More information about the contents of this educational literary book can be found here! https://www.animate-onlineshop.jp/products/detail.php?product_id=3608325&transactionid=7456d256cfc9ff313275e959308d0c780537c7fe

It will be released on December 3, 2026

From what I'm understanding it's basically a Japanese vocabulary/literature book taught through using BSD quotes and panels as the entry point, plus excerpts and knowledge about the real authors.

Scheduled for Release on October 9, 2026

Please note this is art for a limited edition cover and at the time there's no mention of any sort of content or news related to the series. I will update if I find any more information!

Source: Bungo Stray Dogs Official account

More info: Animate Store

Looks like we have another cafe collaboration! This one has a lot of chibi art for many characters that I included in the gallery as well as images of the kinds of food and drinks one could purchase at the cafe. There's quite a variety of sweets and drinks! The event will run from September 11, 2026 to October 25, 2026 located at a number of Sweets Paradise locations.

If by chance you're in the area, here is more information on their site with dates and locations they'll be holding the collaboration.

Note the locations have different lengths for how long they'll be hosting this event: https://www.sweets-paradise.jp/collaboration/bungostraydogs

Source: Official BSD Twt

Been wanting to play with different facial structures since I'm dealing with an art block and decided to draw bsd characters, a few being ones that I dont see drawn too often

If you cant read my writing, here are the characters

Top: Yokomizo, Mushitaro, Gide

Middle: Naomi, Architect (one off Mayoi event character), Lucy

Bottom: Taneda, Wells, Adam (my beloved)

Lucy isn't as rare but I asked a friend for a random character and Lucy was chosen :) I'm gonna guess most people haven't heard of Architect but they were in one story event in mayoi that didn't really have a rerun. The character themself I believe was a major >!antagonist who is now dead so they likely will not appear in the main series.!<

Thanks for looking~!

The seventh episodes of Wan released today! Today we focus on group games with members of the ADA and Port Mafia followed by some scenes with the Decay of Angels which includes them celebrating the New Year!

Episode #16 - Chapter 164 - "Power is Everything! Survive the Night!" / Volume 7 Bonus Chapter

>!It's back to back survival games with The ADA and the Port Mafia! First is a game of Werewolf and the second finds several of them trapped in an escape room set up by... Dazai?!!<

Episode #17 - Chapter 124 - "Sigma-kun's 'Secret" / 168 - "New year's happens to everyone"

>!The second half focuses on Sigma, Nikolai and Fyodor as we get to see Sigma's love for his Casino followed by their celebration of the New Year!!<

Atsushi is clearly the tiger, Akutagawa is pretty clearly a dragon. There's even New Year art with him and Shibusawa representing the year of the dragon. Dazai could be the turtle.

How did I come to this conclusion for Chuuya? Mainly a lot of his visuals during his Corruption state feel very Phoenix inspired. The anime gives him markings that look almost like feathers and in the manga he looks as though he's turning to ash

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Just doodled for fun~

I like to see data visualized and created this after someone claimed Storm Bringer could be adapted within 3-4 prequel episodes that we've seen previously in 3 season (which I disagree with).

Dark Era is the only prequel arc with 4 episodes and is half the length of Storm Bringer.

I did not include full anime information for Entrance Exam as it's sort of an outlier for light novel adaptations. Asagiri himself is on record stating he was involved with modifying the script for the anime in a recent interview in Kanegawa.

I find it interesting that there hasn't been any kind of adaptation for 55 minutes, it's not often brought up from what I see on social media from official sources either. I've heard mixed reception from those who have read it and I've personally only read parts of it. I would be intrigued to see how it could be adapted, though Stage plays are no longer being produced so it seems unlikely that it will receive one :(

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Interesting Facts time!

All stage plays use music from the anime OST. Storm Bringer is the only stage play to have 2 songs not originally part of the BSD anime soundtrack; Insert song: Koe by Luck Life and Ending song: Passion by GRANRODEO

The stage plays for Entrance Exam and Origins were released during pandemic times so the number of actors is pretty limited (not that they had a huge cast in comparison to the main line series plays). In Entrance Exam, Dazai's actor did voices for every other stage actor while Ranpo's actor did the same in Origins. Neither Stage nor Anime adapt "A Day at the Detective Agency" from Origins.

Dead Apple stage play is one of the most heavily modified. For instance, the cast is narrowed down, focused mainly on Atsushi, Akutagawa, Kyouka, the 'demon' trio, and some extra interactions with Akutagawa and Chuuya.

Some scenes from the 15 Light Novel were not included in the anime adaptation as they used the bonus novel given out during screenings of the Dead Apple movie in theaters. The officially released novel came out after S3 was airing with extra scenes such as the infamous "I love you" line and the short introduction to (spoiler) >!Paul Verlaine, the antagonist of the next novel, Storm Bringer, which was also not included in the Stage Play.!<

Thanks for reading!

Edit: Somehow I completely forgot Gaiden does have a manga and it's even getting a new chapter soon!!

The sixth episode of WAN just released! Today we have rival competitions, a story of an 'oddly incompatible' duo working together to battle a truly fearsome enemy... getting to work during a storm with no umbrella, and a short story of meeting a familiar looking feline!

Today's episodes adapt the following chapters!

Episode 14 - Chapter #114 - Give me my youth back! / Chapter #115 - Where did my youth go!?

