Aku no Hana - Anime Review
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Classification:
Recommendation: Run, please run! This is bad (20.75 of possible 100)
Warning this review will contain spoilers, for this
show I don't care!
The reader was been
warned!
Now Let's Get
Started:
"You went
full retard, never go full retard!"
Directed by
- Hiroshi Nagahama
Studio - Zexcs
Year - 2013
Season 1 / 13
episodes
Loose Notes
The review title,
is a reference of Tropic Thunder, and I think it fits perfectly in this anime,
I was very undecided with the title, run
Forrest run, was almost the title in honor, to the running that is
performing in this anime by the main character and was the solution, to all his
problems and confrontations, that and scream like a B£#$h!
This review, don’t
going to follow, my usual structure in a review, I only going to enumerate the
problems in this anime.
First Problem – The animation
I tried to
overcome this fact; there are lots of anime with bad animation but still very
entertainment! I tried to research, why studio Zexcs, took this choice of
animation, some excuses of new techniques, but was pretty bad, the eyes and
mouth have free will (the rules of physics do not apply), Long distances
characters loose the right of have a face, the lips synchronization was null,
the hair movement, I don’t know what it looks (maybe a very bad wig!).
Scenario / Plot try?
Well it passes
like all the 99% anime of Japan in a school, middle school in this case.
I think after
watch the anime ending, It turns around a love triangle between Saeki, Kasuga
and Nakamura characters (Left to Right in title image) or about nothing at all.
Second Problem – The opening
The opening for me
is a very important in the animes, epic openings compensate largely (at least
for me), some plot errors or paths that I don’t agree in a anime!
In Aku no Hana,
was a completely amateur opening, there are in YouTube betters videos !
With the “innovation” of a annoying preview in the episode opening. I mean to who unfortunately watched this, in a weekly basis and
waited a whole week to know and "enjoy" a new episode, is spoiled in
the opening???
In one of the
episodes, I turned on my YouTube and
put playing the opening of Black Lagoon and Watamote, to make this experience
less terrible!
The opening
artwork was simply a image and some Japanese’s writings, a complete absence of
connection to the songs (yes!, in 13 episodes had several songs – another fact
that I generally don’t enjoy much and in this anime, it was no exception).
(Aku no Hana - opening)
Third Problem – The Characters
Well, retarded
characters, it’s the right term!
Kasuga resolved
(or not) all their problems, running and screaming (Was this a sport anime? It
make some sense in that way :P).
And the eternal
feeling that he thinks that is superior to everyone else, because he read
Baudelaire and his book (Flowers of Evil) several times!
Every Kasuga
decisions are abnormal and I think I was against all of them! (One more step to distance myself of the characters) and the constant treatment of him,
being treated like a pawn, was pathetic.
Fourth Problem – The Book Plot
Speaking in the book of Baudelaire – Flowers of Evil
(name of the anime), What the hell, was that, It’s not the first time and will
not be the last that an anime makes a plot in turn of a book, and generally
gets god results (Zetsuen No Tempest this year, was pretty good (a masterpiece
comparing with Aku no Hana)).
Excepting, of some dream sequence, the book has a
completely presence and absence in the show, at the same time.
In my opinion the only thing they used of the book was the cover image and only in dream sequence or when they destroyed the classroom!
Fifth Problem – The Uniform Plot
To compensate the
book plot there are the uniform plot.
A mega crime
happens in the first episode, where he steals the gym clothes of his crush
(Saeki) and is get caught by Nakamura!
She blackmail him,
in the whole show and transforms him in his puppet, he tries to conciliate all
(after some screaming and running) and fails miserably!
But let me spoil
one of the worst moment when Kasuga went on a date with Saeki (using their
stolen uniform [by the way, it's a little weird that a girl gym uniform fits
perfectly in a boy :P], by Nakamura
order), he arrives to a decision, kiss Saeki or let the date end. He managed to
advance to a platonic relationship, cause if he kiss Saeki is will be
considered a pervert! This makes sense for anyone??
For me, didn't
make, in a relationship there will be kiss and a normal interaction with the
person in love, not that platonic thing! (And no one will be considered a
pervert!).
Ending and Future
Seasons
To maintain the
pace of this anime with the absence of a visible plot or a conducting line, the
ending also was one of the worst that I ever seen.
After the opening
spoiler, this anime presented us a new innovation, half of show, of preview of
a second season (that I wish that never see the light), no conclusion of any
kind (there was nothing to conclude).
Reflections and
more loosing notes!
It was because
some of anime reviewers, that generally have a similar perspective to mine that
I watch this thing till the end, and has not transformed unfortunately in a
dropout after the first episode.
I always hope in
all the bad anime that the ending, save it all, in contrast with the good ones,
that the felling is invert waiting, that the end don’t screw it all.
This show was so
bad, that one of the most interest moment for me was when the teacher make the
classroom call and one of the names was Urabe, that is the name of the main
character of Mysterious Girlfriend X (curiously a anime about a love story in
middle school, but well made [if you pass the drool factor]).
Final Thoughts
I will try to end
the review, with something positive and after lots of thinking only one fact
comes to my mind:
- Still a better love story
than twilight!
Let's end this
review, in a different way, in honor of main character Kasuga, running and
screaming.
Let's Scream!!!
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
"Worst Anime
Ever"
*Watched by me in
2013 - originally released in 2013
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