
Also known as 惡の華 | Aku no Hana
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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?
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Aku no Hana is considered to be the first anime to extensively use rotoscoping. The anime adapts the first 20 chapters of the manga. The series was released on Blu-ray and DVD in Japan from August 21, 2013, to December 25, 2013, and in North America by Sentai Filmworks on July 8, 2014.

Kasuga, Takao
Main
Voice: Ueda, Shinichirou (Japanese)

Nakamura, Sawa
Main
Voice: Ise, Mariya (Japanese)

Saeki, Nanako
Main
Voice: Hikasa, Youko (Japanese)

Kasuga, Mother
Supporting
Voice: Wunsch, Vanessa (German)

Kasuga, Father
Supporting
Voice: Naka, Hiroshi (Japanese)

Kinoshita, Ai
Supporting
Voice: Uemura, Ayako (Japanese)

Kojima, Ken
Supporting
Voice: Hamazoe, Shinya (Japanese)

Mayu
Supporting
Voice: Hara, Sayuri (Japanese)

Hashimoto, Kazunori
Producer

Kawasaki, Tomoko
Producer

Nakanishi, Go
Producer

Shintaku, Kiyoshi
Producer

Tateishi, Kensuke
Producer

Nagahama, Hiroshi
Director
Openings
1: "Aku no Hana -Takao Kasuga- (惡の華 -春日高男-)" by Uchujin (with guest vocalist Noko) (eps 1-3)
2: "Aku no Hana -Sawa Nakamura- (惡の華 -仲村佐和-)" by Uchujin (with guest vocalist Mariko Goto) (eps 4-6)
3: "Aku no Hana -Nanako Saeki- (惡の華 -佐伯奈々子-)" by Uchujin (with guest vocalist Shiho Nanba) (eps 7-9)
4: "Aku no Hana -Gunma-ken, Kiryuushi- (惡の華 -群馬県桐生市-)" by Uchujin (eps 11-13)
Endings
1: "Hana -a last flower- (花 -a last flower-)" by ASA-CHANG & JUNRAY (eps 1-4, 6, 9, 11-12)
2: "Hana -a last flower- ver.Z (花 -a last flower- ver.Z)" by ASA-CHANG & JUNRAY (eps 5, 10)
3: "Hana (花)" by ASA-CHANG & JUNRAY (eps 7)
4: "Hana -a last flower- ver.X (花 -a last flower- ver.X)" by ASA-CHANG & JUNRAY (eps 8)
English title
Flowers of Evil
Romaji title
Aku no Hana
Japanese title
惡の華
Synonyms
Aku no Hana: Flowers of Evil
Main studio
ZEXCS
Producers
Starchild Records, Animax, Kodansha, KlockWorx, GANSIS, Aquatone
Licensors
Sentai Filmworks
Japanese title
惡の華