As of July 2026, Bungo Stray Dogs Season 1 aired in 2016 with 60 episodes — streaming now on Crunchyroll. Full episode guide and where to watch below.
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Bungo Stray Dogs Season 1

2016 60 Episodes Animation · Action & Adventure ⭐ 8/10

Bungo Stray Dogs Season 1 has built a real following on and among viewers who want their sci-fi to think as hard as it looks. A compact run that never overstays its welcome. An 8/10 rating says what the writing already makes obvious: this one works. Mamoru Miyano sets the tone, and the world-building does the rest. Start it whenever you need something guaranteed to land.

Part of the current wave of titles people are actually watching, Bungo Stray Dogs Season 1 earns its spot. The world-building is meticulous, but it is the characters who carry Bungo Stray Dogs Season 1 through its more ambitious moments. Season 1 of Bungo Stray Dogs includes 60 episodes. It aired from April 2016 to September 2023. This season stars Mamoru Miyano, Yuto Uemura and Masaaki Mizunaka. Mamoru Miyano and Yuto Uemura lead a cast that brings real weight to the material. It was aired in 2016. Bungo Stray Dogs Season 1 resists the temptation to explain everything, trusting the audience to sit with ambiguity. It rarely drops the ball, and when it does, it recovers fast.

Viewers burned by ambitious sci-fi that could not sustain its premise should give Bungo Stray Dogs Season 1 a chance. If you have run out of similar titles to watch, this is a strong next pick. Best experienced as a single, sustained watch if your schedule allows. Watch for Mamoru Miyano in particular — the performance elevates the material. Satisfying on multiple levels.

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🎬 Bungo Stray Dogs Season 1 — Episode Guide

