Jul 30, 2021
I thought this day would never come, but I finally found it. An anime that's worth of getting the lowest score possible 1/10. The so called underrated unsettling anime masterpiece that is Aku no Hana. This is probably going to contain small spoilers, but they won't really impact your viewing pleasure since there won't be any.
I'm gonna start by talking about what everyone seems to talk about and that's the animation. The anime uses rotoscoping for its characters and honestly, it may look weird on moments with their movement and lip-synch being pretty wack, but in general it was pretty good and watchable. The artwork
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of the backgrounds is much better thought, but I don't wanna stick much to the way it looks since it's the least of the problems this anime has.
Now, I have not read the manga, but I can only assume that if the plot is close to what it is in the anime that I would also not like it. Our story follows three characters, out of which I can't really decide which one is the dumbest. Our hero, Takao, steals the gym clothes of a girl he likes, and Nakamura, the other weird girl from the class sees him do it, of course. That's the first point I want to address, the plot is so unbelievable with all the convenient things that happen. Nakamura is literally everywhere, she always accidentally stumbles upon Takao where ever he is. She is able to overpower him in seconds, take off his clothes on multiple occasions, make him do all sorts of things that he has no reason for doing. The same happens with Saeki, the other girl, as she also just happens to perfectly appear when the plot needs her to appear.
So, Takao stole the clothes. Okay, you would expect he feels a bit guilty, but he goes on a rant that he shall atone for his sins for the rest of his life. They try to make this one little act appear so much bigger, almost as if he raped or murdered someone. He then follows it by literally creating non existent problems. Whatever crazy thing Nakamura says, he does it. He then somehow ends up in a relationship with Saeki, which is probably the most non sensical thing ever, it is never developed, the just randomly throw them in a relationship and expect us to believe all that and the things that Nakamura does. For the first 7 or so episodes we have the same pattern over and over again. Takao talks about Saeki being his angel, something happens in their non existential relationship, Nakamura appears randomly, tells Takao ooh you're a hentai just like me, he says that he isn't, throws in some random Baudelaire crap(yes, I realize that you will be like oooh but he is merely pretending to know Baudelaire, I know, it's still dumb) and just go on to do some of the dumbest and unbelievable sh*t ever.
Next, I want to talk about the episodes themselves and the directing of them. The anime really tries to make itself seem much more unsettling than it really is. We had creepy sounds for no reason, we get scenes of literally nothing happening, now that can be good sometimes if the plot actually is unsettling, but not here. For example the 8th episode starts with just our crazy heroes holding hands and walking for the first 9 minutes of the episode. No dialog, nothing. You just have to be like ooh so deep they're so cool. No, it's not deep, it's just edgy, just like most of this anime is.
In conclusion, I feel like the author tried to make an actual deep story about regret and shame, but failed miserably. He probably read Ningen Shikkaku and was like oh damn let me make a deep story, but he has no talent so he just made this edgy mess of an anime. No, it wasn't unsettling and hard to watch, it was just cringy and edgy, I can't stress how many times I had to pause the episode and hold my head to how dumb this was.
Reviewer’s Rating: 1
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