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惡の華

Flowers of Evil

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)

Names

Original惡の華 (japanese)
RomajiAku no Hana
EnglishFlowers of Evil
Chinese恶之华 (simplified · via wikidata)
Also known asKwiaty zła

Facts

FormatTV series · 13 ep · 24 min · 5h total
Aired2013-04-05 → 2013-06-30 (Spring 2013)
StatusFINISHED
StudioZEXCS
SourceManga
OriginJapan (Anime)
DemographicSeinen
GenresDramaPsychologicalRomance
ThemesDenpaPhilosophyPsychosexualComing of AgeRotoscopingSchoolMale ProtagonistBlackmailBullyingHeterosexualSeinenFemale Protagonist

Reception

Community score6.88 / 10
Bayesian score6.94 / 10
Composite48.7
On lists58,766
Favourited1,421 (2.4%)
Completion72.4%
Drop rate13.7%
In backlog51.7%
Score spread σ2.19

Score distribution

157423713536486851,39162,11273,36183,45692,586101,421

Where it places

CohortValueTierRank
StudioZEXCSB15 of 59
Broadcast seasonSpring 2013C23 of 70
Year2013C149 of 330
GenrePsychologicalD295 of 416
DemographicSeinenD487 of 775
EraEarly 2010sC757 of 1,627
GenreRomanceD902 of 1,687
Season (all years)SpringD995 of 1,868
GenreDramaD1,284 of 1,917
LengthSingle-courD1,381 of 2,668
Source materialMangaD1,841 of 3,025
FormatTV seriesD1,850 of 3,322
OriginJapanD3,684 of 7,157

Key staff

DirectorHiroshi Nagahama, Yoshihisa Ooyama, Kazuya Tanaka, Hidekazu Shimamura
Series compositionAki Itami
MusicHideyuki Fukasawa
Original creatorShuuzou Oshimi

AniList id 16201 · MAL id 16201 · record updated 2026-08-27