Mainichi Anime Yume
Kokoro is one of the most famous Japanese novels by arguably the most influential Japanese author, Natsume Souseki. But with only two episodes with which to adapt a roughly 190 page book, the anime version of Kokoro left out a majority of the novel’s content, and instead offered a new twist on the story’s conflict…
Unlike the previous No Longer Human and the upcoming Kokoro, I have not read the original novel of Ango Sakaguchi’s In the Forest, Under the Cherry Blossoms in Full Bloom (Sakura no Mori no Mankai no Shita). After the dramatic, psychological-intense No Longer Human, Aoi Bungaku switches to this more horrifying though slightly comedic story…
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…
The majority of the fall 2009 anime series are going to start airing in a few weeks, so I figured now’s a good time to decide which ones I’m interested in…