TV series
Bungo Stray Dogs
Overview
Stalked by a beastly white tiger, Atsushi Nakajima has no idea that the menace lives inside him—a power that catches the attention of the Armed Detective Agency. Using inhuman abilities to combat crime, this team takes Atsushi under the wing of their most eccentric member, Dazai. Together, they tear through mafia-muddled mysteries while enemies keep an eye on the tiger’s lofty bounty.
Details
- First air date
- 2016-04-07
- Status
- Returning Series
- Seasons
- 1 season
- Episodes
- 60 episodes
- Genres
- Animation, Action & Adventure, Mystery, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Crime
- Network
- Tokyo MX
- Production
- BONES, KADOKAWA, Bandai Namco Music Live, movic, Sony Music Solutions, WOWOW, Crunchyroll SC Anime Fund, Crunchyroll
- Country
- JP
- Original language
- JA
Cast
- Mamoru Miyano as Osamu Dazai (voice)
- Yuto Uemura as Atsushi Nakajima (voice)
- Masaaki Mizunaka as Shirase (voice)
- Hiroyuki Yoshino as Mark Twain
- Sumire Morohoshi as Kyouka Izumi
- Junichi Suwabe as Odasaku Oda
- Shunsuke Takeuchi as Lovecraft
- Takayuki Sugo as Herman Melville
- Jun Fukuyama as Ango Sakaguchi
- Mitsuru Miyamoto as Rintarou Mori
- Kengo Kawanishi as John Steinbeck
- Toshiyuki Toyonaga as Junichirou Tanizaki
Creators and crew
- Junichiro Tamura - Producer
- Mari Suzuki - Producer
- Chiaki Kurakane - Producer
- Takuya Igarashi - Director
- Ikuro Sato - Director
- Takanori Yano - Director
Episodes
Episode 1: Fortune Is Unpredictable and Mutable
Driven out from his orphanage, Nakajima Atsushi wanders the streets of Yokohama on the bring of starvation. Determined to live, a chance encounter with a drowning stranger changes his fate...
Episode 2: A Certain Bomb
Despite joining the Armed Detective Agency, Nakajima lacks conviction that he'd be of any use. Just as he's about to bid the agency farewell, a bomber takes over the agency with one of the agency employees as his hostage...!
Episode 3: Yokohama Gangster Paradise
Now an official member of the Agency after passing their entrance exam, Atsushi is assigned to his first case right away with Tanizaki and Naomi. Though deceptively simple on the surface, there's more than meets the eye...
Episode 4: The Tragedy of the Fatalist
Though saved from the Port Mafia by Dazai's intervention, Atsushi feels responsible for bringing trouble to the Agency's door. Rather than risk another attack because of him, Atsushi decides to leave the Agency and makes a call to the Port Mafia...
Episode 5: Murder on D Street
After repelling the Port Mafia's Black Lizards with deceptive ease, Atsushi is tasked with accompanying Rampo to a case. Skeptical of the self-dubbed great detective who seems to lack all common sense, Atsushi is about to witness Rampo's ability first-hand...
Episode 6: The Azure Messenger
The Agency investigates a series of disappearances in Yokohama. Kunikida enlists the help of a hacker named Taguchi Rokuzou, but all they find are photos of the victims and mention of a mysterious figure called the Azure Messenger. They follow the trail of clues to an abandoned hospital...
Episode 7: Love for the Disease Called Ideals
Following the Azure Messenger's bomb threat, the Armed Detective Agency must race to prevent the deaths of hundreds, which would taint the Agency forever. However, Dazai's seemingly distracted by Sasaki Nobuko, the lone survivor of their raid on the abandoned hospital...
Episode 8: Teaching Them to Kill, Then to Die
Dazai goes missing, but the Agency operatives feel it's just business as usual. Meanwhile, Atsushi accompanies Yosano Akiko on a shopping expedition, where they are suddenly plunged into the middle of a terrorist bomb threat by one of the Port Mafia...
Episode 9: The Beauty Is Quiet Like a Stone Statue
Kyouka was made into an assassin by those who abused her ability, and Atsushi can't help but feel sympathy toward her. Unable to turn her in to the military police, Atsushi ends up taking her out on a date. Meanwhile, Akutagawa is busy berating his former supervisor--Dazai.
Episode 10: Rashomon and the Tiger
Dazai has a face-off with his ex-partner, Chuuya, as Chuuya attempts to uncover Dazai's true intentions for letting himself get captured. Meanwhile, Atsuhi faces Akutagawa's intense and inexplicable hatred for him, as the ship continues on to the meeting place where he will be handed off in exchange for the bounty on his head...
