History Manga / BungouStrayDogs

* TheChessmaster: Dazai and Ougai are the most notable throughout the series (Dazai is quite notorious for this in universe, while Ougai plays the ObfuscatingStupidity card at times), [[spoiler: plus Gide and Oda in ''Dark Era'' due to their abilities]].

* SuperStrength: Kenji Miyazawa, but he has to be running on an empty stomach first.

* NiceHat: Chuuya Nakahara. [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ch%C5%ABya_Nakahara The poet he's named after also wore a similar hat.]]

* PowerNullifier: Dazai's power, No Longer Human, is the temporary version.

* PowerIncontinence: Atsushi at the beginning of the story and Chuuya when he unleashes his true ability.

* IronicName: Applied to the Armed Detective Agency, who are armed with superpowers but aren't detectives. The only aversion to this would be Ranpo Edogawa whose "power" is just his awesome intellect. Yeah, ''that'' Ranpo Edogawa, listed under AwesomenessByAnalysis.

* DamnItFeelsGoodToBeAGangster: The Guild. A bunch of international people named after real life authors who have awesome powers, live swanky lifestyles and kick tonnes of ass. However, averted by Kyouka, who once was a pawn of the port mafia and at present still lives in fear of them despite her HeelFaceTurn.

* DangerousForbiddenTechnique: Chuuya's true ability, which will kill him and heavily damage surroundings unless Dazai is nearby to cancel its effect.

* NamedAfterSomebodyFamous: Everyone, from the protagonists to the one note characters, is named after a famous author or their characters.

* WritersCannotDoMath: Mostly in the form of ImprobableAge, Kunikida is the biggest victim of this (he used to be a math teacher before joining the Agency, despite being only 22 years old and one of the Agency's earlier members), but the timeline of the also 22-year-old Dazai's backstory (or [[MysteriousPast what's known of it at least]]) doesn't make much sense either.

* AnthropomorphicPersonification: The characters are based on Japanese and Western writers and their supowerpower names are based on the books that they wrote. Other than that, fictional characters like Tanizaki Naomi are also based on the writer's published books.

* IronicName: Applied to the Armed Detective Agency, who are armed with superpowers but aren't detectives. The only aversion to this would be Rampo Edogawa whose "power" is just his awesome intellect. Yeah, ''that'' Ranpo Edogawa, listed under AwesomenessByAnalysis.

* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: Applied to an entire organization- the Port Mafia doesn't seem to have a proper name, they're referred to as Port Mafia because they're a mafia whose primary turf is a port.

** Atsushi's is ochazuke, a Japanese rice dish made with green tea.

* TrademarkFavouriteFood: Crepes for Kyouka, specifically with strawberries and cream. Atsushi's gotten crepes for her twice.

* WordSaladTitle: ''Bungo'' is Japanese written language, ''Stray Dogs'' is self-explanatory. While characters are based on real writers or poets, few of them can be called "stray". The author said that they wanted a title that [[AGoodNameForARockBand sounded like the name of a rock band]].

* BokeAndTsukkomiRoutine: The interactions between Dazai and Kunikida when they're not working on a case often play out like .

* NiceHat: Chuuya Nakahara. Note that this trope applies not only to a character, but to his real life prototype too.

* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: Applied to an entire organization- Port Mafia doesn't seem to have an actual name, they're referred to as Port Mafia because they're a mafia whose primary turf is a port.

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* IronicName: Applied to the Armed Detective Agency, who are armed with superpowers but aren't detectives. The only aversion to this would be Rampo Edogawa [[spoiler: whose "power" is just his awesome intellect]]. Yeah, ''that'' Ranpo Edogawa, listed under AwesomenessByAnalysis.

''Bungou Stray Dogs'' (''Literary Master Stray Dogs'') is a {{Seinen}} manga by Kafka Asagiri and Sango Harukawa which began serialization in 2012. It also has novels and an upcoming anime in 2016, running for a Spring cour and a Fall cour. Its official anime website is [[http://bungo-stray-dogs.jp/ here]].

* BlackEyesOfEvil: In manga vol. 5 artist Sango Harukawa [[WordOfGod confirms]] that ''evil'' characters in ''Bungo Stray Dogs'' have darker eyes than the ''good'' ones.

* ComfortFood: ''Chazuke'' for Atsushi.

* DefeatMeansFriendship: Deconstructed. Ranpo defeated Edgar Allan Poe in the past and Ranpo's egotistical Sore Winner showboating made Edgar hate the man he had admired until that moment. It wasn't until Ranpo defeated him a second time and treated him kindly in the aftermath that Edgar began to like him again.

* TranslationTrainwreck (or lack of knowledge): Why Dazai's power ends up translated as "human elimination" sometimes. [[note]]"Shikkaku" can mean "disqualification" or "elimination", but the book's name is "No Longer Human" so it should be translated as such[[/note]]

* WhatKindOfLamePowerIsHeartAnyway: This trope is [[ZigZaggingTrope going crazy]] in case of Motojirou Kaiji's ability. First you were made aware that his ability is ''making lemon-shaped bombs'', that is quite handy, but later you learn that [[spoiler: it isn't his real power. The real one is ''not being harmed by lemon-shaped bombs'', which could make him a loser in the SuperpowerLottery if he wasn't using exactly this kind of bombs.]]