The first two seasons of Bungo Stray Dogs has made its way overseas to various distributors and we saw Funimation bringing out the home video release for it with Crunchyroll this past year. Now, the third season is in the works and new details have landed with the release of the 16th volume of the manga this week. The basics are all still very much what we hoped for as the core team is back as the anime adaptation will be produced by Bones with Takuya Igarashi directing it based on the series composition by Yoji Enokido again.
Nobuhiro Arai served as both character designer and chief animation director for the first season but that has not been confirmed for the new season yet.
The English cast for the series includes Max Mittelman as Atsushi Nakajima and Kaiji Tang taking on the role of Osamu Dazaki for the series. Additional cast includes Patrick Seitz as Doppo Kunikida, Vic Mignogna as Rampo Edogawa, Spike Spencer as Junichirō Tanizaki, Lucien Dodge as Kenji Miyazawa, and Erica Lindbeck as Akiko Yosano.
The manga comes from writer Kafka Asagiri and artist Harukawa35 has been moving along since 2012 and had a two-cour anime season and a feature film.
The Japanese cast includes Yuto Uemura as Atsushi Nakajima, Mamoru Miyano as Osamu Dazai, Yoshimasa Hosoya as Doppo Kunikida, Hiroshi Kamiya as Ranpo Edogawa, Toshiyuki Toyonaga as Junichirou Tanizaki, Hiroyuki Kagura as Kenji Miyazawa, Yuu Shimamura as Akiko Yosano, Chiaki Omigawa as Naomi Tanizak, Rikiya Koyama as Yukichi Fukuzawa, Kensho Ono as Ryuunosuke Akutagawa, Wataru Hatano as Motojiro Kaijii, Asami Seto as Ichiyo Higuchi and Sumire Morohoshi as Kyoka Izumi.
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Plot concept: Nakajima Atsushi was kicked out of his orphanage, and now he has no place to go and no food. While he is standing by a river, on the brink of starvation, he rescues a man whimsically attempting suicide. That man is Dazai Osamu, and he and his partner Kunikida are members of a very special detective agency. They have supernatural powers and deal with cases that are too dangerous for the police or the military. They’re tracking down a tiger that has appeared in the area recently, around the time Atsushi came to the area. The tiger seems to have a connection to Atsushi, and by the time the case is solved, it is clear that Atsushi’s future will involve much more of Dazai and the rest of the detectives!
