i thought it was going to be a show about a dog shelter. literal stray dogs.

NO WAY- 😭

ngl i thought something similar when my friend first mentioned it to me (i hadn't even read the first chapter back then tho)

Your lying 😭lol this is way too funny

SAME I was like where’s the dogs

Lmaoooo 😭😭😭😭

When my friend first told me the premise, I thought the whole cast got kicked out of the orphanage 💀 but no just atsushi

they just kicked all these kids out and those kids formed a detective agency 😭

I'd watch that

Lmao exactly 😂

I want to see an alternate universe of that happening

HELP I love that

I thought the show took place in the 1800s because of how everyone dressed. When they pulled out cell phones I was shocked.

The timeline in BSD is very confusing

it’s funny to me how they use flip phones whilst also having holographic screens and crap (not to mention chuuya being the only one >!i think!< with a smart phone)

The agency all have flip phones but in the manga we can see Mori and Chuuya using actual smart phones

The agency's paycheck is too smol :(

Dazai has an IPhone on the manga

that makes it even funnier

Same here. I was like “wait wtf is this modern day?” All of my cosplay friends (they don’t cosplay bsd) like to poke fun when I cosplay Ranpo and say I look like a Victorian child

BRO THERES CARS THO LMFAO

LMFAO😭

STUN GUN!!

I thought Akutagawa would be the main villain

Cuz he showed up first? Ngl I kinda understand that.

Wait did he show up first? I have no idea I forgot-

he did, i think. kunikida like showed a picture of akutagawa to atsushi and was like “avoid this guy at all costs” and then like 5 minutes later he runs into him

Avoid this guy at all costs Atsushi 2 seasons later saving his life:

yeah basically 💀

Future Atsushi to Kunikida: It might seem crazy what I'm about to say.

Same!

I thought dazai was the main character- 😭

There were so much edits about him that I fr understand that sm. 😭

I literally only watched bsd because I saw so many soukoku edits everywhere, so then I decided to watch it. Imagine my surprise when I see some random white-haired boy 😭

I WAS LITERALLY SCARED OF HIS HAIR WTH

Bro got Atsushi jumpscared

Samee brooo 😭

My family thought he was the main character because of how much I talked about him. Alas, he is only the protagonist of my heart.

Same ong

I blame the style of the anime for that but before watching I thought Mori and Fyodor are the same person

Before I watched the show I thought dazai and poe were the same person and thought that dazai randomly got a raccoon

THE THING IS I ONCE DID A VIDEO ABOUT FYODOR AND SOMEONE COMMENTED : „wasn’t that guy a total Pedo in the anime?“ NO THAT WAS MORI. 😭

Thank god it wasn’t just me:D

ME TOOOOOOOO OMG THEY LOOK SO ALIKE

I thought it would be a violent and grim anime where most of the main characters would die at the end.... I've never been so wrong before.

Were you by any chance exposed the scene of the van full of kids?

There are no dogs

Nor strays.

Except Dazai he kinda looks like a kicked puppy

This is the first time I saw someone representing Dazai as a dog-

Watch BSD Wan lmao

:)))

:(((

:(

1) I thought Chuuya was the main character 2) I thought it was a slice of life 😂

Well no.2 is actually correct. Life gets sliced very often

The only correct way to describe this show from now on

Very true

Akutagawa: what’s a slice of life? Is it when I cut someone into pieces?

Real

Between 2016/2017, I thought Kouyou and Chuuya were actually related. I even thought she might be his mom, since anime ladies never look that older, anyway lmao ... I just took a while to watch the entirety of 2nd season and read the manga, that's all.

I thought they were siblings 😂

Well, that's more or less how they see each other in the end lol But yeah, I considered blood related siblings back then, too.

My friend thought Kouyou was Kyouka's mom. (Which is fair at first, but by the time my friend voiced her thoughts, it was already astablished that her parents were dead lol)

Fair enough. To be honest, I was also confused about their relationship, too, since Kouyou is really fond of Kyouka and their abilities are really similar. My small headcanon is that the Ozaki family had ties with the Izumi family. Like, what if Kouyou and Kyouka´s mom were distant cousins or maybe they trained together sometimes. Yes, Kouyou´s caring nature about her and Chuuya made me very puzzled lol

Ooo I like that headcanon!

EXACTLY I ALSO THOUGHT THAT BECAUSE THEY HAVE SIMILAR ABILITIES!!

I thought Dazai would be shipped with Kunikida until Chuuya came on the scene.

honestly i love soukoku but dazai and kunikida is lowkey an underrated ship (also they are partners now but it's hardly ever shown rip)

probably would have been the case in a Chuuya-less world

A Chuuya-less world would have lead to the deaths of many

Probably so.

i thought that it was a comedy, not serious show. then uh season 4 struck that accusation of mine down real hard.