>!Akutagawa and Atsushi have a series of competitions including an eating competition and rock paper scissors that turns into a race. After that we see a pretty typical round of Mario Kart - I mean "I aint no chicken, Doggy Racing" between Dazai and Chuuya. Yosano and Kyouka have to watch these fools and their shenanigans.!<

Episode 15 - Chapter #128 - Not Quite Meshing Together (Anime: Oddly incompatible)

>!Atsushi and Akutagawa have to fight a common foe while trying to hurry back to their organizations, will they be defeated by the rain?!<

Wan! Shorts - Chapter #149 - Eyes of Feline suspicion

>!Akutagawa stumbles upon a very familiar looking cat. !<

Similar to the ending of the last episode, this is a partial adaptation of the full chapter

A new drawing template showed up and I knew what I had to do

Source: https://x.com/Sallu_chan02/status/2079114678652059676

Before I continue on, please note I will be posting snippets from Dark Era and Storm Bringer with little bits of information from 55 minutes. Spoilers ahead!

I will avoid going into too many details for Storm Bringer however this part in the final chapter gave me a realization.

For a brief TL;DR, Verlaine went to Yokohama to seek out Chuuya, was wanted in Europe for assassinating many important figures in power and nearly ruining the reputation of Order of the Clock Tower. Verlaine supposedly was killed in a final conflict against Port Mafia but we know even with events in the manga this isn't the case.

>Three days after the engineering advisers and Dr. Wollstonecraft arrived in Japan, the main unit—the European joint inquiry committee—met up with them to conduct a more elaborate investigation. (...) The Port Mafia was cooperative from start to finish. They provided lodging, vehicles, and even chauffeurs whenever necessary. Any equipment the investigation required, they had it delivered. All Mafia members were ordered to cooperate with the hearing investigations.

>The joint inquiry committee reached their conclusion after a month of investigating. Verlaine was dead.

>Right after Ougai Mori saw them off at port, he let out a sigh of relief. “This was utterly exhausting.” Mori rubbed his shoulders while watching the government ship fade into the distance. (...) A woman in a crimson kimono stood by Mori’s side. It was Kouyou. "Give me an update on the underground shelter.”

>“No one has entered or exited,” she replied, narrowing her eyes. “It appears the esteemed members of the inquiry did not even suspect a thing.” (...) “They have absolutely no idea that Verlaine is still alive inside.”

So you might be wondering "Okay? Why does this mean?"

I have a suspicion that Mori found Verlaine while recovering from Death's Doorstep and Verlaine offered intel in exchange for sanctuary within Port Mafia and that this information kicked off events that lead to the Mimic Incident.

I had always found it odd that Verlaine was given executive status and kept safe in Port Mafia's basement. He is the reason hundreds of mafioso died and made an attempt on Mori's life and he doesn't seem to care much about most humans in general.

So perhaps an exchange was made. Verlaine likely knew going back to Europe would be far worse for him than becoming a dog of the mafia. If you've read the novel then you know what he had gone through and there's a good chance he would have been weaponized or punished in worse ways. It's noted he is hiding from Europe's reach in the epilogue of SB. It's also noted in Dark Era how strict Europe is with their monitoring of ability users.

>Europe was home to top-class skill users employed by both the government and various criminal organizations, and as a result, those skill users built an extremely elaborate and complex power structure throughout the continent. That was why such a strict surveillance system had been put in place to prevent such individuals from escaping to other countries.

Verlaine may have informed Mori of just how great of a threat Order of the Clock Tower is, or perhaps plans she had, maybe reasons for the people he assassinated. In 55 minutes there's this line from a character named Wells about the sort of experiments they were conducting for weaponization (and makes me wonder if One Order is a product of this experimentation)

>“I worked as an engineer for England in skill-weapon development,” Wells calmly continued. “We were conducting experiments in England during that time that intentionally awakened skill singularities to integrate them into weapons…"

And this kicked off his plan to have Ango contact Mimic and bring them to Yokohama. The timing seems to fit. Here's a passage from Dark Era with Dazai explaining the details of Mori's plan.

>“Boss, you started putting this scheme into motion years ago to get that license,” Dazai continued, standing in front of the boss’s desk. “I’m guessing this plan first took shape two years back when Ango went to Europe for business. You did some searching and found that Mimic would be the most promising enemy for your plan, so you had Ango contact them. I was wondering how Mimic escaped Europe and sneaked into Japan so easily, but the answer was rather simple. The Port Mafia helped them illegally enter the country. To send the Special Division for Unusual Powers into a panic and make them get off their butts, you purposely invited the enemy organization to Yokohama.”

This is already getting pretty long so I'll wrap this up with a quick overview and my theory for the future;

Mori made a deal with Verlaine to keep him out of the clutches of the European Government in exchange for intel. Once Mori gained the intel he started the plot to get Mimic into Yokohama to have them taken care of in exchange for a very difficult to obtain Skilled Business Permit, a certification that permits activities as a skill-user organization. This strengthened the power of the Port Mafia and in turn making them more capable in protecting Yokohama.

However, there's a possibility that Agatha might be onto his plans which could be part of the reason why she was so eager to nuke Yokohama in Dead Apple, to take out a force that could be troublesome in the future.

And guess who recently appeared out in the open during a major conflict...

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