A few years ago I started watching the anime of “Bungo Stray Dogs“and I found a nice surprise. It was an anime that, at the beginning, already left you with some of the best character designs and animations you could find in the industry, but it also had a series of characters and really special powers that easily distinguish the franchise from others. Despite all those good things I mentioned, I finally threw in the towel on the anime..
What made me quit the Bungo Stray Dogs anime
Is anime bad now? Not at all, in fact I saw a bit of the current season 4 and, as always, it was clear to me that in terms of quality the bar was as usual, if not a bit higher. Why then did I end up saying “it’s over for me”?
- Personally I only consume anime by Bungo Stray Dogs. Indeed, I am aware that you have several documents written beyond the main story… and it is my problem, that I don’t like at all HOW these elements are interspersed in the anime. For indeed, the Bungo Stray Dogs anime also adapts things that aren’t purely from the main story, but rather broaden the horizons of the characters you meet.
- Obviously, the latter by itself isn’t bad at all, but I don’t like the way the anime in question executes it at all. Because? Well, because if it is already difficult to pick up the common thread of an anime that launches a new season every X years, it is even more so when as with season 4, they kick you off with stories that need to expand the characters and not continue to deal with the main story.
- If so, it’s not that I don’t like the characters, but that every season I find something that I don’t know if it’s original content, novels or whatever, because it certainly does not encourage me to continue watching anime. Ultimately the problem I have is that a lot of content that is just character development, and could be released as an OVA for the consumer to choose to watch or not, ends up becoming something mandatory as a weekly anime which makes it even more difficult to maintain the common plot thread of Bungo Stray Dogs.
What I have no doubt about is that if one is a fan of “Bungo Stray Dogs” far beyond its anime, the adaptation in question must be glorious, as it is made with brutal insistence and fair on all his universe (or whatever the feeling gives me). However, as an anime only i truly believe that the only way to consume “Bungo Stray Dogs” and not get lost or overwhelmed is to do it all at once. It worked for me at the time, but unfortunately it’s reached a point where I don’t see myself addicted to weekly viewing anymore.