Aoi Bungaku Series

大場與常子在共同的絕望下，於鎌倉計劃雙雙殉情

The episode adapts the Japanese novel, No Longer Human (人間失格) by Osamu Dazai. The episode begins with a photograph with the focus being on the young boy in the middle surrounded by a group of women. Cut to a scene of a mysterious human-like figure with a man narrating about how his "life was shameful." Showa Era, 4th year, Summer. A woman rushes off a bus and into a bar. She apologizes to the owners for being late and they question if she was looking for her husband again. She admits she was and quickly goes to change into her uniform. The narrator reveals the woman to be Tsuneko, stage name: Mayumi, and she is a prostitute. The narrator, Oba Yozo, claims, "people called me the murderer of this woman." In the streets, a group of people surround a man advocating about unemployment and the rise of prostitution. Oba Yozo stands up in the crowd and reveals his middle school-aged sister was sold to pay for family debts. The man encourages Oba, and the rest of the crowd, to help him destroy the government. The crowd gets motivated and begins giving them donations. In a bathroom it's revealed the two men were actors trying to con people into giving their money away for their fake cause; Oba even comes from a wealthy family. In a flashback, Oba meets with his father's servant. The servant tells him about how his father is disappointed in Oba and warns him that if he continues going to art school, his father will cut off his living expenses. The servant hands him an envelope and hopes it's not the last. Back in the bathroom, a commotion is going on outside. The Tokko (political control police) are arresting all the scam artists. The two men escape through the window and split up. Oba runs into the bar to escape from a Tokko. Tsuneko is there being harassed by a customer, when she sees Oba, she quickly runs to him to get away from the annoying customer. The Tokko officer enters the bar and approaches Tsuneko, who quickly hid Oba under her dress. The officer is suspicious, but soon leaves. Later, Oba and Tsuneko walk around town pretending to be a couple. They bump into the officer and Tsuneko holds him back telling Oba to run. When Oba comes back, he finds Tsuneko beaten up. In the moment, he kisses her and then has sex with her. The photograph in the beginning is explained. The boy is Oba, and as a child, he was sexually abused by the his father's female servants. This causes him to "don't understand women." Oba and Tsuneko decide that they will do a double suicide as they both hate living. They travel to a cliff and Tsuneko asks Oba to push her off and to come join her soon. The next day, a man finds Oba alive washed up on shore having survived the jump.

Oba 出院後正面對警方與記者的盤問，面臨監禁並與一名記者展開新生活

The episode adapts the Japanese novel, No Longer Human (人間失格) by Osamu Dazai. The story from the first episode is continued. We get a glimpse into Oba's childhood, and how he became friends with one of the kids in his school. We also see how he began seeing delusions of himself as a ghostly figure. Then, Oba wakes up in a hospital bed, where hes confronted by the police and journalists. He is informed that his father has disowned him and put him under the watch of one of his father's friends in order to make sure he doesn't try to commit suicide again. Upon being released from the hospital, he is then confined to a room and forbidden from leaving. That night, his house, where he meets a reporter woman. As fate would have it, he is invited to stay at this reporter woman's house, and he leaves his ghostly self behind.

社會，無人生存系列的第三章

《人間失格》第4章探索新世界

滿開櫻花的森林第一章

The episode adapts the Japanese novel, Sakura no Mori no Mankai no Shita by Ango Sakaguchi. A forest bandit finds a beautiful maiden in the forest and takes her to be his wife.

滿開櫻花森林的敘事 第二章

The episode adapts the Japanese novel, Sakura no Mori no Mankai no Shita by Ango Sakaguchi. A forest bandit finds a beautiful maiden in the forest and takes her to be his wife.

改編自夏目漱石的《心》，聚焦於東京一名年輕男子的視角

The episode adapts the Japanese novel, Kokoro by Natsume Souseki. 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. In this episode, the story is narrated from the young man's view.

Kokoro Chapter 2 探討東京一處複雜的居住安排，涉及一位寡婦、她的女兒以及兩名男子。

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. (Source: Wikipedia)

一位劇作家在處理兒時好友背叛的傷痛時，創作了以《奔跑吧梅洛斯》為靈感的戲劇

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

劇作家在面對兒時玩伴的背叛感時，改編《奔跑吧梅洛斯》的故事

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

強盜 Kandata 藉蜘蛛絲逃離地獄，卻因自私而失敗

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. (Source: Wikipedia)

大師畫家吉秀德創作描繪王國在國王統治下真實苦難的陵墓壁畫

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. (Source: Wikipedia)