Questions tagged [the-flowers-of-evil]

Aku no Hana ("The Flowers of Evil") is a manga and anime series by Shuuzou Oshimi, titled after Baudelaire's "Les Fleurs du Mal".

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Synopsis from ANN:

Takao worships the class beauty, Nanako, from afar. When he is alone in the classroom one day after school, he notices her bag of gym clothes on the floor. He can't resist picking it up. He plans to return it, but the next day, all the girls are commiserating with Nanako that some pervert has stolen her gym clothes. Worse than that, their classmate Sawa quietly lets him know that she saw him take the clothes and will tell Nanako if he doesn't make a contract with her to do whatever she asks of him. And so their strange, tense relationship begins.

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Is this an animation error, or just bizarre character design?

While rewatching The Flowers of Evil, I noticed this character in episode 2: The character on the left struck me as very odd - she's wearing braids (which would normally suggest a female character), but she also has sideburns, which seem to be more…
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What is written in Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du Mal that impacts Takao so badly?

In the manga Aku no Hana (Flowers of Evil), a lot of the main characters read the book Les Fleurs du Mal by Baudelaire. But what is written in there that affects Takao and Nakamura to the point where they wish to commit suicide so badly? How did the…
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What is Kasuga reading from in chapter 34?

In chapter 34, Kasuga was asked to read aloud a page from a book in class. The translation I'm reading gives the lines as: The sun climbed above the abyss and Urehi walked crouched under the bridge. Beyond the railroad fence, that endlessly…
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How much of the manga plot does the anime of Aku no Hana cover?

I just started watching The Flowers of Evil, and I just noticed that the anime was produced before the end of the manga. If that's the case, it seems reasonable to conclude that some manga plot points might have been omitted from the anime. Given…
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