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Todayâs anime insect of the day is: Papillon from Buso Renkin
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Happy April Fools guys I promise Iâll post real insects soon I just need to collect more screenshots but having online classes really kills my motivation for anything productive. Also thank you to @rythen for submitting this!
While everyone knows about Demian and The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas, few people know the boys also referenced Kafka on the Shore.
It all started with the lyrics from âButterflyâ, a song from HYYH Pt.2:
âI donât know if this is reality or a dream
My Kafka on the seaside
Donât go to those woods over thereâ
These three lines are a reference to Haruki Murakamiâs novel, Kafka on the Shore. The book follows a 15-year-old who ran away from home and an old man who can talk to cats. Thereâs a constant oscillation between dream and reality, as well as complex metaphors that made the book quite hard to understand fully.
In BTS videos, we only have references to certain parts of the story, so to simplify Iâll focus on those part and skip details. Also, in the book, we follow both main characters at the same time and their stories influence each other but here Iâll only follow Kafka since he seems to be the main inspiration.
In complement to this post, you also check the post made by @theoriesofuniverses  that connects citations from the book to elements from the BU.
The young run-away we follow is Kafka Tamura, a boy who decided to leave his home in Tokyo after his father has put a curse on him: one day, Kafka would kill his father and have sex with his mother and his sister. Kafkaâs mother and his sister actually left years ago.
From the family situation and the curse, it seems Taehyung fits with the role of Kafka, even though in the BU, his sister still lives with him and their father (âI NEED Uâ, STIGMA).
While running away, Kafka meets Sakura, a young woman. Kafka wonders if she could be his sister. Sakura easily guesses Kafka is in a complex situation and gives him her number in case he needs help.
Kafka ends up in the district of Takamatsu, where he discovers the Komura Memorial Library. He decides to spend his days here. The library is close by the sea, only separated from it by a pine forest.
From the HYYH notes, it appears that thereâs a pine forest near the beach they went to in YEAR 19 (12 June YEAR 19 in Tear). Itâs also mentioned in other notes, implying some of the boys went back during YEAR 22 (Seokjinâs 11 April YEAR 22, Taehyungâs 22 May YEAR 22 in Her and Namjoonâs 22 May YEAR 22 in Tear).
Except that one day, Kafka wakes up covered in blood, in a park. He doesnât know what happened but he immediately thinks about his father and the possibility he killed him. Kafka eventually decides to call Sakura for help. She welcomes him in a flat belonging to a friend of her, gives him a tee-shirt and listens to Kafkaâs story.
In âI NEED Uâ, thereâs a scene where Taehyung kills his father but in his Tear HYYH Note from the 20 May YEAR 22, itâs explained he didnât do it but did imagine it several times.
We also have the opening scene from the Prologue where, like Kafka, Taehyung wakes up covered in blood - impossible to know if itâs Taehyungâs imagination or not. He decides to ask for help and calls Namjoon, his companion in HYYH. However, we learn in the making-of of the Prologue that contrary to Kafka, Taehyung doesnât explain to the others what happened.
Based on Taehyungâs call, Namjoon would be Sakura. Like her, he lives in a place thatâs not his own - the container - and he has a brotherly relationship with Taehyung. On another occasion, he also gave him a T-shirt, like Sakura (see Namjoonâs 11 April YEAR 22 Note, from Her).
Kafka leaves Sakuraâs flat - he feels guilty because heâs sexually attracted to her despite their brotherly relationship. He goes back to the library and there Oshima, the librarian, offers him help. To have the time to prepare something for Kafka, Oshima brings him to a little cabin deep in the forest, with the advice to not go into the woods.
The forest around this house is the one mentioned in âButterflyâ lyrics.
When Kafka comes back to Takamatsu, itâs decided that heâll be an employee at the library and that heâll live there, with the authorization of Miss Saeki, the owner. Kafka wonders if Miss Saeki could be his mother. Heâs also fascinated by her past and falls in love with her young self.
In BTS works, Hoseok is the mother figure. Heâs also Taehyungâs pair in WINGSÂ where he urges him to grow up into an adult (see the Concept book).
We learn that Kafkaâs father was killed on the night Kafka woke up covered in blood. Since his father was in Tokyo and Kafka was in Takamatsu, itâs technically impossible for him to have done it. In theory.
