Bungou Stray Dogs appears to be one of those rare beasts where it is amazing, remains consistently amazing over multiple seasons, and might actually get fully adapted as a series providing it doesn’t fully overtake the source and go horribly wrong with filler. It isn’t something that happens very often outside of the shounen genre. It you have been following the charming tale of these dysfunctional detectives, then why not finish it up with the source material?
Where To Start The Bungou Stray Dogs Manga After The Anime?
If you have finished all five seasons of the Bungou Stray Dogs anime, you can start the manga at Chapter 110.
The Bungou Stray Dogs manga is still ongoing, but season 5 of the anime caught up to the manga, forcing them to do a mostly anime-original final episode for that season.
If you watched the Bungou Stray Dogs: Wan spin-off anime, which also has a manga, the best advice is to read the Wan manga form the ebginning. The anime doesn’t even start at Chapter 1 and skips as many chapters as it adapts.
If you watched the Bungou Stray Dogs: Dead Apple movie, which is based off a spin-off manga, you can piuck up the Dead Apple manga after the movie at Chapter 16.
What to Expect From The Bungou Stray Dogs Manga?
Like any anime, there are many small moments in the Bungou Stray Dogs manga that were cut from the anime. However, these moments are small character interactions or jokes, and nothing that would require you to read the manga from the beginning.
Is The Bungou Stray Dogs Manga Over?
The Bungou Stray Dogs manga is still ongoing. Since launching in 2013, it releases one or two volumes per year.
Bungou Stray Dogs Spin-Offs
There are a few Bungou Stray Dogs spin-offs you can distract yourself with while you wait for the manga to slowly eek out.
- Bungou Stray Dogs: Another Story – Yukito Ayatsuji vs. Natsuhiko Kyogoku (Manga, Ongoing) – Side story about a Skill user PI outside of the Armed Detective Agency/Port Mafia story.
- Bungou Stray Dogs: Beast (Manga, Complete) – A What If about what if Akutagawa was NOT taken in by Port Mafia and instead recruited by the Armed Detective Agency
- Bungou Stray Dogs: Dazai, Chuuya, Age Fifteen (Manga, Ongoing) – Explores the past of Dazai and Chuuya
Bungou Stray Dogs also has a light novel series. Each individual novel in the series usually covers a season and/or spin-off, but some are original stories.
- Bungou Stray Dogs Novel 1 adapts Bungou Stray Dogs Season 1 anime
- Bungou Stray Dogs Novel 2 adapts Bungou Stray Dogs Season 2 anime
- Bungou Stray Dogs Novel 8 adapts Bungou Stray Dogs Season 3 anime
- Bungou Stray Dogs Novel 3 adapts Bungou Stray Dogs Season 4 anime
- Bungou Stray Dogs Novel 6 adapts the Bungou Stray Dogs Dead Apple spin-off movie/manga
- Novel 4 adapts the Yukito Ayatsuji vs. Natsuhiko Kyogoku manga
- Novel 7 Adapts the Beast manga
- Novel 8 adapts the Dazai, Chuuya, Age Fifteen manga
- Novel 5, 9, 10 are original.
Will There Be A Bungou Stray Dogs Season 6?
Season 5 of Bungou Stray Dogs caught up to the manga. As such, while there may be more Bungou Stray Dogs anime someday, it will not be for years probably.
