Bungou Stray Dogs Episode 10: Rashoumon and the Tiger

Well hot damn that fight was crazy. I have no idea how Atsushi is even alive, and now we’re going to fucking meet F. Scott Fitzgerald. Finally, an author that I actually know. Too bad I don’t like him much (his writing, I mean).

Looks like we’re really moving with the plot because at the end Dazai found something interesting. He explains his real reason for getting himself captured. There are actually two reasons. He had sent out a letter to some very important guys where if he were to get killed, the Port Mafia’s secrets would get revealed. Dazai also uses this to aid his main reason for purposely getting captured; he wants to figure out who would want to pay 7 billion yen for Atsushi. He makes Chuuya agree with his conditions and he tells him where he can find the answer since he doesn’t know himself. Akutagawa is the one behind all of that. We get this short moment between them but we get something interesting in the end. Their little banter was pretty funny, I hope we get to see Chuuya again since we barely got to know him, but with only two episodes left I’m not too sure.

The rest of the episode consisted of the fight between Atsushi and Akutagawa. Atsushi wakes up on the ship and Akutagawa forces him out of it. He’s about to kill him until Kyouka stands behind him with a gun, prepared to shoot. He tells her that she can never be a normal person with the kind of ability she has, that she’s only useful and has worth when she’s killing people, and that does she really want to risk her life for him. And she does, she says the crepes they ate were delicious, and it really shows that she wants to be a normal girl. Akutagawa strikes the gun and breaks it, but Kyouka pulls out a switch and when she presses it, a part of the ship explodes. She uses that to give Atsushi an opening to run away. Kunikida had arrived and tells Atsushi to hurry. But Atsushi doesn’t want to leave Kyouka. Kunikida says they’re not heroes, they can’t save all the innocents.

But Atsushi doesn’t care, and he heads back. And this is when we get the fight for the rest of the episode. Even though Atsushi hasn’t used his ability much he’s not doing too bad. Akutagawa has this immense hatred towards Atsushi, and Dazai’s words keep ringing in his head about how he said Atsushi was better than him. Even Atsushi wonders why he has so much hatred towards him when they don’t even know each other. We see a short flashback of Akutagawa practicing with Dazai when he was still in the mafia, and I think Akutagawa is the type of character that is obsessed with power and doesn’t like to fail and be weak. That is probably why he bears so much hatred towards Atsushi, because even though he’s barely used his ability, he’s holding his own against Akutagawa’s Rashoumon. And in the end, through one hell of a punch even after being pierced multiple times, Akutagawa loses. Atsushi and Kyouka safely land in Kunikida’s boat, and they escape the sinking ship.

We then see Dazai looking at files and he figures out who wants to buy Atsushi. The scene switches to some guy in a yacht. I was going to say he was chilling in a cruise ship, but seeing as how this guy’s name is Francis F. and his ability is named The Great Gatsby, I was like oh…no, that’s his yacht. Seeing as how Fitzgerald always writes about rich people, of course this guy has to be stinking rich. So yes that guy! I wonder just who he is.

But his ability being named The Great Gatsby is so…awkward. I know The Great Gatsby is Fitzgerald’s most famous work, but it doesn’t sound cool as an ability name! If I had to pick one of his works that would fit as a cool ability name, the only one that would sound good would be Winter Dreams, a short story he wrote. But…yeah whatever okay.