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The Best Episodes of Bungo Stray Dogs

Every episode of Bungo Stray Dogs ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of Bungo Stray Dogs!

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Stalked by a beastly white tiger, Atsushi Nakajima has no idea that the menace lives inside him—a power that catches the attention of the Armed Detective Agency. Using inhuman abilities to combat crime, this team

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
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    Bungo Stray Dogs Season 1 Episode 49 - SKYFALL
    8.5/10(2 votes)

    #1 - SKYFALL

    S1:E49

    Teruko goes head-to-head with Sigma. Tachihara rethinks the Agency’s innocence after re-infiltrating the Port Mafia.

    Directors:Takanori Yano, Takahiro Hasui
    Writer:Yoji Enokido

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  2. Bungo Stray Dogs Season 1 Episode 3 - Yokohama Gangster Paradise
    8.0/10(3 votes)

    #2 - Yokohama Gangster Paradise

    S1:E3

    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...

    Director:Kazuhiro Yoneda
    Writer:Unknown

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  3. Bungo Stray Dogs Season 1 Episode 4 - The Tragedy of the Fatalist
    8.0/10(3 votes)

    #3 - The Tragedy of the Fatalist

    S1:E4

    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...

    Director:Daigo Yamagishi
    Writer:Unknown

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  4. Bungo Stray Dogs Season 1 Episode 5 - Murder on D Street
    8.0/10(3 votes)

    #4 - Murder on D Street

    S1:E5

    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...

    Director:Hiroki Ikeshita
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. Bungo Stray Dogs Season 1 Episode 8 - Teaching Them to Kill, Then to Die
    8.0/10(3 votes)

    #5 - Teaching Them to Kill, Then to Die

    S1:E8

    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...

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  6. Bungo Stray Dogs Season 1 Episode 9 - The Beauty Is Quiet Like a Stone Statue
    8.0/10(2 votes)

    #6 - The Beauty Is Quiet Like a Stone Statue

    S1:E9

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. Bungo Stray Dogs Season 1 Episode 10 - Rashomon and the Tiger
    8.0/10(3 votes)

    #7 - Rashomon and the Tiger

    S1:E10

    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 for the bounty on his head...

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  8. Bungo Stray Dogs Season 1 Episode 12 - Borne Back Ceaselessly into the Past
    8.0/10(2 votes)

    #8 - Borne Back Ceaselessly into the Past

    S1:E12

    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...

    Director:Ikuro Sato
    Writer:Yoji Enokido

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  9. Bungo Stray Dogs Season 1 Episode 13 - The Dark Age
    8.0/10(2 votes)

    #9 - The Dark Age

    S1:E13

    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...

    Director:Yoshiyuki Asai
    Writer:Yoji Enokido

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  10. Bungo Stray Dogs Season 1 Episode 14 - Nowhere to Return
    8.0/10(2 votes)

    #10 - Nowhere to Return

    S1:E14

    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. Meanwhile, Dazai manages to catch one of the Mimic soldiers alive in a trap he had set. However, once he gets there, all that is waiting for him is a corpse. Another figure was also waiting for him, his subordinate, Akutagawa Ryuunosuke.

    Director:Hiroki Ikeshita
    Writer:Yoji Enokido

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  11. Bungo Stray Dogs Season 1 Episode 15 - A Room Where We Can Someday See the Ocean
    8.0/10(2 votes)

    #11 - A Room Where We Can Someday See the Ocean

    S1:E15

    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...

    Director:Ikuro Sato
    Writer:Unknown

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  12. Bungo Stray Dogs Season 1 Episode 18 - The Conflict of Strategy
    8.0/10(2 votes)

    #12 - The Conflict of Strategy

    S1:E18

    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.

    Director:Takanori Yano
    Writer:Yoji Enokido

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  13. Bungo Stray Dogs Season 1 Episode 21 - Double Black
    8.0/10(2 votes)

    #13 - Double Black

    S1:E21

    The leaders of the Agency and the Port Mafia negotiate an alliance. Meanwhile, Dazai and Chuuya face off against Lovecraft.

    Director:Takanori Yano
    Writer:Yoji Enokido

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  14. Bungo Stray Dogs Season 1 Episode 35 - Cannibalism (3)
    8.0/10(2 votes)

    #14 - Cannibalism (3)

    S1:E35

    Mori Ougai and Fukuzawa Yukichi fight to the death in a desperate bid to save the organizations they lead from falling into a devastating war.

