Beautiful!!

Written by oscar4life on February 6, 2011 at 2:46 PM

Animating five classic Japanese stories is an amazing concept. And each story is executed so differnently and artisticaly; the artwork reflects the mood of each story. Every story offeres somthing new and unique: comedy, drama, romance, action, philosophy, you name it, it's there. You go from the seriousness of the story, "No Longer Human" to the morbidly hilarious "Sakura no mori no mankai no shita", to the saddness of "Kokoro" and the heart wrenching beauty of "Run Melos" to the visually stunning world of "The Spiders Thread", and "Hell Screen". They make me want to check out the original stories, which are hard to aquire as I discovered. If you are the type of anime fan that only watches mainstream, generic anime then this series is not for you. If you are the type of fan that branches their interests to many different things and wants to watch something visually appealing and thought provoking, then you shouln't pass this one up.