 If you liked
Aku no Hana
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 ...then you might like
Hana to Alice: Satsujin Jiken
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Rotoscoping, teenage girls running around town like no one cares, dark school mysteries. Aku no Hana is way darker though.
Aku no Hana and Hana to Alice: Satsujin Jiken both adopt the rotoscoping animation style, but the difference is that Hana to Alice: Satsujin Jiken actually had a budget and competent animators. If you're looking for more/better rotoscoping, Hana to Alice: Satsujin Jiken is *completely* animated with rotoscoping, which is a rarity in anime. Aku no Hana is also completely animated using rotoscoping but utilises it quite poorly. Still, these are about the only two anime in existence that are completely animated using rotoscoping, and it may be worth a watch for that alone.
- Very similar stylistically, heavy use of rotoscoping and allusions to the Superflat movement.
- Both have at least two characters suffering from severe cases of chuunibyou.
- Extremely melodramatic J-drama vibes.
Aku no Hana is the darker of the two, whereas Hana to Alice is sillier and more light-hearted.
Both titles can be defined like something different and fresh.
Rotoscopical animation system that makes kinda different and curious.
Both animation keep the drama and the mystery with a different way from other titles, making you feel uncomfortable with the situation, and watching the plot develops without understanding anything. But for some reason you can feel that the story you're watching it's alive, can it be, for the animation, for that good script, but you feel inside the animation, you can understand the feelings the characters ar having, and it magic!