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What does this mean??? Ryo what does this mean?? DO NOT CANNIBALIZE THE BUNNIE

Mori’s character makes no sense compared to the others, and here’s why.

Mori Ougai, the boss of the port mafia, canonically a pedophile with a disgusting ability and a mind for manipulation. All of this makes sense in the realm of BSD and to the plot line, he’s not out of place at all! BUT all the characters are based on authors, and their abilities based on a book they’ve written.

Dazai being suicidal makes sense, if you’ve read No Longer Human, it’s very obvious why. Kunikida was a very strict idealist in his own works, his character makes sense.

I’ve made it a challenge to read every book that a character was based on in Bungo stray dogs, and I’ve read Vita Sexualis.

Vita Sexualis, despite what the character may lead you to believe, is a commentary on how sexual society is (of course this being a topic at the time the novel was published, in 1909; and still relevant today) and how asexuality is not discussed.

In the novel a literary teacher is writing a journal of his life’s sexual experiences starting from his childhood at the age of five or so for his son to read when he becomes a teenager.

Throughout the journal entries, marked by age, its detailed what comments and behaviors were pushed on him, as well as the behaviors he was expected to engage in that had sexual connotation well into his adult hood.

As someone on the asexual spectrum I highly recommend reading this book, it puts many feels I have that are hard to explain. It details how sexual society is and how taboo it remained despite people indulging in such acts.

It’s such a vital commentary on society as a whole and how we perceive sexuality. Not once was there a mention of pedophilia, or children being viewed by the author or main character in any sexual way. In fact when it detailed comments made to the protagonist at a young age about his expected sexual behaviors, they were treated as seriously as they should be. That it was off-putting and disgusting to expect such behaviors from a child, especially how it was expected and not something to be reprimanded for because the protagonist is a boy.

Within the BSD anime, manga and light novels the hints of Mori’s ability being sexual are constantly there. Fukuzawa and Oda refer to his ability as ‘disgusting’ and morally wrong. In the anime, Mori out right states “I prefer the women in my life to be under the age of 12.” Before he’s told to be quiet by Kouyou. Even in an end card in one of the manga, he tells Fukuzawa that Elise is not his daughter, but his wife.

The choice to make Mori so morally and sexually disgusting is something I never understood. He’s a well written villain, and I do love the head cannons around what he may have done to Dazai, Yosano and Elise don’t get me wrong, but the choice to go against the novels intentional teachings still confuses me.

This pride month let's also try changing the wrong perception of English speaking bsd audience about Mori.

Mori is not a pedophile in bsd, neither was he irl. He was asexual and misunderstood, the exact sort of misunderstanding Asagiri created.

Mori's book vita sexualis might be scandalizing in name but on reading, you will discover how it's just about an asexual person coming to terms with that very fact.

Stop villainizing Mori in such a perverted way- I am not in any means defending the other things he's done- but he wasn't a rapist or pedophile.

It's a translation error, a cultural divergence.

The Japanese audience understands the way Mori's being portrayed. He is as complex as Dazai or any other bsd character. Stop putting him under pedophile category and dismissing him.

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Anything aged before this post, do not look at, please :) I was able to get back into my account however any post before this I made when I was 13, I am now 20, it’s super cringe