Differences Between Novel/Manga!Dazai And Anime!Dazai

Differences between Novel/Manga!Dazai and Anime!Dazai

(A re-upload because tumblr did not want to show this post in the tags no matter what I did. I’m very sorry if it’s inconvenient for my followers! I hope this will work!)

This analysis is an expansion to this post -> (along-came-atsushi.tumblr.com/post/190387561311) I made a while ago, to which @shin-hakuryu​​​ asked, if I could give some examples. So, I decided to turn this into its own post.

I’m aware that every anime episode has its time limit and needs to highlight certain scenes more than others, so that it’s still exciting to watch for the viewer. It’s a different kind of storytelling than the storytelling in a manga or a novel. I’m also aware that the animators need to leave out some things in order to highlight others.

Additionally, I want to point out that the anime didn’t portray Dazai out of character or something, and made a good job in general. But sometimes I get the feeling that the anime tries to idealize and refine Dazai’s original novel/manga version.

Please note that the following are just some examples of scenes and quotes from the manga and novels, as I haven’t read all of the novels until now, and listing all differences would be way too long.

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Fyodor and religion analysis I guess?? (Chapter 105.5 spoilers at the end)

ALSO HE DOESN'T HAVE A GOD COMPLEX!!!

(more about it at the end).

first thing first, it is extremely clear fyodor is religious. And going by the most popular religion in Russia he probably believes in 'Orthodox Christianity'. Based on that it's the main practiced religion in Russia. KNOWING that, he's clearly a very devoted follower of God. In many manga panels he brings up God and religion. I'll mainly show the ones I could find immediately.

(His first entrance)

" the right hand of God "

It is an honor to be at gods right hand. In the Bible Jesus is stated to be sat at the right hand of God. This because it is a high status in the Bible. We can assume it's because Jesus is his son, as well as extremely holy. (Has never committed a sin). Demons are fallen angels, they have rebelled against God. I'm going to assume, that fyodor meant that both God and the demons have expected this. (Expected things to go as planned)

(His second time bring up religious beliefs)

" the promise land "

The promise land is said to be a land flowing with milk and honey. A land that Moses was supposed to take the first generation of God's people to. Except they never made it as they stopped following God, and making false idols. They died. Moses on the other hand made it to the border of the promise land. He died just before he could make it.

I'm going to take this as fyodor trying to make the promise land. He's trying to bring the people to the promise land. Expect he sees ability users as sinners. He's trying to make the world clean of these ability users. (Bro you, yourself are an ability user). So ability users must be like the first generation of God's people. (In his eyes). He sees them as people disgracing God. Creating false idols. Or being said false idols.

(Another time he brought up God)

" my prayers have reached God"

Clearly he takes time to pray, to trust in God. Also well as believing, that God has answered his prayers in a sense when things go his way. Prying is very important in religions. (No matter the religion). But with Christianity (Orthodox Christianity). It is supposed to be you having a conversation with God. You are talking with him personally. You are being vulnerable with him, asking him for things. When most pray it is to ask God for something. (A good day, helping a loved one get better, etc, etc).

(From the recent chapter)

" embraced in the arms of God"

To be embraced by God, is to know God. You shall fear him. God is the one dictating our lives basically. He is watching us, to know God. Is to know his power. To know his power is to fear him. I'm taking this as fyodor telling dazai he'll be in fear, to be at the hands of God. Fyodor is "showing" dazai God's power. What he's capable of. As to fyodor God is on his side. God's arms is his holiness, as well as his power as I said before. Fyodor is saying dazai will not only know God, but fear him.

(From the recent chapter)

" although the trial of flood is fitting for me as a servant of God "

God flooded the earth in attempts to rid the world of all the sinners. Except for Noah and his family. Noah was to build an ark and take two of every animal. (Male and female). Fyodor is hitting at the flood in this statement.

