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4.62 AVERAGE
4.62 AVERAGE
adventurous
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
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
funny
mysterious
fast-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
Es el que más quería leer, centrado en Chuuya y del que no conocía ya la historia. Me pareció muy interesante, su relación con el robot Adam Frankenstain muy tierna y con Verlain muy trágica. Dazai practicamente está de adorno y las escenas de lucha alargaron innecesariamente la trama. Sinceramente espero que personajes que conocimos aquí hagan su aparición en el manga.
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
funny
sad
tense
fast-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
Content Warnings
Graphic: Torture, Violence
Moderate: Body horror, Child abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Blood
10/10
Ho—ho!
I wish this was even more pages!
Chuuya, this pookie has been through so much, than he is letting shows on. The author gives the trauma at every chance he gets.
*Sigh*...
Anyway. I love this book! Asagiri never seems to make the book easy going. Always keeping me on edge till the end.
As always, Chuuya slayed. Dazai didn't change, well for the best. And, the Port Mafia always stood regal.
The new characters from the past seem to be good.
(Do I hate Chuuya's brother? Yes.
Do I have a crush on Verlaine? Maybe.
Do I kin his character design? Absolutely!
Did I miss Adam? Yes...)
I want to see more of what Asagiri has in his vault, for other characters.
(Please do an arc on poe with ranpo, because I am already missing them!)
“It’s okay. The Port Mafia is my family now,” Chuuya replied without even blinking.
Ho—ho!
I wish this was even more pages!
Chuuya, this pookie has been through so much, than he is letting shows on. The author gives the trauma at every chance he gets.
*Sigh*...
Anyway. I love this book! Asagiri never seems to make the book easy going. Always keeping me on edge till the end.
As always, Chuuya slayed. Dazai didn't change, well for the best. And, the Port Mafia always stood regal.
The new characters from the past seem to be good.
(Do I hate Chuuya's brother? Yes.
Do I have a crush on Verlaine? Maybe.
Do I kin his character design? Absolutely!
Did I miss Adam? Yes...)
I want to see more of what Asagiri has in his vault, for other characters.
(Please do an arc on poe with ranpo, because I am already missing them!)
Okay, so I came here as a fan of the Bungo Stray Dogs anime, appreciator of reading a story where the characters are based off of real-life authors and have abilities based of of their books, and reader of two Soukokou fanfictions with Arthur Rimbaud and Paul Verlaine as the parents of Chuuya Nakahara. I expected to learn some more about Chuuya's backstory, and who Paul Verlaine is (the only thing I knew about him was that Chuuya got his signature hat from him). What I did not expect was a very dark, heartwrenching story about Chuuya with friends killed by assasins, mad scientists, torture, and of course Dazai who knew all of this would happen but did not prevent it, because he likes to see Chuuya suffer.
The central question in this book is of being human has a meaning, or if being a string of characters with a personality is just as good. To support this question, we have the King of Assassins Paul Verlaine, who is an artificial life form, made to harbour a powerful singularity derived special ability (who thinks he should have never been born and therefore hates humanity who created him), Adam Frankenstein, the android detective with his own free will, sent by Europe to support Chuuya in stopping/killing the dangerously destructive Verlaine, and the main character Chuuya Nakahara, who doesn't know whether he is human or not, since he doesn't remember anything of his life before he was experemented on in a military lab, where he recieved the powerful special ability Arahabaki (based of off the way Verlaine was created).
Throughout the story he recieves a few hints, such as a picture of a younger version of him from before he ended up in Japan's secret research facility together with a man walking down the beach, Verlaine who opens his "gate" (to let Arahabaki take over Chuuya's body) which creates a lot of destruction, meeting a clone or maybe the real version of himself and a theory about scars from pencils which couldn't be cloned.
As earlier described, in this book we get introduced to Adam (reference to the Monster of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein!). This was a character I absolutely enjoyed to read. He acted like some sort of capable father figure for Chuuya, including, to Chuuya's annoyance, the signature dad-jokes, or as he would call them: android-jokes (he even rewrote his command sequence just to have Chuuya as his highest-ranking "master"!), combined with endearing "getting used to human society" parts. Such as not knowing what chewing gum is, buying it nonetheless and swallowing one package after another thinking it is a filling meal until he sees how Chuuya blows a bubble from it. And this quote from him is one of my favorites:
'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.'