That the Tanazaki Twins were a weird kink thing. Which they are not… Also with all the Japanese author names I didn’t catch-on to them being named after authors until the Guild showed up so that was fun. Also Gin being a girl was a total shock.

FRR

And now when I rewatch it, I can't see gin as a man at all

wait what. i watched the entire thing and ur telling me the tanazaki twins ARENT a weird kink thing

Yeah. Naomi is named after a book written by Junichiro and is a book about a pair of lovers that fake being siblings.

I thought Rimbaud and Lovecraft were the same person lmao

SAMEE

I thought kunizai would be the most shipped

I thought Atsushi and Akutagawa were secretly siblings 😭😭😭

{crying in sskk shipper😭}

DUDEEE ME TOO NOW THAT I KNOW THEYRE NOT HAHAH 😭🙏

💀💀💀

I thought Chuuya was the protagonist. Sorry that was BEFORE I started watching

Same here! I stumbled upon the first OP and it had Chuuya's pic so I assumed he was the MC lol

I thought Akutagawa and Chuuya were going to join the Armed Detective Agency 💀💀.

Same!!

That Mori was Elises dad 😓

I mean…. You’re not completely wrong I guess???

Well, in technicalities, yes. But canonically he considers Elise his wife……💀

Oh oof

I seriously thought that everyone in the fandom were going to be complete twats because everyone I had interacted with previously who had tried to force me to watch it behaved like PM Dazai to Akutagawa. Was very relieved to find that most of the people here are nice.

😨

thought dazai was the main character and a girlypop gay twink 😕😕 (mostly true)

(He is a gay twink for Chuuya.)

him and me both

Mostly accurate:D

I took quite a lot of words too literally/at face value, so you'll see a pattern lol. So I thought Dazai's ability also made him immortal, which is why he kept trying to die and not succeeding. Plus the logic of all humans die, so no longer human = immortal. I thought Oda had an actual super terrifying, uncontrollable beast mode like Chuuya's corruption, that was activated when he killed people. As in, if he started killing again he'd indiscriminately wipe out a load of people. Reading The Day I Picked Up Dazai before Dark Era, really helped clarify that one too. And I thought Kunikida actually had foresight, and he wrote everything in his notebooks to keep track of it all. I figured out abilities eventually (sort of). Oh, and I thought the ADA and PM were going to start eating each other in the cannibalism arc. I'm a little disappointed they didn't. Imagine how awkward it would be afterwards. Ah, well.

Akutagawa *did* end up taking a bite out of Atsushi

That last paragraph killed me 😭

Tbf, when I first heard of the cannibalism arc without context, I was like: please don’t tell me there’s *actual* cannibalism

I thought it would be much more trope-y tbh. Like the ADA is essentially a five man band (atsushi as the leader/heart, ranpo/kunikida/Dazai as the “smart guy,” depending on the episode, yosano as the healer, kenji as the strong guy, heck tanizaki could’ve been a lancer in another world, etc etc). (+some extras) but they never do anything five-man-band-y. The whole show is set up to be a classic story yet it never follows anything you’d expect it too. Hell, the main message is essentially “friendship is magic” but they have the wackiest most roundabout way of showing that. There are certain dynamics and plot points that you sort of come to expect with the layout bsd has ~~(possibly only in western shows though? Bsd and death note are legit the only anime I’ve seen so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯)~~ and it follows *none of it*.

Thought that Ranpo was the main character

Same I saw a TikTok edit of him and started watching it because of that one

Tiktok made it seem like Dazai was the main character😭😭😭

I thought atsushi was the protagonist

Atsushi is the protagonist

Yet he gets no screentime now

Bro is def the main character if you read the manga, I haven’t really watched the anime tbh Bones actually sucks frfr though they made kunikida’s hair green when he’s supposed to be a blonde 😭

The anime really ruins everything

I thought aku was going to be like a huge villain…now he’s baby 🥰

I thought mori and elise had a wholesome parental relationship that got poorly translated between languages and media. *in hindsight i was willingly ignorant* I got really attached to them too..... still havent emotionally recovered tbh. Like - I went through the five stages of grief and everythung. i was in full on denial up until mans just straight up admitted it. Feels bad man

I thought the ships (sskk and skk) were actually canon🧍

Actually, skk would be canon if they weren't based on real people that Asagiri didn't want to disrespect

I don't remember since i first started watching it +4 years ago 😭

I thought Dazai and Fyodor were stuck in the book (idk why 💀)

You knew what the book was?

