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    Even if I say, "It'll be all right"
    Still I hear you say, you want to end your life
    Now and again we try to just stay alive
    Maybe we'll turn it all around, 'cause it's not too late, it's never too late

     

    A young prince with an expiration date meets a wayward entertainer willingly keeping a kill switch around his neck.

    Is it just guilty conscious and morbid curiosity Osamu decides to save him?

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    12 Jan 2026

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    When world-famous violinist Dazai Osamu announces his early retirement, a part of him is sure he will never love music again. He’s in his twenties, but he’s already tired of everything.

    Meanwhile, up-and-coming frontman Nakahara Chuuya is everything Dazai is not: reckless, smug, and a rockstar.

    They’re total opposites.

    They could never fall in love, right?

    [Or: Violinist Dazai and Rockstar Chuuya do, indeed, fall in love.]
    Sketchy's art here!
    Russian translation here.

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    23 Dec 2025

  3. Public Bookmark 41

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    Chuuya Nakahara could never have predicted that when he rescued a fox kit when he was ten that he was forever binding himself to the mischievous creature and earning himself an eternal pain in the ass... or perhaps a troublesome companion is more accurate.

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    02 Dec 2025

  4. Public Bookmark 95

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    For my Soukoku, Dazai and Chuuya have a healthy relationship. When they first met, they got off on the wrong foot, and while they became attracted to each other very quickly, neither even allowed themselves to realize it, as their subconscious was trying to protect them from rejection and they disguised their feelings as antipathy. Once they reunited in the Port Mafia's prison, they recognized their long-suppressed feelings, and so they no longer had a reason to fight (in their personal lives).

    So if you're into the kind of Soukoku where they have a very unhealthy, destructive relationship - the whole I hate you but I want you - you will NOT find it here.

    This series is basically slice-of-life. It begins in the Port Mafia's prison, and because that goes differently, I diverge from canon fairly quickly afterward. Think of it as the butterfly effect. Changing Dazai & Chuuya's dynamic ends up affecting broader events to create an alternate timeline. So most things from chronologically subsequent arcs won't occur in this divergence.

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    08 Nov 2025

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    “A private audience? Who would have thought I’d get the honour.”

    “Of course. Do you have a name, angel?”

    “Dazai Osamu.”

     

    —“You’re truly beautiful, you know, Dazai?”

    OR: angel!Dazai going to Hell to negotiate with demon!Chuuya about ending the conflict between angels and demons, and it works out better than either of them could have imagined

     

    [Russian translation available HERE]

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    06 Nov 2025