unorthodox display of hubris but very well

also: have you read any of the works that inspired the characters/abilities? Or any of the bsd light novels/side manga? (Like Beast or Stormbringer) Who is in your top5 that you mentioned?

Oh i can rec Vita Sexualis, it is quite Asexual coded, or the various Horror/Mystery books from the irl Edogawa. There is a fanwebsite that has most of the works, both bsd AND irl Authors, linked. It is called the BSD Bibliophile Online Library!

Can I be honest with you?

The whole time I was reading, all I could think of "this is just like Fate if Nasu was born without a crippling obsession with worldbuilding".

BSD is completely nonsensical. The plot is paper thin. Saying the plot fits on a piece of paper is being generous. The plot is a device to allow the characters to show off their abilities and get into cool fights, it is utter bullshit I'm strongly suspecting of being made up as it goes, and I am buying everything it's selling.

Anyway, I liked it a lot. As a Fate fan, I'm always in favor of "what if we took this thing from the real world and turned it into a super cool supernatural ability".

Also dashboard osmosis wasn't lying these bitches gay as hell.

Personally, I've read most of Lovecraft, as well as Dracula, and that's kind of it. I'm not super well-read when it comes to Japanese literature.

He is a former war doctor with very questionable morals, now boss of the biggest underground organisation of the city.

Very smart and compentent and sometimes creepy during his work, and quite silly in private.

Anon there is no way you could possibly have known this but a few months back I was told by a clerk at the bookstore I visit frequently that I should read/watch BSD because I, quoting her, "have Dazai vibes".