This anime is one episode from the Aoi Bungaku Series, depicting a man gradually falling into a world filled with desire and suffering due to his own greed.
Half the comments did not pass the vibe check. Dude was a robber, kept 6 wives in poverty, killed an innocent husband, guard, HIS OWN WIVES, and kidnapped a woman. Frankly, whether the kidnapped woman was a witch or evil is besides the point, im pretty sure youd be evil if someone killed your spouse and abuducted you. Moral is that you shouldn't be decived by good looks? What a pathetic excuse. How about not being a possessive, greedy, shallow, murderer?
Only person I seen with sense so far. He was on bs since the beginning and the narrator painting him like he was ever a good person is throwing me off.
All these just an illusion of cherryblossom. He's been alone since beginning and start hallucinating thing. When he start to question thing then he finally realized that he's been controlled by the woman. But then the woman in the end is himself this killing her mean ending his own life. There is more to dig from Ango Sakaguchi work than just surface look. Like the house the woman own in city resemble of grave where everything inside not visible to people outside with the head placed in order with their family just like japanese grave. The core of the story is Ango Sakaguchi trying to tell that Cherryblossom is something that scary for him not something beautiful, like in the story where the woman represent cherry blossom also represent death/nothingness/end.
”He was a kind man. Because every time he robbed, he only took money and never hurt the other.” - 1 min later: “he killed the guard, and then he killed the husband.” 😂 If all it takes for your morals to crumble is a woman’s glance (however magical) I don’t think they were overly strong to begin with
A narrow prespective. Perhaps you didnt experience much of a real life. No matter how strong/devout/highly moral/intelligent a person are there would a weakness. Thats an essense of human being. Some people can exploit your weaknesses easily like this woman to the man..
@@dandelionspulp3725 she wasnt exploiting his weakness, he is morally corrupt. men have used the "magical/bewitching woman or girl" trope for millenia to excuse or justify their behaviour and deflect their wrongs onto others so they can continue to belive they are good. its cognitive dissonance and truth is they were never good at least not as good as they make others or themselves belive they are. they are not as good or moral or strong or devout to begin with they just are delusional about themselves. its a hard pill to swallow to see and accept what who you truly are. most people want to belive they are the hero or the good guy tm when really they are far from it.
No one in the comments realized the woman in the story was an evil person from the beginning? And the mountain man fell for her manipulative tricks? Maybe this story is supposed to teach us that you shouldn’t judge poeple by their looks.
@@Libera775 the dude was mentally ill. She wasn't the one manipulating him, he was tripping. He started hallucinating the moment he killed her husband.
This anime is called "Aoi Bungaku Series" for anyone looking for it. I hope the guy who made this video steps everyday on a Lego for neither putting the name in the comments or the description. Cheers!
Not people in the comments section acting as if the bandit was a good man in any instance. He was already wicked. He had seven wives, look at the subpar condition if he let's his wives live in. He knew he barely had anything and refused to just keep one wife it would have been easier for them to survive together. He was also robbing instead of hunting and selling those goods to people in the town. He meet a random woman and coveted her being greedy despite having several wives and willing killed the husband and guard, not out of noble intention but because he wanted to possess her as his property and liked her looks. He doesnt know her or anything about her, he should have left her back in the town she wanted to go home and him ending the lives of his wives with no issue. He never had to listen to her wicked wishes. He wanted to and had no issue to. Of course she would want to come back to the town that's where she is from. She is cruel but he is far worse because he did all of those evil actions.
Yes, exactly! And I do wonder where he got his seven wives from (and one was even a child!) Surely no family would be willing to marry their daughter to a boorish mountain dweller like him.
He was weak. When men create atrocities because they desire a woman, that's the weakest they can get. Literally why a neglectful/clueless father who married a cruel stepmother is just as bad or worse for not defending his own kids
This story reminds me a lot about the ancient Chinese saying "A beautiful woman will have a tragic fate." Powerful men coveted them, killing each other and innocents in the bid to be the owner of their cages yet who gets blamed when it's time for penitence and recompense? The "Calamitous beauty" or "fox-spirit," who enchanted the emperor! These woman who couldn't even step a single foot outside their family's backyards ended up dying the most tragic deaths, abandoned and dishonored because greedy men wouldn't leave them alone but still had the audacity to make them scapegoats to save themselves and didn't have the guts to take accountability for their actions
Relevant here how? Here, the woman in question actually asked for people's heads. She wanted him to do those things. Yes, he could've refused and he definitely is guilty but she's not some innocent little fairy here either.
