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liona-sourn

5 months ago

I think we should start a collaborative collection of minor bsd lore/character facts that people forget/don't know about because they're manga or light novels-exclusive because there's so many of them

Like Dazai making extremely good tofu while trying to make a saying literal by hurting his head on tofu and being mad about it in Dark Era

“You hurt yourself on a block of tofu?”
He must have been in desperate need of some calcium.
“I invented a method for hardening tofu. You use salt to absorb the water and place a weight on it…all in your own kitchen, see. It got so hard that you could drive a nail through it. Thanks to that, I know more about making tofu than anyone in this organization.”
A Mafia executive who’s a stickler for tofu production… The five execs really were on a whole other level.
“Was the tofu good?” I asked.
“Aggravatingly so.” Dazai grimaced with apparent disappointment. “I cut it into thin slices, then had it with some soy sauce. It tasted incredible.”
“It was good, huh…?” I was impressed. No matter what he did, Dazai seemed to reach heights that normal people couldn’t. “Let me try some next time.”