Aoi Bungaku Series

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.

Where to Watch Season 1

12 Episodes

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

 

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