Series: Flowers of Evil Archives

Favorite Manga Series, Part I: 20th Century Boys through Ultraman [in The Booklist Reader]

28 Jul, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Graphic Title/Manga/Manwha, Japanese, Lists, Repost, Translation, Young Adult Readers

Favorite Manga Series, Part I: 20th Century Boys through Ultraman Graphic titles are big news. Even if you’re not a pop-culture connoisseur, you can’t have missed the graphic titles regularly popping up on bestseller lists—not to mention their various incarnations on film and even the stage! When...

The Flowers of Evil (vol. 11) by Shuzo Oshimi, translated by Paul Starr

12 Dec, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Fiction, Graphic Title/Manga/Manwha, Japanese, Translation, Young Adult Readers

Ten volumes of Flowers of Evil have already shocked, scared, titillated, challenged readers (in translation) over the last two years. The series comes to a close with this, the final volume ...

The Flowers of Evil (vol. 10) by Shuzo Oshimi, translated by Paul Starr

18 Jul, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Fiction, Graphic Title/Manga/Manwha, Japanese, Translation, Young Adult Readers

Open this penultimate volume, and the belly begins flip-flopping over how it might – must? – end. Creator Shuzo Oshimi has clearly shown himself to be one scary manipulator, so already I'm trying to prepare for the inevitably shattering shock this October when that final installment comes out. Oh, but the agony of...

The Flowers of Evil (vols. 5-7) by Shuzo Oshimi, translated by Paul Starr

25 Oct, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Fiction, Graphic Title/Manga/Manwha, Japanese, Translation, Young Adult Readers

First, to catch up: click here for previous volumes (all of which, of course, you need to read for yourself). If these covers placed next to each other above are a bit jarring, I think I might have unintentionally, wrongly grouped the latest volumes together. Let me...

The Flowers of Evil (vol. 4) by Shuzo Oshimi, translated by Paul Starr

22 Feb, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Fiction, Graphic Title/Manga/Manwha, Japanese, Translation, Young Adult Readers

Before you read further, you'll need to click here to catch up on the first three volumes of this creepy, obsessive, love-triangle-of sorts. While the three protagonists are tweenaged middle-schoolers, this is definitely not your kiddie manga: abusive language aside, the deviant psychological manipulations are shocking,...

The Flowers of Evil (vols. 1-3) by Shuzo Oshimi, translated by Paul Starr

19 Oct, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Fiction, Graphic Title/Manga/Manwha, Japanese, Translation, Young Adult Readers

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Favorite Manga Series, Part I: 20th Century Boys through Ultraman [in The Booklist Reader]

The Flowers of Evil (vol. 11) by Shuzo Oshimi, translated by Paul Starr

The Flowers of Evil (vol. 10) by Shuzo Oshimi, translated by Paul Starr

The Flowers of Evil (vols. 5-7) by Shuzo Oshimi, translated by Paul Starr

The Flowers of Evil (vol. 4) by Shuzo Oshimi, translated by Paul Starr

The Flowers of Evil (vols. 1-3) by Shuzo Oshimi, translated by Paul Starr

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