This finale was underwhelming (Season 5 Bungou Stray Dogs w/ SPOILERS) 

Timestamps: 00:00 - 1:31 the buildup before the finale (for me) 😳 1:31 - 10:51 recap of finale 🤨🗡⚡ 10:54 - 13:01 my mixed feelings 😬🤔🙃 13:01 - 15:37 what i liked in the finale (quick list format) ☺ 15:38 - 19:14 Issue 1 - where are the stakes??? ⁉☠ 19:14 - 22:46 Issue 2 - The big "twist" (Fukuchi was meh) 🙄😐 22:46 - 29:56 Issue 3 - Soukoku flopped (i'm sorry i had to say it) 😶😫😒 29:56 - 31:13 Issue 4 - Shin Soukoku (the plot that was left behind) 🐯🦇 31:13 - 39:00 Issue 5 - Dazai's Development 🤔(i go over each side of the argument; i'm on the fence for this one!) 39:00 - 40:31 Issue 6 - Fyodor is dead 💀 (this is only a problem if he's dead dead lmao) 40:31 - 44:07 Questions I have after the finale!! (me being confused about the page) 🤔⁉ 44:07 -46:15 Conclusion and outro 🙏🙋‍♀👋 Note: These are my thoughts on the ANIME ONLY (the manga chapters about what occurs had not come out yet at the time i was working on this video; so yea more info comes out in the manga that is missed in the anime version! I'm only talking about the anime for this video!!!)

I think Asagiri has already made the next few arcs, he's just releasing them monthly because he's a sadist.

Not sure if you're a manga reader, but shit has gotten inSANE since Season 5 Finale... Those who are now questioning if they should watch it, *watch it* because I can promise you it'll be worth your time. There's a lot more to the finale and it doesn't end as easy as you'd think.

one thing, we don't know if dazai and chuuya actually left sigma in mersault... we don't see them leaving at all so they could've gone back to get him before heading back to yokohama

Liked the video a lot and agree with all your takes, but...i just don't care about stakes in BSD, i just want all of them to get Ls, I don't want any of them to die, i love them all, seeing them win is my dopamine hit. I was in kind of a dark place when this episode aired and it just broke me, even though i saw some of the same flaws you pointed out i just cried and cried lol, so for me, the emotional punch of the series was definitely present in the finale. Hard agree that Atsushi needs a wardrobe change

I definitely wanted dazais plan to not work at least this one time... everything always works so the stakes are never as high as they should be asagiri needs to stop with the death baits because it's getting ridiculous at this point

I definitely agree with the criticism you brought up. I genuinely love BSD to bits, but it definitely has its issues, that of which been most prevalent in season 5. My biggest gripes being the constant fake outs and, like you said, a lack of stakes. (They probably got stabbed into Bram) I get using a fake death here and there , but it’s gotten ridiculous at this point. Even when I first watched the finale I told myself that there’s no way fyodor was dead. Here’s hope for the next arc to have consequences from the events of this season. Edit: you’re idea for Dazais alternate death was also what I thought would have happened. (Obviously I don’t want him to die) it would’ve worked so well and would’ve given Chuuya something to do and provided interesting dynamics with Sigma, Nikolai, and Fyodor.

i really want to know whats going on w fyodor. i genuinely dont understand him like wtf is his ability?? i think he can control when he activates his ability because im pretty sure he touched nikolai while they were in mersault (when nikolai grabbed fyodors hand and was like i missed u bestie!!) and what if fyodors ability isnt just to kill others with one touch, what if its to like drain others life force and add it to his own?? 😭😭😭 that would explain why he NEVER AGES and could maybe explain fyodor’s potential revival. idk but i cant wait for the manga chapters next month because i need to know what is going on!!

Yeah Fyodor can’t die at least for now he can’t