Season 1

2009 · 12 episodes · 4h 48m in all

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
10 Oct 2009 · 24 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
17 Oct 2009 · 24 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
24 Oct 2009 · 24 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
31 Oct 2009 · 24 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
7 Nov 2009 · 24 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
14 Nov 2009 · 24 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
21 Nov 2009 · 24 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
21 Nov 2009 · 24 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
28 Nov 2009 · 24 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
5 Dec 2009 · 24 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
26 Dec 2009 · 24 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
26 Dec 2009 · 24 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.