Aoi Bungaku Series
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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Aoi Bungaku is a 12 episode anime series that is comprised of adaptations of six Japanese literary classics. The stories included are 'No Longer Human' and 'Run, Melos!' by Osamu Dazai, 'In the Forest, Under the Cherry Blossoms in Full Bloom' by Ango Sakaguchi, 'Kokoro' by Natsume Soseki, and 'The Spider's Thread' and 'Hell Screen' by Ryunosuke Akutagawa.
1.No Longer Human - Chapter 1: Double Suicide in Kamakura
10-10-200924mA 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.
2.No Longer Human - Chapter 2: Ghost
17-10-200924mA 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.
3.No Longer Human - Chapter 3: Society
24-10-200924mA 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.
4.No Longer Human - Chapter 4: New World
31-10-200924mA 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.
5.In the Forest, Under Cherries in Full Bloom - Chapter 1
07-11-200924mA 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.
6.In the Forest, Under Cherries in Full Bloom - Chapter 2
14-11-200924mA 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.
7.Kokoro - Chapter 1
21-11-200924mA 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 lov...
8.Kokoro - Chapter 2
21-11-200924mA 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 lov...
9.Run, Melos! - Chapter 1
28-11-200924mA playwright writes a play based on the story "Run, Melos", and deals with his own feelings of betrayal towards his childhood friend.
10.Run, Melos! - Chapter 2
05-12-200924mA playwright writes a play based on the story "Run, Melos", and deals with his own feelings of betrayal towards his childhood friend
11.The Spider's Thread
26-12-200924mKandata, 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 threa...
12.Hell Screen
26-12-200924mYoshihide, 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, Yoshih...
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