You really have to be in your best emotional state while reading this book. As i was reading it i had to pause and stop reading and think about Yozo's situation. The book is amazing and as depressing as it gets like he said on the video, it's like reading a suicide note so if you're planning on reading be prepared. With all that, great video!! I was so immersed that I didn't even realize it was 25 mins long until you told that the video is getting long.
literally binged it as i was approaching my rock bottom☠☠ & i think that added to the experience because it opened up a whole new spectrum of emotion i was not able to foresee
I tried to kill myself once and when i did that i felt the urge to reference this book in my suicide note. I don't know why. You are right, if you are not feeling well you can be dragged down easely
“As long as I can make them laugh, it doesn’t matter how, I’ll be alright. If I succeed in that, the human beings won’t mind it too much if I remain outside their lives.” That’s got to be one of the bleakest takes, especially considering a lot of comedians are basically living that. People are shocked when a comedian says they have some sort of mental illness, but they explain that it’s nice to bring joy to someone because they don’t know that feeling. They’re just the funny man, those personal struggles are at arm’s length so it’s okay.
I agree with the book. It definitely feels like ur reading a long suicide note. It feels more real & grounded becuz it not only feels like we are in the character's mind but Osamu Dazai psychological state seeping out wanting to free himself from his depression.
I never understood why they translated it to No Longer Human. It didn't quite make as much sense to me as "disqualified as a human being". "No Longer Human" is more catchy but it has a very different meaning. To be "no longer" something implies that you once were that something. But I don't think Yozo ever did think of himself as human. He describes himself as an outsider from childhood so idk that's very different from being *disqualified* from being something. To be disqualified from something can mean you were trying to be something but were eliminated from achieving that or didn't meet the requirements to become it. Yozo perhaps yearned to be "human" at the beginning but after being admitted to a sanatorium, he realised that he was ruled out from ever being considered a human. He can't be no longer human if he never was, but he can be disqualified as a human being in his attempt to become one. Idk though - that's just my interpretation of it but it's been a long time since I've read the book so. On another note, I've read a lot of Japanese literature but this one just hit different for me and quickly rose up to be my favourite maybe even beating my favourite Murakami books. My copy is full of highlighting and dog-ears because I just couldn't not save some of the quotes for me to read over and over. My favourite one is "there are some people whose dread of human beings is so morbid that they reach a point where they yearn to see with their own eyes monsters of ever more horrible shapes". I know this isn't a particularly profound idea like some of the more well-known quotes from the novel. It doesn't really have much to do with the story and it's pretty simplistic. But this has stuck with me and I can recite it off by heart at this point. I think about the fact that some of us find comfort in fantasy and horror and all these terrible grotesque things and it just makes SENSE. There's something so poetic about that one sentence. Great video btw, it was summed up beautifully and well-explained and researched!
I agree with you, No Longer Human also got translated in my language, which is malay. And i think the title translation is spot on. ‘Gagal Menjadi Manusia’ literally means failed to be a human. As Oba tries so hard to be a human but result in failing to do so. But it’s just my personal opinion though hehe 👀
@@WindUpLirish I actually have enjoyed almost all of Murakami’s works, but the magical realism ones are my favourite (like Kafka, Wind Up Bird, Commendatore). I really hate how he writes women though so it’s always a mixed experience for me on that front. But his writing itself is just so beautiful and delicious.
It is quite simple: if you have never felt isolatiom you will never understand this. You can feel loneliness sometimes, but isolation is something else, it is like living in another world, like speaking another language that nobody can understand. You wake up in the night and you feel like you live in another dimension, known, but different; everyone you've known live there and you here.
I haven’t ever seen or related to a work of literature so much in my life it expresses my feeling and human experience exactly how I have been living it and how I can not relate and how I feel I am no longer human to, it’s so powerful and painful to know that other out there living are also suffering such as I am.
No Longer Human is one of my favorite books of all time too! It reminds me a lot of The Catcher in the Rye, Oba's bleak look on life and how depressing the tone is. It's a masterpiece that hit me really hard but was nothing short of transcendent. Great analysis!
This video put all my idés into words. And could really relate to the quote "I easily fit in but I'm unable to feel like I belong". That shit really hit hard
I just finished the book and it reminds me a lot of existential novels like Dostoyevsky's Notes from Underground or The Stranger by Camus. The difference I saw it it though was how much more grounded it is than either. I think it's a common thread in Japanese literature to have these heartbreaking character narrations inlayed into the prose.
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Hey dude, thank you for the support. I'm honestly happy with the size of my channel, I don't really care about subs so the only reason I'd stop making videos is if I didn't enjoy it anymore, no worries
Your personal feeling about how you relate to the book at the end really resonated with me because k relate a lot to the book and how you also feel. It’s refreshing my to know that I’m not the only one feeling/living that way
I can't wait to read this book, then come back and watch the spoiler part. Probably going to take some time because I don't want to read it online or that sort. I want to hold the book in my hands, makes it more real.
Just finished reading the Junji Ito manga, and I'll DEFINITELY be picking up the book now. I'd have read the book first but I mainly learned about it though collecting Junji Ito works. Extremely dark and depressing, but I honestly couldn't put it down until I finished it. I'd highly recommend it as well, but make sure you are in a good mindset before reading it.
So good! Great work, and sometimes it feels like it’s hard to find other people that don’t feel like people because it’s hard to post anything so honest without a throwaway account. Great video, loved how well thought out this was 🙌🏽
I'm not good at saying what I have in mind but I'll try my best. This book was a journey, I was so immersed in it, I felt disgusted, sad and sank into despair. I couldn't help but think of how would his life could've been different if he had made different choices, he wanted to make them but he was weak? I'm not sure to be honest. I don't understand human emotions really well so i was confused in some parts where I didn't know what the characters motives were but your video helped in explaining them slightly. Sorry for the long comment, great video as usual and it sound like you had a rough time making it XD. Looking forward to your next video
Just finished the book; I absolutely enjoyed it. There are many aspects of Oba that were incredibly relatable, which might be the reason why I wasn't affected so much by the heavy material. I think readers can have different takeaways from reading the experiences of Oba. You can accept that you've finally found another lost soul who you deeply connect with (as I did), and thus do as Oba did (which I will try not to). You can find him repulsive or weird. Or you can find him deep down someone who's trying his best but inevitably gets in his own way. While he is a victim of circumstance, there were many opportunities for a better life he could've taken, but he failed to see it, and ultimately fell back to his old ways.
