Emedo Destiny works as an Evergreen Editor at GameRant, a subsidiary of Valnet Inc. He specializes in creating content for GameRant, with a focus on the entertainment industry, particularly in the ...

Writing is a famously miserable profession, but Osamu Dazai stands out as one of the most despondent writers ever to live. That strain is everywhere in evidence in his work, but it is on special ...

One thing that’s never overtly addressed in the anime of Bungo Stray Dogs is the meaning behind the bandages worn by protagonist Osamu Dazai. Let’s take a look at the mange to work out the reasons for ...

GOSHOGAWARA, Aomori Prefecture--Apple growers created an apple wine similar to what is featured in "Tsugaru" by Osamu Dazai (1909-1948), considered one of Japan's foremost novelists of the 20th ...

Matthew Magnus Lundeen is a writer, critic, and aspiring cinephile trying way too hard and simultaneously not enough. He writes anime features for Game Rant when he isn't trying to write fiction.

Osamu Dazai is one of the most beloved characters from the smash-hit series Bungo Stray Dogs. The anime centers around members of the Armed Detective Agency, of which Dazai is one, as they try to ...

There are books that you pick up, and then there are books that pick you apart. No Longer Human is the kind that opens you up in places you didn’t know were tender. This is my first pick of 2026, and ...

In the northernmost reaches of Honshu, Japan’s largest island, lies Tsugaru, an area isolated even from its neighbors in Aomori Prefecture, let alone the rest of Japan. As a celebrated author and son ...

Dazai was born into the fourth wealthiest family in Aomori, Dazai, who never felt true happiness while being raised on material wealth, gradually began to think that true happiness lies in the heart ...

Major Japanese cultural figures often become subjects of films when big birth or death anniversaries roll around. The hero (far more rarely, the heroine) is usually portrayed as a sainted genius, ...