Znra said:ravagestorm said:
This is what you get when you have a selfish director that wants to do it his way rather than make a proper adaptation. Anime has always been a risky business and profit is always based on fan support. What the director did was spit on the loyal manga fans by butchering the adaptation. Aku no Hana could have been a break out hit for Shuuzou Oshimi but instead he got fucked up by the director.
Being a hipster is ok as long as you are not fucking up other people's opportunity to earn money. The director should've declined when he was asked to direct this anime.
The anime's art style was approved by the mangaka himself. So if you or the other guys happened to hate or think that this series was "butchered" because moe and other fan-pandering elements were nonexistent and that the art style is outlandish and nonstandard itself and that Nagahama bitchslapped Oshimi for rotoscoping the whole series instead of drawing it neatly, then you should send a hate mail to Shuuzou Oshimi rather than stabbing Zexcs and Nagahama for approving such a creative idea.
If you want proof, then here it is:
http://animediet.net/reviews/anime-reviews/epater-lotakusie-meditations-on-aku-no-hanas-aggressive-ugliness
http://pro.cessr.co.uk/2013/04/11/adaptation-aggravation-flowers-of-evil-and-the-quantum-narrative/
And a translation of the interview between the director and the mangaka would quite convince you as well, I think?
http://meowren.tumblr.com/post/47398332538/aku-no-hana-adaptation-interview
http://natalie.mu/comic/pp/akunohana
The director should've declined when he was asked to direct this anime.
- At first Nagahama (the director) refused the offer to direct the adaptation, because he thought that simply turning this manga into a pretty, clean-looking anime would be pointless. He says that he believes that when the mangaka draws this story he’s seeing something "else” which he expresses as a manga. So there would be no point in simply presenting it in animated form, at that rate you might as well just read the manga and be done with it.
- He thought if it was to be adapted at all, it should be done as a live drama. When he was offered the job the second time, he pitched the idea of using rotoscope. He was aware that the result would be different from the manga.
- Oshimi (the mangaka) says Nagahama is right about the way he creates the manga: the original story is something that exists in his head, and he draws what he sees in his mind. So basically the anime and the manga are two different versions of the story that exists in Oshimi’s head. By the way, he was also aware that due to the rotoscope the anime would look different from his work, and he thought it was an interesting idea.
- Oshimi also says that he thinks Nagahama has a very deep insight into the story, and firmly believes that he’s taking it in the right direction. He also very much approves of Nagahama’s wish of the anime leaving the viewers with a scar.
- Oshimi was pretty much “in” on the whole thing, they tested the rotoscope method on him.
Here. Peace out.