I had written before that I wouldn’t touch on No Longer Human again until I had read the novel and also seen the arc in Aoi Bungaku, but after getting about halfway through the novel, I felt compelled to note the drastic differences between the two. Spoilers for the first episode and first half of [...]
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I’ve read two out of the six novels that Aoi Bungaku will adapt into anime episodes; No Longer Human by Osamu Dazai and Kokoro by Natsume Souseki. The series starts with No Longer Human so I thought I’d offer my initial impressions after watching the first episode… I read No Longer Human about a year and [...]
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Aoi Bungaku A dark and depressing anime thus far. The series will be an adaptation of six modern classics of Japanese literature, all of which I have never heard of before. The main character in the first story looks like a stoned Light from Death Note. Rating: Decent
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I have seen three pictures of the man. The first, a childhood photograph you might call it, shows him about the age of ten, a small boy surrounded by a great many women (his sisters and cousins, no doubt). He stands in brightly checked trousers by the edge of a garden pond. His head is tilted [...]
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No Longer Human – 02 I’m speechless about this show. It continues to be awesome and surprising. This episode is definitely creepy and disturbing in so many ways, and I desperately need subs right now to understand more of it, seems my Jap is weak. Damn subs fukken where?! It’s just sad that this show is [...]
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Yes, with this episode I’m sure of my Top 3 of the autumn season: 1) Aoi Bungaku, 2) Armed Librarians and 3) Darker than Black. Kuchuu Buranko is indeed awesome, but it’s only awesome for its style, not its substance. Aoi Bunagku is awesome for both its style AND substance. This episode really was the [...]
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Man, I hope this gets picked up by a FanSub Group! This early, and I do mean early wee-morning, couldn’t sleep and decided to add some pages to Tha BakaPedia.  Okay… so… as you all probably know, that Aoi Bungaku premiere in Japan October 10th.  What can I say about this series… it was quite interesting!  Now [...]
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Part 1 - Ningen Shikkaku [No Longer Human] Ok, so this would be another show I'll be blogging (woo-hoo!). It seems that this show is underrated to the core already. This doesn't seem to get that much attention unlike the other shows this season, even though hands down in my opinion, this has the best character designs, story and one of my favorite execution so far already this season. I also don't know why, but I get some Mouryou no Hako and Kurozuka mixed vibes in here, in which these shows are also underrated and much ignored in the past year.
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Aoi Bungaku Short Synopsis: Our lead character meets the love of his life as he runs away from the police. Ah, yes. It’s obvious that this is going to be the least popular series of the season. I suspect that this series mostly going to be ignored, if Mouryou no Hako last year’s reception is any [...]
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Summary: Ugh, this is gonna be a short one. (I’d originally written just the line after this, but I expanded the summary afterwards. -wry-) Two people decide to commit suicide together because they’ve realised how meaningless their lives were. Our male protagonist is a part-time bum and part-time conman, acting as an actor in an [...]
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