Season 1

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  8.2/1078 votes

  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.

  Director: Kojiro Tsuruoka

  Writer: Satoshi Suzuki

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  8.3/1068 votes

  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.

  Director: Kazunari Kume

  Writer: Unknown

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  8.7/1063 votes

  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.

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown

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  8.8/1064 votes

  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.

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown

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  6.4/1050 votes

  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.

  Director: Miho Hirao

  Writer: Ken Iizuka

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  6.6/1050 votes

  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.

  Director: Tetsuro Araki

  Writer: Ken Iizuka

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  7.9/1054 votes

  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.

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown

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  8.3/1056 votes

  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.

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown

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  8.1/1052 votes

  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.

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown

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  8.4/1052 votes

  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

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown

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  6.7/1047 votes

  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.

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown

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  7.5/1047 votes

  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.

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Yuji Kobayashi, Atsuko Ishizuka