Nika • she/they • expect spoilers Feel free to suggest/request bsd things for me to analyze/theorize about Same username on Insta and Tiktok (for cosplay stuff) and Twitter (for mostly bsd ig)
I know with my theories I tend to keep writing once I start so here’s a masterlist that will be updated periodically! Here they’ll be linked in as close as possible to chronological order (within their categories) of the bsd timeline.
Reminder that my theories tend to have spoilers, so yes, even the titles can count as spoilers. I’ll do my best to label each theory with which part it pertains to, as long as it’s not an overarching type one. Meme below edited together by me (as in just the labeling part).
Also feel free to ask or suggest things for me to theorize on/analyze in my asks!
Main Story
(Ch 11) Dazai in both his PM and ADA clothes
(Ch 65, but spoilers mention up to ch 93) Who does Mori actually want from the ADA?
(Ch 76) “Other worldly” ability users
(Ch 78) Taking a look at Fyodor and Nikolai’s friendship
Ch 89.5 cover art analysis
Ch 91 Answering Ranpo’s “How many bullets?”
Ch 92 Will Jouno assist Fukuchi?
Ch 92-93 Speculation/hypothetical: Jouno joining the ADA (and then the PM)
Ch 93 The reappearances of Akutagawa’s Space Rupture
Ch 94.5 Newly discovered capabilities of Crime and Punishment?
Ch 95 Who could the hallway silhouette be?
Why I think Bones animated the light novels in the order they have so far
My predictions on bsd getting animated going forward
School year is done so I’ll actually have time and energy to post now
Also couldn’t help myself and changed my pfp to Aku wrapped up in rashoumon from bsd wan 145 (the NEED to order the wig and cosplay this when I get the hat back out of storage)
Thank you very much for translating side A and B! And just for curiosity when the novel become more commercial, Which scenes would you like to see illustrated?
Hmmm I have so many favorite scenes I can’t decide so lets make a list. I would be so dead if even one third of these are gonna be illustrated.
Side A:
- I-will-crawl-out-of-here-and-u-cant-stop-me scene
- I-can-totally-stop-you-by-wrapping-u-like-candy scene
- I-never-lost-this-kind-of-game-but-I-lost-to-u-eighteen-times scene
- You-want-to-die-because-you-are-stupid scene
- We-are-literally-next-to-each-other-but-I-still-decide-to-talk-to-you-in-sign-language scene
- If-I-ask-will-u-come-with-me scene
- You-are-not-being-honest scene
- I-can-open-any-kind-of-lock-by-snapping-my-finger scene
- Dazai got shot in Oda’s future vision scene
- It-is-time-to-dance scene
- Dazai and Oda talking in bar scene
- Which-is-camouflage-of-which scene
- “Watashi” scene
Side B:
- You-cant-take-my-bandages-off scene
- Im-injured-but-I-can-still-fight-those-cops scene
- You-are-being-tortured-but-its-like-im-the-one-being-beaten scene
Hi. It has been a while. I will be addressing my thoughts throughout the last two months. Feel free to skip if you don’t care.
First of all, apologies for vanishing in a sudden and leaving all the materials untranslated or any other work behind, and also thank you guys so much for the supportive messages and comments.
I have actually been struggling about whether to drop the series since mid 2021. I have never publicly talked about it because I did not want to bring any negative energy to the community. I decided to continue because first, I am running this fanpage and second, I was still hopeful towards the author and the officials. Yet since various announcement and release in late 2021 (e.g. stage plays, live action movie, main manga etc.), I no longer have faith and respect to them. With all the sentiments have been accumulating in the past few months, and I think it’s time to take a break.
This is the only reason why I decided to go on a hiatus. It is nothing about the characters or whatsoever. I simply 1. get disappointed by the story and 2. disagree with the business approach of the BSD officials.
Being able to understand Japanese allows me to be exposed to more source of information and hence made me have a different set of opinions comparing to the mainstream English fandom. I deactivated this Instagram account in the first few weeks of January because I received lots of hate messages. Surely no one would feel happy for receiving hateful comments, but I accept that this is something I signed up for when I decided to make this account public. Nevertheless, I never regret for what I have ever posted or said, and I am very thankful that there are many people agree with me and support my views.
