Kenji being a great communicator is the reason why he's getting all the strongest and 'unfazed' characters on his side. He got the same goal as those characters, to protect. As he says "be it with a cow or a person, be it in the village or city, if you're sincere, you can communicate with others." HE IS SINCERE, about helping others, being kind to others, and protecting others and/or the city.
getting through my poetry assignments by just,, basing it off of the events of bungo stray dogs. i looked at chapters 99-100.5 (the fight between Kenji and Tecchou) and just said "get sestina-fied". This is the most dramatic shit ever and I love it so so so much. will post if literally just one person asks for it even
i'm sorry to bring this up after ch101 but i couldn't stop thinking about tecchou's and kenji's whole interaction until my remaining braincell offered a reasonable parallel. i present to you the summary of ch100.5:
Okok hear me out-
We all love wan!Chuuya and Kenji’s wholesome interactions and one day I swear I’m gonna write smthn wholesome about Chuuya taking Kenji out for his first drink
BUT
The latest chapter has made me wanna see a Kenji vs Chuuya fight SO BAD.
I can’t say what I wanna say without spoiling, so I’ll add a keep reading.
CH100.5 SPOILERS BELOW
So we’ve got Chuuya, who controls gravity and also has a literal god inside him. He’s OP as fuck.
And we’ve got Kenji, who we now know has the power of unrestrained raging nature. Pretty damn impressive if you ask me. Nature is scary.
Normal Kenji vs FTTS Chuuya
Normal Kenji vs FTTS Chuuya we’ve incredibly briefly seen back during The Guild arc, though they only really got a couple swings at each other, so it’s not much to go on for analysis purposes. I do think, however, that FTTS Chuuya would win an all-out fight against Normal Kenji.
Kenji himself said he might not be able to win his fight against Tecchou, and before he went god-mode, he was definitely losing. Now, Chuuya hasn’t fought a Hunting Dog, so there’s no direct comparison we can use, but so far, he’s been pretty much undefeated apart from his little brains-over-brawn run-in with Ranpo and Poe. I think we can safely say Chuuya would stand on even ground with the Hunting Dogs, though (and this may be my Chuuya bias showing) I’m pretty sure he’s stronger.
Either way, this puts FTTS Chuuya above Normal Kenji and thus Chuuya would win.
Angry Kenji vs Corruption Chuuya
I mean, this’d be end-of-the-world levels of destruction, that’s for sure. But I think, again, Chuuya would come out on top here.
Angry Kenji is stupid powerful. He kicked Tecchou’s ass with ease. He punched a hole in a literal mountain. Unrestrained nature is a force to be reckoned with and Kunikida is absolutely right that no human can stop that.
But Chuuya isn’t human. (shh I’ve read Storm Bringer I know I can’t state this as fact but let me be dramatic) Chuuya’s got a whole-ass God inside him. FTTS Chuuya can play with gravity, but Corruption Chuuya can straight-up manipulate gravitons. He can create mini black holes.
Now, the unrestrained force of nature can do a hell of a lot of damage, but it’s child’s play compared to the destruction a black hole can do. Nothing escapes a black hole, so once Chuuya’s pulled his trump card, not even Kenji can stand up to him.
Though, on a side note, if Kenji could hold out long enough for Chuuya’s body to tear itself apart...then in theory he could win. And on that same side-note, the fact Kenji’s body doesn’t tear itself apart is probably a nice way to say ‘you’ve got unrestrained power...but not unrestrained power’ lol.
Angry Kenji vs FTTS Chuuya
Finally, to the real question. Would Angry Kenji be stronger than FTTS Chuuya?
Let’s think about it. FTTS Chuuya is pretty much the same as any other gifted user. A human with a supernatural power. Arahabaki is dormant. It’s not available to him.
So we essentially have Kenji using 100% of his ability vs Chuuya using....not 100% (idk what an accurate percentage would be lmao). We know Angry Kenji can punch a hole in a mountain...but could FTTS Chuuya?
We’ve seen Corruption Chuuya put instant holes in Lovecraft using gravitons (black hole perks amirite?) and pull a whole-ass skyscraper out of the ground to shove into a dragon’s mouth. Corruption Chuuya could absolutely put a hole in a mountain. (Though how many times? He makes mini-black holes, not size-of-a-mountain-side black holes. It takes time to increase their size and they seem incredibly short-lived so their influence wouldn’t extend that far...yeah that’s a question for another post moving on-)
But, more-so referring to the skyscraper, we’ve never seen FTTS Chuuya do anything on that scale. If shit gets big, he uses Corruption. He had to use Corruption on the dragon because FTTS just wouldn’t cut it. Ignoring Lovecraft’s external invincibility, Chuuya still needed to use Corruption to (not quite) defeat him once Dazai had blown him up from the inside. Lovecraft’s big, but he’s not mountain big.
So, could FTTS Chuuya fight the unrestrained rage of nature head-on? Could FTTS Chuuya beat Angry Kenji?
Well...I actually don’t have a clear opinion on who would win this fight. Gravity is incredibly powerful and I do think it’d even the odds out significantly, but just look at earth with its g=9.81:
Us tiny humans can escape the earth’s gravitational pull by setting a few chemicals on fire. Volcanoes toss massive boulders into the sky. Tsunamis flatten small islands. The tectonic plates create literal mountains and trenches. There’s a lot of defying gravity going on there and I bet doubling, tripling, even increasing the gravity tenfold wouldn’t stop it completely.
Gravity rules all, but nature still does as it pleases.
Sooooo.....maybe. Maybe Angry Kenji would kick FTTS Chuuya’s ass. Maybe he’d fall just short. I can’t say for sure, so I’ll leave it up to you to decide for yourselves.
Whatever the outcome would be, I think we can all agree it would be one hell of a fight though.
