Ultimate production controversy anime Aku no Hana is still proving as incendiary as ever, with the rotoscope treatment of the original’s “reverse rape” scene setting hearts aflutter for the eventual sex scenes present in the manga, and “fans” generally of the opinion that series could have dominated the season had it been animated properly…
The original:
The series is proving so provocative it seems nobody has thought to stop watching it:
“Best episode yet!”
“I don’t get why the protagonist is so upset about being assaulted like that!”
“If only this was properly made it would have been awesome. I really wanted to see the art from the original…”
“The scene where she stripped and changed him got me excited. Am I a pervert?”
“I wish they could have at least synced the dialogue to the mouth movements.”
“The rotoscoping worked really well for the reverse violation scene. Really fresh…”
“If they do the sex like this it will be good!”
“Considering how difficult it is to strip someone’s clothes off like that, he pretty much must have consented.”
“Their eyebrows keep disappearing from scene to scene, the guys animating this are totally inconsistent.”
“At this pace they will get to his deflowering soon. If this had used the original’s character designs it would have dominated the season, wouldn’t it?”
Out of context that gif is intense and disturbing to watch. Which I would assume is the point of the scene. I have to applaud it.
With that said I’m guessing the manga must have a loyal fallowing that is flipping their s♥♥t about the deviation from its original style. I can understand that and feel bad for them because this will probably be their only chance to see an anime of one of their favored mangs. But f♥♥k what the hell is wrong with Japan? This has legitimate artistic merit. They need to stop acting like a bunch of pissy American girls.
some people are just happy with the same ole s♥♥t, we know whats up though. this animated series will pave the way for the rest of the animes that follow in their footsteps – innovative and hella artistic.
From what I hear, it has a good premise, but does not deserve the term ANIME. It is Animated Live Action.
and to be honest, the characters look crappy in the anime compared to the manga, and this is coming from a ‘moetard’ too.
I have seen better character design in the aku no hana manga.
This may be coming from a person on the sidelines, not watching the series, but you have to understand, this has never been done before.
First, remember that this is an adaptation. Many adaptations even sack the original stories, whereas this one has so far followed the plot very closely. It seems obvious to me that the art style was chosen to tailor fit the story. It is an ugly story with ugly characters (I have read the manga up to this date). Also for those commenting on the realism being done poorly (i.e. the rotoscoping being poor), that is to achieve a surrealist look rather than realist, which is quite fitting given the subject matter. The lack of discernible emotion is for a similar reason. These are characters that are eventually to evoke an sense of extreme emptiness and lack of purpose, giving them strongly visible emotion runs counter to that and actually diminishes the story. The manga tells a strong plot, but the art is actually quite dissonant and almost makes light of the subject matter. Or rather, the art of the manga fails to evoke the instability of the characters, perhaps because there are many other manga that use similar styles in which the strange characters are in fact fully sane and well meaning. Numerous examples of such can be seen even looking just in anime from this season and last, so to use a more typically animation style would likely not have elicited the visceral feelings that this incarnation does. I’m not saying this style is pretty, I’m saying that it was never meant to be, and is more fitting as it is. I will freely say that I find this style difficult to watch, but minds as disturbed as those of these character really should be difficult to watch. I ask that anyone that wishes to downvote this comment first read some of the works of Baudelaire and his contemporaries, and draw the appropriate parallels to the manga.
I’m having the weirdest boner right now.
WHO CARES! JUST SOME STUPID CARTOON s♥♥t THE ZIONISTS WANT YOU TO LOOK AT AND BE s♥♥t TO THEM SO THEY CAN DO s♥♥t TO YOU!