Bungo Stray Dogs, Vol. 23

文豪ストレイドッグス [Bungō Stray Dogs] (Comic) #23

by Kafka Asagiri, Sango Harukawa (Artist), Bianca Pistillo (Letterer)

Standing in the way of Dazai and Sigma’s escape from Meursault is none other than Chuuya Nakahara―now reduced to Dostoyevsky’s vampiric puppet. If Dazai wants to come out of Gogol’s deadly game alive, he’ll have no choice but to say farewell to his onetime partner! Meanwhile, back at the airport, the rest of the Armed Detective Agency are pulling out every trick in the book to keep the Decay of the Angel’s plan from bearing fruit. But faced with the Hunting Dogs’ overwhelming strength and steadfast loyalty to Fukuchi, do they stand a chance?

Genres: Manga, Fantasy, Seinen, Mystery, Fiction, Comics, Action

180 pages, Paperback

First published December 28, 2022

About the author

See 朝霧カフカ (Asagiri Kafka).
Japanese scenario writer and novelist.

Reviews

[Sima Khairullah]

Do you know what the best thing is? having a not-so-happy day and see that a new chapter of BSD is out😭 what an excellent thing to read BSD as my first read of the year, that last chapter, man we saw AKUTAGAWA we saw DAZAI and SIGMA now what do I call this, when it was only for 9 pages?🥹

[Alexandra Elend Wolf]

4.25 stars.

“I may not be able to see the future, but I can view the past. More than twenty years of history.”

This volume is nothing if not one thing happening after the other, and none of those things are exactly rainbow and sunshine but, really, the furthest thing there is.

Kenji terrifies me. That's it. He does. He is the aforementioned sunshine and rainbows but he also can freeze my blood in one second. Still, I loved his exchange here and that's one pairing I never thought of but I'm quite in love with now.

On the other hand, Teruko is adorable but really creepy. They kind of complement each other.

Aside from those small character moments that I enjoyed, the general existential dread and very present weight of everything going on was more than enough to temper any pleasant moment and leave me shocked, chilled, disbelieving, and defiant of the whole thing.

There really was no need to go so hard on a single volume.

Getting some of Fukuzawa's backstory might have been one of the only lighter bits of the segment and even that was overshadowed by premonitions and hindsight.

Even though I wish that the end of this whole situation was near I fear that it's not, and I'm not sure that I can handle much more of this tension.

“There is a difference between ending war and not having your friends die. I choose to end this war.”

________________________

Excuse me, is that how you're gonna go? This can't be real. I refuse to believe it.

RTC.

[elhyza]

ch 101 and 104.5 ... asagiri continues to make me suffer, oh it hurts just sobbing my eyes out.

[Zuli]

3.5✨

[Lucy (the invisible life of a reader)]

"For five minutes, I will place Jouno above justice."
I'M CRYING. STOP THIS PAIN

i went through so many stages of grief this volume i can not

[Pri Lorenz]

Read chap.98-101

Spoilers ahead

I don't think Dazai would simply let Chuuya die, if he actually wanted him to cease to exist he would've done something a long time ago. There's also the possibility of Nikolai saving both Dostoevsky and Chuuya just because he thinks they would ruin his game by dying in that way, it'd be boring.

[Tobi ﾄﾋﾞ]

WHY DID IT END LIKE THAT THAT'S SO CRUEL

[zara]

i need financial compensation for chapter 101 i'm so serious. asagiri i'm giving you my looooong therapy bill for all the chapters that caused my mental spiral!

[Elena Rodríguez]

Me estoy sintiendo al mismo tiempo defraudada y frustrada con esta historia.

Para mí que un autor de un giro de 90º a la historia está bien y que quiera alargar un poco una historia para poder desarrollarla decentemente, también. Sin embargo, yo creo que hay un limite y creo que a este mangaka se le está yendo de las manos. Me estoy perdiendo y liando un poco con la historia y al mismo tiempo al mismo tiempo que no acaba nunca este arco. Me da que como dijo una compañera el pobre se ha metido en este berenjenal y no sabe salir.

Lo que más me duele es que es un manga que me encanta y considero que está infravalorado, pero ahora mismo con esto no sé que pensar.

A ver comos sigue...

