Manga: Bungo Stray Dogs 10

Bungo Stray Dogs Vol 10 
Rating: 4/5
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Source: Copy courtesy of the publisher in exchange for an honest review! 

Their war with the Guild may be over-and the truce with the Port Mafia still stands-but the Armed Detective Agency remains as busy as ever, with both Atsushi and Kunikida forced to confront their dangerous pasts. Soon, the agency is making contact with an ex-member to investigate the mysterious group that hacked into the Moby-Dick, but no one can predict where this rabbit hole will lead...

As we join this volume we're post big battle and everything is quite calm and chill.....at least it is for 3 or so pages and then it all goes to hell. We have foreign gangs moving in and one in particular is after the Guilds assets and wants to threaten the agency in to telling them. I have to say, I honestly cackled when the arrogant leader realised just how screwed he was. That however, is just a little, easier dealt with interlude to get our detectives back on their feet and we have a couple of chapters that are like that. 

A murder involving a familiar face to Atsushi gives us the chance to get a huge insight in to Atsushi's childhood and his past. It was heartbreaking, and I felt for him and his struggle with his emotions about this person. He's confronted with the fact that what he knows and thinks about this person may be wrong, and this person might not have been as evil as he thought. There are reasons for what he did and poor Atsushi has a bit of a criss about what he should be thinking and feeling and it was believable and I empathised with him a lot. 

Kunikida gets some more of the spotlight in this volume as well as he has a situation of his own to handle, facing a foe from his past. I'd forgotten how steadfast he was with his ideals and so on. It was nice to have a bit of action in this volume and get to have a better look at another character that we don't usually get to see as much of, or at least haven't in a while. 

We do get some threads woven in this volume of bigger things to come. There's something odd about the controller for Moby Dick and the agency is made aware that there's someone else involved that they haven't seen. We do get to meet a new character called Katai, hacker and futon hider under. He's called in to find out more about the chip, but before things get too serious it turns out he's lovesick and can't do his thing so the agency has to track her down. Honestly I could so tell immediately what the truth was and could see this for the giant misunderstanding it was but it was still absolutely hilarious to me. 

As predicted we haven't seen the last of Dostoyevsky and we get to see a decent amount of him this volume...as well as his power. I don't know what it is with manga I've read recently getting in on the gambling hype but we have it in this volume too! I was tense and nervous because quite frankly Dostoyevsky was off to me from the start...he's definitely some kind of evil genius. I was blown away by the final chapter and the chilling end that promises chaos coming for our characters. 

This volume has a little bit of a lull with some more light hearted moments, while giving us sprinkles of action and the opportunity to understand a couple of characters more before building up to the big shock ending that heralds things once again getting serious for the next volume and coming story arc.