Bungo Stray Dogs has officially concluded season five of the series, with the finale leaving many fans with a conflicting storm of emotions. Many fans of the series were shocked at how quickly Bones Studio had caught up to the manga, leaving both manga readers and anime watchers of the series unsure what would be happening in the finale of the season.
Here is a summary of the final episode and what to anticipate from this point. This article contains major spoilers.
What’s Happened in Season Five So Far
In season five, the series opens with the Armed Detective Agency members scattered and looking to regroup. Dazai and Fyodor are in prison, and the Hunting Dogs are close on the Armed Detective Agency’s tails. Atsushi and Akutagawa confront Fukuchi Ouchi in a battle, where Akutagawa is killed and changed into an undead vampire by ability user Bram Stoker. With Atsushi on the run and struggling to find a way to win this battle, he feels alone and afraid. In the midst of this, Sigma and Nikolai break into the Meursault prison to break out Fyodor and Dazai and a game of life-and-death begins.
Dazai and Fyodor are given a deadly injection and thirty minutes to break out of the prison to get the antidote. It quickly becomes a battle two vs two: Dazai and Sigma vs Fyodor and Chuuya, who has also become a vampire.
Meanwhile, Fukuchi has obtained a device called the One Order, which is a device used to control a world army to attack every part of the world at once. To add to this army of terror, he commands a vampire army using Bram Stoker. Fukuzawa is there immediately to confront Fukuchi, and the battle is brought to an end when Fukuchi deals Fukuzawa a deadly blow.
At the same time, Aya has taken Bram away from Fukuchi and is on a race for time to pull the Holy Sword from his body
Atsushi is forced into fighting Akutagawa in hopes of awakening him from his vampire state. Also, between Dazai and Fyodor, both opponents have rather close calls in losing their lives, until Fyodor manages to corner Dazai and orders Chuuya to shoot him in the head. Then, the game seems to be over.
Bungo Stray Dogs Season Finale
The Bungo Stray Dogs finale opens with Aya’s sacrifice to pull the sword from Bram’s body, just as Atsushi and Fukuzawa have been cornered by their opponents.
In the prison, Nikolai has declared Fyodor to be the winner of the game, and Fyodor appears to be making his escape via helicopter. However, the vampire soldier Fyodor commands suddenly stabs him. Dazai makes his entrance, in which he reveals that he is very much alive and Chuuya was never a vampire to start with; the two of them have been working together the whole time.
Dazai explains Fyodor’s downfall was his trait of trusting only what he can manipulate and not his allies, as Dazai does. Dazai trusted in Ranpo to form a deal with Bram: to control the vampire piloting Fyodor’s getaway helicopter and therefore eliminating their common enemy. What Bram receives in exchange for this deal remains unclear at this time.
Fyodor utters his final words, “Eli Eli Lama Sahachtani” which translates to “My God, my God, why hast Thou forsaken me?” All that remains of Fyodor is his injured right arm, which is given to Nikolai by Dazai.
With Bram now in control of the vampires, Aya is saved by Akutagawa and has a grateful Bram who kneels before her.
Fukuzawa musters the strength to complete his duel against Fukuchi in which they are sucked into Poe’s novel world. There, Fukuchi reveals his true intentions in his schemes: he wishes for an end to war worldwide. Fukuchi received word from his sword Amenogozen that thirty six years ago, there will be a multinational war against their present time period and a previous one. The duel was for Fukuzawa to use the One Order to put a stop to the troops and by using his ability, “All Men Are Created Equal.”
When the two return from the novel world, Fukuchi pleads for Fukuzawa to be the one to kill him and rid the world of his evil. When Fukuzawa refuses to end his friend’s life, Teruko, a member of the Hunting Dogs, appears and deals the final blow. Fukuzawa is left in mourning, but the rest of the Armed Detective Agency members are freed.
The finale then cuts to a time-skip of two hours, where Atsushi is being cornered by a strange floating figure. The figure wears white clothing and wields Amenogozen. Just as the strange figure goes to attack Atsushi, Akutagwa appears, shielding him with Rashoumon. Akutagawa is no longer a vampire and tells Atsushi the two of them are to end the story Fukuchi Ouchi started.
Fans are then left with a white screen with the words: “To Be Continued.”
What to Expect
With the “To be Continued” at the end of the Bungo Stray Dogs finale, many fans are anticipating a season six of Bungo Stray Dogs. No information has been provided for the release date or what will be covered, as there is no content in the manga presently.
Several fans have formed many theories on the events of the final episode, such as whether or not Fyodor is dead and if Fukuchi is the strange man that Akutagawa and Atsushi were fighting.
Sigma’s status remains unknown, as well as Nikolai’s role now that Fyodor is gone.
The finale of this season has left many Bungou fans stunned and on the edge of their seats for what is to come in the future.
About Bungo Stray Dogs
Bungo Stray Dogs is a series written by Kafka Asagiri and illustrated by Sango Harukawa. The series takes place in Yokohama, Japan where Nakajima Atsushi is an orphan on the run from a tiger beast he claims is after him. There he encounters Dazai Osamu, a member of the Armed Detective Agency and a supernatural ability user. After discovering Atsushi is an ability user as well, he is offered a job working with the Armed Detective Agency, where he encounters other ability users and saves Yokohama from destruction by the Mafia and even foreign organizations.
The series is available to stream on Crunchyroll, with five seasons, a movie, and an OVA. The series has also received several stage plays, a live action movie adaptation, eight light novels, and five art anthologies.
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