Bungou Stray Dogs - Bezpańscy Literaci. Tom 12

文豪ストレイドッグス [Bungō Stray Dogs] (Comic) #12

by Kafka Asagiri, Sango Harukawa (Illustrator), Karolina Dwornik (Translator)

Plan Dostojewskiego powiódł się i Fukuzawa z Morim zostali zaatakowani przez bakteryjną zdolność zwaną „Kanibalizmem”. Kieruje się ona okrutnymi zasadami. Jeśli w ciągu 48 godzin jeden z nich zginie, to drugi przeżyje. Mafia Portowa i Zbrojna Agencja Detektywistyczna zaciekle bronią swoich szefów, co prowadzi do otwartych starć. Kunikida i Atsushi pragną zapobiec walkom, ale Dostojewski niweluje ich wysiłki. Kyouka i Akutagawa oraz Chuuya i Ranpo ścierają się ze sobą. Jaki będzie finał tych potyczek? Czy uda się im wyrwać spod władzy przeciwnika, który zasłużenie nazywany jest „Diabłem”? A może do samego końca będą musieli tańczyć tak jak im zagra?

(opis wydawcy)

Genres: Manga, Fantasy, Seinen, Mystery, Comics Manga, Comics, Supernatural

204 pages, Paperback

First published April 4, 2017

About the author

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

Reviews

[Julie · Rating 4 out of 5]

God these characters are just so GOOD. I love everything about them. Their stories and personalities and histories. The way that they tie into the authors they're named after is just so interesting to me. I'll never get over it.

[Sima ✨ · Rating 4 out of 5]

So many things happen in a short second. This manga surely has no mercy.

[₊˚ପ⊹ adaia 🪷 (taylor’s version) ✧ ˖ -͙˚ · Rating 4 out of 5]

4.5*

[Mizuki · Rating 3 out of 5]

I'm a bit disappointed, after the awesome vol. 11, vol. 12 reds like a transitional book. It is by no means badly written but I want more!

PS: please don't you ever get me started with all the giggling and fangirl's exclaiming I have done for all these Bungō Stray Dogs fanfics (Edagawa Rampo/Edgar Allan Poe is a thing, among plenty of other Ships mind you. XD)

Review for vol. 1: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Review for vol. 6: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Review for vol. 7: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Review for vol. 13: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[I.M.BookMeIn · Rating 5 out of 5]

Chapters 47~50 : Cannibalism Arc
This volume gives us more insight into the joined history of the ADA and PM. We also get a better understanding of the importance of the two leaders, not only to their respective organizations but to the city as a whole.
Dostoevsky has been playing this game right from the beginning, using their gifts against them and striking exactly where it hurts the most.

PS: Thinking of that cat being cuddled to sleep every night by a young lady.. once you see it you can't unsee it..

[‎‎ rosie [reading slump]]

lets be honest we all want to be natsume

[Angel · Rating 5 out of 5]

TEN TOM TO BYŁ TYLE EMOCJI

[musi · Rating 4 out of 5]

las tres flores de la costa: natsume, mori y fukuzawa. mención especial a dazai mi varón ya que natsume confía en él, pero lo de la enfermera no se lo voy a perdonar nunca. hoy duerme en el sillón

[elhyza]

oh wow those last few pages had me on the edge of my seat!!

[Frogzai · Rating 1 out of 5]

This was actually really good, but Dazai cheated on me so it gets 1 star

[ReadingFrog · Rating 4 out of 5]

3.75 stars.

[gio]

Adding manga volumes means I'm really desperate at this point.

[juls · Rating 5 out of 5]

I need more interactions between chuuya and ranpo they are literally the best

[rylie · Rating 5 out of 5]

so many good chapters in this volume! i loved getting to see some of the more minor characters have some good panels. i also loved the battles between each of the various opponents, especially mori and fukuzawa. they are such interesting characters, and i thoroughly enjoy their interactions. also, kunikida :((

[fish · Rating 4 out of 5]

—4.5 ★


This volume had me worried. I am on the verge of sobbing but thankfully, nothing bad happened when the sensei finally appeared. HE FREAKING SAVED THE DAY. So far, my favorite volume. The back story in this volume had my heart tightening.

