Bungo Stray Dogs Characters

Doppo Kunikida

Detective · The Matchless Poet

Kunikida is Dazai's long-suffering partner, a man who plans his life down to the minute in a notebook titled "Ideals." His ability turns anything he writes on a page into a real object, as long as it is no bigger than the notebook. He's strict and idealistic, and the series breaks his heart more than once to show what those ideals cost.

Voice

Yoshimasa Hosoya (JP)

Ranpo Edogawa

Detective · Super Deduction

Ranpo is the Agency's star detective, childish and spoiled, who solves cases the moment he puts on his glasses. He believes this is an ability. It isn't: he is simply a genius, and the president lets him keep believing otherwise. He is the only member who can read Dazai's plans almost as fast as Dazai makes them.

Yukichi Fukuzawa

President · All Men Are Equal

Fukuzawa is the Agency's founder, a quiet, stern swordsman. His ability lets him regulate the abilities of his subordinates so they can control them, which is how new members with dangerous powers learn to use them safely. His old rivalry with the Port Mafia's boss shapes much of the city's politics.

Akiko Yosano

Doctor · Thou Shalt Not Die

Yosano is the Agency's doctor. Her ability fully heals anyone near death, which in practice means she sometimes has to injure patients badly before she can save them. She's cheerful about this in a way that alarms new members, and her backstory as a military medic gives her one of the series' darkest pasts.

Kyouka Izumi

Former assassin · Demon Snow

Kyouka is a fourteen-year-old who was forced to kill for the Port Mafia. Her ability, a sword-wielding spirit, originally obeyed whoever spoke to it through her phone. Atsushi rescues her, and her slow path into the Agency, and to controlling her ability herself, mirrors his own.

Junichiro Tanizaki

Detective · Light Snow

Tanizaki is a mild-mannered member whose ability creates illusions, letting him hide himself or others. He is meek until his sister is threatened, at which point he becomes frightening. His odd closeness with Naomi is a running joke.

Naomi Tanizaki

Agency clerk

Naomi is Junichiro's sister, or so she says, and works in the Agency office. She has no ability. Her clingy affection for her brother is played for comedy.

Kenji Miyazawa

Detective · Undefeated by the Rain

Kenji is a sunny farm boy from the countryside who gains enormous strength when he's hungry. He is friendly with everyone and lifts cars without noticing. He's the Agency's gentlest member and its most unexpected muscle.

Ougai Mori

Boss · Vita Sexualis

Mori is the Port Mafia's boss, a former doctor who makes every decision by calculating what is best for the organisation. His ability takes the form of Elise, a girl in a red dress whom he dotes on. He's charming, logical and very hard to read.

Kouyou Ozaki

Executive · Golden Demon

Kouyou is an elegant executive whose ability summons a sword-wielding spirit similar to Kyouka's. She wants Kyouka back in the Mafia and sees her own past in her. She's a fearsome fighter with a protective streak.

Ichiyo Higuchi

Akutagawa's subordinate

Higuchi leads Akutagawa's squad and is devoted to him, though he barely notices. She fights with guns rather than an ability. She's a capable officer who gets more respect from the audience than from her boss.

Ryuro Hirotsu

Black Lizard leader · Falling Camellia

Hirotsu is a calm, older gentleman who commands the Black Lizard, the Mafia's combat unit. His ability repels anything he touches with great force. He's a veteran who treats violence as routine work.

Gin Akutagawa

Black Lizard assassin

Gin is Ryunosuke's younger sister, a silent, masked assassin. Her identity is a running surprise early on. She cares for her brother more than she shows.

Kyusaku Yumeno

Q · Dogra Magra

Kyusaku, called Q, is a child whose ability curses anyone who hurts him into hallucinating and attacking those around them. The Mafia keeps him locked away because he's too dangerous to use. He's one of the most tragic figures in the cast.

Sakunosuke Oda

Low-ranking member · Lapse

Oda is a Mafia member who refuses to kill and looks after orphans, and Dazai's closest friend in his Mafia years. His ability lets him see a few seconds into the future. His story, told in the Dark Era arc, explains why Dazai left the Mafia.

Ango Sakaguchi

Government agent · Discourse on Decadence

Ango was the third member of Dazai and Oda's drinking trio, and secretly a government spy. His ability reads the memories stored in objects. He now works for the Special Division and is the Agency's main contact with the state.

Nikolai Gogol

Clown · The Overcoat

Gogol is a theatrical, unpredictable member who can open portals through his cloak and reach or move through space. He's obsessed with being truly free, even of his own feelings, and his loyalty to Fyodor is never quite stable.

Sigma

Sky Casino manager

Sigma runs a casino floating in the sky and has no memory of a past. His ability swaps information with anyone who touches him. He's one of the few characters not named after a real writer, which ties into his story.

Bram Stoker

Dracula

Bram is a centuries-old vampire whose ability turns people into his thralls. He's used as a weapon in the fifth season's vampire outbreak, and he's far more weary than evil.

Fukuchi Ouchi

Hunting Dogs captain · Mirror Lion

Fukuchi is a national war hero and the commander of the Hunting Dogs, the government's elite unit. He's also Fukuzawa's oldest friend, and their history becomes very important in the fifth season.

Tetchou Suehiro

Hunting Dogs swordsman · Plum Blossoms in Snow

Tetchou is a deadpan swordsman whose blades extend wherever he wants them to cut. He's honest to a fault and slowly comes to doubt his orders.

Teruko Okura

Hunting Dogs vice-captain · Gasp of the Soul

Teruko is a hot-tempered vice-captain who can change her body's age, appearing as a child or an adult. She is fiercely devoted to Fukuchi.

Saigiku Jouno

Hunting Dogs member · Priceless Tears

Jouno is a blind, sadistic interrogator whose ability makes his senses extraordinarily sharp. He enjoys his work more than he should.