Reason Living

Reason Living  is the second opening theme for the Bungo Stray Dogs anime performed by SCREEN mode. It is sang by Michizō Tachihara's seiyū, Yū Hayashi.

Single Track List

 * 1) Reason Living
 * 2) Mr. Satisfaction
 * 3) Distance

Characters in Order of Appearance
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Version 1 (Episode 14)

 * Sakunosuke Oda
 * Osamu Dazai
 * Ōgai Mori
 * Ango Sakaguchi

Version 2 (Episode 15)

 * Sakunosuke Oda
 * Osamu Dazai
 * Ango Sakaguchi
 * Ryunosuke Akutagawa
 * Shinji (photo)
 * Sakura (photo)
 * Yū (photo)
 * Kōsuke (photo)
 * Katsumi (photo)

Version 3 (Episode 18 onwards)
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 * Atsushi Nakajima
 * Osamu Dazai
 * Doppo Kunikida
 * Yukichi Fukuzawa
 * Kenji Miyazawa
 * Akiko Yosano
 * Ranpo Edogawa
 * Jun'ichirō Tanizaki
 * Naomi Tanizaki
 * Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald
 * Nathaniel Hawthorne
 * Howard Phillips Lovecraft
 * Louisa May Alcott
 * Herman Melville
 * Margaret Mitchell
 * Lucy Maud Montgomery
 * Mark Twain
 * John Steinbeck
 * Ōgai Mori
 * Kōyō Ozaki
 * Motojirō Kajii
 * Chūya Nakahara
 * Ryunosuke Akutagawa
 * Ichiyō Higuchi
 * Ryūrō Hirotsu
 * Gin Akutagawa
 * Michizō Tachihara
 * Kyōka Izumi
 * Elise
 * Kyūsaku Yumeno

TV Version
Rōmaji= Agaite hakaranai ikiru riyū sagashitenda Mabushī hikari wa sō Kinō ni wa nai kara Ate mo naku hashiru sutorei doggusu Kūhaku o umeru yo motomete ita nda ichigyō (ichigyō) Sentensu o! Nai mono nedaru kedo sore ja nanimo te ni hairanai ka Dōshite itsumo kobore ochiteku no ka? Yogorete shimatta boku no te o sora e to Nobasu no sa Akogare aragai ikiru riyū sagashitenda Kōshite kotae wa mō Kinō ni wa nai ndarō Atarashī pēji wa mayō katte no jibun jishin ga Tsudzutteku raison d'être Kanji= 足掻いて 上がらない 生きる理由探してんだ 眩しい光はそう 昨日には無いから 当てもなく走るストレイドッグス 空白を埋めるよ　求めていたんだ一行（一行） センテンスを！ 無いものねだるけど　それじゃ何も手に入らないか どうしていつも零れ落ちてくのか？ 汚れてしまった　僕の手を空へと 伸ばすのさ 憧れ抗い 生きる理由探してんだ こうして答えはもう 昨日には無いんだろう 新しいページは迷う勝手の自分自身が 綴ってくraison d'être English= Struggling… compensating… we’re searching out our reason for living ‘Cause that bright light doesn’t lie among yesterday! We’re stray dogs, running without a destination! In order to fill that blank space, I’d been searching for just one line- One line… A -sentence-! I ask for way too much, but that will never get me anything! Why does everything always end up falling away? I’ll reach this tainted hand… up to the sky! Desire… resistance… I’m searching out my reason for living, ‘Cause the answer I seek doesn’t lie among yesterday! On that new page, once my wandering comes to an end, My raison d’être will be composed!

Full Version
Rōmaji= Agaite hakaranai ikiru riyū sagashitenda Mabushī hikari wa sō Kinō ni wa nai kara Ate mo naku hashiru sutorei doggusu Kūhaku o umeru yo motomete ita nda ichigyō (ichigyō) Sentensu o! Nai mono nedaru kedo sore ja nanimo te ni hairanai ka Dōshite itsumo kobore ochiteku no ka? Yogorete shimatta boku no te o sora e to Nobasu no sa Akogare aragai ikiru riyū sagashitenda Kōshite kotae wa mō Kinō ni wa nai ndarō Atarashī pēji wa mayō katte no jibun jishin ga Tsudzutteku raison d'être Kanji= 足掻いて 上がらない 生きる理由探してんだ 眩しい光はそう 昨日には無いから 当てもなく走るストレイドッグス 空白を埋めるよ　求めていたんだ一行（一行） センテンスを！ 無いものねだるけど　それじゃ何も手に入らないか どうしていつも零れ落ちてくのか？ 汚れてしまった　僕の手を空へと 伸ばすのさ 憧れ抗い 生きる理由探してんだ こうして答えはもう 昨日には無いんだろう 新しいページは迷う勝手の自分自身が 綴ってくraison d'être English= Struggling… compensating… we’re searching out our reason for living ‘Cause that bright light doesn’t lie among yesterday! We’re stray dogs, running without a destination! In order to fill that blank space, I’d been searching for just one line- One line… A -sentence-! I ask for way too much, but that will never get me anything! Why does everything always end up falling away? I’ll reach this tainted hand… up to the sky! Desire… resistance… I’m searching out my reason for living, ‘Cause the answer I seek doesn’t lie among yesterday! On that new page, once my wandering comes to an end, My raison d’être will be composed!

Trivia

 * This is one of the two songs performed by SCREEN mode in the Bungo Stray Dogs anime franchise.