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Bungou Stray Dogs​

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!

Type: TV
Episodes: 12
Status: Currently Airing
Aired: Apr 7, 2016 to ?
Premiered: Spring 2016
Broadcast: Thursdays at 01:05 (JST)
Studios: Bones
Source: Manga
Genres: Mystery, Seinen, Supernatural
Duration: 24 min. per ep.
Rating: R - 17+ (violence & profanity)

Spoiler: Cast and Crew

Mamoru Miyano as Osamu Dazai
Yuuto Uemura as Atsushi Nakajima

Asami Seto as Ichiyō Higuchi
Chiaki Omigawa as Naomi Tanizaki
Hiroshi Kamiya as Ranpo Edogawa
Hiroyuki Kagura as Kenji Miyazawa
Kensho Ono as Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
Kishō Taniyama as Chūya Nakahara
Rikiya Koyama as Yukichi Fukuzawa
Sumire Morohoshi as Kyōka Izumi
Toshiyuki Toyonaga as Junichirō Tanizaki
Wataru Hatano as Motojirō Kajii
Yoshimasa Hosoya as Doppo Kunikida
Yu Shimamura as Akiko Yosano

Staff:

Director: Takuya Igarashi
Series Composition: Yoji Enokido
Screenplay: Yoji Enokido (ep 1)
Storyboard: Takuya Igarashi (ep 1)
Episode Director: Takuya Igarashi (ep 1)
Music: Taku Iwasaki
Original creator:
Kafka Asagiri (Story)
Sango Harukawa (Art)
Character Design: Nobuhiro Arai
Art Director: Yumiko Kondou
Chief Animation Director:
Hiroki Kanno (ep 1)
Nobuhiro Arai
Sound Director: Kazuhiro Wakabayashi
Director of Photography: Tsuyoshi Kanbayashi

Color design: Yukari Goto
Digital Paint:
Akiko Inoue (Wish)
Asami Nomaguchi (Wish)
Ayako Kurome (Wish)
Emiko Okui (Wish)
Hisako Furukawa (Wish)
Misato Kaneko (Wish)
Takako Uemura (Wish)
Editing: Shigeru Nishiyama
Key Animation:
Ayumi Abe (ED; ep 1)
Hidenori Fukuoka (OP/ED; ep 1)
Hiroki Kanno (OP)
Hiromi Masuda (OP)
Hiroshi Kawashima (ep 1)
Isamu Suzuki (OP)
Kaoru Saito (ep 1)
Keiko Fukumoto (ep 1)
Keisuke Hiroe (OP; ep 1)
Ken'ichi Ōtomo (OP; ep 1)
Kouichi Hayashi (ep 1)
Kumiko Onaga (ep 1)
Masahiro Suwa (OP)
Masato Kudou (OP; ep 1)
Naomi Kaneda (OP; ep 1)
Ryoko Amisaki (OP; ep 1)
Shōhei Nishijima (OP; ep 1)
Takashi Tomioka (ep 1)
Tomokatsu Nagasaku (OP; ep 1)
Yasuomi Umetsu (ED)
Prop Design:
Fumihiro Katagai (firearms)
Ryō Hirata
Sub-Character Design: Ryō Hirata
Theme Song Performance:
GRANRODEO (OP)
Luck Life (ED)

TRAILERS

Spoiler:

 

[Taemin]

What I learned from episode one is that everyone is hot, and they all have powers.

That said, sign me up.

I'm trying really hard not to go read all the manga chapters, and actually I'm surprised that this doesn't have a bigger fandom. The plot and such being what it is, it seems like something that would have quite a few fans by now, the manga I mean. It reminds me of two or three other series that are fairly big. In a good way.

 

[Winter]

I... Really like this, so far. It looks to be a much better Hamatora, and the art style kinda reminds me of Kekkai Sensen for some reason (is it because they flash ability names?). The facial expressions are classic comedy; the characters look good. As an intro to the entire show and its premise, the episode is a job well done.

I don't exactly understand why the orphanage didn't contact the authorities about their boy-tiger problems, but *shrugs* I'll keep watching.

Yeah you'd think they might have contacted the Agency. Perhaps they did but why leave out the information about Atsushi (if they knew)?

 

[SilverLugia456]

I have read the manga for this anime and I was really happy when I heard they were making an anime for it. Next week's episode is going to be interesting and I can't wait to see how they bring the other chapters into the anime.