I don't mean to break us further after this chapter but am I he only one who immediately went "why the fuck is this Oda and Dazai WHY IS AKINARI BEING HELD BY ATSUSHI THE SAME WAY ODA WAS HELD BY DAZAI"
Like literally my first thought.
Also I can't be the only one seeing the brief parallel, with Oda's death pushing Dazai to make the right choice and Atsushi being told to kill Akinari and then doing the right thing and instead freeing them (he I guess considering we finally saw it was a yukata they were wearing)
Like...even though there isn't a bond I'm just drawing parallels like the weirdo I am
Oda saying Dazai was a burnt cat and Atsushi seeing his little self being punished for the tiger next to Akinari
Oda and Akinari both being ready to die for something they/someone else brought upon themselves
Atsushi and Dazai having to hear the final words of people in a situation they haven't seemed to fully process yet
Atsushi and Dazai being thrust into said situation without any warning at all in general and watching someone die in their arms
Also there begs to question why Akinari was killed so quickly
I've always wondered about Atsushi's connection to the Book. Do you think Amenogozen and Tsukinogozen were connected to the Book and therefore Akinari as well?
also there begs to question what they meant by leaving the rest to SSKK
And it might just be me but I swear on my life in Chapter 26 Kouyou says something similar, something like she's leaving Kyouka to Atsushi. "I'll leave the rest to you" and "I'll leave Kyouka to you" WHY DOES ATSUSHI ALWAYS GET RESPONSIBILITIES HE ISN'T READY FOR YET???
And the thing is their bangs are on opposite sides and literally the first page I ever saw of Akinari I immediately clocked that they were good due to that little character detail, unlike Kouyou with her bangs on the right side due to Japan believing that right = evil and left = pure
WHICH ALSO IS A REASON ATSUSHI'S BANGS ARE ON THE LEFT INSTEAD OF THE RIGHT EVEN WITH THE BLACK STREAK BECAUSE IT PROCES THAT TIME AND TIME AGAIN NO MATTER HOW MUCH THEY DESERVE IT ATSUSHI WILL ALWAYS BE SWAYED TO CHOOSE THE MORALLY RIGHT THING TO DO EVEN THOUGH HE KNOWS HE CAN DO IT THE WRING WAY HE STILL ACTIVELY FIGHTS AGAINST THAT PART OF HIM BC HE DOESN'T WANT TO BE LIKE THE HEADMASTER
ANYWAY I'm so sorry if you doing want stuff about 124.5 yet in your asks 😞😞😞
First of all, you’re fine it’s fine don’t worry about it. My only thing about people sending me stuff about new chapters is just to wait till I’ve read the chapter.
After that you know go nuts I love talking about it with people.
As for your ask, ow owwwwie!
I didn’t even think about the Odasaku and Dazai parallels to Akinari and Atsushi. And now that you’ve mentioned it yeah I can see it.
While of course not having the same bond as they did, both Odasaku and Akinari have been used to push Dazai and Atsushi to end the cycle of torment. You could argue Odasuku saw himself in Dazai and wanted to save him the way he couldn’t save the kids and himself.
And Atsushi saw in Akinari himself and wanted to save him in the way he couldn’t save his friends and himself.
Atsushi is definitely the one who keeps getting hit with the “I’m leaving the rest to you” sentiment. In fact going back Fukuzawa said the same thing to Atsushi (chapter 120.5) when he was “killed.”
Unfortunately Atsushi is the one everyone knows is the one who can defeat the threat…and frankly one of the only people left too do so.
So the way I see it is that the swords are able to respectively manipulate the fabric of reality and those that dwell within it. The Book as we know it (Bsd Beast) has created other worlds that exist outside this original universe.
And so because of the swords, namely Amenogozen being able to manipulate the worlds the Book has created that is what ties them together.
I don’t think that they were intended to be created this way, it’s just a consequence of the power that they wield. Like Akinari was sealed within another realm of existence using the sword that they created. But they didn’t create the 4th dimensional plane as it already existed because of the Book.
All Akinari’s captors did was use the sword to open a door they knew already was there.
That’s my understanding of course I could be completely wrong but that’s where I stand with it for now.
So to me they are all connected but it’s just by virtue of how they work individually. Kinda like how Mori runs the Port Mafia but it existed as an organisation before he was around. It’s a power he used for his own benefit even if he didn’t create it.
I hope that makes sense 😅
The bangs are fun detail I hadn’t noticed that but yeah no it also serves as another similarity between the two of them.
