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Blue Literature

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44 feature instances
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Blue Literature	type	TVTItem
Blue Literature	label	Blue Literature
Blue Literature	page	BlueLiterature
Blue Literature	comment	Blue Literature (Aoi Bungaku) is an anthology anime produced by Madhouse in 2009 featuring adaptations of six classic Japanese works of literature then-recently reprinted under the Blue Literature Series label, and is similar to Ayakashi: Samurai Horror Tales in that each story uses a different team and art style. These works are:Osamu Dazai's No Longer Human (episodes 1-4; character designs by Takeshi Obata)Ango Sakaguchi's "In the Woods Beneath the Cherry Blossoms in Full Bloom" (episodes 5 and 6; character designs by Tite Kubo)Natsume Soseki's Kokoro (episodes 7 and 8; character designs by Takeshi Obata)Osamu Dazai's "Run, Melos!" (episodes 9 and 10; character designs by Takeshi Konomi)Ryunosuke Akutagawa's "The Spider's Thread" (episode 11; character designs by Tite Kubo)Ryunosuke Akutagawa's "Hell Screen" (episode 12; character designs by Tite Kubo)Incidentally, the last two stories take place in the same setting (or are at least adapted as such), although the only common character is the nation's emperor.Oh, and like we said earlier, these are old (and long ago translated) stories, so only the bits this anime added, namely Kokoro's "Winter" episode and "Run, Melos!"'s Framing Device, will be spoiler-tagged.
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Blue Literature / int_10f35f3a	type	Creator Breakdown
Blue Literature / int_10f35f3a	comment	Creator Breakdown: An in-universe example comes in the form of Takada's struggle to deal with a bout of this when it comes to "Melos"'s ending, almost.
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Blue Literature / int_14ed6ab7	type	Does This Remind You of Anything?
Blue Literature / int_14ed6ab7	comment	Does This Remind You of Anything?? when one of Shigemaru's marks pulls out a thin, short katana, Shigemaru pulls out his thick long machete.
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Blue Literature / int_18d15922	type	Title Drop
Blue Literature / int_18d15922	comment	Title Drop
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Blue Literature / int_1e1afc1b	type	Framing Device
Blue Literature / int_1e1afc1b	comment	Framing Device: 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; their relationship is very similar to the story's protagonist, Melos, and his friend, Selinuntius.
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Blue Literature / int_1e7487cd	type	Breaking the Fourth Wall
Blue Literature / int_1e7487cd	comment	Breaking the Fourth Wall: Shigemaru will occasionally talk directly to the audience or complain about incorrect narrative slides.
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Blue Literature / int_1ee9819e	type	Scary Shiny Glasses
Blue Literature / int_1ee9819e	comment	Scary Shiny Glasses: Sensei in "Winter," nearly all the time.
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Blue Literature / int_259d5879	type	Anachronism Stew
Blue Literature / int_259d5879	comment	Anachronism Stew: The story is implied to be set in the Heian Period. That doesn't stop the iPods, photo-taking cellphones, bubblegum, Meganekko, Gratuitous English, and references to cosplay.
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Blue Literature / int_2e6a41e0	type	Gratuitous English
Blue Literature / int_2e6a41e0	comment	Gratuitous English: One of Shigemaru's ex-wives is a blue-eyed blonde who speaks in badly-accented English. However, on paper the English is good for the most part. ("Pork... is most favorite food in my life!") The first musical number in Chapter 1 also peppered with English.
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Blue Literature / int_34dcfc96	type	Kick the Dog
Blue Literature / int_34dcfc96	comment	Kick the Dog Kitten: The head of the secret police does this to a stray he'd been petting just before setting out to tail Yozo and Horiki. It was more of a shove than a punt, though.
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Blue Literature / int_34f1b472	type	Mad Artist
Blue Literature / int_34f1b472	comment	Mad Artist: Yoshihide gradually turns into one.
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Blue Literature / int_3b79029a	type	Crapsaccharine World
Blue Literature / int_3b79029a	comment	Crapsaccharine World: The viewer can already tell that the setting is pretty screwed up behind its Brazil-level colorfulness by the end of "The Spider's Thread," but this episode gets to really show off how terrible the monarchy is.
