Blue Book Anime Series Announced

By Ryan Kopf - Sep. 11, 2009

A new anime TV series, Aoi Bungaku (Blue Book) will premiere on October 10 at 1:20am according to a recent announcement by Japanese publisher Shueisha, the company behind series like Weekly Shonen Jump and owning Viz Media. The series will be construed of adaptations of four modern Japanese literary classics, Osamu Dazai’s No Longer Human (Ningen Shikkaku), Run, Melos! (Hashire, Melos!), Natsume Soseki’s Kokoro, and Ryunosuke Akutagawa’s Hell Screen (Jigoku Hen).