On the same day, something happened to Mr Tanaka, the other main character. He met a man who presented himself as Johnnie Walker (Johnnie Walker is actually a whiskey brand, the man was wearing the same outfit as the one on the bottles).
In order to become immortal, Johnnie Walker eats catsâ hearts. It angers Mr Tanaka to the point he kills Johnnie Walker (please note Iâm shortening this part A LOT).
Kafkaâs father and Johnnie Walker actually died at the same time. And Taehyung has dreamed for a while to kill his alcoholic father. Thereâs probably some kind of metaphor or interpretation but youâll have to contact a theorist for that, not me, sorry.
As the police now know about Kafkaâs father, they try to find his son. Oshima takes Kafka back to the house in the forest so he can hide.
Despite Oshimaâs advice, Kafka goes inside the forest and finds a house where a girl looking like the young Miss Saeki visits him and makes him food. Kafka feels like everythingâs perfect. Except that the passage between this ideal world and reality will soon close and Kafka has to go back eventually.
Neverland? The child growing into an adult and that thus canât stay young forever? Anyone?
When Kafka comes back, he learns Miss Saeki died peacefully. He finally decides to go back to Tokyo. He takes the train back and thatâs the end of the story.
In âSpring Dayâ, the boys leave the perfect world of Omelas by train too.
Now that the story is told letâs add a few points.
Is anyone Mr Tanaka?
Mr Tanaka is the other main character in the novel. He is an old man able to talk to cats and whose actions had impacts on Kafkaâs story, like the passage with Johnnie Walker. Yet I canât really see anyone in the group fitting this role.
By stretching things, maybe Seokjin. In the Papilion concept group photo, he was the only one wearing shoes and so people associated him with Peter Pan while the others were the lost children. Mr Tanaka was the one who opened the passage between the two worlds, so he helped Kafka pass, like Peter Pan makes the children travel between the outside world and Neverland. Thatâs the only thing I can think of though.
Also just for the joke, maybe Seokjin can talk to butterflies =P
The boy named Crow
Kafka is not the boyâs real name. Itâs a fake name he chose and thatâs referencing the author Kafka. Itâs explained in the book that Kafka means crow in Czech.
Kafka is also accompanied by a boy named Crow. Crow is a rather mysterious character, we donât know if heâs real, a voice in Kafkaâs head, or a split personality. All we know is that he supports Kafka by telling him heâs the âtoughest fifteen-year-old in the world.â and he protected him in the forest.
In the trailer for The Wings Tour, we can see Taehyung with black wings, reminding of a crow. It reinforces the idea Taehyung is Kafka Tamura but it also implies the possibility Taehyung has his own Crow in the BU.
Kafka/Taehyungâs sister
Here is the big difference between the two stories. Kafka hasnât seen his sister in years while Taehyung lived with her.
I didnât mention it but Kafka actually accomplished the prophecy in a way. He woke up covered in blood the day his father was killed and he dreamt he had sex with Sakura and Miss Saeki who he associated respectively with his sister and his mother. Itâs obviously a reference to the myth of Oedipus, which itself is a metaphor about the son growing up and progressively replacing his father and having children with a woman.
In Kafka on the Shore, we donât know if it was the real mother and sister or substitutes but the metaphor remains.
In the BU, I think that despite Taehyungâs sister being here, the metaphor is carried by his interactions with Namjoon and Hoseok.
Lastly, in âStigmaâ, V sings:
Iâm sorry Iâm sorry
Iâm sorry ma brother
[...]
Iâm sorry Iâm sorry
Iâm sorry ma sister
The lyrics are about a sin that couldnât be confessed and the hurt caused by it to others (brother and sister). Itâs interesting to wonder who are âbrotherâ and âsisterâ. Like is âsisterâ in reference to his actual sister or to the metaphor represented by Namjoon? Is âbrotherâ about Namjoon, Hoseok, the both of them, or all the boys?
Even though he didnât murder his father, it seems something bad happened on the 20 May YEAR 22Â (see Hoseokâs Note) since Taehyung ended at the police station. It could be the reason why heâs apologising. Thereâs also the fact heâs afraid to become a monster like his father (see 22 May YEAR 22 in Her).Â
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Drew this little fella for practice. I saw a picture of a papilio troilus in my feed and looked it up in google images to save a photo for reference. Itâs really pretty, itâs also Mississippiâs official state butterfly.