For the final installment of this month’s show for the Anime Watchers Club, we will discuss Aoi Bungaku’s adaptations of “Run, Melos!” by Osamu Dazai, and “The Spider’s Thread” and “Hell Screen” by Ryunosuke Akutagawa. How do these stories compare to the first three tales of Blue Literature? Run, Melos “Is it more painful to wait, or to make someone wait?” The short story this two-parter was based on was written in 1940 by Osamu Dazai (who went on to write No Longer Human, adapted in the first four episodes of Aoi Bungaku). The story was based on a 1798 [...]
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