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WE NEED KUNIKIDA NATION TO RISE AND MANIFEST LIKE YALL DID WITH FYODOR

HEY GUYS CAN WE MAYBE GET BUNGOU STRAY DOGS TRENDING AGAIN BECAUSE UHHH WHAT WAS THAT

(If you haven’t read the new chapter yet buckle up)

I love all the Kunikida content in light of the new chapter but y’all do NOT get to act like you loved him this whole time.

If you did, then why was there next to no content about him before 😐

-A long-term Kunikida fan who is robbed of content

KUNIKIDA!

on a brighter note, Akutagawa's back!

literally what is dazai gonna do, he messed up and now kunikida is gone

New leaks for the chapter 117 look wild!

But I'm glad to see the whole ADA gang together again! Seems even some mafia members joined them. The reunion turns out to be epic!

Can't wait for the entire chapter.

(What if everyone will become bubbles,

And then go pop! Will they be able to recover? I need to know now)

𝐀𝐧𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐰𝐚𝐲 𝐨𝐮𝐭: 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐍𝐢𝐤𝐨𝐥𝐚𝐢 𝐟𝐢𝐧𝐝 𝐢𝐭?

I wounder, how Nikolai felt, when he realized he couldn't choose death. Did he hate himself for wanting a friend so badly, he couldn't do the “right” thing and liberate himself?

Or was Gogol secretly hoping that Fyodor would offer him another way forward, an alternative, without death, pain and torture?

So Nikolai followed Dostoevsky to the end of the earth, hoping to get a response. But Fyodor didn't know it too. His answer was to kill, and kill again. Everyone who opposed him must be eliminated. Gogol could only smile sadly, realizing his friend, too, was stuck in his ways.

But maybe now, when the world is split open and filled with bubbly foam, Nikolai will find another path forward? The one that would allow him to seak freedom, without taking lives from others or forsaking his own?

𝗔𝗺𝗲𝗻𝗼𝗴𝗼𝘇𝗲𝗻 𝗮𝗻𝗮𝗹𝘆𝘀𝗶𝘀: 𝗙𝘆𝗼𝗱𝗼𝗿'𝘀 𝗗𝗲𝘃𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝗽𝘂𝗽𝗽𝗲𝘁 𝗼𝗿 𝗵𝗼𝘄 𝗗𝗲𝗺𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗼𝗼𝗸 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗼𝗹 𝗼𝗳 𝗚𝗼𝗱 (𝗯𝘀𝗱 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗽𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝟭𝟭𝟱–𝟭𝟭𝟳)

It's interesting how Fyodor positions himself towards Fukuchi, whom he calls a “Devine being”. Fukuchi or Amenogozen, as he is now, is the closest thing to “God” we can have on earth. And Fyodor is absolutely thrilled to control this DIY Devine Bring. Is it a blasphemy? Maybe. But let's look at what Amenogozen is.

How did Fukuchi turn into him? What happened to Ouchi's mind to make him act like he does now?

Amenogozen is Fukuchi's desire to get rid of suffering amplified. Ouchi used to see the whole world's agony as his own. Now he is a literal embodiment of everyone's pain, big or small.

Amenogozen has only one instinct – to turn everyone into bubbles and store them inside himself. He isn't just killing them, he “eats” their souls as well. When Fukuchi erases a person in this way, all of their suffering becomes his (along with their memories and identity), thus giving their souls piece.

Amenogozen isn't explicitly hateful or cruel, but he is also far from human. He seemed to genuinely empathize with Teruko and, especially, Kunikida, during his last moments. He saw their anguish, sensed it (Teruko's grief, Kunikida's fear along with wounds). And Devine being thought he would help them. He would erase their suffering.

This is what Amenogozen sees as his mission: to kill every person, swallow their pain and “save” them by turning them into pure emptiness (in a cloud of bubbles, yes).

Gozen grew to respect Kunikida during their brief interaction. He even acknowledged that Doppo's ideas can transcend death itself. And yet, Fukuchi still decides to kill him. Because he sees “death” as the kindest option for every living being.

It seems like Ouchi came to this decision during his transformation. For us, it all happened in a few seconds, but for him, it probably lasted for centuries. He travelled through time and space indefinitely, until he became a Singularity. From outside it looked like a brief flash of light, but it continued for eternity in his mind.

Off-screen, Fukuchi went through a psychological torture like no other. He was forced to observe everything that happened to humanity, while being outside time and space, unable to do anything. Of course, he saw an immense amount of pain history is filled with.

Ouchi watched it unfold in front of his eyes, like a helpless disembodied ghost, unable to die or let go. He, who thought of himself as a warrior, was forced to be a bystander to everyone's agony. It all continued indefinitely and was extremely traumatic. Eventually, Fukuchi discarded what was left of his humanity and became “God” to survive seeing all the visions of pain.

As a result, suffering became the only focus of his broken mind.

I think this what Dostoevsky has hoped for. Because he came to the same conclusion after living for centuries. “Death is the ultimate salvation, and nothing else can help”. So Fyodor hijacked Fukuchi into the same mindset by overloading his brain with the images of agony.

Now, Amenogozen sees pain as life. They are inseparable from each other from his view point. So his goal transforms into erasing all suffering, by erasing all life on Earth. Fukuchi wants to be the one who bares the whole world's agony, while everyone's soul rests peacefully within him in the blissful oblivion.

