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文豪ストレイドッグス [Bungō Stray Dogs] (Comic) #25
文豪ストレイドッグス 25 [Bungō Stray Dogs 25]
福地と相対する福沢…世界の行く末を掛けた決闘の結末とは!?
太宰がムルソーでドストエフスキーとの頭脳戦を繰り広げる中、空港での戦いは大将同士、福沢と福地が一騎打ちを行う展開に――。一方、ドストの記憶を読み取ったシグマが昏睡する中、ある真実が浮かび上がり…。
太宰がムルソーでドストエフスキーとの頭脳戦を繰り広げる中、空港での戦いは大将同士、福沢と福地が一騎打ちを行う展開に――。一方、ドストの記憶を読み取ったシグマが昏睡する中、ある真実が浮かび上がり…。
180 pages, Paperback
First published June 4, 2024
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Kafka Asagiri
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Japanese scenario writer and novelist.
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June 20, 2024
I don’t need a boyfriend, I have new 20 panel manga chapter about hot magic author people each month.
December 23, 2024
fyodor they could never make me hate you
October 25, 2025
Fyodor. Dostoevsky. Please go die in a ditch :).
(Not the real author- the book character- I am aware that the author is dead- this series is based off of famous classical literature authors from around the world-)
WHY CAN'T HE DIE?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?
I swear Asagiri has an obsession with bring people back to life after they "died" in the most absurd ways.
SPOILERS!!!
(Not the real author- the book character- I am aware that the author is dead- this series is based off of famous classical literature authors from around the world-)
WHY CAN'T HE DIE?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?
I swear Asagiri has an obsession with bring people back to life after they "died" in the most absurd ways.
SPOILERS!!!
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August 5, 2024why asagiri why (i wanna know where it goes but also scared to find out)
January 3, 2025
ATSUSHI STOP WHINING GET UP AND DO SOMETHING FOR ONCE
March 4, 2026
Fyodor my poor baby
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June 28, 2024its joever
April 15, 2025
what do u mean band 26 kommt februar 2026???
wie soll ich solange überleben
wie soll ich solange überleben
December 30, 2024
PORCA VACCA ORA SI CHE MI TREMA IL CULO
July 29, 2024
I wish I knew what the hell is going on but at least Chuuya is okay
July 3, 2025
4.5 💫
S'good, bro.
S'good, bro.
February 19, 2025
Le tome de tout les plot twists et toutes les revelation
On embraye déjà sur la suite
Les dynamiques entre les persos sont toujours aussi cool et drôle
Tout le monde est gay, même les old mans
Bravo
On embraye déjà sur la suite
Les dynamiques entre les persos sont toujours aussi cool et drôle
Tout le monde est gay, même les old mans
Bravo
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March 16, 2025what the hap is fuckening
April 17, 2025
Did not expect dostoevsky to recite the bible and fukuzawa and fukuchi to talk abt some kind of political theory 😭
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
June 7, 2025
I wish this had gotten animated.
I had already gotten spoiled, but the reveal here was still shocking.
I had already gotten spoiled, but the reveal here was still shocking.
January 22, 2026
you’ll never take us aliiiiiive
January 7, 2025
czemu mi to robicie
February 14, 2026
MA COSA CAZZO MI STATE DICENDO?!
COSA CAZZO MI STATE DICENDOOOOO
QUESTO VOLUME È UNA FOLLIA DOPO L’ALTRAAAAA
COSA CAZZO MI STATE DICENDOOOOO
QUESTO VOLUME È UNA FOLLIA DOPO L’ALTRAAAAA
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December 29, 2025
*This review is for Bungo Stray Dogs as a whole, not just this volume. I will add the same review under every volume.*
BSD is good, but not great. I like the character designs and the art is amazing. But it's way too overhyped in my opinion. There are some things I didn't like or found pretty dumb.
