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Aoi Bungaku Series Season 1 Episode release dates & where to watch

Premiered

Saturday, October 10, 2009

Ended: Saturday, December 26, 2009

When does Aoi Bungaku Series Season 1 come out?

Aoi Bungaku Series Season 1 premiered Saturday, October 10, 2009 on Nippon TV and ended Saturday, December 26, 2009. The season has 12 episodes.

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.

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Aoi Bungaku Series Season 1 release schedule

Aoi Bungaku Series Season 1 episode release dates
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1. No Longer Human - Chapter 1: Double Suicide in Kamakura

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.

Saturday · 17 years ago

2. No Longer Human - Chapter 2: Ghost

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.

Saturday · 17 years ago

3. No Longer Human - Chapter 3: Society

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.

Saturday · 17 years ago

4. No Longer Human - Chapter 4: New World

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.

Saturday · 17 years ago

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

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.

Saturday · 17 years ago

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

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.

Saturday · 16 years ago

7. Kokoro - Chapter 1

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.

Saturday · 16 years ago

8. Kokoro - Chapter 2

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.

Saturday · 16 years ago

9. Run, Melos! - Chapter 1

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

Saturday · 16 years ago

10. Run, Melos! - Chapter 2

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

Saturday · 16 years ago

11. The Spider's Thread

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.

Saturday · 16 years ago

12. Hell Screen Finale

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.

Saturday · 16 years ago

Aoi Bungaku Series Season 1 guest stars

  • Aya Hisakawa

    Aya Hisakawa

    Shizuko

  • Ai Horanai

    Ai Horanai

    waitress

  • Atsuko Tanaka

    Atsuko Tanaka

    Madam

  • Wataru Takagi

    Wataru Takagi

    Horiki

  • Yasushi Miyabayashi

    Yasushi Miyabayashi

    Master

  • Mamiko Noto

    Mamiko Noto

    Yoshiko

  • Romi Park

    Romi Park

    Tsuneko

  • Tomoko Kotani

    Tomoko Kotani

    Shigeko

  • Masato Sakai

    Masato Sakai

    Ōba Yōzō

  • Komina Matsushita

    Komina Matsushita

    Housewife 2 (voice)

  • Nana Mizuki

    Nana Mizuki

    Akiko

  • Taeko Kawata

    Taeko Kawata

    Chiyo

  • Asami Yaguchi

    Asami Yaguchi

    wife F

  • Kiyoko Nagaki

    Kiyoko Nagaki

    wife D

  • Kiyoyuki Yanada

    Kiyoyuki Yanada

    Boar

  • Yui Kano

    Yui Kano

    wife A

Aoi Bungaku Series Season 1 FAQ

When does Aoi Bungaku Series Season 1 come out?

Aoi Bungaku Series Season 1 premiered Saturday, October 10, 2009 on Nippon TV.

How many episodes are in Aoi Bungaku Series Season 1?

Aoi Bungaku Series Season 1 has 12 episodes.

Are new episodes of Aoi Bungaku Series Season 1 released weekly?

New episodes are released weekly.

When is the Aoi Bungaku Series Season 1 finale?

The Aoi Bungaku Series Season 1 finale (Episode 12) aired Saturday, December 26, 2009.

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