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 726022726,022 users)
1 indicates a weighted score.
Ranked: #9972
2 based on the top anime page. Please note that 'Not yet aired' and 'R18+' titles are excluded.
Popularity: #91
Members: 1,436,324
Favorites: 27,801

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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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Reviews

Mar 2, 2024
The first season is more of an introduction of the characters and the world in which Bungo Stray Dogs is set. Mainly a Detective Agency where ppl have supernatural abilities. There's not much of an ongoing plot and is more episodic for the first season. Not bad but not great... It gets much more interesting by the 3rd season and the 4th season is heads and shoulders above the 1st. It gets into murder mystery detective stories and conspiracies. The special powers are also unique and original, not just ur run of the mill elemental powers or general magic. There are ...
May 14, 2024
Mixed Feelings
It feels as though the series itself doesn't even know what it is about.

Story 5/10
A mixture of comedy, and serious moments that just don't mesh together. This would be perfectly fine as a goof off series, but it tries to take itself serious time and time again, failing to do so every time. We do spend a considerable amount of time getting to know our cast, which makes me hopeful that this was more of an introductory season.

Characters 7/10
A really fun, but forgettable bunch. The characters were the only thing that kept me watching.

Art 8/10
The animation and art are pretty much what you can expect ...
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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