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Taniguchi Masashi (Oda Sakunosuke role)'s curtain call speech for the Dark Era stageplay
I got a lot of requests to translate this and I have to say it was a really beautiful speech to wrap up a wonderful stageplay.
Cut from the DVD and subtitled by me.
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BEAST Movie Pamphlet Translation (1)
My translation of the interview with Taniguchi Masashi (Oda Sakunosuke role) and Tabuchi Rui (Dazai Osamu role) on the BEAST movie. This interview was included in the movie pamphlet sold at the cinema. (I tweeted sort of a summary of this on Twitter so some of you might find it familiar. This is the full, direct translation)
I tried my best to keep my translation accurate, but I don't speak either English or Japanese as my native language so there might be some mistakes here and there. Please feel free to retranslate it if you want, just keep in mind that some meanings, though little, might have been lost in translation.
I also plan to translate other interviews in the same pamphlet in the near future. The translation is under the cut, have fun reading.
These words Dazai said to Oda were also directed at himself. This is how Dazai finds the strength to face his reality everyday: he was hoping for something to happen, and while he did not know what that was or how, he had to believe it would happen. This is why I’m convinced Dazai never truly wanted to die. He was seeking something out there that he didn’t quite understand, but tried to make himself believe it would give him a reason to stay alive.
But this is also the reason why Dazai couldn’t save Oda. His plea, his heartfelt advice couldn’t become Oda’s reason to stay. While Dazai was searching for his calling, Oda had found his, and had lived for that sole purpose ever since. Sadly, that purpose had been taken away from him. A man’s sole reason to live and seek redemption, reduced to ashes all too quickly and too easily.
Dazai’s long and painful wait for that something was the reason he stayed alive. Oda having found that something to live for, and him seeing it destroyed within minutes, was the reason he stopped wanting to live. Dazai’s yearning for the unknown and hopeful - “it will happen” - couldn’t be more contrasting with Oda’s utter destruction from knowing his hope had already been extinguished - “it’s all over for me”. Dazai was chasing without knowing, but Oda had already chased, already known, and now that his destination had been burnt to the ground, there was nothing worth chasing anymore.
Which is also why Oda was the right person to give Dazai any sort of advice, and not the other way round. Oda had been there, and now he passed on the knowledge to Dazai that being good would definitely be better, even if it’s just a little bit. Dazai was holding on to something unreachable and unseen, but Oda gave him a new hope - a thread to cling to. Even if their hearts couldn’t reach out to each other in time, even if they were more different than similar, Oda was able to give Dazai a part of himself to help Dazai move on, to have something to cling to and rely on in the new struggle he had to face, this time without the bond he had with Oda and Ango to keep him afloat in dark waters.
im having so many emotions about bsd beast like dazai does everything for odasaku but he becomes everything oda never wanted him to become. all oda wanted from dazai was for him to help others and create the best life he can for himself and in cruel irony beast dazai throws everything odasaku wanted for him away to save odasaku. he stays in the port mafia he burns his relationships with anyone else he hurts and hurts the people hes cherishes in the original universe all for odasaku live his dream and the only way to achieve this outcome is for oda to hate him for it. never in any universe can oda live happily and still be with dazai, one has to sacrifice themselves be it oda dying in the original and never living his dream of writing a novel or dazai dying and never living odas dream for him in beast. in no universe can dazai become a good man and keep the person who made him that way.
a sacrifice worth making
That time I was showing my cousin the Oda death scene and as a light-hearted, thoughtless question she asked me why Dazai threw away his coat and I answered without hesitation “that’s to symbolize how he’s repudiating everything he’s ever known for Oda”. I still stand by that
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Hi, how is your day? I want to ask you about Dazai's character and its developments in the series, and what do you think of him? Do you think he's smarter than fyodor? Thank you for the answer in advance... And in the end, I would like to thank you for your hard work and your wonderful style of writing. it is relly special ..
Hi, thanks for the message. I am glad u like what I do (I don’t really “write”, just “translate”, though).
I’m quite bad at expressing my opinions. I normally do not give much thought to things until I am asked about it. So u may find it my answer all over the place because I haven’t had it arranged in my head, it’s more like pulling out old notes from a rusty drawer. So I’m sorry about it in advanced. And this is all my personal opinion, so you don’t have to agree with me.