Another thing that shouldn't go unmentioned is the character development of Shirase. In the anime we got to know him as the "brains" of the Sheep and the one who literally stabbed Chuuya in the back because he thought Chuuya was betraying the Sheep. After being told otherwise and rescued out of prison by Chuuya and Adam because they thought he was Verlaine's next target to kill (because Shirase was the one that had taken Chuuya in 9 years ago when he had escaped the research facility and was starving) he started to change the way he thought about Chuuya. Still behaved as if he was his big saviour and wanted to seeks ways of rebuilding the Sheep so he can be their new leader, which got him in prison in the first place, but it was a beginning. Later on in the story he even dropped his bags full of expensive materials he was looting to save Chuuya, and in the end they had put their past grievances behind them and fistbumped together the way they did when they were still with the Sheep.
And amidst the suffering Chuuya and the emotionless Dazai there were luckily also some endearing, signature bickering between them. A well-needed break between all the serious stuff. For example Chuuya taking revenge on Dazai in the second least painful way he could think of (namely hanging him upside down and spinning him around to make him vomit) because Chuuya aknowledged they needed Dazai's brains for the upcoming battle. Or Mori sort of manipulating Dazai in not giving up when the battle seemed hopeless, because of course Dazai wouldn't want to have a death with the same cause as Chuuya, now would he?
All in all, I cried a lot because of this book, but I guess in order to evoke so many emotions it has to be well-written, right? 5 stars!
The central question in this book is of being human has a meaning, or if being a string of characters with a personality is just as good. To support this question, we have the King of Assassins Paul Verlaine, who is an artificial life form, made to harbour a powerful singularity derived special ability (who thinks he should have never been born and therefore hates humanity who created him), Adam Frankenstein, the android detective with his own free will, sent by Europe to support Chuuya in stopping/killing the dangerously destructive Verlaine, and the main character Chuuya Nakahara, who doesn't know whether he is human or not, since he doesn't remember anything of his life before he was experemented on in a military lab, where he recieved the powerful special ability Arahabaki (based of off the way Verlaine was created).
Throughout the story he recieves a few hints, such as a picture of a younger version of him from before he ended up in Japan's secret research facility together with a man walking down the beach, Verlaine who opens his "gate" (to let Arahabaki take over Chuuya's body) which creates a lot of destruction, meeting a clone or maybe the real version of himself and a theory about scars from pencils which couldn't be cloned.
As earlier described, in this book we get introduced to Adam (reference to the Monster of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein!). This was a character I absolutely enjoyed to read. He acted like some sort of capable father figure for Chuuya, including, to Chuuya's annoyance, the signature dad-jokes, or as he would call them: android-jokes (he even rewrote his command sequence just to have Chuuya as his highest-ranking "master"!), combined with endearing "getting used to human society" parts. Such as not knowing what chewing gum is, buying it nonetheless and swallowing one package after another thinking it is a filling meal until he sees how Chuuya blows a bubble from it. And this quote from him is one of my favorites:
'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.'
Another thing that shouldn't go unmentioned is the character development of Shirase. In the anime we got to know him as the "brains" of the Sheep and the one who literally stabbed Chuuya in the back because he thought Chuuya was betraying the Sheep. After being told otherwise and rescued out of prison by Chuuya and Adam because they thought he was Verlaine's next target to kill (because Shirase was the one that had taken Chuuya in 9 years ago when he had escaped the research facility and was starving) he started to change the way he thought about Chuuya. Still behaved as if he was his big saviour and wanted to seeks ways of rebuilding the Sheep so he can be their new leader, which got him in prison in the first place, but it was a beginning. Later on in the story he even dropped his bags full of expensive materials he was looting to save Chuuya, and in the end they had put their past grievances behind them and fistbumped together the way they did when they were still with the Sheep.
And amidst the suffering Chuuya and the emotionless Dazai there were luckily also some endearing, signature bickering between them. A well-needed break between all the serious stuff. For example Chuuya taking revenge on Dazai in the second least painful way he could think of (namely hanging him upside down and spinning him around to make him vomit) because Chuuya aknowledged they needed Dazai's brains for the upcoming battle. Or Mori sort of manipulating Dazai in not giving up when the battle seemed hopeless, because of course Dazai wouldn't want to have a death with the same cause as Chuuya, now would he?
All in all, I cried a lot because of this book, but I guess in order to evoke so many emotions it has to be well-written, right? 5 stars!
medium-paced
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes