This, alongside Attack on Titan, was the VERY FIRST manga I ever did live reactions/reviews for. Many of those videos no longer exist since I was using panels and they've been banished to the void century but I'm so glad you finally read this!
I watched the first ep of anime based on this manga and it was boring so I dropped it but Im gonna continue watching it I came to watch it because of the ending song
Read it when i was like 15 in 1 night. It was so engrossing. As an adult i have criticisms but it is extremely unique. And like you said it has an actually somewhat happy ending
The Aku no Hana anime is one of the most divisive anime out there due to it being a full-on rotoscoping anime and that the art style is so different from the manga counterpart. However, I think this is a bold and suitable choice as it extrapolates the realism of the manga, creating an uncomfortable atmosphere. It makes more sense why Shuzo Oshimi approved of this tactile approach that the director Hiroshi Nagahama (Mushi-shi) wanted to take to explore the themes of adolescence, isolation, and perversion.
It's so sad that so many people hate it because it's different. The end of the series showing some of the "second season" that never happened makes me so sad. It also has an incredible soundtrack!
@@asdfgasdfg8006 I found it through the anime and then read the manga whilst listening to the soundtrack of the anime and it was amazing, it's like the best of both. But do what is easiest for you!
@@jack_lol Suppose that you were sitting down at this table. The napkins are in front of you, which napkin would you take? The one on your ‘left’? Or the one on your ‘right’? The one on your left side? Or the one on your right side? Usually you would take the one on your left side. That is ‘correct’ too. But in a larger sense on society, that is wrong. Perhaps I could even substitute ‘society’ with the ‘Universe’. The correct answer is that ‘It is determined by the one who takes his or her own napkin first.’ …Yes? If the first one takes the napkin to their right, then there’s no choice but for others to also take the ‘right’ napkin. The same goes for the left. Everyone else will take the napkin to their left, because they have no other option. This is ‘society’… Who are the ones that determine the price of land first? There must have been someone who determined the value of money, first. The size of the rails on a train track? The magnitude of electricity? Laws and Regulations? Who was the first to determine these things? Did we all do it, because this is a Republic? Or was it Arbitrary? NO! The one who took the napkin first determined all of these things! The rules of this world are determined by that same principle of ‘right or left?’! In a Society like this table, a state of equilibrium, once one makes the first move, everyone must follow! In every era, this World has been operating by this napkin principle. And the one who ‘takes the napkin first’ must be someone who is respected by all. It’s not that anyone can fulfill this role… Those that are despotic or unworthy will be scorned. And those are the ‘losers’. In the case of this table, the ‘eldest’ or the ‘Master of the party’ will take the napkin first… Because everyone ‘respects’ those individuals. Dojyaaa~~n! My heart and actions are utterly unclouded. They are all those of justice. You experienced it, didn't you? Only things of happiness and beauty gather towards the corpse. Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap.
This is the best manga that I've ever read, i love how disturbing it is. Even the animation choice for the anime pretty much describes the weirdness and how distorted the story and the characters truly are. Obviously if you don't like disturbing mangas, i wouldn't recommend it
To be honest, during my reading of Flowers Of Evil, I never found it disturbing in general, it made me feel uncomfortable and unsettled in it's general aspect, the only thing I found disturbing in a way was Takao's descend to madness during the time he decided to get closer to Nakamura. Overall it was a unsettling read. And the ending was better than I anticipated at the time during my reading of it, overall it was a good ending, but a bittersweet one.
To me it was a happy ending in general. MC is dating a woman who truly loves him and studying something he loves since he was a kid. The only "bad" part for me is that we finally undersotood Nakamura has really no salvation at all. She will hate humans till the day she dies and that's sad.
@@Krisliet though she still has hate with humans, she has found some sort of peace and doesn't want to lose it as she implored (in some some of way, she was begging) Takao to stay away so that she didn't devolve to her old self.
@@vivvy_0 well, i guess the author was trying to say that no matter how hard we try, some people just can't be saved. I can see why someone would see that as a bad end, but, considering everything that happend, and how well MC did after all that, maybe saving Nakamura was a little bit too much? I honestly though he wouldn't be able to resist her in the end and his GF would leave him and he would ruin his life. So I got happy with just a little bit of optmism.
@@Krisliet I agree with you but in general, the only one who won in the end was Takao, he was the only one who ended being happy in life. Because in the end Saeki made herself believe she was happy with her boyfriend, only to find out she was unhappy in the end, and Nakamura didn't really change after the incident, only thing that changed from her was her aspect and behavior, but in the inside, she's still the same. In the end, Saeki was unhappy. In the end, Nakamura failed to change. In the end, Kasuga was truly happy.
Read this series recently at 23. I know I would've found the story deeply relatable if I read this at a closer age to the characters, 14-17, as I suffered from severe depression through that stage of my life. However, reading it as an adult I can truly appreciate the ending. I'm still moving on from traumas in my life, but I'm in a much better place, and I love that the ending shows that despite some major traumas that can happen, you can overcome it and achieve closure
im really happy that people are still talking about this manga, while not alot of people liked the anime with how the animation was done via rotoscoping, i honestly think this is a under-rated manga/anime. i love it so much.
I have no issues with the rotoscoping. Someone had to act, and artists had to accentuate. It was a little off in the first episode, to be honest, but I got used to it and didn't dislike it by the end of the anime.
Nice to know you’ve read No Longer Human-even if it was the manga adaptations, which are not the best representation of the original novel. I love the novel, and knowing how much of it was based on the author Osamu Dazai’s real life trauma always broke my heart. Man suffered horrifically in life, and never really felt a sense of happiness. That whole novel was basically an explanation from him about why he and his wife decided to end it all. Seeing as Flowers of Evil is in the same vein, I’ll definitely try and give it a read. Depressing media is something I adore.
I think you would watch the movie " No longer Human" , live-action. It talks about the event Osamu went through before writting the novel. It was beautiful 😭😭😭
This is unironically in my personal top 3 at any time. Its way more flawed than something like punpun but I deeply relate to this story, its beautiful in so many ways and has such a beautiful way of making you relate to it. I felt genuinely concerned if the characters were happy at the end and it really made me feel like this is a path I could have gone down as a person and I know I'm not the only one who feels this way. Can't recommend enough for people who love narrative driven stories and really want to self reflect on their darkest thoughts and what that means about oneself
PunPun suffers from its up front and easy to understand style which is a huge flaw, having information given to you on a silver platter only hurts the well crafted story , Aku no hana in a sense is much more "flawless" since it does what its trying to do very well imo
Read it years ago and this manga legit gave me an existential crisis, I was crying uncontrollably for an hour coming down to the end. I remember wanting to have someone untether me from my mundane life too, what a wild experience. The only other manga that made me cry uncontrollably was metamorphosis
I read it when I was 13 or 14, i found it really interesting. I couldn't really understand everything and also i found it weird , but that's why it was so interesting to read, i had never read a manga like this before. I can't even count how many times I've re-read some chapters.
The entire idea of acting on impulse is a major thing in the story. I once read an analysis on it that connected specific events in the manga to the ID part of ur brain, which is the part that controls impulse actions. It was extremely interesting and the way it connected to the story was crazy.
Such an amazing manga, the middle school parts are a bit weird but the high school parts have such amazing ways of paying off things set up in earlier in the plot and I never at one point was uninterested in what would happen next. Definitely a worth while piece
For me, this manga is amazing, the characters even if they are immature and do some horrible things in childhood after they grow up they become more mature and normal. Nakamura, this mysterious and bizarre character is very interesting and we better understand the reasons of her actions at the end which for me is one of the best I've read. Even if it's not for everyone, I still recommend people to read it because it's a pretty unique experience with the way it approaches the themes of the passage of time and the desire not to be normal. "Flowers of Evil" resonated more with me than "Oyasumi Punpun" for example which bears little resemblance.
U should collab with the anime man one day. He's read a lot of manga of various genres and I think you'd have a great discussion about manga especially disturbing ones. Great Vid! Keep up the hard work!
It's been a while since I've read this. My understanding, before watching this video, was that the manga really illustrated how easy it was to fall to obsession and intrusive thoughts. We see how mc is swayed and taken along not only by the missus but by himself. He lets himself go along with the ride. It's wack how easily he let go of the person he was to the person he thought he was
I really loved the last chapter, I think it was necessary, it explains a lot in a very simple way and adds a diferent light to the end of nakamura's story. Great manga. I'm currently reading A trail of blood by the same autor, and even tho pacing is an issue right now I'd still recommend it (it really ramps up with the junji ito style faces lol)
She realized right before they killed themselves that Kasuga would be able to go on and live a normal life without her influence. That's why when they wrestle on the beach at the end she calls him a normal man and tells him never to see her again.
To me, this is peak manga. The best & and my favorite manga by far. Once I picked it up, it was like crack, I couldn’t put it down. Imo, Kasuga’s character journey is most definitely the best in all of animanga.
Aku no Hana is one of my favorite manga ever. After reading it I needed more. Still haven't been able to find something that scratches that itch, even in the creator's other works.
My friend and i reconnected through this book. One time I recommended a manga called flowers of evil to my friend 4 years ago but at that time i meant a different manga. Fast forward a year later we didn't talk anymore but i stumbled upon aku no hana and I was hooked, and I knew my friend would have loved it too. 2 years later he randomly messaged me at 2am saying i should read a manga called flowers of evil (aku no hana). Now we celebrated 1 year together a few days ago. I love you lyuji!
This manga / anime has one of the best portrayals of what it looks and feels like to feel like absolutely nothing. You can’t eat, sleep, talk, socialize. You just feel like nothing and the anime does such a good job as replicating it
Most people may think that the age at which these events occur is the greatest disturbance, but I actually believe it is closer to reality than you might think. I'm not so sure about others, but for me personally, I definitely fantasized and experienced things of erotic and evil nature starting in the 8th grade. I think this is the point where the perversion and true evil blossoms. No one at the age would ever admit it though, and maybe even wouldn't later in life, or perhaps forgotten. I like to believe that the author chose the main character to experience these life altering events at the age he experienced them for that reason, more than the shock factor of their age group
I really loved the manga, at first I was really confused , the twisted things that happens and the redemption at the end, i found it really beautiful, this is a beautiful piece of work , it's like a tangled thread slowly and slowly untangled .
It's better than so many manga. Disturbing? Bruh, it is psychological, but definitely not Disturbing. It deals with dark subjects but never gratuitous. I interpreted the story as a boy delving into the dark side of adolescence. While he loves seki, nakamura scratches an itch in him he can't describe. She excites him in a psychosexual way. This story, putting it simply is like a Freudian wet dream. Kasuga being the Ego, seki the super ego, and nakamura tlas the ID. He's obsessed with the flowers of evil book because it's a book about natural darkness. He doesn't really understand the book, but he feels the vibe of it. He's says himself that he was getting high on himself and he doesn't really understand the book. He a shows it to nakamura, but she throws it aside, because she doesn't need to read it. She knows what that darkness is like first hand. She's plagued with a natural darkness being her personality disorder. I've heard interpretations of her as having passed, but this didn't make sense, because a part of me felt bad for her, she was a victim of some she couldn't explain herself. She relates to Kasuga in this aspect, except that Kasuga may be going through a depressive stage of adolescence. My interpretation of what is wrong with Nakamura is that she suffers from antisocial personality disorder. She exhibits violent and self-destructive behavior with her committing acts of vandalism, assaults kasuga's dad with a bat, manipulation, humiliation and the imagery of the flower and "shit-bugs" she's sees is how she sees the world, metaphorically. Everything is shit to her, everyone is the same, but she saw something with Kasuga that wasn't completely shit due to how he wasn't completely covered with the "shit-bugs." This final page of the manga shows Nakamura's perspective of the world to back this interpretation up. Antisocial personality disorder is a disorder found in almost all non-mentaly ill serial killers. Since it is classified as a personality disorder it doesn't impacts her perception of reality. As said before, what she sees is a metaphor for her perception of reality. She's fully aware of what she's doing and by the end of the story when Kasuga and Nakamura meet again she's obviously not herself. Which means after the self-imulation attempt at the festival she was forced to seek help. On the beach she acts docile compared to how she use to be. Coming from someone who does take a type of medication and knows people who are under medication for certain disorders this is how she would act. Their playful fight on the beach is them both letting it all out on each other. This is where the two metaphorically have sex in the form of violence. He's does find romantic love outside Nakamura and Seki, this fight is Kaduga and Nakamura's moment of intimacy. Seki was dragged into their previous twisted relationship and got hurt. He washed his hand of this relationship and moved on to meet and eventually marry someone outside these two. SmThis new girl gets pulled into their fight on the beach, creating a ménage á trois, this balances out his ID and Superego, thus completeling his adolescent transformation into a man.
this is one of my favourite mangas oat, possibly my absolute favourite behind one piece. i read aku no hana as a depressed lonely 15 year old and i related to kasuga and tokiwa a bit too much. it impacted my life like no other story and is one of those “changed my life” manga.
