In a dedicated Bungo Stray Dogs mode, the best starting guesses are the characters that give you the clearest visual and release-year anchors inside the franchise. Because the series is already fixed, your opener should help separate the remaining cast by hair, eyes, and era as quickly as possible.
Bungo Stray Dogs mode draws on 5 characters and every one of them is listed for 2016, so the year tile is dead weight on this board and the solve has to come from visual clues and process of elimination.
Every character here is tagged male, so the gender tile resolves nothing at all until the pool is already tiny.
White hair is the tightest visual filter here, belonging to only 1 of the 5, while black hair is the broadest group with 1.
On eyes, yellow is the rarest tag (1 character) and blue is the most common (2).
Chuya Nakahara and Doppo Kunikida agree on 4 of the five clue traits, and that pair is what decides most failed runs in this mode.
If you only memorise one character first, make it Atsushi Nakajima — it carries the most distinctive clue profile in the Bungo Stray Dogs pool.
Your opener should probe the widest axis left in the pool, because the series clue is already spent. Bungo Stray Dogs mode has 5 characters, all listed for 2016, where white hair appears on only 1 of them, while black covers 1.
Avoid opening on white hair: it belongs to only 1 character, so a miss there teaches you almost nothing. A better second guess changes era or eye colour, and Atsushi Nakajima is a safe anchor for that job.