This video was made two years ago, and Idk you that well (not like ik any other youtuber that well) but I hope you’re living a good life, hopefully finding your means to feel more human. Cant say we’ve all been there but I’ve been there at one point, keep up the good work man :)
It’d be nearly impossible to find another book as special and unique as no longer human but I recommend other works of Dazai such as the setting sun or murakami’s works such as colorless tsukuru tazaki
Always planned to read it. Thanks for dividing it into a spoiler and spoiler-free sections I will check out the anime too. I indeed didn’t know it existed and the clips look really good Wow the manga also looks amazing. Might even buy it instead of just reading it online Yeah forget about that book haha I might read if after the manga and anime
Thank you thank you thank you so so much for this video, you have no idea how happy I am that I got to see your video. I saw the book in tiktok and i saw people saying how good it was so I started reading it, but I wasn’t really understanding what was happening in it, I often found myself confused on what was happening, yes I got the plot and what he was trying to say in some parts, but I wasn’t fully understanding it, for example I didn’t know he was abused by the servants, idk if it’s bc English isn’t my first language but as someone who doesn’t really read often in English, it was kinda hard to read, also probably bc I went straight into the book without having any knowledge n it. Anyways I found this video really helpful it explained so many things and in so much detail, and now with the basic knowledge on the book, plus this video, I can understand more into what was happening on the book. Thank you I will surely read and watch the other adaptations.
i relate to this book a lot, except for the clowning part. i’m an outcast at school and barely say 5 words per day. so (due to not having any friends to sit with) i typically read this book during lunch break. i’m almost done with it!
Man, you really put in words some of the things I feel everyday but I couldn't express it in words, it has been a har couple years for me, and more because I couldn't talk to anyone because I just didn't know how to explain myself. There where some days that I thought I was exaggerating, you know, reading and watching many depressive Anime and manga can put some ideas in your head that weren't there before, I don't even know what I'm trying to say with this comment, but nice video ¿?
I recommend the Junji Ito adaptation too. I think he captured the essence of the story so well and the art is some of my favorite of his. Thanks for this video and great job on putting all this information together, nice work!
This is actually something i struggle with a lot. I dont belong, i dont fit, half the time when i know i should feel something; i just dont and a lot of the time nothing feels real. Ive been getting help but i havent really brought this specific problem up bc i thought itd go away but its not
Thank you! I have being making a mistake for years in thinking the ANIME is a spin-off Death Note as the art is sooo exact Death Note...so I never watched it. Now even the wikipedia lists all 6 short stories that are used to creat the anime. Also Kokoro is in there. I really should do research and not make assumptions.
Holy shit this channel is extremely underrated. This video was so well put together! I hope you come back and start uploading videos similar to this, I know you would blow up
Great analysis. I want to ask though are there any books similar to No Longer Human? Dazai killing himself and this semi autobiographical book of his really make me feel as though I'm reading a suicide letter. Any more such books with a similar vibe?
Although not a semi-autobiographical novel, you could try The Demon by Hubert Selby Jr. His most famous world is requiem for a dream, is also somewhat similar to no longer human.
"I'm alive and you are dead" from Emmanuel Carrere. It's a semi-biographical novel about the life of Philip K. Dick, one of the most influential scifi novelist ever. Sadly, the dude suffered from schizofrenia, psychosis, anxiety, meth abuse, depression etc etc For his whole life he tried to answers the question "what is human?" and what God really is, if by any chance he actually exists and what kind of entity he might be, trying to find an explanation to his symptons, his psychosis, his sufference. Also, almost any PKD novel has the same bleak and dark tones i just described. You might also like (even if it's not a biography) Oyasumi Punpun by Ino Asano, Aku no Hana by Shuzu Oshimi and Homunculus by Hideo Yamamoto
The parr where you share your experience, I think a lot of us go through stages of that, I have great social skills and I always seem to fit with, say things I want to say, put my point forth. But its the deeper connections that I honestly lack. Sometimes I wonder if I am even capable of strong emotions like Love and longing, I will always say the right words do the right things but I am still not sure if I felt them
If it's the Junji Itou one yeah, go for it it's great. If it's the Usamaru Furuya one, I don't think it's as great of an adaptation but it's still better than nothing. Either way you definitely should give it a shot if you're interested.
@@jiffy1553 Just telling you again if you haven't read my comment above but just give a little try to Furuya's version. It's pretty small, less than about 15 chapters and you really won't regret dude. Junji version is the inferior.
The double sxxcide part in the anime was a total dud, I agree. They could've easily have them both plunge into the ocean with their hands held or some cinematic romantic stuff but no, they just turned it into a straight up murder LOL
In your mental health video you said that we can chat with you if we feel we need I am really struggling at the moment i mean i always did but for the last few days it's really worst i decided to seek for help today but i cant find it So maybe talking to you would help
You keeping showing clips of a sort of more cartoonish anime with a dude wearing glasses with black hair I’ve seen it before but I forgot the name can someone please tell me
I read No Longer Human in a graphic novel. It was the best thing ive read in a while. Can someone help me? I am looking for similar graphic novels. Thanks!
Ok. All are understandable but my friend, he's not a spoiled brat. He's a depressed person who had the luck of having a pretty face and a rich family. If he didn't, you wouldn't have ever heard of him, like millions of depressed people. You can't snap out of it like you can't snap out of having a cold or a broken leg. And those would be better, you'd have a cure. This has no cure. The real one, not the 'oh, I've been sad lately' which is situational depression which has nothing to do with a lifetime, since I was 4 years old depression. You keep saying horrible things that happened to him. Besides the fact that he didn't have a job, he has done nothing wrong but lived as the miserable person whom he was. And I am happy you think relationships are what define the humanity of people but he has social anxiety, no matter how much he'd love someone, the outside would only show cracks of affection and he'd run the moment people get too close 'cause he's traumatized. Anyway, I am sorry. I am not trying to be mean, the whole: he smooched off the people around him just pissed me off as you talked about his horrible life, you went like: hm..he should get his s;t together.
I just read this book and I am conflicted about what to feel about it It started with me relating with the character, but then I start to absolutely hate him, I am appalled with the way he thinks about people, especially women. But as we proceed I start pitying him even when he fails to stop his wife from being raped/having sex ( I honestly cannot figure out if she was raped or Yozo thought she was raped). But then comes the epilogue, where for the first time I see the world outside of his head and I realize that people around him genuinely liked him to a certain extent to keep coming back and not abandon him. So he was no longer human in his head, but for others he was probably a very very flawed but still a human for others.
For a normal person this book is depressing. For people like Dazai it's just normal. There are a bunch of them around the world and no one would ever care for them until they end themselves. For some no one would care about them even after that. Think about it while you praise and lament so hard about Osamu. You might be an hypocrite if you don't do anything for the ones living like him right now, and perhaps, near you...
I used to be extremely depressed up until a few months ago, but I realized that there is no truth when it comes to emotional value. His perspective isn't the right/true perspective. He could have just laughed it all of, he could have stopped taking it so seriously. Once you realize that and are strong enough to carry the burden that comes with true freedom, the freedom to choose how you want to view the events in your life that you cannot control, you will not only feel better, you also have the knowledge to save other people.
I'm not sure how you do it but... The feeling of not belonging anywhere comes whenever I'm almost stable... Things like friends just communicating when they need help... Whenever I see a good video I send them but they don't even open them... Whenever I ask for help they don't do anything... When they need something they will ask, "How are you?" I'll say "I'm depressed right now... And you?" They'll reply "Ohhh... Actually, I'm having a hard time with consolidating the petty cash at work. Will you help?" These types of friends are basically a common occurrence in my life... I need to feel belong... I want to feel belong... But... whenever I try... I'll just get betrayed... I'll just numb myself and make jokes on myself but... It just makes me feel not human... Whenever I'm breaking down, which is most of the time I talk to people, I'll place a facade (knowing that they will just say "Don't overreact" or "Just get over it") like I'm happy... If you know how to just laugh it off, please teach me... Since, even though I'll laugh it off, they will just remind me that I don't belong... If I cut off all those who are using me, it would me most of the people I know... The only one who is not using me is placing me on a pedestal so I can't really be honest with them... I can say anything on my mind but... I just can't have anyone to lean on so... please teach me how to be on my own... But... won't that just make me not human?
@@hyuushiiyuki I'd be happy to help you. Let me start by telling you about my own life. I've been pretty much alone for the past few years (aside from my siblings and parents) and not because I couldn't find friends, but because I am tired of pretending to be someone I'm not just so people are comfortable enough to take advantage of me, which is exactly what most friends do. At first I felt weird, like there's something wrong with me. I felt like I'm not a normal human being, I had to lie about my life to normal human beings in order not to get cast out of 'society' and I felt extremely embarrassed and depressed, as if I were failing at the most important thing a human has in its life - all the expectations your particular society has of you. Over time, with a lot of reading and thinking, I realized that all these 'normal' humans are actually just lucky, blessed with ignorance about themselves and the people around them. The way these people live makes 'normal human life' quite undesirable. They're just a collection of masks, existing to conform to the sets of expectations different people have of them. Have you ever noticed how one and the same person acts completely different depending on who is around at the time? One of the things you need to realize is that it's not 'you against society'. Society is just a bunch of individuals playing their different roles with and for those around them. The amount of people that actually know you is very small, no matter who you are. You may feel a giant weight on your heart, as if all of 'society' is holding onto it, but that is simply not true. *Now to how you can learn to laugh it off:* First of all, you need to realize that there is no true or correct way to view any events that happen in your life. It is not necessary to despair in the face of adversity or hardships. It doesn't actually change ANYTHING but your own emotional state. Think about what life actually is. You come into this world and, no matter what you do, you will die. Will being dead feel any better if you have friends that use and mistreat you while you're still alive? No. Will the opinions that you yourself think other people have (which they don't, no one actually cares that much about anyone) of you matter in a hundred years? No. In a hundred years, no one we have ever met will matter and yet they all take their actions, their opinions and their hardships so seriously as if it would impact a never ending life. That in and of itself is funny. Most people worry about having enough friends, having a big house, a family, the normal life, but in the end we're all the same. Death is the ultimate equalizer. So, what will you choose to do? Do you want to waste your limited amount of time here in 'existence' despairing over everything, taking yourself and others and their insignificant opinions seriously or do you want to see life for what it is? If you wanna talk more about this, feel free to ask. I really hope this helps you.
@@HonorarySaiyan First of all, thank you for reading and replying. "it's not 'you against society'" is helping alot. Thank you. So, by laughing it of, meant not conforming to what society want and just do what you want? Hm... That is doable. The "do what I want" is it what I instinctively want? Or is it do what makes me feel peaceful? If it is via instinct, I love to see blood and people's reaction to it... So, I try my best to hide that part of myself. Killing people and escaping from authorities was what I instinctively wanted. I know I can't do it cuz of society so I went and choose a profession with a high death rate(If my parents are not here, I'd done the deed myself). I don't really want the profession since it is a bit boring but the ethical standard needed and the high death rate is good enough for me to prevent myself from doing the unthinkable... If it is to do what makes me peaceful, well, I feel pretty much calm whenever I'm alone and just do some crafting, sewing, drawing or writing. But, I can't do this as my main unless I get to save a lot... Well, I actually chose to do the profession route and preparing for the certification is making me feel anxious, I had tried to ask a friend to make me stable (like I wanted someone to talk to) but talking to them only made me worse. So, do you have anything you do when you are depressed or anxious that can be done alone? My parents can't help since they are still stressed with global stuff and I can't ask my siblings since they will just say I can do it... Well, for me life is a journey to death. Well, I, myself, hate what I instinctively want to do so I'd choose the peaceful one with the profession on the side to control my instinct... But, I really need a way to stop feeling anxious and depressed and stop I needing to cry on someone's shoulder.😅
@@hyuushiiyuki What I mean is that you shouldn't care about their opinions, but you should also be reasonable. Don't end up in a psych ward. What you think is 'normal' is not what you *must* strive for. It really is just a matter of perspective. Once you realize that everything us humans experience is viewed through our individual, biased lenses, you will be able to change your perspective. You can, if you want to, see life in a different light. You can focus on the negative or you can focus on the positive. For example, when you misplace your keys you can laugh about being clumsy or you can despair and hate yourself for f***ing something up again. The end result will be pretty much the same, but emotionally you're hurting yourself for no reason. In the same way you can laugh about people for being too shallow to accept you or you can tell yourself that everything is your fault, that there is something wrong with you. "*So, do you have anything you do when you are depressed or anxious that can be done alone?*" Well, what helps me the most is working out, spending time outside, especially in nature, working hard and listening to music that is on the same... 'wave-length' as my emotions. I also read quotes from my favorite philosophers (Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, Epictetus) to help me focus on something outside of my irrational emotions. I really recommend Epictetus, by the way. About the thing you instinctively want... I have similar thoughts. Everyone does. It is in our nature to want to hurt people who do us wrong. I wouldn't act on all of my instincts, though. What you should do is find something you want to live (or to die) for. Find a passion, a goal, a purpose. Let me try to explain it with the help of this quote: "He who has a why to live can bear almost any how." - Friedrich Nietzsche If you have something you want to live for, a purpose, no matter how small or unimportant it may seem, you will be at peace. But in order to really do that you must also realize that your purpose, whatever it is, IS the most valuable thing to yourself, especially because it comes from yourself, not from some higher power.
@@hyuushiiyuki By the way, another thing that really helps me is watching documentaries about animals. Seeing how animals live in the moment and only worry about what's going on in the present is very calming.
Its normal to feel beeter knowing that not you are mad alone, but that we live in a bad world. with mad i man that its way easier to have context f people smetimes just being weird, when knowing, the world its weird, it happens. Thats ok. Alo giving fears a face, alway help, thats why horrormedia is popular. And actually healthy. An like satre says, live with thr adsurdity of the world and make your own meaning instead questioning yourself from societial pressure. Maybe?! Becaau th best people, often doubt themsel tooand way too hard on themselves. and, maybe jozu is a projection of that :( Alo its , like ther are stil stigma about mental health , so the nolonger seen human, hits thre too, livig in a society in general, superficiality,
Genesis 1 26 Then God said, “Let us make human beings in our image, to be like us. They will reign over the fish in the sea, the birds in the sky, the livestock, all the wild animals on the earth, and the small animals that scurry along the ground.” 27 So God created human beings in his own image. In the image of God he created them; male and female he created them. 28 Then God blessed them and said, “Be fruitful and multiply. Fill the earth and govern it. Reign over the fish in the sea, the birds in the sky, and all the animals that scurry along the ground.” 29 Then God said, “Look! I have given you every seed-bearing plant throughout the earth and all the fruit trees for your food. 30 And I have given every green plant as food for all the wild animals, the birds in the sky, and the small animals that scurry along the ground-everything that has life.” And that is what happened. 31 Then God looked over all he had made, and he saw that it was very good! Philippians 4 4 Always be full of joy in the Lord. I say it again-rejoice! 5 Let everyone see that you are considerate in all you do. Remember, the Lord is coming soon. 6 Don’t worry about anything; instead, pray about everything. Tell God what you need, and thank him for all he has done. 7 Then you will experience God’s peace, which exceeds anything we can understand. His peace will guard your hearts and minds as you live in Christ Jesus. 8 And now, dear brothers and sisters, one final thing. Fix your thoughts on what is true, and honorable, and right, and pure, and lovely, and admirable. Think about things that are excellent and worthy of praise.
