I have a hole in my heart as I wait for Moominvalley season 3. SO. To fill said hole and somehow feed my hyperfixation, I decided to imagine moomin characters as people and throw them into this coming of age movie setting.
I present to you~
Now, a few basics of the AU.
Keep reading
Main manga (new chapter on 3rd of every month)
Bungo Stray Dogs Wan (new chapter on 16th of every month)
Extra manga content:
Wan Special Chapter
Wan Season 5 Shorts
Wan vol 12 bonus side story (Part 1 / Part 2) and omake
Anthology Chapters Masterlist
Raws of anthology 1-5 if anyone wants to translate
Omake / alt link+ wan special chapter
Bungou Stray Dogs: Chopsticks and a Spoon
Dazai’s Entrance Exam
Dazai Osamu and the Dark Era
The Untold Story of the Founding of the Detective Agency
55 Minutes
Beast
Dazai, Chuuya, Age 15
Stormbringer
Dead Apple
Bungo Stray Dogs Another Story (Gaiden) (Fan translation)
The Day I Picked Up Dazai
there is no official or fan translation because it just came out recently but there are fan translation of booklet so here (it doesn't contain illustrations from light novel and can be a little different, if any changes are made in the light novel)
Side A / Side B
Side A is about how cannon Dazai first met Odasaku and Side B is about how Beast Dazai first met odasaku so I recommend reading Beast light novel before reading Side B.
Side Short Stories:
Kunikida and Katai's Brilliant Days
The Heartless Cur
Bungo Stray Dogs Beast
Dazai, Chuuya, Age 15
Stormbringer (New chapter on 26th of every month)
Gaiden
Dead Apple (not all chapters are translated in english)
The Untold Story of the Founding of the Detective Agency (New chapter on 4th of every month)
Beast Movie (if it is not available in your country, turn the vpn on and change the region to France)
Bungo Stray Dogs on Stage
Dark Era (check the tutorial for adding subtitles)
Three Companies Conflict (if it is not available in your country, turn the vpn on and change the region to France)
Untold Origins of the Detective Agency
Dazai's Entrance Exam
Dead Apple
Dazai, Chuuya, Age 15
Stormbringer (if it is not available in your country, turn the vpn on and change the region to France)
Cannibalism Arc
You can find rest of the stage plays in this file but sadly there are no english subs
CD Dramas
Character Songs
Stage Play Behind the Scenes
Bsd va Radio
Uemura's Detective Agency
You can find almost all of this on BSD-Bibliophile and if anyone has subtitled file of stage plays tell me so that i can add it here
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TAP!!!
I hope you have an amazing birthday!!
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So, due to Saiki's manipulation, humans are stronger and more resilient than they otherwise would be. Saiki says that in his world, small people can defeat much larger opponents in physical combat, so it's not like this rule only applies to already strong characters. Kurumi is small and thin and can still effortlessly throw a table. Despite everyone's strength being multiplied, Kaidou is still incredibly weak. He can hardly throw a ball two feet and his punches feel like tickles. Would Kaidou have been even weaker if it weren't for Saiki's manipulation? His lack of stength is already significant by real world standards. Was Kaidou supposed to have chronic asthenia and/or a condition that causes weakness?
this panel has quickly become a contender for my favorite of the series so far
large tsukasa bias heads up for this post lol, but mostly marvelling at the narrative and evocative power one panel can have because like. god. this panel is SO good. it's so simple!! and yet!!!! even my first time through it made me pause because there's such a palpable energy to it--which, having finished the chapter like 7 times over now haha, i can now say is very strong calm before the storm energy.
i love how this panel functions as like, a thesis statement for tsukasa. he's so perfectly centered, looking head on, his koku joudais on either side of him, the panel cut off right under his stab wound. this panel reads like a portrait.
and the feelings this one single expression evokes!! he's so at ease, and it makes the audience so not at ease.
because we know what "tsukasa" means. we know what tsukasa can do. and the panel immediately proceeding this tells us: akane and the clock keepers don't know what "tsukasa" means. this panel is like a stinger score in a horror movie as a character heads straight into a threat they can't see, while the audience sees the threat plainly but is helpless to warn them.
i especially love this panel coming off of all the chapters we've just gotten. we've seen so many shades and states of tsukasa in the past few chapters, including a very new state:
i've been puzzling over these panels all month, trying to figure out what felt so... distinct? about them, and 109 gave such good context for them. 108 tsukasa feels new because he is a tsukasa we hadn't seen before! this is a tsukasa who lost. but the energy in these 108 panels is really illuminated by the above panel from 109. this is not only a tsukasa who lost, but a sore loser! yet, not actually too deeply bothered; honestly, the best term i can think of here is butt hurt lmao. like. he's not actually scared, he's just sulking. 108 tsukasa looks like he lost a board game, or like he came up against a video game boss he's having trouble defeating--and in this panel from 109, he looks like he just figured out how to win. he's been puzzling over how to get out of this situation, huffy over not getting it immediately when normally he blows through challenges like this, and now he sees his checkmate.
in fact, i think there's a comparison to be made between this 109 panel, and this 92 panel:
the same symmetry, the same smile. centered in the frame, looking head on, undaunted, his koku joudai on either side of him. in his element. putting all his puzzle pieces together, and having fun with it.
i love the line "tsukasa. my name is tsukasa." coming right after such an out of character loss, and right before his return to how we first meet him, how he's been this whole time.
and one last panel comparison, just for the sake of breaking my own heart:
by himself, just tsukasa. not yugi tsukasa, no official title of yorishiro given to himself like the other three get, just tsukasa. this is not the first cage he's had to break himself out of, and he knows he'll find a way out of this like he found his way out of hanako's boundary, even if he has to figure it out himself, just tsukasa.
and he does!--because, like he says: he's tsukasa.
