KADOKAWA has revealed a brand new ninth anniversary visible for the Bungo Stray Dogs TV anime collection, which options the 4 most important members of Port Mafia posing to type the quantity 9 of their arms. 

Bungo Stray Dogs’s first season aired in Japan on April 7, 2016 and will probably be celebrating its upcoming tenth anniversary this coming April 2026. A number of commemorative initiatives main as much as its decade-long anniversary are deliberate all through this 12 months, with the newly launched ninth anniversary visible being part of the celebrations, beginning this July. 

The second challenge is a collaboration marketing campaign with the Japanese ochazuke (a dish consisting of scorching tea, dashi, or water over rice) restaurant chain Dashichazuke En in August. The marketing campaign is scheduled to be held in any respect shops of the chain in Japan from August 5, 2025 to September 15, 2025. Extra particulars in regards to the collaboration will probably be introduced at a later date.

Later this September, the third challenge will see Animate internet hosting the “Bungo Stray Dogs Autumn Grand Pageant,” the place new merchandise that includes authentic illustrations of the Port Mafia members touring to Kyushu will probably be offered. The objects featured within the assortment will probably be unveiled sequentially, beginning September 5, 2025, in any respect Animate shops, together with abroad shops, and on Animate’s on-line retailer. 

Among the objects offered will embrace acrylic stands, holographic character badge collections, mini trunk instances, and locker key-styled keychains. Sure shops within the Kyushu area may also show particular character standee panels. 

Moreover, unique pop-up retailers will probably be held on the Animate Ikebukuro most important retailer in Tokyo and the Animate Umeda retailer in Osaka. Character standees of the ninth anniversary celebratory visible will probably be displayed on the venues, together with the supply of acrylic stands and buying and selling can badges based mostly on the identical visible. There may also be some reveals and shows displayed, together with a mini diorama of BAR Lupin, as featured within the anime. Full particulars of the merchandise offered will probably be introduced at a later date.

The pop-up store at Animate Ikebukuro most important retailer runs from September 20, 2025 to October 5, 2025, whereas the pop-up store at Animate Umeda runs from October 11, 2025 to October 26, 2025. 

Extra particulars for every anniversary celebration challenge will probably be periodically introduced on the official anime’s tenth anniversary webpage and the present’s official Twitter/X account. 

Sources: Bungo Stray Dogs Official Twitter (2), Crunchyroll News, press launch