Bungo Stray Dogs

Bungo Stray Dogs (文豪ストレイドッグス Bungou Sutorei Doggusu) is an anime series based on the manga by Kafka Asagiri and Sango Harukawa.

Produced by Bones the series first aired in 2016 in two parts; the first season aired between April 7, 2016 and June 23, 2016, and the second season aired between October 6 and December 22, 2016.

An anime film, Bungo Stray Dogs: Dead Apple, was released in March 2018. A third season aired between April 12 and June 28, 2019. A fourth season aired between January 4 and March 23, 2023. A fifth season aired from July 12 to September 20 2023. Following the fifth-season finale, the anime's official Twitter account thanked fans for their continued support and concluded by stating that the anime was "not finished yet!!"

Synopsis

Nakajima Atsushi was kicked out of his orphanage, and now he has no place to go and no food. While he is standing by a river, on the brink of starvation, he rescues a man whimsically attempting suicide. That man is Dazai Osamu, and he and his partner Kunikida are members of a very special detective agency. They have supernatural powers and deal with cases that are too dangerous for the police or the military. They're tracking down a tiger that has appeared in the area recently, around the time Atsushi came to the area. The tiger seems to have a connection to Atsushi, and by the time the case is solved, it is clear that Atsushi's future will involve much more of Dazai and the rest of the detectives.

Cast[]

Image	Character	Seiyū	Dub Actor	Season(s)
Armed Detective Agency
	Atsushi Nakajima	Yūto Uemura	Max Mittelman	1-
	Atsushi Nakajima	Lynn (young)	Max Mittelman	1-
	Osamu Dazai	Mamoru Miyano	Kaiji Tang	1-
	Doppo Kunikida	Yoshimasa Hosoya	Patrick Seitz	1-
	Ranpo Edogawa	Hiroshi Kamiya	Vic Mignogna	1-2
	Ranpo Edogawa	Hiroshi Kamiya	Landon McDonald	3-
	Junichirō Tanizaki	Toshiyuki Toyonaga	Spike Spencer	1-
	Kenji Miyazawa	Hiroyuki Kagura	Lucien Dodge	1-
	Akiko Yosano	Yū Shimamura	Erica Lindbeck	1-
	Yukichi Fukuzawa	Rikiya Koyama	Jamieson Price	1-
	Kyōka Izumi	Sumire Morohoshi	Cherami Leigh	1-
	Kirako Haruno	Mina	Abby Trott	1-
	Naomi Tanizaki	Chiaki Omigawa	Erica Lindbeck	1-
	Katai Tayama	Kenichi Suzumura	Steve Staley	3-
Port Mafia
	Ryūnosuke Akutagawa	Kenshō Ono	Brian Beacock	1-
	Chūya Nakahara	Kishō Taniyama	Nicolas Roye	1-
	Ichiyō Higuchi	Asami Setō	Carrie Keranen	1-
	Motojirō Kaiji	Wataru Hatano	Brian Palermo	1-
	Mori Ōgai	Mitsuru Miyamoto	Keith Silverstein	1-
	Elise	Sora Amamiya	Carrie Keranen	1-
	Kōyō Ozaki	Ami Koshimizu	Cindy Robinson	2-
	Ryūrō Hirotsu	Atsushi Ono	Greg Chun	1-
	Gin Akutagawa	Shiina Natsukawa	Allegra Clark	1-
	Michizō Tachihara	Yū Hayashi	Benjamin Diskin	1-3
	Michizō Tachihara	Yū Hayashi	A.J. Beckles	4
	Sakunosuke Oda	Junichi Suwabe	David Vincent	2
	Sakunosuke Oda	Yūto Uemura (young)	David Vincent	2
	Kyuusaku "Q" Yumeno	Haruka Kudō	Tara Sands	2-
	Arthur Rimbaud / Randō	Yūya Uchida	Christopher Swindle	3
The Guild
	Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald	Takahiro Sakurai	Chris Hackney	1-
	Lucy Maud Montgomery	Kana Hanazawa	Cristina Valenzuela	1-
	John Steinbeck	Kengo Kawanishi	Kyle McCarley	2-
	Howard Phillips Lovecraft	Shunsuke Takeuchi	Mick Wingert	2-
	Nathaniel Hawthorne	Tarusuke Shingaki	Matthew Mercer	2-
	Margaret Mitchell	Kaori Nazuka	Colleen O'Shaughnessey	2-
	Mark Twain	Hiroyuki Yoshino	Phillip Reich	2-
	Tom Sawyer	Risae Matsuda	Colleen O'Shaughnessey	2-
	Huckleberry Finn	Satsumi Matsuda	Abby Trott	2-
	Edgar Allan Poe	Toshiyuki Morikawa	Todd Haberkorn	2-
	Karl	Ayaka Nanase	Benjamin Diskin	2-
	Louisa May Alcott	Hikaru Ueda	Erica Mendez	2-
	Herman Melville	Takayuki Sugō	John DeMita	2-
Special Skill Department
	Santōka Taneda	Fumihiko Tachiki	John DeMita	2-
	Ango Sakaguchi	Jun Fukuyama	Michael Yurchak	2-
Mimic
	André Gide	Shinichirō Miki	Kirk Thornton	2-
Rats in the House of the Dead
	Fyodor Dostoyevski	Akira Ishida	Ray Chase	2-
Other Characters
	Natsume Sōseki	Hōchū Ōtsuka	Greg Chun	2-
	Orphanage Director	Kenichi Mochizuki	Benjamin Diskin	1-
	Keiji Minoura	Hiroshi Shirokuma	Doug Stone	1-
	Nobuko Sasaki / Blue Messenger	Sanae Kobayashi	Wendee Lee	1
	Rokuzō Taguchi	Kaito Ishikawa	Xander Mobus	1

