History Anime / BlueLiterature

* AnAesop: Fairly obvious one about the value of compassion and not being selfish. This story is based in an Buddhist parable called [[http://www.gakkaionline.net/myths/Spider.html The Spider Thread]]

* AnAesop: Less obvious than most, but the author of the original work intended it to be this, of a sort. Shigemaru, the representation of the natural world, and Akiko, representing human society, interact to bring about the ruin of both; when Shigemaru kills her at the end, he himself perishes because if you remove your ties to society, it's like figuratively committing suicide.

* StockholmSyndrome: Arguably, Shigemaru's youngest wife seems to have developed it towards Shigemaru and Akiko.

* GratuitousEnglish: One of Shigemaru's ex-wives is a blue-eyed blonde who speaks in badly-accented English. However, on paper it's SurprisinglyGoodEnglish for the ''most'' part. ("Pork... is most favorite food in my life!") The first musical number in Chapter 1 also peppered with English.

* LoveTriangle: (Sort-of) [[TriangRelations type twelve]]; Sensei loves the girl (it may not be an full-on relationship, but her mother is all for it and Sensei has "dibs," having lived with them all this time), but she loves K, who is too loyal to Sensei to let himself reciprocate. [[DrivenToSuicide Doesn't lead to a very happy ending]].

%%* {{Expy}}: The boar is one of Bonny from ''Manga/{{Bleach}}''.

** The original narrative was read as a journal. [[spoiler: In the ending of the novel, the readers discovered that a man has found Yozo's notebook and began searching for the people in Yozo's life after UsefulNotes/WorldWarII ended.]]

** [[spoiler: Yozo's death was left (even more) ambiguous in the novel. He started living in isolation with a family caretaker]]

* TwelveEpisodeAnime

* Creator/AyaHisakawa: Shizuko.

* CompilationMovie: It'll have a bit of extra material and get released to theaters.

* DrivenToSuicide:
** Twice!
** And that's just twice for Yozo; Yoshiko also tries it after her rape.
* EarCleaning: Back in school, Yozo [[HoYay to another boy]].

* RedScare: The police do a routine inspection because of this.
* ScreamerTrailer: Some flashbacks.

* TitleDrop

* BishieSparkle: Akiko's main weapon.
* BlindWithoutEm: Shigemaru's youngest "wife".

* DissonantSerenity: Akiko embodies this trope.

* EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette: Akiko.
* {{Expy}}: The boar is one of Bonny from ''Manga/{{Bleach}}''.
* FemmeFatale: Akiko.
* FollowTheBouncingBall
* {{Gorn}}: The severed heads.

* TheMusical: No, really.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone

* ScreamerTrailer: As Shigemaru strangles Akiko.

* SqueakyEyes
* ThroughTheEyesOfMadness
* TitleDrop
* TokenMiniMoe: Shigemaru's youngest wife.
* [[WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes Why Did It Have To Be Sakura]]: Shigemaru's so scared of them he goes [[AxCrazy batshit insane]] in one encounter!

* NoNameGiven: Everyone.

* AdaptationExpansion: A FramingDevice is added.

* AnAesop: Fairly obvious one about the value of compassion and not being selfish.
** this story is based in an Buddhist parable called [[http://www.gakkaionline.net/myths/Spider.html The Spider Thread]]
* AmazingTechnicolorWildlife: That spider...
* DemotedToExtra: The Buddha from the original story.

* FramingDevice: A man named Takada has to write a story to be adapted to stage titled "Run, Melos!" while dealing with memories from his school days about his best friend, Joshima; [[WriteWhoYouKnow their relationship is very similar to the story's protagonist, Melos, and his friend, Selinuntius]]. Used to great effect to make the story a TearJerker.

** MilkingTheGiantCow

* MindRape: The gist of Kandata's stay in hell.
* RedEyesTakeWarning: Kandata.
* TitleDrop

* InfantImmortality: Shigemaru kills every one of his ex-wives except the underage one, who Akiko decides to keep alive as a servant.

* FlowerInHerHair: Akiko wears two beautiful flower hairsticks.

''Blue Literature'' (''Aoi Bungaku'') is an anthology anime produced by Creator/{{Madhouse}} in 2009 featuring adaptations of six classic Japanese works of literature recently reprinted under the Blue Literature Series label, and is similar to ''Anime/AyakashiSamuraiHorrorTales'' in that each story uses a different team and art style. These works are:

#Osamu Dazai's ''Kiterature/NoLongerHuman'' (episodes 1-4; character designs by [[Manga/HikaruNoGo Takeshi]] [[Manga/DeathNote Obata]])

#Osamu Dazai's ''Manga/NoLongerHuman'' (episodes 1-4; character designs by [[Manga/HikaruNoGo Takeshi]] [[Manga/DeathNote Obata]])

* DrivenToSuicide: Twice!

* CreatorBreakdown: Takada has to deal with a bout of this when it comes to "Melos"'s ending.

* HeyItsThatVoice: Besides the examples shown below, the host, Masato Sakai, voices most of the stories' protagonists.

''Blue Literature'' (''Aoi Bungaku'') is an anthology anime produced by Creator/{{Madhouse}} featuring adaptations of six classic Japanese works of literature recently reprinted under the Blue Literature Series label, and is similar to ''Anime/AyakashiSamuraiHorrorTales'' in that each story uses a different team and art style. These works are:

#Osamu Dazai's ''NoLongerHuman'' (episodes 1-4; character designs by [[HikaruNoGo Takeshi]] [[Manga/DeathNote Obata]])

#Natsume Soseki's ''{{Kokoro}}'' (episodes 7 and 8; character designs by Takeshi Obata)

* DoesThisRemindYouofAnything? when one of Shigemaru's marks pulls out a thin, short katana, Shigemaru pulls out his thick long machete.

* BishieSparkle: Akiko's main weapon

* DrivenToSuicide

* FemmeFatale: Akiko.

#Osamu Dazai's ''NoLongerHuman'' (episodes 1-4; character designs by [[manga/HikaruNoGo Takeshi]] [[Manga/DeathNote Obata]])

''Blue Literature'' (''Aoi Bungaku'') is an anthology anime produced by Creator/{{Madhouse}} featuring adaptations of six classic Japanese works of literature recently reprinted under the Blue Literature Series label, and is similar to ''AyakashiSamuraiHorrorTales'' in that each story uses a different team and art style. These works are:

#Osamu Dazai's ''NoLongerHuman'' (episodes 1-4; character designs by [[HikaruNoGo Takeshi]] [[Manga/DeathNote Obata]])

#Osamu Dazai's "Run, Melos!" (episodes 9 and 10; character designs by [[ThePrinceOfTennis Takeshi Konomi]])

** The original narrative was read as a journal. [[spoiler: In the ending of the novel, the readers discovered that a man has found Yozo's notebook and began searching for the people in Yozo's life after WorldWarII ended.]]

* MoodWhiplash: For example, we go from the incredibly bleak and depressing ''No Longer Human'' to "In the Forest, Under Cherries in Full Bloom," which features slapstick humor even more over-the-top than ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'' gets (and is a [[TheMusical musical]]...) and then it becomes bleak again.