Bungou Stray Dogs 5th Season

The Armed Detective Agency is still on the run from the Hunting Dogs, but not all hope is lost. Detective Ranpo Edogawa has a plan to prove the Agency's innocence and save the world from chaos: to find and capture Kamui—the leader of the terrorist organization Decay of the Angel.

In order to determine Kamui's whereabouts, Ranpo and his colleague Atsushi Nakajima must convince Ouchi Fukuchi, the renowned captain of the Hunting Dogs, for amnesty. Although Fukuchi was tasked with arresting the members of the Agency, his past with the Agency's president, Yukichi Fukuzawa, may be the key to earning his trust. But unbeknownst to them, Fukuchi might not be as honorable as he proclaims.

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Dazai, Osamu Main

Miyano, Mamoru Japanese

Nakajima, Atsushi Main

Uemura, Yuuto Japanese

Nakahara, Chuuya Supporting

Taniyama, Kishou Japanese

Edogawa, Ranpo Supporting

Kamiya, Hiroshi Japanese

Akutagawa, Ryuunosuke Supporting

Ono, Kensho Japanese

Dostoyevsky, Fyodor Supporting

Ishida, Akira Japanese

Yosano, Akiko Supporting

Shimamura, Yuu Japanese

Izumi, Kyouka Supporting

Morohoshi, Sumire Japanese

Kunikida, Doppo Supporting

Hosoya, Yoshimasa Japanese

Gogol, Nikolai Supporting

Koyasu, Takehito Japanese

Suzuki, Mari Producer

Kurakane, Chiaki Producer

Takemoto, Nobuhito Producer

Igarashi, Takuya Director, Storyboard

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Jan 28, 2025

Yunice

Recommended

This season of Bungou Stray Dogs left my emotions in a wreck. Here is the continuation of last season's story, where the Armed Detective Agency was being framed by enemies and labelled as terrorists. There was so much tension and angst with the numerous detectives getting hurt super badly, or "killed", in the process of trying to prove their innocence to the world. Every episode was filled with action-packed scenes of fierce physical battles among the fighter characters or the intricate battle of wits among the ones with intellectual-related abilities. It was also entertaining to see some new or lesser-used characters in this season.

The ... rapport and chemistry between characters was done so fluidly that it was a joy to sit through every scene. And as usual, the soundtrack did wonders to enhance the whole watching experience. I also have to admit that for once this show generated some very new feelings that made me tear up. All in all, it was a superb season.

Reviewer’s Rating: 10

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Jul 24, 2024

joemaamah

Mixed Feelings

This season was such an utter disappointment. The art remained about the same. Colorful with great background work. The animation may have ticked up a touch with a tad more budget this season. The awesome cast of characters (other than the MC, who still totally sucks, and needs to be written out already) were back in spades. I think Ranpo is now officially my favorite BSD character.

But the writing? Well, it fell off a cliff. Vampires? I mean really guys, that's the best you can come up with? It was trite and the episodes were strewn with so many vampire cliches, I came this ... close to throwing in the towel on the trainwreck. But I managed to make it to the end of the season, and my thoughts then were that this anime should have ended permanently at season 3. It pains me to say it, but BSD, one of my all-time favorites, has dropped to the level of flashy trash with this season.

All in all, this season failed, being totally mid, and I couldn't grade it any higher than a D; 65/100. But no way I could call it fine. The earlier seasons set the bar, and expectations, too high to give this mess any kind of break. I likely won't watch another season, unless I see some exceptional reviews from people who have opinions I respect, and not the usual jibber-jabber of the fanboys (and girls).

Reviewer’s Rating: 5

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Sep 20, 2023

slavemaster_1991

Not Recommended

And so, another season has ended. Is it good, did it fix the mistakes of the previous one? Of course not, “if it’s not broken - don’t fix it” as they say, eh? As I did for the previous season, let me tell you where this one falls flat.
First things first I’ll mention that flashbacks take much less time in this season and they are mostly fine. However I still don’t get why giving us flashbacks of the events that happened 5 minutes ago is considered a good idea. Thank you, but I don’t have issues with memory.
But if you thought that there would ... be no annoying overused writing method - you are mistaken. There is a golden rule for any movie, anime and any other similar work and it goes as “show, don’t tell”. You want a cool fight? Ok, show it to us. Great smart plans? Show us. Tragic events? SHOW US. Instead most of the “action scenes” consist of one move and a “Oh, you are surprised it didn’t work? Let me tell you why!” - and yes, after that we get a text dump that explains what happened. It would be fine in something that is not obvious, but instead you will hear this phrase several times per episode, even after some minor events that don’t need an explanation and are obvious. So the question arises: does the author think that we are brain dead? Because there is simply no reason to give such explanations, either this or cutting spendings on animations to further profit from fans who will ignore this obvious disrespect and be thankful for another season. And with those answers I don’t even care which one it is, as both show lack of effort put into the show.
While I am talking about the writing - no, it didn’t get better. The plot turns are obvious, the events try fruitlessly to ramp up the tension - and as with the previous season you as a viewer just can’t believe there is any danger coming at all. Why, you ask? Plot armour, obviously. For four seasons our brave heroes prevailed against any and all evil plans - how can I think they will fail this time, when the stakes are the highest? When in four seasons no one died and all the injuries were healed by a miracle healer - how can I care about a lost fight that led to serious injury? Instead of being thrilled I just think “nah, they will heal him anyway” and continue watching unfazed. To make things worse - some of the descriptions of the events in “let me tell you how” segments feel like an afterthought and a patch hastily applied to a plot hole, not like something that was carefully built into the world. At some point I was just wondering how bad the explanation would be instead of trying to enjoy the show. And as the result of ramping up enemies' strength the main villain is given a completely OP ability that he, of course, doesn't even use to its full potential as the main party would lose not even reaching a half season mark. I just wish more effort was put into thinking things through instead of trying to be cool while pretending to be smart.

I really thought that I had a lot to say about the show, but when I wrote down the text above I realised that most of the problems are already covered and going through them more would be more of the same, repetition. And this is EXACTLY what S5 is - repetition of everything you have already seen. If you are a hardcore fan and loved the previous seasons - this anime will be great for you, cause it is more of the same. If you, like me, didn’t like it - you will only waste time watching it - because, once again, it is more of the same. No progress in writing skill for the author. No significant character development. No major events that actually matter. Nothing, just another evil plan for our heroes to battle, more of the same stagnant mediocrity with zero entertaining value we have already been fed for 4 seasons.

Reviewer’s Rating: 1

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