Idk I agree with what you’re saying for the most part but saying he was a spoiled brat who never got slapped in the face is like not really what happened throughout his life(unsure if this is a joke or not). He was a mentally ill person who was abused by others who in turn became an abuser himself. Despite living in a rich household as a child he was sexually abused as a child (this kind of abuse takes a lot away from a child mentally and heavily shapes how they view themselves and others) and unable to connect with his family, and suffered poverty throughout his adult life.
The abuse he inflicted on other was was not justifiable, but I don’t think it’s right to say it was because he was a spoiled brat who never knew punishment. People who only knew abuse and pain their whole lives often don’t know what a healthy relationship with other people looks like, and often (not always) end up in abusive relationships as either the abuser or abused.
Aoi bungaku also animated Kokoro but I didn't like the adaptation. Spiders web and by far sakura in full bloom are masterpieces in anime form. By that i mean they were enjoyable to watch but you won't get anything really from watching them. You really should read them but tbh they'll ruin you. So don't read them. While on the case. Don't read novels at all. Burn them or exile yourself to Alaska. But if you must read them meh. Its really surprising who many of light novel authors draw on these guys to make reflection pieces modern reworking with moe undertones and such. So read the Moe undertone versions first ?
i didnt like junji's adaptation as much as the novel and the uramasu adaptation, the biggest problem was ofc the characters, especially yozo, the whole point of the adaptation is making him a bad person doing horrible things for some reasons of losing humanity, which is never the case, yozo since the start was always not qualified to be human,his clowning in the manga was just in the perspective of others than himself, he never cheated on yoshiko, he never burned down the pharmacy, he never pushed his first love in the ocean he just survived by chance, the sex part is a bit too glorified in the adaptation which i didnt seem to like, his addition of wanting to draw a ghost was good and i liked his conversation with horiki about crimes vs hero,but the turning point of yoshiko just eliminated the effect of that shock he had when she got raped, it was at this point where he lost himself in the process, his health deterioring and yoshiko never died,her main characterisation is trust so her not trusting him cause of his out of character doing really eleminated some points of the novel, i love horror especially junji ito's works, but i feel like his characterisations are pretty weak
Romans 8 So now there is no condemnation for those who belong to Christ Jesus. 2 And because you belong to him, the power of the life-giving Spirit has freed you from the power of sin that leads to death. Romans 14 7 For we don’t live for ourselves or die for ourselves. 8 If we live, it’s to honor the Lord. And if we die, it’s to honor the Lord. So whether we live or die, we belong to the Lord. 9 Christ died and rose again for this very purpose-to be Lord both of the living and of the dead. 2 Corinthians 5 14 Either way, Christ’s love controls us. Since we believe that Christ died for all, we also believe that we have all died to our old life. 15 He died for everyone so that those who receive his new life will no longer live for themselves. Instead, they will live for Christ, who died and was raised for them. 16 So we have stopped evaluating others from a human point of view. At one time we thought of Christ merely from a human point of view. How differently we know him now! 17 This means that anyone who belongs to Christ has become a new person. The old life is gone; a new life has begun! Galatians 5 19 When you follow the desires of your sinful nature, the results are very clear: sexual immorality, impurity, lustful pleasures, 20 idolatry, sorcery, hostility, quarreling, jealousy, outbursts of anger, selfish ambition, dissension, division, 21 envy, drunkenness, wild parties, and other sins like these. Let me tell you again, as I have before, that anyone living that sort of life will not inherit the Kingdom of God. 22 But the Holy Spirit produces this kind of fruit in our lives: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness, and self-control. There is no law against these things! 24 Those who belong to Christ Jesus have nailed the passions and desires of their sinful nature to his cross and crucified them there. Hebrews 3 And so, dear brothers and sisters who belong to God and are partners with those called to heaven, think carefully about this Jesus whom we declare to be God’s messenger and High Priest.
You really have to be in your best emotional state while reading this book. As i was reading it i had to pause and stop reading and think about Yozo's situation. The book is amazing and as depressing as it gets like he said on the video, it's like reading a suicide note so if you're planning on reading be prepared. With all that, great video!! I was so immersed that I didn't even realize it was 25 mins long until you told that the video is getting long.
I literally can't read sad stories anymore due to whenever I read it after I just become very very sad
literally binged it as i was approaching my rock bottom☠☠ & i think that added to the experience because it opened up a whole new spectrum of emotion i was not able to foresee
I tried to kill myself once and when i did that i felt the urge to reference this book in my suicide note. I don't know why. You are right, if you are not feeling well you can be dragged down easely
no not really (for me) it's interesting.
@@roopram That is exactly my worry when it comes to this book...
“As long as I can make them laugh, it doesn’t matter how, I’ll be alright. If I succeed in that, the human beings won’t mind it too much if I remain outside their lives.”
That’s got to be one of the bleakest takes, especially considering a lot of comedians are basically living that. People are shocked when a comedian says they have some sort of mental illness, but they explain that it’s nice to bring joy to someone because they don’t know that feeling. They’re just the funny man, those personal struggles are at arm’s length so it’s okay.
I agree with the book. It definitely feels like ur reading a long suicide note. It feels more real & grounded becuz it not only feels like we are in the character's mind but Osamu Dazai psychological state seeping out wanting to free himself from his depression.
But did he try watermelon
I never understood why they translated it to No Longer Human. It didn't quite make as much sense to me as "disqualified as a human being". "No Longer Human" is more catchy but it has a very different meaning. To be "no longer" something implies that you once were that something. But I don't think Yozo ever did think of himself as human. He describes himself as an outsider from childhood so idk that's very different from being *disqualified* from being something. To be disqualified from something can mean you were trying to be something but were eliminated from achieving that or didn't meet the requirements to become it. Yozo perhaps yearned to be "human" at the beginning but after being admitted to a sanatorium, he realised that he was ruled out from ever being considered a human. He can't be no longer human if he never was, but he can be disqualified as a human being in his attempt to become one. Idk though - that's just my interpretation of it but it's been a long time since I've read the book so.
On another note, I've read a lot of Japanese literature but this one just hit different for me and quickly rose up to be my favourite maybe even beating my favourite Murakami books. My copy is full of highlighting and dog-ears because I just couldn't not save some of the quotes for me to read over and over. My favourite one is "there are some people whose dread of human beings is so morbid that they reach a point where they yearn to see with their own eyes monsters of ever more horrible shapes". I know this isn't a particularly profound idea like some of the more well-known quotes from the novel. It doesn't really have much to do with the story and it's pretty simplistic. But this has stuck with me and I can recite it off by heart at this point. I think about the fact that some of us find comfort in fantasy and horror and all these terrible grotesque things and it just makes SENSE. There's something so poetic about that one sentence.
