Kafka Asagiri

Sango Harukawa

Not long after Ougai Mori takes the reins of the Port Mafia, his accomplice Osamu Dazai has a dreadful run in with Chuuya Nakahara, a boy known as the Sheep King who is capable of manipulating gravity. But when strange rumors about the mysterious being Arahabaki start spreading throughout Yokohoma, the duo must put aside their differences and get to the bottom of things. Before they achieved infamy as the fearsome pairing Twin Dark, Dazai and Chuuya were just boys. Was their first encounter a harbinger of hope, or an ill omen of things to come...?

Dazai, Chuya at Fifteen Years Old

Bungo Stray Dogs, Vol. 7 (light Novel)

Doppo Kunikida is an idealist and a straitlaced detective at the Armed Detective Agency, an organization that takes on dangerous jobs even the police won't handle. Everything in his life is going just as he's planned...until one day, he's paired up with the agency's newest hire: a suspicious, eccentric, suicide-obsessed man named Osamu Dazai. Their first case together turns out to be far more complicated than Kunikida anticipated -- and it looks like the detective agency's sworn enemy, the Port Mafia, is somehow involved, too! Set two years before the events of the manga series, this is the tale of how two seemingly incompatible personalities end up forming the partnership that has made them one of Yokohama's top detective duos!

Osamu Dazai's Entrance Exam

Bungo Stray Dogs, Vol. 1 (light novel)

Lili Airen

Aislinn G.

i don't usually read light novels of manga series but bungo stray dogs is the exception bc this series has had me in a chokehold for years now. i've read the manga some years ago and watched the anime even longer ago (6 years iirc?) but for some reason ewan ko palagi ko rin talaga nakakalimutan that there are light novels in the first place idk

Before he joined the Armed Detective Agency, Osamu Dazai was the youngest-ever executive with the Port Mafia, the most notorious underground crime syndicate in all of Yokohama. Three of its members-Dazai, Odasaku, and Ango-formed a camaraderie despite their vast disparities in rank. When Ango suddenly goes missing, Odasaku, a lowly Mafia grunt, receives direct orders from their boss to find him...only for Ango's trail to lead Odasaku to a mysterious, foreign criminal organization called Mimic. At last, the reason why Dazai parted ways with the Port Mafia is revealed!

Osamu Dazai and the Dark Era

Bungo Stray Dogs, Vol. 2 (light novel)

We were like soldiers who had by chance run into one another on the desert battlefield, crowded around a campfire together, quietly exchanging something or other and drinking, just sharing a moment of one another’s time.

In the world we live in, finding these types of relationships are rare, like coming upon a golden palace in the middle of a dense forest. If this relationship were to ever be broken, there would be no second chance to build something like this with anyone else ever again.

4.5 stars. if anyone needs me, i'll be looking up buraiha trio fan art and surfing ao3 tags for domestic fluff odango

Ten years before the events of the manga series, a fateful encounter brings a professional bodyguard named Yukichi Fukuzawa and an arrogant boy genius named Ranpo Edogawa together. The result: the establishment of the Armed Detective Agency, an organization that takes on dangerous jobs even the police won't handle!

The Untold Origins of the Detective Agency

Bungo Stray Dogs, Vol. 3 (light novel)

this was split into two parts: 1) a day at the detective agency where the ada members coming up with ideas for atsushi’s entrance exam and 2) the untold origins of the detective agency about how fukuzawa first met ranpo and his decision to eventually establish the ada

a day at the detective agency

this first part was soooo cute ! i’m kinda upset it wasn’t made into an ova or sumn bc it’s just so silly i love them sm <3 (though i don’t really understand why they were so intent on making dazai play the bomber bc then doesn’t atsushi already know what dazai looks like

What if the Port Mafia’s attack dog, Ryuunosuke Akutagawa, had joined the Armed Detective Agency? Likewise, what if Atsushi Nakajima belonged to the Port Mafia? In the parallel universe of Bungo Stray Dogs: Beast, Akutagawa’s desperate mission to rescue his younger sister from the Port Mafia’s clutches brings him face-to-face with the organization’s fearsome White Reaper…aka Atsushi Nakajima. What does fate have in store for this alternate tale of darkness versus light…?

Beast

Bungo Stray Dogs, Vol. 6 (light novel)

kanina pa ako naiyak dito bas2s ka asagiri tara sapakan nalang sa kanto

4.5 stars. asagiri sapakan ulit tara bat mi pinapahirapan si chuuya

Mafia troubles abound for the Armed Detective Agency! Atsushi has rescued Kyouka Izumi, an unwilling Port Mafiaassassin, but with a body count in the double digits, can Kyouka's crimes be forgiven? Meanwhile, a captured Dazai comes face-to-face with the man who detests him more than anyone else alive--his ex-partner in crime, Chuuya Nakahara! Can Atsushi and Dazai overcome their Mafia woes, or is the writing on the wall for both of them?

Bungo Stray Dogs, Vol. 3

Alina

ellie

“no matter how brilliant an ideal may be, if the path to realization is too far, then the light at the end is nothing more than an illusion, and those ideals - meaningless.” | tw: mention(s) of suicide; suicide attempt(s); blood; slight gore

Zita Azlina

"[A] novelization of the hit anime film Bungo Stray Dogs: Dead Apple"--Back cover.

Dead Apple

Bungo Stray Dogs, Vol. 5 (light Novel)

avie

Klerri

The Armed Detective Agency's latest case brings them to a strange island off the coast of Yokohama called "Standard Island," but what awaits them turns out to be far more complicated than expected: a bomb, time travel, a mysterious skill user named H.G. Wells... Will this incident spell the end of Yokohama itself?!

55 Minutes

Bungo Stray Dogs, Vol. 4 (light novel)

erika kashima

gülsu

Amanda Faith

acacia

The entirety of the majestic Sky Casino is turned against the Hunting Dogs when they uncover a terror plot that will shake the very foundations of the world. Their only hope is to capture the casino’s general manager, Sigma, the man without a past! Meanwhile, Atsushi and Kyouka fight from the shadows, seeking to prove the innocence of the detective agency through their actions. Can they find the all-powerful “Page” that’s at the core of the Decay of the Angel’s villainous plot?

Bungo Stray Dogs, Vol. 18

kayla le

Ranpo is forced into a difficult battle with Mushitarou, whose skill allows him to erase all evidence of a crime. Between a string of mystery novelist murders, Dazai's arrest, and a mysterious organization known as "Decay of an Angel," the twists and turns go beyond expectations!

Bungo Stray Dogs, Vol. 7 (light Novel) Dazai, Chuya at Fifteen Years Old

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