(More about him not having a God complex)

Back to what I was saying about him not having a God complex. Someone with a God complex wouldn't call themselves "a servant of God" or even pray to God. (Any God bc they believe themselves to be a god). With that religion is a very important part of his character! It is the main or ONLY reason for him doing what he's doing. He wants a world without sin. (He sees ability users as sinful, this goes back to 'the promise land' part).

All if not most of the characters have something they believe in/rely on when doing something. So when they do so, it feels justified in a way no matter the crime. Fyodor's reasons having to do with religion isn't him having a God complex! NOW I know most people have a hard time with religion. But you can't look at a religious character and just go "oh yeah they have a God complex". Or just dismiss everything about it. Because you are taking away something that is clearly VERY important to their character. Anyone that was all!!

EXTRA MENTION ABOUT DOS!!!

like in the image above he states on his his body is feeble. Clearly he is not very physical strong. And possibly could have some underlying disability. "Makes me vulnerable to even the slightest wind". He's clearly not very active either. Anyway he is anemic canon lol. But seriously that's probably why he mainly has other people doing all the action. As he is too weak in a way to do it himself.

Anyway that was all! Apologies if this isn't very accurate I haven't read the Bible in a while. I was literally asking my dad questions about it to try and show the comparisons. (Although I was the smartest kid at Sunday service hehe). Nonetheless I hope you enjoyed this analysis I guess it would be?

Tokyorev! characters dating a dazai!reader

(Chifuyu, Smiley and Angry)

Warnings ⚠️: S*icide mentions, attempts. Violence. Curse words and a lot more

Author's note 📝: I'm not gonna lie, I'm feeling extremely iffy about posting this as in the BSD world, Dazai's attempts are somewhat treated as a gag. Please do not take suicide as a joke. If you ever find this offensive please tell me. I will delete this if ever.

Tokyo revengers does not belong to me. All credits go to Ken Wakui, and Kafka Asagiri for Dazai Osamu from Bungou Stray Dogs

Chifuyu :

When I tell you mans done, mans is done with your bs lol

While he was in a meeting with the gang, his phone rang.

He was just letting it buzz inside his pockets when his mind kept gnawing at him to answer

So he did, ignoring the subtle looks he got from Takemitchy and Baji, he discreetly answered his phone and put it above his ear. Covered by his uniform sleeves

The first words he heard was at Atsushi asking if he knew where you were, not even a greeting.

“What do you mean?” He was getting nervous now.

“Y/n? She didn't show up today and yesterday, we thought she blew it off with you” Atsushi said, his voice becoming more panicky by the second.

“She hasn’t even answered my texts today! I thought she was busy with the agency!” Chifuyu exclaimed. Before he could hear Atsushi’s response though, Draken snatched his phone with an irk mark visible

“Chi-” “DRAKEN-” They both started “Ahem. Y/n’s missing!!” urgency in his voice

Draken’s eyes widened, he gave chifuyu’s phone back when the said boy tried to snatch it. He looked towards Mikey who was just staring at them.

Draken walked over and told him the commotion, as he had the authority of at least a 100 people, the meeting ended abruptly. And he ordered them to help look for the missing person in their friend group.

While you had found yourself shackled to a wall with none other than Chuuya in front of you.

The two of you battled it out. Chuuya holding onto your neck as you provoked him.

“Come on, Hurry~ Come oooon!” His eyes turned rigid as he stabbed a knife on the wall behind you, But still getting caught in it.

Not getting too injured but you spoke too soon as another person had caught you, The Y/n Dazai off guard.

Q, the child you had locked away, had shot you through your upper stomach area. Chuuya was also startled, Q was supposed to be somewhere else with a person watching over him.

But here he was asking if he could play with you some more. You looked at him with cold dead eyes clutching your bleeding stomach before returning to your facade.

“Gross” You said as you looked at the child up and down. To which he ignored and held his doll closer to him.

“Oi- you suicidal maniac, look at yourself first before calling others that” Chuuya sneered, turning around to leave with Q in his hold

“Next time we meet, I’ll bring you a pretty boy who’s willing to kill himself with you.” He scoffed and waved his unoccupied hand around.

