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文豪ストレイドッグス [Bungō Stray Dogs] (Novel)
Series · 11 books · 2014-2023

Books in series

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Bungo Stray Dogs Light Novels, Vol. 1

Osamu Dazai's Entrance Exam

2014

Doppo Kunikida is an idealist and a straitlaced detective at the Armed Detective Agency, an organization that takes on dangerous jobs even the police won't handle. Everything in his life is going just as he's planned...until one day, he's paired up with the agency's newest hire: a suspicious, eccentric, suicide-obsessed man named Osamu Dazai. Their first case together turns out to be far more complicated than Kunikida anticipated—and it looks like the detective agency's sworn enemy, the Port Mafia, is somehow involved, too! Set two years before the events of the manga series, this is the tale of how two seemingly incompatible personalities end up forming the partnership that has made them one of Yokohama's top detective duos!
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Bungo Stray Dogs, Vol. 2 (light novel)

Osamu Dazai and the Dark Era (Volume 2) (Bungo Stray Dogs

2014

Before joining the Armed Detective Agency, Osamu Dazai was the youngest executive with the Port Mafia, the most notorious underground crime syndicate in all of Yokohama. When one of their colleagues suddenly goes missing, Dazai and fellow Port Mafia member Sakunosuke Oda are tasked with conducting an investigation...and at last, the reason why Dazai parted ways with the Port Mafia is revealed!
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Bungo Stray Dogs, Vol. 3 (light novel)

The Untold Origins of the Detective Agency

2015

Ten years before the events of the manga series, a fateful encounter brings a professional bodyguard named Yukichi Fukuzawa and an arrogant boy genius named Ranpo Edogawa together. The result: the establishment of the Armed Detective Agency, an organization that takes on dangerous jobs even the police won't handle!
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Bungo Stray Dogs, Vol. 4 (light novel)

55 Minutes (Volume 4) (Bungo Stray Dogs

2016

The Armed Detective Agency's latest case brings them to a strange island off the coast of Yokohama called "Standard Island," but what awaits them turns out to be far more complicated than expected: a bomb, time travel, a mysterious skill user named H.G. Wells... Will this incident spell the end of Yokohama itself?!
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Bungo Stray Dogs Light Novel, Vol. 5

Dead Apple

2018

Six years have passed since the bloody Dragon's Head Conflict took place. An unexplained spate of suicides by skill users worldwide has sent the Armed Detective Agency on a search for Tatsuhiko Shibusawa, a mysterious skill user who may be connected somehow. Kyouka Izumi and Atsushi Nakajima are hot on Shibusawa's heels when Atsushi learns a startling truth from his sworn enemy Ryuunosuke Akutagawa. Find out what lies beyond the eerie mist in this novelization of the hit anime film Bungo Stray Dogs: DEAD APPLE!
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Bungo Stray Dogs, Vol. 6 (light novel)

Beast (Volume 6) (Bungo Stray Dogs

2018

What if the Port Mafia’s Hellhound, Ryuunosuke Akutagawa, had joined the Armed Detective Agency? Likewise, what if Atsushi Nakajima belonged to the Port Mafia? In the parallel world of Bungo Stray Dogs: Beast, fledgling detective Akutagawa’s desperate mission to rescue his younger sister from the Port Mafia’s clutches brings him face-to-face with the organization’s fearsome White Reaper...a.k.a. Atsushi Nakajima. What does fate have in store for the two beasts in this alternate tale of darkness versus light...?
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Bungo Stray Dogs, Vol. 7 (light novel)

Dazai, Chuuya, Age Fifteen (Volume 7) (Bungo Stray Dogs

2018

Not long after Ougai Mori takes the reins of the Port Mafia, his right-hand man, Osamu Dazai, has a nasty run-in with a gravity manipulator named Chuuya Nakahara, leader of the Sheep gang. However, with ominous rumors about Mori’s deceased predecessor as well as the mysterious being called Arahabaki spreading throughout Yokohama, the duo must put aside their differences and get to the bottom of things. Before they achieved infamy as the fearsome pair Twin Dark, Dazai and Chuuya were just boys. Was their first encounter a harbinger of hope or an ill omen of things to come…?
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Bungo Stray Dogs, Vol. 8 (light novel)

Storm Bringer (Bungo Stray Dogs

2021

What exactly is Chūya Nakahara—? The story of Twin Dark's "Sixteen" shall now unfold. It has been a year since Chūya joined the Port Mafia after ending the "Arahabaki Incident" with Osamu Dazai. As he aims for the executive position, a man named Paul Verlaine appears before Chūya, calling him his younger brother! "I will kill anyone who intervenes with your heart," he announces. To thwart his plans, Chūya teams up with European artificial intelligence investigator, Adam. The sign of a storm waiting to swallow Yokohama brews once again. What exactly is Chūya Nakahara: the truth of the past shrouded in darkness shall now be revealed—!
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Anime Bungo Stray Dogs

Novel Version (Bungo Stray Dogs

2019

Young, hungry, and homeless, the orphan Atsushi Nakajima’s hard knock life turns around when he meets Osamu Dazai, a peculiar man who’s part of a group of detectives with special powers. And he wants Atsushi’s help catching a man-eating tiger that’s terrorizing Yokohama?! Experience the hit anime series adapted into a novel format!
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文豪ストレイドッグス 太宰を拾った日 Side-A/Side-B [Bungō Stray Dogs The Day I Picked Up Dazai Side-A/Side-B]

2023

「文豪ストレイドッグス BEAST」入場者特典は書き下ろし小説「太宰を拾った日」
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Bungo Stray Dogs

Another Story (light novel): Yukito Ayatsuji vs. Natsuhiko Kyougoku

2016

A brilliant investigator known as the “man-slaughtering detective,” Yukito Ayatsuji has an ability so deadly that he’s assigned a minder, rookie Special Division agent Mizuki Tsujimura, to monitor him. And when Ayatsuji is tasked with solving a murder case, who should be pulling the strings behind the scenes but his archnemesis...Natsuhiko Kyougoku?!

Authors

Sango Harukawa
Author · 14 books

Sango HARUKAWA (春河 35), Japanese mangaka and illustrator. See also: Harukawa 35

Kafka Asagiri
Author · 46 books

See 朝霧カフカ (Asagiri Kafka). Japanese scenario writer and novelist.

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