Hey, how far does the quiz cover up to?
Didn't he tell us yesterday?
Yeah, but you know!
Morning!
Hey, morning!
Morning.
Hey, are you free after after school?
Yeah.
I want to stop by somewhere.
Oh, where?
The usual place.
The usual place?
Oh, I'd love to go!
Really? Great.
Yeah, no problem.
Thanks.
Sure.
Kasuka!
Hey.
Aku no Hana
episode one (thirteen total)
We really shouldn't do that
dakedo shicha ikenai no desu
So accept your wounds, come on
dakara kizutsuite shimae
An angel flies through heaps of trash
garakuta ni tenshi ga tobu
I'm a piece of shit
kusorashiki no boku
I hate flower arrangement when it misses the mark
oshii kadou ga kiraida
I keep adding
kitto boku wa machigai to
to my sins and mistakes day in, day out
tsumi wo kasaneteku no desu
Rather than the beginning or end of a story, I'd like to see the flower bloom
owari to hajimari yori mo sakimi no ga ne mitakute
I can't endure it
tamaranai no desu
Bloom, flower, and open the sprouts of sin
sake yo hana hana tsumi no me wo dashite
Bloom, flower, and see your buds lorded over
sake yo hana hana shihai sareteku tsubomi
I'm chasing a hope that will ruin me like flowers in fall
harahara sasetewa kareru kibou oikateteshimau
I won't let you be alone
hitori ni sasenai
And then, this guy here just got pissed all of a sudden.
Dude, I wasn't that pissed. Right, Kojima?
I dunno.
Kasuga, how come you don't play games?
Well, it's not that I don't.
I just can't really get into 'em.
C'mon, stop trying to be cool!
Stop!
All right, everyone! To your seats!
Yamada, stop!
Hurry it up.
I'm a junior high school student in Ba... Ba... Ba-Bangkok.
More practice, Mr. Kojima.
Next, Miss Saeki.
Yes.
We have our New Year's Festival on April 13th, 14th, and 15th.
We call it Songkran.
During this festival, people...
Ready, set...
Got it!
And here!
Yay!
If the thighs aren't at least a little thick, they're not really thighs.
Then what are they? Thins?
Nanako, nice.
That was great, Nanako!
Perv
Boys not allowed
Girls changing!
Can I borrow your hairbrush?
Sure.
I put on weight again.
What? You're so thin.
What part of me's thin?
Just overall!
Look at my stomach.
You bought volume 8, right, Kojima?
Without a second thought.
Isn't it great?
Yeah. Like, holy shit.
Crazy good.
Lemme read it next.
But you're gonna drop crumbs all over it... like always.
Man, I hate it when people do that.
I don't do that!
I can do without potato chips in my book, dude.
Yeah. No rice crackers either, thanks.
Oh, yeah?
Did you see Shimoyama's sweats?
Yeah, man. I wonder where he bought 'em.
The color's kinda out there, you know?
Shit!
Hey... Wait!
Japanese Quiz
5, 6, 7, 8...
A sky-throned sphinx, unknown yet, I combine
The cygnet's whiteness with a heart of snow.
I loathe all movement that displaces line,
And neither tears nor laughter do I know.
Okay! That's it.
Man, that felt good.
Hurry it up.
Nah. It's romance, dude.
What? It's gotta be horror.
Horror? Seriously?
I can't do horror. Not in a million years.
Neither can I.
But you know, fear and laughter are like two sides of the same coin, y'know?
What?
Yeah, right! What're you smoking?
Fear and laughter both come from the notion of surprise.
Right, right, you read it in a book.
It's a fact.
Stuff like this is just common sense.
That figures.
Some of them have comedy too.
Like Army of Darkness.
Right?
Wow.
Hey, let's go to Kojima's place.
He has volume 8.
Yeah, and let's get ice cream on the way.
That cola-flavored one, right?
That stuff's awesome!
I'm like, addicted to that shit right now.
I gotta stop by the bookstore.
Again?
Read somethin' besides fap fuel for a change, okay?
See ya!
Yeah!
I'm home.
Welcome back!
But since we have the opportunity...
Our faces, names, hometowns,
data, blood types, business details,
favorite shoguns of the Tokugawa shogunate, favorite kanrei of the Ashikaga shogunate,
and favorite shikken of the Kamakura shogunate.
Do you have Breton's The Key of the Fields?
Yeah, I think I do.
Thought you might.
Good thing I didn't buy it.
I'll go find it for you.
Takao, would you like seconds?
No thanks.
But didn't you have P.E. today?
I just stand around during volleyball.
Dear, there's more squid if you want it.
Oh, really?
Sure, thanks.
To the most lovely, the most dear,
The Angel, and the deathless grail
Who fill my heart with radiance clear—
In immortality all hail!
Into my life she flows translated
As saline breezes fill the sky,
And pours into my soul unsated
The taste of what can never die.
