Story about The Flowers of Evil / Aku no Hana / 惡の華 / 恶之华
The Flowers of Evil (惡の華 Aku no Hana) is a Japanese manga series written ...
The Flowers of Evil (惡の華 Aku no Hana) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Shūzō Oshimi and serialized, beginning on September 9, 2009, in Kodansha's Bessatsu Shōnen Magazine. The plot follows Takao Kasuga, a bookworm whose favorite book is Charles Baudelaire's Les fleurs du mal, from which the series is named after. One day after school, he discovers and impulsively steals the gym clothes of Nanako Saeki, the classmate he has a crush on. However, a girl named Sawa Nakamura happens to catch him in the act. Nakamura blackmails Kasuga into a "contract," or else she will reveal his secret.
The manga has been licensed by Vertical in North America. The manga received a nomination at the fifth Manga Taishō. An anime adaptation of the series, developed by Zexcs, will air on April 6, 2013.