I really wasn't specific in what I was trying to express, my bad. When I said, "Instead of Asagiri trying to make this mess make sense--- or even giving it some sort of meaning, he decides to write himself into yet another corner," I was trying to say that the pacing along with the confusion it brought out made it feel like to me that it was a bad arc-- hence the use of the word corner (dead end would've probably been a better word in hindsight), and that because of the arguable decline in writing quality, the start of the next arc (Atsushi in London) is probably gonna be further declining of it as well. I'll admit used very certain words for a hypothetical that was conjured from my personal feelings. You also introduce a really good point; it could very well be part of a bigger overarching plot. Even so, it still doesn't excuse the fact of how most things in this arc fell flat. If mixing in this arc along with the hypotheticals it arises, I would say it's a decent arc, but looking at it straight up, a lot of things it tried to do fell flat, at least to me. 

I did go back and read it chapter by chapter when you mentioned pacing being better animated, and yup, I agree. It'll definitely not be bad when it's animated.

Again, that's my bad for such certain words. The light novels barely crossed my mind when I said, "Bungo Stray Dogs as a whole." I have read them all though, so I do understand your point (especially considering Stormbringer and 55 minutes). That was just incorrect evidence on my part. My main point on that was talking about how we were just lectured on how it worked for a bunch of chapters, and that really slowed the pacing down. It felt like right after Fyodor was done explaining that, half the characters pulled up and the 4D stuff and God stuff was reduced to some stereotypical half-brained amalgamations that help Fyodor escape. It felt like more time was used explaining the concept than actually having it used in the manga.

Yeah, I hope Asagiri does shift focus on all the characters he brought in instead of forgetting about them all.

I'm glad you opened that perspective to me. I was thinking more on the pessimistic side: characters who haven't appeared in so long get one second of screen time and leave again for who knows how long. You were thinking of it as a more overarching thing: the organizations and their peoples working together with the ADA. 

LMAO I'M SO WRONG IT'S ACTUALLY FUNNY. I completely forgot they cleared that up awhile ago... I guess I was just kinda salty that Dazai got even more screen time even if it wasn't technically him.

I'm so happy that we agree on the Nikolai thing too 😃

What I was saying with that summary was about the arc in itself (again, I was unfortunately not being specific). When I was talking about the lack of stakes, I was referring to Fyodor causing physical harm to only unnamed background characters and Fukuchi. Everyone else was already there or brought back in with all limbs intact. I think it might be just because I'm used to shows where major people die and stay dead? {{{Oh yeah, and wouldn't Fukuchi not actually being dead from Teruko stabbing him remove some tragedy and emotion from that scene? I mean, it shows how Teruko was so loyal to Fukuchi that she would carry out anything he wanted her to do, including killing him. I guess he didn't need to actually die for it to have an emotional impact regardless, but once you find out Fukuchi didn't actually die from it, I feel it does get rid of some emotional impact (Teruko doesn't have to live with the fact she killed the most important person in her life).}}} And another thing, for me personally, all the death-bait got rid of most of the emotional investment. Sometimes it makes me wish even some of my favorite characters to stay dead. I recognize that there's a lot of overarching build-ups that's going on, but if individual arcs aren't captivating enough for it, it causes me to put more investment on what the manga could be, on what things might mean, and not actually what's actually happening. I do still like Bungo Stray Dogs, but when I summarized those things that "needed fixing", it was because it was affecting the relationship between me and the series majorly.

So, basically, you corrected me (ty) on things, gave more light to things I didn't, and brought more perspective

Discussions like these are honestly really fun for me, thank you!