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THE LOOK ON ATSUSHI’S FACE ARE YOU KIDDING ME????? and the self soothing arms wrapped around himself???? he looks so vulnerable. i was wondering how this mafia version of atsushi would still be at least partially the atsushi that we know, and this is it!!!!! fear of death!!!!!!!! but in this universe that fear was twisted to make him an agent of it

YALL. this is everything i am sitting here cheering and kicking my feet and pacing like a madman cause i can't even contain the EXCITEMENT. i wasn't much of a fan of the "dazai and chuuya age 15" art style but this one??????? impeccable. this feels like bsd rated r and i am eating up all the parallels and getting to go back to the beginning but with all these new dynamics

this is so fucking cool i'm obsessed with this au and i cannot believe it's not fanfic aksjhdakdh

the way my jaw dropped immediately and has remained on the floor this entire time

touche asagiri right when i think i'm immune to the plot twists

OH WHAT THE FUCK?????????? okay okay okay i was worried we were kinda losing the plot here for a bit with all the decay of the angel shit but we're really getting back to the emphasis on exploitation that was so stark at the very beginning of this story. WHAT IS DOSTOY AND IS SOMEONE CONTROLLING HIM

i think the romance could’ve been paced a bit better in the beginning especially but my heart does in fact ache nonetheless

it comes as a surprise to exactly no one that i think august and galipei should kiss

oh i am buzzing this is so fucking cool

picked this up on a total whim and wow am i glad i did!!!! loving this so far

himmel haunting the narrative is making me tear up YET AGAIN i am really in for it aren't i

oh i’m tearing up already this does not bode well

kenji lore?????? 23 volumes in???????? as if i couldn’t love him any more. i ADORE how his power has been reframed as him harnessing the fury of mother nature herself. and really interesting balance that one of the first times he really used it to his full potential was brought about by a natural disaster that killed a loved one. he respects and is allowed to harness nature precisely because he knows its power

feeling very connected to bram in this moment, i too would like to do nothing but listen to music and sleep for 200 years

BIG BROTHER ENJIN IM GOING TO SOB

a few things cause oh my god i'm so invested this is SO good:
- delmon OUCH he really had to lose his wife(?) all over again
- LOVE that we're setting up more riyo backstory too i cannot wait to get the payoff from that. interesting that zanka knows about it too
- i might snort at this later but what if amo and rudo are siblings....
- WTF IS INSIDE RUDO HUH we know he's always had a violence within him but wow

oh i am OBSESSED with amo and her powers already!!!! i'll eat up a "characters get drugged by the villain/have hallucinations and see their greatest fears" arc EVERY DAMN TIME it is the most interesting way to unravel a cast imo

the level of drama has increased exponentially now that akutagawa is back and i couldn’t be more thrilled. his lines are always so dramatic what an icon

TACHIHARA LETS FUCKING GOOOOO i knew he’d be the key to all this
also i’m choosing to interpret the “book” as an allegory for the bible. dostoevsky thinks that if he writes it, it MUST be true and it will ALWAYS be true, but dazai trusts in the chaos of human nature and the fluidity of belief, especially due to connection. tachihara broke free of blind faith because of the community he found within the mafia

i feel like i did myself and the story a discredit by branching out to other stuff in the middle of this arc BUT what can you do. idk if i'm really in the mood to get back into it yet, so we'll see if it can grab me again. (so far not so much)

rudo learning that his power doesn't destroy objects but rather uses them to their full potential and essentially lays them to rest is so fucking beautiful!!!!!! god what a cool power system i'm so obsessed with it

zanka wants enjin so bad bitch me too get in line

when enjin originally said that givers are rare i assumed that it was because you had to have some sort of special power that allowed you to imbue objects with anima but NO it's literally just because people in this world don't take care of things enough to be able to become givers at all. and it makes so much sense that sphereites would be completely clueless about the whole process since they're so wasteful

zanka and rudo are my favorite duo hands down, what a chaotic fight but yay for teamwork??

oh he's CRAZY crazy cool cool cool (kinda love him)

oh this flashback is ruining me. i feel like it really sums up the thesis statement for this story so far: just because something (someone) has been thrown away, cast to the side, made to feel worthless for any reason, it doesn't mean that it (they) can't find worth elsewhere. through community, through passion, through love, through second chances. rudo's entire character and power really embodies that and i LOVE IT

the gift that only maomao would appreciate MMMMHMMMMM that is so fucking sweet
“and he had eyes for only one girl” and she’s busy making gremlin eyes at the rare plant he gave her as an apology for accidentally firing her against her wishes aw what a fucking pair

INDIRECT KISS INDIRECT KISS I AM GIGGLING AND KICKING MY FEET
and maomao blushing???? just let it happen girl it’s only natural when he’s got your lipstick on his lips and is looking up at you like THAT

jinshi moping so hard that he grows mushrooms is probably my favorite visual gag in this whole manga holy shit that is brilliant
also gaoshun finally realizing that jinshi has seen maomao as much more than a new shiny toy for a while now!!!!!! he’s catching up and i’m sure he’s absolutely thrilled about this development 🙃

“was she not just a convenient pawn?” gaoshun my love “convenient pawn” is a dot on the horizon we are so far past that at this point HE WAS NUZZLING HER NECK FOR WARMTH AND CRYING INTO HER BACK LAST NIGHT
jinshi being TERRIFIED at the thought of trapping maomao at the inner court really goes to show how much he cares for her ouch ouch ouch