Sachet, forever fresh, perfuming
Some quiet nook of hid delight;
A lone
forgotten censer fuming
In secrecy across the night.
Takao, go take a bath.
Takao, the bath!
Okay!
Hey, drink the milk, okay?
It'll spoil.
You know you're the only one who drinks it here.
'Kay.
Morning.
Good morning.
Got a bad feeling about maths too?
Did you see her?
Yeah, she was crying.
Okay, here's the maths test from a while back.
Aoki.
Coming.
Aobe.
Coming.
Ueno.
Coming.
Urabe.
Coming.
Okuda.
Coming.
Kasuga.
Coming.
Try a little harder next time.
Kigawashisa.
Coming.
Hey, Kasuga.
What'd you get?
Gouda.
Not telling.
Coming.
So what are you reading?
Hey, Yamada!
What's this?
Evil?
Isn't that the wrong character?
It's the old form.
Give the book back, man.
You'd never understand what's good about it.
Huh? You makin' fun of me?
Then I'm not gonna give it back.
Shut up.
So tell me. You know Baudelaire?
What?
Nobody but you knows that dumb crap.
Saeki.
Coming.
Saeki, 98 percent.
Top of the class!
Great job.
That's awesome, Nanako.
It's no big deal.
Didn't you get the top score the other day too?
You're so good. Cram school too, right?
Nakamura.
Hey, answer when you're called.
Yes, here.
Nakamura's at the very bottom!
Zero percent again!
What are you trying to do here?
You left all the answers empty.
You think you'll be able to take part in soc—
Shut it.
You piece of shit.
Are you calling your teacher...
a piece of shit?!
Come to the staff room after school.
Next!
Hurry up!
She's friggin' crazy.
Sure is.
What the hell is wrong with her?
Huh?
Nakamura, man.
Doesn't she creep you out?
Guess so.
I got no idea what goes through her head.
Doesn't have a single friend either.
What a weirdo.
It was kinda nice though.
Shimoyama was trembling.
Man, I wouldn't wanna date her if she was the last girl on Earth.
What're you on about, Yamada?
Like you can talk.
Nobody'd wanna date you either.
What?
And they'd wanna date you, Kasuga?
You and I are the same.
Like hell we are.
I read books.
So what?
You'd never understand the literature I read.
You know...
You know who I really wanna date? Saeki.
Did you hear?
She's like a jungle down there.
Stop that!
What's wrong?
You shouldn't talk like that about a girl.
Whoa, does this mean the one you like is Sa-e-ki?
N-No.
No way.
Oh, I see.
Now it all makes sense.
Wait!
I forgot my book at school.
I'll be right back.
What? You running away?
No, man!
I forgot it!
Later.
Damn Kojima.
The bastard was badmouthing Saeki.
Like he'd know what's good about her.
I've had a crush on her
ever since last year.
She's my muse, my femme fatale.
The Flowers of Evil
Baudelaire
But I don't think she knows I'm reading this book.
The flower bloomed.
hana ga saita yo
The flower, the flower bloomed.
hana ga hana ga saita yo
It was terribly afraid of the wind.
hidoku kaze ni obieta
Nobody had ever seen it before, and it bloomed.
daremo mita koto nai hana ga saiteita yo
The flower bloomed.
hana ga saita yo
The flower, the flower bloomed.
hana ga hana ga saita yo
It was terribly afraid of the wind.
hidoku kaze ni obieta
Nobody had ever seen it before, and it seemed to bloom.
daremo mita koto nai hana ga saiteita you da
The flower, the flower bloomed.
hana ga hana ga saita yo
The flower, the flower bloomed.
hana ga hana ga saita yo
None had seen it before, and it seemed to bloom.
mita koto nai hana ga saiteita yo
"There's no flower."
hana nado nai
"There shouldn't be a flower."
sore wa aru hazu mo nai to omottetara shitara
Some were convinced it was so.
sou shitara shitara
But they were wrong, and it was there.
hanagagaga aru da yo
None had ever seen it.
daremo mita koto nai
It should be harsh to listen to.
neiro hazu mo nai
A flower bloomed that should not have.
saku hazu mo nai hana ga saiteta shi
There it is, yes, there it is.
soko ni yahari soko nite
There it is.
shikari soko ni soko ni aru da yo
The flower bloomed.
hana ga saita yo
The flower, the flower bloomed.
hana ga hana ga saita yo
It was terribly afraid of the wind.
hidoku kaze ni obieta
Nobody had ever seen it before, and it bloomed.
daremo mita koto nai hana ga saiteita yo
Stop that, damn it.
You're always reading that book, Kasuga.
It's called "The Flowers of Evil."
Sounds like some crazy deviant.
...doesn't exist.
Kasuga...
I saw it.
I'm done for.
Impressive.
It's going to be difficult, after all.
In return, form a contract with me.
The flower bloomed.
Be sure to tune in next week, you pieces of shit.
Oshimi Shuzou