What's The Most Empowering Experience?

I LOVE THIS SO FUCKING MUCH

BSD Beast is a comedy (to me).

Headcanons @from-hell-till-dawn and I came up with:

Chuuya: has a major crush on Dazai, is mad as hell about it, thinks Dazai and Atsushi are seeing each other secretly, hates Atsushi accordingly Atsushi: confused as to why Chuuya hates him & very intimidated by him. Tries to subtly wingman, makes everything worse. Dazai: Creating an Odasaku Stalker Collage in his bedroom, literally on his last leg, planning to blame Chuuya in his suicide note. Oda: oblivious to everything, eating curry, living his best life.

Sobbing uncontrollably this just saved my life

from where do you read the manga?

I know this is not what you asked for, but here’s a masterlist of bsd resources I’ve used over the past year. Because every time I join a new fandom I always think “oh, I sure wish there was an all-inclusive masterlist that explained in detail how the material is divided and where to access to it instead of having to dig in myself”. So, this is for you January 2022 Kyotag, and for anyone else who might find this useful! I trust posting this on Tumblr is safe, but please do not share this outside of Tumblr in any way; it’s not for me, it’s for all the people who care to share. Specifically, do not share this on Twitter in any way or form. I will unleash a wild pre-promise Akutagawa after you if you do.

BSD resources masterpost

Bungou Stray Dogs Story by Kafka Asagiri, art by Sango Harukawa. The original manga. Ongoing, monthly chapter release.

• MONTHLY CHAPTER FANTRANSLATIONS: translator 1, translator 2, translator 3 • Website 1: Official English translation of the manga up to volume 19 / chapter 83 (including all the extra volume contents and omakes) and fantranslations from chapter 84 upwards. It’s my favorite streaming platform for the manga as it grants easy access and download to most of the official translation (the quality is not very high in my opinion, 900×1350px per page, but it looks like that’s as good as it gets). There’s purges of adds on certain days for some reason, but overall it’s manageable. • Website 2: Official translation up to volume 20 (chapter 88), fantranslations after that. • Website 3: Official translation up to volume 22 (chapter 99), yet lacks all the additional volumes content (and thus the first page of every volume since it’s in colour). Includes the manga in Japanese (and what looks like a French fantranslation up to chapter 45), so it’s useful if you need to quickly check the original. Denies download of the pages, and features a watermark. • Website 4: All the chapters fantraslated. Recommending it because it’s always nice to read a different translations (and endearing too, at times. You wouldn’t want to miss “Dazai Osamu – Ability: Human Failure”), and because it’s for some reason the only website my university’s wi-fi gives me allows me the access to, so shout-out to it. • Website 5: Raws from chapter 79 up to date. Better image quality (1164×1618px) compared to the official manga English release.

Bonus chapter 1 • Bonus chapter 2 • Bonus chapter 3 • Bonus chapter 4

DVD omakes

• DVD omakes English fantranslations masterlist • Vol 4 omake English fantranslation • Vol 9 omake • DEAD APPLE DVD omake English fantranslation • Folder with all the avaible omakes fantranslated in Chinese

Wan! Story and art by Neco Kanai. Gag spin-off manga. Ongoing.

• Link 1: Chapters 1-22; fantranslation. • Link 2: Various misc chapters fantranslations • Link 3: Various misc chapters fantranslations • Link 4: Various misc chapters fantranslations • Link 5: Chapters 1-55.5 raws. Website denies download of the pages and features a watermark.

Gaiden: Ayatsuji Yukito VS. Kyōgoku Natsuhiko Story by Kafka Asagiri, art by Oyoyo. Manga adaptation of a spin-off novel. Currently in unofficial hiatus.

• Website 1: Fantranslation

DEAD APPLE Story by Bungo Stray Dogs DA partners, art by Gun_Zi. Manga adaptation of a novel adapting a movie. Completed.

• Website 1: Official English translation up to volume 1 (chapter 3), yet lacks all the additional volumes content (and thus the first page of every volume since it’s in colour). Denies download of the pages, and features a watermark. Fantranslation up to chapter 13 (discontinued). Also features Japanese raws of the first volume. • Website 2: Fantranslation up to chapter 13 (discontinued)

BEAST Story by Kafka Asagiri, art by Shiwasu Hoshikawa. Manga adaptation of an alternative universe spin-off novel. Completed.

• Website 1: Official English translation, lacks all the additional volumes content (and thus the first page of every volume since it’s in colour). Denies download of the pages, and features a watermark. • Website 2: Official English translation of the first two volumes (up to chapter 9), fantranslation beyond that. • Website 3: Fantranslation • Website 4: Raws (1115×1600px)

Dazai, Chūya, Age Fifteen Story by Kafka Asagiri, art by Shiwasu Hoshikawa. Manga adaptation of a spin-off novel. Ongoing.

• MONTHLY CHAPTER FANTRANSLATIONS: translator 1, translator 2 • Website 1: Raws (1115×1600px)

Anthologies Five official anthologies, compilations of gag and slice-of-life oneshot chapters by various authors.

