04. Psychological depth

Anime is not necessarily ‘comfort media.’ If you want to be provoked, made uncomfortable, and encouraged to reflect, you can turn to anime to experience those emotions!

You can even find adaptations of Japanese literary classics that have brought innovation to the field and broken barriers with their psychological questions. The anthology series ‘Aoi Bungaku’ adapts several Japanese classic works from literature to anime. While still keeping each story with its own narrative, the psychological tension in each one of them is the common factor that makes it feel like a cohesive whole.

The novels adapted in this series include ‘No Longer Human’ by Osamu Dazai, ‘Kokoro’ by Natsume Soseki, and other Japanese masterpieces.