#aoi bungaku series

Direction in both in the Dazai’s Ningen Shikkaku and in the Hell Chapter parts of the Aoi Bungaku Series is outstanding. Use of colours, contrast and light really brings life and emotion to the scenes.

To be honest many of these pictures aren’t strictly speaking backgrounds, but stuff made by animators, composition and coloring teams. That said, the backgrounds did stand out in all of the works in the series - there was really great set of art directors selected for each part of the show.

You can see in the first three pictures how the work of art director Shimizu Tomoyuki (Chihayafuru, Rainbow, Ushio to Tora) in the Ningen Shikkaku-part (episodes 1-4) shows signs of the atmosphere which he did in his other major work Rainbow - Nisha Rokubō no Shichinin.