Aoi Bungaku Series: Season 1
Aoi Bungaku Series is an anime series that consists of adaptations of six Japanese literary classics. The series includes adaptations of '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. The series is comprised of 12 episodes. The anime series is
Season overview
Aoi Bungaku Series is an anime series that consists of adaptations of six Japanese literary classics. The series includes adaptations of '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. The series is comprised of 12 episodes. The anime series is an animated adaptation of these classical Japanese literature pieces.
Episode Guide
Season 1 Progress Shield
No Longer Human - Chapter 1: Double Suicide in Kamakura
Oct 10, 2009 · 24 min
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.
No Longer Human - Chapter 2: Ghost
Oct 17, 2009 · 24 min
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.
No Longer Human - Chapter 3: Society
Oct 24, 2009 · 24 min
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.
No Longer Human - Chapter 4: New World
Oct 31, 2009 · 24 min
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.
In the Forest, Under Cherries in Full Bloom - Chapter 1
Nov 7, 2009 · 24 min
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.
In the Forest, Under Cherries in Full Bloom - Chapter 2
Nov 14, 2009 · 24 min
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.
Kokoro - Chapter 1
Nov 21, 2009 · 24 min
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 lov
Kokoro - Chapter 2
Nov 21, 2009 · 24 min
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 lov
Run, Melos! - Chapter 1
Nov 28, 2009 · 24 min
A playwright writes a play based on the story "Run, Melos", and deals with his own feelings of betrayal towards his childhood friend.
Run, Melos! - Chapter 2
Dec 5, 2009 · 24 min
A playwright writes a play based on the story "Run, Melos", and deals with his own feelings of betrayal towards his childhood friend
The Spider's Thread
Dec 26, 2009 · 24 min
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 threa
Hell Screen
Dec 26, 2009 · 24 min
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, Yoshih