#nolongerhuman

[cerviideath]

Shattered by nolongerhuman

[soukokumychildren]

“Soukoku my children” okay dazai anti!

[saisons-en-enfer]

Show me

Your pain tolerance

All of your charity

In service to your vanity

[suicidalmackerel]

So i was looking into symbolism of the eyes since one of dazais eyes were covered in his ‘dark era’ and i found out that in asian culture through symbolism obscuring of eyes can convey ‘respect’ or ‘modesty’. That the eye often means judgment and authority. That the eyes are commonly associated with intelligence, light, vigilance, moral conscience, and truth. Looking someone in the eye is a western custom of honesty. In cases like dazais covering of the eyes with bandages can mean mystery, not seeing the complete truth, or deceit. Different numbers of eyes have different meanings as well and dazai only covers one of them. which can mean: subhuman, divine omniscience, superhuman (usually negative). Dazai was blindly following orders during the ‘dark era’. He was the ‘demon prodigy’. Oda took off the bandages while he was dying which is a really human thing. Therefore figuratively and literally opening dazais eyes. when dazai was in the Port Mafia he was thought to be ‘cut out for it’, that he had ‘mafia blood’ running through his veins. but when he left for Armed Detective Agency to try to become ‘find the right path’ as per odas last request, he no longer had the bandages over his right eye. i think he made peace with his humanity in a way.

[dazwis]

and I was right, but I just chose wrong.

[evenstarglow]

so there’s been a lot of theories regarding dazai’s bandages around his body and there’s a scene on bsd wan when chuuya asked why dazai have such bandages wrapped around his body and he answered that they keep his powers at bay. i don’t know if i’m just overthinking this but i think he meant that seriously because we all know how dazai is (it might sound like he's joking even though he’s not) and usually it’s the latter.

[southmountainninja]

‘No Longer Human’ (2019). Junji Ito.

[lost-syllable]

I thought, “I want to die. I want to die more than ever before. There’s no chance now of a recovery. No matter what sort of thing I do, no matter what I do, it’s sure to be a failure, just a final coating applied to my shame. That dream of going on bicycles to see a waterfall framed in summer leaves—it was not for the likes of me. All that can happen now is that one foul, humiliating sin will be piled on another, and my sufferings will become only the more acute. I want to die. I must die. Living itself is the source of sin.

osamu dazai, “no longer human”