You watched him with sparkling eyes as he walked away “Chuuya~! I had no idea you were a good person!” Forgetting about the fact that you were in a relationship once the idea of S*icide was brought up.

“That was my way of telling you to go die you idiot” He spoke, his coat thrashing around with his movements.

Seeing as you were literally on the verge of bleeding out, instead of running decided to surprise your boyfriend.

You entered Toman’s base and looked around before finding Chifuyu.

He looked like he had run around in circles, his heavy breathing and dirty, dishevelled appearance.

“CHI~ FU~ YUUUU~!” you yelled out running towards him at full speed.

He turned around faster than you could finish calling out to him, taking into account your bloody clothes

The other members, who were present, deadpanned at your state

Draken had an irk mark on his face as he said “Oi y/n, did you really just go missing, for another s*icide attempt?” He facepalmed at himself for getting worried.

“It wasn’t me this time! You guys wouldn’t even believe me once I told you where I was” You dramatically put your hand on your head

“Anyways Guess what!??” You excitedly announced, chifuyu holding onto you in order to stabilize you.

“I’d rather not” Chifuyu said as he looked around your face for bruises, that’s when he saw the rather large wound on the bottom side of your face.

He clenched his teeth as he wiped the blood around the wound.

“Come on! You guys are no fun!!” you pestered them to which they just sighed at your antics

“Fine y/n, what is it?” They uninterestedly asked, Mikey was on Draken’s back finally getting the sleep he desperately needed.

“Look I got shot!!” pointing to your stomach with sparkles around you.

The boys had whiplash from turning to you so fast.

“Y/n! This isn’t something you should be happy about!” the worried tone of Mitsuya bringing you out of your daze.

You got hit in the back of the head by Chifuyu though. “You should have said that in the beginning you idiot!” He screamed, bending down to pick you up bridal style.

“Yeah, yeah” you spoke with a pout. “On another note, I’m dripping-wet hehe~ Anyone wanna help with that? EHEM CHIFUYU EHEM” You spoke with no shame, though your tone was laced with mischief and seduction

The boy bursted into different shades of red, including Mikey who was pretending to be dead asleep behind Draken.

“Y-Y/n! That’s not something you say out loud” Your boyfriend scolded you, Takemitchy in the background sporting a nosebleed.

“Eh? But I am” You looked down towards the puddle of blood you were currently above.

"WE NEED AN AMBULANCE YOU F*CKERS" "DON'T CURSE AT ME MY FINGERS ARE TREMBLING" "HURRY THE F*CK UP THEN" "OH MY F- GIVE IT TO ME YOU BLONDE F*CK"

Chaos ensued and you probably took 20 years out of their lifetime.

Smiley :

Bruh, Let it be known to others that you were not to be left alone.

Nahoya, was called by atsushi, telling him he needed to babysit his girlfriend for the day

Nahoya was called early in the morning to babysit you, his girlfriend because she had apparently chosen to eat a poisonous mushroom.

Yeah, that was all too confusing for the barely-awake Nahoya to comprehend.

Nonetheless, he still picked you up from the agency you were “interning” in.

Once he had arrived, Kunikida had pushed you into his arms.

“HOYAAAA~~ YOU’RE HERE! GOODNESS THIS TRULY IS PARADISE!!!” You screamed from his hold, latching on his neck as you almost choked him.

How the hell was he gonna explain this to the members. Should he just leave you at home? Nah you might make another attempt he thought.

He was calming you down, saving himself from the embarrassments you could cause him.

As he was in the middle of lecturing you on why you shouldn’t cliff dive off a park bench he was met with Gang members from the previous fight Toman had.

They had bandages wrapped around them as well as band-aids.

“F*ck” he thought, he could probably handle them when he’s alone. But hell you were here, his obviously knocked up girlfriend.

“Heh. Looks like we got ourselves a jackpot” The leader of the goons said, snickering with his goons before looking at you up and down and eyeing you like you were a piece of meat.

