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Aoi Bungaku Series

Aoi Bungaku Series Season 1: Episode Guide & Ratings

Season 1 Plot

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.

Aoi Bungaku Series Season 1 aired on October 10th, 2009.

Season 1 Episodes

1. No Longer Human - Chapter 1: Double Suicide in Kamakura

October 10th, 200924 min

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

October 17th, 200924 min

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

October 24th, 200924 min

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

October 31st, 200924 min

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

November 7th, 200924 min

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

November 14th, 200924 min

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

November 21st, 200924 min

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.

8. Kokoro - Chapter 2

November 21st, 200924 min

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.

9. Run, Melos! - Chapter 1

November 28th, 200924 min

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

December 5th, 200924 min

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

December 26th, 200924 min

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.

12. Hell Screen

December 26th, 200924 min

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.