I want to share one of my favorite "coming of age" manga with you guys so I will try my hand at doing a daily chapter dump of it. Discussion is extremely encouraged but i realize that it's very hard to talk about anything without spoiling the events of the story. Please use spoilers when you want to point out things that are foreshadowed or haven't happened yet so that potential new readers can have a good time. For first time readers of Aku no Hana, enjoy the ride! Don't be intimidated by anons posting possible paragraphs worth of spoiler text; it's the nature of this work. The Flowers of Evil (Japanese: 惡の華, Aku no Hana) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Shūzō Oshimi. The story follows a middle school student named Takao Kasuga who's forced into a "contract" by fellow student Sawa Nakamura, after being caught stealing the gym clothes of his crush Nanako Saeki, and the series of events afterwards that follow these three characters.