[yvee · Rating 5 out of 5]

that was everything wtf

[✿ Mika ✿ · Rating 3 out of 5]

Another filler, though this one was quite expected. Fillers are necessary after all in order to give the writers more time to create a good story or better fights and reveals.

[Lisa · Rating 5 out of 5]

this was intense

[lu ¿ aero · Rating 4 out of 5]

asagiri really said non abbiamo abbastanza mastermind e ha creato fyodor

[Violet · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.5 ყველა პერსონაჟს თერაპია სჭირდება. ახლავე.

[kazzie ݁ ˖๋ ࣭ ⭑]

Kunikida: we can’t use lethal force on children … TEAR GAS TIME! (Very American of him!)

[Reagan · Rating 4 out of 5]

Ranpo slayed as always

[Riki (˶˃⤙˂˶) · Rating 5 out of 5]

5 💫

"What'll I do if by some chance, Ranpo-kun dies ...?" Poe's so in love!!! T.T

[Goblin Reaper · Rating 5 out of 5]

047: Mutual Destruction, Part 1
048: Mutual Destruction, Part 2
049: Mutual Destruction, Part 3
050: Mutual Destruction, Part 4

[H · Rating 3 out of 5]

*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.

[Jaye Berry · Rating 5 out of 5]

This series makes me want to pull my hair out like I can't keep doing this for I will soon be bald???

Absolutely no mercy. I can't express how stressed out this made me like I had a physical reaction as if I was the one in this fuckass situation.

Both sides gunning for each other, their leaders dying, THE COUNTDOWN TO A VIRUS. Personally I think I was getting more stressed out than the characters were like they were handling the situation tbh. Meanwhile I was screaming crying and holding my breath.

We get to learn more about the past between both leaders, Fukuzawa and Mori. I think the port mafia leader is really cool but the fact he's a literal pedophile whose power relates to that is really disturbing. Like is that really necessary. 👁️👄👁️ So wild to be like oh yah the mafia leader is cool and well written BUT he's a pedophile like oh !

Especially when you consider that the port mafia aren't even the actual bad guys?? Like yes sure they are bad guys but when you consider the one currently fucking around pulling the strings, they are getting played as bad as the agency.

Also Fukuzawa is so hot I'm sorry. That man is a whole badass dilf and for what? To attack me personally? 😭

Fyodor too is kinda... hear me out... The way Ranpo said going against him was like going against Dazai was so intriguing like we gotta get those two in a room for my entertainment.

Also I am dumb as shit because Dazai wasn't here the whole time because he was elsewhere getting surgery from his gunshot but I was thinking ??? Why didn't Yosano just heal him, why is he somewhere else. The answer is obvious.🤡

That entire Kyouka and Akutagawa fight / conversation went so hard. I want to learn more about Akutagawa's past because damn.🥺

[Yoda Bor · Rating 5 out of 5]

Après deux tomes plutôt intéressants mais qui servaient essentiellement à faire la transition, on est ici dans un affrontement direct entre l’Agence des Détectives armés et la Mafia portuaire et, avec des faces à face dans tous les sens, c’est absolument brillant.
Assez étonnamment, c’est Rampo qui mène la traque. Je ne le voyais pas du tout dans ce rôle mais avec Kunikida qui est assez traumatisé par l’hécatombe autour de lui, il y a bien besoin que quelqu’un le fasse.
Il le fait d’ailleurs très bien et c’est assez intéressant de voir que la plupart des membres restants de la Guilde viennent leur prêter main forte.