Dazai is a complicated and interesting character for me. He is smart, too smart that it brings him misery. People say ignorance is bliss, right? Then Dazai must be the most unfortunate guy on earth. Even Asagiri once described him as someone who has lived for 2000 years. I, with the brain of a normal person, can’t bring myself to imagine how boring life would be for him, knowing things too well. Some might say that he was being overdramatic when he was young, and that he’d regret having all those thoughts when he gets older. But I personally don’t think so. I think the pain and agony he felt was real, then or now. Just that in the past, he hadn’t met people who would surprise him, or go beyond his calculations, he lived on thinking humans were ugly, sinful and stupid and didn’t understand why they should be saved. His head must have been overwhelmed with thoughts that no one would ever be able to understand, and no one would even try to understand. That is why he was always lonely, and suicidal. I don’t think he really wanted to die, he just couldn’t find what to live for.
The thing I like about Dazai’s character is that he fundamentally didn’t change, even with all the so-called character developments. He was still the smart, and sad and lonely guy that he used to be. But he have met people who made him want to try living, peope who gave him a purpose and people who genuinely cared about him. And those are things that even his genius brain couldn’t have predicted. From a fifteen year old who believed nothing was worth living for, he has become able to tell Kyouka that everyone deserves a second chance in life, to Fyodor that it is okay even if we are all sinfully stupid, and admit that no matter how well him and Fyodor can foresee things, the fate of the world is not decided by them, but the imperfect human beings that are fighting for what they deem precious out there. I doubt Dazai will ever get rid of his suicidal thoughts, or loneliness, but at least he has things he wants to protect, and it gives him the motivation to live on. We haven’t seen him talking about dying for no reasons for so long. Now he only lets himself get hurt, or take risky action for the greater sake (BEAST is not counted cuz that is a totally different universe), and I think it is a good sign in his character development.
I forgot to write about his relationship with Akutagawa and Atsushi. Basically, I don’t think Dazai was a good mentor. Someone who hardly experienced failure is not likely to become a good mentor. He treated Akutagawa badly in the past because all he could see was that the weak could not survive in the harsh world and there was no saving for them. But the meeting with Oda has changed his way of thinking. He now sees orphans and the weak as those he has to protect, that’s why the way he treated Atsushi is very different from that of Akutagawa. He is still not the best mentor, but he is better now.
About Fyodor, I don’t think he is smarter than Fyodor. They must be on the same level of wits. Dazai actually can act more human when he is around people like him, so having Fyodor as an opponent can actually be very entertaining to him. Even if Dazai is going to win the final battle, I don’t think it is because Dazai is smarter. He is just backed up by more people in the “somewhat beautiful” side.
Happy Valentine's Day everyone ♥️
Just a reminder that Although lots of girls gave Dazai chocolate, he still chose to spend Valentine's night in Bar Lupin..
Because your whiskey goes well with my chocolate right?
"Well, should we have toast tonight too?"
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Dazai : ODASAKU MAN!!!!!
As someone who is really interested in Dazai, do you think he liked being nurtured in the side A novel (The day I picked up Dazai)?Do you think he was just pretending or he really enjoyed being taken care of ?
Thankss,love u
Hi there,
So… if u ask for my take, I don’t think he was pretending, but I don’t think he particularly yearned for being taken care of either. Actually if that was what he wanted then probably his life would be much easier, imo. By the time he was picked up in Side A, all he wanted was death. I think he himself didn’t even know what he wanted at that time because for someone as smart as him, life was just so expectable, boring and meaningless. So probably, in Side A what he enjoyed was not the fact that someone was taking care of him, but the fact that that act was out of his calculation. Being obsessed with suicide since a young age, I think he has gotten used to the fact that most people treated him because that was their responsibility, or their job, or because he is of use to them (like Mori). He cannot make himself understood, nor did anyone try to understand him. He is used to being alone, and being feared of in the mafia. He didn’t expect someone to ignore his status and save his life, knowing that they won’t get any benefits from that. He didn’t expect someone to tell him he was stupid for wanting to die, even though he has a thousand reasons to back it up. He didn’t expect that he would have a place he wanted to go by the end of the story. Everything that happened in Side A caught him by surprise, and he loved it.
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Do you see resemblance..
"They were just empty. Not only was there no compassion or kindness, there was no hate or passion to kill. His eyes were those of a person who had given up all hope and despair—the eyes of a person who had removed himself from emotional things." .. Odasaku's eyes in Ln3
"His eyes were too calm. Those black pupils absorbed everything from light to noises, not leaving a single thing behind. Not even his own feelings."- Dazai's eyes in Storm Binger
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If someone asks me what type of ship do i like.
Well here
Reminded me about Beast Dazai when he knew Odasaku died in the Canon world.