#Bungou stray dogs dead apple movie#

The fact that no character, not even the villains, are tied to the good and evil binary is one of my favorite things about the series. Kafka Asagiri lovingly crafted the entire life stories of each and every single character, and it shows without even needing a tragic flashback for most of them, even making a literal PEDOPHILE likable. BSD's strongest point is easily the lovable and empathy inducing characters. The cause of this entire conflict is the new character that is introduced, Shibusawa Tatsuhiko.

#Bungou stray dogs dead apple movie#

Instead, this predicament (which is made out to be this serious and daunting problem) serves as a mere triviality as the heroes of the movie take care of it in a matter of a few minutes, save for the main protagonist, which I'll get to later. This isn't a bad plot device in it of itself, if only it were an actual plot device at all. Defeating this manifestation will return the original user's ability. The reality is that a fog causes their abilities to manifest into this ghost of sorts that attacks their own user. The story is about a series of (presumed to be) suicides by ability users using their own abilities. a confusing plot, a seizure inducing climax, and probably the dumbest and most contrived antagonist to come out of BSD. The film, however, puts them to waste with

I'll start with some positives-the animation was pretty good (although that's to be expected for a feature length anime film), the voice actors did their jobs well, the music, while not exactly noteworthy, was decent, and there were a few interesting elements and events relating to the protagonist that I found to be genuinely interesting. Needless to say, Takuya Igarashi might as well be my pallbearer so that when I die, he can let me down one last time. This is coming from someone who absolutely adores the Bungou Stray Dogs series.