Along with plans for preview screening events at Marunouchi Piccadilly on March 27 and Yokohama Burg 13 on April 2, a new visual for the spring 2016 TV anime of adaptation of Kafka Asagiri and Hirukawa 35's Bungou Stray Dogs has been unveiled.



The series features notable names from literature in the story of an orphan who becomes involved with a detective agency specializing in dangerous cases, notable for featuring Japanese seminal early 20th century writers. Star Driver and Captain Earth's Takuya Igarashi and Yōji Enokido are back at Bones writing and directing the manga adaptation respectively.

Latest character design preview...

Ichiyō Higuchi, one of Japan's first modern prominent woman and one of the first important writer's of the Meiji period (CV Asami Seto)

Previously...

Atsushi Nakajima (CV Yuuto Uemura)

Osamu Dazai (Mamoru Miyano)

Ryunosuke Akutagawa (CV Kenshō Ono)

Doppo Kunikida (CV Yoshimasa Hosoya)

Akiko Yosano (CV Yū Shimamura)

Kenji Miyazawa (CV Hiroyuki Kagura)

Fukuzawa Yukichi (CV: Rikiya Koyama)

Ranpo Edogawa (CV Hiroshi Kamiya)

Junichiro Tanizaki (CV Toshiyuki Toyonaga )

Naomi Tanizaki (CV Chiaki Omigawa)

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Scott Green is editor and reporter for anime and manga at geek entertainment site Ain't It Cool News. Follow him on Twitter at @aicnanime.