The Best Episodes of Bungo Stray Dogs Season 1
Every episode of Bungo Stray Dogs Season 1 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Bungo Stray Dogs Season 1!
Atsushi Nakajima was kicked out of his orphanage, and now he has no place to go and no food. While he is standing by a river, on the brink of starvation, he rescues a man whimsically attempting suicide. That man is Osamu Dazai, and he and his partner Kunikida are members of a very special detective agency. They have supernatural powers and deal with cases that are too dangerous for the police or the military. They're tracking down a tiger that has appeared in the area recently, around the time Atsushi came to the area. The tiger seems to have a connection to Atsushi, and by the time the case is solved, it is clear that Atsushi's future will involve much more of Dazai and the rest of the detectives!
Season 1 Ratings Summary
The best episode of "Bungo Stray Dogs" season 1 is "Fortune Is Unpredictable and Mutable", rated 7.4/10 from 427 user votes. It was directed by Takuya Igarashi and written by Yoji Enokido. "Fortune Is Unpredictable and Mutable" aired on 4/7/2016 and is rated 0.1 point(s) higher than the second highest rated, "A Certain Bomb".
7.4/10 427 votes#1 - Fortune Is Unpredictable and Mutable
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 4/7/2016
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
7.3/10 370 votes#2 - A Certain Bomb
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 4/14/2016
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...!
Director: Takuya Igarashi
Writer: Yoji Enokido
7.7/10 358 votes#3 - Yokohama Gangster Paradise
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 4/21/2016
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: N/A
7.2/10 337 votes#4 - The Tragedy of the Fatalist
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 4/28/2016
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: N/A
7.9/10 345 votes#5 - Murder on D Street
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 5/5/2016
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: N/A
7.3/10 318 votes#6 - The Azure Messenger
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 5/12/2016
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: N/A
7.8/10 329 votes#7 - Love for the Disease Called Ideals
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 5/19/2016
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: N/A
Writer: N/A
8.1/10 333 votes#8 - Teaching Them to Kill, Then to Die
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 5/26/2016
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: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.7/10 309 votes#9 - The Beauty Is Quiet Like a Stone Statue
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 6/2/2016
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: N/A
Writer: N/A
8.3/10 340 votes#10 - Rashomon and the Tiger
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 6/9/2016
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: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.4/10 300 votes#11 - First, an Unsuitable Profession for Her. Second, an Ecstatic Detective Agency
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 6/16/2016
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...
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.9/10 321 votes#12 - Borne Back Ceaselessly into the Past
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 6/23/2016
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
8.0/10 2 votes#13 - The Dark Age
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 10/6/2016
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
8.0/10 2 votes#14 - Nowhere to Return
Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 10/7/2016
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
8.0/10 2 votes#15 - A Room Where We Can Someday See the Ocean
Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 10/14/2016
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: N/A
6.0/10 1 votes#16 - Bungo Stray Dogs
Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 10/21/2016
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 awaits...
Director: Yoshiyuki Asai
Writer: Yoji Enokido
6.0/10 1 votes#17 - Three Companies Conflict
Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 10/28/2016
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.
Director: Sayaka Morikawa
Writer: Yoji Enokido
8.0/10 2 votes#18 - The Conflict of Strategy
Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 11/4/2016
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
6.0/10 1 votes#19 - Will of Tycoon
Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 11/11/2016
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.
Director: Ikuro Sato
Writer: Yoji Enokido
6.0/10 1 votes#20 - Though the Mind May Be Wrong
Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 11/18/2016
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."
Director: Sayaka Morikawa
Writer: Yoji Enokido
8.0/10 2 votes#21 - Double Black
Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 11/25/2016
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
6.0/10 1 votes#22 - Poe and Rampo
Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 12/2/2016
Rampo receives an invitation to a detective game from none other than E. A. Poe. He's indifferent at first, until Poe reveals what the reward would be should he win.
Director: Takebumi Anzai
Writer: Yoji Enokido
6.0/10 1 votes#23 - Rashoumon, The Tiger, and The Last Emperor
Season 1 Episode 23 - Aired 12/9/2016
Atsushi searches desperately for the control terminal, which he would need to stop the Moby Dick from crashing into Yokohama. He's greeted by Akutagawa and Francis, both of whom have other plans in mind.
Director: Ikuro Sato
Writer: Yoji Enokido
6.0/10 1 votes#24 - If I May Shed Away My Burden Now
Season 1 Episode 24 - Aired 12/16/2016
Atsushi and Akutagawa fail to call off the Moby Dick's descent. They search desperately for other ways to protect Yokohama.
Director: Takuya Igarashi
Writer: Yoji Enokido
6.0/10 1 votes#25 - Dazai, Chuuya, Fifteen Years Old
Season 1 Episode 25 - Aired 4/12/2019
Port Mafia leader Mori Ougai orders a fifteen-year-old Dazai Osamu to investigate the appearance of a certain individual in the Yokohama Settlement area.
Director: Ikuro Sato
Writer: Yoji Enokido