The first story of Aoi Bungaku, No Longer Human, is covered in a soft, often wintry mist that per­meates through to the character’s unsur­pris­ing end. The remain­ing five stor­ies how­ever are vividly real­ised, vary­ing between sharp real­ity and kal­eido­scopic dream­s­capes; each con­veys the vagar­ies of human­ity with poignancy and skill. So too […]

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Organised with care and attention into:

• Anime,
• aoi bungaku,
• blue literature,
• cherry blossom,
• historical,
• history,
• literature,
• love,
• murder,
• period,
• psychological,
• review,
• suicide

Based upon well-known Japan­ese lit­er­at­ure, no open­ing music and a simple per­func­tory clos­ing anim­a­tion, Aoi Bungaku could barely be more art-house. It’s an odd situ­ation com­ing from a media that is still mostly mar­gin­al­ised, even in its coun­try of ori­gin: aim­ing for a fur­ther niche would seem counter-intuitive espe­cially for some­thing with […]

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Organised with care and attention into:

• 3 episode taste test,
• Anime,
• aoi bungaku,
• blue literature,
• historical,
• history,
• introspection,
• literature,
• mindfuck,
• murder,
• period,
• psychological,
• story,
• suicide