List of episodes of the series «Aoi Bungaku Series»

No Longer Human - Chapter 1: Double Suicide in Kamakura

• Episode number: 1
• Episode duration: 24 min.
• Episode description:
  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.

No Longer Human - Chapter 2: Ghost

• Episode number: 2
• Episode duration: 24 min.
• Episode description:
  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.

No Longer Human - Chapter 3: Society

• Episode number: 3
• Episode duration: 24 min.
• Episode description:
  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.

No Longer Human - Chapter 4: New World

• Episode number: 4
• Episode duration: 24 min.
• Episode description:
  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.

In the Forest, Under Cherries in Full Bloom - Chapter 1

• Episode number: 5
• Episode duration: 24 min.
• Episode description:
  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.

In the Forest, Under Cherries in Full Bloom - Chapter 2

• Episode number: 6
• Episode duration: 24 min.
• Episode description:
  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.

Kokoro - Chapter 1

• Episode number: 7
• Episode duration: 24 min.
• Episode description:
  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.

Kokoro - Chapter 2

• Episode number: 8
• Episode duration: 24 min.
• Episode description:
  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.

Run, Melos! - Chapter 1

• Episode number: 9
• Episode duration: 24 min.
• Episode description:
  A playwright writes a play based on the story "Run, Melos", and deals with his own feelings of betrayal towards his childhood friend.

Run, Melos! - Chapter 2

• Episode number: 10
• Episode duration: 24 min.
• Episode description:
  A playwright writes a play based on the story "Run, Melos", and deals with his own feelings of betrayal towards his childhood friend

The Spider's Thread

• Episode number: 11
• Episode duration: 24 min.
• Episode description:
  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.

Hell Screen

• Episode number: 12
• Episode duration: 24 min.
• Episode description:
  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.