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Deadly battle of wits, vampires, and super powered gangs all getting mixed up

Bungo Stray Dogs vol 23 by Kafka Asagiri, Sango Harukawa

June 23, 2024 by CoffeeShopReader Leave a Comment

Bungo Stray Dogs is one of those extended episodic stories (manga series) that’s about a vaguely dystopic world in which people sometimes have super-powers that are literary themed. There’s a couple of main groups in opposition to each other but sometimes they work together, and there’s plenty of adventure and fighting. It’s also one of those series where things get dark, and maybe you see a hero run through with a sword, but then in a volume or two by some weird twist of fate, […]

Filed Under: Speculative Fiction Tagged With: Bungo Stray Dogs, Fighting, kafka asagiri, Kafka Asagiri, Sango Harukawa, literary themes, manga, Sango Harukagawa, super powers

CoffeeShopReader's CBR16 Review No:35 · Genres: Speculative Fiction · Tags: Bungo Stray Dogs, Fighting, kafka asagiri, Kafka Asagiri, Sango Harukawa, literary themes, manga, Sango Harukagawa, super powers ·
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Literary Lessons in Dystopic World

Bungo Stray Dogs vol 16 by Kafka Asagiri, Sango Harukagawa

February 28, 2021 by CoffeeShopReader Leave a Comment

I’ve been following this manga series for a while, and I think I was starting to go off of it since it’s pretty consistently dark but often interesting, and the balance was getting lost. It’s back. The premise is that in this world there are people with special powers that often have something to do with the real literary individual they are named for. The main group of characters are a bunch of misfits who work at a detective agency, the Armed Detective Agency, and […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Speculative Fiction Tagged With: bungo stray dogs 16, kafka asagiri, Kafka Asagiri, Sango Harukagawa, literary history, literary theme, manga, sango harukawa

CoffeeShopReader's CBR13 Review No:18 · Genres: Fantasy, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Speculative Fiction · Tags: bungo stray dogs 16, kafka asagiri, Kafka Asagiri, Sango Harukagawa, literary history, literary theme, manga, sango harukawa ·
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