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Aniplus HD to Simulcast Bungo Stray Dogs Anime's 2nd Half
posted on by Rafael Antonio Pineda
Southeast Asian anime channel Aniplus HD announced on Monday that it will air a simulcast of the second half of the Bungo Stray Dogs television anime. Aniplus HD is streaming an English-subtitled trailer for the anime.
Aniplus HD will begin airing the anime on Thursday, October 6 at 12:50 a.m. in Jakarta and Bangkok, and at 1:50 a.m. in Singapore.
The anime's second half (starting with the 13th episode) will premiere on Tokyo MX and WOWOW on October 5 at 25:05 (effectively Tuesday, October 6 at 1:05 a.m.). Crunchyroll will stream the anime as it airs in Japan.
The anime's new characters include:
Kaori Nazuka (Akame ga KILL!'s Chelsea, Code Geass's Nunally Lamperouge/Vi Britannia) as Margaret M.
Special Ability: "Gone With The Wind"
Tarusuke Shingaki (Big Order's Abraham Louis Fran, Fate/Zero's Kariya Matō) as Nathaniel H.
Special Ability: "The Scarlet Letter"
Kengo Kawanishi (Aldnoah.Zero's Kisaki Matsuribi, Food Wars! The Second Plate's Shōji Satō) as John S.
Special Ability: "Grapes of Wrath"
Shunsuke Takeuchi (First Love Monster's Shūgo Takahashi, Kuromukuro's José Carlos Takasuka) as Lovecraft.
Special Ability: "Great Old One"
Hiroyuki Yoshino (Vandread's Hibiki Tokai, Kekkaishi's Yoshimori Sumimura) as Mark T.
Special Ability: "Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer"
Ami Koshimizu (School Rumble's Tenma Tsukamato, Code Geass's Kallen Stadtfeld) as Kōyō Ozaki
Special Ability: "Konjiki Yasha"
The band SCREEN mode will perform the anime's new opening theme song "Reason Living," and Luck Life will perform the ending theme song "Kaze ga Fuku Machi" (The Town Where the Wind Blows).
The first 12 episodes aired in April to June. Aniplus HD aired a simulcast of the first half of the series in Singapore, Indonesia, and Thailand.
The iflix streaming service added the show's first half last month.
The "battle action" story centers around a league of literary figures with supernatural powers. For example, in real life, Ryūnosuke Akutagawa wrote acclaimed stories that inspired Akira Kurosawa's Rashōmon film and the Aoi Bungaku Series anime's Jigoku Hen (Hell Screen) arc. In Bungo Stray Dogs, he has the power to transform and manipulate his cloak into a monster-like entity. Together, some of these writers solve mysteries as part of the "Armed Detective Agency," while others appear as antagonists.
