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Ayakashi: Japanese Classic Horror
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Aoi Bungaku Series
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The only two anthology anime that I am aware of where Japanese classics (novels in Aoi Bungaku; plays in Ayakashi) were adapted into mini-series/arcs; each with their own director/staff and art style changes. Outside of that, the biggest link they share is that only DARK stories were adapted: in the case of Ayakashi because it's a horror-themed series, and in the case of Aoi Bungaku because the title translates into 'Blue Literature' (fun fact: a lot of the authors of the novels adapted killed themselves). Every episode of Aoi Bungaku had a live-action intro, where an actor would delve into the back-stories of each author,
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Recommended by AironicallyHuman
Both are based on several classic japanese stories, with each story having different art styles.
They're all epic horror stories based on novel books. Both of them use different styles of animation
Both series are anthologies composed of different stories handled by different creators. Aside from the similarities in structure, both take a very classical and characteristically Japanese approach to storytelling, with Aoi Bungaku basing all of its stories in well-known Japanese literary masterpieces and Ayakashi's stories dealing with Japanese mythology, folklore, superstitions, and ghost stories.
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Recommended by lithiumflower
Both are bite-sized retellings of classic Japanese stories.
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Recommended by animeincamelot
-both are collections of classic japanese stories
-contain the same or more amount of that gloomy atmosphere
-moral lessons
like to think about life and the madness of humans? this one is for you
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Recommended by Euri_Makishima