The Bungo Stray Dogs anime is celebrating its eighth anniversary this year: the anime premiered on April 7, 2016. The celebration is opened with the announcement of the “Eighth Anniversary – Eight Major Projects” — an eight-part series of collaboration projects in different Japanese locations from April 2024 to March 2025. As of writing, the series has only revealed the first half of its eight major projects. More information is expected to be revealed at a later date.
The first Bungo Stray Dogs anniversary project is called “Eighth Anniversary Commemorative Memoirs with Animate International.” Throughout the anniversary period, physical and online Animate stores worldwide will be reprinting special illustrations to sell as commemorative goods. These illustrations will include seasonal drawings such as Halloween, New Year’s, and several other special drawings. This also includes the first illustration of the Gakuen Bungo Stray Dogs series, which is now a customary April Fool’s project. All these will be time-limited items displaying the Eighth Anniversary Logo. The event will run from April 7, 2024, through April 6, 2025.
The second project is called the “RED TOKYO TOWER Collaboration.” It will be featuring the anime’s Sky Casino and will be held from April 19 to May 26, 2024.
The third project is a second collaboration with Tobu Zoo called the “Tobu Zoo Collaboration,” which will be held from July 2024 onwards.
Lastly, the fourth Bungo Stray Dogs eighth anniversary project “First Avenue Tokyo Station B1 Event Space Ichiban Plaza & Hotel New Otani Collaboration” is scheduled for August 9 and onwards. It will feature a pop-up store with a wide selection of limited and pre-sales merchandise, fun projects, as well as hotel stays in concept rooms.
To recap the journey of the series so far, a description of the anime was also released:
A superpower battle action manga series featuring characters named after famous literary figures such as Atsushi Nakajima, Osamu Dazai, and Ryunosuke Akutagawa, Bungo Stray Dogs was first published in “Young Ace” in 2012 by Kafka Asagiri and Harukawa 35, and as of December 2022, over 12 million copies of the related books in this series have been sold. A two-cour TV anime aired in 2016, and in March 2018, the movie “Bungo Stray Dogs DEAD APPLE” was screened in over 170 theaters nationwide across Japan. The third season aired in April 2019, and the spin-off chibi anime “Bungo Stray Dogs Wan!” aired in January 2021, followed by a fourth season in January 2023 and a fifth season in July 2023.
That said, the Bungo Stray Dogs‘ eighth anniversary is set up to be an exciting celebration for all the fans of the series. Visit the official Bungo Stray Dogs anime eighth-anniversary website and X (formerly Twitter) for more updates. In case you missed it, Bungo Stray Dogs won “Anime of the Year” in the Anime Corner Awards. It also won 5th place in the “Best Action” category, 3rd place in “Best Mystery/Suspense,” 7th place in “Best Animation,” and 3rd place in “Best Adaptation.”
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Bungo Stray Dogs (Literary Stray Dogs) is a manga series written by Kafka Asagiri and Sango Harukawa. The series has multiple light novels, manga spin-offs, and live-action stage plays. Studio Bones is handling the animation of the series. Crunchyroll describes the plot:
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…
Source: Press Release
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