Recently, I found this art made by Shiwasu Hoshikawa that drew BEAST manga and soon will illustrate manga Dazai and Chuuya 15.
I found this art interesting because here, the creator made an allusion to an anime called Neon Genesis Evangelion. Hoshikawa re-twitted a lot of NGE official posts, and therefore he could had been inspired by it while he was creating this drawing.
The painting contains bright purple and some of bright green colors, while in NGE, there is evangelion that has similar color scheme.
On the picture, Sakunosuke Oda represents the evangelion, a robot which is usually controlled by a teenager that sits inside of it. Those machines contain souls of the pilot's mothers. Akutagawa is located in Oda's chest zone and lower, in the place where teenagers sit inside of their evangelions.
Thus, Hoshikawa wanted to show us that in the BEAST, Oda is a father-figure for Akutagawa. During the novel, Oda teaches new ADA member how to be more patient and helps him to become a better person.
Furthermore, the illustration might symbolize the synchronization of Oda and Akutagawa's abilities during battles with their enemies. The bullets around them show that Oda can avoid them by seeing future, whereas Akutagawa can stop them by Rashomon. Both young man collide their superpowers as if souls of teens and their parents connect together in the robots. Due to it, their fighting skills become more powerful and thus they have a bigger chance of saving their huge and at the same time small worlds from the upcoming dangers.
