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Aku no Hana | The Flowers of Evil

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MrIntruder:

--- Quote from: GoGeTa006 on May 10, 2013, 08:15:28 AM --- get with the times :P
ur very old fashioned

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WTF did I just watch?! º_º

bluethegreat:

--- Quote ---she said yes and then she said "this is the first confession ive had"
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@GoGeTa006
im watching horriblesubs version of this and the part that i think y'all are talking about she says "yes, if you dont mind its me" then "this is the first time someone has asked me out".  i think they understood each other pretty well.  he was killing two birds with one stone (asking her out but throwing that "pure and platonic" in there for the benefit of nakamura to say that he isnt a twisted pervert).  i dont think saeki was taking it as a confession of love. she was taking it a face value, 2 kids wanting to hang out with each other. although if it was "confession" (of love) that would explain her crying a little bit more. i just figured she was the weepy emotional type to play the opposite of nakamura.

@5cats
and yea i they are middle school kids as far as i can tell and thats really the only thing that bothers me about this show. being a parent of 2 middle school girls it kinda freaks me out a little lol. that being said i love the themes being explored in this as a general concept. it just wouldnt give me the willies if they were, say, 16 or so.

and @someone who asked about rotoscope anime
http://altairandvega.wordpress.com/2013/04/13/aku_no_hana_animation/   "This technique is rare to encounter in Japanese animation; the last significant and excellent uses of it were in 2009′s Trapeze or the concert scene from Sakamichi no Apollon."    doesnt give any other examples.

the art doesnt bother me at all. i think most people are making mountains outta mole hills on that regaurd. (really? a headache from low fps. isnt all anime 24 fps? maybe you mean a different term) its as it should be and if you cant get over it, dont watch it.  although i think "a scanner darkly" did it better. i watched all 5 eps so far in 2 sittings. i had heard tell that eps 2&3 were kinda slow moving, i disagree. i was on the edge of my seat through all 5 eps. this is schadenfreude in the extreme.

5Cats:
@MrIntruder: A hippo dancing with two little girls?
I am SO going to burn in heck for that...  :laugh:

@bluethegreat: I agree!
The first episode? the art did bother me, a lot! Their hair was squirming around like snakes or something! But by Ep.03 I was completely used to it.
It's different! On purpose! It "works" extremely well with the content involved.

And yes, Episodes 4 & 5 were both terrific! It's following the manga very closely, except in "art style".

Yeah their tender age makes it creepy, but that's part of the charm!
How Nakamura got SO VERY twisted? I can only guess...
Kasuga got that way from reading Baudelaire... of course!

bluethegreat:
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MrIntruder:
I really am enjoying this, it's amazing, being drawn in and captivated by this series.


--- Quote from: 5Cats on May 11, 2013, 02:05:39 AM ---Yeah their tender age makes it creepy, but that's part of the charm!
How Nakamura got SO VERY twisted? I can only guess...
Kasuga got that way from reading Baudelaire... of course!

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I think this series is mostly about the transitional period of puberty and the "Blossoming flower of evil" is likely to be the moments when people of their tender age begin to understand what innocence truly is. We actually hear this directly in the series from Kasuga's father telling his mother to calm down, that he's going through puberty.

This leads you to wonder, why is Nakamura so freely able to express her ideas on Kasuga? Has she lost her innocence? Has the writer decided that she has been through some form of trauma? Is she as we'd seem to think at first, psychopathic? Or maybe she actually just fancies Kasuga herself but she can't express herself because she, like Kasuga, cannot overcome her own innocence.

This is why I'm loving this anime, it's making me wonder so much about the story of the characters, keeping me anticipating the next episode. I just hope that as the series draws to a conclusion, it doesn't, like a lot of other anime, ends in a wishy washy fashion.

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