1. I have not put any warnings on this post; that does not mean there aren’t possible warnings. If you’d like to know specifically what these trigger warnings are, please privately contact me. For those who proceed, please do so at your own caution.
2. Please do not repost. Please do not translate into another language.
3. I have translated only those excerpts I wanted to. If you’d like to send asks, please kindly refrain from asking me to translate a certain part or other.
4. If you want to wait for a full English translation, reading this post will most likely, most definitely, take away some of the excitement of reading the novel.
5. Once again, same encouragement for movie posts applies: tag responsibly and place all discussion under a ‘read more’, try to keep your tweets out of the public search engine (I also recommend using fusetter); please be especially careful if you have followers who do not wish to be spoiled. Please be especially careful that this does not spread to any of the Japanese fandom, which errs on the side of caution and keeps all spoilers out of view.
1. I have not put any warnings on this post; that does not mean there aren’t possible triggers. If you’d like to know specifically what these trigger warnings are, please privately contact me. For those who proceed, please do so at your own caution.
2. Please do not repost. Please do not translate into another language.
3. I have translated only those excerpts I wanted to. If you’d like to send asks, please kindly refrain from asking me to translate a certain part or other.
4. If you want to wait for a full English translation, reading this post will most likely, most definitely, take away some of the excitement of reading the novel.
5. Once again, same encouragement for movie posts applies: tag responsibly and place all discussion under a ‘read more’, try to keep your tweets out of the public search engine, please be especially careful if you have followers who do not wish to be spoiled.
There is nothing here but MAJOR MAJOR spoilers, as in the plot summary, in detail as much as possible. Some points are already on @looking-for-stray-dogspostso I decided not to delve into them anymore. ((Gosh Lea and I talked about this for probably more than 2 hrs, making notes and the outline lol, until the restaurant finally told us to go home))
You’ve been warned so if you don’t want any of that, then don’t read this post. Also this is a fan report and is not 100% accurate. Bear with my human memory ability
Also, excuse my grammar, I can’t English damn it I’m tired
Bias - ofc everyone has their own. I have favorites so I might have focused more on some characters, but I did try to report this as objectively as I can. I put comments/feelings tho in some parts I found hard to narrate/describe like action scenes. And yes, I’m a Soukoku shipper but I tried to keep it low here, I’ll make a separate post for them for the sake of people who don’t want to read too much feels here. Also, my Japanese is far from perfect so I may have missed some or a lot of details, especially with Fyodor, Shibusawa, Fukuzawa, and Chuuya’s language.
Lastly, PLEASE DO SUPPORT THE MOVIE in any possible legal way you can. I’ve felt how much the staff put so much work on this movie, how they love it so much, and how they present it as a gift to everyone. The BSD fandom is not big, but we have been blessed to actually have this, because Asagiri believes we deserve more than a compilation film, and because Kadokawa and Bones are willing to produce this thing.
If it will be showing in your country, please, please do make sure to watch it. If not, then please buy official goods. And yeah do continue bugging Crunchyroll or anyone else
Actual Toho Cinemas, Ueno as seen from the Port Mafia Family Official art
Analysis and a small theory about the Book, the current world-rewriting thing going on in the manga and the role of Dazai in all of that mess. Spoilers for the Beast novel.
I never thought I would like a BSD LN better than 55 Minutes but here we are. While Dead Apple sounded fun, Beast AU had the cogwheels inside my head turning.
As a disclaimer, I’ve only read the summaries provided by @looking-for-stray-dogs & @aja154ever. They have confessed that they might have omitted or are uncertain about a number of things, but you have to read them to understand what the heck I’m babbling about because otherwise I’ll make no sense. While I also have another outside reference to fill me in, I didn’t watch or read the source materials myself. Therefore, there are bound to be things I’ve missed or misinterpreted. Yes, I like theorycrafting. But in the end, this is just me laying down my thoughts… All without organization to boot! So if it’s sloppy and if I go around in circles, I apologize. Again, I just needed a place to record my impressions.
There will be a lot of spoilers after the cut. I’ll be mostly talking about multiverses, Odazai and some Shin Soukoku and Soukoku. A-And some Fate series talk. While I tried to choose my words carefully, the nature of the post may possibly be triggers to others. Please proceed with caution.