Great video btw, it was summed up beautifully and well-explained and researched!
I agree with you, No Longer Human also got translated in my language, which is malay. And i think the title translation is spot on. ‘Gagal Menjadi Manusia’ literally means failed to be a human. As Oba tries so hard to be a human but result in failing to do so. But it’s just my personal opinion though hehe 👀
what are your favourite Murakami by chance?
@@WindUpLirish I actually have enjoyed almost all of Murakami’s works, but the magical realism ones are my favourite (like Kafka, Wind Up Bird, Commendatore). I really hate how he writes women though so it’s always a mixed experience for me on that front. But his writing itself is just so beautiful and delicious.
As strange as it sounds this is almost like a Japanese Albert Camus but without the philiosphical acceptance and liberty that comes with it.
It is quite simple: if you have never felt isolatiom you will never understand this. You can feel loneliness sometimes, but isolation is something else, it is like living in another world, like speaking another language that nobody can understand. You wake up in the night and you feel like you live in another dimension, known, but different; everyone you've known live there and you here.
I haven’t ever seen or related to a work of literature so much in my life it expresses my feeling and human experience exactly how I have been living it and how I can not relate and how I feel I am no longer human to, it’s so powerful and painful to know that other out there living are also suffering such as I am.
I had the same experience, it was kind of relieving as sad as it sounds
I was surprised too when I read the beginning
But this book is so difficult to read and I paused so many times and really makes it difficult to finish
I feel the same…. Dazai explained perfectly well how i feel sometimes in a book. No longer human…
No Longer Human is one of my favorite books of all time too! It reminds me a lot of The Catcher in the Rye, Oba's bleak look on life and how depressing the tone is. It's a masterpiece that hit me really hard but was nothing short of transcendent. Great analysis!
"I easily am able to fit in but I don't feel like I belong." wow... thank you for that window into your soul. Thank you for making this video :)
This video put all my idés into words. And could really relate to the quote "I easily fit in but I'm unable to feel like I belong". That shit really hit hard
Literally just finished reading the book. After feeling depressed from closing the book, i watched your video and now i feel much better :)
Just found out my favorite anime youtuber has a video on my favorite book? Pogchamp
I just finished the book and it reminds me a lot of existential novels like Dostoyevsky's Notes from Underground or The Stranger by Camus. The difference I saw it it though was how much more grounded it is than either. I think it's a common thread in Japanese literature to have these heartbreaking character narrations inlayed into the prose.
bro please dont give up because of not having 10k or above views. and also, when someone starts getting dislikes, it means that ur viewers r having bigger varieties than beforee, so it isnt something bad. u just earned a new subscriber bro XD. just keep goin and doing ur job. eventually ull reach high enough to be recognised by everyone
Hey dude, thank you for the support. I'm honestly happy with the size of my channel, I don't really care about subs so the only reason I'd stop making videos is if I didn't enjoy it anymore, no worries
@@jiffy1553 if thats the case, I hope u keep makin sum cuz ur content is bangin!
Your personal feeling about how you relate to the book at the end really resonated with me because k relate a lot to the book and how you also feel. It’s refreshing my to know that I’m not the only one feeling/living that way
I just finished reading the book and wow, this video is incredible. Thank you so much for exerting the effort to make this!
Every time I think of Osamu Dazai-no longer human
Dazai from BSD comes up my mind
Omfg dude
Same
no way
Damn, you're really on point with everything. Very Underrated.
I can't wait to read this book, then come back and watch the spoiler part.
Probably going to take some time because I don't want to read it online or that sort. I want to hold the book in my hands, makes it more real.
Well written as always. Great message in between. Keep it up! Hyped for the next video!
Just finished reading the Junji Ito manga, and I'll DEFINITELY be picking up the book now. I'd have read the book first but I mainly learned about it though collecting Junji Ito works. Extremely dark and depressing, but I honestly couldn't put it down until I finished it. I'd highly recommend it as well, but make sure you are in a good mindset before reading it.
So good! Great work, and sometimes it feels like it’s hard to find other people that don’t feel like people because it’s hard to post anything so honest without a throwaway account. Great video, loved how well thought out this was 🙌🏽
Amazing video man!
Thank you Tobi !
I'm not good at saying what I have in mind but I'll try my best.
This book was a journey, I was so immersed in it, I felt disgusted, sad and sank into despair. I couldn't help but think of how would his life could've been different if he had made different choices, he wanted to make them but he was weak? I'm not sure to be honest. I don't understand human emotions really well so i was confused in some parts where I didn't know what the characters motives were but your video helped in explaining them slightly. Sorry for the long comment, great video as usual and it sound like you had a rough time making it XD. Looking forward to your next video
Just finished the book; I absolutely enjoyed it. There are many aspects of Oba that were incredibly relatable, which might be the reason why I wasn't affected so much by the heavy material. I think readers can have different takeaways from reading the experiences of Oba. You can accept that you've finally found another lost soul who you deeply connect with (as I did), and thus do as Oba did (which I will try not to). You can find him repulsive or weird. Or you can find him deep down someone who's trying his best but inevitably gets in his own way. While he is a victim of circumstance, there were many opportunities for a better life he could've taken, but he failed to see it, and ultimately fell back to his old ways.
This video was made two years ago, and Idk you that well (not like ik any other youtuber that well) but I hope you’re living a good life, hopefully finding your means to feel more human. Cant say we’ve all been there but I’ve been there at one point, keep up the good work man :)
Very good video like always(I`ve seen the No Longer Human Anime and really liked it!)
Thanks Nuel !
Anyone have any book suggestions that are similar to no longer human? I've never read a book which i've been able to relate to like this before.
It’d be nearly impossible to find another book as special and unique as no longer human but I recommend other works of Dazai such as the setting sun or murakami’s works such as colorless tsukuru tazaki
The stranger by albert camus is the only one ik that gave me a similar feeling
not a book, but a manga: goodnight punpun.
@@quise8499 Read that like a month after the stranger lol it's my mac background
@@henryovalle3544 i read it ~two-three months ago, one of the best experiences ever and i wouldn't even consider myself an avid manga reader
There's an anime series to this!!! What??? Lol. Cool. I read the novel & its graphic novel so cant wait to check this out.
Did you check it out?
dude you are awesome, sending much love from Bali x
Always planned to read it. Thanks for dividing it into a spoiler and spoiler-free sections
I will check out the anime too. I indeed didn’t know it existed and the clips look really good
Wow the manga also looks amazing. Might even buy it instead of just reading it online
Yeah forget about that book haha I might read if after the manga and anime
Have fun with the anime ! If you wanna read the manga you'll have to buy it yeah, it's not available online
I have a torrent of the manga if you don't wanna pay 300 dollars for it.
Thank you thank you thank you so so much for this video, you have no idea how happy I am that I got to see your video.
I saw the book in tiktok and i saw people saying how good it was so I started reading it, but I wasn’t really understanding what was happening in it, I often found myself confused on what was happening, yes I got the plot and what he was trying to say in some parts, but I wasn’t fully understanding it, for example I didn’t know he was abused by the servants, idk if it’s bc English isn’t my first language but as someone who doesn’t really read often in English, it was kinda hard to read, also probably bc I went straight into the book without having any knowledge n it.
