Bungo Stray Dogs | |
Cover of Bungō Stray Dogs volume one.
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文豪ストレイドッグス (Bungō Sutorei Doggusu) |
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Genre | Action |
Manga | |
Written by | Kafka Asagiri |
Illustrated by | Sango Harukawa |
Published by | Kadokawa Shoten |
English publisher | |
Demographic | Seinen |
Magazine | Young Ace |
Original run | 2012 – present |
Volumes | 11 |
Light novel | |
Written by | Kafka Asagiri |
Illustrated by | Sango Harukawa |
Published by | Kadokawa Shoten |
Original run | 1 April 2014 – present |
Volumes | 5 |
Anime television series | |
Directed by | Takuya Igarashi |
Written by | Yōji Enokido |
Music by | Taku Iwasaki |
Studio | Bones |
Licensed by | |
Original network | Tokyo MX, TVS, CTC, tvk, GBS, MTV, SUN, TVQ, BS11 |
English network | |
Original run | 7 April 2016 – 22 December 2016 |
Episodes | 24 |
Original video animation | |
Directed by | Takuya Igarashi |
Written by | Yōji Enokido |
Music by | Taku Iwasaki |
Studio | Bones |
Released | 31 August 2017 |
Bungo Stray Dogs (文豪ストレイドッグス Bungō Sutorei Doggusu?, lit. Literary Stray Dogs) is a Japanese manga series written by Kafka Asagiri and illustrated by Sango Harukawa, which has been serialized in the magazine Young Ace since 2012. An anime television series adaptation by Bones aired in 2016 in two parts, the first part aired between 7 April 2016 and 23 June 2016, and the second part aired between 6 October 2016 and 22 December 2016.
The story centers on individuals who are gifted with super natural powers and use them for different purposes including holding a business, solving mysteries, and carrying out missions assigned by the mafia. The story mainly follows the members of the "Armed Detective Agency" and their everyday lives.
Most characters in the series are named after famous literary authors and/or characters in their works, including Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, Atsushi Nakajima, Agatha Christie, Osamu Dazai, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Rampo Edogawa, Edgar Allan Poe, Mark Twain, Natsuhiko Kyogoku, Kenji Miyazawa, Doppo Kunikida, and Akiko Yosano.
When the Guild collapses, she manages to get a position in the cafe below the agency, where she works as a waitress and errand girl. She gets along with Atsushi but always bickers with Kyōka.
He actually despises Fitzgerald, seeing his view on people and money as disgusting and cruel. After the Guild collapses, he becomes the leader of the Guild remnants. When he hears that Fitzgerald plans to rebuild his empire he decides to crush Fitzgerald's ambition.