Some backstory:
My mum and I are big fans of the anime Bungou Stray Dogs (BSD), and when we heard a rumour about there being a live action movie, we scoured the internet to see if it actually existed. There is a BSD movie (Dead Apple), but it's animated, not live action.
We never did find much evidence on whether or not the live remake exists, but we found a new, oddly specific hobby: watching Bungou Stray Dogs 'live on stage'. Basically, snippets of live action performances of BSD. I have a whole playlist on YouTube of the videos we watched, which I'll include later.
Here's where it begins:
It's was the evening, and my mum and I were watching some BSD live on stage, and the video we were watching ended. Autoplay put on another, of which we didn't recognize, which was odd since we'd seen every video of that genre YouTube had to offer.
We thought nothing of it. Huge mistake. Chuuya comes skipping onto stage, and speaks to the audience. Enter Dazai.
Here's where the fun really begins:
"Believer" by Imagine Dragons starts playing. Chuuya starts drinking from a bottle of wine that I had failed to notice on the set. Him and Dazai dance together. Dazai pulls out a fucking hand gun, and plays around with it. He gets up on the chair, Chuuya starts taking off his hat + gloves, and I naïvely ask my mum, "Is he going to hang himself?" She replies, "No, honey, he (Chuuya) is gonna strip."
And he does. Not entirely, just the fedora, gloves, trench coat, and vest, but we didn't know that. We had no clue what the fuck we were seeing. Dazai gets off the chair, ties a ribbon around Chuuya's choker/strap thingy, and pulls him off stage.
Oh, and did I mention that the entire thing was in Russian?
Afterwards, I attempted to find the video on YouTube so I could prove to my Discord server that I wasn't going insane. I thought I would never, since the video title was in Russian, and I couldn't remember the channel name.
I found the video. Now I watch it from time-to-time, and it doesn't affect me. But, let me tell you, the first time around, it really gave me something to think about on those nights I stare up at the ceiling, unable to sleep.
Watch it if you want. There isn't actually any real nudity. And no, I'm not making fun of the channel or the actors. More so making fun at the pure surrealism of the situation.
If you enjoyed that video, here's my playlist of BSD live on stage.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqgTg5ZzSuG1ul00mcpTpVJnDUyyp3pEy
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