So I finished the Manga I really loved how it ended. volumes 1-6 I was filled with anxiety and didn't know how I felt about it but I couldn't stop flipping to the next page. But after I finished volume 7 I knew I loved it. Despite volume 7 started off giving me an unbearable amount of second hand embarrassment, I overall did love it since it was start of new beginnings. Our main character was in a new environment and no longer, the strange kid who wanted so desperately to be different. We get to see him go from a dead inside shell of his old self, to seeing him fall inlove with his old passion again, to making a new beautiful connection, and learning to love life and his family again. It was beautiful. Even tho he didn't full erase the past,(obviously cuz thoes things are permanent) and still has many close relationships that were destroyed by his past actions, he still able to move and be happy and have a new loving relationship.
After watching 2 minutes of this video, I immediately started reading it. In my mind I was thinking that this might take me a day to finish yet as soon as I laid my eyes upon the first 5 chapters, it seems I wanted more. Before I knew it, an hour and half roll by and I've read half of it. An hour later, I've finished all 57 chapters. Every time I finished a chapter, something always compelled me to read the next, like holy fuck, I have no words to describe why I continued reading and reading. Kept telling myself to read it tomorrow or maybe even never, yet my finger always scrolled down, always wanting to see what the next thing was going to happen. Before I knew it, it vanished before my very eyes. Let me just say, absolutely breath-taking art and gorgeous scenery. One of the few mangas that's actually made me feel terrified, empty and devoid, a similar feeling upon my first reading of berserk. However the ending was good and left me satisfied. Despite what the title says, I recommend you give it a shot. Warning though, this shit will make you feel empty man, like on a whole different level.
I loved Flowers of Evil! I found it when I was getting into Inio Asano and it fed that sad manga hunger. I still recommend it frequently. The anime, although far from the greatness of the manga, is really unique in terms of animation. It's rotoscope. Worth watching, short too. EDIT. I've been looking for more manga like this for years. If anyone has more recommendations, I'll take it. No matter how sad. Skip Inio Asano mentions, I've read em all.
Trail of blood, Parasites in love, I sold my life for 10,000 yen per year, Houseki No Kuni and Monster. Entertaining one is definitely tomodachi game if you like the death games.(it’s the best in a sub series full of garbage)
Personally I liked a lot more the anime than the manga. I founded it way more expressive, the Ost was simply beautiful, and it felt way more like a real story
Finished this manga recently after trying to watch the animated version- I think because the manga used a more typical manga art style, I was actually able to stomach the content. The anime being rotoscoped was super realistic making it much more disturbing. Honestly, I was pleasantly surprised and super satisfied with the ending. I don’t think this is manga is something I’d revisit, but I’ll recommend it.
Can confirm the title worked and I'll be adding this to my list, I was looking for something for next month and you just came at my rescue, thank you :))
It's one of the most disturbing manga I've ever read it's so disturbing to see how people are reacting and how they should end it but they wouldn't but you still go on reading, watching this video actually helped realizing that I should have read the reviews before reading the manga
Shuzo Oshimi is one of my favourite manga artists with my favourite of his works being Inside Mari and Flowers of Evil. If you want a masterclass on psychological horror check out his other manga Blood on the tracks.
To be honest, I didn't find this as disturbing as you said but I guess it's just how I perceived it. If anything, I'm pretty sad that they didn't get into Nakamura's life more about why she acted the way she did. There was a slight hint that I got that might be a partial reason to why but it never explained the other half. The "final" chapter in her point of view gave me that.... Bad touch feeling but again they didn't get much into it. Which I guess makes sense but I just really wish I knew more. All in all, it's a good read and it's pretty short. If anyone actually wants to read, I read it on mangajar
I loved this manga sooo much, I stayed up all night and read all of iy and felt so empty when I was done. You definitely should read this if you like disturbing shit with a good story
Just spent the past 4 hours reading this manga from beginning to end. I get on youtube and this is the first video in my recommended lol I loved it so much.
I binged this out in a day and holy crap had to stop half way through at like chapter 30 it had me F*cked up for a bit actually felt like I was gonna be sick but then finally finished it later that night overall really enjoyed it was glued to it from start to end but holy crap is it crazy
this was a great video. i stayed up last night reading. til 5 am. now watching this the next day. it’s making me realize what i just read in one sitting last night….
Ngl, in the first half, I was enraged at all main characters. I kept on insulting on how all of them lost some screws, their lacking of brain cells -- everything. As I dig in chapters by chapters, I hope all the characters can stop being stupid, but they did not, all of them just went worse, and my anger did not subside at all. Every new chapters did nothing but fueled me even more. However, the second half, just, so so so so so so pretty, wonderful. It's just so wonderful to see how all them tried to confront their dark past -- how all of them find their own light, and tried to be a better person
This is one of my favorite manga ever and i think that up until like volume 2 of the complete edition sure its kinda of evil and makes u uncomfortable to some extent. But how it ends just makes the whole story complete in such a way. And i think ur analogy of the story couldnt be more off, growing up going threw start of puberty feeling love for the first time not being able to fit in. Charachters like saeki, kasuga, and Nakamura shows the real darkness that a Young child/teen can go through with theese experiences. Specially seing how nakamura actually sees the world in the last pages just makes u understand and apreciate her character so much more and why they did what they did. And some of the words used in it dosent hold their traditionell meaning like "pervert". Its not in the sense of a pure sexual nature but more of a libido force freudian like. I think this manga captures the true darkness and sense of lost alot of us felt growing Up, the sense of confusion not knowing who you are just acting on pure libido ("perversion").
