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Bungo Stray Dogs, Vol. 1 (light novel)
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Doppo Kunikida is an idealist and a straitlaced detective at the Armed Detective Agency, an organisation that takes on dangerous jobs even the police won't handle. Everything in his life is going just as he's planned until one day, he’s paired up with the agency’s newest hire: a suspicious, eccentric, suicide-obsessed man named Osamu Dazai.
Their first case together turns out to be far more complicated than Kunikida anticipated, and it looks like the detective agency’s sworn enemy, the Port Mafia, is somehow involved, too!
Set two years before the events of the manga series, this is the tale of how two seemingly incompatible personalities end up forming the partnership that has made them one of Yokohama’s top detective duos!
Bungo Stray Dogs, Vol. 1 (light novel) by Kafka Asagiri, Sango Harukawa, and Matthew Rutsohn offers an engaging, action-packed prequel for fans of the manga.
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INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781975303228
Publisher: Little, Brown & Company
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 20 August 2019
Country: United States
Imprint: Yen Press
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 14.0mm
Width: 140.0mm
Height: 208.0mm
Weight: 252g
Pages: 196
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