• Anthologies masterlist

Novels Nine light novels set in the bsd universe and written by the bsd author that complete, expand and enrich the bsd story.

Novels folder: Contains all the eight official English translations, a fantranslation of Gaiden and a pdf merging (I think) all the novels in Japanese.

Extra Light Novels

• Kunikida and Katai's Brilliant Days (fantranslation) • Gakuen Bungo Stray Dogs (fantranslation (incomplete)) • The Day I Picked Up Dazai: Side A, Side B  (fantranslation)

Anime Five season anime. Watch order is season 1 → season 2 → Hitori Ayumi (OVA) → DEAD APPLE (movie) → season 3 → season 4 → season 5

Streaming site 1 • Streaming site 2

Drama CDs and translations

• Drama CD 1: Somewhat Extraordinary Days (playlist)     Swept Away by the River, Dazai Osamu and One Person More (translation)     A Bored Famous Detective (translation)     Forgot the Request (translation)     Yosano Akiko's Heart-Pounding Dissection Works (translation) • Character Song Mini Album Vol.1     The Detective Agency During a Publicity Conference!? (translation)      Kunikida's Critical Moment!? (translation) • Character Song Mini Album Vol.2     Return of the Detective's Good Mood (no translation avaible :( )     The Port Mafia Did Something Wrong!? (no translation avaible :( ) • Character Song Mini Album Vol.3 October 05, 2016     Kajii's Science of Cooking!? (no translation avaible :( )     Lunch Time, Accidental Mischief (no translation avaible :( ) • Drama CD: Welcome to Hot Springs (Armed Detective Agency) • Drama CD: Welcome to Hot Springs (Port Mafia)

Stage plays Eight stage plays that adapt different anime seasons and novels

I have nothing to put here. I've seen some subtitles videos go around on youtube, but I was never able to compile them. If anyone can help fill this gap, it’d be immensely appreciated!!!

BEAST movie Direction by Kōichi Sakamoto, script by Kafka Asagiri. Movie adaptation of an alternative universe spin-off novel.

• Folder link

Official pages

• Sango Harukawa’s Twitter • Sango Harukawa’s blog • Shiwasu Hoshikawa’s Twitter • Gun_Zi’s Twitter • Neco Kanai’s Twitter • Official manga Twitter account • Official anime Twitter account • Official stage plays Twitter account • Mayoi official Twitter account

Other resources

• BSD wiki • Mayoi wiki • BSD updates countdown • Archive of official art • Megathread of art by Harukawa • Megathread of anime art • Merch archive 1 • Merch archive 2 • Official art scans • Website for manga volume raws, dvd ripoff, op/ed albums and basically everything • @/akutagawaprize, official content Tumblr archive through 2015-2020 • @/popopretty’s blog for misc translations • Masterpost of novels referenced in the bsd franchise • BSD-bibliophile

If you found this list useful, could you consider contributing to the archive? Things I’d like to be added include:

• A good quality scan of the Beast sskk valentine art (sorry. Personal request. I would renounce to several limbs for a good quality image of that art.) • Anthology 4 and anthology 5 raws (you can’t translate the chapters without raws!) • Bungo Stray Dogs Rakugaki Note • Wan! official English translations (minus volume 1)

WHAT

THERE ARE

DIFFERENT SIZES????

AND FONTS ??????????

WHZVHZHRHZ HOW

SMALL GREY LINE BELOVED

i love this place so much I'm gonna spend the rest of my life here

genderfluid [REDACTED] gamer

i made a generator for yall to see what ur genders are

HAPPY PRIDE MONTH IT'S BEEN FIFTEEN MINUTES AND I ALREADY FEEL GAYER WOOO

au where chuuya never joins pm, he's saved by lippmann and starts working under him as a successful actor slash model and skk has the most insane meet cute ever (guns blaring, people dying, organizations clashing, their eyes meet for a second before chuuya is pulled away by his bodyguards and dazai has to give orders to his subordinates)

help why is this place so confusing i'm scared aaaaaa

okay hear me out here.

if I'm the spider in the corner, does it mean that-

DO YOU SEE IT

(that lil japanese SFX roughly translates to "loom")

I'M LATE BUT IDC IT'S STILL THE 29TH IN THE UK HAPPY BIRTHDAY CHUUYA NAKAHARA FROM HIT MANGA BUNGOU STRAY DOGS YOU MAKE LESBIANS SWOON AND WHENEVER I HAVE A BAD DAY I THINK ABOUT YOU AND I IMMEDIATELY FEEL BETTER BLESS YOU YOU UNBOTHERED KING!!!!!!

Nothing drives me more insane than people on Tumblr who go I would elaborate but I'll spare you like GIRL??? I WANT TO KNOW TELL ME PLEASE!!!! GO SILLY RANT FOR AS MANY PARAGRAPHS AS YOU WANT IT'S SO FUN WATCHING PEOPLE TALK ABOUT A SUBJECT THEY LOVE???