The Aoi Bungaku Series adapts six modern Japanese literary classics: Osamu Dazai’s *No Longer Human* (Ningen Shikkaku) and *Run Melos!* (Hashire Melos!); Natsume Soseki’s *Kokoro*; Ryunosuke Akutagawa’s *Hell Screen* (Jigoku Hen) and *The Spider’s Thread* (Kumo no Ito); and Ango Sakaguchi’s *In the Forest, Under Cherries in Full Bloom* (Sakura no Mori no Mankai no Shita). *No Longer Human* follows a high‑school student who becomes lost and alienated. Despondent and aimless, he spirals into a cycle of self‑abuse, depression, and drug use that stains his life for years. The story is presented in three chapters, each depicting a different phase of his life, with the final chapter leaving him standing alone…