C’est un tome qui est donc plein de combats mais dans lequel on apprend aussi pas mal de choses et notamment l’historique de la fondation de ces deux organisations.
C’est très intéressant et j’ai aimé aussi que Fukuzawa et Mori tentent d’épargner le plus possible leur troupe et la population entière. Ces deux là ont été des personnages que j’ai vraiment aimé apprendre à connaitre au fil des pages et le compte à rebours dont ils étaient victimes trouve une fin que j’ai trouvé particulièrement surprenante, dont j’attends de voir les conséquences.

Et en plus on a droit à un dernier rebondissement qui voit l’arrivée d’un tout nouveau personnage, quelqu’un de particulièrement important qui devrait tenir un rôle essentiel pour la suite des évènements.

Avec un dessin toujours aussi fin et soigné, cette série ne perd rien en qualité et malgré l’absence physique de Dostoieski dans ce tome, sa présence plane sur tout ce qui s’y déroule.

[airany · Rating 4 out of 5]

EL PANEL DE CHUUYA, KAIJI, AKU
LA PORT MAFIA MI FAMILIA

COMO ODIO DETESTO ESCUPO QUE HAGAN VER AL ADA COMO FAMILIA ENCONTRADA PERO A LA PORT MAFIA NO

Le voy a poner cuatro estrellas sólo porque aparece Chuuya, dios tengo una bronca

Tuve un mental breakdown terrible con este volumen

¿por qué sigo leyendo bsd? pregunta seria
=por chuuya

POR QUÉ TODOS LOS QUE SE PASAN AL “ADA” TIENEN YA UN PROPÓSITO ETC GRRRR
Y SON FELICES 🤪

Es que si hay tantos personajes grises no entiendo porque pintan al ADA constantemente como un lugar “bueno” y a la Port Mafia como “malo”, es más complejo el tema y se vió en este volumen con las decisiones de Natsume y mi queja es que no es tanto lo del el lado “bueno o malo”, si no que es como si los que estuvieran en el ADA hubieran renovado sus vidas o no sé qué, y estuvieran más felices, como que te hace ver que si no eliges estar ahí jamás vas a poder encontrar “la luz”, “el buen camino” o qué se yo, cómo le pasó a Dazai y Kyouka y es como??? ¿por qué estar en el ADA es equivalente a ser feliz? y si ESE ES EL ÚNICO CAMINO ¿por qué personajes como Aku y Chuuya no pueden alcanzar ese estado de libertad y felicidad? ¿qué hace que unos personajes merezcan eso y otros no? porque siendo honestos, ni Dazai ni Kyouka son mejores personas que Aku y Chuuya y aún así lograron eso y ajá good for them PERO POR QUÉ HACEN VER LA VIDA MISERABLE EN LA PORT MAFIA, LOS ODIO, DIOS QUE RABIA. Y TAMBIÉN TE ODIO A TI MORI. Amo la Port Mafia menos a ti.

En fin:

Port Mafia >>>>>>>> ADA

[huna · Rating 5 out of 5]

*re-read

Extra information: This volume is in season 3 of the anime, The Cannibalism Arc.

Something that I really love about bsd is the fact that the Port Mafia is not the villain. Instead, they also help the Armed Detective Agency and the Special Division to protect Yokohama. Their love for the city is so strong that they help each other to defeat outsiders from ruining the place they called home.

Some of my thoughts in this volume:
-Mori Ougai, the leader of Port Mafia is cunning and there are parts where he sounds ruthless. But, judging from his instructions to the subordinates and his thoughts on some stuff, he is way better than the previous PM leader. Especially because he's an old friend of leaders from the other two agencies.
- Kunikida and his ideals again. I think the incident that happens in this volume really hurts him. I'm heartbroken to see him like that.
- Fyodor is so despicable. I FREAKING HATE HIM. URGHHHHH
- I love cats lolol~~ there's one character that I really want to see more in next volumes (but I know he didn't appear urghhhh). I'm curious about that person.

Some of the parts that made me teared up:

"But, if I break the 'rule', more innocent bystanders will die!"

"You've done well."

-End of review-

[Nova Syzygy]

Chuuya deserves better. Mori, on the other hand, needs multiple restraining orders. How did Fukuzawa ever tolerate him???