kayak captain

i'm ben. i translate stuff and write a lot of essays on bsd, especially for minor characters.

[bananasaurr]

@nkhrchy HAPPY (BELATED ON UR SIDE OF THE WORLD SOBS) BIRTHDAY TO OUR LOVELY ODAGIDE CAPTAIN, TRANSLATOR AND METAMIND EXTRAORDINAIRE IM RLY GLAD I MET U DYING OVER THE DARK ERA WAS SO MUCH PAIN FUN 10000%% WOULD DO AGAIN !!

[nkhrchy]

ask has been closed.

i haven’t really been around the fandom recently and i figure this is my time to just formally exit. sorry if i never got to answering your question and stuff. life happens, people change, and i’ve found myself falling out of touch with bsd for a while now. i’ll come back and weep about my (dead) faves now and then, but take this as a last post for this account.

currently, i’m doing up some small translations for acca’s side stories which you can find at @llvm! nothing major, and i suppose in time that too will pass. all things do. thanks for sticking around if you have! feel free to unfollow this blog, it’s unlikely that i’ll be making future updates unless urgent or otherwise. thanks again.

[nkhrchy]

“I really want to eat curry…”

somewhere along the streets of dotonburi, the ‘famous curry’ from jiyuken can be found! their brand of curry rice is a little different from those you’ll see elsewhere, as it’s been mixed into the rice itself. they also top it off with a raw egg. the menu specifically states ‘oda sakunosuke’s favourite’.

just a little bit away is a small little temple hozenji, and right beside it, i found a little dessert shop called meoto zenzai, which is named after one of oda’s works (translated, it means ‘sweet beans for two’ or something along those lines). he kind of singlehandedly enshrined zenzai as an osakan delicacy or something, huh. 

[nkhrchy]

what storylines/new characters/characters' past/etc. would you like to see in the future? (also thanks for your wonderful translation of the dark era!)

ah, this ask came in a long time ago… sorry for the late

anyway i only really wanted my silver wolf fuku and quack doctor mori backstory, so i’m super pleased that i’ve finally gotten it *v* i’m absolutely not up to date with the series anymore, but i’d really like to see fellow doctors yosano and mori’s relationship… like were they colleagues?? was she his student while she was studying to be a doctor?? we’ll never know

i also really want to see ango’s past in mimic but i know i’m actually never ever going to get that because one of them is dead but a man can dream right…

other things i want to see in no particular order: yosano being recruited into the ada, tanizaki’s entrance test, mori taking dazai in as a protege, etc.

[nkhrchy]

Hello, I've read your translation of BSD 2nd Light Novel. On chapter 1, Odasaku calls Mori as 'leader', but in the light novel it's boss (I've bought the original light novel). What do you think about that?

ah, i thought i put translation notes for this, but apparently i didn’t. it’s almost been a year since i translated dark era!! damn, time flies. 

at that point, i didn’t have the japanese translation to work off. odasaku calls him 首领 in chinese, which technically, means leader, though boss is acceptable as well. without the furigana to tell me it means ‘boss’, i wouldn’t be able to differentiate between the two. i’ve always read ‘boss’ as a more informal manner of speech (it can be used really informally from where i come from) so i deferred to using ‘leader’!

[fukasenanairo]

Thank you both! As for the two of them…

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[nkhrchy]

hello! i just read your dark era translations and they're FANTASTIC!! ☆ do you prefer 简体中文 or 繁体中文 ?

ahhh thank you?? i hope you enjoyed them! i can read 简体中文 best but i love delving into 繁体 because it still retains a lot of cultural nuances that you can see in the strokes. (it’s also blessed me because i can pretend i know kanji, heh)

[nkhrchy]

Dreams do come true I remember that you make a post that fuku and mori partnered up and asagiri sensei hears your wish :-D and they are the actual skk.. but for some reason their partnership reminds me of kunikdazai more than dazsa & chu. Must be becuse fukumori is kunidazai mentors

right........... right................... i’m honestly still dead from the grandpa backstory that i’ve been basically begging for from the very beginning (i can’t believe quack doctor mori was accurate and real my crops were watered i was reborn etc)

but i get what you mean too! i could honestly go on about parallels between kunikida and chuuya (i have in the past) but in a way i guess it’s less of who was who’s mentors and more of style of fighting/general personality? i’ll spare you my endless rants about it though.

