The official twitter account to Bungo Stray Dogs franchise yesterday notified its fans that they have an important announcement to make on July 19th which many of us expected to be a fourth season announcement. However, it turns out the major announcement was to reveal a new anime based on Bungo Stray Dogs spin-off “Wan!”
On Friday, it was announced that Bungo Stray Dogs Wan! (Bungo Stray Dogs Ruff! by Kanaineko will receiving an anime adaptation. Kanaineko drew the below illustration to celebrate the anime announcement.
Bungo Stray Dogs Wan! is a gag comedy manga which depicts characters in super deformed (SD) or popularly known “Chibi” art style. Kanaineko launched the manga in Kadokawa’s Young Ace Up! website in December 2015 and currently has six volumes in circulation.
She commented on the project saying:
“Wan! will become a TV anime! Seriously! Yikes! This is all due to the two original creators – Kafka Asagiri-sensei and Sango Harukawa-sensei, the people who have worked so hard to make it happen, and the love and enthusiasm of the fans for Bungo stray Dogs. I’m looking forward to seeing Atsushi-kun and other characters who move, talk, interrupt, and blur in the anime with you all!”
Orginal manga author and illustrator Kafka Asagiri and Sango Harukawa also commented on the upcoming the Bungo Stray Dogs Wan! anime adaptation:
“I’m as happy as when the main manga based on my story got an anime adaptation! Well, everyone, let’s get healed together” – Kafka Asagiri
“When I heard the news of an anime adaptation of Wan!, I may have been more pleased than about myself. Very happy for you! I’m really looking forward to it now.” – Sango Harukawa
Additional details such as studio, staff and release date will be made public soon.
About Bungo Stray Dogs
Bungo Stray Dogs is a japanese manga written by Kafka Asagiri and drawn by Sango Harukawa. It is published in Young Ace magazine since 2012 which studio Bones adapted into three TV anime series and an anime movie.
The story follows Nakajima Atsushi who has heen thrown out of his orphanage and now has no place to go and with no food and water. While he was standing by a river, on the brink of starvation, he rescues a man whimsically attempting suicide. That man is Dazai Osamu, and he and his partner Kunikida are members of a very special detective agency. They have supernatural powers, and deal with cases that are too dangerous for the police or the military. They’re tracking down a tiger that has appeared in the area recently, around the time Atsushi came to the area. The tiger seems to have a connection to Atsushi, and by the time the case is solved, it is clear that Atsushi’s future will involve much more of Dazai and the rest of the detectives!