This is... quite not true.
Let me explain.
Dazai and Chuuya started their "journey" in 15.
They placed their differences aside and worked together in order to survive.
And when Chuuya was drowning in the manga, chapter 101, Dazai talked about those rare, yet existent moments.
They both are two lost souls that distance themselves from people in order to deal with the future pain of losing them.
Dazai doesn't allow himself to be open to the ada and therefore he doesn't allow himself to be "loved", because once it will be all over it will hurt a lot more and it won't be worth it.
Chuuya also distances himself from people, because he knows he will lose them one day like it happened with the Flags.
So they both are two lonely comets.
Funny facts comets travel, in fact, together and as they do begin to disintegrate along the journey, from their core to the outside
They can't be healed, it's too late for them.
But they can have this joint mission of life together until the end, can't they?
Eventually they will cross, who knows.
They do have a lot to lose by being vulnerable to their own emotions, but sometimes they can't just help but-
to allow themselves to feel something more than loss, pain and death.
It's always less painful, enduring a life full of pain, loss and death, when together with an equally broken person.
So, considering the fact that Dazai and Chuuya don't let themselves to be loved.
And that they don't expect anything from no one, because they know kindness is a rare thing to experience...
I made this poorly edited thing.
And because Dazai and Chuuya are Dazai and Chuuya, they break the laws by finding each other.
So I suppose the story repeats itself.
Again.
Animaniacs #36 -April 1998- DC Comics
Communication Gap
writer: Dana Kurtin
penciler: Omar Aranda
inker: Jim Amash
letterer: John Costanza
colorist: Prismacolor
Alternate Universe HS Chuuya calling Dazai "Osamu" when they were young being so important to Dazai that he wrote it down and put it in a time capsule
....is not the craziest soukoku info thats ever dropped into my lap
but it blindsighted me nonetheless.
right i thought i’d finally post this its from april gonna be honest but i havent drawn much recently because lots of stuff has been happening. yeah this ones #cringe
Cheng Xiaoshi's Death Analysis — PART 1: Cheng Xiaoshi's Character Analysis
Why is Lu Guang so desperate to save him? Let's analyze!
let’s begin with the part where Cheng Xiaoshi is informed by the officer that Lu Guang’s rescue failed, he died.
(now this will be a bit long since i'll be contrasting their personalities, so please bear with me. if you want me to get to the point then skip to part 3)
Cheng Xiaoshi, after breaking down in tears, seemed to have been struck by the same exact idea as that of Lu Guang — to go back in time and save him.
However, the difference between Lu Guang and Cheng Xiaoshi in this case (where the thought processed was awfully similar) is that Cheng Xiaoshi did not execute this plan/idea of his.
I know you’re aware of all what I’m saying right now but hear me out…
isn’t it very odd?
now I’m sure you guys might say/think: “we already know that.” “that’s because they’re so attached to each other!” “Link Click is full of plot twists! So it’s not odd for them to surprise us!” “Lu Guang’s got feelings too y’know?!” “Maybe Lu Guang really just does care.”
Wait. Listen.
I’m not trying to imply that Lu Guang doesn’t have feelings, that he doesn’t have a heart — of course he does, he’s a human. But compared to Cheng Xiaoshi, he’s less emotional.
Cheng Xiaoshi is known to be the more sentimental, sensitive, and selfless one of the two. He usually allows his emotions to control him. He wears his heart on his sleeve. (at least that's what the donghua shows us)
But, somehow, he was able to restrain himself from letting his emotions take over him and dive back in time (all because a glimpse of Lu Guang, reciting the rule, flashed before his eyes)
He, Cheng Xiaoshi, the so very attached to Lu Guang Cheng Xiaoshi, was able to restrain.
And please do keep in mind that the emotions he experienced when he discovered Lu Guang’s death must have been unbelievably strong and unbearable; overwhelming beyond words because it’s like losing a source of happiness in your life.
He must have been so scared because he’s already experienced the horror of being abandoned by the most valuable people in his life such as his very own parents — and I bet he doesn’t wanna re-experience it.
Despite all that, he was able to restrain.
But Lu Guang couldn’t.
[keep in mind that these are just mere conclusions drawn from close observations, assumptions, and theories. i can be wrong too since sgdlr loves surprising us with plot twists! so feel free to express your opinion in the comments!]