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Bungo Stray Dogs: Dead Apple Cinema Screening in Glasgow

There will be a screening of the anime film Bungo Stray Dogs: Dead Apple at the Glasgow Film Theatre (directions) on Saturday September 15 at 2.10 p.m. Tickets can be booked at the above link. Crunchyroll, which is also streaming the film, has described the film's story:

Six years has passed since the bloodbath known as the Dragon's Head Rush conflict.

Over 500 people with supernatural powers have been found dead -- presumably by suicide. The Armed Detective Agency is tasked with the mission to capture Shibusawa Tatsuhiko, the mysterious special ability user thought to be involved. But when Osamu Dazai disappears, the ”Demon” Fyodor begins showing his shadow.

Those with supernatural powers, known as Special ability users, are threatened by an onslaught of unprecedentedly powerful enemies, and the city of Yokohama begins falling into a terrifying nightmare.

Atsushi and Kyouka infiltrate Shibusawa's fortress, where they are met by Akutagawa, who delivers an unthinkable truth.

The film opened in Japan on March 3. Takuya Igarashi returned from the television anime to direct the film at BONES. Yoji Enokido returned to write the film, in collaboration with original manga writer Kafka Asagiri. Nobuhiro Arai returned as character designer and chief animation director, Fumihiro Katagai was the mechanical designer, and Taku Iwasaki returned to compose the music.

The first television anime adaptation of Kafka Asagiri and Sango Harukawa's Bungō Stray Dogs manga centred around a league of literary figures with supernatural powers. For example, in real life, Ryūnosuke Akutagawa wrote acclaimed stories that inspired Akira Kurosawa's Rashōmon film and the Aoi Bungaku Series anime's Jigoku Hen (Hell Screen) arc. In Bungō Stray Dogs, he has the power to transform and manipulate his cloak into a monster-like entity. Together, some of these writers solve mysteries as part of the "Armed Detective Agency," while others appear as antagonists.

Via Anime UK News.