All Episodes of Aoi Bungaku Series
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Season 1
8.2/1076 votesLoading...No Longer Human - Chapter 1: Double Suicide in Kamakura
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 10/10/2009
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.
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8.3/1067 votesLoading...No Longer Human - Chapter 2: Ghost
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 10/17/2009
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.
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8.7/1062 votesLoading...No Longer Human - Chapter 3: Society
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 10/24/2009
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.
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8.9/1064 votesLoading...No Longer Human - Chapter 4: New World
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 10/31/2009
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.
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6.4/1050 votesLoading...In the Forest, Under Cherries in Full Bloom - Chapter 1
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 11/7/2009
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.
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6.6/1050 votesLoading...In the Forest, Under Cherries in Full Bloom - Chapter 2
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 11/14/2009
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.
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8.0/1054 votesLoading...Kokoro - Chapter 1
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 11/21/2009
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.
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8.3/1055 votesLoading...Kokoro - Chapter 2
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 11/21/2009
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.
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8.2/1051 votesLoading...Run, Melos! - Chapter 1
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 11/28/2009
A playwright writes a play based on the story "Run, Melos", and deals with his own feelings of betrayal towards his childhood friend.
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8.5/1051 votesLoading...Run, Melos! - Chapter 2
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 12/5/2009
A playwright writes a play based on the story "Run, Melos", and deals with his own feelings of betrayal towards his childhood friend
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6.7/1047 votesLoading...The Spider's Thread
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 12/26/2009
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.
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7.5/1047 votesLoading...Hell Screen
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 12/26/2009
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.
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Writer: Atsuko Ishizuka, Yuji Kobayashi