This manga is one of the few that has really stuck with me since I first read it, idk something of the rawness of the characters and emotions they conveyed, I can't explain it well but just some scenes on this story I can't forget. Edit: Btw Masked you should give Sundome a try, it starts as this weird ecchi fetish comedy series but develops into a strange psychological romance drama.
this manga takes you to different world and gives you very different feeling i have enjoyed reading this but if you are going through depression or anixiety you should not read it
Aku No Hana truly delves into how abusive and evil the human mind can get. It's pretty fucked up wiout really supernatural elements and that makes it even more disturbing. I fucking love it.
i found out about this manga just last night, and i couldn't stop reading until the very end (running on an hour of sleep right now lol) all i can say is, it was beautiful. one of the best mangas I've ever read. it's definitely not for everybody, but man...so beautiful.
My second time recommending Inside Mari by Oshimi Shuzo, just as uncomfortable and abstract. Very interesting themes, but definitely not for everyone… if you do read it though lmk :)
No but in all seriousness, DO read it. It is a masterpiece. It’s essentially the transition piece from Oshimi Shuzo’s old style to new style, and you can really see the change as you go from the first to second half of the series. However, big trigger warnings for stuff like attempted suicide and sexual assault(there is an explicit rape scene). And don’t come at me with “trigger warnings don’t matter”, cuz another one of this author’s manga managed to bring back a warped version of a traumatic memory I’d buried for years - though that just goes to show how talented Shuzo is and how realistic Shuzo’s works feel.
ive just finished reading the manga (in 3 nights, didnt finish it in one sitting, tho i wanted to, it felt that i shouldn't yk) but I did not find it disturbing, really. it was a really good manga tho, ive enjoyed reading it. will definitely read it again sometime in the future, as i don't really have interpretations rn
Masked: don't read this manga
All of us: he's using reverse psychology.
clickbait*
but yeah
Where do i read it
It’s a roller coaster
@@chadshad672 mangasee123 is my favorite online sight. but buying manga helps support mangaka so if you can buy manga. but i understand
But... I cant.... help... READING IT!!!
he's saying this is a "disturbing psychological manga", clearly never read spongebob squarepants like bro there is slavery and everything in there
The sheer existencial crisis Sqidward emits is no joke
Bruh
Broh
Umm okay
Drugs made the 90s cartoon world go round
title of vid: “stay away from this manga”
me: “is that a challenge?”
Challenge accepted
Challenge failed
Are you challenging me!
Chald acceptachenge
Where can i read it
This, alongside Attack on Titan, was the VERY FIRST manga I ever did live reactions/reviews for. Many of those videos no longer exist since I was using panels and they've been banished to the void century but I'm so glad you finally read this!
Wtf rogers here
they both are bessatsu shonen too. roger
Oh, hey Roger
Yea they are both released in the same magazine
why do I recognize you? I've never heard of you lol
He knows we’re going to read it anyway...😈
💯
Yep
That's the reason he put " stay away from this manga"
😔
It's pretty good. Only 57 chapters
Masked: Don't read this manga
Others: Suddenly, we are Jared, 19
Doesn’t that mean you can’t read the manga though 🤔
😩✨"Hi i'm jared 9 and i never fucking learned how to read'
@@Sammy-yf2sb
the manga was
music
but jared
was deaf
- masked
The horrifying fact that at some point that will be a super obscure meme.
Masked Man: *Stay away from this manga*
Me: *Proceeds to go and read it*
SAME LOL i'm reading it rn
@@chickenoodle3397 is it good so far
Have fun 😃
@@katl6614 oh.....
@@katl6614 how did it go?
Psychological horror is my Kryptonite. The more realistic the premise, the more I get scared because of the idea that something like this may happen
If you like disturbing stuff of any genre than I definitely reccomend The novel "Blood meridian" the literature is above that of shake spears imo
Horror grounded in reality is the best
a lot of the time what creeps me out most about psych horror manga is how real & relatable they are
Same
@@Drugon-Dag you mean the book by Connan? The western drama, right?
Masked Man: stay away from this manga
Me: already completed it
Koyomi my boy 💞🥴
@@kemalsonic7625 yes ;3
@@mr.toastbread1514 Started it and ended it after I saw Mask's video
@@young_shaad5227 neat
Was it good?
For me "Stay away from this..." Is even more compelling than "You need to read this..."
I watched the first ep of anime based on this manga and it was boring so I dropped it but Im gonna continue watching it I came to watch it because of the ending song
@@igiveup5585 Honestly recommend reading the manga instead of watching the anime
Good old reverse psychology
Yea fr it's like reverse psychology
more taunting and provoking 😅
Read it when i was like 15 in 1 night. It was so engrossing. As an adult i have criticisms but it is extremely unique. And like you said it has an actually somewhat happy ending
LOL just finished reading in one night too 😂😂
10/10 imo
@@daniels55 frl
My mans got raped right? Did they ever address it?
@@christopherlambert6025 nope
The Aku no Hana anime is one of the most divisive anime out there due to it being a full-on rotoscoping anime and that the art style is so different from the manga counterpart. However, I think this is a bold and suitable choice as it extrapolates the realism of the manga, creating an uncomfortable atmosphere. It makes more sense why Shuzo Oshimi approved of this tactile approach that the director Hiroshi Nagahama (Mushi-shi) wanted to take to explore the themes of adolescence, isolation, and perversion.
It's so sad that so many people hate it because it's different. The end of the series showing some of the "second season" that never happened makes me so sad. It also has an incredible soundtrack!
What do you prefer, manga or anime version?
@@asdfgasdfg8006 I definitely think the manga is better, but the anime is so unique and interesting that I think people should give it a go.
@@Conturnal Oh okay, well Im thinking of reading the manga first, what would ur recommend?
@@asdfgasdfg8006 I found it through the anime and then read the manga whilst listening to the soundtrack of the anime and it was amazing, it's like the best of both. But do what is easiest for you!
Too late, I've already read that lol.
Maybe the other Valentines didn't tho.
Looks like you took the first napkin
Dajyoon
You can be whatever you want, bug there is always some JoJo reference, clip, or some fan of it.
