#bsd authors

[ice-bear2]

I just find out that Edogawa ranpo inspired his works on Edgar allan poe's works and He even made his "pen name" sound like Edgar allan poe when you say it fast.

MY HEARTTTT

[angoenthusiast]

after watching the latest animated episode of bsd, i thought a bit about the title of the anime/manga/novels and about the greater meaning/message behind it. bungou stray dogs. literary stray dogs. i can only assume what the author's main idea or goal while writing these series was, but it's still interesting to talk about. i haven't yet touched the 'stray dogs' part of it, but let's talk about 'bungou'.

first, let's look back at these manga panels.

'what is written in it must have the casual consistency of a novel.'

the characters are all (well, not all of them, but you get the point) personified important people from the literary world. they're the people who brought great change to the world both around them and in general with their significantly important works. what i think is that asagiri (as he's first and foremost an author himself) not only wanted to show a great fictional plot and events surrounding a fictional page/book in a fictional world (sort of), but also convey the importance of literature in the world, and the importance it had throughout the human history. he wanted to put an emphasis on the power of written word, to the point where but a singular page with words on it can bring massive change to individuals and the world as a whole. every written work ever has had an impact on the reality and life, in one way or another. writing is both a universal and a unique experience to people, and a way for them to actively make some sort of change by putting themselves out in the world in the form of casual consistent narrative. that is how authors fought with, for, or against the reality through time and time. that is the power of literature, books and words - they really can alter reality, and they really can reshape the world and its people.

additionally, the fact that none of the characters know they're authors (both literally and figuratively) or that they're supposed to represent them, and the fact that they're hardly aware of the change they're gradually making in their - let alone our world is quite interesting and ironic in a way. unlike the real authors who long grasped the truth and understood all that they were supposed to in order to truly be authors/writers - the characters are, through every new arc, gradually understanding their place, where their power lies and to what extent it can be used. together with us, they're progressively discovering their universal ability to bring change whilst learning about said power of written words. it's a good connection point between the readers and the characters, and the characters and authors.

side-note i'd add is that anime bungou to alchemist touches the analysis on how literature affects the human mind and emotions, thus affecting the world itself. so there, a parallel of sort.

be it as it may, live laugh love asagiri (but feel free to blame him for your emotional instability xoxo)

[questiontocertaintyofreality]

Bungou Stray Dogs just feel extremely connected with The Neverending Story. In Neverending Story, stories create stories and actually nothing have a end. Connected with it nothing have a start if they don't have story. Stories cause stories so its imposible to finish a story if you live in Fantasia. (The universe in Neverending Story)

There was endless universes endless possibilities endless characters endless situations. The book. Fantasia have a book which everything happen in Fantasia writing in it. Fantasia's book can't search a living creature just can found it . Book written by Old Soul Of the Wandering Mountain. (I can't directly translate it to English because i read it turkish)

Michael Ende (writer of Neverending Story and fascinating fantastic books , his books live forever in my brain) would be a great bsd oc. Michael Ende as a bsd character, ımagine...

People who live in world we know- and world we think we live- can come in to Fantasia. For example Shekespeare describe as a Fantasia traveler. I wonder Howard Philips Lovecraft ever go there ?

So in Fantasia humans who have a brain to understand fantasia's world can travel Fantasia every bsd author and port have a brain to this. Bungou stray Dogs is a theory born in Fantasia's endless meadows, forests, houses. Neverlands

Nikolai Gogol's stories, evenings from a farm near Dikanka, from Ukrania mountains, Fantasia have a visual look to people who look at it.... Ohh

[the-caged-jester]

ooc post

//urahh our poor wallet. We watched the entire anime awhile ago, and we plan to get all the manga (the main series, beast, wan), the light novels, literally all the merch we can find, and we’re going to buy at least one novel from every author. We’re barely there. We have up to the 3rd manga for the main series, the first manga for beast, and an Edgar Allan Poe book with his short stories, one normal lengthed story, and his poems. We don’t have a job yet. We earn money from chores. Qidjsjnfaikfjvjdj sobbing. It’s worth it though!

[yourdailydoseofmarijuana]

Happy birthday to Osamu Dazai ^_^

He would have been 113 years old today :/

[chuuphoria1]

BSD characters as the real authors' quotes part 2!

Katai:

“I do believe that, if a man really tries his hardest, there’s nothing he can’t do, but … I just seem to have lacked that sort of quality from birth.”

                                                     - Tayama Katai, “Country Teacher”

Fukuzawa:

“A person must have courage. Courage means to be strong, to have a nature that fears nothing. Whatever you have decided to do, you should persist, and without fearing hardships keep at it till you finish…. Have courage and persevere.”                                                       - Fukuzawa Yukichi, “Daily Lessons”

Agatha:

“Crime and its punishment has always fascinated me. I enjoy reading every kind of detective story and thriller. I have devised for my own private amusement the most ingenious ways of carrying out a murder.”                       - Agatha Christie, “And Then There Were None”

Rimbaud:

“Enough seen. The vision was encountered under all skies. Enough had. Sounds of cities, evening, and in the light, and always. Enough known. The decisions of life.”                                                                                                                - Arthur Rimbaud, “Departure”

Kajii:

“I am such a strange rascal; I left that terrible, golden glittery bomb in Maruzen. In 10 minutes, the shop will explode from a massive explosion within the fine art section – such indescribable mischief!”                                                              - Kajii Motojirō, “Lemon”

Fitzgerald:

“You see I usually find myself among strangers because I drift here and there trying to forget the sad things that happened to me.”                                      - F. Scott Fitzgerald, “The Great Gatsby”

Louisa:

“I want to do something splendid…something heroic or wonderful that won’t be forgotten after I’m dead. I don’t know what, but I’m on the watch for it and mean to astonish you all someday.”

