Bungo Stray Dogs season 1

The first season of the Bungo Stray Dogs anime television series is produced by Bones was directed by Takuya Igarashi and written by Yōji Enokido. It is based on the manga series of the same name written by Kafka Asagiri and illustrated by Sango Harukawa. The season focuses on a weretiger named Atsushi Nakajima who joins into the "Armed Detective Agency" who investigate multiple cases while dealing with multiple organizations.

The season aired from April 7 to June 23, 2016, on networks Tokyo MX, Teletama, Chiba TV, tvk, GBS (Gifu Broadcasting), Mie TV, SUN, TVQ, and BS11. Nobuhiro Arai and Hiroshi Kanno served as the chief animation directors, while the former also served as character designer along with Ryō Hirata. A total of six Blu-ray and DVD volumes collected the series from June 24 to November 25, 2016. Funimation released the entire first season on March 6, 2018, while another compilation was released on September 17, 2019. Madman released the season's DVD and Blu-ray on February 20, 2019. Madman Entertainment released the DVD box on February 20, 2019 in Australia.

Taku Iwasaki composed the series' music. The season uses two theme songs: Granrodeo performed the opening theme, titled "Trash Candy", and Luck Life performed the ending theme, titled "Namae wo Yobu yo" (名前を呼ぶよ).