RAISON D'ETRE

XIX VII

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Disney Twisted Wonderland - The comic - Chapter #1

MangaDex is down for an unknown amount of time so the chapter will be posted here, we’ll update this post with the MangaDex link once the site goes back up. Enjoy!

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Valentine’s Gift Messages

● Info: From Jan 20 - Feb 14, 2021, Aniplex offered a Valentine’s Day Gift where you could preorder a scarf & charm set of your Twst boy and send them a letter. These are the response cards that each of them send back to you. ● Note: All of these were originally in English; I didn’t translate or edit them in any way.

Here is a thread of all their signatures!

Riddle Dear friend, Thank you for the present. Your choice in gifts has absolutely delighted me. Tell you what, why don’t I invite you to a lovely afternoon tea later? Just as a way to express my gratitude. Of course, you won’t turn down the invitation, I trust?

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♔ River/Doctor Appreciation Day 2017 || Happy Anniversary!

Doctor Who cast + River/Doctor (3/3)

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♔ River/Doctor Appreciation Day 2017 || Happy Anniversary!

Doctor Who cast + River/Doctor (3/3)

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♔ River/Doctor Appreciation Day 2017 || Happy Anniversary!

Doctor Who cast + River/Doctor (2/3)

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♔ River/Doctor Appreciation Day 2017 || Happy Anniversary! 

Doctor Who cast + River/Doctor (1/3)

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Storm Bringer Spoilers (1)

I really like this part about Dazai so I decided to translate it. I don’t mind it if you re-translate it but mind that I don’t speak either Japanese or English as my first language, and my vocabulary is pretty limited in both. 

I may post something else later, but I cannot promise anything. 

That was a dumping ground.

A land that was forgotten by everyone. Under the cloudy sky that looked like it was going to pour down at any moment, a bunch of discarded shipping containers were lying on top of one another just like corpses. The bare soil of the dumping ground was exuding toxic substances due to illegal dumping. Not even a field mouse would dare to approach it. 

A place not on the map. The loneliest place in Yokohama. Close to the center of it, is where Dazai lived. What Dazai lived in was not a house. It was one of the abandoned shipping containers. Inside the big container, that was original used to export passenger cars overseas, was a refrigerator, an exhaust fan, a desk, a chair, a bed, and a bare light bulb. 

No one who knew Dazai would go near it, not even his subordinates in the Port Mafia. It was not just because the place itself was weird. It was because no one could predict how Dazai would react if someone approached his private residence. He might tear off the limbs of the subordinates who come to his house before killing them, or he might also say welcome and offer them tea and sweet. No one could read Dazai’s heart. 

The black ghost of Port Mafia. That’s what Dazai was called. 

It had been one year since he joined the Port Mafia. He commanded a secret unit under the direct control of the Boss and achieved astounding results. He crushed countless organizations, and opened up countless new business channels. That was an incomparable record, not only for the current Mafia members, but also the executives through out the Mafia’s history. Even the performance of Piano Man, the most successful member of the Flags, was nothing but child’s play compared to Dazai’s. 

However, no one trusted Dazai. 

Because the darkness that lied deep inside his eyes, was darker than the jet black of the night that lurked inside the dumping ground. The more he continued his activities in the Mafia, the darker and more incomprehensible he became. He never told anyone the reason. He kept slaughtering enemies and paving the bloody path for the Port Mafia, just like he was driving himself into a corner of a dark place somewhere. 

Tremendous achievements. But there was one person who was not happy about that honor. That was Dazai.

Dazai sat on the round chair inside the container by himself, staring into the darkness. On the desk next to him, his cellphone was ringing. That was from Chuuya. But Dazai won’t pick up. He didn’t even look. He just sat there with his arms folded, staring into the darkness and the door in front of him. 

His eyes were so calm. Those black eyes absorbed all the sounds and lights and let nothing escape. Even his own emotions. The phone stopped ringing as if it had given up, and things became quiet again. That silence seemed to be even deeper and heavier than before the phone rang. In that moment, Dazai’s eyes, that had been staring into the depths of the darkness, twitched.

The front door started to open. 

When the metal door opened slowly, from that direction appeared someone’s figure, covered in the darkness.  

“You have quite a taste for your place to live, Dazai-kun.” The person said with a smooth voice. “Really, what are you afraid of, living in a horrible place like this? Property taxes?”

Dazai’s expression didn’t change one bit. He answered with a rough, emotionless voice. “I am afraid of you, Verlaine-san.”

The person entered the room. That was a tall person. He was wearing a blue suit that could remind people of the sea at night. He has mellow eyes that look like he is entertained by the things in front of him. A black hat. The assassin king, Paul Verlaine.

“You are kidding”, Paul Verlaine said while stepping inside the container. “You are not afraid of anything. I can tell just by looking. Even when I tried to kill you two days ago, you barely felt a thing.”

