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50 free Bungo Stray Dogs trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Bungo Stray Dogs takes some of the most celebrated names in world literature and turns them into detectives, gangsters and terrorists with supernatural gifts. Every ability is a nod to something its namesake wrote, so the series rewards fans who pay attention twice: once to the plot, and once to the bookshelf behind it. This quiz covers both. It has questions on Chuuya Nakahara, Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, Osamu Dazai and Atsushi Nakajima, on what each ability does and where its name comes from, on the Armed Detective Agency, the Port Mafia, the Guild and the later villains, and on the people who make the manga and anime, from the creators' design choices to the voice cast and theme songs. It is written for anyone who has watched the anime or read the manga, with easy openers and tougher questions for readers of the light novels. A few answers involve major plot turns from later seasons, so expect spoilers.
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Q 01Osamu Dazai's power-nullifying touch in Bungo Stray Dogs is named after which novel by the real Dazai?
No Longer Human
No Longer Human is the favorite novel that inspired writer Kafka Asagiri to create the series. Even objects made by another ability dissolve at Dazai's touch.
Q 02Chuuya Nakahara of the Port Mafia controls which force on anything he touches in Bungo Stray Dogs?
Gravity
Gravity answers to Chuuya through his ability, Upon the Tainted Sorrow, as long as he is touching the object. He is regarded as one of the strongest ability users in the city.
Q 03Which animal does orphan Atsushi Nakajima transform into against his will in Bungo Stray Dogs?
A white tiger
A white tiger is the form Atsushi takes, with huge strength, speed and the power to regenerate. At first he keeps no memory of what he does while transformed.
Q 04Which ability turns Ryūnosuke Akutagawa's coat into blades and monstrous jaws in Bungo Stray Dogs?
Rashōmon
Rashōmon controls any cloth Akutagawa wears and can even devour space itself, giving him a shield that ordinary attacks cannot break.
Q 05Port Mafia serial bomber Motojirō Kajii shapes his explosives like which fruit in Bungo Stray Dogs?
Lemons
Lemons are the trademark of Kajii, whose ability keeps his own lemon-shaped bombs from harming him. He treats dying as his greatest experiment.
Q 06What must Guild leader Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald give up to boost his strength in Bungo Stray Dogs?
Money
Money is the fuel for The Great Fitzgerald, an ability based on The Great Gatsby. Simply throwing cash off a balcony is enough to trigger it.
Q 07Akiko Yosano's healing ability in Bungo Stray Dogs only works on patients in what condition?
Near death
Near death is the catch: Yosano can heal any wound, but only on someone at that point. So she often injures her patients thoroughly before treating them.
Q 08In Bungo Stray Dogs, Kenji Miyazawa's ability Undefeated by the Rain grants superhuman strength only when he is what?
Hungry
Hungry is the trigger for the 14-year-old country boy's strength. His honesty makes him so popular with locals that he is the Agency's main collector of eyewitness accounts.
Q 09Kyōka Izumi's phantom Demon Snow only obeys orders sent through which object in Bungo Stray Dogs?
A mobile phone
A mobile phone carries every command to Demon Snow, which once let Ryūnosuke Akutagawa control the phantom instead of Kyōka. The flaw came from her mother passing the ability on incompletely.
Q 10How does Atsushi Nakajima first come across Osamu Dazai in the opening chapter of Bungo Stray Dogs?
Drifting in a river
Drifting in a river is how Atsushi finds Dazai, and he dives in thinking the man is drowning. Dazai had in fact meant to drown, one of the constant suicide attempts that define his character.
Q 11What was Osamu Dazai and Chuuya Nakahara's feared Port Mafia partnership called in Bungo Stray Dogs?
Double Black
Double Black, or Soukoku, exists for a practical reason: Dazai's touch is the only known way to stop Chuuya once his full power is unleashed.
Q 12Which technique unleashes Chuuya Nakahara's full power in Bungo Stray Dogs at the cost of his own mind?
Corruption
Corruption drives Chuuya's ability so hard that he can form miniature black holes, but he keeps destroying everything in sight until his body gives out.
Q 13What is the name of the god of calamity sealed inside Chuuya Nakahara's body in Bungo Stray Dogs?
Arahabaki
Arahabaki began as a secret military experiment to create an artificial ability, then broke out of confinement and sealed itself into Chuuya.
Q 21What did artist Sango Harukawa wrap around Osamu Dazai's body in Bungo Stray Dogs to reflect his fixation on suicide?
Bandages
Bandages cover Dazai as one of several design details pointing to that obsession. Harukawa also drew him taller than the hero, Atsushi, to set the pair apart.
