A new season of Bungo Stray Dogs has been green-lit, the anime’s official Twitter account revealed on Sunday. Crunchyroll confirmed the news, announcing that the new season will be simulcast as it airs in Japan.
Director Takuya Igarashi is slated to return, as is character designer Nobuhiro Arai and writer Yoji Enokido. Studio Bones will continue to animate the series and the main cast will return to reprise their roles.
Kafka Asagiri’s manga follows the adventures of Nakajima Atsushi, an orphan who joins a supernatural detective agency after discovering he has some strange powers of his own. The series is published by Kadokawa Shoten and started serialization in 2012 with a total of 21 collected volumes.
A light novel adaptation published under the Kadokawa Beans Bunko imprint began serialization in 2014, while the manga has inspired three spin-offs. The first, Bungo Stray Dogs: Woof!, began serialization in 2015 and runs in the Katokawa Shoten Young Ace Up imprint. The second, Bungo Stray Dogs: Dead Apple, debuted in 2018 and also runs in the Young Ace Up imprint. The third, Bungo Stray Dogs: BEAST, has been serialized in the Monthly Shonen Ace magazine since 2019.
Studio Bones has worked on the anime adaptation since 2016. The series’ first season aired during the Spring 2016 season, and a second season followed in the Fall. After a three-year hiatus, the anime returned with a third season in April 2019. An anime adaptation of the spin-off manga, Woof! Aired during the 2021 Winter season and ran for 12 episodes.
A film adaptation of the Dead Apple spin-off was released in 2018, with Bones returning to work on the project. A live-action adaptation of the BEAST spin-off manga is set to release on January 7, 2022, with director Koichi Sakamoto at the helm.
Yen Press publishes the manga, light novel, and manga spin-offs in English. Crunchyroll owns the streaming rights to the first three seasons, Woof! Series and the Dead Apple film.
Source:Crynchyroll