Flowers of Evil (Season 1)

Watch Flowers of Evil online on iFILM — the 2013 anime series based on Shuzo Oshimi's manga. Takao Kasuga is a bookish teenager quietly obsessed with Baudelaire and with his classmate Nanako Saeki. One afternoon he steals her gym clothes from an empty classroom.

His classmate Sawa Nakamura saw everything. She doesn't report him. Instead she presents Takao with a contract — the terms of which grow stranger and more consuming the deeper in he goes. The series generates its tension from humiliation and teenage shame rather than action, crawling under the skin the way guilt does. It was animated using rotoscoping over live actors, giving it a visual texture entirely unlike conventional anime — a style that divided fans and made the series unmistakable. Stream all episodes of Flowers of Evil online on iFILM.