It’s been 9 years since the series start serializing. Wishing Asagiri, Harukawa, other manga artists, and staff involved congrats for reaching success thus far & keeping the story going.
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It works..
I miss him 🥺
あああああああああ Natsume Yuujinchou is doing an anime site pilgrimage collab with Kumamoto prefecture!!!! Finally, something that’s high-key relevant to my interests!! I’ve done Hitoyoshi/Natsume locations that one year but being the long running series that it is I knew for sure there’d be so many other places I have yet to check off my list. Japan please get well soon I would LOVE to have reasons to come visit you again!! Site here: https://kumamoto.guide/natsume-yujincho/
Either way, we still gonna suffer
After seeing that the first sentence of side A of the light novel The Day I Picked Up Dazai--which mentions something about "a bloody corpse of a boy" appearing on someone's doorstep--I am fully convinced it's from Mori's pov
I enjoy the idea that one side might be from Oda's pov, but it I don't think it'll be side A (since why would Dazai just go to the doorstep of a lower mafia member if he didn't even know them prior? Ofc, he probably would have known OF Oda, but I doubt their first interaction was just...him appearing on Oda's doorstep.)
Now if it was before he joined the mafia, it's more believable that he'd just appear on Mori's porch, having known him or not, since he likely wouldn't have anything to lose.
Side Theory that I might as well mention even though it's so damn unlikely: what if Side B is from Dazai's pov? Obviously, it likely won't show his thoughts, but maybe while side A shows Mori's first impression of him, side B will show what caused Dazai to end up on his porch in the first place?
(Tweet that translated the first line)
26.10
To the only person who understand Dazai, brought him to the light, gave him the little meaning of life, changed him. Who took in five orphans, a mafia who didn't had any rank and a mafia's dog yet had an extremely powerful ability that was flawless
"A mafia member who doesn't kill"
Happy Birthday Oda Sakunosuke aka Odasaku
This feels like dark era Dazai and it kind of terrifies me 🙂.
And I was stunned for a second by this :
Asagiri sure knows how to give us the same pain in more than one way. Hoshikawa made it worse
Most part of the mind : Study, prepare for the upcoming exams, ready for everything
That one part : Nope, doodles instead. Anxiety, overthinking, sleepy, lazy...