dogs DA partners, art by Gun_Zi. Manga adaptation of the novel adaptation of the Dead Apple Movie. Completed.

• Link 1: Download link of the official English translation of the four manga volumes • Website 1: Fantranslation up to chapter 13 (discontinued)

BEAST Story by Kafka Asagiri, art by Shiwasu Hoshikawa. Manga adaptation of an alternative universe spin-off novel. Completed.

• Link 1: Download link of the official English translation of the four manga volumes • Website 1: Official English translation. Denies download of the pages, and features a watermark. • Website 2: Fantranslation • Website 4: Raws (1115×1600px)

Dazai, Chūya, Age Fifteen Story by Kafka Asagiri, art by Shiwasu Hoshikawa. Manga adaptation of a spin-off novel. Completed.

• Website 1: Official English translation up to volume 2 (chapter 10) • Website 2: Fantranslation • Website 3: Raws (1115×1600px)

Anthologies Six official anthologies, compilations of gag and slice-of-life oneshot chapters by various authors.

• Anthologies raws and translations masterlist

Novels Ten light novels set in the bsd universe and written by the bsd author that complete, expand and enrich the bsd story.

• Link 1: Folder containing all the nine official English translations of the novels, a fantranslation of Gaiden and a pdf merging novels 1-7 (minus Dead Apple) fantranslated in Chinese. • Link 2: Official English translations of the first eight novels, avaible to read online. • Link 3: Fanmade audiobooks of the first seven novels officially translated in English.

Extra Light Novels

• Gakuen Bungo Stray Dogs (fantranslation (incomplete)) • Untitled Ikebukuro Flagship Animate Store Story (fantranslation) • Kunikida and Katai's Brilliant Days (fantranslation) • The Day I Picked Up Dazai: Side A, Side B  (fantranslation)

Rakugaki Note Collection of bsd illustrations by Sango Harukawa, published in 2016

• Folder link

Anime Five season anime. Watch order is season 1 → season 2 → Hitori Ayumi (OVA) → DEAD APPLE (movie) → season 3 → season 4 → season 5

Streaming site 1 • Streaming site 2

Drama CDs Audio dramas recorded by the anime voice actors cast, released between 2015 and 2017. Some albums feature character songs.

• Drama CDs masterlist

Bungou Stray Radio Web radio for the anime hosted by Yuto Uemura (Atsushi’s va)

• Playlist (missing episode 17) (untranslated)

Welcome! To Uemura Detective Agency Anime vas show hosted by Yuto Uemura (Atsushi’s va) included in the first anime season blu-ray

• Playlist with all 12 episodes (untranslated) • Episode 5 highlights translation

Stage plays Eight stage plays that adapt different anime seasons and novels

• Folder link (mostly translated)

BEAST movie Direction by Kōichi Sakamoto, script by Kafka Asagiri. Movie adaptation of an alternative universe spin-off novel.

• Folder link

Official pages

• Kafka Asagiri's Twitter • Sango Harukawa’s Twitter • Sango Harukawa’s blog • Shiwasu Hoshikawa’s Twitter • Gun_Zi’s Twitter • Neco Kanai’s Twitter • Official manga Twitter account • Official anime Twitter account • Official Mayoi Twitter account • Official stage plays Twitter account • Official Beast movie Twitter account • Official exhibition Twitter account • Official Gakuen Twitter account • Official Wan! serialization site • Official Gaiden serialization site • Official DEAD APPLE serialization site

Other resources

• BSD wiki • Mayoi wiki • BSD-bibliophile • BSD updates countdown • BSD calendar • Interviews masterlist • Magazines Archive • Archive of official art • Megathread of art by Harukawa • Megathread of anime art • Merch archive 1 • Merch archive 2 • Official art scans • Website for manga volume raws, dvd ripoff, op/ed albums and basically everything • @/akutagawaprize, Tumblr archive of official content through 2015-2020 • @/popopretty’s blog for misc translations • Guidebook Gongeroku scans • Masterpost of literature works referenced in the bsd franchise • BSD Honorifics and Nicknames • Every Piece of Information Involving the Book • BSD anime irl locations tour

If you found this list useful, could you consider contributing to the archive? Things it would be nice to add include:

• Good quality scans (>1350px) of the 20th volume of the manga (Sorry. Once again, personal request.) • Wan! official English translations (minus volumes 1-4) • Retrieve the missing short drama Return of the Detective's Good Mood • English subtitles for the remaining stage plays (BSD on Stage & Fifteen) • Better quality versions of the stage plays in general (especially Fifteen) • Translations of the remaining Anthology chapters (please check the masterlist above, I ran out of links per post) • Translations of untranslated magazines interviews (check out the megazines archive spreadsheet to see what has and hasn't been translated so far) • Anthology 6 raws • Anthology 1 official English translation • Scans of any of the Guidebooks (except for Gongeroku) / Genga Collections / Illustration books

If you think something should be added to this list, please do not hesitate to reach out!