1. Everyone is a genius syndrome: 10 characters or even more have an insanely high IQ. if everyone is a chess god playing mind games, then nobody actually is. At some point it stops being 'clever' and starts being exhausting. Like let someone actually miscalculate ONCE without it being part of some bigger plan. BSD intelligence is stylized, exaggerated, plot driven, "genius aura", and characters know things because the story says so. So when someone says "Dazai has an IQ of 200" That number means basically nothing. Just "Please believe he is very smart." Same with Ranpo. An IQ of 200+ is not even useful in real world context. Authors use it like a power level. I prefer characters with realistic intelligence. Because they could exist, you could meet them, and you wouldn’t realize what they're doing until it’s too late. That’s way scarier than an IQ stat pulled from someone’s ass. Actually, where do BSD IQ numbers even COME from?? Asagiri did not run these characters through a Wechsler test. There is no in universe scene where Dazai sits down with a psychologist, Mori hands out scantrons, or Ranpo speedruns Mensa. IQ in BSD functions like "This character is very smart, please clap." Dazai's IQ is 200, Fyodor's is 200 (people argue about Dazai's and Fyodor's IQ, but I really don't care if it's 200 or 215), Ranpo's is 215, Mori's is 175+, Ango's is 170+, a lot of people say Chuuya's is also secretly 150+. So what does "smart" even mean anymore? It becomes a badge, a hierarchy, a fandom flex instead of a special skill/trait and something demonstrated. If everyone is a genius, no one is. There’s no contrast.
2. plot armor thicker than concrete: some characters should’ve been dead five arcs ago. I don't actually mind the plot armor that much, but sometimes it's a bit ridiculous. It gets a bit annoying when every loss is secretly a win in disguise.
3. Fake ugliness: This is the one that bothers me the most. BSD talks about the dark, ugly sides of humanity but then makes them hot, tragic, romantic, and conveniently justified. That’s not ugliness that’s aestheticized suffering. BSD wants to say "Look how ugly and broken humans are." But everyone is hot, everyone is exceptional, everyone has poetic trauma. So the ugliness is symbolic, sanitized, controlled. It’s shown from a distance. The characters are extremely competent, hyper talented, admired by the narrative, rarely truly powerless. They’re bad at living in a romantic way.
4. The female characters are badly written: not necessarily offensively bad but thin. They’re underdeveloped compared to the men, their trauma is glossed over, they rarely drive the plot in a way that isn’t immediately overshadowed, and when they are competent the narrative doesn’t linger on their inner world the same way it does with the guys. Meanwhile the male cast gets internal monologues, philosophy dumps, elaborate mind games and mythologized suffering.
5. The tragic backstory inflation: people don't like when someone complains about this, and I think all the backstories are interesting, but practically every character has the most insane past ever. Everybody’s parents are dead, abused, betrayed, experimented on, orphaned, shot, drowned, and emotionally obliterated. What bothers me is that for a lot of characters (especially female ones) we get a tragic past, one flashback, maybe one emotional speech, and then it’s never meaningfully addressed again. No long-term consequences, no behavioral patterns that actually complicate the plot, no messy coping, regression, or contradictions. It’s always maximum suffering, minimum specificity. Abuse. Experiments. Dead family. Betrayal. Rinse, repeat. Nuanced backstories would be things like loving parents who still fucked you up unintentionally, doing something morally wrong by choice and having to live with it, being privileged but empty, being loyal to the wrong people for too long, slow corruption instead of "one horrific event", failure without a villain to blame. BSD almost never does that. It prefers "Something horrible happened TO me" instead of "I made a decision that shaped who I became." And that’s why it all feels glamorized. If the character is a victim of extreme circumstances, the narrative can always go "see? not their fault." Nobody has to sit in the discomfort of agency. That’s also why characters like Dazai get sanitized by the fandom. If his past is framed as 'he was broken and saved" then people can pretend he was secretly good all along when the whole point should’ve been that he’s functional, charming, and still morally fcked. BSD could have been so much stronger if it trusted quieter uglier human flaws instead of trauma shock value. Less "experimented on as a child" and more "I chose wrong and kept choosing wrong."
