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BSD will be on the cover of Young Ace next month and the magazine will also come with a set of clear bookmark (BEAST version) ☺️
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Asagiri-sensei’s New Year tweet. He said happy new year to everyone and that even though there will be the anime and the movie and a lot of other things this year as usual, his main focus stays on the manga and he has finished the plot to the end of the Decay of Angel arc. twitter.com/kafkaasagiri/s…
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Chapter summary is out if anyone is interested.
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“Not reading books is proof that a person is not lonely.”
- Dazai Osamu
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“I was thinking of dying.
This New Year, I got a kimono from someone. As a New Year’s gift. It is a hemp kimono. With fine gray stripes woven into it. This must be a summer kimono. I thought I would live until summer.”
- Dazai Osamu
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Actually as the name is not mentioned yet, I still don’t know who the main character is, but basically he just wrapped Dazai in a bed sheet and twisted the two ends like how you wrap a candy.
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This is not Bungo Stray Dogs, this is Dazai Stray Cat.
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The way Dazai is described in the novel is sad yet beautiful, like his eyes was described as a pair of open wounds on his face, from which the darkness is peeping out.
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“If I ask, Dazai, will you come with me?”
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It’s page 79 and Dazai finally asked “How should I call you?”
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“There are things in this world that you can believe for sure. And there are two. First, you have not beaten me at poker yet. Second, a dead person will forever lose the chance to play poker with the living.”
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For the first time in a while, someone actually gives Dazai things he wants to know, places he wants to go and stories he wants to talk about. And to me, that is so precious for words.
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Everyone keeps asking me who he is. I mean, it’s written on the cover.
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And then he loses him in every single timeline. twitter.com/Popopretty1/st…
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I keep thinking about how Dazai doesn’t want to bother others with his death. It was even more obvious when he was younger. He was ready to die alone while putting up a strong front so many times in this novel it hurts.
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Just realized Dazai changed his pronoun from “boku” to “watashi” for the first time in Side A novel.
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Me: Nothing can hurt me more than BEAST
Asagiri-sensei: hold my beer
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Odasaku should win a prize just for describing Dazai’s eyes only.
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she/her. NOT SPOILER-FREE. Mostly BSD and Dazai. Sometimes whining about life and asking for free ice creams🍦 Check my Carrd for links to translations ⬇️