Bungo Stray Dogs is the anime every BookTok reader should catch up on

If you look up “Osamu Dazai,” the prominent Japanese novelist is not the only search result that comes up. Between entries focused on the author of No Longer Human, you’ll glimpse an anime character with messy brown hair sporting a beige trench coat and heavily bandaged arms. This anime counterpart, also named Osamu Dazai, is the most recognizable character from Kafka Asagiri’s ongoing manga, Bungo Stray Dogs. Its five-season-and-counting anime adaptation by Bones (the studio behindFullmetal Alchemist) completed its 10th anniversary on April 7, which means it’s time for every bookworm and literature enthusiast who hasn’t seen it yet to catch up.