6. The characters are not relatable: You always see many people being like "I kin Dazai" but in my opinion, they are not relatable at all. BSD characters don’t feel like people, they feel like concepts wearing drip. The constant galaxy brain IQ, hyper optimized trauma, perfectly timed suffering, flawless execution of plans…creates distance. You’re not watching someone LIVE, you’re watching someone perform a role the author assigned them. Real people misread situations, act out of insecurity, get lucky instead of smart, regret things that weren’t "necessary", fail in boring embarrassing ways. BSD characters almost never do that. Even their breakdowns are aesthetic. Even their mistakes are "actually part of the plan." That kills relatability HARD. You can always relate in theory. But it’s surface level "I relate to their trauma" or "I relate to feeling lost" and not "I recognize this person’s thought process" or "I’ve made that exact dumb choice" That’s why they feel unreal. It also ties back to the IQ thing. When everyone’s a genius the story stops being about human limitations. You can’t project yourself into someone who’s always five steps ahead, because most of us are just trying to survive step one without tripping over our own shoelaces. BSD wants you to admire its characters.
It rarely lets you recognize yourself in them.
7. Sometimes the story also can be straight up boring. Not all the time, but enough that you start checking how many chapters are left like "okay… are we done cooking or what?" To me, early arcs were meh, middle arcs slapped, later arcs felt like Asagiri just kept stacking twists because of escalation addiction.
BSD’s biggest crime is that it pretends to be deeper than it is. It wants to be profound, literary, morally complex, but it rarely commits to letting characters genuinely fail, rot or face consequences. It’s not bad. It’s just overhyped. Dazai especially feels more like a concept and less like a person. Everything in BSD is so glamourized. It refuses to make anything actually genuinely uncomfortable. Nobody is allowed to be truly pathetic, cruel, or wrong without the story going "actually, this was all justified." Like. Let someone be ugly and stay ugly. Also the overhyping of characters is wild. The fandom treats them like they’re the most complex beings ever written when half their personality is: smart, sad, hot, morally ambiguous (but not really). Everyone likes something different, of course, but instead of epic despair, operatic suffering, genius masterminds above consequence, I prefer just people being messy. So yeah. BSD isn’t trash. But it’s not the literary holy text people act like it is. It’s a stylish, sometimes fun, sometimes frustrating series that thinks it’s deeper than it actually commits to being. It's interesting, dramatic, fun at times. But relatable? Grounded? Human? Nah.
Important: If anyone ever reads this, don't take this review too seriously. I was just bored and decided to write a long review. Nothing against BSD or people who enjoy it. I actually used to be a huge BSD fan from like 2020 to 2024. And I glazed it a LOT, so I know how much people in the fandom exaggerate. I would give it 2 or 3 stars for how enjoyable it had been for me. The time in the fandom had been fun, but the story and characters itself are not something I like that much.
BSD is good, but not great. I like the character designs and the art is amazing. But it's way too overhyped in my opinion. There are some things I didn't like or found pretty dumb.
1. Everyone is a genius syndrome: 10 characters or even more have an insanely high IQ. if everyone is a chess god playing mind games, then nobody actually is. At some point it stops being 'clever' and starts being exhausting. Like let someone actually miscalculate ONCE without it being part of some bigger plan. BSD intelligence is stylized, exaggerated, plot driven, "genius aura", and characters know things because the story says so. So when someone says "Dazai has an IQ of 200" That number means basically nothing. Just "Please believe he is very smart." Same with Ranpo. An IQ of 200+ is not even useful in real world context. Authors use it like a power level. I prefer characters with realistic intelligence. Because they could exist, you could meet them, and you wouldn’t realize what they're doing until it’s too late. That’s way scarier than an IQ stat pulled from someone’s ass. Actually, where do BSD IQ numbers even COME from?? Asagiri did not run these characters through a Wechsler test. There is no in universe scene where Dazai sits down with a psychologist, Mori hands out scantrons, or Ranpo speedruns Mensa. IQ in BSD functions like "This character is very smart, please clap." Dazai's IQ is 200, Fyodor's is 200 (people argue about Dazai's and Fyodor's IQ, but I really don't care if it's 200 or 215), Ranpo's is 215, Mori's is 175+, Ango's is 170+, a lot of people say Chuuya's is also secretly 150+. So what does "smart" even mean anymore? It becomes a badge, a hierarchy, a fandom flex instead of a special skill/trait and something demonstrated. If everyone is a genius, no one is. There’s no contrast.
