Report: TV Anime “The Flowers of Evil” Talk Event “Hana ga Saitayo Assembly: Vol. 2”

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The Flowers of Evil is a new anime that began in April and has garnered considerable attention. Due to its unique use of rotoscoping throughout, its character designs, and its psychologically dark portrayal of adolescence, the anime has given rise to many online discussions and disputes.

Regarding the anime, a staff discussion event called “Hana ga Saitayo Assembly: Vol. 2” was held on June 2 at Benoa Ginza. The theme of this event was music. Director Hiroshi Nagahama, original author Shuzo Oshimi, and voice actors Shinichiro Ueda (Kasuga Takao) and Katsutoshi Matsuzaki (Yamada Masakazu) acted as the hosts of the event, and guests were introduced one by one.

The guests were Asako Shinosaki, vocalist in the band Uchujin and producer of the anime’s opening theme; Asa-Chang from Asa-Chang & Junray, who was in charge of the ending theme; and Hideyuki Fukasawa, who was in charge of the anime’s background music.

Asa-Chang was the first guest introduced. During their discussion, they talked about how original author Oshimi has been a fan of Asa-Chang & Junray since some time ago and how he recommended they do the song in the image of their 2001 work, Hana.

Shinosaki was brought out as the next guest and talked about how the image of the song was expanded by her visiting the setting of the anime, the city of Kiryu, and how 50 demo songs were created but only four were actually used for the anime.

The final guest was Fukasawa, who performed the background music using a modular synthesizer. They talked about how contrary to the offer that had been put out, he wanted to make the music for The Flowers of Evil for the staff. With that, the guest segment came to an end. The event concluded with a comment from director Nagahama about how for the conclusion they are challenging themselves by not using rotoscoping.

© Shuzo Oshimi
© Kodansha Ltd. / The Flowers of Evil Production Committee

This is a Tokyo Otaku Mode original article.

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