History Manga / AkuNoHana

* [[spoiler: AnguishedDeclarationOfLove: Kasuga toward Tokiwa. In the middle of her workplace. While she's on her shift. In front of her boyfriend.]]

* BornUnlucky: Kasuga, full-stop. He doesn't exactly make things better for himself.

* BreakingSpeech: Making Kasuga feel like a "fucking worm" is the only way Nakamura gets some form of pleasure.

** The moment when
* {{Catchphrase}}: Nakamura seems to like calling people 'shiteaters'.

* DiggingHimselfDeeper

* HesBack
[[spoiler: --->'''Kasuga''': MOM! DAD!]]
[[spoiler --->'''Kasuga''': ...I'm home.]]

* HesBack: [[spoiler: -->"MOM! DAD! ...I'm home."]]

* XMeetsY: ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'' level of mental issues meets ''{{Manga/Monster}}'s'' atmosphere meets a premise similar to ''Manga/OnanieMasterKurosawa''.

Despite the clear indication that Shūzō Oshimi wanted to base his work on the prose of Charles Baudelaire, the work also picks and chooses from the psychology of SigmundFreud. This is especially indicative in the psychology behind Kasuga's decisions as he progresses throughout the story. Perhaps the clearest example is Freud's definition of id, ego, and superego, as represented by the main characters. Kasuga, the present state of psychology and blank slate for viewers, represents ego. Saeki, a self-actualizing goal and aspiration Kasuga wishes to work towards, is the superego. Finally, Nakamura is the id, the base state of psychology from which all powerful emotion and needs (in this case, chaos) springs from.

* HeIsNotMyBoyfriend: [[spoiler: Oh, he will be, Tokiwa. He will be.]]

* HypocriticalHumor: Nakamura takes every opportunity possible to deride Kasuga and call him a pervert, but in Chapter 3, she openly admitted that's she's not exactly squeaky-clean herself.

* ReplacementGoldfish: [[spoiler:Saeki accuses Kasuga of using Tokiwa as a replacement for Nakamura during her TheReasonYouSuckSpeech.]]

** Nakamura is also implied to be this to Kasuga. She forcibly strips him and makes him strip himself repeatedly, gets some kind of sick pleasure out of [[spoiler:watching him wear her]], seems to derive... enjoyment out of inflicting physical pain on him, holds his hand [[spoiler:towards the end of their time together]], is said by Saeki to be shaking from shock after she learns that [[spoiler:she had sex with Kasuga]], and goes as far as [[spoiler:smashing his dad's kneecap with a metal baseball bat]] when she learns that he's keeping him from her. The [[spoiler:classroom vandalism scene]] also has some sexual overtones and symbolism.

* XMeetsY: ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'' level of mental issues meets ''{{Manga/Monster}}'' atmosphere meets a premise similar to ''Manga/OnanieMasterKurosawa''.

** Surprisingly like director Hiroshi Nagehama's previous famous anime. It contains the quiet, uneasy tone of ''MushiShi'' and the dual personality/struggle with identity of ''DetroitMetalCity''.

* AmbiguousDisorder: Nakamura seems to have an extremely debilitating emotional disorder.

* WithFriendsLikeThese: Sure, Kasuga is capable of feats of spinelessness that would make [[NeonGenesisEvangelion Shinji Ikari]] shake his head, but pretty much everyone he's associated with [[spoiler: pre-TimeSkip]] is in no way more likable than him. In fact, all of them are... [[Jerkass basically even worse]].

* MoralEventHorizon: Episode 7, [[spoiler:when Kasuga destroys the classroom with Nakamura. Although he wrote his name on the chalkboard, its covered by paint, so no one aside from Saeki realizes that he was responsible for it, and she only knew because he drew that flower on the book he bought her.]]

** She might not be Yandere, as it seems that she was simply doing all she could to try to snap him away from the IdiotBall fused to his body.
*** And [[spoiler: raping him]] justified that? [[spoiler: [[DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale Hmm...]]]]
* YankTheDogsChain: It's like everytime it seems like Kasuga's caught a break, Nakamura makes an extra special effort to ruin it.
* XMeetsY: ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'' level of mental issues meets ''{{Manga/Monster}}'' atmosphere.

* VillainDeuteragonist: Nakamura.

* NiceGirl: Saeki. Probably too nice for her own good. [pspoiler:At first.]]

** Later in the manga, this ball is pretty much fused to his body

** Subverted in later chapters.

* LackOfEmpathy: Nakamura.

* NiceGirl: Saeki. Probably too nice for her own good.

The manga, written by Shūzō Oshimi, is still ongoing. An anime directed by Hiroshi Nagehama and produced by ZEXCS premiered on April 15, 2013. It is currently being simulcast on Crunchyroll [[http://www.crunchyroll.com/flowers-of-evil here.]]

** Saeki is drawn to Kasuga for his honesty and eventually [[spoiler: starts dating him]]. When she [[spoiler: finds out about Nakamura's blackmail]], she get so desperate that she [[spoiler: has sex with Kasuga in order to convince him of her love]].

* FreudWasRight: Certainly comes true in later chapters, though Nakamura gives clear indication she believes this.