Bsd Chapter 113 - Blog Posts

⚠️ SPOILERS CHAPTER 113 ⚠️

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WTF DID I JUST READ? WHAT WAS THAT!

Let me just organise my thoughts:

The old men Yaoi was expected but it still killed me

The last panel was so chilling and traumatic with Aya's cheerful words and Fukuzawa's expression 😭

Why wasn't Fukuzawa holding Fukuchi in his arms????

SIGMA IS ALIVVVEE

WHERE IS NIKOLAI? Did he go to bury Fyodor's hand or smtg?

FYODOR AND BRAM HAVE HISTORY

So that MF is immortal or really really old or smtg

There's NO way an immortal being like Fyodor dies by a helicopter falling on him!

Before dying (allegedly) Fyodor had mentioned "that man" as his rival before Dazai, could it be Bram? 🤔

Bram serving as usual 💅

Sigma looked like Sleeping Beauty (maybe you should have kissed the Princess instead of throwing him down 15 times Chuuya 🙄)

Fyodor has more Jesus allegories

Dazai wasn't in Fukuzawa's thoughts about the ADA..... maybe he is going to transfer to PM and the reason Chuuya was sent to rescue him was because they were going back to Mori together

NO AKUTAGAWA UPDATE (come on this was his birthday week 🥺)

CHUUYA LOST HIS VAMPIRE TEETH AHHH

WTF IS FYODOR? WTH IS GOING ON WITH HIM

I have so many more thoughts but mostly-----I really want to track down Asagiri to ask him wtf is going on here

I can't understand anything

I'll go and watch some yt shorts

This is all too much for my brain to process (I understand Sigma now)

Some fun stuff happening in chapter 113 :D

I WAS RIGHT

THE MARRIED COUPLE CAME BACK TO PICK THEM UP!!!!!

Okay, I know that people probably started to talk about it already, but I just can’t stop thinking about it.

It’s about the whole “Dazai left Sigma behind” thing.

Dazai didn’t forget about Sigma. That would be a very weird and bitch move from him if he would. After all, Dazai was really keeping his promise about taking Sigma out of prison alive, which he was doing. I mean, Dazai literally had a reason why he took Sigma with him, so they won’t get killed by Fyodor and Nikolai. He helped them to not drown under the water and also saved them from falling down an elevator. Plus, Dazai is trying to become a better person, and help people, which he was doing during the series (even though he was annoying at times and he was doing some horrible things in the past. He even himself thinks, that all this stuff doesn’t suit him at all. But he’s trying to become a better person and help people, mostly because Oda was the one who told him to do so. Seriously, if it wasn’t Oda, Dazai would still be stuck in Mafia.) It would make sense for him to leave someone who was a person that was doing a horrible actions behind, he wouldn’t care about that person at all. But he wouldn’t leave people he cares about behind. Even though he and Sigma knew each other for only a day (well, less than a day), Dazai still wouldn’t leave them behind, because again, he made a promise, and because Dazai wants to help this who are good, those who need help.

I think the reason why we didn’t see Dazai and Chuuya have Sigma’s body with them, is because they had to get an antidote and also finally put an end to Fyodor. It would make more sense, since they didn’t have much time to try to find Sigma (especially when they might be on the floor which is far away from them.) The only time they had is to only to put a splint on Dazai’s leg and that’s it. If they would go look for Sigma, it would take a little longer and Dazai would’ve (for real) die from the poison.

Maybe I’m being too hopeful, but it’s just feels wrong for Dazai to leave Sigma behind. There is possibility, that he could maybe think that Sigma had escaped the prison and is safe now, but that’s only a maybe.

I just don’t want Dazai to end up looking like another person who manipulated and used Sigma, but only this time at the end is being like, “oh? You got that info on a Russian rat that I needed? Yeah uh…I kinda don’t really need anymore. Sorry :D”

The other thing I think, is that if Sigma is being unconscious and will never wake, that would be a very fucked up. It would just feel like Sigma was wasted as a character, without fulfilled goals, having a character development, and getting a better ending. (Okay, I’m being a little too hopeful again when it comes to a good ending, but they deserve a good ending, okay.) Even though Sigma’s information on Fyodor won’t be used anymore (but who knows, it might become useful cause…you know…maybe some characters might raise from the dead out of nowhere..), still, it doesn’t mean that their arc should end there. Being unconscious in the prison in Europe which is somewhere in the middle of the fucking ocean.

Its also not really in bsd style to forget about certain relationships with character, and also waste it and characters, or every detail that shows up even for a few seconds. After all, all the things are connected to each in some way in the story. So I’m pretty sure that Sigma will still have their story being continued. There’s still some things that are not answered about his character, like who wrote them down on the book and why, what will they do now and how they will continue develop as a character.

So conclusion is….Dazai and Chuuya will pick up Sigma and they all three will come back to Yokohama.

(Wonder how long will it take, since there will be another bullshit that’ll happen 2 hours later.)

This is how I look when people like my history analysis of chapter 113. It made me smile you guys are the best!

I really want to share this theory with as many as I can so I appreciate you all!

BSD Chapter 113 Historical Analysis

Basically, I can put my History and Religious Studies Degree and put that shit to use and do some good for society

Essentially, I think chapter 113 left us clues for hinting at the bigger themes of Bungo Stray Dogs and possibly some insight into Fyodor's motivation for being caught by Bram. This might get long so buckle up bitch.

OH AND I THINK I FIGURED OUT THE EXACT YEAR THE DUNGEON MEMORY TAKES PLACE

Okay, so the first thing to understand is the contemporary events mentioned in Chapter 113. The guards and Bram mention King Matthias, the Sultan, and the Holy Crusaders.

