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“Future underground European city; ex-assassin Mihai, swordswoman Naoto, genetically engineered Haine, and Badou navigate dark past.”
Dogs: Bullets & Carnage
ドッグズ／バレッツ＆カーネイジ
7.28
3,327 rank · 64,215 viewers · 255 favorites
Action
Drama
Sci-Fi
Adult Cast
Gore
Organized Crime
Seinen
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Synopsis
Future underground European city; ex-assassin Mihai, swordswoman Naoto, genetically engineered Haine, and Badou navigate dark past.
It is sometime in the future, where a certain European city extends far underground, even secret, dark levels that have the key to the past. Ex-assassin Mihai has returned and is living with Kiri, who now runs a restaurant. Sword-wielding Naoto, Haine (white hair), a mysterious product of genetic engineering and his sometime partner Badou (eyepatch). (Source: ANN)
What people say
Community consensus
Derived from 16 sampled reviews
6.1
/10
What 16 viewers settled on.
73%
recommend
Score distribution
median 6.5
mode 7
σ 1.96
Agreement
Polarized
σ 1.96 · split reception
The polarity gap
4.8 pts
Recommenders 7.8 · others 3.0
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No
Score over time
↓ 1.88
Running avg · Aug 2009 → Jan 2026
Snap verdicts
· shortest highly-rated reviews
- 9 “Rewatching this OVA in 2025 really made me reminisce and go back to the manga and read it again. This short OVA covers the prelude part of the series - vol 0, Stray Dogs Howling in the Dark. It's...”
- 8 “My thoughts about this anime is that it's badass, weird, funny and mixed with different stuff, it's really fun to watch interesting but bad side its very short and there's no second season, also it...”
- 8 “If you're looking for a short, quick, little series about guns, killing, and aren't looking for a long dragged out story, thi is the anime you've been looking for. The series spans 4, 15min...”
Verbosity
Short · 25%
Medium · 38%
Long · 38%
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- Format 4 × 15′ eps × min
- Total runtime 1h 00m all episodes
- Aired May 2009 – Jul 2009
- Source Ova media type
- Rated R 17+ (violence & profanity)
- Ref. BS-4211 catalog
Produced by
- Atelier Musa Producer
- Shueisha Producer
- Omnibus Promotion Producer