✰Ending Explained✰

Some people have had trouble grasping the ending of RWB, which I completely understand. You don't have to read this if you feel as though you'd prefer to keep it in your imagination.

Basically Chuuya died. If that wasn't already clear then that might be a you problem. 

Some of you seem to think he killed himself which would be a viable explanation but if you think back to the past few chapters before his death, Chuuya was struggling with abdominal and heart pain. The cause of this - internal bleeding in the chest. 

If you think back to his fight with Mori, he was kicked repeatedly in the chest, which caused much damage and internal bleeding.

Chuuya, being the person that he is, refused to reach out for help as he believed the people around him had done enough for him already. He felt like he was dying and he was.

This may seem impractical to the storyline but it stays synonymous with the character designs I planned out. Chuuya feels burdensome and useless and Dazai carries the guilt of his mistakes too heavily on his shoulders.

The idea of this ending was to show that two struggling boys managed to find a home in each other, and even though things ended tragically there was peace in their existence:- Dazai stopped selling drugs because of Chuuya- Chuuya learned to open up about his past to someone- Dazai learned to forgive himself for his mistakes- Chuuya was able to accept his foster parents as his new family

A happy ending would have contradicted the idea of harmony in tragedy that I have attempted to implement. The main moral is that despite calamity and years of built trauma the two were able to make peace with themselves and others. And that the effects their relationship had on the two lived far past the death of Chuuya.

You might think it was a sad ending but in truth, there are so many layers of cause and effect. The way I see it, Chuuya would have rather died than given up on Dazai. And Dazai needed Chuuya so much that it changed his life. 

Maybe next time don't blame the author for the ending and try and look at it from another angle.

- Jouno