Season 1
12 episodes · Oct 10, 2009
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.
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S1E1No Longer Human - Chapter 1: Double Suicide in Kamakura
Oct 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.
S1E2No Longer Human - Chapter 2: Ghost
Oct 17, 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.
S1E3No Longer Human - Chapter 3: Society
Oct 24, 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.
S1E4No Longer Human - Chapter 4: New World
Oct 31, 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.
S1E5In the Forest, Under Cherries in Full Bloom - Chapter 1
Nov 7, 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.
S1E6In the Forest, Under Cherries in Full Bloom - Chapter 2
Nov 14, 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.
S1E7Kokoro - Chapter 1
Nov 21, 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 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.
S1E8Kokoro - Chapter 2
Nov 21, 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 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.
S1E9Run, Melos! - Chapter 1
Nov 28, 200924mA playwright writes a play based on the story "Run, Melos", and deals with his own feelings of betrayal towards his childhood friend.
S1E10Run, Melos! - Chapter 2
Dec 5, 200924mA playwright writes a play based on the story "Run, Melos", and deals with his own feelings of betrayal towards his childhood friend
S1E11The Spider's Thread
Dec 26, 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 thread to climb up into heaven. His elation is short-lived, however, as he realizes that others have started climbing the thread behind him.
S1E12Hell Screen
Dec 26, 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, 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.