Amenogozen is a twisted, distorted caricature of Jesus. He takes on everyone's pain by killing them. It's a befitting path for an ex-war criminal.

And what about Fyodor? Does he call Amenogozen “devine” just because of his immense power? Dostoy certainly enjoys watching Yokohama being cut into pieces. But that's not only it.

Fyodor nicknamed his new weapon "Devine power" based on his philosophy about God.

Fukuchi isn't entirely gone. His motivation is what drives Amenogozen forward. Singularity craves to erase every source of pain / life, so much that he is ready to become a sinner, a monster, an empty void.

Just like Fukuchi in the past Gozen uses his body until he doesn't resemble a human anymore.

Ouchi lost his sanity due to his immense desire to free people from Samsara. Now he is a literal monster, but he is still trying to help and "save" everyone from pain, albeit in a twisted brutal way.

And this what makes him so close to a “devine power”.

Because to Dostoevsky, God is someone who encapsulates everyone's pain, carries everyone's burden. Just like what Fyodor tries to do as his loyal servant.

Despite this, I think Fyodor calls Amenogozen “God” ironically. He doesn't see Fukuchi as such, but he “compliments” him for trying. Because Dostoevsky realizes how truly selfish this newly formed “Devine being” is.

Before everyone's salvation, Amenogozen desires oblivion. He wants to disappear. But, just like Fukuchi, he can't do that, until his mission is entirely complete.

Amenogozen sees everyone's pain as his own. So he erases it repeatedly, as if it can save him. He can't distinguish his own soul from everyone else's, so he kills himself again and again through others, but still remains alive.

Amenogozen seeks relief through self-distraction, something to what Dostoevsky relates too much.

And Fyodor smiles because he knows: real God is only yet to arrive.

Yep

https://mangadex.org/chapter/48433827-cb46-4c31-8c58-21a4b7c62d3c

Can't wait for BSD to be at the top of trending chats after the new chapter (⁠ ⁠╹⁠▽⁠╹⁠ ⁠)

With Aku back we gotta hit the charts RIGHT

I haven't read the new chapter, is the Eng translation out yet????

I wanna eat him in your art style

his ass just came back to life and now he has a new little sister

Akutagawa August...but at what cost

holy crap

the divine being and reasons to live

hey. so we've seen two people get liquefied by the divine being, right? when we saw teruko get killed, the only thing that remained was her hunting dogs uniform. when we saw kunikida get killed, the only thing that remained was his ideals notebook.

teruko's reason for living was to serve the hunting dogs. almost her entire life has been devoted to the hunting dogs and to the government. kunikida's reason for living was his ideals. his notebook was his explicit statement of his ideals in the clearest form possible.

before the divine being kills kunikida, he describes himself as "a straw rope, decayed, the corpse of an avian, the trace light of daybreak, a copper coin, pilfered" and "the perfect whole of this world" yet he is also "an empty void." all of the objects described are things unable to fulfill their potential and their purpose. the straw rope cannot tie if it is decayed, the bird cannot fly in its death, trace light cannot illuminate the sky, and a stolen coin is not being used for transactions as intended. the object exists and yet it is devoid of meaning, an "empty void"

if the people at the airport are being liquefied into the divine being, what if the only thing he can't take is their raison d'etre? this is especially tragic given it is fukuchi who was used for this, someone who spent his entire life devoted to stopping another world war, only to have been working for nothing this whole time.

if i'm right, this ties back to a lot of the existentialist themes of BSD. even in the face of something that claims to be God, that carries the powers of a god, your purpose and your path are yours to fight for. the thing that makes you you is what you believe in. teruko believed in the hunting dogs. kunikida believed in his ideals. they were both turned (turned because i don't think they're dead, frankly) fighting for the thing most important to them. that's something that neither fyodor (who is a determinist) and the divine being (something that finds the lives of the people he kills to be hollow) can understand or properly extinguish.

so while I don’t ship kunizai, probably never will, I feel so bad for yall rn following 117

So uh, just went on twitter and saw some leaks for bsd 117! Not fun! Don't go on twitter until you're sure the translation is out or you'll get bombarded with unwanted spoilers!!!

Bungo Stray Dogs, Ch. 117: Understood

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SPOILERS FOR MHA 430 AND BSD 117

Kunikida probably died, Bram's dead, Junichiro's about to maybe die, no sight of Sigma, Jouno, Tetchou, or Kenji, basically all of the LOV is the dead (we got Spinner in jail, Compress reading his book, and Dabi in the thingymabob), there are still hero rankings (why???) that fucker Gran Primo's alive (somehow) and my twitter account got blocked because I made a reference to a tweet that said "let's all kill ourselves".

This was truly My Stray Twitter Academia.

I don't even ship them but like damnnn- WHY ASAGIRI WHY!?

soukoku shippers can NEVER come after kunizai now with the excuse of them having no angst i think they honestly win tragic yaoi of the year award WAIT UNTIL DAZAI HEARS HIS PARTNER GOT TURNED INTO A 7/11 $2.50 FROST GLACIER SLUSHIE 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

Just realised Kunikida’s clothes didn’t stay behind like they did with Teruko

I shall now be head cannoning that Kunikida made all of his clothes using his notebook

The return of the best emo boy 🖤

I jinxed it so bad oh my god.

In Japan every year we have this thing where the town has this big fireworks show to celebrate the summer, and this time when I watched the fireworks I got WAN flashbacks and wondered if we'd ever see everyone back together again. (alive)