Episodic Characters[]

Image	Character	Seiyū	Dub Actor	Episode
First Season
	Waitress	Manami Tanaka	Cherami Leigh	4
	Junsa Sugimoto	Ayumu Murase	Benjamin Diskin	5
	Yamagiwa	Yumi Uchiyama	Abby Trott	5
	Taxi Driver	Kōzō Dōzaka	Joe Ochman	6
	Blonde Man	Hirofumi Nojima	Michael P. Greco	7
	Azure King	Yoshimasa Hosoya	Joe Ochman	7
	James L.	Eiichirō Tokumoto	Aaron LaPlante	12
Second Season
	Kurosaki	¿?	Ray Chase	22
	Ukai	Satoshi Tsuruoka	Greg Chun	22
	Aya Koda	Minako Kotobuki	Cassandra Lee Morris	25 (OVA)
	Shousaku Katsura	Masakazu Morita	Johnny Yong Bosch	25 (OVA)

Additional Voices[]

Notes[]

David Vincent's first anime role at Studiopolis since Bleach in 2011.
Kaiji Tang's first official anime role at Studiopolis.
Landon McDonald replaced Vic Mignogna as Ranpo Edogawa starting with season 3 due to Mignogna's blacklisting in 2019 following the sexual harassment allegations.
A.J. Beckles replaced Benjamin Diskin as Michizo Tachihara for season 4 due to stalled discussions concerning union contracts with Crunchyroll following the Mob Psycho 100 3rd season dub and Diskin leaving Bungo Stray Dogs season 4 due to lack of union contract as well as the show itself being non-union.

Transmission via Streaming[]

Company	Date(s)	Category	Format	Content	Region
	March 6, 2018-	Anime	Digital	24 Episodes	United States

Video Releases[]

Distributor	Year	Contents	Region	Country
FUNimation Entertainment	2018	Episodes 1-25	1 NTSC	United States
		2 Volumes	1 NTSC
		Episodes 1-25	A DVB-T
		2 Volumes	A DVB-T

External Links[]

Bungo Stray Dogs at the Internet Movie Database
Bungo Stray Dogs (anime) at Anime News Network's encyclopedia