    Director:Ikuro Sato
    Writer:Yoji Enokido

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  15. Bungo Stray Dogs Season 1 Episode 36 - Echo
    8.0/10(2 votes)

    #15 - Echo

    S1:E36

    The gifted responsible for the virus is on the run as Nakagawa Atsushi and Akutagawa Ryunosuke chase after him. Meanwhile, the Detective Agency has the Rats’ hideout surrounded to try to capture Fyodor Dostoevsky.

    Director:Takuya Igarashi
    Writer:Yoji Enokido

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  16. Bungo Stray Dogs Season 1 Episode 41 - A Perfect Murder and Murderer (2)
    8.0/10(2 votes)

    #16 - A Perfect Murder and Murderer (2)

    S1:E41

    The last page of the manuscript received by Poe appears to have been a photocopy. Rampo seems to know why, but there are still more mysteries surrounding the death of the author.

    Director:Masatoyo Takada
    Writer:Yoji Enokido

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  17. Bungo Stray Dogs Season 1 Episode 48 - Bungo Hound Dogs
    8.0/10(2 votes)

    #17 - Bungo Hound Dogs

    S1:E48

    Suspecting that Lucy is cooperating with the terrorist organization known as the Armed Detective Agency, Jouno and Tetchou pay a visit to the cafe at where she works, in hopes of tracking down Atsushi and Kyouka.

    Director:Masatoyo Takada
    Writer:Unknown

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  18. Bungo Stray Dogs Season 1 Episode 50 - The Strongest Man
    8.0/10(2 votes)

    #18 - The Strongest Man

    S1:E50

    The members of the Agency, isolated and unable to communicate with each other, are victims one after the other of assassination attempts, thwarted in extremis by a mysterious guardian angel. Who is this ?

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  19. Bungo Stray Dogs Season 1 Episode 51 - The Answer to Everything
    8.0/10(2 votes)

    #19 - The Answer to Everything

    S1:E51

    As Fukuchi allies with plans to create an international anti-terrorist organization targeting Gifted, Atsushi and Rampo appeal to him for help. Rampo turns his immense detective abilities to the question of Kamui's identity, and the truth will change everything.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  20. Bungo Stray Dogs Season 1 Episode 52 - HERO VS. CRIMINAL
    8.0/10(2 votes)

    #20 - HERO VS. CRIMINAL

    S1:E52

    Atsushi and Akutagawa find themselves cornered, with no choice but to fight Fukuchi and his seemingly insurmountable powers. Combining forces and trusting in one another, do they have what it takes to defeat the mightiest Hunting Dog?

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  21. Bungo Stray Dogs Season 1 Episode 53 - HERO WAR, GANG WAR
    8.0/10(2 votes)

    #21 - HERO WAR, GANG WAR

    S1:E53

    The last member of Decay of the Angel is revealed. Kamui continues to spread chaos. Tachihara entrusts Fukuchi with the information device containing evidence obtained at the Sky Casino, only to face devastating consequences.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  22. Bungo Stray Dogs Season 1 Episode 54 - At the Port in the Sky (1)
    8.0/10(2 votes)

    #22 - At the Port in the Sky (1)

    S1:E54

    The Detective Agency races to stop Fukuchi from receiving the One Order, a devastating mind control weapon that will make his plans for world domination unstoppable.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  23. Bungo Stray Dogs Season 1 Episode 1 - Fortune Is Unpredictable and Mutable
    7.9/10(9 votes)

    #23 - Fortune Is Unpredictable and Mutable

    S1:E1

    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...

    Director:Takuya Igarashi
    Writer:Yoji Enokido

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  24. Bungo Stray Dogs Season 1 Episode 6 - The Azure Messenger
    7.7/10(3 votes)

    #24 - The Azure Messenger

    S1:E6

    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...

    Director:Yoshiyuki Asai
    Writer:Unknown

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  25. Bungo Stray Dogs Season 1 Episode 7 - Love for the Disease Called Ideals
    7.7/10(3 votes)

    #25 - Love for the Disease Called Ideals

    S1:E7

    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...

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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Best Episodes Summary

"SKYFALL" is the best rated episode of "Bungo Stray Dogs". It scored 8.5/10 based on 2 votes. Directed by Takanori Yano, Takahiro Hasui and written by Yoji Enokido, it aired on 3/29/2023. This episode scored 0.5 points higher than the second highest rated, "Yokohama Gangster Paradise".