LAST UPDATED: 25/10/24

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Ladies and gentlemen and everyone in between, I present to you... Why I think this song sounds like Dazai :D

I hold this song dear to my heart so I mainly made this post to get more people to listen to it, but I also wanted to yap about Dazai, so I guess I'm killing two birds with one stone here??? Anyways, I shall explain my point :D

Warning : this is straight up nonsense from start to finish and kinda long too (~10 min read)

So, the song starts with a rythmic chord sequence played at a medium tempo that kinda goes "dum da... da dum da... da", accompanied by a lighter, airy melody, both played on an acoustic guitar. There are also some eerie chimings in the background. When I listen to it, two images pop up in my mind:

The first one is that of a sailboat in the middle of the ocean sailing against the waves. This is because of the steady rythm, which, coupled with the melody, creates this impression of a boat going up and down the waves as it crashes against the hull. Meanwhile, the bell sounds give this feeling of large, empty space, which gave me the idea of the boat being stranded in the middle of the sea. If you can visualise this, then you'd probably also notice that the skies are covered and that the ocean seems pretty dull, almost grey – in other terms, this looks like a pretty bleak setting, right?

Now, let's say there is a sailor on board. What would you feel if you were in their place? Loneliness? Despair? Perhaps, a semblance of peace? It's hard to tell, right? This is how I feel about Dazai's character, personally. Let's say that we, as the audience, are people on land and that Dazai is the sailor stranded in the middle of the sea. Admitting we had a pretty good eyesight, all we would see is the boat floating in the faraway distance, and the bleak skies above it, looking almost like annoucing a storm. I think our first instinct would be to pity the man on board, or just be indifferent. If we were to pity him, we would surely think something like "This situation looks scary, the poor man must be terrified" or "This man sure seems lonely". But perhaps the man has already accepted his fate and we're worrying for nothing. Perhaps, the man sailed out in the storm on purpose. He could be feeling anything, really, but all we see is a boat stranded in the middle of the sea, with a storm that's approaching.

The second image is that of a lonely person walking through a crowd. The steady rythm creates this image of a person walking alone, while the melody, which makes the strumming seem syncopated, tells us our guy who's walking is having a hard time with it, as if he's stumbling or getting hit by other passers-by, which means that said passers-by don't care that much about our guy or don't even notice him. And the chimings once again create this feeling of a large space, so we can imagine this person is walking through a crowd, which would explain the people bumping into him non-stop. The reason why this made me think of Dazai is because, ultimately, he's always alone, and he will always be. He will come across many people in his life, but no one will stop and take a look at him. And he knows that. He knows that he will never meet someone like Oda again, but he has to go on, which is why he keeps walking through the crowd.

This section was the most important as it sets the tone for the rest of the song.

Now, skipping the first verses and moving directly onto the chorus section, I'd like to point out one thing : the addition of a synth. I find that it adds a little something to our picture, whether it's the boat one or the crowd one, which is tension. See, tension is an important part in music in order to tell a story, or to bring a picture to life.

Here, this tension manifests as some sort of antagonist pressuring our sailor/wanderer. In the case of the sailor, it could be strong wind, which almost tips his boat over, and in the case of the wanderer, a large or strong person who inadvertedly pushes him and sends him rolling on the ground. In either case, it leaves our character pretty shaken, but as the music continues, they also have to get up and move on. Well, I have vision mostly because of the lyrics, which say "Parfois on regarde les choses telles qu'elles sont en se demandant pourquoi, parfois on les regarde telles qu'elles pourraient être en se disant pourquoi pas," which basically translates to "Sometimes we look at things the way they are and ask ourselves why, sometimes we look at things the way they could have been and think, why not after all." It's such a simple sentence, and yet, it holds so much beauty and meaning. In the context of our analysis, I think it overall perfectly reflects Dazai's resolution to join the good side and his efforts to change after Oda's death. Even though there are moments when he trips and finds himself questionning the purpose of his journey, he has Oda's words to guide him towards the right path and hold onto.

