Low Key The Hunting Dogs Are So Much Further Detached From Humanity Than I Think We Give Them Credit

Saw a diva in this sweater yesterday and had to draw Atsushi in it, then the art escalated from there! Happy Valentines day!!

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for atsushi to comment on akutagawa’s eyes here makes me crazy because of how much it means

in a manga where the artist visually portrays character mood and morality in their eyes, especially during key moments, this means a lot

atsushi recognizes those eyes… he recognizes akutagawa’s true character and his virtue, he’s no longer holding a morality bias over him

he understands him, finally…

akutagawa might not recognize him but atsushi remembers

and he understands now.

I think these last chapters are underwhelming for folks because there was this false feeling that Shinjuku showdown was a meat grinder and people are dying left and right. Which is just not the case.

The shinjuku showdown post Gojo vs Sukuna was planned ad nauseam. The heroes took series of gambles and they worked. You know the "fever" and all that.

Majority of Shinjuku showdown was from Sukunas POV so we had the sense that he was winning cause he thought he's winning.

But the flashbacks were telling us that the heroes did plan for this. Yuta got even labeled for having an alphabet of plans by the fandom and they are not wrong.

Uraume even had an "nah I'd win" moment which should've been the telltale sign that heros were gonna win.

I guess the fandom didn't have the faith in everyone else as much as they had faith in Gojo... which... is on the fandom to be quite honest.

The thing is Sukuna was not defeated just by the power of Itafushi friendship but by the power of collective collaboration.

If you noticed Sukuna is always toying with his victims. Well Shinjuku Showdown was everyone toying with him and his ego to give him false sense that he's winning while gradually making him weaker. Which is also why they didn't go everyone all at once on him. But one by one in the order that makes sense for their techniques and so Sukuna will have that again false sense that he's winning.

Like you know the final boss of a video game you have to slowly grind down to beat.

Sukuna vs Gojo fight was a fight of egos. That is why it was 1:1. Because both of them had to show off and prove something to themselves and the world. Gojo even says he wants to show off for his students for crying out loud!

Jjk is also explicitly a critique of needing the strongest sorcerer. Which is why no one is sweating over the title now even though Yuta is technically the strongest currently.

I think one reread of these last 40 chapters that is done in good faith, without a need to create a theory or find mystical foreshadowing will fix like 60% problems people have with the series.

I feel like this is Oda poking fun at the parts of the fandom ragging on poor Jinbei for not guaranteeing an instant win for the Strawhats now that he's on their crew. Especially since Jinbei himself is pointing out how even a strong fighter is going to be hard-pressed fighting someone who can regenerate their entire head.

Cut the man some slack, y'all, he's doing his best!

Also watch it be revealed that Brook recognizes Gunko from her being the groupie for his Soul King tour always in the front row waving neon arrows like glowsticks

the girls!! a partial color spread redraw

BSD chapter 121 – SPOILER / "THEORY"

Something i haven't seen anyone else point out, is that in the last pannel of the chapter, "Dazais" clothes clearly don't fit him

For comparison, both from the same chapter

His coat is clearly too big for him. The sleeves hang too low, usually just below the elbow, now down to his wrists.

His pants don't fit him either, although the coat hides it pretty well.

Overall his clothes are significally more baggy.

His hair is also parted diffrently. Dazais hair is almost always parted down the middle. First I thought his hair was being blown by the wind – thusly messing the parting – but one look at the hem of the coat proved me wrong.

The right side of his hair is instead longer then the left side.

He also seems to not have his neck bandage. The longer then usual sleeves concealing his arm bandages (or the lack thereoff).

"Dazai" is morphing into someone else. Which brings me to:

Atsushi is shorter then Dazai, making Dazais clothes most likely too big for him.

The longer side of Atsushis hair is the right one. The parting of hair – while not exact – seems to also match our resident tiger lad.

The illusion of Dazai is being torn apart, as Atsushi realizes its true nature. His own thoughts, fleelings, and conclusions wearing a Dazai themed Halloween mask.

When Atsushi says he 'knows who you are, he's not talking about Dazai or the hallucination, but *himself.*

Atsushi has never needed someone else to tell him to live, but he has always felt like he does.

To be less extra 'bout it, i think Atsushi groked what he is and is going use that to save Akutagawa / kick Fyodors ass.

If i missed or got smt wrong feel free to tell me

from the digital sketchbook

A detail that I always found curious in bsd is how in fifteen Dazai needs to consciously activate his ability, but in the current time of the story he doesn't. At first I just thought Dazai had trained his own ability to the point where he could keep it active all the time, but Dazai's ability doesn't really seem very important to his work in the mafia, because we only see him using No Longer Human a few times during the light novels that take place during the time he was in the Port Mafia, so I don't believe this was something trained by Dazai, but rather the effect that All Men Are Equal has on him.

We know that Fukuzawa's ability is a suppression ability that influences the abilities of ADA members, allowing the agents themselves to adjust and control their powers, so it makes sense that joining after the ADA, Dazai made No Longer Human always be activated, so he couldn't be affected by abilities attacks even if he was caught by surprise.

The fact that the agents themselves can adjust their abilities with the help of All Men Are Equall made me think about the other ADA members, and how they are affected by Fukuzawa's ability. In Yosano's flashback, it's never said that she can only heal people with fatal wounds, and when Yosano refuses to heal Tachihara's brother (who Mori says is not seriously injured) she says that she doesn't want to heal him, not that she can't, so I believe that after everything Yosano went through in the war and with Mori, she herself chose to only be able to heal people who were almost dying, so she doesn't feel like she was reducing the value of the lives of those she heals, and so that others detectives of the agency understand the value that their lives and wounds have, and don't end up like the soldiers in war.

In Kenji's fight against Tetchou, we have a flashback of a conversation between Kunikida and Atsushi, and Kunikida says that Kenji's ability is driven by his anger, the angrier he gets, the more powerful he will be, however, his hunger can calm him, and I wonder if that might have something to do with Fukuzawa's skill. Kenji is a very calm person, and Kunikida says that this prevents his monstrous strength from coming out, so creating a way to calm him down so that his ability doesn't go out of control may have been Kenji's own choice when he joined the agency.

Kunikida only using his ability in his notebook of ideals may also have been his own choice. We know how connected to his ideals Kunikida is, and he says that all of his future and ideals are written in that notebook, so it makes sense that he would want his ability, an important part of his life, to be in his notebook too. On the other hand, All Men Are Equal could be the reason why Kunikida can only create objects the size of his notebook, but I can't see a specific reason for this choice.

I don't see many ways in which Fukuzawa's ability can affect Tanizaki's Light Snow, other than limiting the area in which he can use his ability. We know that Tanizaki can be very aggressive if provoked, so the fact that his ability can only be used at a short or medium range may be to prevent him from doing more damage than necessary when angered.

I believe all of these assumptions make a lot of sense, based on what we've seen of the influence of Fukuzawa's ability on Atsushi (forbiding him from fully transforming into a tiger, and from losing his mind while using his ability) and Kyouka (allowing her to control Demon Snow without her phone), and I really hope this topic is explored at some point during the manga.

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