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4.62 AVERAGE
4.62 AVERAGE
adventurous
emotional
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
adventurous
dark
emotional
mysterious
sad
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
dark
emotional
sad
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
dark
emotional
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
dark
emotional
mysterious
sad
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
As someone who deeply, deeply loves Chuuya, this is not good for my health. I'm so overwhelmed, I genuinely don't know how to put my feelings for this book into words. However, I shall attempt.
"Chuuya's character is an inexhaustible spring." “Master Chuuya is the kind of person who will never abandon those who have helped him, even if they end up betraying him. That is simply who he is. It would seem that was why he became the Sheep King.”
Chuuya is an incredibly loyal person who cares so, so much about his friends, his crew, his organisation, an AI that he doesn't really vibe with, and heck even the "friend" who stabbed him in the back quite literally. He values people and the help they provide, and he's a very chill dude who just wants to live his life. I will not stand him being called "unnecessarily arrogant" because have you even read this book?
“It was hard to describe Master Chuuya’s expression then with only a single word. To be specific, he looked like he wanted to smack Shirase in the head with a hammer, but he didn’t have a hammer on him, and he didn’t want to have to use his bare hands, either. It was a fantastic expression, so I took a picture and saved it in the folder titled FAVORITES in my storage.”
Adam ahhh 😭 he's so precious, what else can I say? I loved him and his little antics so much.
“Just once, I want you to imagine just how much it could affect a person if you told them they weren’t human. Imagine how it feels to be told you weren’t born with God’s love, that you are nothing more than a character set someone suddenly came up with. Imagine the depths of a person’s heart pierced by those words. It’s a pitch-black abyss where the moon can’t be seen. There is no hope. There is no salvation. Do you get it? Even those feelings of despair are merely something someone designed!”
Verlaine, there we go, BSD making me care for the villains yet again. So far, out of all the villains, Verlaine was the one I feared the most. Maybe that's justified considering he's also the most powerful of them all,
I never really cared for Rimbaud in Fifteen, but now I hope he gets to have a happy ending with Verlaine in an alternate universe, considering those are canon in BSD. It's wild because Rimbaud is already dead by the time Storm Bringer starts, but you see so much more of his past in this one. I never expected his actual name to be Paul Verlaine and that he switched code names with the artificially derived skill named Arthur Rimbaud. Or that he is the reason Verlaine's heart is still beating. Everything about these two are tragic smh smh Asagiri never beating those sadist allegations.
“Those who knew Dazai didn’t dare come near his home—not even his Port Mafia subordinates—and not because of how eerie the area was. Rather, nobody knew how Dazai would react when someone invaded his private space. Perhaps he would tear off their limbs and kill them, or perhaps he would welcome them with open arms and a cup of tea. Nobody could understand how Dazai worked. The black wraith of the Port Mafia: That was what people called him.”
And, of course, Dazai. What would BSD be without this little manipulative mastermind gremlin. He wasn't around as much as I would've liked him, but he did play a major part, albeit mostly behind the scenes or towards the end. Dazai is Dazai, what more do I need to say? The difference between him in the last book and this one is striking, though. You can see sixteen year old Dazai lose most of that childish innocence and become more and more of an esteemed mafioso within just a year. The little crumbs we get of his life in the Port Mafia only serve to contrast how he turned his life around later on, and I'll be devouring every last bit of it.
The only critiques I can give this book are the lack of development of side characters more than surface level.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death, Gun violence, Torture, Violence, Blood, Murder, Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Suicidal thoughts, Vomit
adventurous
dark
sad
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
adventurous
challenging
emotional
funny
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
challenging
emotional
sad
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
i want to throw this book into the face of anyone who mischaracterize chuuya and soukoku, also the toxic doomed yaoi of rimbaud and verlaine got me sobbing so hard i was gasping for air
Content Warnings
Graphic: Body horror, Torture
adventurous
dark
mysterious
sad
tense
fast-paced
Loveable characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No