04-22-2013, 09:30 PM | #1 |
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Aku no Hana
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? Last edited by deoxys; 04-23-2013 at 12:28 PM. |
04-23-2013, 05:19 AM | #2 |
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Chapter 44 of the manga has been translated. Guess I'll give my two cents...
Spoiler: show As regards to the anime: I'm seriously thinking that the studio will have to make a made-for-TV ending if there won't be a second season. With the pace the anime's apparently gone so far, they'll run out of time to get the manga animated - even up to the point where it is right now, not to mention that it's still on-going! It's a concerning trend with a lot of anime these days, and AnH has already had a disadvantage to begin with because of the rotoscoping blasphemy. Why make the anime at all if you seem so hellbent on making it so bad that people won't touch it with a ten-foot-pole? It's not going to increase the sales of the manga, that's for sure...
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Obviously they will have to end it on a note that is acceptable in case it doesn't get picked up for a second season like how Sakurasou did, but that is such a crapshoot and may leave viewers unsatisfied - I wish they just wouldn't touch it unless they had a good plan in place or the manga/novel was finished first.
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Xebec isn't a top-flight studio by any means so I'm not surprised the adaption is a bit lackluster. The rotoscoping makes it all the worse, though. =3=
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my thoughts on Episode 01 my thoughts on Episode 02 my thoughts on Episode 03 my response to deoxys after Episode 03 Episode 04: I watched this yesterday. It was a decent enough episode. Nakamura seems really crazy sometimes and other times she seems like she's quite like Suzumiya Haruhi -- a girl in stereotypical Japanese suburbia who wants to be special and dismisses most everyone around her as "normal", i.e. inferior to her. Still not sure whether Nakamura's mostly Column A, mostly Column B, or a roughly even mixture of both. Spoiler: show
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Just watched Episode 05. This series seems to have been so overblown by the fanbase as being "super dark". All I'm seeing is more and more evidence of my theory that:
Spoiler: show The director asks at the end of this episode if we were reminded of our childhoods by it. Oh good lord was I ever. Kasuga's placing of Saeki on this pedestal so high that she's his "muse", his "angel" is very familiar. So too is the class idol ironically never having had a boyfriend before precisely because every interested boy was far too shy or certain of his failure to even try asking her out on a date.
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I already said that in some earlier posts. (See: comparisons with Suzumiya Haruhi.) So I wouldn't say your opinion is different than mine: it's just that I'm not going to laboriously reiterate the lengthy specifics of my many impressions of these characters each and every week, and what I said this week omitted that portion of my theory.
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Episode 7:
Not much to say honestly. Just that this show is basically the most fucked up case of Stockholm Syndrome I've ever seen. I have no idea how the show will catch up in time. I'm pretty sure this is only 13 chapters in out of like 45 or something and there are only 6 episodes left. They must be planning a season two at this pace. edit: So I decided to read the manga. Spoilers up to Chapter 22: Spoiler: show edit 2: Just read Chapter 26. I think I just... I think I just want to put this whole thing down and be done with it. Major spoilers: Spoiler: show edit 3: This manga is just like watching a train wreck in really, really slow motion. I kind of hate myself a little. Last edited by deoxys; 05-19-2013 at 01:09 AM. |
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This stuff is an aquired taste, I realize. To me the plot's the most simple and kinda obvious thing ever, but apparently this isn't the case for all of us.
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I hate you all for not knowing patience. [/hyperbole but half-serious] Oh well: looks like I'm the only one left who gets to theorize anymore.
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I have no idea what's motivating VGM to do that. Certainly, I've resisted temptation to jump ahead for the other manga-based story animes this season (like SnK).
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I don't know, I was bored. I just sort of... did it. It was just completely spontaneous. I was able to catch up to the manga from where the show is now in just a matter of an hour and a half.
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Oh well though. Clearly you're enjoying it (on at least some level? ^^; ) as otherwise you'd not have read ahead and you'd not be sticking with watching the anime. So I don't begrudge you reading ahead really. You're enjoying yourself. So do. Do enjoy yourself. Have fun with this series as you would have fun with it and not as I would have you have fun with it.
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I'm sorry, I didn't really consider that when I did it (man that sounds inconsiderate of me). Had I stopped to think about it I would have seen it from a completely different perspective. I'm not sure, but I suppose you're not really the type to read manga, right? So I guess reading it yourself would be out of the question, too... I have to say, I think the thing that attracted me was I basically said "Well, I'll read a chapter and see what happens" and then I just kept going... and I think it may have, primarily, been because of the art style. I'm going to be honest, while I feel like the rotoscoping is somewhat appropriate for the series, after seeing the "traditional anime style" in the manga, I much prefer it over the rotoscoping, and I think that had a large part to play in why I read it.
>and trudge on ahead and leave me being the only Fool in the audience making wild claims that the rest of you are secretly laughing your asses off at for being wrong. I wouldn't do that... I don't think that makes you a fool in the least, and if it does, then I'm the biggest fool of all. |
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Don't worry too much about it. I'm just bemoaning the fact that you, Doppel, and Kaisa all know what's coming, whether because you read ahead (you and Doppel) or because you read Wikipedia (Kaisa) or whatever. I wish I had people to speculate with. It'd be like if Kaisa had gone ahead and read Shinsekai yori (the novel) while we were still on Episode 6 of the show. Or if Yuki had read Another (the novel) while we were still on Episode 6 of that show. But it happens. I mean, to as minor of an extent as I could possibly manage, even I "read ahead" with Sakurasou (by virtue of checking the books to see what all might've been skipped and where what all we'd seen had originally shown up), so like, I knew about Rita before she was shown, I knew about Sorata's little sister before she was shown, etc. It happens. Don't worry too much about it.
Still, I get the feeling that you guys aren't going to be able to engage with me anymore, because you're all "up there" while I'm "down here", and any attempts to converse with me will run the risk of inadvertent spoilers, so ... yeah, I anticipate some lonely times ahead. ^_^;
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Episode 07:
Spoiler: show I'm curious to see how far we are relative to the manga, so I will be checking that. I won't be reading ahead though. Just checking the chapters in order to see what all might've been skipped and to see how far we've gotten. Curious to see whether it's like Volume 2 and we've got tons of material left or whether it's like Volume 7 and we've covered miles and miles of territory in very short order.
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Tr-tr-triple post! Just wanted to weigh in and say that I checked the manga to see how far we are now, and I can let fellow fans who are avoiding spoilers at least know this much: we're through Volume 2 of the manga now. More specifically:
Given this, here are some pretty safe bets:
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Spoiler: show I personally think the actual, proper plot of Aku no Hana begins at this part. What I'm worried about is that it's in Episode 8 out of 13 of the anime. >.< So either a second season is coming or we're in for a made-for-TV-ending.
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So right now the show is only up to page 14 of ~40 of chapter 15 and there are only four episodes left.
Yeah... they must be planning a second season. This show is progressing at an incredibly slow rate. Episode 8/9 spoilers: Spoiler: show Manga spoiler thoughts on where it all translates into episodes: Spoiler: show |
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