Kazunari Kume
Director
Aoi Bungaku Series (2009)
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.
Released Oct. 10, 2009
Episode 24 min
17+
Genres: Animation, Anime, Anime: Historical, Anime: Psychological, Drama, History, Mystery
Keywords: tmdb.literature, tmdb.unrequited-love, tmdb.historical, tmdb.anime, mdblist.imdb-tv-mini-series, mdblist.ext.2k-blu-ray, imdb.tv-mini-series + 16 more, imdb.anime-animation, imdb.female-nudity, imdb.female-rear-nudity, imdb.female-frontal-nudity, imdb.trauma, imdb.tragedy, imdb.love, imdb.suicide, imdb.blood, imdb.friendship, imdb.surrealism, imdb.death, imdb.murder, imdb.based-on-novel, tmdb.psychological, imdb.hand-drawn-animation
Production Companies: Studio Amo, Threelight Holdings, Aoi Bungaku Series Committee, Hakuhodo DY Media Partners, Happinet Pictures + 6 more, McRAY, Movic, MTI Co., Ltd., Visionare, Nippon Animation, Madhouse
Network: Nippon TV
S1E1 - 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. 10, 2009, midnight
S1E2 - 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. 17, 2009, midnight
S1E3 - 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. 24, 2009, midnight
S1E4 - 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.
Oct. 31, 2009, midnight
S1E5 - 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. 7, 2009, midnight
S1E6 - 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. 14, 2009, midnight
S1E7 - 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, midnight
S1E8 - 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. 21, 2009, midnight
S1E9 - 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.
Nov. 28, 2009, midnight
S1E10 - 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. 5, 2009, midnight
S1E11 - 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. 26, 2009, midnight
S1E12 - 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, midnight
Nippon TV
24 min/ep
288 min
Oct. 10, 2009
Dec. 26, 2009, midnight
Ended
MA 15+ / 17+
Action
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