Now, I will keep both my Instagram and Tumblr account for anyone who wants to reread my post, or for my potential comeback to the fandom.
So far, I don’t see myself coming back to BSD / BSD fandom anytime sooner. Still I don’t want to completely exclude the possibilities of it. As long as BSD returns to the style that I love, where it talks about the reasons of living, the significance of salvation or the philosophical meaning behind war and conflicts etc., I think there is still a chance that I am returning. But for the time being, I am afraid that I am going to leave.
Last but not least, I would like to express my deepest and sincerest thank you to Nika, Granny and Emma for all the assistance offered in my discord server, as well as my mutuals Sara, Kira, Q-san, Alex, Vic, Yosi etc. for defending me, together with all the love and support.
Forgive any insensibility, but I really don’t understand why people would be upset at BSD or at the vampire arc. It seems so, so clear that it’s only a plot point, none of those important characters are going to die - the fact that it’s so many main-cast characters all infected should precisely be an indication that it’ll have to be undone. It runs long, for sure, it’s a huge-ass buildup to a rollercoaster climax and it can be a lot to take in, but I’m really not seeing anything wrong, traitorous to the audience or a single sign of bad writing, from my point of view.
BSD doesn’t make a habit of killing characters, not main-cast ones. Side characters, guards, smaller enemies, sure, but not main cast. That’s why I’m calm as ever and simply enjoying the ride!
And with partial translations starting to go around I shall gracefully admit my defeat with my hallway silhouette theory post 🤷♀️ sits down on the floor
Which is fine by me lol, I’m not about to get all butt hurt over it 😂 no hard feelings here, Chuuya stans can have their w for today
I do look forward to seeing whether or not my other theories and analyses turn out to be true as the story continues 👀 it’s part of the fun for me. Sure being correct feels super gratifying but if I’m not then oh well, points for Asagiri’s writing not being super predictable ig
hey idgaf about how you feel about the bsd characters, but don’t ever apply those feelings towards the irl authors. people have edited nakahara-sensei’s wikipedia page to have dazai-sensei as his husband. someone else is spreading misinfo that mori-sensei tried to destroy yosano-sensei’s work, despite how they were very close. those people are NOT the characters, so stop viewing them like they are.
this isn’t funny or factual. you are blatantly disrespecting the dead all because of your feelings toward some fictional characters. some lines and pixels that are NOT 1:1 representations of the authors.
Please don't do these kinds of actions. Both real writers & characters that were inspired by them are two different kinds of people. That shows us, BSD fans, how we are disrespecting the writers, especially towards family members of the deceased ones. If they find out about it, they will remember us fans that we are damaging the writers' images & reputation. There's a line we shouldn't ever cross & will never again in the future.
Put yourself in their shoes. How would you feel if you see something like that? Frustrating, right?
So please, please, please... don't do that ever again. Be a good & mature fan.
when this sentence appeared, I thought of this meme right away
Some quick spoiler-y thoughts on 55 minutes under the cut:
okay the pain. like can we have one story without immense pain?? I guess we cannot but that's what I signed up for so it's all good
actually Akuatagawa dying isn't good like he remembers his own death and that's so messed up he literally burned alive like that's traumatising
but it gave me so much to think about so I appreciate it
but still I was going crazy
actually all the death scenes are something to think about
if 55 minutes ever gets a movie I'm gonna be crying
on the positive note my akuhigu ass was so well fed??
I thought they had only one scene but they have more
Akutagawa had a whole plotline and it made me so happy
and he laughed!
and it was with Higuchi
and she was so happy about it
and I was giggling
someone help me
but seriously I like their power balance
writing about it would probably be fun but all of my braincells burned along with Yokohama
but going back to the sad stuff, Atsushi protection squad initiate immediately, someone needs to take him on a vacation
he literally packed board games for a mission??
please Atsushi can I be your friend?? I'll learn how to prepare chazuke for you!
