BSD Official Art Analysis
(how wonderfully timely of me to do this now, literally months later.)
Anyways. I didn’t see anyone else point these out (if you did, I sincerely apologize). So I decided I might share some observations about this beautiful work of art above.
To summarize:
1. Kenji
2. The triangle vector
3. Fukuzawa
So the first odd thing. Kenji. He’s looking up at something. We have no way of knowing what that is. But it reminds me of the other official art where he had a hawk:
Was this hawk an allusion to something in his past? If so, I don’t recall it having any significance. Whether or not it’s been mentioned so far, though, Kenji definitely has had some secret that Asagiri hasn’t revealed yet.
I don’t have enough evidence to make it into an entire post, but it’s so off for Kenji to just be some happy-go-lucky character when everyone else is twisted or dark in some way. He’s also not an average by any means- and in many hints. My bet is that something centered about Kenji is going to happen in this arc.
Next. The triangle vector.
Just so that you don’t have to scroll all the way up again here’s the thing:
Now.
Here, Dazai (with a knowing expression) points to Kunikida, who looks to Yosano (who may or may not be pointing at Kyouka but I doubt it). Kunikida looking to Yosano is very obviously for healing him. (He’s one of the only ones without hands in the picture, so he probably hasn’t been healed yet.)
But here, as Dazai is pointing to Kunikida, something tells me he’s going to be a key piece in whatever plan he’s got laid out.
Because, as I’ll show below:
In this official art, Natsume is pointing to Akutagawa with virtually the same posture as Dazai is to Kunikida. Using these parallels (generations of SKK, Tripartite Tactic) Kunikida is probably going to have a purpose more important than just uniting the Agency.
And there’s one last, perhaps very important thing.
Fukuzawa.
If you look back at Akutagawa’s expression above^, you’ll see that he has an expression very similar to Fukuzawa.
This could’ve been just a coincidence. But I argue that it’s not.
Because there’s one more official art with the exact same expression:
Yes. Going along these lines, Fukuzawa’s disposition is the expression of someone who has passed.
Any more theories? Let me know- and thank you so much for reading!
windghouls
