Bungou Stray Dogs 5th Season (Bungo Stray Dogs 5)

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Type: TV

Episodes: 11

Status: Currently Airing

Aired: Jul 12, 2023 to ?

Premiered: Summer 2023

Broadcast: Wednesdays at 23:00 (JST)

Producers: WOWOW, Lantis, Movic, Glovision, Sunrise Music, Kadokawa, Sony Music Solutions, Bandai Namco Music Live

Licensors: None found, add some

Studios: Bones

Source: Manga

Genres: Action, Mystery, Supernatural

Themes: Adult Cast, Organized Crime, Super Power

Demographic: Seinen

Duration: 23 min. per ep.

Rating: R - 17+ (violence & profanity)

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Score: 8.70¹ (scored by 12,797 users)

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Ranked: #53²

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Popularity: #1817

Members: 112,667

Favorites: 742

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The Armed Detective Agency is still on the run from the Hunting Dogs, but not all hope is lost. Detective Ranpo Edogawa has a plan to prove the Agency's innocence and save the world from chaos: to find and capture Kamui—the leader of the terrorist organization Decay of the Angel.

In order to determine Kamui's whereabouts, Ranpo and his colleague Atsushi Nakajima must convince Genichirou Fukuchi, the renowned captain of the Hunting Dogs, for amnesty. Although Fukuchi was tasked with arresting the members of the Agency, his past with the Agency's president, Yukichi Fukuzawa, may be the key to earning his trust. But unbeknownst to them, Fukuchi might not be as honorable as he proclaims.

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Background

Bungou Stray Dogs 5th Season was released on Blu-ray and DVD in four volumes from September 27, 2023, to December 22, 2023.

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Adaptation:	Bungou Stray Dogs
Prequel:	Bungou Stray Dogs 4th Season

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Characters & Voice Actors

Dazai, Osamu

Main

Miyano, Mamoru
Japanese

Nakajima, Atsushi

Main

Uemura, Yuuto
Japanese

Nakahara, Chuuya

Supporting

Taniyama, Kishou
Japanese

Edogawa, Ranpo

Supporting

Kamiya, Hiroshi
Japanese

Akutagawa, Ryuunosuke

Supporting

Ono, Kensho
Japanese

Montgomery, Lucy Maud

Supporting

Hanazawa, Kana
Japanese

Dostoyevsky, Fyodor

Supporting

Ishida, Akira
Japanese

Yosano, Akiko

Supporting

Shimamura, Yuu
Japanese

Izumi, Kyouka

Supporting

Morohoshi, Sumire
Japanese

Kunikida, Doppo

Supporting

Hosoya, Yoshimasa
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Suzuki, Mari

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Kurakane, Chiaki

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Takemoto, Nobuhito

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Igarashi, Takuya

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Opening Theme

"Tetsu no Ori (鉄の檻)" by GRANRODEO

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Ending Theme

	1: "Kiseki (軌跡)" by Luck Life (ラックライフ) (eps 1,2,4-)
	2: "Tetsu no Ori (鉄の檻)" by GRANRODEO (eps 3)

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Jul 27, 2023

ShadowReacts

Recommended

Preliminary (3/11 eps)

Bungo Stray Dogs is back with its 5th season, and it wastes no time at all. Season 5 leaves off directly where season 4 ended. Season 4 of Bungo Stray Dogs ends with Sigma seeing Nikolai as he is falling down from the casino. One of the reasons I loved season 4 so much is because there was heavy focus on Ranpo, and he is one of the most interesting characters to watch. Season 5 focuses on him a good amount too, as they show him bailing the agency out of trouble time and time again, solving cases and coming in clutch at the right ... times. Another reason why season 5 is great is because Fukuchi is a very interesting character. It was revealed to us in ep 3 that Fukuchi was actually Kamui, who happens to be the leader of the hunting dogs. We also know that Fukuchi has a long and complicated relationship with Fukuzawa, and at some point their paths diverged which caused them to be on opposing sides currently.

Characters: Bungo Stray Dogs has a wide, unique, and well fleshed out cast of characters. I think Atsushi, the main character, is one of the less interesting characters. Nothing wrong with him, but he is a very standard anime protagonist; we've seen his character archetype time and time again. The earlier seasons focus on him and his story a lot (which is also one of the few reasons why I think the earlier seasons of Bungo Stray Dogs aren't as good as the newer seasons). Besides him, we have some excellent side characters to choose from. Dazai, Chuuya, Ranpo, Akutagawa, Kunikida, Fukuzawa, Fukuchi, Kyouka, and Yosano are just a few examples of excellent characters in the show. Each of the characters gets their spotlight and time to shine. Sometimes, there will be an entire ep dedicated to fleshing one character out, and never at any point was it boring or stale to watch, that's how well written these characters are.

Characters: 9.5/10

Animation: Bungo Stray Dogs has always had very good animation, and this is credit to studio Bones. The fight scenes are crisp and fluid, the movements are natural, and outside of the battle sequences the rest of the show looks great too. Not much else to say here really.

Animation: 9/10

OST: Bungo Stray Dogs has a solid OST that works really well with the show and fits the vibe of the particular scene it is used in.

