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- Bungou Stray Dogs
- Season 1
- Studio BONES
- Superatural, Drama
- April 7th, 2016
- Overview [3 / 5]
For an anime that I love and worship more than the very oxygen on this existence, I guess this first season may not have been all that I'd hoped it be. I knew, while watching it the first time, that this, this anime, is the one... somehow. Maybe it just felt better than anything I'd seen to this point or smth...
- Visuals [4.5 / 5]
Of every BSD season, I'd say this one is the prettiest. The BSD anime is known for being very ugly and badly drawn... but in S1, it at least was still attempting to appear as though the animators cared about the beauty the manga worked so hard to acheive. The faces of the characters were beautiful more often, less fisheyes, just very, very new.
- Audio [4 / 5]
The soundtrack was composed by none other than Taku Iwasaki, who also did the OST for Jojo's Bizarre Adventure. The OP is by GRANRODEO (Who's lead singer is Chuuya Nakahara's seiyuu, Kisho Taniyama) and ED is by luck Life. It's all very high quality music honestly, though the OST in particular evokes negative emotion in me. XD It's all well made though. I just can't help that my wellbeing is extrasensitive to things like sounds. All the music is very fitting to the vibe of the series, and does it's part. All in all it's good shet. I just can't listen to the OST on it's own. XD
My favorite tracks ;
- Characters [โ / 5]
FUCK. YOU RUINED MY LIFE.
I can't believe I let myself get so FUCKED over these mother fuckers. OF COURSE. Like 98% of the fandom, I originally started watching BSD because I saw Dazai Osamu and wanted to see him in the anime. Admit it, you started BSD to see Dazai too. I loved him endlessly and unhealthily for years (And, so did you). Every character is just as good as him, though. Their designs, made by Harukawa35, are perfect. They all have beautifully tragic stories and I genuinely care about and want to learn more about everyone. They're well written and designed. It's crazy.
Actually, I used to have OCs, but as soon as I saw Dazai, I deleted them all. XD
- Voice Actors JP (5 / 5)
All of them did SO GOOD. Yeah I've seen lots of shows with these VAs, but one of those series could showcase their talents like this one. We have the legendary Mamoru Miyano as Dazai, Kisho Taniyama as Chuuya, Yuto Uemura as our main boi Atsushi, and lots of other, almost TOO talented actors. They all so SOOOOOOOOO. GOOD. Everyone fits their roles to a caliber indescribable from human flesh!! :D I don't even know. They all knew what they were doing. They knew from the start. Fun fact is that when they were holding auditions for Dazai, voice actors flooded in, everyone wanted to be Dazai. But then it got out that Mamo-chan auditioned, and people stopped going. XD They knew he would get the role... and FUCK he KILLED it <3
- Voice Actors EN (5 / 5)
I watch both SUB & DUB of BSD every season. There's a lot of REALLY good talent here. We have Kaiji Tang as Dazai, Keith Silverstein as Mori, and Brian Beacock as Akutagawa, all of which I was previously a fan of already. Everyone is so amazing. In some areas things sounded like some actors were new to this game, but that just made it seem more like it was actually happening. I thought everyone sounded perfect as well... it was a very high quality and well cast dub!
- Story [3 / 5]
I'm not sure what drew me in so hard here, maybe I REALLY just wanted to see / learn about Dazai. (...In 2024, we still don't have his backstory...) I mean, the story's fine, nothing's wrong with it, it isn't a weak start or whatever; It just focuses a LOT on a side character, Kyouka Izumi? We learn almost everything about her immediately (And fully learned about her by Dead Apple), but I'd much rather learn about Atsushi Nakajima, the main character. I mean I don't mind learning about others, but Kyouka-chan's story is a bit... underwhelming? I'm sorry--
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