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.
Episodes
Season 1 — 12 episodes
E1
No Longer Human - Chapter 1: Double Suicide in Kamakura
24m
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.
E2
No Longer Human - Chapter 2: Ghost
24m
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.
E3
No Longer Human - Chapter 3: Society
24m
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.
E4
No Longer Human - Chapter 4: New World
24m
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.
E5
In the Forest, Under Cherries in Full Bloom - Chapter 1
24m
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.
E6
In the Forest, Under Cherries in Full Bloom - Chapter 2
24m
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.
E7
Kokoro - Chapter 1
24m
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.
E8
Kokoro - Chapter 2
24m
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.
E9
Run, Melos! - Chapter 1
24m
A playwright writes a play based on the story "Run, Melos", and deals with his own feelings of betrayal towards his childhood friend.
E10
Run, Melos! - Chapter 2
24m
A playwright writes a play based on the story "Run, Melos", and deals with his own feelings of betrayal towards his childhood friend
E11
The Spider's Thread
24m
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.
E12
Hell Screen
24m
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.
