Flowers of Evil
惡の華
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 pick it up. In the classroom, he finds not only his book, but Saeki's gym uniform. On a mad impulse, he steals it. Now everyone knows "some pervert" stole Saeki's uniform, and Kasuga is dying with shame and guilt. Furthermore, the weird, creepy, and friendless girl of the class, Nakamura, saw him take the uniform. Instead of revealing it was him, she recognizes his kindred deviant spirit and uses her knowledge to take control of his life. Will it be possible for Kasuga to get closer to Saeki, despite Nakamura's meddling and his dark secret? What exactly does Nakamura intend to do with him? (Source: MangaHelpers)
Flowers of Evil is a tv with 13 episodes, from Spring 2013, produced by ZEXCS, rated 6.8/10 on AniList.
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 pick it up. In the classroom, he finds not only his book, but Saeki's gym uniform. On a mad impulse, he steals it. Now everyone knows "some pervert" stole Saeki's uniform, and Kasuga is dying with shame and guilt. Furthermore, the weird, creepy, and friendless girl of the class, Nakamura, saw him take the uniform. Instead of revealing it was him, she recognizes his kindred deviant spirit and uses her knowledge to take control of his life. Will it be possible for Kasuga to get closer to Saeki, despite Nakamura's meddling and his dark secret? What exactly does Nakamura intend to do with him? (Source: MangaHelpers)
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- Denpa — Works that feature themes of social dissociation, delusions, and other issues like suicide, bullying, self-isolation, paranoia, and technological necessity in daily lives. Classic iconography: telephone poles, rooftops, and trains.
- Philosophy — Relating or devoted to the study of the fundamental nature of knowledge, reality, and existence.
- Psychosexual — Work that involves the psychological aspects of sexual impulses.
- Coming of Age — Centers around a character's transition from childhood to adulthood.
- Rotoscoping — Animation technique that animators use to trace over motion picture footage, frame by frame, to produce realistic action.
- School — Partly or completely set in a primary or secondary educational institution.
- Male Protagonist — Main character is male.
- Blackmail — Features a character blackmailing another.
- Bullying — Prominently features the use of force for intimidation, often in a school setting.
- Heterosexual — Prominently features a romance between a man and a woman, not inherently sexual.
- Seinen — Target demographic is adult males.
- Female Protagonist — Main character is female.