Anime on Sidechat | ngl Bungou Stray Dogs gives me such severe nerd rage. they really took my favorite author, a severely traumatized & alienated man with addiction issues, and turned him into a series of cheap tasteless punchlines about his suicidality

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Anime 5w

ngl Bungou Stray Dogs gives me such severe nerd rage. they really took my favorite author, a severely traumatized & alienated man with addiction issues, and turned him into a series of cheap tasteless punchlines about his suicidality

Anonymous 5w

I’m also an insane nerd. I feel like the character is more of a manifestation of his writing and not the author as a person, in fact most of the characters in the series are like this. Dazai’s writing often included dry humor and tasteless jokes to cope with deep depression and other problems, so I don’t find it inaccurate.

Anonymous 5w

I feel like you haven’t fully experienced BSD Dazai’s character. He’s a deeply flawed and damaged person who has never felt human, and has spent his entire life trying and sometimes failing to find reasons to keep living. Every joke or smile we the audience see comes with the caveat that he doesn’t actually feel it. If anything, I feel like the character is a rather literal translation of the author’s work into BSD’s story.

Anonymous 5w

for a long time when you googled his name you’d get images of the goofy anime character mixed in with the results explaining who the real-life human being was. this shit sucks

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Anonymous

#1 5w

him making grim jokes about his own experience—whether as a means of coping or any other type of personal expression—is extremely different from someone else assigning his actual real-life name to a fictional character in retrospect and then using that character for a series of slapstick visual gags about hanging and wrist-slitting. it’s just shockingly disrespectful

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Anonymous

#1 5w

whereas for instance the Junji Ito adaptation of No Longer Human used little dashes of humor in a manner that actually felt similar to the original novel and was otherwise very compassionate in portraying the semi-autobiographical nature of the main character. there’s a respectful way to go about it, BSD is not that

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Anonymous

OP 5w

Yeah, I would say that it’s more reflective of his work and not the author as a person. You didn’t even read what I said. All of the characters aren’t based on the authors themselves, while they share the same names, they reflect their works, not the author’s personality and lives.

Anonymous

#1 5w

I did read what you said and I responded to it accordingly. like I said, Junji Ito adapted his work without disrespecting Dazai’s lived experience. assigning the real man’s name to a character like the BSD one is fucked up

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Anonymous

#1 5w

note what I said about how the fictional character used to come up when you tried to google the actual author. that could’ve easily been avoided

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Anonymous

#1 5w

and Dazai’s work didn’t include gags like those in the first place because those weren’t even the ways that he attempted. it’s cruel And inaccurate

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Anonymous

#2 5w

EXACTLY

Anonymous

#2 5w

already explained my perspective at length. just because you interpret the show as having some kind of depth doesn’t make assigning the real man’s name to a fictional character, one who’s constantly used for lowbrow gags about wrist-cutting and hanging, any less unnecessary or flagrantly disrespectful

Anonymous

#2 5w

and again, Dazai’s work doesn’t contain hardly any references to wrist-cutting or hanging. in fact, beyond No Longer Human, Flowers of Buffoonery and the Self-Portraits anthology, most of his published writing wasn’t even in that semi-autobiographical vein—there’s a broad spectrum of themes and tones involved, the fixation on suicidality isn’t really present outside of the titles I listed. try reading collections like Blue Bamboo or Crackling Mountain and then get back to me

Anonymous

#1 5w

I tracked down a physical copy of an out-of-print Showa-era literary anthology in the 2010s just to round out my collection of his English-translated works, I can more or less guarantee that neither of you are as familiar with the spectrum of his writing than I am. so it’s kind of funny that you’re relying so confidently on this argument about the “accuracy” of the character as an adaptation of his body of work