Bungou Stray Dogs: BEAST Manga, Chapter 6.

Bungou Stray Dogs: BEAST Manga, Chapter 6.

The faces in this panel are literally like: 🙂😠🙂

It's somehow so creepy and funny at the same time. Especially because Tanizaki and Kenji are just like "It's no big deal, we expected this" and Oda is just like "I'm already tired of this shit".

Minamoto Teru

Oh dear God. What a panel as well. 😂

Am I going to defend him? Not per se... it's more like giving a different perspective.

Recent chapters do not paint him in a favorable light, even older ones, like chapter 10, and some more but chapter 85 and 10 (and 87 you can say) have been stuck in my mind more.

And I believe the reason for it, is because of who our main characters are. A girl who meets a ghost and befriends an exorcist who doesn't want to exorcize ghosts.

What if our story had someone like Teru as our main character? I'm not saying specifically Teru because I can't see it, but what if our main was an exorcist, whose goal was to exorcize ghosts that from his perspective would be/seem evil, especially because of the rumors being a key factor with how the ghosts act.

It would be a completely different story, wouldn't you think?

Now take Teru..

Since the age of 8, he has been an exorcist, a talented one, as said in chapter 9, he doesn't know anything else. He was taught, ghosts/spirits/wonders, whatever you wanna call them, are evil. They want to harm humans, attack, eat, kill, steal, anything you can possibly be taught so that he can only think there is no good in them and that you shouldn't feel bad. Being the eldest, those things were most likely drilled into him, while Kou didn't undergo through all that, for the most part, because Teru took on heavy duty.

With this being said...

This 100% feels uncalled for. No, Hanako is not in the clear, he is at fault for the situation but Teru... is manipulating him, trying to make him drop his guard so that he can finally exorcize him. He knows where it would hurt him the most, make him more vulnerable. And it hurts to see it work...

Or the way he simply said to his brother "he's weak", it's heartbreaking. Of course, he protects him at the end but chapter 87 showed how much of a broken and even twisted character he is because of what he has gone through from a young age.

Anyway, when this is posted, like two more chapters are out but this was written back in December so...

An edit later, and after chapter 87, I've not changed much in the post, just added the last paragraph. But my point that Kou didn't go through the same things because Teru took heavy duty was 100% confirmed.

Bye! 🏃🏻‍♀️💨

Would it be okay if I started talking about some old Jibaku Shounen/Toilet-Bound Hanako-kun manga chapters?

I just want to get it out of my system and talk it out.

I will not spam post, I'll schedule them for specific times. Not that anybody will even see this post of me asking but I still did.

Natsume: *to Fukuzawa and Mori* Da-- I mean, become partners.

Mori: *to Dazai and Chuuya* Date-- I mean, polish each other like the diamonds you are.

Dazai: *to Atsushi and Akutagawa* Date.

Atsushi&Akutagawa: DAZAI-SAN?!

I want to say I'm sorry for this but... I'm not.

Happy New Year!

Or at least I hope it is bc timezones are different, still!

And how am I gonna start this year? With cut out content from season 1 of Jibaku Shounen Hanako-kun! Yay!

Season 1 of Toilet-Bound Hanako-kun has 12 episodes which covers up about 7 volumes, more or less, bc chapters were cut.

Those chapters being:

The Young Exorcist (chapters 9-10)

The Three Clock Keepers (chapters 23-27)

The Searching (chapters 28-29)

Let's see...

These chapters happen in between The Confession Tree and The 4pm Bookstacks.

Although it's not a big cut, it has character and relationship development that I would have liked to see.

I can understand why they cut it, it doesn't seem so important but, if/when season 2 happens, I would love to see it. Will we? Maybe not.

Next...

These chapters happen in between The Tea Party and Reach Out Your Hand.

And these chapters are IMPORTANT! At the last episode of season 1, a.k.a episode 12, the rumor about clocks is teased. But with the season ending and these being important chapters which would confirm in a way a second season, they were cut.

First of all!

Hanako can do THIS!

Though he gets slapped out of her body later on. 😂

Anyway! And...

We get more Akane plot or more like, we learn who the No.1 of the Seven Mysteries is, which consists of 3 people, the Past, the Present which is Akane and the Future. And we get a bit of Aoi plot which by the way...

Does she even tell this something? Am I dumb that I have not noticed if she has or not? Someone tell me...

But anyway, these chapters are not only important for the introduction of No.1 but also about the information that Yashiro has about a year of life and that Hanako cannot be summoned by anyone but only or mostly only from people that are close to death.

Which makes me question, does that mean Sakura also has a shortened life span? Or is it different? You know, because she is bound to Tsukasa but instead he is someone who grants wishes to the dead. Which also, how is he bound to Sakura? Why? And how did she summoned him?

And Last...

Ah, yes, what a panel. I mean, if you are this low in the post, you have already entered spoilers territory, so it don't matter!

These chapters are the aftermath of The Three Clock Keepers events where Hanako decides to play hide and seek-- joking but I mean, it's accurate.

And honestly, Hanako is moping around, and then when Yashiro finds him, he is looking at the sky which btw bc he wanted to be an astronaut and he generally had a love for the sky/stars etc. Looking at the sky could be bringing him some kind of comfort, or maybe a longing feeling, I don't know but he does it a lot.

And to end on a positive note/panels.

This. This is the kiss. And I died when I saw it. The aftermath of it's funny though.

LOOK AT THEM BEING FLUSTERED!

And then he goes on to tell her she shouldn't do that bc she's a girl and just, they are so close when he says it... and I'll be honest, I don't know who ruins it first, Kou or Hanako himself by saying whose the letter addressed to. 😂

I'm done and this was a chunky one. Probably the next post will be about my favorite panels since I got the cut content out of the way. I did reach the limit in this post as well and I do like all the panels I put so it's like, part 1 of me talking about old manga chapters but part 1.5 of my favourite panels. 🤣 To anyone who read all of this. Thank you. I don't know how you wouldn't get bored with a long post. And I'm making it longer by babbling.

Bye! See you in the next post! 💖

Honestly, this might not be a big thing nor is it important but, I wanna talk about it. It drives me crazy about this arc.

In the Picture Perfect Arc, Tsukasa was there. At the time of this panel, we weren't aware, as readers, that Hanako was really there. What we knew is that, this was a fake. So when you learn he is actually there, him saying Tsukasa and the way the panel looks, it hurts.

So, naturally, Hanako in this world never killed Tsukasa, they are fine.

To Hanako, this Tsukasa in this world isn't real. He doesn't feel panic, nor ask why he is there but as readers we learn...

He truly is there. Which means, Tsukasa was well aware that Hanako was there but that doesn't mean Hanako knew. You can argue that he did know but even after he revealed that he was aware of everything, they never met with each other again after that one scene. I mean, yeah, what would be the reason for Hanako to know that the actual Tsukasa is there, but it was avoided so much. I don't know..

Okay... for now, that's how much of the Yugi twins I can take. Will they have another post focused on them? Absolutely, they have stolen my mind. Next post is favourite panels! Which last time didn't perfome well. Ironic.

For now... Bye! 💖