Episode 11: First, an Unsuitable Profession for Her. Second, an Ecstatic Detective Agency
In the aftermath of Atsushi and Dazai's abduction, the Agency must decide what to do with Kyouka, the loose end. Meanwhile, the Port Mafia also deliberates what to do with Akutagawa, now comatose, as his enemies seek vengeance...
Episode 12: Borne Back Ceaselessly into the Past
Francis, the leader of The Guild, a North American organization of gifted members, is the one responsible for the bounty on Atsushi's head. Fukuzawa refuses Francis's offer to buy out the Agency, but their agents begin to disappear...
Episode 13: The Dark Age
On a misty night, Oda Sakunosuke, Dazai Osamu, and Sakaguchi Ango meet as always at their usual bar. For the trio of Port Mafia members, it a night spent in camaraderie like any other, but Ango vanishes that very night. Oda is given a direct order from the Port Mafia boss to find Ango, but...
Episode 14: Nowhere to Return
The reason that Odasaku went to a certain Western style restaurant was not just because of the curry. He is having the owner watch over a group of young children who had lost their parents two years ago in the war. Odasaku is trying to track down Ango, and remembers the time they first met. Meanwhile, Dazai manages to catch one of the Mimic soldiers alive in a trap he had set. However, once he gets there, all that is waiting for him is a corpse. Another figure was also waiting for him, his subordinate, Akutagawa Ryuunosuke.
Episode 15: A Room Where We Can Someday See the Ocean
The Port Mafia's council of five top executives has decreed that Mimic must be annihilated. In the ensuing battle, Odasaku has a fateful encounter with Gide, the leader of Mimic, who makes a cryptic prophecy. Night falls, and the usual bar now awaits Dazai, Odasaku and Ango...
Episode 16: Bungo Stray Dogs
While the leaders of the Port Mafia and the gifted special operations division meet via Ango, Dazai is close to discovering the true significance of the conflict between the three groups. However, in despair, Odasaku's deaf to Dazai's entreaties not to go alone to Mimic's headquarters where Gide awaits...
Episode 17: Three Companies Conflict
Trusting in a life that doesn't require her to kill, Kyouka works her first job at the Armed Detective Agency, but the job ends in a minor disaster. As Atsushi attempts to cheer her up, the unthinkable happens--Kyouka's inactive cell phone rings, and a voice orders Demon Snow to attack Atsushi.
Episode 18: The Conflict of Strategy
Mori, the leader of the Port Mafia, sends a letter to Margaret M. and Nathaniel H., threatening to destroy them and the ship they are protecting.
Episode 19: Will of Tycoon
John S. and Lovecraft hunt down Naomi and Haruno as they flee from town. While Atsushi and Dazai wait for them to arrive at the train station, Dazai notices a shady figure stalking him.
Episode 20: Though the Mind May Be Wrong
Atsushi is abducted onto the Moby Dick. Meanwhile, Lovecraft succeeds in capturing Q. Francis F. and the Guild prepare to carry out what they call their "emergency plan."
Episode 21: Double Black
The leaders of the Agency and the Port Mafia negotiate an alliance. Meanwhile, Dazai and Chuuya face off against Lovecraft.
Episode 22: Poe and Rampo
Rampo receives an invitation to a detective game from none other than E. A. Poe. He's indifferent at first, until Poe reveals what the reward would be should he win.
Episode 23: Rashoumon, The Tiger, and The Last Emperor
Atsushi searches desperately for the control terminal, which he would need to stop the Moby Dick from crashing into Yokohama. He's greeted by Akutagawa and Francis, both of whom have other plans in mind.
Episode 24: If I May Shed Away My Burden Now
Atsushi and Akutagawa fail to call off the Moby Dick's descent. They search desperately for other ways to protect Yokohama.
Episode 25: Dazai, Chuuya, Fifteen Years Old
Port Mafia leader Mori Ougai orders a fifteen-year-old Dazai Osamu to investigate the appearance of a certain individual in the Yokohama Settlement area.
Episode 26: God of Fire
Dazai Osamu and Nakahara Chuuya are attacked by GSS soldiers in the middle of investigating an explosion caused years ago by Arahabaki.
Episode 27: Only a Diamond Can Polish a Diamond
Nakahara Chuuya and Dazai Osamu reveal the truth behind Arahabaki, Randou, the former Port Mafia boss and Chuuya himself.
Episode 28: My Ill Deeds Are the Work of God
Port Mafia executive Ace captures Fyodor, who was behind the destruction of the Moby Dick. Keeping him captured may prove to be more difficult.
