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17th Manga Division Jury Selections

Flowers of Evil

OSHIMI Shuzo [Japan]

Outline

This work centers on a boy, Takao Kasuga, who loves the Charles-Pierre BAUDELAIRE novel Les Fleurs du Mal. One afternoon he was caught in his classroom stealing the gym uniform of a girl with whom he is in love, Nanako Saeki, by another girl, Sawa Nakamura. Since then he has suffered absurd demands from Nakamura. A youth manga which depicts the typical repressed feelings and fragile mental state of teenagers during puberty.