Q 22Which Japanese voice actor plays Osamu Dazai in Bungo Stray Dogs, with Kaiji Tang voicing the role in English?
Mamoru Miyano
Mamoru Miyano changes his vocal tone to play the younger Dazai of the flashback arcs. In an AnimeAnime poll, Dazai was voted the second-best character of his career.
Q 23Kafka Asagiri partly based Osamu Dazai's personality in Bungo Stray Dogs on the lead of which American crime series?
The Mentalist
Q 14Which drink is Port Mafia executive Chuuya Nakahara known to appreciate in Bungo Stray Dogs?
Wine
Wine is one of the few things Chuuya openly enjoys, while his stated dislikes are Dazai and any reminder that he stands just 160 cm tall.
Q 15Whom does Chuuya Nakahara call Big Sis after she served as his caretaker in Bungo Stray Dogs?
Kōyō Ozaki
Kōyō Ozaki was 19 when boss Ōgai Mori assigned her to look after Chuuya. Her ability, Golden Demon, summons a sword-wielding spirit much like Kyōka Izumi's.
Q 16Which voice actor plays Chuuya Nakahara in Bungo Stray Dogs and also sings its openings as frontman of Granrodeo?
Kishō Taniyama
Kishō Taniyama performs as Kishow, vocalist and lyricist of Granrodeo, so he voices Chuuya and sings themes such as Trash Candy for the same show.
Q 17The real poet behind Bungo Stray Dogs' Chuuya Nakahara was nicknamed the Japanese version of which French poet?
Arthur Rimbaud
Arthur Rimbaud's poems were translated into Japanese by Nakahara himself in 1934. Nakahara wrote more than 350 poems of his own before dying at 30.
Q 18Which so-called King of Assassins comes to regard Chuuya Nakahara as his little brother in Bungo Stray Dogs?
Paul Verlaine
Paul Verlaine was himself made in an experiment to build an ability-using super soldier, which is why he believes only Chuuya can understand him. He later joins the Port Mafia as an executive.
Q 19Which silent, masked Port Mafia assassin turns out to be Ryūnosuke Akutagawa's younger sister in Bungo Stray Dogs?
Gin
Gin is first assumed to be a man until Dazai reveals who she is. She has no ability and fights with a knife, and the siblings often spend their shared days off together.
Q 20Which gun-wielding Port Mafia subordinate admires Ryūnosuke Akutagawa to the point of obsession in Bungo Stray Dogs?
Ichiyō Higuchi
Ichiyō Higuchi prefers a pair of pistols and flies into jealous rages when she suspects her boss is seeing a woman, who turns out to be his own sister.
The Mentalist gave Dazai some of his manner: Asagiri drew on Simon Baker's performance as Patrick Jane. The character's look, by contrast, was designed to be the opposite of Atsushi's.
Q 24Kafka Asagiri compared Osamu Dazai's role beside hero Atsushi Nakajima in Bungo Stray Dogs to which famous mentor?
Merlin
Merlin to King Arthur was Asagiri's comparison: Atsushi is the hero and Dazai the sage. He left Atsushi without a strong personality so readers could connect with the odd characters around him.
Q 25Whose dying words persuade Osamu Dazai to leave the Port Mafia for the Armed Detective Agency in Bungo Stray Dogs?
Sakunosuke Oda
Sakunosuke Oda was a low-ranking mafia man who refused to kill and hoped to become a writer. He could see five to six seconds into the future.
Q 26The real Osamu Dazai, namesake of the Bungo Stray Dogs detective, was found six days after drowning on which occasion?
His birthday
His birthday, 19 June, was the day the search ended in 1948; he would have turned 39. He had finished his last novel only weeks earlier.
Q 27Artist Sango Harukawa drew Atsushi Nakajima's long, dangling belt in Bungo Stray Dogs to resemble what?
A tail
A tail was the idea, a quiet hint at the animal Atsushi turns into. Writer Kafka Asagiri first imagined him as a 24-year-old rather than 18.
Q 28Atsushi Nakajima's ability in Bungo Stray Dogs references which tale by the real writer of that name?
The Moon Over the Mountain
The Moon Over the Mountain, or Sangetsuki, follows a poet transformed against his will. The real Nakajima is an author Japanese students often meet in their textbooks.
Q 29Ryūnosuke Akutagawa is left frail in Bungo Stray Dogs by a slum childhood and a disease of which organ?
Lungs
Lungs are his weak point, which is why he coughs constantly. The illness also drives him to win Dazai's approval before his time runs out.
Q 30The real writer behind Bungo Stray Dogs' Ryūnosuke Akutagawa is called the father of which Japanese literary form?
The short story
The short story was his form: he wrote 150 of them before dying at 35, and Japan's premier literary award now carries his name.