The Flowers of Evil (manga)
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Cover of the first manga volume
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惡の華 (Aku no Hana) |
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| Genre | Bildungsroman,drama, psychological thriller |
| Manga | |
| Written by | Shūzō Oshimi |
| Published by | Kodansha |
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| Demographic | Shōnen |
| Magazine | Bessatsu Shōnen Magazine |
| Original run | September 9, 2009 – May 9, 2014 |
| Volumes | 11 |
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| Directed by | Hiroshi Nagahama |
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| Written by | Aki Itami |
| Music by | Hideyuki Fukasawa |
| Studio | Zexcs |
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| Original network | Animax, MX, TVS, CTC, tvk, GTV, SUN, KBS |
| Original run | April 5, 2013 – June 29, 2013 |
| Episodes | 13 |
The Flowers of Evil (Japanese: 惡の華 Hepburn: Aku no Hana?) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Shūzō Oshimi. It was serialized in Kodansha's Bessatsu Shōnen Magazine between September 9, 2009, and May 9, 2014, and licensed by Vertical in North America. The story follows a middle school student named Takao Kasuga who's forced into a "contract" by fellow student Sawa Nakamura, after being caught stealing the gym clothes of his crush Nanako Saeki, and the series of events afterwards that follow these three characters. The title of the manga comes from Charles Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du Mal.
The manga received a nomination at the fifth Manga Taishō. An anime television series adaptation of the manga, produced by Zexcs, aired in Japan between April and June 2013. It was simulcast outside Japan by Crunchyroll. The anime was animated using rotoscoping techniques, causing some controversy among fans of the manga. The anime has been licensed by Sentai Filmworks.
The story starts in a small town in Gunma Prefecture and follows Takao Kasuga, a middle school bookworm whose favorite book is Charles Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du mal. One day after school, he impulsively steals the gym clothes of Nanako Saeki, the classmate he idolizes. However, a girl named Sawa Nakamura sees him and blackmails Kasuga into a "contract". At the same time, Kasuga grows closer to Saeki and manages to become her boyfriend.
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