Aoi Bungaku Series - Season 1

Aoi Bungaku Series - Season 1

Season 1

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.
Network
Episodes12
DatesOct 11, 2009 - Dec 26, 2009

Episodes

No Longer Human - Chapter 1: Double Suicide in Kamakura
Season 1Episode 125 min

No Longer Human - Chapter 1: Double Suicide in Kamakura

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.
Oct 11, 2009
No Longer Human - Chapter 2: Ghost
Season 1Episode 225 min

No Longer Human - Chapter 2: Ghost

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.
Oct 18, 2009
No Longer Human - Chapter 3: Society
Season 1Episode 325 min

No Longer Human - Chapter 3: Society

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.
Oct 25, 2009
No Longer Human - Chapter 4: New World
Season 1Episode 425 min

No Longer Human - Chapter 4: New World

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.
Nov 1, 2009
In the Forest, Under Cherries in Full Bloom - Chapter 1
Season 1Episode 525 min

In the Forest, Under Cherries in Full Bloom - Chapter 1

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.
Nov 8, 2009
In the Forest, Under Cherries in Full Bloom - Chapter 2
Season 1Episode 625 min

In the Forest, Under Cherries in Full Bloom - Chapter 2

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.
Nov 15, 2009
Kokoro - Chapter 1
Season 1Episode 725 min

Kokoro - Chapter 1

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.
Nov 21, 2009
Kokoro - Chapter 2
Season 1Episode 825 min

Kokoro - Chapter 2

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.
Nov 28, 2009
Run, Melos! - Chapter 1
Season 1Episode 925 min

Run, Melos! - Chapter 1

A playwright writes a play based on the story "Run, Melos", and deals with his own feelings of betrayal towards his childhood friend.
Dec 5, 2009
Run, Melos! - Chapter 2
Season 1Episode 1025 min

Run, Melos! - Chapter 2

A playwright writes a play based on the story "Run, Melos", and deals with his own feelings of betrayal towards his childhood friend
Dec 12, 2009
The Spider's Thread
Season 1Episode 1125 min

The Spider's Thread

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.
Dec 19, 2009
Hell Screen
Season 1Episode 1225 min

Hell Screen

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.
Dec 26, 2009

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