Bungo Stray Dogs Is Severely Underrated

Amongst all the anime I watch over the years, Bungo Stray Dogs is undoubtedly one of the most underrated ones out there. Today I wanted to put some spotlight on one of Studio Bone's gems that deserves a lot more recognition for what it has been able to maintain over the years. As always, thanks for watching, your support is greatly appreciated.

[dr.aissam]

BSD is greatly popular in Japan, Season 4 got the best 2023 winter anime there.
Unfortunately americans love mainstream, show off and heavily action packed series

[Person-rbee]

Yeah, that's kinda unfortunate, especially because Bsd is not your typical shonen anime. The action is more thought on, not just characters fighting without any plan like other shonens. It could be better described as a chess game, where the different parties are taking time to make wise moves, which might annoy full action lovers

[YourLocalAirConditioner]

This show needs more recognition like this has the potential to compete with many popular animes

[dehydratedsock]

The backstories in each season we get are all from light novels

Season 1: supposed to be “Dazai’s entrance exam” of how he got into the Ada
(They screwed up very important stuff just to insert Atsushi in it)

2. “Dazai Osamu & the dark era”

3. “Dazai, and Chuuya 15”

4. “The untold origin of the armed detective agency”

My predictions for the 5th season:

1. “BEAST”

Definitely the best choice considering it explains some of the parts of THE BOOK thing.

It’s an alternative universe with Akutagawa as the MC and him getting into ADA, Atsushi being in the Port Mafia, Dazai being the Pm boss, and Oda being alive.

(I’m bit biased bcs it’s my fav)

2. “STORMBRINGER”

The longest light novel that basically tortures the living the heck outta Chuuya

(It’s just a guess because there’s one official art that was made by bones of one of the novel characters)

3. “55 minutes”

I personally haven’t read it yet but i think this one have more of the ADA working together more than the other ones


Honourable mention:

If they’re going to adapt BEAST I hope they make some kinda prequel of the new light novel “the day I picked up Dazai” (how Oda and Dazai met and it’s so so funny and cute)

[Semi-Encyclopedic_Otaku]

4:55 I’d like to comment that that’s kinda the point of BSD. In an interview with the author him self, Kafka Asagiri, he says, and I quote: “This story is not for people who are good at living. In this world, there exist people who are so good at living that they do not need a ‘story’ at all. … On the other hand, there are certainly people who need stories like oxygen. I always hope that Bungō Stray Dogs will become the oxygen for such people. They are the ‘lost ones’ that Dazai talked about.”

Basically, the target audience is people who struggle with life, similarly to the characters in the show.


Also just wanna say, 5:59 that aged horribly. (!!! MANGA SPOILERS !!!)




Cause like, when s6 is released (likely in 1-2 more years) that will definitely be the darkest season to date. And the anime-onlys who avoid manga spoilers like the plague prob won’t see it coming.

Cuz s5 finishes on ch 112, and within the span of the 6 chapters immediately following, 1/4 of the cast is alive (for now), another 1/4 of the cast is dead or dying, and the remaining half has been M.I.A., and that half has either been missing since s4 (cof cof Yosano, etc.) or went missing recently and have MAJOR death flags (lookin at you Ranpo, IM SCARED CH 119 RELEASES IN ABT A WEEK)

End not: RANPO IS ALIVE‼️‼️

[grayrook]

This show is an absolute masterpiece of shounen writing. By this I mean that most refined formula of writing for shounen with a full grasp of it's strength understands both the value of never taking your foot of the gas and utilizing the telling of a story though action. Good shounen writing should never be a series of hill and crest but rather a set of steps where the action might level of a bit but never falls to a state it was at previously. Bungos plot is essentially " here comes another evil syndicate with a 4d plan to take out the Agency on a particular time scale. How will our heroes get outta this?!" Over and over but with greater intensity each time. It's a simple but satisfying loop of a story and as such never gets stale.

[ragnarok]

I'm here after finishing s5 yesterday, the amount of plot twists this show has and still gives the characters viable options to overcome them is crazy, I'm more surprised that there isn't much discussion about it, great video and nice to have some insight on the staff in Studio D

[Five_star_funky]

My husband and I started Bungo Stray Dogs recently, we finished the anime and we caught up with the manga entirely and we finally found our first piece of merchandise at a store today! It was a little Atsushi keychain and now he lives on my phone. We really should've gotten into it when it had that spike in popularity. But, yea! We really love this series. It's so good and a lot of fun. The manga got me a little stressed though

[thatbloxguy]

That gun fight in season two. Is my favorite anime gun fight.

[akikoyosano]

I agree. Bsd is my favorite anime. I love the plot and character writing so much. Every character has their own role and I love that we get to know about most of the characters, their past etc Yosanos backstory was one of the best highlights of season 4. I really can't wait for July anymore

[samnsamole]

This anime is the GOAT and made me fall in love with anime all over again. It reminded me that it's not just "rose tinted glasses", 2000s anime was full of CLASSICS and Bungou Stray Dogs gave me the same CLASSIC nostalgic feeling that I used to get from anime I used to love. You know that feeling you used to get? When you watched anime? That euphoric feeling, this anime made me feel that once again. So good man, so good.

[weebgraphy]

I remember when the first 2 seasons were being hyped up by the people mostly because of Dazai, as per my observations. The viewership kind of fell off since then and it honestly makes me sad because this anime has so much potential and people are heavily missing it out. The last season was a banger.

[imbored]

One of the most underrated series. Been watching each season as it came out with glee. It's a shame this anime isn't as popular outside of Japan

[mizuki]

My absolute favourite thing about bsd is that every detail serves a purpose, or some sort of symbol! Even down to the colours and character design, it all ties in to match each character’s perspective of themselves and how others see them. Then there’s the bits of humour mixed in that somehow doesn’t come off as out-of-place… my favourite is Dazai scaring Atsushi as a jack-in-the-box hiding in the bin (it’s in the 55-minutes light novel).

[さくら-lt]

I feel like the reason why it’s underrated is because of how unique it is. It has powers and fighting but doesn’t really fall into the shonen genre since it focuses more on the philosophical elements and detective genre. I also feel like if you aren’t familiar with a lot of literature figures and stories, then the show wouldn’t be as interesting since a lot of the characters and their abilities are based off of their real life counterparts. Bungo Stray Dogs is a great show but is focused more towards a specific audience of literature fans than a general audience.

[Nygy]

About the flashbacks at the start of every season, they are side novels of the manga being adapted as an anime

[benjaminnebenjamin]

6:11 yeah season 4 marks the beginning of that thought from now on. even at the latest chapter the fandom is panicking about the arc's outcome 💀

[NEARReiCtor]

The flashbacks are all from the light novels. The Azure king arc was changed. It’s from the first light novel that talks about dazai enternce exam. The anime made it take place in the modern day.

[mariamisharishbonete]

This is what I'm telling over and over again. This show is very underrated asf, it's better than most anime out there.

[TripleL]

I totally agree... I love the story, the characters, the relationships/interactions between them... the flashbacks - especially the one with Oda ❤