“HAH! What luck, why don’t you introduce us to your lady friend” They were pointing at you, who was on nahoya’s shoulders

Smiley was looking around the place, hoping for a path he could take to escape with you.

Before he could make a choice though, he ducked down to avoid getting hit with a bat.

“Not so f*cking fast lover boy. We still got beef with you” the one who held the bat spoke, his saliva flying from his mouth

“Ahhh~ who knew i just had to eat mushrooms growing the nearby hills to have such an interesting way out” You stated still on Nahoya’s back before full out laughing madly

The surrounding people had to take a step back from the slight fright you had unintentionally caused.

“W-what the hell” one of them spoke up Nahoya had to thank you, just from that he managed to arrange a plan for both of you to escape.

Before any other boys could utter a word, He ran, first in a full circle with 2 people on his tail before running through a bush.

He almost got caught by the leader but thankfully he managed to successfully run away.

Once he had arrived in Toman’s meeting place, he could finally catch his breath, giving you to his twin, who was wary of being around you right now, given your….current state.

He was right to be wary as you immediately latched on to him screaming “AH! I’ve finally caught you! Rainbow pillbug” which almost suffocated him.

Anyways! Takemitchy had to give him some water before he could finally utter some words.

“Hahhh, Gang Hahh, Goons Hahhh, Bats” were the only words he could utter before collapsing on the dirty ground from the marathon he had just ran.

All the while you had managed to escape from Angry’s hold as you stepped on Takemitchy’s head muttering barely slurred words with your hanging mouth “What amazing resilience!” You spoke with your hand on your head in a salute position with animated sparkles and red cheeks appeared.

Before they could even ask what was going on, A group of people came. They were the same ones who were picking a fight earlier.

Your boys were outnumbered, with only the main cast there. While the cowards had brought in at least 20 people.

Nothing the invincible Mikey couldn’t handle though.

But the leader was obviously dumb enough to test them as he shouted “There they are! Get them!” he shouted while his goons were hesitating.

All the while the Toman members were just curiously watching them. Their relaxed gazes which seemed to scream “Not even worthy to pick a fight with”

He saw this and got mad “What are you idiots doing!? I said get them! Before I kill them all” irk marks appeared all over his already ugly face.

Takemitchy, who was still on the ground, heard you muttering “Kill kill kill huh?” He got goosebumps.

He looked up and saw you pointing at their leader with a gun “HUH?? W-WAIT Y/N-SAN DON’T-” he couldn't even finish his sentence as you had fired

“HOLY F*CKING SH*T” All of them thought as they looked at the man on the ground holding his groin.

Which you shot by the way.

All of those present held their family jewels in their hands as they all collectively took one step away from you.

“BULLSEYE!!! HEY!! GUYS I HIT THE PINATA!” You screamed with obvious delight, you looked behind you, all of those on your side flinching before you ran to Nahoya, you’re boyfriend, who was too busy looking at the guy you shot in the d*ck.

“Baby~~ Are you my stuffed teddy bear??UGH I’m so happy~~” you swooned almost twirling him with you.

“O-oi Masaru!! You ok!?!?” “Does he look ok to you?!” Toman gulped, their eyes comedically turning to you, who was smothering Smiley on your chest then back to the guy you shot.

They all wordlessly agreed not to bother you right now though.

Needless to say, the next time you tried to talk to Takemitchy he almost peed his pants.

Angry :

To say that Nahoya was now protective of Souta because of you was an understatement.

You continuously put your and Souta’s life in danger.

From rushing into a burning building to deliberately playing russian roulette.

Angry, was not s*icidal at all, he was always shaken up after every s*icide attempt you had done with or without him.

It was an unhealthy relationship no doubt. But the way you were just so mysterious and capable of adjusting to anything made him so curious about you.

That curiosity soon turned to bite him in the back as that was what blossomed into his feelings for you.

Toman was iffy about you. They couldn’t understand you, nor could they understand the sudden disappearances you took. Sometimes with Angry which caused them to go haywire.

