History Manga / BungoStrayDogs

** A justified example of this trope is Vice Minister Tanzo Tonan from the Ministry of Justice. [[spoiler: While he is part of a lawfully good organization and was generous to give Fukuzawa with the purifying Shikyu Award, he ''detests'' the Armed Detective Agency for including members with criminal records, particularly their president for assassinating the former's father and other war hawks during the end of the Great War. Due to this, he assembled a secret group of government officials to make the Armed Detective Agency pay for their past crimes, unbeknownst to everyone.]]

** [[spoiler: On the bright side, Ochi Fukuchi was the energetic and boisterous leader of the Hunting Dogs who was famous for his involvement in the Great War (along with the dramatized movies he starred in). On the dark side, however, he is also Kamui, the cold-hearted leader of the Decay of the Angels who was responsible for framing the Armed Detective Agency via the Page, leading his Hunting Dogs comrades to capture them with brute force. This was due to Fukuzawa's refusal on going to the warzone with him over a decade ago.]]
** A justified example of this trope is Vice Minister Tanzo Tonan from the Ministry of Justice. [[spoiler: While he is part of a lawfully good organization and was generous to give Fukuzawa with the purifying Shikyu Award, he ''detests'' the Armed Detective Agency for including members with criminal records, particularly their president for assassinating the former's father and other war hawks during the end of the Great War. Due to this, he assembled a secret group of government officials to pay the Armed Detective Agency for their past crimes.]]

* TheAce: Fukuzawa. An excellent leader, useful power, and not even Kunikida can beat him in combat thanks to his sword-fighting skills. [[spoiler: When he's handcuffed and Ouchi attacks him, he manages to [[BeyondTheImpossible block the blade with the chain holding the handcuffs together]]]].
* ActionGirl: All girls are as just as competent as the guys - for example Akiko Yosano (see CombatMedic below), Kyouka Izumi (LittleMissBadass) and Ichiyou Higuchi (DarkActionGirl). Even characters who you don't expect it from (such as the Agency's two clerks) turn out to be this.

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

%%* BrotherSisterIncest: Junichirou and Naomi Tanizaki. Quite onesided on Naomi's part.

* TeensAreShort: Kyouka and Kenji are both much shorter than the adult cast, and the thirteen-year-old Q practically resembles a kindergartener. It's more prevalent in the Fifteen arc where there are more teenaged characters, all of whom are dwarfed by the adults and are shown to be around Chuuya's height, who cannot be taller than 5’3.

* TheGoodTheBadAndTheEvil: We start with the Detective Agency (The Good) vs. Port Mafia (The Bad), and then The Guild (The Evil) arrives. [[spoiler: Interestingly, The Guild arc doesn't seem to lead to FriendlyEnemy status, despite attempts to forge an alliance between the Agency and Mafia.]] After the Guild largely disbands, the Rats in the House of the Dead arrive to take their place as The Evil.
* TheNapoleon: Among the adult characters Chuuya Nakahara is the shortest one and extremely hot-tempered. It is hard to tell though if he does have HeightAngst because of this, as only Dazai jokes about his height and they clearly can't stand each other.
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Every time Akutagawa meets Atsushi, he delivers variations of his 'Weaklings should die' speech. It [[BreakThemByTalking deeply affects]] Atsushi at first, but he manages to [[HeroicResolve overcome it later]]. The two effectively give each other one before teaming up to fight Fitzgerald.

* ''Bungo Stray Dogs Wan!'' – A chibi comedy manga starring the BSD characters, currently with eight volumes. Has its own anime adaptation.
* ''Anime/BungoStrayDogsDeadApple'' – An anime movie set between the second and third seasons, or between the Guild Arc and the Cannibalism Arc of the manga. Has its own light novel and manga adaptations.

* ''Storm Bringer'' — a light novel prequel continuing the story from ''Dazai, Chuuya, Fifteen Years Old''.
* Several stage play spinoffs

''Bungo Stray Dogs'' (''Literary Master Stray Dogs'') is a {{Seinen}} manga by Kafka Asagiri and Harukawa 35 (pronounced "Sango") which began serialization in 2012. The manga has also received an official ongoing English translation by Yen Press. An anime adaptation by Creator/StudioBONES began airing in April 2016, followed by a second season in October that year and a third season in April 2019. Its official anime website is [[http://bungo-stray-dogs.jp/ here]]. In addition, the series is popular enough to spawn multiple light novel spinoffs, several stageplays, a movie in 2018 and an on-going smartphone game that has also received an English localization.

Atsushi Nakajima is kicked out of his orphanage. To make matters worse, there are rumors of a tiger on the loose and when he gets to a river, starving and with nowhere to go, there's a guy [[StartsWithASuicide committing suicide]].

* SpinOff: Multiple ones.
** ''Osamu Dazai's Entrance Exam'' – A light novel prequel, loosely adapted as episodes 6-7 of the anime's first season.
** ''Osamu Dazai and the Dark Era'' – A light novel prequel, adapted as episodes 1-4 of the anime's second season.
** ''Origin of the Detective Agency: Untold Story'' – A light novel prequel.
** ''Bungo Stray Dogs Gaiden: Ayatsuji Yukito vs. Kyougoku Natsuhiko'' – A light novel side-story about a different set of characters. Has its own manga adaptation.
** ''55 Minutes'' – A light novel set around the Guild Aftermath Arc.
** ''Bungo Stray Dogs Wan!'' – A chibi comedy manga starring the BSD characters, currently with eight volumes. Has its own anime adaptation.
** ''Anime/BungoStrayDogsDeadApple'' – An anime movie set between the second and third seasons, or between the Guild Arc and the Cannibalism Arc of the manga. Has its own light novel and manga adaptations.
** ''Dazai, Chuuya, Fifteen Years Old'' – A light novel prequel, adapted as episodes 1-3 of the anime's third season.
** ''BEAST - White Akutagawa, Black Atsushi'' – A light novel set in a MirrorUniverse. Has a manga adaptation. Is due to be adapted into a live-action movie.
** ''Bungo Stray Dogs: Mayoi Inu Kaikitan/Tales of the Lost'' – a smartphone game
** Several stage play spinoffs
** ''Storm Bringer'' — a light novel prequel continuing the story from ''Dazai, Chuuya, Fifteen Years Old''.

