The Flowers of Evil

Author: Shuzo Oshimi
Publisher: Kodansha Comics
ISBN: 1682331490
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 206

Book Description
Takao Kasuga is a bookworm. And his favorite book right now is Baudelaire's Flowers of Evil. While the young man may often be seen lost in thought as he rabidly consumes page after page, Takao is not much of a student. Actually when we are first introduced to the middle school teen, we find him sneaking some reading as he receives and F on a recent language exam. Nakagawa is known as the class bully. When she is not receiving zeros she is usually muttering profanities to those around her. While she doesn't care for books or their readers, she does have a thing for troublemakers. Takao may not be one, but having read over his shoulder a few times, she knows he is not very innocent. If anything he is bored and aware of it. Together, by chance, they shake up their entire rural community as Takao tries to break out of his shell in a random moment of passion and affection...not directed towards Nakamura. And contrary to Takao's predictions, the girl he was falling for, Nanako Saeki, responds by eventually accepting the bibliophile for who he is. Or at least, who she thinks he is.

The Flowers of Evil - Complete 2

Author: Shuzo Oshimi
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 1945054727
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Takao makes a decision... he will try to win the affection of one of his muses. This will be no simple task, as the teens are all now damaged and warped. Takao is in search of a utopia, one that can only be shared with his only friend, that will sit just briefly among the rice paddies of his rural hometown. But then Takao and Nakamura are wrongly accused of a crime, and the local authorities want to pin all strange behavior this small town has seen recently on the two teens. Will being treated as outcasts in their own community keep these two from crossing over to the other side...?

Flowers of Evil

Author: Robert Charles
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780553202977
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 212

Book Description

Flowers of Evil, Volume 7

Author: Shuzo Oshimi
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 193913000X
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
In the seventh volume of the Flowers of Evil readers are sent to a completely new time and locale. Takao and Sawa have been forcibly separated. Takao is now living in suburbs of the big city. His parents have new lives in a small apartment and their past for the most part has been forgotten. Now and then little cracks appear in that facade but for the most part they are playing their roles to become a normal happy family. Takao is in a new school; your average model student. And while he is just as awkward, Takao has made some friends and is even occasionally being asked to be social as a new high school student. Even more intriguing is the fact that Takao might have already found himself someone to open up to. Like Sawa this person can see that there is more to Takao than meets the eye. But in this case it is her who reintroduces him to literature.

Blood on the Tracks 1

Author: Shuzo Oshimi
Publisher: Vertical Inc
ISBN: 1647290163
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 220

Book Description
From the creator who brought you notable works such as The Flowers of Evil, Happiness, and Inside Mari, comes a new suspense drama centering on the theme of a toxic parent. Dive into this latest thriller by master storyteller, Shuzo Oshimi. Seiichi's mother loves him very much, and his days pass with placid regularity. School, friends, even the attention of his attractive classmate Fukiishi. Until one terrible summer day, that all changes... Shuzo Oshimi (The Flowers of Evil) delivers his most unsettling work yet, the tale of a seemingly normal family suddenly swallowed up by the creeping horror of everyday life. Gorgeous art and an understated script only serve to heighten the tension as we watch Seiichi Osabe's life spiral into nightmare.

Flowers of Evil, Volume 8

Author: Shuzo Oshimi
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 1939130042
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Flowers of Evil tells the tangled tale of Takao Kasuga, a shy middle-school boy who falls in love with one girl and ends up being blackmailed by another in rural central Japan. Throughout a series of catastrophic adventures, Takao remains absorbed by French poet Charles Baudelaire's Les fleurs du mal (The Flowers of Evil), which becomes the key to this engaging, wide-ranging narrative of romance and revelation. Readers have been charmed and captivated by this all-too-credible, yet often outrageous, story of awkward, young love. Flowers of Evil creator Shuzo Oshimi was recognized as one of the most gifted of the younger generation of manga artists, and in 2001 received the Tetsuya Chiba Award.

The Flowers of Evil

Author: Charles Baudelaire
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780979984778
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Self-styled 'Satanic man' Charles Baudelaire's collection The Flowers of Evil is marked by paeans to sexual degradation such as 'The Litanies of Satan' and 'Metamorphosis of the Vampire'. A new translation vivdly brings Baudelaire's masterpiece to life for the 21st century in this collection, which also includes key texts from Artificial Paradise, Baudelaire's notorious examination of the effects of alcohol and psychotropic drugs.

The Flowers of Evil

Author: Charles Baudelaire
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781673401042
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 64

Book Description
Les Fleurs du mal is a volume of French poetry by Charles Baudelaire. First published in 1857, it was important in the symbolist and modernist movements. The poems deal with themes relating to decadence and eroticism. Charles Pierre Baudelaire was a French poet who also produced notable work as an essayist, art critic, and pioneering translator of Edgar Allan Poe.

Devil Ecstasy 1

Author: Shuzo Oshimi
Publisher: Kodansha America LLC
ISBN: 168491289X
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 448

Book Description
Traumatized by big boobs at an early age, Noboru is now eighteen and looking for love...but finds more than he bargained for when he ventures into a mysterious brothel where the girls are not exactly what they seem! An early erotic masterwork from the prurient mind of Shuzo Oshimi (Blood on the Tracks and The Flowers of Evil), Devil Ecstasy is stacked with sexy demons, kinky scenarios, and abundant nudity, yet retains the emotional core that sets Oshimi's work apart. If you're looking for an oddly touching tale of demonic invasion and sexual trauma, you need look no further... Welcome to nightmare massage parlor DEVIL ECSTASY!!

Welcome Back, Alice 1

Author: Shuzo Oshimi
Publisher: Kodansha America LLC
ISBN: 1636996868
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 198

Book Description
The story revolves around three childhood friends, Yohei, Kei, and Yui, who are reunited in high school. What appeared to be a straightforward love triangle between two boys and a girl takes an unexpected turn when Kei shows up looking and dressed like a girl. Suddenly, Yohei is thrown into a maelstrom as he struggles between his infatuation with Yui and his lust for Kei. In this story of adolescent awakening, perversion, and love, Oshimi takes a bold approach and sets out to explore the boundaries of gender, sexuality, and identity.