just me going on a tangent, sit back and watch if you'd like 🍵
a lot of people seem to dislike dazai after ch.101 came out so I'll be pointing out his previous red flags and why i don't like him
blackmailing atsushi into joining the ADA. when we first meet atsushi, he's an orphan who's half dead on the streets. dazai essentially says to him, "join this extremely risky and dangerous agency or you can starve like this forever" there isn't even a choice at this point unless atsushi has a death wish like him.
staging a car crash for ango and then saving him so he would inevitably be indebted to dazai/ blackmailing ango so he'd have to help him
abusing akutagawa during his time at the PM. i understand dazai was also abused by mori (🤮) and he had a hard childhood, but if he truly changed after odasaku died, he would have felt some remorse and apologised to akutagawa like aku did to kyouka, i will never shut up about this point
dazai would never have become a "better" person if someone he truly cared about had died. it literally took odasaku's death to make him join a better cause and if oda had lived after the fight with Mimic, dazai would probably have stayed in the PM, passing on his trauma to akutagawa 😍
some problems i have with his overall character:
he's omnipotent and all-knowing and it just pisses me off like. can we have one season where he's also an oblivious victim.one moment of him being a genius was brilliant but it's getting boring now
his fans sexualize/ fan over how he is suicidal and also his (possible) self-harm, just please stop.mental health issues are not to be romanticised.
in a lot of fanfics, dazai often ends up pushing his work onto atsushi, his younger colleague. even though this is only in fanfictions, the fact that this happens in almost every bsd fanfic I've read shows that even his fans thinks that he avoids his work constantly
which brings me to his laziness, pretty self-explanatory. he's always making things hard for his colleagues, especially kunikida, who i can relate with because kuni just desperately wants people to do their work and take responsibility for ONCE
this was actually so organised i'm proud of myself