@@jack_lol Suppose that you were sitting down at this table. The napkins are in front of you, which napkin would you take? The one on your ‘left’? Or the one on your ‘right’? The one on your left side? Or the one on your right side? Usually you would take the one on your left side. That is ‘correct’ too. But in a larger sense on society, that is wrong. Perhaps I could even substitute ‘society’ with the ‘Universe’. The correct answer is that ‘It is determined by the one who takes his or her own napkin first.’ …Yes? If the first one takes the napkin to their right, then there’s no choice but for others to also take the ‘right’ napkin. The same goes for the left. Everyone else will take the napkin to their left, because they have no other option. This is ‘society’… Who are the ones that determine the price of land first? There must have been someone who determined the value of money, first. The size of the rails on a train track? The magnitude of electricity? Laws and Regulations? Who was the first to determine these things? Did we all do it, because this is a Republic? Or was it Arbitrary? NO! The one who took the napkin first determined all of these things! The rules of this world are determined by that same principle of ‘right or left?’! In a Society like this table, a state of equilibrium, once one makes the first move, everyone must follow! In every era, this World has been operating by this napkin principle. And the one who ‘takes the napkin first’ must be someone who is respected by all. It’s not that anyone can fulfill this role… Those that are despotic or unworthy will be scorned. And those are the ‘losers’. In the case of this table, the ‘eldest’ or the ‘Master of the party’ will take the napkin first… Because everyone ‘respects’ those individuals. Dojyaaa~~n! My heart and actions are utterly unclouded. They are all those of justice. You experienced it, didn't you? Only things of happiness and beauty gather towards the corpse.
Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap.
This is the best manga that I've ever read, i love how disturbing it is.
Even the animation choice for the anime pretty much describes the weirdness and how distorted the story and the characters truly are.
Obviously if you don't like disturbing mangas, i wouldn't recommend it
RIGHT?? the animation choice was PERFECT. I couldn't have imagined it with an anime style
It's so sad, that they haven't finished the anime adaptation, even though they had material made for it 😭
@@MaizConLechee and the director is now working for Uzumaki
Read Chi No Wadachi if you like disturbing manga.
yeah but the manga character design is like so much better but i guess that would remove the disturbing part
Read this as a kid, shit traumatized 10 year old me.
you read this shit as a 10 y/o?!
@@pratikchakraborty6354 some parents don’t know about manga so they just buy it for their kid thinking it’s just a normal comic
@@Pixey003 or you just read it online 😂
@@nicrules77 that too
Ikr?
When i saw the video title and thumbnail I was like “tell that to my 12 yo self lol”
To be honest, during my reading of Flowers Of Evil, I never found it disturbing in general, it made me feel uncomfortable and unsettled in it's general aspect, the only thing I found disturbing in a way was Takao's descend to madness during the time he decided to get closer to Nakamura. Overall it was a unsettling read.
And the ending was better than I anticipated at the time during my reading of it, overall it was a good ending, but a bittersweet one.
To me it was a happy ending in general. MC is dating a woman who truly loves him and studying something he loves since he was a kid.
The only "bad" part for me is that we finally undersotood Nakamura has really no salvation at all. She will hate humans till the day she dies and that's sad.
@@Krisliet though she still has hate with humans, she has found some sort of peace and doesn't want to lose it as she implored (in some some of way, she was begging) Takao to stay away so that she didn't devolve to her old self.
@@Krisliet which why it’s a bad end to me personally
@@vivvy_0 well, i guess the author was trying to say that no matter how hard we try, some people just can't be saved.
I can see why someone would see that as a bad end, but, considering everything that happend, and how well MC did after all that, maybe saving Nakamura was a little bit too much?
I honestly though he wouldn't be able to resist her in the end and his GF would leave him and he would ruin his life. So I got happy with just a little bit of optmism.
@@Krisliet I agree with you but in general, the only one who won in the end was Takao, he was the only one who ended being happy in life. Because in the end Saeki made herself believe she was happy with her boyfriend, only to find out she was unhappy in the end, and Nakamura didn't really change after the incident, only thing that changed from her was her aspect and behavior, but in the inside, she's still the same.
In the end, Saeki was unhappy.
In the end, Nakamura failed to change.
In the end, Kasuga was truly happy.
“Don’t read this manga”
Us: “Or what?”
Fking love that photo of 2-D
Read this series recently at 23. I know I would've found the story deeply relatable if I read this at a closer age to the characters, 14-17, as I suffered from severe depression through that stage of my life. However, reading it as an adult I can truly appreciate the ending. I'm still moving on from traumas in my life, but I'm in a much better place, and I love that the ending shows that despite some major traumas that can happen, you can overcome it and achieve closure
anything made by Shūzō Oshimi is creepy and uncomfortable
Creepily and uncomfortably good
@@tdv10 well said. i read all of his mangas and they are all top ten on my list. am waiting for a trail of blood to finish so i can binge it
@@tdv10 Now we just need masked to read ichi the killer
@@iwillbe7214 is in the end game my man 😣
He someone creates imagry that psychologically corners you. And the expressions feel too real
I read it when i was 12, i was searching for ano hana but affected my whole future mentality instead 😂😂
Lmao
good luck on your life
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im really happy that people are still talking about this manga, while not alot of people liked the anime with how the animation was done via rotoscoping, i honestly think this is a under-rated manga/anime. i love it so much.
I have no issues with the rotoscoping. Someone had to act, and artists had to accentuate. It was a little off in the first episode, to be honest, but I got used to it and didn't dislike it by the end of the anime.
Honestly loved everything about the anime, just sucks that there was no season 2. Most annoying thing is the MC himself. In the anime anyway.
@@dokoria6526 i just watched the anime and ong he was so frustrating. the animation was gorgeous though
I think it was the best idea to use rotoscoping for this anime. This just gives such a unique vibe that fits the anime better than anything
I liked the animation. It was something different and refreshing
Nice to know you’ve read No Longer Human-even if it was the manga adaptations, which are not the best representation of the original novel. I love the novel, and knowing how much of it was based on the author Osamu Dazai’s real life trauma always broke my heart. Man suffered horrifically in life, and never really felt a sense of happiness. That whole novel was basically an explanation from him about why he and his wife decided to end it all.
Seeing as Flowers of Evil is in the same vein, I’ll definitely try and give it a read. Depressing media is something I adore.
I think you would watch the movie " No longer Human" , live-action. It talks about the event Osamu went through before writting the novel. It was beautiful 😭😭😭
Actually the ending makes me cry, what a masterpiece manga
Spoilers
If you just read the manga
Wacth the episode with the classroom painting the directing is just amazing
Yeah
Which episode is it?