[juls]

the day when chapter 101 dropped truly changed many lives
also fukuzawa my beloved I would've never treated you like that (I deeply hate fukuchi)

[Emily Grace]

Not going to lie, but I was expecting more from this volume. The cover is beautiful, but most of this volume was full of Fukuchi. I only liked the chapter with Dazai, Chuuya and Fyodor (if you know, you know...) Maybe it's because I've seen the anime past this point, but I wanted more.

And that cliffhanger was so dirty. Man, how long do I have to wait for volume 24 to release in English??

[emily]

if these are the chapters i think they are then: pain. pure pain. made me cry in english class.

[Nouran]

How would my life be if I wasn’t so hooked to this Manga ?

[Hella]

خب باز دوباره من نشستم همه مانگا خوندم و انگویینگ شدم و الان باید تو خماری چپتر های بعدی بمونم. در مورد این مانگا که تازه بدتره چون ماهی یه چپتر به جای هفته ای یه چپتر و بعله احساس میکنم پیر میشم تا این ارک تموم شه😂🌝😑

[Sara]

بابا مرد حسابی نکن!
چه کاریه با چویا, اصلن با همه‌شون داری میکنی آخه ؟!

[Diana H.]

This manga really stole my lunch money (figuratively)

[amira]

Love it obv, dk what else to say

[oixawaa]

te backstory było dowalone

[marilynn]

14 year old are already terrifying and kenji is no exception

[Riki (˶˃⤙˂˶)]

5 💫

ᓚᘏᗢ

[Jaye Berry]

Too much Fukuchi omg fuck Fukuchi. All hot people hate Fukuchi. I don't need his backstory, I don't need to see more of him. I need to see him d e a d.

Fukuzawa my beloved though.😍 Silver wolf I know that's right. He was serving soo much face.

Dazai in the prison got me BARKING, he's so evil genius. The part with Chuuya like my soukoku fangirl heart was throwing up tbh. I see right through the scheme though because there is no way he would actually do that to him.💀

Kenji going beast mode out of nowhere was actually terrifying and I'm lowkey sobbing about Tecchou's utter devotion to Jouno?? 😭 This series and the gay boy ships... name a more iconic duo.

I'm very confused by certain people's motivations but so is everyone else in here lmao.

[ashlyn ☽]

im gonna be fr i get bored when we aren't in the prison,,,,,,

[milo]

i caught up with bungo stray dogs, now what do i do with my life?

[lu ¿ aero]

asagiri i tuoi giorni sono contati

[Megan]

I only know pain.

[bri]

the skk sneak…

[Szczypiorek]

6/5
( ocena całej serii)
TO BYŁO CUDOWNE.
Kocham tą serię całym sercem, jest to pierwsze anime które obejrzałam całe i moje pierwsze mangi i powiem szczerze, że po tej serii mam ochotę sięgnąć po więcej.
Cała seria była ciekawa, co chwilę coś się działo i nie można było się nudzić, chociaż na początku miałam problem z kolejnością czytania na stronach to gdy to ogarnęłam mogłam skupić się na historii Atsushiego, Dazaia, Ranpo, Yosano, Chuuyi, Akutakawy, Tanizaka, Kenjiego i całej reszty.
Pomysł na serię jest genialny, a wykonanie jeszcze lepsze. Świetne jest to, że postacie pasują do autorów/postaci stworzonych przez osoby na których były wzorowane, tak jak ich moce.
Polecam!!

[Nea Poulain]

Que bonita portada, ante todo. Y bueno, la serie ahí va, Atsushi creo que por fin empieza a entender las cosas, el problema es que entiende más que yo.
Asagiriiiiiiii a dónde vas. Todo me dolió de este volumen. Y si en este está el pasado del director y el otro ufff que capítulo. Me dolió un montón.

[G_occasionally_reads [semi-hiatus cuz work]]

Read my review here (review for the whole series -- still publishing): review of Bungo Stray Dogs

[Khairunnisaq]

Mantop macam biasa. Dalam jilid ini ada sedikit backstory mengapa Fukuchi menjadi seorang Fukuchi. Pada saya, salah satu strongest suit dalam BSD ialah setiap satu watak itu ada backstory yang kukuh. Ended with cliffhanger, akan baca jilid seterusnya.