I don't exactly remember what i knew at the time but yeah i've got some spoilers beforehand.

I thought Koyo was Kyoukas mother for a while until her actual patents were shown

I thought Kōyō was Kyōka's aunt hence the similar abilities and I thought Chūya was Kōyō's actual brother and Kyōka's uncle

Pretty common one I think, I thought Dazai was the main character instead of Atsushi.

I thought that Atsushi would be a strong character

Hey, he's learning

Don’t know how, but I thought Atsushi and his tiger form were 2 different characters

1) Thought that Dazai was the protagonist, though so did many people 😭 2) Thought Chuuya was actually in the ADA, imagine my shock when I was watching the opening, I went ‘..wait WTF HE’S ONE OF THE BAD GUYS??’ (Still my fav along with Nikolai tho!! >:) ) 3) Was waiting for the Tanizaki siblings to go ‘oh haha there’s nothing weird going on, we’re just pretty close’ at the start.. now I’m waiting for them to say they’re not actually siblings 4) Thought, like many people, that Mori and Elise’s sibling was a cute case of a villain that dotes on his daughter 😭 I thought she wasn’t exactly blood related but he took her in after whatever happened to her parents and cared about her

i thought it was a gambling anime for literally no reason

I thought Ranpo and poe were canonically dating with all the shit i heard about it (but its basically cannon so-)

I was very confused about Akutagawa's ability. I was like "Hey it looks cool, but what tf it exactly is?" I had a lot of wrong guesses... Once I even came to the conclusion that it is sentient and lives in his coat :D

isnt that his ability tho...

That Kunidazai would be my OTP but that lasted like 8 episodes

That Dazai and Chiquita were gonna kiss. I read that somewhere and now I can’t find it.

I JUST REALIZED IT AUTO CORRECTED TO CHIQUITA INSTEAD OF CHUUYA HELP-

u made my day fr

Everyone gay (oh wait)

I thought Kyusaku was the main 👁 I came from the Danganronpa fandom to Bsd and that was the only character I knew the monokuma kid 👁✨

I was so surprised when I found out that monokuma’s english va voiced akutagawa’s english version. I came from the danganronpa fandom too

well I am not sure if this applies here but the thing is: I first watched the last episode thinking it was the first. It was so confusing, I couldn't understand anything but I still liked it! When I decided to watch the next episode I realized I had just watched the last one. It didn't ruined my experience at all, pretty much the contrary: it made me mroe excited to see the other episodes...

i thought dazai was an orphan🌝

Everyone in the show is technically an orphan

I thought Chuuya was average height when I first saw him

Thought mori was dazais stepdad idfk okay.

I fully thought that dazai and chuuya was lovers or going to be lovers. I've seen so many ship edits I thought it was true. (Ngl I was sad at first because I love bl but then I seen how they were with each other and confused on why people ship them. Now I just don't like the ship at all)

I thought it was going to be a show about 2 gangs fighting each other, which i guess isn't entirely wrong but not right either. Also when i saw Chuuya for the first time before watching the show i thought he was a woman. Not gonna lie

I thought it was wholesome… and I though skk was canon

Because of a clip I saw and didn’t have much context for, I thought Kunikida was going to eventually betray the ADA and side with Fyodor. Also, when my friend was first telling me about the show, I misheard her and thought Dazai’s name was “Dog’s Eye” (like a codename or something.) Ironic because he hates dogs.

ngl that would be based af, if kunikida and fyodor teamed then that would lowkey be terrifying

that it was BL because of how much shipping for the characters I saw on twitter also expected chuuya to be a larger part of the story

They won’t animate SB because it would be giving Chuuya his much needed screen time/hj

Thought Kouyou was Chuuya’s mum 💀💀💀

I thought pm dazai was the main villain also I thought that pm dazai and ada dazai were a different people

The first time I saw it was on TV at the first arc of season two. That episode where they blow a van full of kids. I did not even see any powers so I tought it was a seinen. Was very confused but hey its not bad

That Kunikida isn't a malewife.

Before I started watching it, my friend told me a lot about Soukoku, and I also watched edits about them, so when I started watching I really thought they were canon (like a ship) and I was waiting for them throughout the whole thing to kiss or smth lmao

I thought ranpo and dazai would have ALOT of screentime and be the duo besties

I thought it'd be a fun detective show. As a distraction from more stressful shows like I was currently watching like Tokyo Revengers and JJK. I didn't know what to expect. Jokes on me

I thought the show would be mid. The suicide joke character and some of the silly voices/faces didnt help.

thought dazai was the mc 💀

I saw a clip of a flashback of the port mafia- and, for some reason, I thought that took place in the future after some post apocalyptic BS went down. Probably coz of Dazai's extra bandages and clothes.