Episode 29: Slap the Stick & Addict
The café that the Detective Agency members frequent is attacked by The Park, who are after the Guild’s property.
Episode 30: Herurisu / Portrait of a Father
The Agency is tasked with finding and delivering an important document. A man is hit and killed by a truck. His identity shocks Atsushi.
Episode 31: Fitzgerald Rising
Louisa reunites with Fitzgerald, but he’s not quite the man he used to be.
Episode 32: The Masked Assassin
The leaders of the Port Mafia and the Detective Agency are attacked by an assassin in a mask, leaving both of them ill.
Episode 33: Cannibalism (1)
Tensions between the Detective Agency and the Port Mafia run high as they both scramble to save their own leaders while avoiding an all-out war.
Episode 34: Cannibalism (2)
The Detective Agency president is in safe hands for now, but unless he or the Port Mafia boss dies, a full-scale war between the two organizations is inevitable.
Episode 35: Cannibalism (3)
Mori Ougai and Fukuzawa Yukichi fight to the death in a desperate bid to save the organizations they lead from falling into a devastating war.
Episode 36: Echo
The gifted responsible for the virus is on the run as Nakagawa Atsushi and Akutagawa Ryunosuke chase after him. Meanwhile, the Detective Agency has the Rats’ hideout surrounded to try to capture Fyodor Dostoevsky.
Episode 37: The Lone Swordsman and the Famous Detective
Security police officer Fukuzawa Yukichi arrives at work to discover that his client had been assassinated. The assassin is already apprehended by the time he arrives, but something doesn’t quite seem right.
Episode 38: The Day Is a Dream, the Night Is Real
Fukuzawa gives Rampo a pair of glasses, claiming that wearing them would activate his ability to instantly determine the truth of any situation, and taking them off would give him the ability to tolerate the stupidity of the ordinary person.
Episode 39: The Secret Founding of the Detective Agency
Rampo gets a ride to the police station, but the officer doesn’t seem to be who he says he is.
Episode 40: A Perfect Murder and Murderer (1)
Kunikida is being held for a murder that Rampo is certain he didn't commit. Meanwhile, Poe is determined to solve a murder mystery that has had the police stumped. Rampo has some thoughts on that situation, too.
Episode 41: A Perfect Murder and Murderer (2)
The last page of the manuscript received by Poe appears to have been a photocopy. Rampo seems to know why, but there are still more mysteries surrounding the death of the author.
Episode 42: Tragic Sunday
The Detective Agency receives an urgent request from the government to investigate a series murders perpetrated by the same culprit.
Episode 43: Dogs Hunt Dogs
The Detective Agency is framed for the brutal murder of several government officials. Its members are on the run from the Military Police.
Episode 44: You, A Child of Sin; I, A Child of Sin
The president of the Detective Agency is arrested, and Kunikida is missing after having blown himself up with a grenade. Meanwhile, Atsushi and Kyouka are on the run, looking for a way to defeat the true mastermind: Fyodor.
Episode 45: A Dream of Butterflies
Port Mafia boss Mori wants Yosano to join them in exchange for assisting the Detective Agency through their crisis. Yosano reveals why she would rather not.
Episode 46: In Lament of My Wingless Body
Tanizaki, Miyazawa and Yosano head to the site where Yosano is scheduled to be handed off to the Port Mafia.
Episode 47: Jailbreak
Atsushi and Kyoka help Mushitaro escape. However, they get surrounded by the Bureau, led by Ango Sakaguchi.
Episode 48: Bungo Hound Dogs
Suspecting that Lucy is cooperating with the terrorist organization known as the Armed Detective Agency, Jouno and Tetchou pay a visit to the cafe at where she works, in hopes of tracking down Atsushi and Kyouka.
Episode 49: SKYFALL
Teruko goes head-to-head with Sigma. Tachihara rethinks the Agency’s innocence after re-infiltrating the Port Mafia.
Episode 50: The Strongest Man
The members of the Agency, isolated and unable to communicate with each other, are victims one after the other of assassination attempts, thwarted in extremis by a mysterious guardian angel. Who is this ?
Episode 51: The Answer to Everything
Episode 52: HERO VS. CRIMINAL
Episode 53: HERO WAR, GANG WAR
Episode 54: At the Port in the Sky (1)
Episode 55: At the Port in the Sky (2)
Episode 56: At the Port in the Sky (3)
Episode 57: Land of Inhuman Demons (1)
Episode 58: Land of Inhuman Demons (2)
Episode 59: Land of Inhuman Demons (3)
Episode 60: Twilight Goodbye
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