Aoi Bungaku Series

A young man unable to feel that he belongs drifts through lies, addiction, and self-destruction until even his identity begins to hollow out. A mountain bandit falls under the spell of a mysterious woman beneath blooming cherry trees. A friendship in the Meiji era corrodes under selfishness and guilt, while another man races against time to prove that trust between friends is not an illusion.

Elsewhere, a sinner in hell is offered a single thread from heaven and reveals what remains in his heart, while an artist obsessed with his craft drives those around him into horror so he can paint a hell he has never witnessed. Different lives and eras are joined by loneliness, desire, fear, and guilt, with each person forced toward the part of himself he tried hardest to hide.