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While the series is known for its heart-pumping action and awesome fight scenes, that doesn't mean it doesn't have moments that aren't genuinely funny.
- Episode 1 starts seriously with Atsushi flopping on his face because he is starving and has to decides to rob the first passerby to survive. Someone zips past him on a motorcycle. Then a whole squad of military policemen stomps by. Third time is the charm, though, and he fishes Dazai out of the river.
- Dazai is not happy about such a rude interruption to his favorite hobby, leaving Atsushi completely stumped.
- Atsushi easily packs away a mountain of rice paid for by Kunikida since Dazai's wallet disappeared in the river.
- The usual bickering going on between Kunikida and Dazai causes Atsushi to doubt whether they really are a part of the elusive Armed Detective Agency. Considering how Dazai just pondered about hanging himself and even convinced Kunikida that it's a healthy way to release muscle tension, no one can blame the kid.
- Dazai's way of tempting Atsushi into cooperating with them to capture the tiger is to offer him a reward too big to refuse.
- Dazai's solution to the security threat of an uncontrollable ability user on the loose? Adopt Atsushi and bring him into the agency. The WTF reaction of Yosano, Ranpo, and Kunikida are priceless. The cherry on the top is Miyazawa cheerfully petting unconscious Atsushi on the head and welcoming him in.
- In chapter 3 (Episode 3), Dazai tries to make Atsushi guess his previous job before joining the ADA by bribing him with a big reward. Considering how destitute Atsushi was when the series started, he falls for it right away and starts guessing fruitlessly. The English dub makes it funnier by adding its own little woolseyisms to Dazai's responses.Atsushi: Stock broker!Dazai: No.Atsushi: Writer?Dazai: Uh-uh.Atsushi: Office worker!Dazai: Incorrect.Atsushi: Researcher!Dazai: Wrong.Atsushi: Lawyer?Dazai: Nope.Atsushi: Journalist!Dazai: Bzzzt!Atsushi: Carpenter!Dazai: Try again.Atsushi: Fortune teller?Dazai: Nah.Atsushi: Pilot!Dazai: Wrong again.Atsushi: Japanese chef?Dazai: Chigau!noteAtsushi: Doctor?Dazai: No way.Atsushi: Shinto priest?Dazai: Blasphemous.Atsushi: Model?Dazai: No. But...that does sound really flattering!
- When Kyouka asks Fukuzawa to let her into the ADA, he has a serious expression on his face and...hires her on the spot. Why? Because she made Puppy-Dog Eyes at him.
- The Running Gag of Dazai messing with Kunikida and the latter either always scolding him, manhandling him, or beating him up every time.
- There is something ridiculously funny about the series collaborating
with Sanrio. Especially with the Dark Era merch. The contrast between the thematics of the two differing franchises is just too big. If it were not for the fact that a lot of grown people like the aesthetic of Sanrio, it would be What Do You Mean, It's Not for Kids? considering how wild BSD's violence and plotline can get.- Dazai has two versions granted in the collab: his current self is My Melody, and his mafia self is Kuromi.
- Every time Chuuya and Dazai are within each others vicinity, it's a bundle of laughs because of their general antics towards each other. Their banter is especially funny as it's full of veiled threats, colorful insults, and childish hatred between the two.
- It's especially funny to see them interact during the Fifteen arc, Dazai is depicted as being calm and sullen unless he's around Chuuya, at which point they immediately engage in exceedingly childish yelling matches. It's also hilarious that their go-to insults are variations of the word 'kid', despite them both being fifteen, and that Chuuya gets really pissed off when Dazai tacks on that he's a 'very small' kid.
- In a drama CD, Chuuya is forced into the role of the Only Sane Man Team Mom while he and his subordinates are at a hot spring. He has to pull rank on Akutagawa to get him to take a bath, constantly yell at Higuchi to stop listening in on them before finally sicking Gin on her, and overall Chuuya tries to keep everyone from running wild. And then Kajii tries to blow the place up.
- A chapter of Bungo Stray Dogs Wan! has the characters in the ADA and Port Mafia represented as dogs fighting over territory. However, at the end, it's revealed the dogs are actually separate characters when the real Dazai sees them and is disturbed by all the stray dogs everywhere.
- While this was omitted from the scene in the anime, the end of the Fifteen Arc has Dazai explain that he made a record of Chuuya's refusal to believe he lost their bet (despite the fact that Dazai actually cheated) and created an article titled 'This Week's Chuuya Unwilling to Admit Defeat', which he spread around the Port Mafia so everyone would laugh when they met Chuuya for the first time.
- It's rather dark, but Paul Verlaine breaks into the Port Mafia, steals classified documents, massacres the guards and... steals Chuuya's hat.
- Dazai decides being killed by Guivre the Beast is an epic way to die and refuses to comply with Mori's orders to go stop the monster before it ravages Yokohama, preferring to sit back and relax while waiting for his demise. Mori then pulls out the big guns by pointing out that if Chuuya is still alive, Dazai is the only one on Earth who could possibly save him, and if Dazai lets Guivre kill him he'll effectively be committing double-suicide- which he considers extremely romantic- with his most hated enemy. Dazai pauses for a while, mutters 'wow' under his breath and then tells Mori it changes nothing before hanging up. He then proceeds to start screaming in outrage and fight harder than ever to defeat the beast.
- Chuuya wants to punish Dazai for helping Verlaine, and comes up with one hundred and ninety methods of doing so, ranked from gentlest to harshest. However, it's still imperative that Dazai be functional for the upcoming battle so he can strategize and explain the plan. The result is Chuuya using punishment one hundred and eighty-eight- the second gentlest- which is hanging Dazai upside down from a pole and spinning him until he vomits, with the reason being they can save time by having Dazai explain the plan while being punished. Adam stares in confusion at the spectacle and asks Shirase what's going on, and the boy responds by telling him only Double Black can understand Double Black. What's especially funny is that Dazai is completely deadpan the entire time and calmly tells everyone the strategy while being spun around until he abruptly throws up.
- For the *Tales of the Lost* mobile game, they have an event where some of the Port Mafia characters look into various myths and demons. For Chuuya, he looks into Shutendoji and decides he can relate to the character. However, in one of his quotes, he voices his dislike of the monster's cannibalism, but it comes off as a major understatement.According to one legend, he would apparently eat the raw flesh of his victims he'd kidnap from the capital... I can relate to his drinking habits, but cannibalism just isn't my thing...