55 minutes really proves that I spoke the truth in my Atsushi analysis like it proves at least half of the points I made there
and Dazai in a trashcan is the new Fyodor in jail
they were made for each other, true soulmate behavior
being obsessed with staying in very specific places
I remember seeing people wonder whether Yosano could heal Dazai in that small window between being nearly dead and really dead and now I have the canon answer so that's very cool (thanks Asagiri, one less thing to keep me up at night)
but really I thought about the "but never zero" meme before the sentence even ended and afterwards I started laughing and had to take a break and write down a note to make a meme out of it
the plot was so interesting but I started getting a bit lost so I'll need to read a summary to put all the pieces togather (which is cool, I like reading summaries)
but it was so much lore
I love lore
and Wells
can't wait for the analysis of her equations
I think it may actually be my favourite light novel
it delivered everything I wanted
but then again the rest is equally good so I can't choose my favourite one for sure
yeah it was supposed to be a quick note but seriously 55 minutes is so intriguing
as much as I don't like time travel stuff, I didn't mind it here
the usage was cool
it's officially my favourite time travelling story, that's for sure
so in conclusion, 55 minutes is amazing and we don't talk about it enough!
Can we add “Nikolai and Jouno get robbed of their thicc thighs”, “bsd twt simps for Fukuzawa with a ponytail”, “novel adaptation”, and “mushi mistreatment”
Sorry for the delay in answering this ask but I just had the chance do a full read through of your post! And again, definitely some good and interesting points made. As 95.5 was already released since then, yeah we know that at least the figure in front of Dazai at the end of 95 was Nikolai with Sigma in tow. Going off of the dialogue in 95.5 it does however look like Nikolai was the one responsible for the hallway
Ch 95.5, p 2, translation by @czkkn-upload
I do still wonder what Asagiri has planned for Jouno. Maybe Jouno and Tachi meet/reunite and Tachi could maybe do something about the vampirism (as hinted by Fukuchi in their last official HD meeting). Anyway, I look forward to more of your theory posts! :D
WAIT I WAS AM SO EXCITED I FORGOT TO MENTION FEW POINTS
I was thinking Kaji Yuki will be good too for Jouno
And about Sigma, I dunno if you've watched Bungou to Alchemist,but Tachibana Shinnosuke would be a good choice too( He voiced Shimazaki Tōson in BTA) and yep I was thinking about Soma Saito too
I agree with your opinion, but have you thought about Nikolai??
Oooh interesting, interesting
I looked up a clip of BTA Shimazaki Tosan and maybe 👀 I still imagine Sigma slightly higher pitched/younger sounding though
Also as for Nikolai, I’m still thinking Daisuke Hirakawa doing something ever so slightly lower pitched than his Enmu voice from KnY
Hiro Shimono or Kouki Uchiyama or even Nobuhiko Okamoto for Jouno
Daisuke Namikawa or Daiki Yamashita for Sigma.
I'm not sure about Nikolai, what do you think??
Okay a large part of this is thanks to discussion on @chazukekani’s server rn cause we’re just bouncing ideas off each other lol but my thoughts so far:
Daisuke Hirakawa as Gogol (for reference I’m thinking KnY Enmu but ever so slightly lower pitched)
Yuma Uchida as Tecchou or Jouno but I can also see Daisuke Namikawa as Tecchou (Jellal voice for reference)
or maybe Yoshitsuga Matsuoka (for reference something like Sora from NGNL in this case) or Ishikawa Kaito as Jouno? Kouki and Nobuhiko are also really good choices to consider tho 👀
Saito Souma as Sigma
Idk about Mushi or Fukuchi but for Fukuchi sound/pitch wise I imagine something sorta between Fukuzawa and Natsume’s voices? Can’t really think of a character as a reference point for how I imagine Mushitaro sounding rn
Also dw I’m aware that a couple names I’ve mentioned have already been featured in bsd but TJ Eckleburg is a pretty minor role and Rokuzo is just not coming back. Also Uemura has voiced young Oda already, so this isn’t exactly the newest thing in the industry if the voice fits for a seiyuu to voice multiple characters in one production/project