2. plot armor thicker than concrete: some characters should’ve been dead five arcs ago. I don't actually mind the plot armor that much, but sometimes it's a bit ridiculous. It gets a bit annoying when every loss is secretly a win in disguise.
3. Fake ugliness: This is the one that bothers me the most. BSD talks about the dark, ugly sides of humanity but then makes them hot, tragic, romantic, and conveniently justified. That’s not ugliness that’s aestheticized suffering. BSD wants to say "Look how ugly and broken humans are." But everyone is hot, everyone is exceptional, everyone has poetic trauma. So the ugliness is symbolic, sanitized, controlled. It’s shown from a distance. The characters are extremely competent, hyper talented, admired by the narrative, rarely truly powerless. They’re bad at living in a romantic way.
4. The female characters are badly written: not necessarily offensively bad but thin. They’re underdeveloped compared to the men, their trauma is glossed over, they rarely drive the plot in a way that isn’t immediately overshadowed, and when they are competent the narrative doesn’t linger on their inner world the same way it does with the guys. Meanwhile the male cast gets internal monologues, philosophy dumps, elaborate mind games and mythologized suffering.
5. The tragic backstory inflation: people don't like when someone complains about this, and I think all the backstories are interesting, but practically every character has the most insane past ever. Everybody’s parents are dead, abused, betrayed, experimented on, orphaned, shot, drowned, and emotionally obliterated. What bothers me is that for a lot of characters (especially female ones) we get a tragic past, one flashback, maybe one emotional speech, and then it’s never meaningfully addressed again. No long-term consequences, no behavioral patterns that actually complicate the plot, no messy coping, regression, or contradictions. It’s always maximum suffering, minimum specificity. Abuse. Experiments. Dead family. Betrayal. Rinse, repeat. Nuanced backstories would be things like loving parents who still fucked you up unintentionally, doing something morally wrong by choice and having to live with it, being privileged but empty, being loyal to the wrong people for too long, slow corruption instead of "one horrific event", failure without a villain to blame. BSD almost never does that. It prefers "Something horrible happened TO me" instead of "I made a decision that shaped who I became." And that’s why it all feels glamorized. If the character is a victim of extreme circumstances, the narrative can always go "see? not their fault." Nobody has to sit in the discomfort of agency. That’s also why characters like Dazai get sanitized by the fandom. If his past is framed as 'he was broken and saved" then people can pretend he was secretly good all along when the whole point should’ve been that he’s functional, charming, and still morally fcked. BSD could have been so much stronger if it trusted quieter uglier human flaws instead of trauma shock value. Less "experimented on as a child" and more "I chose wrong and kept choosing wrong."
6. The characters are not relatable: You always see many people being like "I kin Dazai" but in my opinion, they are not relatable at all. BSD characters don’t feel like people, they feel like concepts wearing drip. The constant galaxy brain IQ, hyper optimized trauma, perfectly timed suffering, flawless execution of plans…creates distance. You’re not watching someone LIVE, you’re watching someone perform a role the author assigned them. Real people misread situations, act out of insecurity, get lucky instead of smart, regret things that weren’t "necessary", fail in boring embarrassing ways. BSD characters almost never do that. Even their breakdowns are aesthetic. Even their mistakes are "actually part of the plan." That kills relatability HARD. You can always relate in theory. But it’s surface level "I relate to their trauma" or "I relate to feeling lost" and not "I recognize this person’s thought process" or "I’ve made that exact dumb choice" That’s why they feel unreal. It also ties back to the IQ thing. When everyone’s a genius the story stops being about human limitations. You can’t project yourself into someone who’s always five steps ahead, because most of us are just trying to survive step one without tripping over our own shoelaces. BSD wants you to admire its characters.
It rarely lets you recognize yourself in them.
7. Sometimes the story also can be straight up boring. Not all the time, but enough that you start checking how many chapters are left like "okay… are we done cooking or what?" To me, early arcs were meh, middle arcs slapped, later arcs felt like Asagiri just kept stacking twists because of escalation addiction.
