Bungo Stray Dogs is Getting a New Spinoff Manga

Based on the bonus novel "The Day I Took In Dazai."

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The July 2026 issue of Kadokawa’s Young Ace magazine has confirmed that a new spinoff manga for Kafka Asagiri and Sango Harukawa’s Bungo Stray Dogs series will launch in the August 2026 issue, which releases on July 3. The new spinoff manga serves as an adaptation of the bonus novel “The Day I Took In Dazai,” which was given to moviegoers who watched Bungo Stray Dogs the Movie: Beast live-action film in 2022. Shikiji Sorakura is the author of the new manga.

Fans can also look forward to Bungo Stray Dogs Wan! Season 2, the continuation of the Bungo Stray Dogs spinoff anime, in July 2026.

The cast of Bungo Stray Dogs Wan! 2 includes:  

  • Yūto Uemura as Atsushi Nakajima
  • Mamoru Miyano as Osamu Dazai
  • Yoshimasa Hosoya as Doppo Kunikida
  • Sumire Morohoshi as Kyōka Izumi
  • Kenshō Ono as Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
  • Kishō Taniyama as Chūya Nakahara

Additionally, the staff for the season includes:

  • Director: Toshihiro Kikuchi 
  • Studio: BONES and Nomad
  • Assistant Director: Yūdai Hanaoka
  • Series’ Scripts: Tōko Machida
  • Character Designer: Hiromi Daimi
  • Color Design: Azusa Sasaki
  • Art Director: Hibiki Nagatomo (Cosmo Project)
  • Music: Taku Iwasaki
  • Music Production: Lantis
  • Sound Director: Kazuhiro Wakabayashi
  • Sound Production: Glovision

Season 1 of Bungo Stray Dogs Wan! is available to watch now on Crunchyroll alongside all five seasons of the original Bungo Stray Dogs anime. Lastly, here’s an overview of Bungo Stray Dogs, via the streaming service:

Kicked out of his orphanage and on the verge of starving to death, Nakajima Atsushi meets some strange men. One of them, Dazai Osamu, is a suicidal man attempting to drown himself in broad daylight. The other, bespectacled Kunikida Doppo, nervously stands by flipping through a notepad. Both are members of the “Armed Detective Agency” said to solve incidents that even the military and police won’t touch. Atsushi ends up accompanying them on a mission to eliminate a man-eating tiger that’s been terrorizing the population…

Soul Kiwami
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