But they saw how angry was, literally in love with you, they could only hope he’d fall out of love with you, or he could change the way you view the world.

Both were never gonna happen lol.

Anyways, every week, every fudging week, they found themselves in this predicament.

“Yo guys! What a strange coincidence” they looked at you, caught in the net they used to get you out of the water.

“A-another drowning attempt?” Takemitchy sweatdropped as he looked towards your upside down form.

“Non~ non~ my clueless companion! I was simply, drifting along the river” you declared with you though was a cool face.

Looking incredibly done, the members just let you stay trapped in the net, Even Angry was looking extremely bored of your attempts.

“hey y/n” Mikey started “Why do you seem to like death so much?” He nonchalantly asked with a dorayaki in his hand.

You, though, seemed to take that seriously.

“Let me rearrange the question. Do you think there's any value in the act of living?

Your answer put a damper on their moods, but good thing Takemitchy was there to save the day.

“Of course y/n-san! How else can we be called humans if we don’t live! It’s the mundaneness that makes life worth living” He said.

“I guess I’m no longer human then, Takemitchy” you said with a grin, but your eyes were dull and empty, so dull that they felt a chill run down their spines.

“What I want is for someone to wake me up from this oxidizing world of a dream” You said with your eyes wide, looking extremely serious, the most serious they had seen you.

They could feel their breaths getting clogged in their throats.

“What are you talking about? I thought you wanted a double s*icide with me” Souta said as he untangled your body from the net.

“H-He isn’t fazed at all” The other members deadpanned

“Ahh! Your vitality is blinding~” You swooned dramatically as you were finally out from the trap- I mean net.

You held Souta’s hands in yours “Would you strangle me with these rough, calloused and manly fingers” you began to talk but was ultimately hit in the back of the head by Nahoya who had an irk mark

After a few hours, the group had dispersed, leaving you alone with your boyfriend.

“Y/n, why do you really want to die? I always see you read that book but you never really seem to like getting hurt” He asked, the rays of the sunset hitting his face as you two walked.

Looking out in the scenery, you could see the magnificent view of the body of water and the sun. The bridge you were both at, capturing the very essence of beauty.

“Man fears death…” you told him, taking hold of his hand. “And yet at the same time, Man is drawn to death” You led him to the edge of the bridge.

“...Death is endlessly consumed by men in cities and literature” You sat on the railings. “It is a singular event in one’s life that no one may reverse” You looked directly at him.

“That is what I desire” the gentle breeze of the wind hitting your soft skin, and the afterglow of the sunset made you look like a dream.

Souta’s hand involuntarily reached out, holding the edge of your face before travelling to the bandages around your face

You let him touch it, you let him unravel it.

Once he had a good look at your bandage-less face you pulled him closer to you.

Before letting your body fall backwards

The vast and harsh winds hitting your body, Souta’s trembling fingers holding your hands tighter.

Seeing everything around you like this, it was extremely beautiful. More than the meaning of life itself you thought.

It felt like your bodies were defying gravity, the way you could both see the surroundings while falling at an alarming rate was quite...Melancholy.

A sense of serenity and contentedness featured on each other’s faces.

You closed your eyes and so did he.

Not any longer than that, your bodies had hit the water.

You thought that this was the perfect way to die, everything was there, Souta and Death. It was comforting to say the least.

Nothing else could beat this, you thought as you felt yourself getting pulled downwards.

Movement was then felt, you opened your eyes and saw Souta swimming your way.

You smiled for a brief moment, “Fine I guess I can live for a little while if I have you by my side” You thought as you too, swam towards him.

You both made your way up, taking a deep intake of air. Coughing for a little while, you could now hear the shouts above you.

“You f*cking assh*les!!! We leave for a few minutes and this is what you do?! Should we just chain you both to a pole now!?” Smiley without the smile shouted, you could really see just how alike they are now.

Instead of answering you just looked at them with a huge grin.

Yeah, this was enough reason to live.

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Harukawa sensei's art is always so stunning. Especially the way they draw Chuuya

hes having fun