Let's talk about the scene in Dead Apple, where Dazai visits Bar Lupin.
The song. The song playing in the background.
The song is called Dear Prince [Artist: Taku Iwasaki].
Dear Prince.
In the solitude of the bar, Dazai talks to Odasaku. And the song is a slow melody of words and emotions he has no words for, the song is sepia-stained and the song smells like old photographs.
Someday, when I come back to you
Tell me how you kissed me gently
Odyssey, moon-shine voyage
I believe, I will see you again
Dazai knows he's going to make a mortally dangerous move, and he knows he most likely won't make it out alive.
So he comes back to the place where memories of Odasaku are still vivid. If he closes his eyes and listens, Odasaku still speaks to him, Odasaku still swirls the ice around in his glass.
So he comes back to the man who always saw and always believed in the good in Dazai, even though Dazai himself never could and never did. He needs that before he's going to do something that will most likely challenge everyone's trust in him.
This is the embodiment of the sanctity and faithfulness of love.
The kind of love that waits and waits because they will come back to each other, they're always going to keep coming back to each other.
The kind of love that is redemption.