OST: 9/10

OP/ED: Bungo Stray Dogs has always had incredibly great OPs (the eds are a little more underwhelming for me, but i tend to prefer ops most of the time anyways, so im biased here). The new OP by Granrodeo is an absolute banger and I've listened to the full version on spotify quite a number of times. Up until now mmy favorite Bungo OPs have been op 3, followed by op 1. I absolutely love Granrodeo as a group and the new one is equally top tier (nothing wrong with screen mode tho, their ops are very good as well)

OP/ED: 9.5/10

Voice acting: The Japanese voice acting for Bungo Stray Dogs has always been very solid, and this season is no exception. Every character sounds how they're supposed to sound, and the casting choices were well thought out. No complaints here

Voice acting: 9/10

Overall: Should you watch Bungo Stray Dogs season 5? Definitely. If you're a fan of the previous 4 seasons (which you most likely are if you're reading this review for season 5), then you'll love this season.

Overall score: 9/10

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Aug 3, 2023

Aury22

Recommended

Preliminary (4/11 eps)

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By now I consider Bungo stray dogs one of my favorite manga, and after reading it and rewatching the anime I realized how much Bones ruined a lot of scenes and character relationships by skipping both details and whole panels/pages.

In itself the anime is well done, the animations are spectacular, the effects, the sound, the voice acting.
What is not good is pure and simple adaptation.
And that's enough to disappoint me.

The whole thing becomes less emotional, less engaging, and on the contrary it's speedy and insipid.

This makes me angry because everything in the series, every character, is thought out deeply and in detail, each with their ...

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Aug 23, 2023

KizanOfTheSix

Mixed Feelings

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Preliminary (7/11 eps)

Disclaimer: Don't let other people's reviews ruin your enjoyment of the show. If you LOVE BSD like a lot of people do then you should love it. This review is just an opinion of someone who likes to write to practice communicating their thoughts. Enjoy what you enjoy don't let other people bring you down :)

When I think of Bungo Stray Dogs I think of the sunk costs fallacy. Every few seasons I see a new season of Bungo Stray Dogs coming out and decide to rewatch it thinking "If it keeps getting renewed I must just be missing something" ... or "Surely this season will tie everything together and this is what people are waiting for." This is never the case.

Dialogue/Story (2/10) It's just People Reading off a Script:
For its entire lifespan, BSD has relied on exposition dumps and flashbacks to tell its story. Every time a decent piece of world building is hinted at, it's always ruined 10 seconds later by a character explaining the minutia of every detail of something. The conversations are so full of cheesy exposition it leaves no room for the viewer to infer or learn anything about the world on their own. It feels fully as if there is a person standing in a recording booth, holding your hand while reading off of a piece of paper that describes the plot of the episode or scene in a cool voice. This kind of exposition ends up undermining the characters themselves because of how unnatural it feels. (No hate to the voice actors. They do a great job. It's just the writing.)

Characters (5/10) Interesting Characters are too Inconsistent:
People like Daiza and Doppo are not poorly written characters. They have clear motivations when we observe their pasts and are willing to risk everything for their convictions. However, these characters are all too often used as empty vessels to convey a piece of exposition or some odd comedic tone that is completely inconsistent with how they would behave normally. Overlooking this lack of character consistency is one thing, but interesting characters in BSD are completely overshadowed by the hundreds of thousands of flat, meaningless characters who's motivations are so recycled it could eliminate the pacific garbage patch. Every villain in the show is a terrorist or politician who's motivations boil down to "Government good" or "Govenrment bad" with no nuance or depth. These terrorists are then killed or put in jail and then the next terrorist pops up and tells us his slightly altered version of "Government bad." Rinse and repeat. Any consistency in these characters is also drowned out by the wildly fluctuating tone in the show.

Tone (3/10) Funny? Serious? Action? Mystery?:
Bungo Stray Dogs constantly jumps from one genera to another on a dime. Some of these switches it does seamlessly, while during others the quality drops so drastically it's impossible not to notice. This leads to a plethora of story beats and otherwise compelling scenes that are washed out by a complete indecision around the tone in this show. A good example is episode 1 of season 5. There is a very compelling scene where a character is depicted going through extreme mental and emotional anguish coming to grips with a reality he cannot bare. The scene ends halfway through and the opening then starts. This sets a good tone for the episode to be perhaps a bit dark and profound. After the opening, there are two minutes of dialogue (unrelated to the previous scene) in which the characters sit in a room and say "What are we going to do" "I don't know what do you think we should do" "I don't know." The first scene resumes and ends in an even more emotionally gripping and dark tone. Directly after this scene, two characters have a comedic dialogue with each other to explain what happened with them in the last season as if neither of them had ever experienced it. In the first 7 minutes of this episode (1:30 of which is the opening) there are three distinct tones which completely clash. It cannot decide what it wants to be. It wants to be fun and goofy while exploring serious, dark pasts while also solving mysteries while being fast paced and action packed. None of these elements compliment, but in fact constantly invalidate each other.

Overall (3/10) Too inconsistent to be Entertaining or Compelling:
Bungo Stray Dogs waters down all of its good elements by adopting every trope in every genera it morphs into. Almost all the villains are 1 dimensional and cheesy. The tone constantly shifts unpredictably creating a feeling of a story that has 3 different teams with 3 different goals writing each episode. The characters are erratic in their behaviors and feel unnatural due to the need to constantly exposition dump in every scene where something isn't exploding.

TLDR, Maybe I'm too old and have seen too much anime but I think BSD is similar to something like SAO. When SAO came out it was really exciting and fun because of its novelty. Now you look back at it and think "Man, Kirito is such a boring character. This story makes no sense. Wait Kayaba killed 4000 people why again?" I thinks BSD is SAO for some people who are experiencing anime for the first time or maybe haven't been chronically online as much as I have.

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