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Yesterday (July 14th) was my manlet’s birthday once again and I had to celebrate it at least a little… So I doodled something, while also trying to experiment with things and not care too much about rough lines or making some small details stand out....

Yesterday (July 14th) was my manlet’s birthday once again and I had to celebrate it at least a little… So I doodled something, while also trying to experiment with things and not care too much about rough lines or making some small details stand out. This is the corrected version, as the one I uploaded to Twitter in a hurry ended up having few parts I forgot to add or fix. Not the best result of all the experimenting, but at least learned a thing or few.

Anyways, happy birthday Ton!

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Didn’t think I’d have to make this post here but Here we Go!

The new anime Bungou to Alchemist, Shinpan no Haguruma just aired.

and it’s based on a fantastic game, I have nothing but high hopes for the anime going forward.

BUT

This time around, the characters are tied much closer to the actual authors, and both the writers of the game and the lovely people running the English wiki rely on their works and more importantly, their google search results being clear.

It’s an unspoken rule in the Japanese fandom to Not Tag Posts with Full Names.

Let me say that again.

Tagging posts with the characters’ full names is not okay.

“But Peach!” I hear you say. “It doesn’t do any harm!” It does. It makes accessing information about the actual authors much more difficult, not to mention a fanartist literally dissapeared because of it once.

Well then, how do you tag Bungou to Alchemist posts?

Using shortened forms of their names (Like Dazai -> Dzi or Akutagawa -> Aktgw) is commonly used, or even just tag them with one name (Just BunAl Dazai or Just BunAl Akutagawa)

This series is older than just the anime, and it’s thrived because of the information we can gather. Please be respectful of the people working on Bungou to Alchemist, as well as the authors themselves.

tl;dr: Don’t tag Bungou to Alchemist posts with full names.

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Something which I never uploaded here back then in 2017 (but for sure did on Twitter lmao), drawn for S|h|i|g|a’s death day. His notable work “A|t K|i|n|o|s|a|ki” for sure had big impact on me back then, which is why I hold it as my favorite work from him even now and decided to quote it in this picture. The quote goes along the lines of “And so I, who hadn’t died, was walking here like this”. It really fit the topic of death day and the game’s lore of the authors being transmigrated, giving them another chance for living.

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A PSA for Bungou to Alchemist

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With the news about the anime adaptation for Bunal (hooray!), I’d like to take a moment to just say to all Bunal fans, both old and new.

Please DO NOT discuss the game/anime incarnations of the characters using their full names.

This isn’t like BSD where they’re just loosely based on the actual people. The concept of Bunal is that the ACTUAL REAL PEOPLE have been reincarnated. It’s absolutely crucial to be careful when discussing them because of that.

  1. Firstly, we don’t want to clog up google searches with anime boys. since these are supposed to be real people, anything that happened in the author’s life is canon to the character. And we want to know as much as we can about them. Doing research becomes difficult when half the results are fan material.
  2. Secondly, THESE ARE REAL PEOPLE. They have grandchildren who are very much still alive (and several of them know about Bunal). We need to be respectful to the people, their memories, and their families.
  3. And finally, talking shit about the real people can seriously get people in trouble. I’m not pulling this out of my ass guys, there really have been incidents where people got into serious shit for things like fanart. Japan takes this stuff extremely seriously, and you can get sued.

The Japanese fandom already takes care to not even refer to the characters with even first/last names (they use nicknames), and us Western fandom folks should be careful too. This is a lovely game and fandom and I’d like to see it thrive.

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ずっと待ってたんだよ、トンちゃん～

I rarely post here anything, but as his transmigration campaign is ending soon, thought about uploading this here to celebrate awesome two weeks there’s behind.

People who know me, know that I waited for Ton since the game’s early days, first just being a fool believing that he could be added to the game some day (after the “disappointment” in 2017 April when they announced his big brother). But then last year (2018) during the game’s second anniversary, he got confirmed to be one of the upcoming authors. I couldn’t believe that I would get to see his name listed like that one day. Three of the confirmed four authors got added to the game one after another a month after the announcement. And they left poor Ton wait for later time, which is was quite predictable after such big hype his name caused during the livestream where it got revealed… But I think the wait was worth it. I knew what kind of person he is, but people have their own interpretations of people and got a bit surprised how much he cares about Takeo, when irl the two weren’t that close. But BunAl’s devs had good reasons for that and I accept it (even though I wanted even some drama between the brothers tbh). He became one of my favorites right away and I’m glad I didn’t work on his trivia for all the years for nothing (it’s up on wikia btw).

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Other authors that can join BSD

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Come on, with the amount of side characters in BSD, I think we can throw more in. You already know what I said about Raichou Hiratsuka (with accessibility, she can easily be added as Yosano’s former colleague or something). 

Here are some other authors, and while I won’t go as extensive as I did for Hiratsuka, I might include some reasons why. All of this is from Wikipedia because I’m a scrub.

