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Vertical Adds Flowers of Evil School Romance Manga
posted on by Egan Loo
"Corrupt pure-love story" about girl who blackmails boy over secret
The North American manga publisher Shūzō Oshimi. Vertical will ship the first volume next May for US$10.99, and future volumes are expected to follow every other month.
The "corrupt pure-love story" revolves around Takao Kasuga, a literary-minded boy who loves the poems of Charles Baudelaire (the original author of the poetry collection Les Fleurs du mal or Flowers of Evil). One day after school, he discovers and steals the gym clothes of Nanako Saeki, the girl he has a crush on. However, he learns that Sawa Nakamura, a girl he loathes, happens to catch him in the act. Nakamura blackmails Kasuga into a "contract," or else she will reveal his secret.
Oshimi Drifting Net Café.