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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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How was Aku no Hana's rotoscoping received by other animators?

In the anime version of Aku no Hana, the animators chose to use a technique called Rotoscoping: Rotoscoping is an animation technique in which animators trace over footage, frame by frame, for use in live-action and animated films. Originally,…
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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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Which mountain did they try to climb over?

During the anime/manga, Kasuga & Sawa attempt to climb over the nearby mountain and reach the other side. The work is set in a small town in Kiryū, Gunma so I was looking at the area on Google Maps, but it seems to be a very mountainous…
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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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Art style choice?

I just watched the first episode of this anime and the plot seems pretty gripping but the art-style is what I found most interesting. It came out in 2013 so there weren't any technical limitations (at least that I'm aware of) but the animators…
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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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Is there any cross-reference between Aku no Hana and Inside Mari?

They supposedly share the same universe, but is there any element from one series referenced in the other? Isao Komori is from the same region where Aku no Hana happens (and is the birthplace of both series' creator). Is it the only link, or is…
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