boo what a fucking weeb
this is bungo stray dogs
oh no.
oh no.
i love this series so fucking much i cannot explain to you. it's genuinely fucking incredible to me. asagiri is an AMAZING author and harukawa is an AMAZING artist it's SO FUCKING GOOD.
there's a lot of ongoing themes of fighting despite the pain and suffering of life. that life is an accumulation of hurt but despite that, someone should keep going. the themes of getting through trauma and mental illness are genuinely so fucking well written. it's so well written too??? idk how this guy keeps pulling shit off, asagiri will do some shit and you're like "man, he can't top that, he's hit peak!!" AND THEN GUESS WHAT HE FUCKING DOES???
oh my god and the characters are so fucking well written i'm DYING. dazai is the obvious one, everyone talks about dazai, but the way his suicidal thoughts and actions and self-harm was executed is so fucking good. it's initially not really obvious. i mean hey, he just has a dark sense of humor. the manga BEGINS with him throwing himself off a bridge AS A JOKE (that was the momen i realized i was going to fall in love with this series) and that's played as a JOKE. but then, reading the light novels (yes i have read most of the light novels i fear) your realize that no, this shit is serious. and it's SO CLEAR through his relationship with oda, especially the scene in dark era where dazai gets shot??? OUGHGGHGAKDHGLKH INJECT THAT SHIT INTO MY VEINS MAN
also chuuya????? the way asagiri writes characters who struggle with their humanity is SO GOOD. i love chuuya so much. i'm so fucking basic but he IS my favoirte character. despite everything, the way he keeps going and keeps trying. he's such a strong character and the way he can NEVER acknowledge that is. HGAHGHGHG
the way a lot of the characters, despite everything terrible that happens to them, keep going and keep striving to be GOOD PEOPLE despite the fact that they have hurt many, many people irreparably, almost every character, even if they are a protagonist has hurt someone irreversably. and despite that, despite knowing thye can never truly make up for the harm they've caused and the way they've HURT people and been bad people and yet they still try to do good and move past it???
yosano is one of my favorite characters because of that. she was forced to do terrible things as a CHILD and did actions that directly led to her closest friend's suicide, but she still tries to do good and HELP people. even though at one point she was broken, she keeps trying to heal and i just LOVE her for that.
i have more to say about this series but. i'll do it in the Shrine i will Build Brick By Brick with my Bare Hands.