The first episode of the drama series "Aku no Hana" (TV Tokyo and others, Thursdays at midnight), starring actor Fuku Suzuki and singer Ano, will air on April Getsuku. Takao Kasuga (Suzuki) impulsively steals Saeki's (Manami Igashira) gym clothes. This is witnessed by Sawa Nakamura (Ano)... Scene cuts have also been released.
The drama is based on the manga of the same name by Shuzo Oshimi, which was serialized in "Bessatsu Shonen Magazine" (Kodansha) from 2009 to 2014, recorded a cumulative circulation of 3.25 million copies, and was nominated for the "Manga Taisho" award. It depicts the "reckless behavior" of adolescent boys and girls.
In the first episode, Takao Kasuga is a middle school student living in a closed-off town, feeling trapped and stifled, and finding solace in the poetry collection "The Flowers of Evil." His only hope is his classmate, the goddess of his life, Nanako Saeki. One afternoon after school, he returns to the classroom to retrieve something he forgot and finds Saeki's gym clothes lying on the floor. He instinctively picks them up and sniffs them, but suddenly hears a noise and impulsively steals them before running away.
The next day, while tormented by guilt, he is approached by Sawa Nakamura, who had witnessed the whole thing...