@@cookgod87 not sure 100% but maybe 9 or around there
@@cookgod87 ep7
@@janusdoppel3719 Thanks
This is unironically in my personal top 3 at any time. Its way more flawed than something like punpun but I deeply relate to this story, its beautiful in so many ways and has such a beautiful way of making you relate to it. I felt genuinely concerned if the characters were happy at the end and it really made me feel like this is a path I could have gone down as a person and I know I'm not the only one who feels this way. Can't recommend enough for people who love narrative driven stories and really want to self reflect on their darkest thoughts and what that means about oneself
PunPun suffers from its up front and easy to understand style which is a huge flaw, having information given to you on a silver platter only hurts the well crafted story , Aku no hana in a sense is much more "flawless" since it does what its trying to do very well imo
PunPun'a way better than this bro.
PunPun's way better than this bro.
Read it years ago and this manga legit gave me an existential crisis, I was crying uncontrollably for an hour coming down to the end. I remember wanting to have someone untether me from my mundane life too, what a wild experience.
The only other manga that made me cry uncontrollably was metamorphosis
Metamorphosis is another level of depressing, man.
Ahhhh, the ptsd of metamorphosis is coming back to me, please send help
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I think RUclips read Oyasumi Punpun.
I read it when I was 13 or 14, i found it really interesting. I couldn't really understand everything and also i found it weird , but that's why it was so interesting to read, i had never read a manga like this before. I can't even count how many times I've re-read some chapters.
The entire idea of acting on impulse is a major thing in the story. I once read an analysis on it that connected specific events in the manga to the ID part of ur brain, which is the part that controls impulse actions. It was extremely interesting and the way it connected to the story was crazy.
ur on tik tok
Well you could interpret Tokiwa, Saeki and Nakamura as the ego, superego and ID that all affect the actions of Kasuga and his psyche
Such an amazing manga, the middle school parts are a bit weird but the high school parts have such amazing ways of paying off things set up in earlier in the plot and I never at one point was uninterested in what would happen next. Definitely a worth while piece
what's truly crazy is if you can relate to the characters feelings on some level.
Sup Nappa!
what???
Get some help bro XD
I understand what you mean
Minus all the crazy stuff like stealing undies and lighting yourself on fire but yeah.. on some level we do..
For me, this manga is amazing, the characters even if they are immature and do some horrible things in childhood after they grow up they become more mature and normal. Nakamura, this mysterious and bizarre character is very interesting and we better understand the reasons of her actions at the end which for me is one of the best I've read. Even if it's not for everyone, I still recommend people to read it because it's a pretty unique experience with the way it approaches the themes of the passage of time and the desire not to be normal. "Flowers of Evil" resonated more with me than "Oyasumi Punpun" for example which bears little resemblance.
U should collab with the anime man one day. He's read a lot of manga of various genres and I think you'd have a great discussion about manga especially disturbing ones. Great Vid! Keep up the hard work!
Don't toy with me Nagataro: The bad ending
I watched this anime when i was like 14 and every episode gave me anxiety
Its an anime??? .o.
The anime made me uncomfortable,and I love it.
@@bungeeegumz animation is bad tho
It's been a while since I've read this. My understanding, before watching this video, was that the manga really illustrated how easy it was to fall to obsession and intrusive thoughts. We see how mc is swayed and taken along not only by the missus but by himself. He lets himself go along with the ride. It's wack how easily he let go of the person he was to the person he thought he was
I really loved the last chapter, I think it was necessary, it explains a lot in a very simple way and adds a diferent light to the end of nakamura's story. Great manga. I'm currently reading A trail of blood by the same autor, and even tho pacing is an issue right now I'd still recommend it (it really ramps up with the junji ito style faces lol)
Wasn't expecting "Hunter's Dream" to be the background music to this video but I absolutely love it
Dude bloodborne really fits here🤣🤣
I was about to comment that I heard it in the back lol
funfact: never say dont read it bc everyone will end up reading it
That’s the point, reverse psychology
"Stay away from this manga"
Me: (Read it over ten years ago) *Too late* but I appreciate the gesture...
It actually painful to read . I finished this manga in 2 days without sleeping , and I don't get it why Nakamura tried to commit suicide solo.
She realized right before they killed themselves that Kasuga would be able to go on and live a normal life without her influence. That's why when they wrestle on the beach at the end she calls him a normal man and tells him never to see her again.
@@TheCityChamp3 damm man , it's made me cry.
To me, this is peak manga. The best & and my favorite manga by far. Once I picked it up, it was like crack, I couldn’t put it down. Imo, Kasuga’s character journey is most definitely the best in all of animanga.
Aku no Hana is one of my favorite manga ever. After reading it I needed more. Still haven't been able to find something that scratches that itch, even in the creator's other works.
My friend and i reconnected through this book. One time I recommended a manga called flowers of evil to my friend 4 years ago but at that time i meant a different manga. Fast forward a year later we didn't talk anymore but i stumbled upon aku no hana and I was hooked, and I knew my friend would have loved it too. 2 years later he randomly messaged me at 2am saying i should read a manga called flowers of evil (aku no hana). Now we celebrated 1 year together a few days ago. I love you lyuji!
I read all of it...
It's beautiful I don't understand why people say it's disturbing
This manga / anime has one of the best portrayals of what it looks and feels like to feel like absolutely nothing. You can’t eat, sleep, talk, socialize. You just feel like nothing and the anime does such a good job as replicating it
“Stay away from this manga” sir I am at least 80% more interested in this manga than I was before this video
Reverse psychology
YESSSS this manga is so good! Try Inside Mari, it's less intense than Flowers of Evil, but it's still psychological.
“Stay away from this manga”
Me: ok
*clicks off video and stays away from manga*
Most people may think that the age at which these events occur is the greatest disturbance, but I actually believe it is closer to reality than you might think. I'm not so sure about others, but for me personally, I definitely fantasized and experienced things of erotic and evil nature starting in the 8th grade. I think this is the point where the perversion and true evil blossoms. No one at the age would ever admit it though, and maybe even wouldn't later in life, or perhaps forgotten. I like to believe that the author chose the main character to experience these life altering events at the age he experienced them for that reason, more than the shock factor of their age group
I’m glad you read it. Shuzo Oshimi makes things that are relatable, incredibly impulsive characters, full of drama and straight up depression
Its great seeing the artist evolve as the manga progresses.
I really loved the manga, at first I was really confused , the twisted things that happens and the redemption at the end, i found it really beautiful, this is a beautiful piece of work , it's like a tangled thread slowly and slowly untangled .