  • Takiji Kobayashi - He writes proletarian literature meaning he wants to support the working class. He wrote a short novel called “Kanikosen” (Crab Cannery Ship) which tells a story about workers who revolt against the company and managers. The author died due to violent torture at age 29 by the Tokko Police.
  • Takuboku Ishikawa - He was a poet who was known for his tanka and modern-style poetry. He supports socialistic values and naturalism and was acquaintances with Yosano. His major works were two volumes of tanka poems “A Handful of Sand” and “Sad Toys” plus his diaries. 
  • Naoya Shiga - He was a novelist and short story writer. Okay, I know he married his cousin, but we can leave that part out. His works were praised by Akutagawa but other contemporaries including Dazai were critical of him. We already have some connections.
  • Takeo Arishima - BSD has a habit of making male authors female (Kyouka and Kouyou). Takeo is another good option since one of his most notable works is called “Aru Onna” (A Certain Woman) which is about a strong-willed woman struggling in a male-dominated society. Yes, he and his lover Akiko Hatano both worked in literature and committed suicide together. He was critical of Christianity and supported socialism and humanism.
  • Yone Noguchi - Also known as Yonejirou Noguchi, he was a writer of poetry, fiction, essays, and criticism. He was fluent in both English and Japanese. he did live in western society for years and had various romantic encounters. Personally, I think this is an opportunity to use him as a character that’s a spy between the Guild and the Port Mafia or Armed Detectives Agency. 
  • Ayako Sono (and Shusaku Endo) - Both are Japanese Roman Catholics, but I find Sono far more interesting of the two (because there was more information on her). She was a hardcore conservative and can face off against Yosano since she believed that women had no right to work after giving birth or getting pregnant. She was racist and believed that South African people should live in a segregated zone. She had a best-seller that depicted domestic violence, but a lot of her works depicted normal life. She’d make a good antagonist.
  • Sawako Ariyoshi - She is far more modern than the rest, but she wrote about the racism within America (especially since she lived before and after WWII). She described relationships between mothers and daughters. I think she would offer a unique perspective, but I highly doubt them adding her since Japan seems to shy away from that dark side of their history (but what country doesn’t?)
  • Toyoko Yamasaki - I think she might be a little bit too modern to be considered though.
  • Kono Abe - This has a similar issue to the previous entry, but he has a connection to the universe already. He admired Dostoyevsky, Kafka, and Poe. He’s known for his surrealism and absurd fiction. That means it leaves a lot open for ability.
  • Ryotaro Shiba - He was known for his historical and detective fiction.
  • Juza Unno - He is credited for being one of the founding fathers of Japanese science fiction. A lot of his works were influenced by the defeat of WWII which he took as a hard blow. His scientific work was influenced by Tesla.
  • Chiyo Uno - Another woman ahead of her time, she was a writer and a kimono designer. She was a short story writer, serial writer, and magazine editor who was heavily influenced by American and European culture (like many in the 1920s). She wanted to be more than a wife and mother and became part of the “Bohemian world of Tokyo”. 
  • Masuji Ibuse - His history is interesting since he was a propaganda writer, but he was also a respected writer at the time. He was heavily impacted by the war and wrote a novel called Black Rain which was based on the historical records of the devastations caused by the atomic bombing in Hiroshima. Again, they will probably shy away from WWII, but I thought Black Rain sounded like a cool name, and I don’t really like the idea of shying away from that part of history.
  • Jun Ishikawa - In real life, he had interests in many people of the BSD universe including the dark era trio (Oda, Dazai, and Ango), Mori, and Mishima who isn’t canon yet but is suspected to be joining eventually.
  • Fumiko Enchi - She was one of the most notable writers of the Showa period. 
  • Ayako Miura - She wrote a novel called Freezing Point which sounds like a cool ability. She respected Dazai and Natsume.
  • Miyamoto Yuriko - She had a different view of socialism and feminism. She was an anti-imperialist, wrote about working-class women, was imprisoned for her beliefs, and was even turned away by fellow feminists because her work was “too masculine”. 
  • Yasunari Kawabata - He was a naturalist who was the first Japanese author to win the Nobel Peace Prize in literature.
  • Murasaki Shikibu - She was a very early but a very prominent writer. She wrote the famous “The Tale of Genji”. She was instrumental in developing Japanese into a written language and is regarded as a classical writer.
  • W. W. Jacobs - One of these things is not like the other! I blame @awkward-akutagawa and their Twitter AU for making me want to make a character that can resurrect people and @awkward-oguri for providing the fuel for this (they have an OC with a similar ability). Known for his humorous writing, he was an English writer (which makes me question whether he’s elligible for the Guild. Maybe he just upped and left?) He wrote a story called “The Monkey’s Paw” which is basically another cautionary tale of “BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU WISH FOR BECAUSE KARMA’S A BITCH”. That would be the basis for the ability. The rest is up to @awkward-atsushi and the other wonderful OC makers.
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Not to be that person, but it’s Kobo Abe 😅

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I have quite a few typos and never got the darn energy to fix them. Kobo isn’t the only one. Rip my laziness.

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Not to ruin the fun here, but Murasaki Shikibu wouldn’t really qualify for BSD, as she lived way in past compared to others. The series mostly has modern authors after all.

And correction: Shiga Naoya didn’t marry his cousin. It was his good friend’s cousin he married.

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Smh, I keep forgetting this place exists. A doodle I did for Takeo’s first in-game anni! Tried new coloring style and it wasn’t the nicest one to work on, but it could have been worse I guess? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Also the very same day a year ago (2017 April 12th), the game changed url and blocked me out beside some other countries. Rip, thanks Takeo. Been a looooong year messing with VPN every goddamn day to launch the game, but it has been worth it. Giving up back then after half a year of struggling would have been just pure waste, so I kept playing even though VPN sometimes tried to be a b*tch. It is still rather troublesome, but I’m not letting such trivial thing ruin my love for the game.

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I often forget that tumblr exists, bc I ramble a lot in my twitter

So yeah, Takeo had birthday and I had to doodle at least something as he’s one of my favorite authors (sometimes I question Shi/ga’s position as my fav, as this guy just gives me so much feels). Hbd man, I hope you had nice day compared to the ones in your past life.

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