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Blue Literature / int_40c57041	type	Manipulative Bastard
Blue Literature / int_40c57041	comment	Manipulative Bastard: Akiko Possibly subverted, depending on your point of view. Akiko ISN'T actually all that manipulative. Usually she just tells Shigemaru once, 'do it or I won't be your wife anymore'. She never needs to confuse, weedle, control his actions or thoughts, or even use emotional blackmail all that hard. The issue is really that Shigemaru is so obsessively hooked on her that it takes months or even years of being a mass-murdering psychopath before he gets over it. And she THEN reveals that even her weak threats of 'leaving him' were empty, since she's just as hooked on him. It's no wonder he snaps and kills her. The message left by Akiko to her servant ("Wait for us, we will return soon") suggests that Akiko was merely playing along until Shigemaru calmed down and that she intended to convince him to come back to the city. We never really find out for certain if Akiko did feel something for Shigemaru or if she saw him as her puppet.
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Blue Literature / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
Blue Literature / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: Joshima died but he and Takada were able to make peace.
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Blue Literature / int_433396da	type	Long Hair Is Feminine
Blue Literature / int_433396da	comment	Long Hair Is Feminine: Akiko's hair is long, perfectly straight and impeccably groomed, as opposed to Shigemaru's wives, all of whom have shoulder-hair length (at most). Compared to them, Akiko is very feminine and sophisticated.
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Blue Literature / int_4f84cdef	type	Smug Snake
Blue Literature / int_4f84cdef	comment	Smug Snake: The king.
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Blue Literature / int_5029c444	type	Audible Sharpness
Blue Literature / int_5029c444	comment	Audible Sharpness
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Blue Literature / int_55180ce	type	Snow Means Death
Blue Literature / int_55180ce	comment	Snow Means Death: Yozo's spiral into decadence and depression culminates in his collapsing in the middle of a snowy street, ready to die...
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Blue Literature / int_5a40d6a	type	Adaptation Distillation
Blue Literature / int_5a40d6a	comment	Adaptation Distillation: The original novel was split into three parts and had another character only referred to as the narrator. The anime only showed the middle section and omitted the part where Sensei had been betrayed by his uncle and feared that he is no better after what he did to K.
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Blue Literature / int_5beef860	type	Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?
Blue Literature / int_5beef860	comment	Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: Shigemaru's so scared of them he goes batshit insane in one encounter!
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Blue Literature / int_6941e30b	type	Room Full of Crazy
Blue Literature / int_6941e30b	comment	Room Full of Crazy: The house where Shigemaru and Akiko live quickly becomes this, as Akiko fills it with her severed-head collection.
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Blue Literature / int_6d332aea	type	Driven to Suicide
Blue Literature / int_6d332aea	comment	Driven to Suicide: K.
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Blue Literature / int_7ea2a915	type	Animation Bump
Blue Literature / int_7ea2a915	comment	Animation Bump: The animation during the dance sequence of the first episode is awesome. The rest of the episode, average.
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Blue Literature / int_80251be3	type	How We Got Here
Blue Literature / int_80251be3	comment	How We Got Here: The arc starts with Yozo reminiscing his failed love-suicide attempt.
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Blue Literature / int_823c6e3e	type	Large Ham
Blue Literature / int_823c6e3e	comment	Large Ham: Everyone in the stage segments—kind of hard to avoid, being a Greek-style play. Dionys gets special mention, though.
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Blue Literature / int_9858c391	type	Chick Magnet
Blue Literature / int_9858c391	comment	Chick Magnet: Yozo draws women like mad, but is at a loss as to how to act around anyone.
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Blue Literature / int_9dd2329c	type	Camera Abuse
Blue Literature / int_9dd2329c	comment	Camera Abuse: Blood splatters onto the camera.
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Blue Literature / int_a4c37cbe	type	Mood Whiplash
Blue Literature / int_a4c37cbe	comment	Mood Whiplash: There's the above transition between stories, but the story itself features plenty of it, flipflopping between slapstick humor and our protagonist killing people in cold blood, for some reason.