BSD’s biggest crime is that it pretends to be deeper than it is. It wants to be profound, literary, morally complex, but it rarely commits to letting characters genuinely fail, rot or face consequences. It’s not bad. It’s just overhyped. Dazai especially feels more like a concept and less like a person. Everything in BSD is so glamourized. It refuses to make anything actually genuinely uncomfortable. Nobody is allowed to be truly pathetic, cruel, or wrong without the story going "actually, this was all justified." Like. Let someone be ugly and stay ugly. Also the overhyping of characters is wild. The fandom treats them like they’re the most complex beings ever written when half their personality is: smart, sad, hot, morally ambiguous (but not really). Everyone likes something different, of course, but instead of epic despair, operatic suffering, genius masterminds above consequence, I prefer just people being messy. So yeah. BSD isn’t trash. But it’s not the literary holy text people act like it is. It’s a stylish, sometimes fun, sometimes frustrating series that thinks it’s deeper than it actually commits to being. It's interesting, dramatic, fun at times. But relatable? Grounded? Human? Nah.
Important: If anyone ever reads this, don't take this review too seriously. I was just bored and decided to write a long review. Nothing against BSD or people who enjoy it. I actually used to be a huge BSD fan from like 2020 to 2024. And I glazed it a LOT, so I know how much people in the fandom exaggerate. I would give it 2 or 3 stars for how enjoyable it had been for me. The time in the fandom had been fun, but the story and characters itself are not something I like that much.
June 10, 2024
Quiero muchisimo a Kafka Asagiri y las cosas que plantea sobre la guerra y la busqueda de la paz ademas de uffff las cosas que hace con Dazai son espectaculares también.
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August 23, 2025fyodor, they could never make me hate you!
October 1, 2024
Girl what the FUCK. I think we should all agree to never be creative again because???
Right when you think oh thank god, our heroes saved the world 🫶 WRONG BITCH. Somehow everything is even worse now?????? Like wow I didn't think things could get worse but this author is fucked in the head.😭
And then I've caught up so there is no more right now??? Sick & twisted. Gotta say amazing series though. 13/10, never missed and I'm so sad I am done.
Right when you think oh thank god, our heroes saved the world 🫶 WRONG BITCH. Somehow everything is even worse now?????? Like wow I didn't think things could get worse but this author is fucked in the head.😭
And then I've caught up so there is no more right now??? Sick & twisted. Gotta say amazing series though. 13/10, never missed and I'm so sad I am done.
December 16, 2024
HOLY SHIT. I thought i had already gotten spoiled since its been a while since these chapters were out but NO- Fyodor’s ability was the coolest plot twist on earth I fucking love this manga
sidenote: people who passionately hate on Fyodor…. how boring can you beee!! he’s one of the most complex and interesting characters ever written; he could commit the worst acts but he will always remain so damn fascinating
sidenote: people who passionately hate on Fyodor…. how boring can you beee!! he’s one of the most complex and interesting characters ever written; he could commit the worst acts but he will always remain so damn fascinating
September 6, 2024
giving this 5 stars isn’t enough!!
oh fyodor, i could never hate you 🧎♀️
ok but what the fuck is happening and gonna happen next tho omgg i’m dying to know everything
oh fyodor, i could never hate you 🧎♀️
ok but what the fuck is happening and gonna happen next tho omgg i’m dying to know everything
September 9, 2024
Really want to know what lives in Asagiri-sensei's brain to come up with all this and torture us
October 21, 2024
so many plottwists🤯 really interested in how they are going to solve THIS. Also Fyodor did absolutely nothing wrong btw!
January 26, 2025
THE bsd volume.
June 7, 2025
Oh Fyodor they could never make me hate you.
Also Bram and Aya?? Omg 😭
Also Bram and Aya?? Omg 😭
June 19, 2025
ES HAT ALLES SINN GEMACHT, THE DOTS ARE DOTTING ICH BRAUCHE TEIL 26 JETZT SOFORT
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