It's better than so many manga. Disturbing? Bruh, it is psychological, but definitely not Disturbing. It deals with dark subjects but never gratuitous. I interpreted the story as a boy delving into the dark side of adolescence. While he loves seki, nakamura scratches an itch in him he can't describe. She excites him in a psychosexual way. This story, putting it simply is like a Freudian wet dream. Kasuga being the Ego, seki the super ego, and nakamura tlas the ID. He's obsessed with the flowers of evil book because it's a book about natural darkness. He doesn't really understand the book, but he feels the vibe of it. He's says himself that he was getting high on himself and he doesn't really understand the book. He a shows it to nakamura, but she throws it aside, because she doesn't need to read it. She knows what that darkness is like first hand. She's plagued with a natural darkness being her personality disorder. I've heard interpretations of her as having passed, but this didn't make sense, because a part of me felt bad for her, she was a victim of some she couldn't explain herself. She relates to Kasuga in this aspect, except that Kasuga may be going through a depressive stage of adolescence. My interpretation of what is wrong with Nakamura is that she suffers from antisocial personality disorder. She exhibits violent and self-destructive behavior with her committing acts of vandalism, assaults kasuga's dad with a bat, manipulation, humiliation and the imagery of the flower and "shit-bugs" she's sees is how she sees the world, metaphorically. Everything is shit to her, everyone is the same, but she saw something with Kasuga that wasn't completely shit due to how he wasn't completely covered with the "shit-bugs." This final page of the manga shows Nakamura's perspective of the world to back this interpretation up. Antisocial personality disorder is a disorder found in almost all non-mentaly ill serial killers. Since it is classified as a personality disorder it doesn't impacts her perception of reality. As said before, what she sees is a metaphor for her perception of reality. She's fully aware of what she's doing and by the end of the story when Kasuga and Nakamura meet again she's obviously not herself. Which means after the self-imulation attempt at the festival she was forced to seek help. On the beach she acts docile compared to how she use to be. Coming from someone who does take a type of medication and knows people who are under medication for certain disorders this is how she would act. Their playful fight on the beach is them both letting it all out on each other. This is where the two metaphorically have sex in the form of violence. He's does find romantic love outside Nakamura and Seki, this fight is Kaduga and Nakamura's moment of intimacy. Seki was dragged into their previous twisted relationship and got hurt. He washed his hand of this relationship and moved on to meet and eventually marry someone outside these two. SmThis new girl gets pulled into their fight on the beach, creating a ménage á trois, this balances out his ID and Superego, thus completeling his adolescent transformation into a man.
holy shit
this comment is beautiful
it's like a flower
this is one of my favourite mangas oat, possibly my absolute favourite behind one piece. i read aku no hana as a depressed lonely 15 year old and i related to kasuga and tokiwa a bit too much. it impacted my life like no other story and is one of those “changed my life” manga.
So I finished the Manga I really loved how it ended. volumes 1-6 I was filled with anxiety and didn't know how I felt about it but I couldn't stop flipping to the next page. But after I finished volume 7 I knew I loved it. Despite volume 7 started off giving me an unbearable amount of second hand embarrassment, I overall did love it since it was start of new beginnings. Our main character was in a new environment and no longer, the strange kid who wanted so desperately to be different. We get to see him go from a dead inside shell of his old self, to seeing him fall inlove with his old passion again, to making a new beautiful connection, and learning to love life and his family again. It was beautiful. Even tho he didn't full erase the past,(obviously cuz thoes things are permanent) and still has many close relationships that were destroyed by his past actions, he still able to move and be happy and have a new loving relationship.
After watching 2 minutes of this video, I immediately started reading it. In my mind I was thinking that this might take me a day to finish yet as soon as I laid my eyes upon the first 5 chapters, it seems I wanted more. Before I knew it, an hour and half roll by and I've read half of it. An hour later, I've finished all 57 chapters. Every time I finished a chapter, something always compelled me to read the next, like holy fuck, I have no words to describe why I continued reading and reading. Kept telling myself to read it tomorrow or maybe even never, yet my finger always scrolled down, always wanting to see what the next thing was going to happen. Before I knew it, it vanished before my very eyes. Let me just say, absolutely breath-taking art and gorgeous scenery. One of the few mangas that's actually made me feel terrified, empty and devoid, a similar feeling upon my first reading of berserk. However the ending was good and left me satisfied. Despite what the title says, I recommend you give it a shot. Warning though, this shit will make you feel empty man, like on a whole different level.
i read this in one night. it was so good
W
I loved Flowers of Evil! I found it when I was getting into Inio Asano and it fed that sad manga hunger. I still recommend it frequently.
The anime, although far from the greatness of the manga, is really unique in terms of animation. It's rotoscope. Worth watching, short too.
EDIT. I've been looking for more manga like this for years. If anyone has more recommendations, I'll take it. No matter how sad. Skip Inio Asano mentions, I've read em all.
u got it now ? i need it too
Trail of blood, Parasites in love, I sold my life for 10,000 yen per year, Houseki No Kuni and Monster. Entertaining one is definitely tomodachi game if you like the death games.(it’s the best in a sub series full of garbage)
Personally I liked a lot more the anime than the manga. I founded it way more expressive, the Ost was simply beautiful, and it felt way more like a real story
Hyouka
Finished this manga recently after trying to watch the animated version- I think because the manga used a more typical manga art style, I was actually able to stomach the content. The anime being rotoscoped was super realistic making it much more disturbing. Honestly, I was pleasantly surprised and super satisfied with the ending. I don’t think this is manga is something I’d revisit, but I’ll recommend it.
Masked: don't read this manga
Me, a minor 3 years ago: too fucking late
A minor 3 years ago?
Can confirm the title worked and I'll be adding this to my list, I was looking for something for next month and you just came at my rescue, thank you :))
Also totally unrelated reading recommendation
RED: living on the edge
It’s like vagabond and trigun had a 1880’s western child
It's one of the most disturbing manga I've ever read it's so disturbing to see how people are reacting and how they should end it but they wouldn't but you still go on reading, watching this video actually helped realizing that I should have read the reviews before reading the manga
Shuzo Oshimi is one of my favourite manga artists with my favourite of his works being Inside Mari and Flowers of Evil. If you want a masterclass on psychological horror check out his other manga Blood on the tracks.
A trail of blood or chi no wadachi is also a very good psychological horror.
