'Bungou Stray Dogs' TV anime gets new season, Season 4 teaser visual revealed
Written by: Jayson Beltrano
Published on: November 07, 2021 at 19:55 PHT (GMT+8)
After two and a half years, "Bungou Stray Dogs" television (TV) anime series based on Kafka Asagiri and Sango Harukawa's manga is getting a new season. Its official anime Twitter account has revealed a teaser visual with the announcement of the anime's comeback.
This new season is the fourth season of the anime series and studio BONES is returning for the animation production. Takuya Igarashi is directing the series, Yoji Enokido is writing the scripts and Nobuhiro Arai is in charge of the character designs. The other staff from the previous season is returning for the sequel.
The cast members from the previous season are reprising their roles.
Last September, a live-action film 'Bungo Stray Dogs the Movie: BEAST' was announced and is scheduled to premiere in Japanese theaters on January 7, 2022.
A teaser trailer was also streamed by the official YouTube channel of KADOKAWA Anime for the upcoming film.
Bungou Stray Dogs the Movie Official Site: https://bungo-movie.com/
More details in a while.
Bungou Stray Dogs is Japanese seinen manga series written by Kafka Asagiri and illustrated by Sango Harukawa. It has been serialized since 2012 in Kadokawa's Young Ace magazine and has been compiled into 20 tankōbon volumes as of December 2020.
The series was adapted into a TV anime with three seasons. The first season consisting of 12 episodes aired in Japan on April 7, 2016 and ended on June 23 of the same year. The second season consisting of another 12 episodes aired from October 6 until December 22, 2016. Two years after, a third season was announced and aired from April 12, 2019 to June 28 of the same year consisting of 12 episodes. All seasons were produced and animated by Studio BONES under the direction of Takuya Igarashi and scripting by Youji Enokido.
The cast members includes Yūto Uemura as Atsushi Nakajima, Mamoru Miyano as Osamu Dazai, Yoshimasa Hosoya as Doppo Kunikida, Sumire Morohoshi as Kyōka Izumi, Kensho Ono as Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, Kishō Taniyama as Chūya Nakahara, Hiroshi Kamiya as Ranpo Edogawa, Hiroyuki Kagura as Kenji Miyazawa, Yu Shimamura as Akiko Yosano, Toshiyuki Toyonaga as Junichirō Tanizaki, Chiaki Omigawa as Naomi Tanizaki and Rikiya Koyama as Yukichi Fukuzawa.
The series follows the members of the "Armed Detective Agency" throughout their everyday lives. The show mainly focuses on the weretiger Atsushi Nakajima, who joins others gifted with supernatural powers to accomplish different tasks including running a business, solving mysteries, and carrying out missions assigned by the mafia.
Source: Bungou Stray Dogs Movie Official Twitter