“I have a rather uncommon opinion when it comes to my own death.” Dazai said, smiling faintly through the corner of his eyes. But those black eyes were absolutely still.

“For an assassin like me, that is definitely not a selling point.” Verlaine shrugged his shoulders. 

Verlaine walked into the room, his leather shoes clacking on the floor. Then he grabbed the papers on the desk. “This is the internal document of the Port Mafia?”

It was a stack of about ten pages of paper. If one were to sell that to another organization, they would get enough money to live and play for their whole three lifetimes. That’s how valuable it is, the document that contains confidential information of the Port Mafia. 

Verlaine shook the stack of papers next to his face. “Two days ago, you said that you would give this to me. That’s why I didn’t kill you. Because I need this for my work. But why? What is it that you want in return? Don’t give me the “Please do not kill me” joke.”

“It’s simple.” Dazai slightly grinned. Then he said with a low voice, just like the groanings one would hear in their nightmares, “I want to see the Port Mafia burn.”

Verlaine’s face turned serious. Then he stared at Dazai, as if he just noticed someone for the first time, even though they have always been there. 

“Isn’t Port Mafia the organization that picked up you and raised you?”, Verlaine asked cautiously after a long pause. 

“That’s right.”

“Then why?”

Dazai definitely heard the question at that moment, but he didn’t answer and remained silent. His gaze was wandering as if he was looking for something that wasn’t there. And then he smiled, a bitter smile that would make anyone who see it want to scream. 

“I’m tired of it.”

Verlaine narrowed his eyes. Those eyes were fixed on Dazai, as if he was trying to search for the other’s true intention. 

Seemingly amused by that look, Dazai took a glance at Verlaine and said to himself, “In the end, I couldn’t find anything.”

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Stormbringer light novel image scans (set 2 of 2)

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Text on the third image reads: “That is the 169th possibility. ‘You’re late, my younger brother.’”

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BSD Light Novel: STORM BRINGER

Translated a short Chuuya scene from the first chapter! (Pages 41~46)

Please do NOT report this translation anywhere.

*The first 60 pages have been released for free preview in Book Walker

Official release of the whole novel is on February 27!

Context: For Chuuya’s first anniversary in the Mafia, his friends gave him some documents and “that” picture revealing his past

Under the cut for spoilers!

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BSD Storm Bringer

Source: bookwalker.jp

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Asagiri Kafka’s Manga Forewords (Vol 1-20)

I suddenly feel so down and I don’t even remember the reason why so I have decided to translate all Asagiri’s forewords from vol 1-vol 20 of the manga. I never got the chance to read the English version so I don’t know if the foreword for every volume is included or not. If you have already seen a cleaner, nicer official translation of these, just kindly ignore me. If you have never seen them, I hope this makes your day a little bit brighter :)

Vol 1: The winter is so cold I cannot get out of the kotatsu. Kotatsu, this must be the greatest invention in the history. When I told my friend “I am so glad to be born in Japan where kotatsu is invented”, they told me “There is something similar in Iran called korsi too.” …Good job, Iran.

Vol 2: When summer comes and the kotatsu is put away, where should I work then? (teary-eyed)

Vol 3: I’m writing this in October, a season when everyone is still in short-sleeves and the coffee shops still have air conditioners on at noon, but I cannot take it anymore. I will take it out. Kotatsu.

Vol 4: When I went to the toilet, I came up with a new adjective called “dazai”, just like a divine revelation. Dear the God of toilet, I’m fine even with useless ideas like that, so please grant me some story ideas. What does that even mean? “Dazai”!

Vol 5: The shock that I received when being told “You are like the green peas on top of shumai” still remains even after 10 years has passed.

Vol 6: Sometimes when I am drowsing, an amazing idea sparks all of a sudden. But most of the time, I just continue to sleep and forget about it.  

Vol 7: You can put chestnuts in rice… That idea is amazing but I once had “rice with strawberry” for my school lunch. The strawberry was all crumpled.

Vol 8: The anime adaptation has been decided. I will also show up in every meeting. Please take care of me. 

Vol 9: I wrote a spin-off novel with one hell of a great title - “Bungou Stray Dogs Gaiden: Ayatsuji Yukito VS. Kyougoku Natsuhiko”. “That” character appears too.

Vol 10: After eating oyakodon with shichimi (TN: a Japanese spice mixture containing 7 ingredients), I unconsciously scratched my eye with the hand that touched shichimi and the world was engulfed in fire. 

Vol 11: Recently, when I am thinking about the story, it has become like the characters’ dialogue is automatically played in the anime seiyuus’ voices. This kind of happiness, we don’t get to see often. 

