Aoi Bungaku Series

2009
Aoi Bungaku Series

Seasons & Episodes

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EP1 No Longer Human - Chapter 1: Double Suicide in Kamakura Oct 10, 2009

A high school student becomes lost and alienated. Despondent and aimless, he falls into a cycle of self abuse, depression and drugs that taints his life for years.

EP2 No Longer Human - Chapter 2: Ghost Oct 17, 2009

A high school student becomes lost and alienated. Despondent and aimless, he falls into a cycle of self abuse, depression and drugs that taints his life for years.

EP3 No Longer Human - Chapter 3: Society Oct 24, 2009

A high school student becomes lost and alienated. Despondent and aimless, he falls into a cycle of self abuse, depression and drugs that taints his life for years.

EP4 No Longer Human - Chapter 4: New World Oct 31, 2009

A high school student becomes lost and alienated. Despondent and aimless, he falls into a cycle of self abuse, depression and drugs that taints his life for years.

EP5 In the Forest, Under Cherries in Full Bloom - Chapter 1 Nov 07, 2009

A forest bandit finds a beautiful maiden in the forest and takes her to be his wife, but she is more than she seems to be.

EP6 In the Forest, Under Cherries in Full Bloom - Chapter 2 Nov 14, 2009

A forest bandit finds a beautiful maiden in the forest and takes her to be his wife, but she is more than she seems to be.

EP7 Kokoro - Chapter 1 Nov 21, 2009

A young man lives in Tokyo as a renter with a widow and her daughter. He invites his childhood friend, a monk, to come live with him, hoping to help him. When the monk falls in love with the widow's daughter, it drives a rift between them. The story is narrated from two points of view, the man's and the monk's.

EP8 Kokoro - Chapter 2 Nov 21, 2009

A young man lives in Tokyo as a renter with a widow and her daughter. He invites his childhood friend, a monk, to come live with him, hoping to help him. When the monk falls in love with the widow's daughter, it drives a rift between them. The story is narrated from two points of view, the man's and the monk's.

EP9 Run, Melos! - Chapter 1 Nov 28, 2009

A playwright writes a play based on the story "Run, Melos", and deals with his own feelings of betrayal towards his childhood friend.

EP10 Run, Melos! - Chapter 2 Dec 05, 2009

A playwright writes a play based on the story "Run, Melos", and deals with his own feelings of betrayal towards his childhood friend

EP11 The Spider's Thread Dec 26, 2009

Kandata, a cruel and evil bandit is executed and lands in hell. The one good thing he had done in his life was to not kill a spider he met in the city. The spider drops him a thread to climb up into heaven. His elation is short-lived, however, as he realizes that others have started climbing the thread behind him.

EP12 Hell Screen Dec 26, 2009

Yoshihide, the greatest painter in the country, is commissioned to draw his greatest work, an image of the king's country inside his mausoleum. In the despotic king's realm, Yoshihide can see nothing but the suffering of the commoners. He decides to make his last work a tribute to the country as it really is.
7.5| en| Animation, Drama
Synopsis

An animated adaptation of six classical Japanese literature pieces, including No Longer Human (Ningen Shikkaku) and Run, Melos (Hashire, Melos) by Osamu Dazai, Kokoro by Natsume Souseki, Hell Screen (Jigoku Hen) and The Spider's Thread (Kumo no Ito) by Ryunosuke Akutagawa and In the Forest, Under Cherries in Full Bloom (Sakura no Mori no Mankai no Shita) by Ango Sakaguchi.

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