Anyways I found this video really helpful it explained so many things and in so much detail, and now with the basic knowledge on the book, plus this video, I can understand more into what was happening on the book. Thank you
I will surely read and watch the other adaptations.
Its so odd to hear that Dazai idolized Akutagawa in real life lol
i relate to this book a lot, except for the clowning part. i’m an outcast at school and barely say 5 words per day. so (due to not having any friends to sit with) i typically read this book during lunch break. i’m almost done with it!
i read this book ages ago, and am rereading it again now. will come back to this vid when i finish
Still half way through the book and im enjoying it so far. this video will have to wait until im finished tho XD
Great Video my duder
I like your taste very much thanks to you I learn many good series
Man, you really put in words some of the things I feel everyday but I couldn't express it in words, it has been a har couple years for me, and more because I couldn't talk to anyone because I just didn't know how to explain myself. There where some days that I thought I was exaggerating, you know, reading and watching many depressive Anime and manga can put some ideas in your head that weren't there before, I don't even know what I'm trying to say with this comment, but nice video ¿?
I recommend the Junji Ito adaptation too. I think he captured the essence of the story so well and the art is some of my favorite of his. Thanks for this video and great job on putting all this information together, nice work!
This is actually something i struggle with a lot. I dont belong, i dont fit, half the time when i know i should feel something; i just dont and a lot of the time nothing feels real. Ive been getting help but i havent really brought this specific problem up bc i thought itd go away but its not
Thank you! I have being making a mistake for years in thinking the ANIME is a spin-off Death Note as the art is sooo exact Death Note...so I never watched it.
Now even the wikipedia lists all 6 short stories that are used to creat the anime. Also Kokoro is in there.
I really should do research and not make assumptions.
Holy shit this channel is extremely underrated. This video was so well put together! I hope you come back and start uploading videos similar to this, I know you would blow up
great video
Great analysis. I want to ask though are there any books similar to No Longer Human? Dazai killing himself and this semi autobiographical book of his really make me feel as though I'm reading a suicide letter. Any more such books with a similar vibe?
Although not a semi-autobiographical novel, you could try The Demon by Hubert Selby Jr. His most famous world is requiem for a dream, is also somewhat similar to no longer human.
"I'm alive and you are dead" from Emmanuel Carrere. It's a semi-biographical novel about the life of Philip K. Dick, one of the most influential scifi novelist ever. Sadly, the dude suffered from schizofrenia, psychosis, anxiety, meth abuse, depression etc etc
For his whole life he tried to answers the question "what is human?" and what God really is, if by any chance he actually exists and what kind of entity he might be, trying to find an explanation to his symptons, his psychosis, his sufference.
Also, almost any PKD novel has the same bleak and dark tones i just described. You might also like (even if it's not a biography) Oyasumi Punpun by Ino Asano, Aku no Hana by Shuzu Oshimi and Homunculus by Hideo Yamamoto
I love Osamu Dazai. My favorite japanese writer. I really enjoyed this video. Yes. Let’s all be more like human together….
The parr where you share your experience, I think a lot of us go through stages of that, I have great social skills and I always seem to fit with, say things I want to say, put my point forth. But its the deeper connections that I honestly lack. Sometimes I wonder if I am even capable of strong emotions like Love and longing, I will always say the right words do the right things but I am still not sure if I felt them
My library only has the Manga. I really want to read the novel, but in not available, so should I just read the manga?
If it's the Junji Itou one yeah, go for it it's great. If it's the Usamaru Furuya one, I don't think it's as great of an adaptation but it's still better than nothing. Either way you definitely should give it a shot if you're interested.
@@jiffy1553 actually Junji Ito's version is the inferior one.. must read Furuya's version.
@@jiffy1553 Just telling you again if you haven't read my comment above but just give a little try to Furuya's version. It's pretty small, less than about 15 chapters and you really won't regret dude. Junji version is the inferior.
have you read Kafka on The Shore ?
if yes, can you do video review about it ?
The double sxxcide part in the anime was a total dud, I agree. They could've easily have them both plunge into the ocean with their hands held or some cinematic romantic stuff but no, they just turned it into a straight up murder LOL
Heard this book from pewds , guess you did too ?
Kinda. As I've said in the video, I watched the Aoi Bungaku a long time ago and forgot about it, but yeah Pewds reignited my interest in it.
i havent read no longer human so im wondering if everything that happens in the story happened to the author himself?
yes it’s like an autobiography of himself or as some people call it a suicide note
It's a semi-autobiography of his life that he romanticized for the readers.
excellent vid
i look forward to watching this once i finish i just clicked on it because of punpun on the cover-art
Usamaru Furuya's manga adaptation is the best version in my opinion.
yeah it captured the characters essence more in his version than ito's imo
imagine finding BSD fans click on this video
(nice video btw!)
I really wants to read this manga but I can't find it
As I've said, it's not available online, you have to buy a physical copy.
Couldn't finish it. Hit waaaay to close to home.
In your mental health video you said that we can chat with you if we feel we need
I am really struggling at the moment i mean i always did but for the last few days it's really worst i decided to seek for help today but i cant find it
So maybe talking to you would help
Hey man, my DM's are open on twitter, feel free to message me there
hope you doin good
You keeping showing clips of a sort of more cartoonish anime with a dude wearing glasses with black hair I’ve seen it before but I forgot the name can someone please tell me
Tatami Galaxy
@@kleinalcantara6240 thanks dude absolute legend
Split into two part just like diavolo
I read No Longer Human in a graphic novel. It was the best thing ive read in a while. Can someone help me? I am looking for similar graphic novels. Thanks!
Ok. All are understandable but my friend, he's not a spoiled brat. He's a depressed person who had the luck of having a pretty face and a rich family. If he didn't, you wouldn't have ever heard of him, like millions of depressed people. You can't snap out of it like you can't snap out of having a cold or a broken leg. And those would be better, you'd have a cure. This has no cure. The real one, not the 'oh, I've been sad lately' which is situational depression which has nothing to do with a lifetime, since I was 4 years old depression. You keep saying horrible things that happened to him. Besides the fact that he didn't have a job, he has done nothing wrong but lived as the miserable person whom he was. And I am happy you think relationships are what define the humanity of people but he has social anxiety, no matter how much he'd love someone, the outside would only show cracks of affection and he'd run the moment people get too close 'cause he's traumatized. Anyway, I am sorry. I am not trying to be mean, the whole: he smooched off the people around him just pissed me off as you talked about his horrible life, you went like: hm..he should get his s;t together.
But his views on other people (ESPECIALLY women) was often terrible
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I just read this book and I am conflicted about what to feel about it It started with me relating with the character, but then I start to absolutely hate him, I am appalled with the way he thinks about people, especially women. But as we proceed I start pitying him even when he fails to stop his wife from being raped/having sex ( I honestly cannot figure out if she was raped or Yozo thought she was raped). But then comes the epilogue, where for the first time I see the world outside of his head and I realize that people around him genuinely liked him to a certain extent to keep coming back and not abandon him. So he was no longer human in his head, but for others he was probably a very very flawed but still a human for others.