Once more, I'm skipping the second verse (cuz there's not much of note) to directly talk about the second chorus. One of the many aspects of this song that I really love is how it keeps on adding more instruments as it goes on, and here, the new addition is an oboe. If listen carefully, you can notice that it plays a melody that kinda sounds like a downward spiral, which adds more to the conflict. Whether it be the growing despair of the sailor as he can't find his way back to the land or the panic of our wanderer as he keeps getting pushed around in the crowd, the main feeling here is that nothing is fine anymore. Coincidentally, the voice of the singer seems a bit more tired, a bit more desperate as she repeats the chorus. I like to think of this part as spiraling into despair as things seem more hopeless. Falling back into depression as everything seems to lose its meaning. This part is followed by a brieve yet beautiful intrumental break where trumpets are thrown into the mix, playing some sort of blues-ish melody, which really cements this feeling of hopelessness.

Finally, when it transitions into the third verse, you can notice that all the instruments are gone, leaving only the steady guitar rythm from the beginning to accompany the singer who's now whispering. Oddly enough, this part feels very quiet, almost fragile, as if the singer is exposing her vulnerability as despair wins over her. So, the 2nd chorus followed by the instrumental break then the third verse give off this impression of falling into despair, which I interpret as Dazai's worsening depression as he spent more time in the Port Mafia, or maybe his overall mental state. Dazai is a very mysterious character after all, and there's no real way of knowing what's going on in his head.

After that, the instruments come back for the next verse before going into the third and final chorus, which is similar to the second one. However, there's a last section of interest here, which is the outro, which is the exact same as the intro (except for the addition of a melody played on the oboe in the background). After all this journey, we're back to our starting point, and yet, everything feels heavier after everything we've gone through. After taking a few more steps, or drifting for a little longer if we're talking about the boat, the journey abruptly comes to an end. The ambiguous ending of the song leaves room for many interpretations of the scenarios which we came up with, but the one I prefer is the one where the sailor/wanderer simply... disappears.

After going through their trials, the wanderer/sailor had one final thing to do: leave. So maybe the wanderer disappeared into the crowd, never to be seen again. Maybe he got home safely. Maybe something darker happened to him. Maybe the sailor drifted into the horizon, and found himself a new home. Maybe he starved to death on the boat. Maybe he got caught in the storm and drowned. Whatever happened, the wanderer/sailor's story is over, and it's time for them to leave the stage so a new story can unfold. I thought that it was a very poetic ending for someone like Dazai, to vanish into thin air and be forgotten by the world, just as he wished. To slowly fade away from the focus, until something more interesting happens, so he fade into the background more peacefully.

Anywaysss this was my little delulu yappology session TYSM if you made it till the end and I hope you enjoyed it :D

Also, here are the translated lyrics of the if you are interested ehhehehe:

There's a painting over there

Of birds, their wingspreads

That struggle against the wind

There are edges over there

The distances, your pace

When you're walking right ahead

There are cracks over there

Sealed, the locks

Like kites, taken off

There's literature over there

The lack of momentum

Inertia, movement

Sometimes we look at things

The way they are

Asking ourselves why

Sometimes, we look at them

The way they could have been

Telling ourselves, why not?

There is over there

If we take the time

If we take the time

There's literature over there

The lack of momentum

Inertia, movement

Sometimes we look at things

The way they are

Asking ourselves why

Sometimes, we look at them

The way they could have been

Telling ourselves, why not?

There are the mysteries over there,

The silence under the sea

That fight against time

There are edges over there

The distances, your pace

When you're walking right ahead

There's the whispering

A sigh, an adventure

Just as tangled kites

There's literature over there

The lack of momentum

Inertia, movement

Sometimes we look at things

The way they are

Asking ourselves why

Sometimes, we look at them

The way they could have been

Telling ourselves, why not?

Sometimes we look at things

The way they are

Asking ourselves why

Sometimes, we look at them

The way they could have been

Telling ourselves, why not?

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Soukoku Interview from Otomedia

Q: In the summer, where would you take a girl out for a date?

Chuuya: Dazai said “going to the sea and watch the beautiful sunset” is the best choice for a date. So I can promise that watching the sunset is the only thing I will not do. Dazai: Chuuya said “ high quality dinner and enjoying the night scenery” is important. So I can promise that enjoy the night scenery and having dinner is the only thing I will not do.

Q: What do you do when you can’t fall asleep in the summer?

Chuuya: Driving around aimlessly. Dazai: Staring at the ceiling while thinking about ways to bother Chuuya.

Q: What kind of food do you like in the summer? Why?

Chuuya: Cold champagne after work, but only under the condition that Dazai is not there. Dazai: A drink after work while happily watching Chuuya drink the champagne that I switched out with vinegar.

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