A Third Season is Confirmed for Bungo Stray Dogs

At a screening of the “Bungo Stray Dogs: Dead Apple” film, it has been confirmed by the staff that the “Bungou Stray Dogs” anime series would be having a third season. The news was also confirmed by the series’ official website.

The “Bungou Stray Dogs” series had its start as a manga series written by Kafka Asagiri and illustrated by Sango Harukawa. The manga was serialized in the magazine Young Ace since 2012 and currently has 14 volumes released. It was in 2016 that the anime adaptation of the series made its debut. The series was produced by studio Bones and ran from April to June 2016 with a total of 12 episodes.

The second series of the anime made its debut in October 2016 and also ran for 12 episodes before ending in December of the same year. Both series were directed by Takuya Igarashi, the director behind “Soul Eater” and written by Yoji Enokodi, a writer known for having worked on the series composition of “Ouran Highschool Host Club.

Other staff for the series included Nobuhiro Arai, who recently worked on an episode of “Banana Fish” as the character and “Noragami’s” Taku Iwasaki as the music composer.

The cast of the series, they included:

Mamoru Miyano as Osamu Dazai
Yūto Uemura as Atsushi Nakajima
Yoshimasa Hosoya as Doppo Kunikida
Toshiyuki Toyonaga as Junichirō Tanizaki
Hiroshi Kamiya as Ranpo Edogawa
Hiroyuki Kagura as Kenji Miyazawa
Yu Shimamura as Akiko Yosano
Rikiya Koyama as Yukichi Fukuzawa
Sumire Morohoshi as Kyōka Izumi

The story of the series tells of Atsushi Nakajima. When his orphanage ends up being plagued by a mystical tiger that he only seems to be aware of, he ends up being suspected as the culprit. This then results in him being kicked out of the orphanage and left homeless and starving. One day at the riverbank Atsushi saves a rather eccentric man named Osamu Dazai from drowning.

Dazai is a whimsical suicide enthusiast and a supernatural detective who has been investigating the tiger that has been plaguing Atsushi. Though Dazai manages to solve the mystery along with his partner Doppo Kunikida, Atsushi is left in a tight spot. Following a variety of odd events surrounding him, the 18-year-old is coerced into joining their firm of supernatural investigators, taking on unusual cases the police cannot handle, alongside his numerous enigmatic co-workers.

Source: AnimeNewsNetwork