So, I very purposely waited before watching this show. I knew exactly what to expect visual-wise from this show. Based on what I’ve been seeing, many see it as a unique approach to the show…some say it’s accentuating the show’s theme or something. Since I have no knowledge of the subject material, I can’t exactly [...]
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Aku no Hana is one of the anime this season that’s hyped and for a good reason, because the source material of it is so good. What I didn’t expect is to have its impact realized as soon as the … Continue reading →
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All this controversial talk about Aku no Hana has one true casualty: it spoils the surprise. So to share my suffering I will tell you why. And this isn’t a surprise about what the manga is about, which, well, I’ll talk about in a bit. It’s a surprise that will foil both manga fans and [...]
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The flower has bloomed This came as an entertaining surprise. I was caught with the uttered, ”I’m a piece of shit.” And the following experience had me clawing back into the tag for this review as I was entranced enough to write my thoughts. I have only one piece of advise for you, don’t drop it just [...]
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WASHINGTON – After a heated and often rowdy round of oral arguments, the Supreme Court ruled today that Aku no Hana is terrible. “It is the opinion of this Court that Aku no Hana blows. Respondent’s claims that the art style contributes to the show’s atmosphere or plot are unfounded and frankly, ridiculous,” read Justice Antonin Scalia's majority opinion.
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Oh Aku no Hana, where do I begin? As I pondered on a proper way to start off, my memory banks quickly withdrew one specific image from the film, All About Lily Chou Chou where Shusuke stands alone in a field of grass, listening to his favorite pop star, Lily Chou-Chou. He slowly comes to the [...]
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「運命の出会い」 (Unmei no Deai) "A Fateful Encounter" Aku no Hana has been highly requested as a "To Blog" show this season and although I've never read the source material, I can see that it's going to turn out to be a controversial piece.
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Truly, the flowers of evil are blooming. One of the most controversial series of this season. Aku no Hana is what I would call in one word, cruel. From the beginning of the show, we are thrust head first into a harsh reality. Whether it is the rotoscoped visuals which manga readers and new viewers [...]The post Aku no Hana Episode 1 Digest: Les fleurs des discutables appeared first on .
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Quiet and bucolic reader, Upright man, sober and naive, Throw away this book, saturnine, Orgiac and melancholy. If you did not do your rhetoric With Satan, that artful dean, Throw it away, you'd grasp nothing, Or else think me hysterical. You'd never understand the literature I read. It's not for you. When I read it, [...]
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I still have no idea what the hell this is supposed to be about. Sorry. That being said, I can tell it’s going to more or less revolve around Baudelaire’s Les Fleurs du Mal, I mean, that is the meaning of the title after all, and protagonist-san reads it all the time. That’s not something [...]
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Synopsis: Kasuga Takao is a boy who loves reading books, particularly Baudelaire’s Les Fleurs du Mal. A girl at his school, Saeki Nanako, is his muse and his Venus, and he admires her from a distance. One day, he forgets his copy of Les Fleurs du Mal in the classroom and runs back alone to [...]
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It’s Ennui! — his eye brimming with spontaneous tear He dreams of the gallows in the haze of his hookah. You know him, reader, this delicate monster, Hypocritical reader, my likeness, my brother! His face alone qualifies as rape culture. Technically one could consider this show a live action given that it employs rotoscoping for [...]
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Aku no Hana has been eagerly anticipated by everyone who’s read the manga, and from everything I’ve read it looks to be the big downer show of the season, but we need one now that Shin Sekai Yori is done with. We can certainly also use anything that looks like episode one does. We’ve got [...]
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Aku no Hana has been eagerly anticipated by everyone who’s read the manga, and from everything I’ve read it looks to be the big downer show of the season, but we need one now that Shin Sekai Yori is done with. We can certainly also use anything that looks like episode one does. We’ve got [...]
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I haven't read the manga so I didn't have any idea of what to expect. After this, I'll more than likely check out the manga for the art, but I don't plan to drop the anime just because of that one [...]
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Finally, something watchable!! P.S. Are people complaining that the character designs are ugly or something?!  Boy, am I glad I didn’t put my picture up on the blog or what!! P.P.S. Been working weekends and stuff, but this one should be the last for a while.  So hopefully I’ll be able to watch shows and [...]
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Finally, something watchable!! P.S. Are people complaining that the character designs are ugly or something?!  Boy, am I glad I didn’t put my picture up on the blog or what!! P.P.S. Been working weekends and stuff, but this one should be the last for a while.  So hopefully I’ll be able to watch shows and [...]
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I don’t think I’ve ever seen a series receive such a negative response after just one episode.  It appears some of my theories regarding Aku no Hana‘s reception were right, but for different reasons. Being an avid manga reader, you get to enjoy the perk of knowing what you’re getting into with most anime adaptations. … Continue reading »The post Aku no Hana (The Flowers of Evil) – 01 appeared first on Anime Aura.
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This show, was supposed to be the Dark Horse of this season, the replacement for Shinsekai Yori that ended last season. Although there are many quotes that should resound in one’s mind, “Don’t judge a book by it’s cover”, “Better … Continue reading →
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