Bungou Stray Dogs


Bungo Stray Dogs

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Synonyms: Literary Stray Dogs, BSD
Japanese: 文豪ストレイドッグス
English: Bungo Stray Dogs
German: Bungo Stray Dogs
Spanish: Bungo Stray Dogs
French: Bungo Stray Dogs
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Type: TV
Episodes: 12
Status: Finished Airing
Aired: Apr 7, 2016 to Jun 23, 2016
Premiered: Spring 2016
Broadcast: Thursdays at 01:05 (JST)
Licensors: Funimation, Crunchyroll
Studios: Bones
Source: Manga
Genres: ActionAction, MysteryMystery
Themes: Adult CastAdult Cast, DetectiveDetective, Organized CrimeOrganized Crime, Super PowerSuper Power
Demographic: SeinenSeinen
Duration: 23 min. per ep.
Rating: R - 17+ (violence & profanity)

Statistics

Score: 7.811 (scored by 763185763,185 users)
1 indicates a weighted score.
Ranked: #10412
2 based on the top anime page. Please note that 'Not yet aired' and 'R18+' titles are excluded.
Popularity: #89
Members: 1,499,293
Favorites: 28,448

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Synopsis

For weeks, Atsushi Nakajima's orphanage has been plagued by a mystical tiger that only he seems to be unaware of. Suspected to be behind the strange incidents, the 18-year-old is abruptly kicked out of the orphanage and left hungry, homeless, and wandering through the city.

While starving on a riverbank, Atsushi saves a rather eccentric man named Osamu Dazai from drowning. Whimsical suicide enthusiast and supernatural detective, Dazai has been investigating the same tiger that has been terrorizing the boy. Together with Dazai's partner Doppo Kunikida, they solve the mystery, but its resolution leaves Atsushi in a tight spot. As various odd events take place, Atsushi is coerced into joining their firm of supernatural investigators, taking on unusual cases the police cannot handle, alongside his numerous enigmatic co-workers.

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This season adapts chapters 1 through 14 of the manga.

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"TRASH CANDY" by GRANRODEO
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May 14, 2025
Like many similar series featuring an eccentric cast of characters and designs, a unique but interesting power system based on literature, and convincingly fun action and story beats, Bungo Stray Dogs delivers on expectations while making the format its own. This certainly feels like a starting entry to a series, but it has enough personality to make for an enjoyable experience despite being in its introductory phase. The humor can be quite hilarious with the tradeoff being it is sometimes out of place. In addition, there is sometimes an overreliance on repetitive flashbacks. However, there is potential here to make for great entertainment going forward.
Jul 1, 2025
Mixed Feelings
Rating: 7,2/10
Status: Mixed Feelings


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Bungou Stray Dogs Season 1 is a stylish, literary-inspired action series that blends supernatural abilities with detective noir, psychological drama, and dark comedy. At first glance, it feels like a breath of fresh air—characters named after real-life authors, each wielding powers based on their literary works, moving through a city divided between a gifted detective agency and a criminal underworld. It’s clever, unique… and yet, somehow, not as impactful as it wants to be.

The anime starts with Atsushi Nakajima, an orphaned boy who finds himself thrown into the world of the Armed Detective Agency after a chance encounter with the eccentric and ...
Apr 27, 2023
Bungou Stray Dogs desperately attempts to be a quirky anime that tries to tell a "dark" and "gritty" story about organized crime, detectives and their interplay with a little bit of magic sprinkled in. However, the writing, whether it be the main characters, or any of the antagonists, or even the beats of the entire plot are at best generic (not inherently a bad thing) and at worst (which is the majority of the time) pedantically annoying and annoyingly melodramatic. It so badly wants you to empathize with the main character that every 2-3 episodes it flashes back to our protagonist Atsushis backstory, to the ...

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