[nkhrchy]

Hey I'm reading the translated dark era from your page and it's absolutely wonderful?? i've already watched it but i just wanted to read it and all,,, but the page messed up on the beginning of chapter four? almost everything on the left side was out of the screen (which includes the keep reading button) and i can't fix it... i was wondering if it was an error for everyone or just my phone

aaa, thank you for enjoying my translations even now? it’s so hard to imagine that it’s been almost a year since i translated dark era, i’m always glad for new readers. anyway, i’m not really sure what the problem is because everything’s fine on my end. alternatively, maybe you can try a link to a page of the chapters, or a link to chapter 4 part 2, or accessing it through the masterpost! i also recommend using chrome if you aren’t already (and don’t use the app that’s hogwash). i hope these work!

[nkhrchy]

“This taste is very similar to what I dreamed desserts would taste like. This is something I would never have tasted in my life of poverty.”

part two of my escapades in tokyo - if any of you remember this special that i loosely translated, i took the opportunity to visit two of the places - umezono and kamiya bar! though i guess you can’t really call kamiya bar a bar bar, it was more like a cafeteria with old people getting drunk in the afternoon. denki bran has a similar consistency to jagermeisters, if anyone was curious. i’m honestly not surprised young akutagawa would get smashed with just one shot. it’s also ridiculously cheap for such potent alcohol (270 yen for a shot) 

umezono is a much quieter teahouse with its fair share of clientele - i had a inaka shiruko, which was baked mochi in red bean paste. delicious stuff that came at a price and set me back a little under 700 yen. they’re both pretty easy to find in the asakusa area too, so do check them out if you’re ever in the area!

[nkhrchy]

greetings from tokyo! as some on twitter probably already know, i’m currently running around japan and so i took the chance to find this little gem of a place. wedged in an unnoticeable little alley in ginza. you’ll have to pardon the photo quality because my phone camera wasn’t built for low light scenarios.

i ordered a golden fizz (coincidentally written to be ango’s favourite) and if you can tell from that photo, i was actually seated in the corner - yes, the exact same corner that dazai used to chill in. how ironic. i was later moved inside to the very end which was right beside the photographs of the infamous trio (which was way too close for me to grab a picture of) and given a little matchbox and pamphlet of the place.

the place draws a really interesting crowd. i saw a share of fans having drinks and smokes there (one of them was in a bolo tie and an outfit that screams dazai, so there was that). very chill, very cool to be in, even as a regular customer with no knowledge of the series.

you’ll also notice in the third photo that there are a bunch of books written by the literati that frequented the bar, and amongst those books were two copies of dark era. very, very amusing.

[ruesttt]

BSD rarepair week- day 1

-i ended up joining after all heh ;;;)))

[ruesttt]

Bless us with more odagide please ^^

stay tuned ;;

[bsd-rarepairweek]

Mark it down folks, because the first ever Bungou Stray Dogs Rarepair week is fast approaching!

 With such a large cast of characters there can be so many overlooked pairings, so we’ve come together to dedicate a whole week to creating more and celebrating  these small pairings!

Prompts:

Day 1: Loss//Dancing//“Frankly my dear, I don’t give a damn.” - Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind

Day 2: Hanahaki//Dreams//“However, there are some people in this world that you can just never forget.” - Kunikida Doppo, River Mist and Other Stories

Day 3:Weapons//Pick-up Lines// “But once you start doubting, it’s hard to know what to believe.” - Tanizaki Junichirou, Naomi

Day 4: Things Left Unsaid//Fairy Tales// “Who knows the end? What has risen may sink, and what has sunk may rise.” - H. P. Lovecraft, The Call of Cthulhu

Day 5: Emptiness//Late Night Talks// “Once I believed love poems were foolish, yet now I do nothing but dream about love.” - Chuuya Nakahara, “Exhaustion”

Day 6: Too Little, Too Late//Future// “I hope one day you’re as happy as you’re pretending to be.”

Day 7: Ghosts//Free Day// “My life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes.” - Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

Rules:

Please put all nsfw fics under a “read more”  and include a basic description of the content. However, for nsfw art, tags and warnings will suffice.

If you are making an edit/graphic/video that utilizes art created by other artists, please make sure you obtain explicit permission to use their work. We will not reblog any submissions that contain plagiarism. (Using someone else’s work as inspiration is allowed).

Due to the fact that Soukoku and Shin Soukoku are the most popular ships with over 200 fics and countless art, we are encouraging other ships. Soukoku and Shin Soukoku are permitted to show up in your submission, but not as the main ship.

We hope to see some amazing stuff from people! Have fun!

[hotpinkandsparkly]

bsd 50

there’s already a summary somewhere so i’ll just add

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[nkhrchy]

What would the ship name be for Mori x Fukuzawa?

After some searching, apparently they have a pixiv tag 鴎福. Oufuku, I suppose? I personally call them soukoku grandpas though.

[akutagawaprize]

Chapter 50 is out! I only have a link to google drive now, but will update with an Imgur one once I finish sorting the pictures out. Watch out for the cat!

Update: Imgur link