Episode guide
Aoi Bungaku Series: Season 1
12 episodes · first aired 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.
- 1 No Longer Human - Chapter 1: Double Suicide in Kamakura Oct 10, 2009 · 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.
- 2 No Longer Human - Chapter 2: Ghost Oct 17, 2009 · 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.
- 3 No Longer Human - Chapter 3: Society Oct 24, 2009 · 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.
- 4 No Longer Human - Chapter 4: New World Oct 31, 2009 · 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.
- 5 In the Forest, Under Cherries in Full Bloom - Chapter 1 Nov 7, 2009 · 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.
- 6 In the Forest, Under Cherries in Full Bloom - Chapter 2 Nov 14, 2009 · 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.
- 7 Kokoro - Chapter 1 Nov 21, 2009 · 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…
- 8 Kokoro - Chapter 2 Nov 21, 2009 · 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…
- 9 Run, Melos! - Chapter 1 Nov 28, 2009 · 24m A playwright writes a play based on the story "Run, Melos", and deals with his own feelings of betrayal towards his childhood friend.
- 10 Run, Melos! - Chapter 2 Dec 5, 2009 · 24m A playwright writes a play based on the story "Run, Melos", and deals with his own feelings of betrayal towards his childhood friend
- 11 The Spider's Thread Dec 26, 2009 · 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…
- 12 Hell Screen Dec 26, 2009 · 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…