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aya thinking why aku didnt finish her off

sigma getting baptized by dazai

me and my siblings and mum has watched ancient magus bride and bungou stray dogs, i noticed a similarity between dazais and elias necklace same colour same type of string and the way they wear it is similar to. maybe dazai is elias past self.

Last week, a surprising news popped-up in my TL on Twitter: link here. (Do NOT call out this person, always interact with respect!! My goal here is only to correct this information because I have the means to do it).

So yup, having studied Murakami in a few Literature classes at uni and learning that Kunikida Doppo was Murakami Haruki’s grandfather only on bsdtwt.. Why would none of my Japanese Lit. teachers mention a connection between two authors? I was left dubious.

So I went on a little Internet trip, googled “kunikida doppo haruki muraki” to find the original post. I first found this, which redirected me on this article which then redirected me on...... wikipedia (how surprising...)

Notably, Murakami's grandfather is Kunikida Doppo.

You can still read this on the two first links, but it doesn’t appear on wikipedia anymore.

I then went on Murakami Haruki’s Japanese wikipedia page and could find nothing related to Kunikida Doppo: 

父は京都府京都市蹴上安養寺住職の息子であり、日中戦争に巻き込まれ、それによって深くトラウマを負った[5]。母は大阪・船場の商家の娘であった[6]。

I think you can pretty much read the exact same information on his English wiki page, aka Murakami-sensei's father was the son of a priest and his mother was the daughter of a merchant.

If you want to read more about Murakami-sensei’s grandfather (father’s side), you can go there.

So my next step was to google 「春樹村上 国木田独歩」and I indeed found something interesting here (plus Steffi also found this). Basically, this wrong information was coming from Murakami Haruki’s English wiki page. And while I won’t take the time to translate those two blogs, it seems that Kunikida-sensei and Murakami-sensei could share a similar style or something like this but nothing more.

To be honest, I still wanted to check for myself because the only time I encountered something related to Kunikida-sensei, it was because of my own research on the Kojiki.