It’s relevant if you understand that there is another side to the story. Another truth from the female perspective. Who knows if that applies here but i’m sure it does for the countless women in history who were comodified, and then villified. Not all perhaps… maybe there really are ancient demons who like playing with heads. But imagine a young girl with a husband she loves being dragged to a cave by a bandit who murdered her husband and already had six wives. Girl was a rich cultured women. The mountain women were not… Imagine how they would have treated her. Imagine her displeasure….. then you have to question a lot of other facts and then you get a very different story. She fearlessly makes things hard for him not afraid of being killed herself in the hopes that he would abandon her and let her go. She refuses to open up to him in desperation he does all sorts of things to please her. Maybe she never asked for those things. He murdered his wives becuase he felt she looked down on him…. she didnt want this but managed to save on women before it was too late. She is still not happy (would you be??) so he decides he needs to bring her back to her natural environment but now they are living in poverty in a city. It’s a super interesting story but I really appreciate the idea that there is always another perspective to wonder about. That hidden perspective of women who didn’t get to write history.
I believe this was an attempt to juxtapose how a few can give All a bad name. Liken it to how a few bad men lead many women to choose the bear - Androgyny beckons. 🤔
@@tiffles3890 Because the entire story is told through his eyes. Notice the similarities between his story and the story of countless other men in history who were greedy for beauty? They take her by force but she "seduced" HIM with her evil magic... "I was a good man until she bewitched me... He was a good emperor until she came to the palace... He was a good husband until she..." In all these narratives, there is none where the man takes accountability for his actions. He has his fun but she takes the blame. Whether she actually asked for human heads or those were the delusions of a mad man we will never know because this is HIS story. She HAS to be the monster because if she's merely a human, what excuses will he have to justify the countless lives he took? My teacher used to say "ghosts and demons exist only in the heart of man". More than her being some monster it's likely that this backwards hick saw a wealthy man and his beautiful wife lost in the woods. Enchanted by her beauty he killed the husband and took her for himself hoping she'd fall for him. Seeing she didn't or she begged him to let her go as he already had many wives and children, he assumed she didn't love him because of his many wives and kids so he killed them. Seeing she still wasn't in love with him, he thought it was because he was poor so he took her to the city to make money but kept her locked up and murdered anyone who tried to help her escape him. Realizing she'd never love him and all he did was in vain, he told himself she was a monster, she made him do it and none of this was his fault and finally killed her. Realistically, which of the two scenarios is likely? P.S. Theoretically speaking, If I was a demon, why would I go and enchant some mountain man who can offer me nothing instead of an emperor or a duke? Do demons not have standards?
EXPLAINATION: The cherry tree reveals or brings about the inner image of a person and when the mountain man took his wife there the place brought out the women's inner image which was the ghost. She was a bitch from the start but he was blinded by her beauty, but the place opened his eyes.
Yeah the morale is basically: beauty is skin deep and real beauty is in the heart. If the heart is ugly then their beauty is only an attractive mask. Also: beautiful people can get away with murder and have pretty privilege To quote Terry Pratchett: Elves are wonderful. They provoke wonder. Elves are marvellous. They cause marvels. Elves are fantastic. They create fantasies. Elves are glamorous. They project glamour. Elves are enchanting. They weave enchantment. Elves are terrific. They beget terror. The thing about words is that meanings can twist just like a snake, and if you want to find snakes look for them behind words that have changed their meaning. No one ever said elves are nice. Elves are bad.
