A review by ropalimpia
Flowers of Evil, Vol. 4 by Shuzo Oshimi

dark medium-paced

2.0

I watched the anime of this originally around ten years ago and remember really liking it. The manga doesn't resonate with me at all. It feels hollow, like it's ambitious in premise but the medium doesn't lend itself well to telling this story. The characters are interesting, but never explored enough that I care about them. What drove them to the point that they felt they the need to isolate themselves from society and take refuge in each other aside from this idea of "perversion"? The art style, I can't stand. Shuzo Oshimi's art is usually beautiful, but at this point in his career, it was basic and awkward. I don't know if I'll ever finish this manga. I had to force myself through the first four books.