“I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.”

                                                - Louisa May Alcott, “Little Women”

John:

“Do you take pride in your hurt? Does it make you seem large and tragic?…. Maybe you’re playing a part on a great stage with only yourself as audience.”                                                    - John Steinbeck, “East of Eden”

Lovecraft:

“No new horror can be more terrible than the daily torture of the commonplace.”                                                     - H.P. Lovecraft, “Ex Oblivione”

Margaret:

“Every problem has two handles. You can grab it by the handle of fear or the handle of hope.”

                                                                             - Margaret Mitchell 

Mark:

“Tom said to himself that it was not such a hollow world, after all. He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it – namely, that in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain.”                       - Mark Twain, “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer”

Nathaniel:

“I have laughed, in bitterness and agony of heart, at the contrast between what I seem and what I am!”                                    - Nathaniel Hawthorne, “The Scarlet Letter”

Alexander:

“It is better to have dreamed a thousand dreams that never were than never to have dreamed at all.”

                                                                                  -Alexander Pushkin

Lippmann:

“It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.”                                                                             ― Walter Lippmann

Bram: 

“Remember my friend, that knowledge is stronger than memory, and we should not trust the weaker.”

                                                                      - Bram Stoker, “Dracula”

Verlaine:

“Tears fall in my heart As tears fall on the town.”

                               - Paul Verlaine “The Sky Above the Roof”

Ayatsuji: 

“Death is not friendly. It’s dark, black where you look at it. You’re all alone. But it’s no different when you’re alive, right? No matter how many relationships we seem to have, we’re all alone.”                                                                  - Ayatsuji Yukito, “Another”

Natsume:

“Whatever happens, I for my part will have done what has to be done to make an unjust society just, and if it does not learn the lesson, whose fault is that?”                                                   - Natsume Sōseki, “The 210th Day”

Kyusaku:

“As I crawled deeper and deeper into the grove, I began to understand the place I was in. Perhaps I could see more clearly because I had grown used to my fear...”                                   - Yumeno Kyūsaku, “Love after Death”

Shibuzawa:

“An apple is the meaning of the end.”                                                - Shibusawa Tatsuhiko, “Flora Haruka”

[natsthinkitythinkthinkthonk]

This is from the anime “O Maidens in Your Savage Season” or “Araburu Kisetsu no Otome-domo yo”. Other notable works that they’ve mentioned in this anime is “The Idiot” by Ango Sakaguchi, “The Idiot” by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, and “Run, Melos!” by Osamu Dazai. 

The work referenced in this clip is The Morning of Last Farewell by Kenji Miyazawa. It highlights the greatest tragedy of Miyazawa’s life which was the death his younger sister, Toshiko. She died of tuberculosis at age 24 (He was two years her elder.)

The Japan Times reported:

One of the most famous Japanese poems of the 20th century is “The Morning of Last Farewell,” in which Miyazawa describes the journey that his beloved sister will be taking on this day . . . You are truly bidding farewell on this day O my brave little sister Burning up pale white and gentle

He rushes out of the sickroom to fetch her some snow, to cool her fever . . . I now will pray with all my heart That the snow you will eat from these two bowls Will be transformed into heaven’s ice cream

And be offered to you and everyone as material that will be holy On this wish I stake my every happiness

Why is there happiness associated with the death of a loved one whom he cherished, and nursed on her deathbed? Because the very snow that falls “out of pale red clouds cruel and gloomy” is the spirit of the deceased themselves. Our bodies may be lost in death, but our spirit remains as snow, as light, as trees . . . whatever anyone says.

In a number of poems written after Toshiko’s death, Miyazawa envisioned himself communicating with her while exploring nature.

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Here are a couple of translations of the poem:

Adam Kuplowsky (with the original Japanese text)

Hiroaki Sato

The following is a translation by Adam Kuplowsky:

On the Morning of Our Last Farewell

Toshiko You are leaving today for a faraway place It’s raining - rain mixed with snow - the world seems oddly bright     (Brother... will you bring me some?) Clouds, dark and menacing, tinged with red Sleet splashing on the cold, hard ground     (Brother... will you bring me some?) Taking these two chipped bowls decorated with blue water-shields I have run into the dark falling sleet a magic bullet to bring you a bowl of rain and snow     (Brother... will you bring me some?) Clouds the color of bismuth Falling sleet gobbled up by the earth Oh Toshiko you are dying and yet you want me to be happy so you sent me out for a bowl of fresh snow Thank you, my brave little sister You will keep me on the narrow path     (Brother... will you bring me some?) In the midst of your suffering, feverish and short of breath you asked me for one last bowl of snow, fallen from the sky the galaxy, the sun, the atmosphere…… …...A lone puddle of sleet in a crevice of granite I stand precariously above reaching for the glistening pines heavy, cold, translucent trying to preserve the pure white mixture of snow and rain This is the last meal I will prepare for you, my dear little sister... Today you are also parting with the indigo pattern on our childhood bowls (Ora Orade Shitori egumo*) This is really it Oh! I can see the closed hospital room where you lie behind dark partitions, under netting your face pale, burning gently My brave little sister! Everywhere I turn the snow is so white so beautiful, and yet it fell from this terrible sky     (The next time I am born a human       I will try to be less selfish      with my suffering) I say a prayer over these two bowls of snow... May this become the food of Tushita Heaven and bring to you, Toshiko, and all people, good fortune All of my happiness depends on this

*The roman script was used in the original. It is an expression spoken in the Tohoku dialect: “I... I am going alone.” Written by Kenji Miyazawa | Translation by Adam Kuplowsky

Yes, that’s what these kids are falling asleep to.