I clicked the vidro because i saw pun pun on the thumbnail.
I only read it coz it was by 'osamu dazai' and its name was 'no longer human' (bsd reference) but it was DEEEP
For a normal person this book is depressing. For people like Dazai it's just normal. There are a bunch of them around the world and no one would ever care for them until they end themselves. For some no one would care about them even after that. Think about it while you praise and lament so hard about Osamu. You might be an hypocrite if you don't do anything for the ones living like him right now, and perhaps, near you...
I just watched the anime adaptation, and i thought it was amazing, it ends pretty abruptly though
Wendigoon talk about this books junji and dazai version
idk if I should read this or be happy lol
I used to be extremely depressed up until a few months ago, but I realized that there is no truth when it comes to emotional value. His perspective isn't the right/true perspective. He could have just laughed it all of, he could have stopped taking it so seriously. Once you realize that and are strong enough to carry the burden that comes with true freedom, the freedom to choose how you want to view the events in your life that you cannot control, you will not only feel better, you also have the knowledge to save other people.
I'm not sure how you do it but...
The feeling of not belonging anywhere comes whenever I'm almost stable... Things like friends just communicating when they need help... Whenever I see a good video I send them but they don't even open them... Whenever I ask for help they don't do anything... When they need something they will ask, "How are you?" I'll say "I'm depressed right now... And you?" They'll reply "Ohhh... Actually, I'm having a hard time with consolidating the petty cash at work. Will you help?" These types of friends are basically a common occurrence in my life...
I need to feel belong... I want to feel belong... But... whenever I try... I'll just get betrayed...
I'll just numb myself and make jokes on myself but... It just makes me feel not human...
Whenever I'm breaking down, which is most of the time I talk to people, I'll place a facade (knowing that they will just say "Don't overreact" or "Just get over it") like I'm happy...
If you know how to just laugh it off, please teach me... Since, even though I'll laugh it off, they will just remind me that I don't belong... If I cut off all those who are using me, it would me most of the people I know... The only one who is not using me is placing me on a pedestal so I can't really be honest with them...
I can say anything on my mind but... I just can't have anyone to lean on so... please teach me how to be on my own... But... won't that just make me not human?
@@hyuushiiyuki I'd be happy to help you.
Let me start by telling you about my own life. I've been pretty much alone for the past few years (aside from my siblings and parents) and not because I couldn't find friends, but because I am tired of pretending to be someone I'm not just so people are comfortable enough to take advantage of me, which is exactly what most friends do.
At first I felt weird, like there's something wrong with me. I felt like I'm not a normal human being, I had to lie about my life to normal human beings in order not to get cast out of 'society' and I felt extremely embarrassed and depressed, as if I were failing at the most important thing a human has in its life - all the expectations your particular society has of you.
Over time, with a lot of reading and thinking, I realized that all these 'normal' humans are actually just lucky, blessed with ignorance about themselves and the people around them. The way these people live makes 'normal human life' quite undesirable. They're just a collection of masks, existing to conform to the sets of expectations different people have of them. Have you ever noticed how one and the same person acts completely different depending on who is around at the time?
One of the things you need to realize is that it's not 'you against society'. Society is just a bunch of individuals playing their different roles with and for those around them. The amount of people that actually know you is very small, no matter who you are. You may feel a giant weight on your heart, as if all of 'society' is holding onto it, but that is simply not true.
*Now to how you can learn to laugh it off:*
First of all, you need to realize that there is no true or correct way to view any events that happen in your life. It is not necessary to despair in the face of adversity or hardships. It doesn't actually change ANYTHING but your own emotional state.
Think about what life actually is. You come into this world and, no matter what you do, you will die. Will being dead feel any better if you have friends that use and mistreat you while you're still alive? No. Will the opinions that you yourself think other people have (which they don't, no one actually cares that much about anyone) of you matter in a hundred years? No. In a hundred years, no one we have ever met will matter and yet they all take their actions, their opinions and their hardships so seriously as if it would impact a never ending life. That in and of itself is funny. Most people worry about having enough friends, having a big house, a family, the normal life, but in the end we're all the same. Death is the ultimate equalizer.
So, what will you choose to do? Do you want to waste your limited amount of time here in 'existence' despairing over everything, taking yourself and others and their insignificant opinions seriously or do you want to see life for what it is?
If you wanna talk more about this, feel free to ask. I really hope this helps you.
@@HonorarySaiyan First of all, thank you for reading and replying.
"it's not 'you against society'" is helping alot. Thank you.
So, by laughing it of, meant not conforming to what society want and just do what you want?
Hm... That is doable.
The "do what I want" is it what I instinctively want? Or is it do what makes me feel peaceful?
If it is via instinct, I love to see blood and people's reaction to it... So, I try my best to hide that part of myself. Killing people and escaping from authorities was what I instinctively wanted. I know I can't do it cuz of society so I went and choose a profession with a high death rate(If my parents are not here, I'd done the deed myself). I don't really want the profession since it is a bit boring but the ethical standard needed and the high death rate is good enough for me to prevent myself from doing the unthinkable...
If it is to do what makes me peaceful, well, I feel pretty much calm whenever I'm alone and just do some crafting, sewing, drawing or writing. But, I can't do this as my main unless I get to save a lot...
Well, I actually chose to do the profession route and preparing for the certification is making me feel anxious, I had tried to ask a friend to make me stable (like I wanted someone to talk to) but talking to them only made me worse. So, do you have anything you do when you are depressed or anxious that can be done alone?
My parents can't help since they are still stressed with global stuff and I can't ask my siblings since they will just say I can do it...
Well, for me life is a journey to death. Well, I, myself, hate what I instinctively want to do so I'd choose the peaceful one with the profession on the side to control my instinct... But, I really need a way to stop feeling anxious and depressed and stop I needing to cry on someone's shoulder.😅
@@hyuushiiyuki What I mean is that you shouldn't care about their opinions, but you should also be reasonable. Don't end up in a psych ward. What you think is 'normal' is not what you *must* strive for.
It really is just a matter of perspective. Once you realize that everything us humans experience is viewed through our individual, biased lenses, you will be able to change your perspective. You can, if you want to, see life in a different light. You can focus on the negative or you can focus on the positive. For example, when you misplace your keys you can laugh about being clumsy or you can despair and hate yourself for f***ing something up again. The end result will be pretty much the same, but emotionally you're hurting yourself for no reason. In the same way you can laugh about people for being too shallow to accept you or you can tell yourself that everything is your fault, that there is something wrong with you.
"*So, do you have anything you do when you are depressed or anxious that can be done alone?*"
Well, what helps me the most is working out, spending time outside, especially in nature, working hard and listening to music that is on the same... 'wave-length' as my emotions. I also read quotes from my favorite philosophers (Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, Epictetus) to help me focus on something outside of my irrational emotions. I really recommend Epictetus, by the way.
About the thing you instinctively want... I have similar thoughts. Everyone does. It is in our nature to want to hurt people who do us wrong. I wouldn't act on all of my instincts, though. What you should do is find something you want to live (or to die) for. Find a passion, a goal, a purpose.
