A brand-new season of “Bungo Stray Dogs” is coming your way this July. The team behind the anime based on Kafka Asagiri and Sango Harukawa’s manga announced this on Wednesday, along with the first promotional video and visual by character designer and chief animation director Nobuhiro Arai.
“Bungo Stray Dogs” follows the members of the Armed Detective Agency as they attempt to protect Yokohama from the mafia. The story mainly focuses on the weretiger Atsushi Nakajima, who joins others gifted with supernational powers to fulfill various tasks, including running a business, solving mysteries, and carrying out missions the agency assigns.
‘Bungo Stray Dogs’ Season 5 plot
There are no official details about the plot of the fifth season, so you will have to wait until it airs this July. However, there are rumors about this.
It has been said that the fifth season will mark the very first time the anime might run up against its manga’s current endpoint.
In response to a post on Reddit about the “Bungo Stray Dogs” fifth season announcement, some users theorized that rather than basing solely on the manga to which it is almost caught up, the upcoming season will likely adapt one or more of its light novels instead. Eight “Bungo Stray Dogs” light novels exist.
By comparison, the fourth episode began with a three-episode adaptation of the light novel before covering the events from 24 chapters in its manga. As of the time of the fifth season’s announcement, 23 manga chapters are unadapted. Thus, they conclude that the upcoming season will first adapt the light novel before moving to the manga. The fifth season may well cover the story of a light novel and both of the two most recent manga story arcs in full.
Other details
The fourth season of “Bungo Stray Dogs” premiered in Japan last January 4th, and the season’s final episode aired on Wednesday. Crunchyroll streamed it as it aired in Japan and also streamed an English dub.
The returning main staff for the upcoming season includes director Takuya Igarashi, series script supervisor and writer Yoji Enokido, character designer and chief animation director Nobuhiro Arai, and the animation studio BONES.
The main cast members include Yūto Uemura as Atsushi Nakajima, Mamoru Miyano as Osamu Dazai, Sumire Morohoshi as Kyōka Izumi, Kishō Taniyama as Chūya Nakahara, and Kensho Ono as Ryūnosuke Akutagawa. They are all returning for the fifth season.
SCREEN mode is performing the opening song titled “True Story,” while Luck Life is performing the closing billboard song, “Shirushi/°C.”
The first TV adaptation aired from April to June 2016, with Crunchyroll streaming the series as it aired in Japan. The second season, comprising 12 episodes, aired from October to December 2016, with Crunchyroll again streaming the series as it aired. Funimation and Crunchyroll released the series on home video with an English dub. Meanwhile, the third season started in April 2016, with Crunchyroll and Funimation streaming the episodes.
There has also been a film adaption for this anime, titled “Bungo Stray Dogs: Dead Apple.” It premiered in Japan in March 2018, then Crunchyroll and Funimation streamed the movie in September 2018 and June 2019, respectively.
The manga and novel series is being published in English by Yen Press. The manga launched in Kadokawa’s Young Ace magazine in December 2012 and is ongoing.
Watch the fifth season of “Bungo Stray Dogs” on Crunchyroll.
