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The Best Episodes of Aoi Bungaku Series

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An animated adaptation of six classical Japanese literature pieces, including No Longer Human (Ningen Shikkaku) and Run, Melos (Hashire, Melos) by Osamu Dazai, Kokoro by Natsume Souseki, Hell Screen (Jigoku Hen) and The Spider's Thread

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
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    Aoi Bungaku Series Season 1 Episode 4 - No Longer Human - Chapter 4: New World
    8.8/10(82 votes)

    S1:E4

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  2. Aoi Bungaku Series Season 1 Episode 3 - No Longer Human - Chapter 3: Society
    8.7/10(81 votes)

    S1:E3

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  3. Aoi Bungaku Series Season 1 Episode 2 - No Longer Human - Chapter 2: Ghost
    8.4/10(84 votes)

    S1:E2

    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.

    Director:Issei Kume
    Writer:Unknown

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  4. Aoi Bungaku Series Season 1 Episode 1 - No Longer Human - Chapter 1: Double Suicide in Kamakura
    8.3/10(95 votes)

    S1:E1

    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.

    Director:Kojiro Tsuruoka
    Writer:Satoshi Suzuki

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  5. Aoi Bungaku Series Season 1 Episode 10 - Run, Melos! - Chapter 2
    8.3/10(60 votes)

    S1:E10

    A playwright writes a play based on the story "Run, Melos", and deals with his own feelings of betrayal towards his childhood friend

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  6. Aoi Bungaku Series Season 1 Episode 8 - Kokoro - Chapter 2
    8.2/10(66 votes)

    S1:E8

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. Aoi Bungaku Series Season 1 Episode 9 - Run, Melos! - Chapter 1
    7.9/10(60 votes)

    S1:E9

    A playwright writes a play based on the story "Run, Melos", and deals with his own feelings of betrayal towards his childhood friend.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  8. Aoi Bungaku Series Season 1 Episode 7 - Kokoro - Chapter 1
    7.8/10(64 votes)

    S1:E7

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  9. Aoi Bungaku Series Season 1 Episode 12 - Hell Screen
    7.5/10(55 votes)

    S1:E12

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writers:Yuji Kobayashi, Atsuko Ishizuka

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  10. Aoi Bungaku Series Season 1 Episode 11 - The Spider's Thread
    6.7/10(55 votes)

    S1:E11

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  11. Aoi Bungaku Series Season 1 Episode 6 - In the Forest, Under Cherries in Full Bloom - Chapter 2
    6.6/10(59 votes)

    S1:E6

    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.

    Director:Tetsuro Araki
    Writer:Ken Iizuka

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  12. Aoi Bungaku Series Season 1 Episode 5 - In the Forest, Under Cherries in Full Bloom - Chapter 1
    6.3/10(61 votes)

    S1:E5

    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.

    Director:Miho Hirao
    Writer:Ken Iizuka

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Best Episodes Summary

"No Longer Human - Chapter 4: New World" is the best rated episode of "Aoi Bungaku Series". It scored 8.8/10 based on 82 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 10/31/2009. This episode scored 0.1 points higher than the second highest rated, "No Longer Human - Chapter 3: Society".