The official website and Twitter account for the TV anime of Kafka Asagiri’s manga Bungou Stray Dogs announced on Sunday to return with a new season after about five and a half years since the last TV anime was broadcast.

Along with the announcement of the Bungou Stray Dogs new season production news, character design and animation director Nobuhiro Arai released an exclusive teaser visual.

【INFO】TVアニメの放送から約5年半。ついに「文豪ストレイドッグス」新シーズンの制作が決定！キャラクターデザイン・総作画監督の新井伸浩描き下ろしのティザービジュアルも公開！新たに立ちはだかる敵とは!? ぜひ続報をご期待ください！
▼新シーズン公式サイトhttps://t.co/p0dGE7vcLk#bungosd pic.twitter.com/7veEDawraO

— アニメ「文豪ストレイドッグス」公式 (@bungosd_anime) November 7, 2021

The returning casts and staff include:

• Director: Takuya Igarashi
• Series Composition: Yoji Enokido
• Character Designer: Nobuhiro Arai
• Animation Production: BONES

• Yuto Uemura as Atsushi Nakajima
• Mamoru Miyano as Osamu Dazai
• Sumire Morohoshi as Kyoka Izumi
• Kenshiro Ono as Ryunosuke Akutagawa
• Kisho Taniyama as Chuya Nakahara

The first television anime adaptation aired from April to June 2016. The anime’s second 12-episode series aired from October to December 2016. Funimation and Crunchyroll released the series on home video with an English dub last March. The anime’s third season premiered in April 2019.

An anime film, titled Bungo Stray Dogs: Dead Apple, opened in Japan in March 2018. A spin-off series titled Bungo Stray Dogs WAN! also aired earlier this year. Yen Press releases both the manga and light novel adaptations in English.

Crunchyroll describes the series as such:

Kicked out of his orphanage and on the verge of starving to death, Nakajima Atsushi meets some strange men. One of them, Dazai Osamu, is a suicidal man attempting to drown himself in broad daylight. The other, bespectacled Kunikida Doppo, nervously stands by flipping through a notepad. Both are members of the “Armed Detective Agency” said to solve incidents that even the military and police won’t touch. Atsushi ends up accompanying them on a mission to eliminate a man-eating tiger that’s been terrorizing the population…

Source: Twitter