Flowers of Evil is my absolute favorite manga, it moved me more than any other manga for some reason
I literally watched up to about 2 minutes before I went and read this whole series. I'll watch the rest of your video now xD
I’m reading this series for the third time right now...
my favorite manga of all time
@@iwillbe7214 Oshimi is the GOAT
@@tdog12344 well said. definitly a goat
@@tdog12344 read all his mangas up till now except for a trail of blood. waiting to end so i can binge it
@@iwillbe7214 I’ve read FOE, Happiness, Inside Mari, and A Trail Of Blood, but I haven’t read some of his earlier shorter works
Yep, flower of evil was definitely an “experience”
i finished this manga. and it one of my favorite work of all time.
Same man. Didn’t like the Anime Adaptation though..
To be honest, I didn't find this as disturbing as you said but I guess it's just how I perceived it. If anything, I'm pretty sad that they didn't get into Nakamura's life more about why she acted the way she did. There was a slight hint that I got that might be a partial reason to why but it never explained the other half. The "final" chapter in her point of view gave me that.... Bad touch feeling but again they didn't get much into it. Which I guess makes sense but I just really wish I knew more.
All in all, it's a good read and it's pretty short. If anyone actually wants to read, I read it on mangajar
Aku no Hana is a masterpiece.
this is literally my favourite manga ever. im glad this video is bringing it more popularity
Already reading it! It's everything he says it is. It's an uncomfortable read.
Also for those who are looking for more like Aku no Hana read these:-
Umibe no Onnanoko
Kuzu no Honkai
Ningen Shikakku
Boku wa Marie no Naka
I loved this manga sooo much, I stayed up all night and read all of iy and felt so empty when I was done. You definitely should read this if you like disturbing shit with a good story
I'm literally salivating for you to upload a new video. I gotta end the day off right.
Just spent the past 4 hours reading this manga from beginning to end. I get on youtube and this is the first video in my recommended lol
I loved it so much.
I binged this out in a day and holy crap had to stop half way through at like chapter 30 it had me F*cked up for a bit actually felt like I was gonna be sick but then finally finished it later that night overall really enjoyed it was glued to it from start to end but holy crap is it crazy
this was a great video. i stayed up last night reading. til 5 am. now watching this the next day. it’s making me realize what i just read in one sitting last night….
Masked says: "stay away if you're not stable, this is disturbing"
Me, unstable: So this is a must read
Ngl, in the first half, I was enraged at all main characters. I kept on insulting on how all of them lost some screws, their lacking of brain cells -- everything. As I dig in chapters by chapters, I hope all the characters can stop being stupid, but they did not, all of them just went worse, and my anger did not subside at all. Every new chapters did nothing but fueled me even more. However, the second half, just, so so so so so so pretty, wonderful. It's just so wonderful to see how all them tried to confront their dark past -- how all of them find their own light, and tried to be a better person
The anime was so compelling that I had to read the manga because it's never getting a second season animated.
yeah I wanted a 2nd season so bad but I knew because of its reputation there wasnt going to be....I never read the manga..maybe I'll start
This is one of my favorite manga ever and i think that up until like volume 2 of the complete edition sure its kinda of evil and makes u uncomfortable to some extent. But how it ends just makes the whole story complete in such a way. And i think ur analogy of the story couldnt be more off, growing up going threw start of puberty feeling love for the first time not being able to fit in. Charachters like saeki, kasuga, and Nakamura shows the real darkness that a Young child/teen can go through with theese experiences. Specially seing how nakamura actually sees the world in the last pages just makes u understand and apreciate her character so much more and why they did what they did. And some of the words used in it dosent hold their traditionell meaning like "pervert". Its not in the sense of a pure sexual nature but more of a libido force freudian like. I think this manga captures the true darkness and sense of lost alot of us felt growing Up, the sense of confusion not knowing who you are just acting on pure libido ("perversion").
Telling us to not check out something will just make us wanna check it out even more🤠👀
This manga is one of the few that has really stuck with me since I first read it, idk something of the rawness of the characters and emotions they conveyed, I can't explain it well but just some scenes on this story I can't forget.
Edit: Btw Masked you should give Sundome a try, it starts as this weird ecchi fetish comedy series but develops into a strange psychological romance drama.
i just read this as a first manga and i feel like im developing mental ilness jesus that was fuking crazy masterpiece
This is actually my favourite manga in existence!!!! Its beautiful
The anime adaptation was so bad💀💀💀
I liked the unique style.
I actually liked it. It made it feel sinister. Definitely kinda ugly looking but it's also unique.... Too bad season 2 never came.
it was really good imo
Its literally sitting a 7 on Mal
@@QDJW "I can't think for myself and have to rely on the opinions of others"
this manga takes you to different world and gives you very different feeling i have enjoyed reading this but if you are going through depression or anixiety you should not read it
Aku No Hana truly delves into how abusive and evil the human mind can get. It's pretty fucked up wiout really supernatural elements and that makes it even more disturbing. I fucking love it.
i found out about this manga just last night, and i couldn't stop reading until the very end (running on an hour of sleep right now lol)
all i can say is, it was beautiful. one of the best mangas I've ever read. it's definitely not for everybody, but man...so beautiful.
My second time recommending Inside Mari by Oshimi Shuzo, just as uncomfortable and abstract. Very interesting themes, but definitely not for everyone…
if you do read it though lmk :)
No but in all seriousness, DO read it. It is a masterpiece. It’s essentially the transition piece from Oshimi Shuzo’s old style to new style, and you can really see the change as you go from the first to second half of the series. However, big trigger warnings for stuff like attempted suicide and sexual assault(there is an explicit rape scene). And don’t come at me with “trigger warnings don’t matter”, cuz another one of this author’s manga managed to bring back a warped version of a traumatic memory I’d buried for years - though that just goes to show how talented Shuzo is and how realistic Shuzo’s works feel.
this was the most disturbing manga i have ever read and its anime is just as disturbing as well 😖😖
ive just finished reading the manga (in 3 nights, didnt finish it in one sitting, tho i wanted to, it felt that i shouldn't yk) but I did not find it disturbing, really. it was a really good manga tho, ive enjoyed reading it. will definitely read it again sometime in the future, as i don't really have interpretations rn
I just completed aku no hana
And damn that was quite an experience
I've read this series several times! Massive fan of oshimi shuzo manga in general. Trail of blood and happiness are amazing.
This is y u have wholesome manga like spy x family, so that after reading disturbing stuff like this u can cleanse ur soul with some wholesomeness 😭