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Blue Literature / int_a8dcb1d7	type	Love at First Sight
Blue Literature / int_a8dcb1d7	comment	Love at First Sight: Shigemaru falls hard for Akiko, who takes full advantage of this.
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Blue Literature / int_abad35b4	type	Soundtrack Dissonance
Blue Literature / int_abad35b4	comment	Soundtrack Dissonance: A light, peaceful piano tune plays over both bittersweet endings.
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Blue Literature / int_b7e0c5ff	type	Love Triangle
Blue Literature / int_b7e0c5ff	comment	Love Triangle: 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. Doesn't lead to a very happy ending.
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Blue Literature / int_bef696dd	type	Mind Screw
Blue Literature / int_bef696dd	comment	Mind Screw: The ending makes enough sense until the couple is covered in cherry blossom petals and is no longer there when they blow away.
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Blue Literature / int_ce6555f0	type	Lighter and Softer
Blue Literature / int_ce6555f0	comment	Lighter and Softer: Compared to the others, this segment had a Bittersweet Ending.
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Blue Literature / int_d148b019	type	Mundane Made Awesome
Blue Literature / int_d148b019	comment	Mundane Made Awesome: Yoshihide's painting.
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Blue Literature / int_dc0d80ee	type	High-Pressure Blood
Blue Literature / int_dc0d80ee	comment	High-Pressure Blood: Apparently when you slit your throat, every drop of blood bursts out of the wound in a single instant.
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Blue Literature / int_dd51740f	type	P.O.V. Sequel
Blue Literature / int_dd51740f	comment	P.O.V. Sequel: "Summer" is based on the original novel and shows Sensei's perspective; "Winter" shows us K's side of the story. And for whatever reason, the episodes are inconsistent in that they take place during the titular seasons.
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Blue Literature / int_df9eda66	type	Write Who You Know
Blue Literature / int_df9eda66	comment	Write Who You Know: During his Creator Breakdown, Takada has trouble dealing with the parallels between himself/Selinuntius and Joshima/Melos, and considers making Melos never show up to save Selinuntius as result. However, it turns out that Takada was Melos all along.
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Blue Literature / int_e150c4c7	type	Manchild
Blue Literature / int_e150c4c7	comment	Manchild: If Akiko doesn't get her way, she'll generally go for this trope then whiplash to super-Femme Fatale mode.
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Blue Literature / int_e1c796e9	type	Diegetic Switch
Blue Literature / int_e1c796e9	comment	Diegetic Switch: The girl plays the main theme for the "Kokoro" segment on a koto and a piano in the "Summer" and "Winter" episodes, respectively.
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Blue Literature / int_e542d80a	type	Gonk
Blue Literature / int_e542d80a	comment	Gonk: They went out of their way to make K look as grungy as possible. And his ridiculously slanted eyes don't help matters.
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Blue Literature / int_e6eafde0	type	Battle Aura
Blue Literature / int_e6eafde0	comment	Battle Aura: Parodied; one of Shigemaru's marks starts powering up, only for Shigemaru to slap him in the face and resume robbing him.
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Blue Literature / int_f7eda5d8	type	Snow Means Love
Blue Literature / int_f7eda5d8	comment	Snow Means Love: ...until Yoshiko comes along and shelters him with her parasol, giving him the will to live again. They later marry.
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Blue Literature / int_fca96b8e	type	Cherry Blossoms
Blue Literature / int_fca96b8e	comment	Cherry Blossoms: Of the grotesque sort. Appropriately so; the theme of the original story is pretty much Cherry Blossoms Mean Death.
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Blue Literature / int_fec6ea72	type	BloodSplatteredInnocents
Blue Literature / int_fec6ea72	comment	Blood-Splattered Innocents: Sensei wakes up to find a bit of K's blood has splattered onto his face.
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Blue Literature	seeAlso	Blue Literature
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Blue Literature	hasFeature	12-Episode Anime / int_c48bb057

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