However you may feel about each season of Bungo Stray Dogs opening with a flashback storyline, it is hard to deny that the choice to open season four with an adaptation of the third light novel, The Unknown Origins of the Detective Agency, is a sound decision. That’s not because it is desperately important that we understand how Fukuzawa and Ranpo came to be the founding members of it, but more because it sets up both the dynamic that was revealed during the previous season and details the agency’s first encounter with Dostoyevsky. While other pieces of the overall story have indicated that he’s been kicking around causing trouble for far longer than anybody truly realized, knowing that he’s behind the case that first brought the agency together is significant. And after episode…