[[caption-width-right:350: The pen is mightier than the sword.]]

''Bungo Stray Dogs'' (''Literary Master Stray Dogs'') is a {{Seinen}} manga by Kafka Asagiri and Harukawa 35 (pronounced "Sango") which began serialization in 2012. The manga has also received an official ongoing English translation by Yen Press. An anime adaptation began airing in April 2016, followed by a second season in October that year and a third season in April 2019. Its official anime website is [[http://bungo-stray-dogs.jp/ here]]. In addition, the series is popular enough to spawn multiple light novel spinoffs, several stageplays, a movie in 2018 and an on-going smartphone game that has also received an English localization.

* RealityWritingBook: The {{MacGuffin}} Fitzgerald is seeking. Atsushi's ability is supposedly the ticket to finding it.

* ShoutOut: What does [[spoiler: Fitzgerald]] do upon entering the courtroom? [[GivingSomeoneThePointerFinger Dramatically point]] and yell "[[Franchise/AceAttorney OBJECTION]]!" Additionally, the same episode is chock-full of shout-outs to ''Literature/TheGreatGatsby'', from characters' names to "Eyes of God" facial recognition system.

** When the author designed a version of Dan Brown as part of a promotion for Dan's latest book, the character was also given this ability. (Though to everyone else that "awesomeness" is [[DanBrowned gibberish]].)

* DanBrowned: The author designed a character based on Dan Brown, as part of a promotion for Dan's latest book. The character's power relies on reasoning just as bad as his books' reasoning, with the only difference being that everyone can actually see through the hogwash.

* CastHerd: It starts out with the Armed Detective Agency, the Port Mafia, the Guild([[spoiler: that eventually splinters into two small groups]]) and the Government's Special Abilities Division. The story has since grown to include many, many side groups, such as the Rats, the Decay of Angels and the Hunting Dogs.

* CruelAndUnusualDeath: The terrorist organization Decay of Angels murders several government officials in extremely gruesome ways, based on the signs indicating the imminent death of angels in Buddhism:

* CuttingTheKnot: [[spoiler: There is a large loophole in the plan of the Decay of Angels: while the One Order will arrive on the airport and will be received by Fukuchi - during the vampire infestation - the Agency can just kill Bram. Fukuchi is aware of this and proposes that Jouno is there to keep them from]].

* FugitiveArc: In the Decay of Angels arc, the villains use the power of the Book to frame the Armed Detective Agency as terrorists. Most of the arc is the Agency trying to avoid arrest while looking for a way to prove their innocence.

* NiceHat:
** Chuuya Nakahara. [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chūya_Nakahara The poet he's named after also wore a similar hat]]. [[spoiler:The hat also serves the purpose of allowing the wearer to initiate Corruption in Chuuya by speaking the phrase 'Oh grantors of dark disgrace, you need not wake me again']].
** [[spoiler: Also Natsume Soseki]].

%%* BlindingBangs: Edgar Allan Poe.

* BlindingBangs: Edgar Allan Poe.

* BrotherSisterIncest: Junichirou and Naomi Tanizaki. Quite onesided on Naomi's part.

* CallingYourAttacks: Some Ability Users like to do this. However, it isn't needed.

* AdvertisedExtra: A bunch of characters, due to LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters happening.

* CastHerd: It starts out with the Armed Detective Agency, the Port Mafia, the Guild([[spoiler: that eventually splinters into two small groups]]) and the Government's Special Abilities Division. The story has since grown to include many, many side groups, such as the Rats, the Decay of Angels and the Hunting Dogs. [[LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters Now to take a breath]].

* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: Given the {{Cast Herd}}s by organization the cast is split into. The series seems to use pretty much every character that isn't part of the main cast or [[ChuckCunninghamSyndrome Chucked]] out as either a background character or in a minor role, [[BreadEggsBreadedEggs or both]].

* OneDegreeOfSeparation: Due to the LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters this story features, it's very prone to this. [[spoiler: Notably, this happens with Oguri]].

* {{Meganekko}}: Louisa May Alcott.

* AdultFear:
** What Kyouka's parents had to face: [[spoiler: killing their daughter by a forced blood-controlling ability. Kyouka's mum orders Demon Snow to kill her before any harm comes to Kyouka.]]
** The parents of [[spoiler:the original Chuuya]] were told their [[spoiler:young son had died to prevent them from saving him from the real horror of being kidnapped and used as a test subject by the government, with the experiments either resulting in him either forgetting about them and escaping into the streets or dying]].

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* AllianceWithAnAbomination: Lovecraft is heavily implied to be a shape-shifting eldritch abomination who works under contract for one of the main villains. It's never made clear what the terms of this contract are, but he returns to the sea after the villain's defeat.

* AlternateUniverse: There are definitely signs that this is the case. Aside from the supernatural abilities most of the characters have, there are multiple references to a "Great War". The light novel that describe Dazai's entrance exam into the Armed Detective Agency features a former defense facility that was abandoned after the Great War, while the light novel describing the events that led to Dazai leaving the Port Mafia featured a group of ex-soldiers who fought in the last Great War, suggesting that it happened at least a few decades before the series began, at most.