Let me try to explain it with the help of this quote:
"He who has a why to live can bear almost any how." - Friedrich Nietzsche
If you have something you want to live for, a purpose, no matter how small or unimportant it may seem, you will be at peace. But in order to really do that you must also realize that your purpose, whatever it is, IS the most valuable thing to yourself, especially because it comes from yourself, not from some higher power.
@@hyuushiiyuki By the way, another thing that really helps me is watching documentaries about animals. Seeing how animals live in the moment and only worry about what's going on in the present is very calming.
Are you french?
Its normal to feel beeter knowing that not you are mad alone, but that we live in a bad world.
with mad i man that its way easier to have context f people smetimes just being weird, when knowing, the world its weird, it happens. Thats ok.
Alo giving fears a face, alway help, thats why horrormedia is popular. And actually healthy.
An like satre says, live with thr adsurdity of the world and make your own meaning instead questioning yourself from societial pressure. Maybe?! Becaau th best people, often doubt themsel tooand way too hard on themselves. and, maybe jozu is a projection of that :(
Alo its , like ther are stil stigma about mental health , so the nolonger seen human, hits thre too, livig in a society in general, superficiality,
Genesis 1
26 Then God said, “Let us make human beings in our image, to be like us. They will reign over the fish in the sea, the birds in the sky, the livestock, all the wild animals on the earth, and the small animals that scurry along the ground.”
27 So God created human beings in his own image.
In the image of God he created them;
male and female he created them.
28 Then God blessed them and said, “Be fruitful and multiply. Fill the earth and govern it. Reign over the fish in the sea, the birds in the sky, and all the animals that scurry along the ground.”
29 Then God said, “Look! I have given you every seed-bearing plant throughout the earth and all the fruit trees for your food.
30 And I have given every green plant as food for all the wild animals, the birds in the sky, and the small animals that scurry along the ground-everything that has life.” And that is what happened.
31 Then God looked over all he had made, and he saw that it was very good!
Philippians 4
4 Always be full of joy in the Lord. I say it again-rejoice!
5 Let everyone see that you are considerate in all you do. Remember, the Lord is coming soon.
6 Don’t worry about anything; instead, pray about everything. Tell God what you need, and thank him for all he has done.
7 Then you will experience God’s peace, which exceeds anything we can understand. His peace will guard your hearts and minds as you live in Christ Jesus.
8 And now, dear brothers and sisters, one final thing. Fix your thoughts on what is true, and honorable, and right, and pure, and lovely, and admirable. Think about things that are excellent and worthy of praise.
Idk I agree with what you’re saying for the most part but saying he was a spoiled brat who never got slapped in the face is like not really what happened throughout his life(unsure if this is a joke or not). He was a mentally ill person who was abused by others who in turn became an abuser himself. Despite living in a rich household as a child he was sexually abused as a child (this kind of abuse takes a lot away from a child mentally and heavily shapes how they view themselves and others) and unable to connect with his family, and suffered poverty throughout his adult life.
The abuse he inflicted on other was was not justifiable, but I don’t think it’s right to say it was because he was a spoiled brat who never knew punishment. People who only knew abuse and pain their whole lives often don’t know what a healthy relationship with other people looks like, and often (not always) end up in abusive relationships as either the abuser or abused.
Amazing video,sadly you got so little views
Aoi bungaku also animated Kokoro but I didn't like the adaptation. Spiders web and by far sakura in full bloom are masterpieces in anime form. By that i mean they were enjoyable to watch but you won't get anything really from watching them. You really should read them but tbh they'll ruin you. So don't read them.
While on the case. Don't read novels at all. Burn them or exile yourself to Alaska. But if you must read them meh. Its really surprising who many of light novel authors draw on these guys to make reflection pieces modern reworking with moe undertones and such. So read the Moe undertone versions first ?
It's a very cathartic book and the way it's written is very easy to read. It's not a sad book because of the way it was written
SPOILER
It was such a beautiful surprise when Shizuko bought him a small white rabbit instead of a toad.
hes just like me fr
i didnt like junji's adaptation as much as the novel and the uramasu adaptation, the biggest problem was ofc the characters, especially yozo, the whole point of the adaptation is making him a bad person doing horrible things for some reasons of losing humanity, which is never the case, yozo since the start was always not qualified to be human,his clowning in the manga was just in the perspective of others than himself, he never cheated on yoshiko, he never burned down the pharmacy, he never pushed his first love in the ocean he just survived by chance, the sex part is a bit too glorified in the adaptation which i didnt seem to like, his addition of wanting to draw a ghost was good and i liked his conversation with horiki about crimes vs hero,but the turning point of yoshiko just eliminated the effect of that shock he had when she got raped, it was at this point where he lost himself in the process, his health deterioring and yoshiko never died,her main characterisation is trust so her not trusting him cause of his out of character doing really eleminated some points of the novel, i love horror especially junji ito's works, but i feel like his characterisations are pretty weak
great analysis tho there is a much better manga adaptation of the novel from Furuya Usamaru
Pun pun?
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why does the thumbnail look like a teen illumi LMAO
its punpun from oyasumi punpun
you sound like mr. lowlander
quick question yall was it horiki who raped yozo's wife or a casual acquaintance?
From what I understood, it was a casual acquaintance, Hiroki just found them and called Yozo
favorite book? bro tf
Romans 8
So now there is no condemnation for those who belong to Christ Jesus.
2 And because you belong to him, the power of the life-giving Spirit has freed you from the power of sin that leads to death.
Romans 14
7 For we don’t live for ourselves or die for ourselves.
8 If we live, it’s to honor the Lord. And if we die, it’s to honor the Lord. So whether we live or die, we belong to the Lord.
9 Christ died and rose again for this very purpose-to be Lord both of the living and of the dead.
2 Corinthians 5
14 Either way, Christ’s love controls us. Since we believe that Christ died for all, we also believe that we have all died to our old life.
15 He died for everyone so that those who receive his new life will no longer live for themselves. Instead, they will live for Christ, who died and was raised for them.
16 So we have stopped evaluating others from a human point of view. At one time we thought of Christ merely from a human point of view. How differently we know him now!
17 This means that anyone who belongs to Christ has become a new person. The old life is gone; a new life has begun!
Galatians 5
19 When you follow the desires of your sinful nature, the results are very clear: sexual immorality, impurity, lustful pleasures,
20 idolatry, sorcery, hostility, quarreling, jealousy, outbursts of anger, selfish ambition, dissension, division,
21 envy, drunkenness, wild parties, and other sins like these. Let me tell you again, as I have before, that anyone living that sort of life will not inherit the Kingdom of God.
22 But the Holy Spirit produces this kind of fruit in our lives: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
23 gentleness, and self-control. There is no law against these things!
24 Those who belong to Christ Jesus have nailed the passions and desires of their sinful nature to his cross and crucified them there.
Hebrews 3
And so, dear brothers and sisters who belong to God and are partners with those called to heaven, think carefully about this Jesus whom we declare to be God’s messenger and High Priest.
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Why the Bible quotes? With no context this isn’t exactly very good evangelization. Would you like to explain how it relates to the video?
Call me a disgrace, but I listened the audio book, I am very short on time, so please forgive my sin.
That's punpun in the thumbnail