Bungo Stray Dogs: Dead Apple

Bungo Stray Dogs: Dead Apple (2018)

文豪ストレイドッグス DEAD APPLE

An underworld is rising.

A large scale catastrophe is occurring across the planet. Ability users are discovered after the appearance of a mysterious fog, apparently having committed suicide, so the Armed Detective Agency sets out to investigate these mysterious deaths. The case seems to involve an unknown ability user referred to as "Collector," a man who could be the mastermind behind the incident. Trust and courage are put to the test in order to save the city of Yokohama and ability users across the world from the grip of Collector where the Armed Detective Agency forms an unlikely partnership with the dangerous Port Mafia.

Date of release
2018-03-03
TMDB
8.1 / 10 (201)
Runtime
1h 30m
Genres
Animation, Action, Comedy, Mystery
Director
Takuya Igarashi
Collection
Bungo Stray Dogs Collection

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Based on: Bungo Stray Dogs

Bungo Stray Dogs: Dead Apple is a 2018 Japanese animated film produced by Bones. It is directed by Takuya Igarashi and written by Kafka Asagiri and Yōji Enokido. It is based on the manga Bungo Stray Dogs written by Asagiri and illustrated by Sango Harukawa. Taking place after events of the second season of the anime television series, a group of detectives learn of a string of apparent suicide cases that have been happening to people with supernatural powers. Atsushi Nakajima and his friends thus go to confront the culprit of this case, a man named Tatsuhiko Shibusawa. Returning voice actors include Kensho Ono, Kishō Taniyama, Mamoru Miyano, Yūto Uemura, and Akira Ishida.

Production

The film was initially intended to be an original video animation, planned when the second season of the TV series ended in 2016. Kadokawa Dwango was willing to make a film. A compilation film was suggested but creator Kafka Asagiri was willing to write a new script because he felt the fans deserved something better. The staff looked forward to the challenging dialogues and sought visuals which would captivate the fans.

The Bones staff went to a campsite retreat to work on the details of the production. They hoped to create a film with a high rewatch value, and intended to overwhelm the audience with the use of complex dialogue. They used the apple motif common in many fairy tales, myths and historical literature.

The film project was announced at the Mayo(w)i Inu-tachi no Utage Sono Ni event on February 19, 2017. Stamp rallies were held in Osaka and Yokohama to collect pictures of the characters. Another promotion of the film involved a mobile phone game titled Yumeiro Cast featuring Atsushi and other characters from the film. Tobu Zoo in Miyashiro, Saitama Prefecture, displayed pictures of Atsushi alongside the tiger mascot "Rocky-kun".

Titled Bungo Stray Dogs: Dead Apple, the film premiered on March 3, 2018, with the staff and cast from the anime series returning to reprise their roles. The film was streamed in the United States and Canada during May 2018, and was streamed by Crunchyroll starting in November of the same year. Funimation streamed the English dub on June 21, 2019.

The music was composed by Taku Iwasaki. The opening theme song is "Deadly Drive" by Granrodeo and the ending theme is "Bokura" by Luck Life. For the film's climax, the theme song "Reason Living" by Screen Mode was used. The single "Deadly Drive" was released in Japan on February 21, 2018. The film's original soundtrack was released on March 8, 2018. The Blu-ray was released on December 5, 2018.

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