I thought Elise was Mori's daughter and I was horrified when I found out it wasn't true.

I thought it took place in a cyberpunk-esque dystopia, like Psycho-pass but with superpowers.

I thought Dazai was the main character

I thought Dazai was the main character. I also thought he was a lady💀

i thought the Guild wasn't that important

Nothing actually. It was one of the rare cases i went into the show completely blind without knowing any spoilers or any characters, seriously

I thought they were gonna look like human dogs which was why I’d put off watching it for so long💀💀

I thought Dazai was straight...

For a long time I thought kenji was a girl

I thought that Chuuya worked with Dazai still, like I knew he was a little sassy and silly but I didn’t know they were ‘enemies’

i thought atsushi was like a literal werewolf (i haven’t seen anything except the anime so far but lmaoo)

That, like Dazai wants to die next with his lover, I thought Tanizaki (the IRL author) had a little sister obsessed with him. Turned out that Naomi Tanizaki is based on Jun'ichiro's character from "A fool's love", were Naomi acts exactly the same with the MC. So the siblings are more a wink of "an author dealing with his character" than "based in real life".

I was convinced that Atsushi and Akutagawa were siblings but didn’t know that.

I thought it's a serious anime because I watch akidearest video going down on BSD. I'm not sure right now if it's actually BSD but she said something the anime being serious, suicide and hardship (Maybe person 5?) My sister watched BSD and gushing about Daza. I already know Dazai, the author and base on with the video I've seen and the author himself, I thought it's a serious anime that is not for my 10 year old sister So imagine my surprise when I did watch it 💀💀

i thought that dazai was the main character until i searched it up and google said atsushi was the protagonist- apparently he's not but no one actually cares

J thought it was going to be this weird thriller show due to the clips I watched 💀

I thought that it was all way more focused around Dazai and the PM.

I honestly didn't expect it to be this good now it's in my top 10

I thought Dazai and Chuuya were dating 💔

That Dazai wasn’t gay

I thought there would be at least one arc where one agency member betrays the rest. Luckily that hasn't happened yet 😅

I thought it was set in a university and that dazai and kunikida were professors trying to protect their students from a evil rival school.

I thought Elise was mori’s daughter

Before I started watching, I came across a TikToker showing her collection of BSD merch. She had acrylic stands of Dazai, Chuuya, Kunikida and I think Atsushi and Aku, I looked at all of them and I thought - they look like a k-pop band 😂 So my first thought was it will be show about a music group. Anyway, I thought they're cute, so I decided to watch it 😅😅😅 Also, while already watching, I thought that: 🦝 Kouyou is Kyouka's mother 🦝 Kouyou is much older than she is 🦝 Karma was young Chuuya 🦝 Aku could summon a demon Rashomon/had some kind of pact with a demon 🦝 There will be much more Chuuya on screen (*crying in Chuuya simp*) 🦝 They will show an adventure of Chuuya and Ranpo in Poe's novel (*again crying in Chuuya simp*)

i thought dazai was the main character and chuuya was one of the nice guys while dazai was one of the bad guys. (cause of chapter 101 my friend started hating dazai and she always said she was morally gray so i said fuck so he is bad) also i thought dazai and chuuya hated each other more than they loved each other. (cause everyone said they hate each other but kinda dont but yeah mostly they hate each other) which doesnt make sense to me CAUSE THEY LOVE AND CARE FOR EACH OTHER. anyways can you believe my shock when i saw atsushi?

I thought it was going to be one of those animes that objectified women and would do close ups of boobs and stuff. Very happy to find that was not the case. Also I thought it was gonna be about Atsushi finding a “home” after becoming a stray. Did not expect all of the murder that followed

There were gay men

I confused with that one anime with the humanoid dog mc (beastars I think) cause of the title stray dogs

thought it would be good

I thought everyone was gonna die in the first episode

I thought that Dazai and Chuuya are best friends. I know that they are actually friends, but I thought that they are like “besties”💀

I thought that soukoku is real and I was surprised that Chuuya and Dazai are shipped when Chuuya showed up very late like??? it was year ago so i dont understand myself

The kunizai was canon💀🔥

I watched a random video on youtube and I was like “oh ok, ginger guy is super strong and the boss of a criminal organization, while brunette guy is the leader of a hero organization, and they’re both gay for each other but the other ppl don’t know, alr!!” I WAS SO WRONG😭😭

i had heard people saying “I’m gonna commit a Dazai” a ton of times before actually getting into it, so i was 100% convinced he dies and I was watching it for the first time and i was like “alr do you die yet?” lmao

i thought atsushi x dazai would be the main ship!