The Crusades, for those of you who don't know, are a series of so-called Holy Wars whose main objective was the "reclamation" of the Holy Land. However, not all crusades had this objective. There were several crusades within Europe itself. These wars, like the Cathar Crusade, were aimed at driving out paganism or "heretical” sects of Christianity. While the main Crusades happened centuries before the Dungeon scene took place (the first official Crusade happening in 1095) there existed later Crusades that often sought to limit the authority and scope of the Ottoman Empire. Which is also mentioned in the chapter with "Sultan"

Now the Sultan mentioned is Mehemed II, often referred to as the Father of Conquest. He was in power when King Matthias (Matthias was the King of Hungary and Croatia) ruled and often fought to expand Ottoman territory into the lands Matthias ruled.

Now, you know who else was a contemporary ruler? Our boy Vlad Dracul, the inspiration behind Bram Stoker's Dracula.

Now, Vlad Dracul was the ruler of Wallachia, which is basically Romania today. Now it is my belief that Bram Stoker. like a lot of characters in BSD, is inspired by the tale of Dracula and not the actual Bram Stoker. But, I think instead of using the character of Dracula, Asagiri is using Vlad Dracul (also known as Vlad Tepes) as Bram's inspiration. This is for two reasons. 1. The castle depicted in the manga is the same castle Vlad ruled from 2. Bram states that he wants Fyodor skewed like a little shrimpy on the grill. Vlad Dracul got his bloodthirsty reputation by impaling his enemies and leaving their heads on pikes outside his castle for several months at a time. In fact, I forget the exact quote, but a visitor of the castle during Vlad's reign said you could smell the decaying rotten flesh for miles before arriving at the castle. This is why Bram Stoker wrote Dracula based on Vlad Dracul.

Now as for the specific year the memory takes place, I personally believe it takes place in the year 1462, either summer or early fall. Once again this is based on the textual evidence given in the manga... The guards are clearly nervous about the sultan, who we have established is Mehemed II. This guy is responsible for the downfall of the Byzantine (or Eastern Roman Empire) and founded the Ottoman Empire. He also has beef with Vlad since Vlad brutally killed Ottoman envoys sent to Wallachia in an attempt to make Wallachia a vassal state for the Ottomans. Moreover, 1462 was the year that Vlad was imprisoned by King Matthias till his release in 1475. During this time Wallachia was essentially conquered. Vlad died between 1476 and 1477 (the sources don't have a specific date).

Now historically speaking there is reason as to why King Matthias imprisoned Vlad. A letter, which a lot of scholars think was made up, allegedly claimed Vlad pledged his allegiance to the Ottomans to help them conquer Hungary and Croatia. Now, strictly speaking for the events of the manga, having Bram imprisoned and/or taken out of power sounds like something Fyodor would do. So it makes sense that in the manga he would have something to do with Bram being imprisoned. If Bram is imprisoned that is to say since we still don't have clear motives for that.

It should also be noted that Fyodor warns Bram that the "Gods of Warfare come from the West”. historically speaking it was the Ottoman Empire that caused Wallachia problems and not the Holy Roman Empire aka the Romans mentioned in the chapter. The only reason I can think of the guards and Bram suspecting "holy crusaders" and "Romans" is because of their differing religious beliefs. Now Wallachia followed Orthodox Christianity while Romans obviously followed Roman Catholic traditions. Protestantism wasn't a thing yet, but these two groups were already tense and there have been several major conflicts (like the Crusades I mentioned earlier) and schisms within the church.

So, this is the only thing I could think of, but I'm not sure of what Fyodor's play is at here. Maybe he's an immortal being wanting to rid the world of abilities and having Bram Stoker in chaos would help in advance that goal. Maybe he can take people's life forces away like I've seen a lot of people suggest. I don't know. And the whole "come from the West" quote is the one thing throwing me off. Overall, I would love to know if Asagiri used any sources from the period to influence this memory scene, and if so...I wanna know which one's bestie!!

Please let me know what you think! If I just rambled or if my sleep-deprived thoughts and research make any semblance of sense. I would also love to know any fun theories and/or facts you have about this chapter or BSD in general. Also, would pictures be helpful?

More Soukoku PLS 🙏🙏🙏

So I think it's safe to say that the fandom has agreed that Chuuya is rather grumpy when he's tired (and I love that we have all accepted this as fact). So, imagine they are on their way home from Meursault and the plane hits a bit of turbulence. Nothing terrible, but enough to wake Sleeping Beauty (read: Chuuya) who has only been asleep for about 45 minutes.

Chuuya: Grantors of-

Dazai, poking Chuuya's cheek: Chuuya, no. It is not that serious.

Chuuya, swatting Dazai's hand away: Oh, I'm sorry. I didn't realize you spent the last few days preparing to break you out of jail, breaking into Meursault, cosplaying a vampire, following the son of a bitch known as Fyodor around and following every fucking order-

Dazai: Chuuya-

Chuuya: Having to listen to you go on and on about fate and destiny and wtf was that even about??

Dazai: Uh-

Chuuya: Whatever, more importantly, I think I still have water in my lungs, Dazai.

Dazai: And my head still hurts, but you don't see me-

Chuuya: Oh, boo-fucking-hoo. Poor Dazai has a headache! Whatever will we do?! Someone save him! Quick, call a doctor!

Dazai: Then go get a doctor, Chuuya, since your legs are perfectly fine unlike mine!

Chuuya: You wanna go?!

Sigma: Both of you, zip it! Please! I'm trying to figure out where all of these bruises came from and I can't think with you two arguing. For crying out loud, it looks like I've been dropped 15 times!

Dazai: ...

Chuuya: ...

Sigma: ...What?

Dazai: Oh, nothing. I'm sorry Fyodor did that to you.

Chuuya: Yeah, that was real fucked up of him. I'm going back to sleep.