Deeper explanation: He met her for the first time AFTER seeing the enchanted tree activate the previous day. What do you think she really is/represents?
you completly missed the point of the story if you cannot understand the evil the man commited, the woman was a deeply damaged invidual taken from slavers by that thug , her "imagined" appareance was the man's own deranged thoughts, he killed all his previous "wifes" or more like kidnapping victims/girls sold by their own parents, the show is a satire to reveal your own bad morality if you protect that man or pity him
@doomdecepticon933 you are presenting the story under one perspective like you accused the original commentor by minimizing her as "deeply damaged". Nothing from the video described her or showed her as such. In fact, she told him to slay his wives and behead the others, she is evil too. This anime opens the discussion of what's worse, doing bad things but not "wanting to", or wanting bad things to happen but not perpetrating it yourself
Fun fact, this series adapts different works from Japanese famous classic writers. This episode in particular is based on Sakura no Mori no Mankai no Shita by Sakaguchi Ango, with character design by Tite Kubo. Yeah, Bleach's Tite Kubo.
I remember I heard a similar story, instead the women or gf of the protagonist is a Yandere Vampire...It was a twisted horor anime I think it was named Kurozuka? Yeah Kurozuka!
so... let me get this straight... according to you, a simp is a person who murders a woman's husband and friends in order to force her into a sexual relationship?
I believe that women manipulated him. Maybe she's demon or something. That men had some clear boundaries before, and after they met, he just killing around without hesitation.
This is the longest version from eps in an anime "Bungou to Alchemist" when Sakaguchi Ango got trapped on his own book and the book story is like this. :" That's my fav eps because of how beautiful Ango when in the book.
Yo, what the heck? I watched the old movie like few months ago. I was just just browsing for asian horror movie and by God it is one of the creepiest, strangest thing I've ever watched.😂 They made an anime?!
I remember that in anime Bungou to Alchemist eps when Ango got stuck in his own book, and that book story is like this. So I assume it's from his book :'
@@mrparkx2 agreed , the main tanned girl (from the memes) and the blond princess are my favourites...and i haven't even watched it , just enjoy the exquisite gifs 😏 ...
This anime is based on the short story called "Under the Blossoming Cherriy Trees" by Ango Sakaguchi. This story is later adapted into film under the same name in 1975, directed by Masahiro Shinoda. The film is considered one of Shinoda's best films.
I think the dude was hallucinating ever since he killed those guards and the husband. I don't think it was the woman who told him to kill his wives or those people in the capital, it was just him being schizophrenic.
I think it's either he has dementia or he has a brain tumor that make go crazy and blindly follow order or the woman is actually a witch that been controlling him, until the cherry blossom released him from the controlling and saw the real her.
@@ashesofhopesinabonfireofdr6341 I think I have a theory. that lady must be a Witch from the starts, why on earth he listens to her to slay his wife, why do you think he listens to her to kill innocent people, why do you think he listens to her when she wants to moved to the street, the only explanation is that she is a witch and been controlling him from the start, that's why when they entered the cherry tree the spell weakened and her true appearance was revealed, freeing him from her spell power.
In Japan and china and probably most Asian countries there're many famous stories or history about a very beautiful woman destroying the whole kingdom, or manipulated men to do their bidding. I think this anime aim at Japanese audiences.
Haven't seen the anime, but from the story & visuals I think that she wasn't a woman, but the spirit of the sakura tree. She charmed him & made it do sacrifices for her...
I dunno, man. If it can change a guy that much, it must be some charm or mind suggestion magic. For sure, that lady must be an evil witch or yokai in disguise. (Not to say all witches and yokai are evil...)
Moral of the story : Even if you apply force... Some things wouldn't be yours... So refain from being greedy towards things which already belongs to someone else... Or else karma will kick you...😂😂
Is this from a book? I remember that I was reading it. The book is really disturbing and a baddit is clearly messed up to begin with. The name of author is Sakaguchi Ango. Edit : and the book is so good that I, somehow, can't see woods full of cherry blossom the same anymore.
This story tells the reality of how men greediness and lust destroy everything good and then put the blame on the woman for being the cause of their actions.
No, Rashōmon is a short story/collection of short stories with the same name by the author Ryūnosuke Akutagawa. This is "In the forest, under cherries in full bloom" by Ango Sakaguchi, a different author
He had 7 wives and still wanted another one!?! Jeez. Not to mention HOW he got them. Maybe he kidnapped them too. This wasn't love, it was desperate obsession. Maybe even stockholm syndrome?
