The path that led me to reading Dazai Osamu’s No Longer Human was paved by anime. My pandemic-fueled internet immersion led me to an anime called Bungou Stray Dogs (Literary Stray Dogs), which re-imagines famous Japanese writers as seinen characters whose powers and personalities derive from the writers’ works and lives. It’s tremendously popular in Japan, Russia, and Brazil, but less so in the Anglophonic world. The second season introduces American writers, and is unsurprisingly the best-loved by the American audience. For me, it’s […]