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Bungo Stray Dogs Season 4 Anime Reveals Cast, Visuals for 'The Untold Origins of the Detective Agency'
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The staff of the fourth anime season based on Kafka Asagiri and Sango Harukawa's Bungo Stray Dogs manga revealed on Tuesday three returning cast members for younger versions of characters. The staff also revealed a visual for the fourth season's first episode, which is based on "The Untold Origins of the Detective Agency," the series' third light novel volume.
The cast includes:
The new season premiered on Wednesday on the TOKYO MX channel, and it is also running on WOWOW, Sun TV, TV Aichi, KBS Kyoto, and BS11. The anime is streaming on the dAnime Store in Japan at the same time as Tokyo MX, and subsequently on other services in Japan. Crunchyroll is streaming the anime as it airs in Japan.
New cast members include:
- Akio Ohtsuka as Genichirō Fukuchi
- Makoto Koichi as Teruko Ōkura
- Takehito Koyasu as Nikolai G
- Takeshi Kusao as Mushitarō Oguri
- Yūki Kaji as Saigiku Jōno
- Yōhei Azakami as Tecchō Suehiro
- Shōya Chiba as Sigma
The returning main staff includes director Takuya Igarashi, series script supervisor and writer Yoji Enokido, character designer and chief animation director Nobuhiro Arai, and the animation studio BONES. The main cast members Yūto Uemura (Atsushi Nakajima), Mamoru Miyano (Osamu Dazai), Sumire Morohoshi (Kyōka Izumi), Kenshō Ono (Ryūnosuke Akutagawa), and Kishō Taniyama (Chūya Nakahara) are also returning.
SCREEN mode perform the opening theme song "True Story." Luck Life perform the ending song "Shirushi/°C."
The first television anime adaptation aired from April to June 2016, and Crunchyroll streamed the series as it aired in Japan. The anime's second 12-episode series aired from October to December 2016, and Crunchyroll again streamed the series as it aired. Funimation and Crunchyroll released the series on home video with an English dub. The anime's third season premiered in April 2019, and Crunchyroll and Funimation both streamed the season.
An anime film titled Bungo Stray Dogs: Dead Apple opened in Japan in March 2018. Crunchyroll began streaming the film in September 2018, and Funimation began streaming the film in June 2019.
Yen Press is publishing the manga and novel series in English. The manga launched in Kadokawa's Young Ace magazine in December 2012 and is ongoing.
Source: Press release
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