Basically, this is a comprehensive chart of the different color palletes I use for drawing dazai

As you can see, my general headcannon is that Dazai gets tanner by age, and tannest in the main ADA plot because he's become healthier and overall gone outside more (that notion stays the same for my personal au)

Other than that, tanzai is a very common headcannon (in fact, you'd rarely find a fanart of pale Dazai, probably unless its drawn by a professional artist) and I, myself have grown to love it a lot; Dazai with a tanner skin tone just works surprisingly well with his brown color pallete while still keeping the contrast (also another reason I fw tanzai is because self-projecting hahahahahaha)

Anyways, there are a few exceptions to the color pallete chart, such as the time I drew 15zai as tan (but-that was old art and me expirimenting, so you guys won't see 15tanzai from now onwards)

my eyes are visibly burning from looking at my old art btw

or, when I want to draw Dazai that portrays/sticks to canon Dazai as much as possible, I will use the original color pallete, and thus, pale Dazai