Vol 12: There is a cat outside my house that always growls with a longgg voice. It is so long that I become worried every time, like “Wil you take a breath…Is your breath okay? Eh? You’re still going? Are you okay?” The other day I tried competing with it by growling just as longgg back and then it became quiet. Somehow, I’m sorry.

Vol 13: I received the samples for the merchandises, so I went out with a merchandised pen case, a merchandised clear file, a merchandised glasses case, a merchandised smartphone cover, and a merchandised T-shirt. People looked at me on the train and in the coffee shop like, “That person must be a super big fan.”

Vol 14: I was looking for something to help me put my headphones on the table nicely, but in the end I found a banana hanger.

Vol 15: Being involved in the production of the DEAD APPLE anime movie was a once in a lifetime amazing experience. Honestly, thank you so much, everyone!

Vol 16: I used to speak sarcasm towards people who were born in Shikoku but cannot name Shikoku’s four prefectures. However, when I mistook my friend’s wedding in Kouchi and arrived at Koumatsu instead, I felt like I have lost that qualification. 

Vol 17: I will also participate in writing the scripts for Season 3 of the anime! This season is amazing too, you know!

Vol 18: In a seafood rice bowl restaurant, all of a sudden the staff shouted “Saa, mondai desu!” (TN: In English, “Okay, I have a question!”) so I got all excited and waited for the question but in the end, it’s just the big salmon bowl (TN: In Japanese, “Saamon Dai desu.”) that came. Now let’s start volume 18. 

Vol 19: I don’t know how to read the name of 匝瑳 city in Chiba prefecture, so I searched for “Chiba prefecture something-city” on the Internet and that city came up as the top result. So people… can not read it either, right? I felt like I have become one with the world.

Vol 20: I watched the stage play “Bungou Stray Dogs Hashigaki”. I was moved to see the Bungou Stray Dogs world being expressed on stage, with all the possible measures against corona being taken. I will be in charge of supervision for the next stage play “DEAD APPLE” too. I have to try my best. 

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BSD Chapter 89 - HERO WAR, GANG WAR

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BSD Honorifics and Nicknames

A while back I got tired of endlessly flipping through BSD manga to find out who called whom what, and who uses which pronouns and which honorifics, so I uh… reread the whole thing and made a spreadsheet with this information, like the colossal nerd I am.

At least I know I’ll be using it extensively – figured it would come in handy for some of you out there too!

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This song plays when you’re on the ‘Album’ screen after going to the general settings. I didn’t know what else to call it, so “Album Screen” it is lol

I (Mod Des) am super excited to share this cuz it’s so hauntingly beautiful and I don’t think many people have heard it yet! I think this is easily the most haunting track of the OST that I’ve encountered so far

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New official art by Harukawa-sensei 😍

So so beautiful 🥰❤️

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Nicknames & Honorifics

Rook’s Nicknames

Himself → Le chasseur d’amour

Yuu → Trickster

Grim → Monsieur Fuzzball

Riddle → Roi du Rose

Ace → Monsieur Heart

Deuce → Monsieur Spade

Cater → Monsieur Magicam

Trey → Chevalier

Leona → Roi du Léon

Ruggie → Monsieur Dandelion

Azul → Roi de Fort

Jade → Monsieur Schemer

Floyd → Monsieur Kills for Thrills

Kalim → Roi d’Or

Vil → Roi du Poison

Epel → Monsieur Little Apple

Idia → Roi de Ta Chambre

Malleus → Roi du Dragon

Lilia → Monsieur Curiosity

Floyd’s Nicknames

Yuu → Shrimpy (Koebi-chan)

Grim → Baby Seal (Azarashi-chan)

Riddle → Goldfish (Kingyo-chan)

Ace → Crab (Kani-chan)

Deuce → Mackerel (Saba-chan)

Cater → Sea Bream (Hanadai-kun)

Jack → Sea Urchin (Uni-chan)

Ruggie → Suckerfish (Kobanzame-chan)

Kalim → Sea Otter (Rakko-chan)

Jamil → Sea Snake (Umihebi-kun)

Vil → Betta Fish (Beta-chan-senpai)

Rook → Seagull (Umineko-kun)

Idia → Firefly Squid (Hotaru Ika-senpai)

Ortho → Sea Angel (Clione-chan)

Silver → Jellyfish (Kurage-chan)

Crewel → Mr. Beakfish (Ishidai-sensei)

Sam → Seahorse (Umiuma-kun)

Others

Grim to Yuu → (My) Henchman

Leona to Yuu → Herbivore

Leona about Riddle → The Red Young Master

Leona about Azul → Octopunk

Leona about Idia → Emo guy

Vil to the Pomefiore 1st years → Baby Potatoes

Sebek to Malleus → Young Master

Silver to Lilia → Father / Old Man

Ortho refers to everyone by their full names (except Idia, “Big Brother”)