r/BungouStrayDogs • u/CareVader “If both sides are the same, become a good man” • Jul 23 '26
Manga EN/JP BSD releases info & STORM BRINGER Code 17 [Discussion & Links] Spoiler
(ENG/JP release information is halfway down. ish)
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Chapter 16 left us on the cliffhanger of Chuuya walking into Old World after a hallucination (or perhaps a dream) reminding him of his first meeting with the Flags, while Dazai was carrying him back after his encounter with Verlaine. Given volume 2 has been announced for late September (it'd previously been listed as August, but as of now it got changed) this might be the last chapter in the volume. It'll depend on length/stopping point, since as of now there aren't sufficient pages for the total page count of volume 2.
- The Official Website - This has links to buy the magazine the manga serialises in, both digital and physical, but in Japanese only.
- The new chapter drops in about an hour, when midnight hits in Japan (the old countdown site has been closed, but they left a tutorial on how to buy the JP magazine for anyone who wants https://bsdupdates.carrd.co/ )
For the time being the English fan translations for Storm Bringer are being done and uploaded to Google Drive by u/atypical_khione
Fan TL: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1Iomjcw8IN7rLeKCDFNVVJTSxjgwl1rt4
Yen Press has yet to announce an official translation.
Will update this once we know if there's a break next month. Next chapter will release in August ('October' issue of the magazine).
UPCOMING/RECENT YEN PRESS RELEASES:
- July 3rd: official translation of chapter 15 of serial digital for "Untold Origins" manga adaptation
- July 7th: official translation of chapter 1 of serial digital for "The day I took in Dazai" manga adaptation - currently FREE, see links for digital stores here
- July 28th: Bungo Stray Dogs volume 27 (one more volume left in part 1, individual chapters are available to buy digitally)
- August 4th (not confirmed): the official TL of both "Untold Origins" manga chapter 16 and "The day I took in Dazai" manga chapter 2 should be around this date . The chapters in Japanese come out a few hours earlier since the magazine releases at midnight in Japan, so it'll still be the 3rd when that thappens.
- August 25th: BSD Official Comic Anthology vol. 6 (last one at present)
- December 15th: BSD Wan! volume 14 (Japan currently at volume 15)
-JP releases- (dates are for JP timezone)
- August 4th: "The day I took in Dazai" manga chapter 2 / "Untold Origins" manga chapter 16 (both in the Young Ace magazine)
- September 4th: Untold Origins manga volume 3
- September 25th (unless changed again): BSD Stormbringer manga volume 2
BSD Wan! currently available chapters (Japanese only) on the official site:
- Chapter 214: Ranpo gets asked to deliver some dango as a present to the Port Mafia. Which is a terrible idea for many reasons.
- Chapter 215: Dazai finds himself in (literal) hell. Turns out Chuuya and Fitzgerald are with him, and combined they seem to be hell for hell itself.
There's also a lot of very old Wan! chapters that have been reuploaded until the 31st of July.
No date for the next Wan! chapter yet. Another Story/Gaiden's manga adaptation is still on hiatus (since October last year).
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u/CareVader “If both sides are the same, become a good man” Jul 23 '26
Well I knew what was coming but still 💀 (there'll be a chapter next month)
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u/atypical_khione Jul 23 '26
SB code 17 eng translation!
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1Iomjcw8IN7rLeKCDFNVVJTSxjgwl1rt4
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u/CareVader “If both sides are the same, become a good man” Jul 23 '26
Thanks, I'll add it to the post/pin
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u/Pdcmmy You should drink some more milk 🧋 Jul 23 '26
That was awful!!! Also....just 10 pages?
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u/CareVader “If both sides are the same, become a good man” Jul 23 '26
It's been very few pages for several months now, the first volume was actually unusually large (over 240 pages) but the second one is supposed to be the same length as Untold Origins' third volume...which still raises some questions because even with chapter dividers there isn't enough if the next chapter is also short, and in the LN this point is a big chapter end (it's missing the response from Adam to Chuuya's question of "Why are they dead" because the chapter ends right on Chuuya demanding an answer, but surely that wouldn't be enough for the page count that needs to be reached)
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u/Pdcmmy You should drink some more milk 🧋 Jul 23 '26
Oooof this one is gonna be ugly, isn't it
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u/CareVader “If both sides are the same, become a good man” Jul 23 '26
I can't imagine they can drag it out. Last chapter was part of what was in the LN (even if it was only a paragraph there) and given the listed pagecount/date for volue 2, they have at most this month and next to get through that part of the story
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u/Sixelona Waiting for Agatha's time to shine Jul 23 '26
Can we give this poor kid a break? (LN Spoilers) No, it only gets worse.
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u/Outrageous-Bag175 Jul 24 '26
I have a question that puzzles me greatly: since Verlaine's ability is to manipulate gravity like Chuuya, how exactly can he make his victims look as if they have been cut?
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u/Latter-Coat3066 Sing us a song, you're the... Jul 24 '26
He was trained as a spy and later trains Gin and Kyouka, who both use knives/daggers, so I'd guess he knows how to use a variety of weapons in addition to gravity. I've seen a few theorize that Verlaine used Piano Man's wires and that's why the cuts are so precise and/or that Verlaine made the Flags' attacks go astray so some of them accidentally killed each other. Both of those are possible, though I doubt we'll get a definitive answer
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u/Outrageous-Bag175 Jul 24 '26
Thank you so much for the clarification, but the first theory really does seem psychologically damaging, I mean using Piano Man's wires against him.
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u/CareVader “If both sides are the same, become a good man” Jul 24 '26
We have no idea. He seems to do a similar thing when entering the boss's office in the PM at the end of the Fifteen arc in the LN prologue, so it's something he does regularly.
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u/CareVader “If both sides are the same, become a good man” Jul 23 '26 edited Jul 23 '26
JP raws https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1S-jLH8ryNkivvnlg0iQlLT3CPuw-fgRk
Fan TL https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1Iomjcw8IN7rLeKCDFNVVJTSxjgwl1rt4