E1
Fortune Is Unpredictable and Mutable
2016-04-07
Driven out from his orphanage, Nakajima Atsushi wanders the streets of Yokohama on the bring of starvation. Determined to live, a chance encounter with a drowning stranger changes his fate...
E2
A Certain Bomb
2016-04-14
Despite joining the Armed Detective Agency, Nakajima lacks conviction that he'd be of any use. Just as he's about to bid the agency farewell, a bomber takes over the agency with one of the agency employees as his hostage...!
E3
Yokohama Gangster Paradise
2016-04-21
Now an official member of the Agency after passing their entrance exam, Atsushi is assigned to his first case right away with Tanizaki and Naomi. Though deceptively simple on the surface, there's more than meets the eye...
E4
The Tragedy of the Fatalist
2016-04-28
Though saved from the Port Mafia by Dazai's intervention, Atsushi feels responsible for bringing trouble to the Agency's door. Rather than risk another attack because of him, Atsushi decides to leave the Agency and makes a call to the Port Mafia...
E5
Murder on D Street
2016-05-05
After repelling the Port Mafia's Black Lizards with deceptive ease, Atsushi is tasked with accompanying Rampo to a case. Skeptical of the self-dubbed great detective who seems to lack all common sense, Atsushi is about to witness Rampo's ability first-hand...
E6
The Azure Messenger
2016-05-12
The Agency investigates a series of disappearances in Yokohama. Kunikida enlists the help of a hacker named Taguchi Rokuzou, but all they find are photos of the victims and mention of a mysterious figure called the Azure Messenger. They follow the trail of clues to an abandoned hospital...
E7
Love for the Disease Called Ideals
2016-05-19
Following the Azure Messenger's bomb threat, the Armed Detective Agency must race to prevent the deaths of hundreds, which would taint the Agency forever. However, Dazai's seemingly distracted by Sasaki Nobuko, the lone survivor of their raid on the abandoned hospital...
E8
Teaching Them to Kill, Then to Die
2016-05-26
Dazai goes missing, but the Agency operatives feel it's just business as usual. Meanwhile, Atsushi accompanies Yosano Akiko on a shopping expedition, where they are suddenly plunged into the middle of a terrorist bomb threat by one of the Port Mafia...
E9
The Beauty Is Quiet Like a Stone Statue
2016-06-02
Kyouka was made into an assassin by those who abused her ability, and Atsushi can't help but feel sympathy toward her. Unable to turn her in to the military police, Atsushi ends up taking her out on a date. Meanwhile, Akutagawa is busy berating his former supervisor--Dazai.
E10
Rashomon and the Tiger
2016-06-09
Dazai has a face-off with his ex-partner, Chuuya, as Chuuya attempts to uncover Dazai's true intentions for letting himself get captured. Meanwhile, Atsuhi faces Akutagawa's intense and inexplicable hatred for him, as the ship continues on to the meeting place where he will be handed off in exchange...
E11
First, an Unsuitable Profession for Her. Second, an Ecstatic Detective Agency
2016-06-16
In the aftermath of Atsushi and Dazai's abduction, the Agency must decide what to do with Kyouka, the loose end. Meanwhile, the Port Mafia also deliberates what to do with Akutagawa, now comatose, as his enemies seek vengeance...
E12
Borne Back Ceaselessly into the Past
2016-06-23
Francis, the leader of The Guild, a North American organization of gifted members, is the one responsible for the bounty on Atsushi's head. Fukuzawa refuses Francis's offer to buy out the Agency, but their agents begin to disappear...
E13
The Dark Age
2016-10-06
On a misty night, Oda Sakunosuke, Dazai Osamu, and Sakaguchi Ango meet as always at their usual bar. For the trio of Port Mafia members, it a night spent in camaraderie like any other, but Ango vanishes that very night. Oda is given a direct order from the Port Mafia boss to find Ango, but...
E14
Nowhere to Return
2016-10-07
The reason that Odasaku went to a certain Western style restaurant was not just because of the curry. He is having the owner watch over a group of young children who had lost their parents two years ago in the war. Odasaku is trying to track down Ango, and remembers the time they first met. Meanwhil...
E15
A Room Where We Can Someday See the Ocean
2016-10-14
The Port Mafia's council of five top executives has decreed that Mimic must be annihilated. In the ensuing battle, Odasaku has a fateful encounter with Gide, the leader of Mimic, who makes a cryptic prophecy. Night falls, and the usual bar now awaits Dazai, Odasaku and Ango...
E16
Bungo Stray Dogs
2016-10-21
While the leaders of the Port Mafia and the gifted special operations division meet via Ango, Dazai is close to discovering the true significance of the conflict between the three groups. However, in despair, Odasaku's deaf to Dazai's entreaties not to go alone to Mimic's headquarters where Gide awa...
E17
Three Companies Conflict
2016-10-28
Trusting in a life that doesn't require her to kill, Kyouka works her first job at the Armed Detective Agency, but the job ends in a minor disaster. As Atsushi attempts to cheer her up, the unthinkable happens--Kyouka's inactive cell phone rings, and a voice orders Demon Snow to attack Atsushi.
E18
The Conflict of Strategy
2016-11-04
Mori, the leader of the Port Mafia, sends a letter to Margaret M. and Nathaniel H., threatening to destroy them and the ship they are protecting.
E19
Will of Tycoon
2016-11-11
John S. and Lovecraft hunt down Naomi and Haruno as they flee from town. While Atsushi and Dazai wait for them to arrive at the train station, Dazai notices a shady figure stalking him.
E20
Though the Mind May Be Wrong
2016-11-18
Atsushi is abducted onto the Moby Dick. Meanwhile, Lovecraft succeeds in capturing Q. Francis F. and the Guild prepare to carry out what they call their "emergency plan."

🎭 Cast of Bungo Stray Dogs Season 1

Mamoru Miyano
Mamoru Miyano
Osamu Dazai (voice)
Yuto Uemura
Yuto Uemura
Atsushi Nakajima (voice)
Masaaki Mizunaka
Masaaki Mizunaka
Shirase (voice)
Hiroyuki Yoshino
Hiroyuki Yoshino
Mark Twain
Sumire Morohoshi
Sumire Morohoshi
Kyouka Izumi
Junichi Suwabe
Junichi Suwabe
Odasaku Oda
 Shunsuke Takeuchi
Shunsuke Takeuchi
Lovecraft
 Takayuki Sugo
Takayuki Sugo
Herman Melville
Jun Fukuyama
Jun Fukuyama
Ango Sakaguchi
Mitsuru Miyamoto
Mitsuru Miyamoto
Rintarou Mori

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